The Queen Sonja Print Award exhibition space is centrally located in Bjørvika, the rising cultural hub of Oslo. Surrounded by architectural masterpieces like MUNCH, Vannkunsten, and the Deichmanske public library, this part of Bjørvika has become a trendy and stylish residential area where small cafes, bars, restaurants and galleries lay side by side.
The opening of the QSPA exhibition space in spring 2021 was an important milestone on the foundation's mission to raise public awareness of and interest in graphic art. By creating a meeting place that offers unique and high-quality fine art prints, the exhibition space highlights the excellence that exists in fine art printmaking today and makes it more available to people. We see it as the epicentre for graphic art, and a window for the world to witness the greatness of this genre.
The QSPA exhibition space hosts selected pieces by recipients of the Queen Sonja Print Awards and various artists from around the world, in addition to some of HM Queen Sonja’s own work. The foundation's association with the best artists and their works, makes it possible for the exhibition space to host events and exhibitions of high quality and international magnitude.
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QSPA International Print Portfolio
19 Sep - 31 Dec 2025 The Queen Sonja Print Award is proud to present an international portfolio dedicated to the art of printmaking. Seventeen renowned artists have contributed original works that highlight the breadth and significance of printmaking as an artistic medium. These works showcase the experimental nature of printmaking techniques, ranging from time-honoured methods... Read more -
Project: Lofoten
HM Queen Sonja and Lars Lerin 23 Apr - 6 Sep 2025 Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway & Lars Lerin Project: Lofoten is an artistic collaboration between Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway and Swedish artist Lars Lerin, resulting in a series of graphic prints inspired by the landscape of Lofoten. Her Majesty holds a deep affinity for the northern Norwegian... Read more -
Soejvene / Shadows
Tomas Colbengtson, winner of the Queen Sonja Print Award 2024 29 Nov 2024 - 30 Mar 2025 Tomas Colbengtson's art – images, objects, sculptures, installations – places us as viewers, as eyewitnesses, on a fragile ark, a vessel that has arrived at the crossroads of the present, where pasts and futures intertwine. We are allowed, urged, compelled to witness how the art brings together – and thereby... Read more -
Alla våra mödrar har slukats av vattnet
Kayo Mpoyi, winner of the QSPA Inspirational Award 2024 18 Sep - 2 Nov 2024 Det här är berättelsen om färg. Det är berättelsen om allt. Det här är min sista berättelse i världen som jag känner till den. Det här är sista berättelsen om vattnet. Det här min gammelfarmors berättelse. Det här är berättelsen om linjer och perspektiv. Det här är berättelsen om ett... Read more
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Mellom Rom
HM Queen Sonja & Håvard Homstvedt 19 Apr - 1 Sep 2024 HM Queen Sonja and Håvard Homstvedt started their collaboration in March 2022. Both artists wished to support the Queen Sonja Print Award Foundation, through a shared project, where the starting point was still life, interiors and the familiar. The exhibition was first shown in Stavanger, then in Trondheim, and now... Read more -
Liv ved Straumen
Olav Christopher Jenssen 1 Feb - 7 Apr 2024 “Liv ved Straumen” (Life by the Stream) is a collection of graphic works produced at Atelje Larsen in Helsingborg in 2014 in support of the Queen Sonja Print Award. Through a continuous exploration of the interplay between abstraction and representation, Olav Christopher Jenssen draws inspiration from the last published poetry... Read more -
On the cusp of perfect logic, spinning apart into something
Ciara Phillips, winner of the Queen Sonja Print Award 2020 29 Sep 2023 - 7 Jun 2024 Through transforming the Queen Sonja Print Award exhibition space, Irish/Canadian artist Ciara Phillips has created a show celebrating the many possibilities presented by the medium of printmaking. Not only is she displaying vibrant monotypes where she has applied a mixture of printmaking techniques, such as woodcut, screen-print, relief print, and... Read more -
Lost Faces
Kjell Erik Killi-Olsen 31 May - 17 Sep 2023 Kjell Erik Killi-Olsen has had a diverse and notable career, working primarily with painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Yet, this is the first exhibition solely dedicated to his graphic art. Predominantly featuring works produced in 2023, the exhibition provides a glance into the artist’s characteristic imagery, manifested in delicate, yet bold,... Read more
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QSPA Inspirational Award Exhibition
1 Dec 2022 - 5 Mar 2023 The QSPA Inspirational Award (previously the Kjell Nupen Memorial Grant) is awarded to a Nordic artist who is currently pursuing, or has recently completed, their art education and whose artistic practice makes active use of printmaking as an important means of expression. The grant is a collaboration between master printer... Read more -
Skåret i tre (Carved in wood)
A display of Gustav Vigelands prints 22 Sep - 20 Nov 2022 Six lines in the wooden block are all it takes to conjure the leopard. Gustav Vigeland possessed a sensitivity that rarely becomes visible. His graphic production is modest in scope—around 400 works in total—but it is by no means insignificant. Vigeland has left a significant mark on Oslo, with the... Read more -
New Territories of Action
21 Jan - 12 Mar 2022 Alejandra Aguilar Caballero, Nicholas Fox, Enrique Guadarrama Solis, Kamil Kak, Kari Kolltveit, Debangona Paul, and Anna Weilhartner. QSPA Bispevika presents contemporary prints by postgraduate and alumni students at Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo. The exhibition challenges the boundaries of printmaking, when repetition and immediacy already permeate our every interaction with culture, with... Read more -
X-Mas
25 Nov 2021 - 9 Jan 2022 QSPA Bispevika is proud to present the works of 31 contemporary artists at our first Christmas exhibition, 2021. The exhibition presents a broad selection of artists and gives a wide perspective on what is happening on the printmaking scene in Norway today. Four of the artists are from abroad. They... Read more

