MUNCH Triennale Talks
Please note that a ticket does not guarantee a seat. Due to limited capacity, please arrive early to secure your spot.
This year’s Triennale Talks welcomes artists Zach Blas and Sahej Rahal from the first and second edition of the MUNCH Triennale to Oslo. The event also includes a discussion between the curators of Almost Unreal, Mariam Elnozahy and Tominga O’Donnell on their catalogue contributions, moderated by editor Nicholas Norton. There will be opportunities for questions and discussions on the many topics that the MUNCH Triennale touches on.
Program:
14:00: Zach Blas, 'Does an AI God Have an Ass?'– lecture performance
15:30: Artist presentation by Sahej Rahal
16:30: Mariam Elnozahy og Tominga O’Donnell in conversation with Nicholas Norton
17:00: Event end
Complimentary light refreshments will be served during the breaks.
Participants:
Zach Blas is an artist and writer whose practice contends with digital technologies, their industries, and the powers that constitute and animate them. Working across moving image, computation, installation, theory, and performance, Blas has exhibited at a number of important art institutions and biennials globally. He is co-editor, with Melody Jue and Jennifer Rhee, of Informatics of Domination, published by Duke University Press in 2025.
Sahej Rahal is a storyteller who weaves together fact and fiction to create counter-mythologies that interrogate narratives shaping the present. Rahal’s myth world takes the shape of sculptures, performances, films, paintings, installations, video games, and AI programs, that he creates by drawing upon sources ranging from local legends to science fiction, rendering scenarios where indeterminate beings emerge from the cracks in our civilization.
Tominga O’Donnell is Senior Curator/Head of Contemporary Art at MUNCH, where they curated the offsite programme Munchmuseet on the Move (2016–2019), adopting a queer curatorial approach. At the new museum on Oslo’s waterfront, O’Donnell is the curator of several solo exhibitions; two editions of the MUNCH Triennale; and a series of performance commissions.
Mariam Elnozahy is a curator, researcher, and writer. She currently serves as the Artistic Director of Konsthall C in Stockholm, Sweden where her program “Sacred Spaces” (2024–2026) invites artists to address questions of religion and society. Previously, she ran exhibitions and programs at the Townhouse Gallery for Contemporary Art in Cairo (2016–2020).
Nicholas Norton (b. 1989) is an art critic, writer and editor based in Oslo. He has contributed to publications such as Artforum, Billedkunst, Frieze, Klassekampen, Kunstkritikk and Neural. He is co-editor of the MUNCH Triennale catalogue Almost Unreal with Tominga O'Donnell and Mariam Elnozahy.
