Masterutstillingen 2025:
New Nature Poetics

The exhibition presents the artistic projects of Marc Traian Pricop, Alexander Crilles Tønnesen, and Ingunn Schumann Mosand.

Exhibition opening: May 24 at 18:30
Artist talk: May 28 at 13:00

How can art create space for community, reflection, and new ecological awareness in a time marked by crisis and acceleration?

This year’s MFA graduation exhibition from the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (NTNU) explores precisely this question. Under the title New Nature Poetics, three newly graduated artists present works that investigate the relationship between humans and nature, technology, urban development, and collective memory.

The exhibition title «New Nature Poetics» is borrowed from the American poet Gary Snyder, who in the 1990s introduced the term to describe a new way of writing with nature’s processes – not merely about them. This idea forms a poetic and political backdrop for the three projects, each pointing to the need for alternative ways of sensing, understanding, and being in the world.

Although diverse in their methodologies and materials, these three artists are connected in their approach to looking closely to the environments around them. For Ingunn this is how we empathise with that outside of ourselves, for Marc it is our relationship with a new plastic-polluted environment, and for Alexander it is about placemaking within the shared city-identity.

The exhibition also highlights the role of art education in an era where higher education is increasingly expected to justify itself through quantifiable results and economic utility. New Nature Poetics reminds us of art’s unique ability to open space for critical thinking, sensory experience, and resonance – and to question what is otherwise taken for granted.