Oi! An art project for young people

Oi! is a project for young people of colour who are interesting in telling their own story. Oi! was initiated by the artist Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa for the Bergen Assembly exhibition in 2019. Now, Oi! is coming to Trondheim. Read more about the project and how to participate below.

Oi! brings together people between the ages of 19 and 25 who have experienced racism. The project provides them with a platform to meet and discuss issues that are important to them on their own terms. Out of these discussions, the group develops public projects that address issues of social and environmental justice.

In Bergen, Oi! analysed the exhibition Impressions from the Colonies at the Bergen University Museum of Cultural History. The exhibition focused on Norway’s role in the transatlantic slave trade and in colonialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.The participants of Oi! developed an alternative educational programme in response to the exhibit. The programme offered guided tours to visitors of the museum with whom the group raised questions such as “Who speaks in the museum? Whose stories are told? What information is missing? How is the colonial past discussed and represented? What are the implications for the present?” In addition to the tour, the group organised a printing workshop and developed posters that were exhibited in the Bergen Assembly.

Kunsthall Trondheim started the conversation with Oi! in 2019. In 2021, we are inviting participants in Trondheim to join the group. The theme of the project is still open but will most likely focus on climate change and environmental racism. Participants will meet online twice a month to discuss, read together and develop an idea for the public outcome of the project. Some possible outcomes of the project are an exhibition, a book or a website to share the methods and results with others.

To learn more about Oi! and participation in Trondheim, write oi@kunsthalltrondheim.no or send an email to