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 September
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Beatrice Guttormsen
Norway
Beatrice Guttormsen (b. 1973) has a master's degree in media- and material-based art from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, with a specialization in printmaking. Guttormsen's works have been acquired by the Norwegian Association for Graphic Art, Art in the Workplace, Agder County, Haugaland Museum, and the Oslo municipal art collection.
Guttormsen uses wood carving and drypoint as a way to remember things that have happened, mainly drawing on personal sources like his own writings, diaries, memories, and photographs.
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Anne Guro Larsmon
Norway
Anne Guro Larsmon is a Norwegian artist now based in Oslo after living in Los Angeles for 7 years. She has a BFA from Bergen National Academy of the Arts (NO) and graduated with an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been included in institutions such as the Vigeland Museum (NO), Gallery CC (SE), Michael Thibault Gallery (LA), Jace Space (LA), Kunstnernes Hus (NO), IAC Malmö (SE), LA Archive (US), 68th Art Institute (DEN), QB Gallery (NO), Hå Prestegård (NO), Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstsenter (NO), Roots & Cultural Contemporary Art Center (US) and Charlottenborg Kunsthal (DEN). In 2016 she was awarded with Høstutstillingsprisen from The Relief Fund for Visual Artists (BKH). Her work is acquired by INK and in the collection of KODE, Art Museum of Bergen.
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Marie Nerland
Norway
Marie Nerland is an artist and curator from Molde who lives and works in Trondheim. She has a major in theatre studies from the University of Bergen and creative curatorial practice at the master's level from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design.
She started and runs the long-term curator project Volt and also works as a curator with art in public spaces. She has been on a number of residencies, including at the Office for Contemporary Art Norway's residency for curators at ISCP in Brooklyn, the Nordic Artists' Centre Dale, and Lademoen Artist Workshops.
As an artist, she works with performance, installation, and video. She has shown projects at BABEL, Lydgalleriet, Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen Kunsthall, Small Projects, Surnadal Billag, Oplandia Art Centre, and P/////AKT in Amsterdam, among others. She is also part of the long-term project Paviljong Våtmark at Østensjøvannet in Oslo, together with eight other artists.
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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), Alice Indi Ryne (SE)