City Project is a program of artistic interventions throughout the city, commissioned specifically for each edition and presented year-round. The initiative brings art into public spaces and engages with daily life through local infrastructure.
Billboard
Untitled, 2025
Wade Guyton
Mon-Sun: 24/24
Since the early 2000s, Wade Guyton has examined the material conditions of digital image production by misusing the inkjet printer as a painterly device. Feeding canvas directly through the machine, he embraces glitches, misregistrations, and mechanical breakdowns as compositional tools rather than errors. These disruptions expose the unstable infrastructure behind seemingly seamless digital images, shifting attention from representation to process. For Stavanger Secession, Guyton presents a series of large-scale panels installed across an exterior surface, forming a vivid chromatic envelope. Oscillating between control and accident, the works transform technological failure into a generative aesthetic, where automation and authorship remain deliberately unresolved.
This project is supported by Smart Hotel
Appearing as an insert within Stavanger Aftenblad printed issue, the project adopts the familiar format of a pullout poster while quietly unsettling the routines of daily reading. The image reproduces a closed-caption screengrab stating “Flames Roar,” detached from any accompanying visuals. Deprived of context, the phrase hovers between report and metaphor, prompting readers to imagine events that remain unseen yet insistently present. Circulating through the newspaper rather than the gallery, the work uses mass distribution as its medium, allowing meaning to emerge in passing encounters and reflecting on how information, anxiety, and interpretation are mediated through contemporary news culture.
This project is supported by Stavanger Aftenblad
Digital Screens
Dog barking, telephone rings, 2025
Per Dybvig
Mon-Sun: 3:00-6:00
Per Dybvig’s latest animated short merges his signature dark humor with a lineage stretching from Norwegian satire to the grand tradition of J.J. Grandville’s anthropomorphic art. Infusing grotesque elegance into his characters, Dybvig channels a caricatural legacy where animal forms mirror the basest facets of human morality. The film is made through a direct, improvised process, each line drawn without preparation, with scenes appearing in the same sequence they were made. No sound accompanies the film—only written sound effects and spontaneous decisions.
This project is supported by JCDecaux
Installation
A-Historical Now Choir, 2025
Matias Kill
Mon-Fri: 10:00-15:00
Matias Kiil’s A Historical Now Choir transforms the maintenance records of Oslo Cathedral’s clock tower into an oscillating, accidental symphony. Drawing on Gustave Metzger’s notion of art staging accidents, Kiil’s installation stages time itself as a score of mishaps, with five cuckoo clocks performing in discord. The piece echoes the 14th-century marriage of church bells and mechanical clocks—symbols of civilization’s conquest over time. But today, as chrono-capitalism internalizes the rhythm of productivity, Kiil’s work exposes the comic origins of our obsession with precision, productivity, and the mechanization of daily rhythm. Five Cuckoo Clocks invites us to reflect on the control and management of the body through the political and economic use of time.
This project is supported by SpareBank 1 SR-Bank
