27/02/2026
Have you been in to see our current exhibition?
ANE HJORT GUTTU | MANIFESTO
28 January to 14 March
Wednesday to Saturday, 10am - 4pm
Screenings begin on the hour and half hour
Free admission, all welcome
An inevitable pang of recognition will arise in any viewer who has studied at, taught in, worked for or otherwise interacted with any higher education institution over the last two decades.
Herb Shellenberger, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, 2021
Ane Hjort Guttu’s film Manifesto, 2020, (27 mins) speculates on the aims and purposes of institutional art education. It follows the fate of a small art academy as it is fused into a large university. The students and staff band together to resist the new administration and secretly self organise, creating their own courses, programmes and leadership. Drawing on her own experiences as an art teacher, Ane Hjort Guttu explores what is lost when creativity is replaced by order and provides action plans for how to be the playful rebel.
Ane Hjort Guttu is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Oslo. Her practice explores the relationship between freedom and power, how we navigate public space, individual autonomy, and the social, economic, and political conditions of art.
Film still from Manifesto (2020), Ane Hjort Guttu. Image courtesy the artist.