{"id":7365,"date":"2026-08-21T13:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/?post_type=event&#038;p=7365"},"modified":"2026-08-21T13:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:54:55","slug":"what-is-political-art-art-as-collective-memory","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/events\/what-is-political-art-art-as-collective-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Political Art: Art as Collective Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light is-style-hero\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-neutral-50-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\"><span class=\"wp-block-afm-label medium aligncenter wp-block-afm-block-post-type has-text-color has-neutral-1000-color\">Event<\/span>\n\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-center aligncenter wp-block-post-title has-text-color has-neutral-1000-color\">What Is Political Art: Art as Collective Memory<\/h1>\n\n<span class=\"aligncenter wp-block-afm-block-post-dates\">24 Sep, 17:00 \u2014 18:00<\/span>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-excerpt has-text-color has-neutral-1000-color\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">How can we understand the political in contemporary art? A lecture by Associate Professor of Philosophy Feroz Mehmood Shah. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-black\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/afmuseet.ticketco.events\/no\/nb\/e\/hva_er_politisk_samtidskunst\">Sign Up &amp; Tickets <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Admission is included with the entrance ticket to the museum. Free for members.\u202f<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The talk will be held in Norwegian\u202f\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In collaboration with Astrup Fearnley Museet, Feroz Mehmood Shah presents a lecture series on art and the place of art within our consciousness, in dialogue with philosophy and literature. The series takes individual works from the collection as its point of departure\u2014on this occasion, <strong>Britta Marakatt-Labbas <\/strong>(f. 1951) work <em>Gr\u00e4nsl\u00f6st<\/em> from 2022.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feroz Mehmood Shah is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo, specializing in ethics, political philosophy, and the history of philosophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"t2-featured-single-post t2-featured-content is-post-type-exhibition wp-block-t2-featured-single-post\"><a class=\"wp-block-t2-post-link post-id-6095 has-background wp-block-afm-block-post-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/en\/exhibitions\/astrup-fearnley-collection-2\/\">\n<figure style=\"--t2-focal-point: 50% 50%;\" class=\"t2-post-featured-image has-image-ratio-16-9 wp-block-t2-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/Samlingen_1_etasje__Christian_Oen-6-2-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/Samlingen_1_etasje__Christian_Oen-6-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/Samlingen_1_etasje__Christian_Oen-6-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/Samlingen_1_etasje__Christian_Oen-6-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/Samlingen_1_etasje__Christian_Oen-6-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/Samlingen_1_etasje__Christian_Oen-6-2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.afmuseet.no\/content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/Samlingen_1_etasje__Christian_Oen-6-2-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\t<span class=\"wp-block-afm-label medium wp-block-afm-block-post-type\">Exhibitions<\/span>\n\t<h2 class=\"wp-block-t2-post-title\">Astrup Fearnley Collection<\/h2>\n\t<span class=\"wp-block-afm-block-post-dates\">02. Jan. 2026 &#8211; 30. Dec. 2026<\/span>\n\t<div class=\"t2-post-excerpt wp-block-t2-post-excerpt\"><p>A presentation of the collection with entirely new works acquired over the past five years, alongside some well-known classics.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/a>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can we understand the political in contemporary art? 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