No Master Territories
February 13 – May 3, 2026
No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image at Kunstnernes Hus (The Artists house), Oslo, Norway
No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image is an international group exhibition focusing on documentary and art films that explore the creation of a new audiovisual language for gender-related experiences.
The show focuses on the period from the 1970s to the 1990s. In fact, this was a time when women’s liberation movements gained a foothold internationally. Thus, the show creates encounters across artistic formats, generations and geopolitical contexts. Through the presentation of films and videos alongside documentation and artworks, the exhibition pays tribute to the period’s pioneering work. It places it in dialogue with pressing issues of today.
Inghild Karlsen’s 8mm film Running, from 1988, is part of the exhibition. Running is in black and white and was initially shot a summer night in Jæren, Norway. The film is also acquired by the National Museum in Oslo.
The show is a result of extensive research in dialogue with artists, filmmakers and researchers from around the world. The aim has been to make more narratives accessible by tracing new film-historical connections. Connections that can challenge blind spots within contemporary neoliberal feminism. The exhibition also highlights the circumstances surrounding the production and reception of the films, as well as the many voices within and outside the works themselves.
Curated by Erika Balsom with Silja Espolin Johnson and Clements Ottenhausen
