The workshop is part of a series of events in which ekphrasis is used as a method for approaching recently acquired works in the Astrup Fearnley Collection. Ekphrasis, derived from the Greek word for “description,” is a literary practice in which language takes a work of art as its point of departure in order to open up new layers of meaning.

It is often easy to describe what we see. But how do we find words for what art sets in motion within us?

Writer Simen Hagerup leads an ekphrastic writing workshop centered on Nairy Baghramian and the work Dwindler_Prone_up (2018).

Sign up required. Limited capacity.
NOK 80 (free for members of Astrup Fearnley Museet)

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Simen Hagerup (b. 1980, Porsgrunn) is a writer, translator, and critic. In 2025, his new Norwegian translation of The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin was published by Cappelen Damm, and in 2026 he translated several shorter texts by Le Guin for Find Forlag. His most recent original publication is the fantasy novel Jordverv (2021). He currently lives in Fredrikstad with two guinea pigs and three humans.

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