Leveld Kunstnartun is an international artist-in-residence venue that offers free accommodation, studio, and workshop space for up to three months. The artist residency is open year-round, and there are always at least three artists at the site at any given time. Visual artists, writers, musicians, composers, performing artists, architects, and interdisciplinary artists from all over the world can apply for a stay to come and work in a focused environment for a period of time.
At Leveld in July
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Ellen Sofie Griegel
Norway
Ellen Sofie Griegel (b. 1975) is a Trondheim-based artist working with sculpture, installation, and printmaking. She graduated from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design (MFA 2007) and creates her work using metal, wood, and found materials. Griegel explores the interplay between nature, technology, and society. She is particularly interested in nature’s own rhythms, such as the water cycle, circadian rhythms, life cycles, and the seasons. Through these processes, she seeks to give form to experiences and questions surrounding human existence.
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Seda Tunç
Austria
Seda Tunç is a writer and translator based in Vienna, Austria. She studied English Language and Literature and American Literature in Istanbul, followed by English Literature and Philosophy in Vienna. Her poetry collection 'WELCH' (Edition Mosaik, 2021) was translated into Norwegian by Arild Vange (Beijing Trondheim, 2026). Most recently, she translated 'Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta' by Aglaja Veteranyi from German into Turkish (2026). She is the recipient of several grants and residencies, including a writer-in-residence fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude (2024–2025).
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Mishi Foltyn, Per Stian Monsås, Audrey Chen, Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø
The artists stayed at Leveld in June preparing the summer exhibiton SKY DIRECTIOS.
The exhibition stands until October 18th and can be found in Løa.
Dissemination
Open studios
At regular intervals, open studios are arranged where the guest artists invite the public into the studios to meet the artists and see what they are working on.
Summer exhibition
Every year a curated art exhibition is arranged in Løa. Often it is former guest artists who are given this assignment. The exhibition is open every day, 24 hours a day from mid-May to early October and is free. There are about 2000 visitors to the exhibition every summer.
Nesch and the kids
We have a collaboration with the schools in Ål . This is a program where students have theoretical and practical instruction in art at the schools. The students come to the art studio with print-ready plates that they have prepared based on inspiration from Rolf Nesch. And in the graphic workshop they get help from a graphic artist to create their own print.
"Mind over Matter", Line Prip
Snag, Erika Reed
Pedro Hurpia working with coal
"Låven" that accommodates the studios and graphical workshop
Selected artists 2026:
Anne Karin Jortveit (NO), Anna Yovka (UA), Johan Andrén (SE), Kostas Zisimopoulos (GR), Alejandro Marra Mejia (MX), Anne-Marie Hammerbeck (NO),Karl Ingar Røys (NO), Maria Katarina Del Rosario (PH), Jeanne Artemis (DE), Sylvia Hinz (DE), Nicoletta Favari (IT), Christopher Salvito (IT), Ellen Sofie Griegel (NO), Ivan Markovic (RS), Seda Tunc (AT), Anne Guro Larsmon (NO), Geetanjali Prasad (IN), Franzisca Siegrist (ES), Beatrice Guttormsen (NO), Marie Nerland (NO), Carlos Guiterrez (BO), Natascha April (FR), Carin Castengren (SE)