Skaus: Hjem 2025
Public installation for Stavanger 2025 – Emigration Commemoration – Jorenholmen, Norway
Skaus is an art project founded in Stavanger in 2019 by artists Håvard Sagen, Markus Bråten and Mari Kolbeinson. It functions as a support structure, creating meeting points between places, artists, institutions, social infrastructures, and audiences. The project focuses on developing new forms of collaboration and methods related to origin, authorship, and reproducibility.
For the Stavanger Municipality’s 2025 Emigration Commemoration, Skaus were commissioned to produce a project exploring the concepts of home and belonging – themes that have been a conceptual preoccupation of the collective since their initiation. For the commission, they constructed a timber pavilion on the Stavanger harbour front, the form of which was based on their idea of the archetypical house. Hjem – the project title – is the Norwegian word for home.
As in previous projects by Skaus, the structure hosted a series of artistic interventions. For this iteration Skaus invited previous contributors to ‘pass the torch’ by nominating a practitioner they would like to see platformed. The selected artists then, in sequence, occupied and responded to the structure.
The nominated contributors were Ioana Ispas (Romania), antipodes café (Portugal/Norway), Ellen Sofie Griegel (Norway), Felix Shumba (Zimbabwe), Anders Hergum (Sweden/Norway), and Stavanger Art School’s new students, with Goro Tronsmo (Norway) as their mentor.
The project received support from Stavanger Municipality, Rogaland County Municipality, Stavanger Harbour and Ramirent.
Photo: Håvard Sagen