Årsrapport 2025

July 14, 2025 officially marks the 10th anniversary of the establishment of Contemporary Art Stavanger as an independent organization and online magazine offering insights into the art scene in Stavanger and Rogaland. To mark the occasion, current Director Sofie B. Ringstad gathered the original founders of CAS to discuss for the first time the organization’s founding years, looking back with pride and laughter (and a little bit of embarrassment) at the organization’s history.

CAS is the region's only outlet specifically for visual arts, and as such we are dedicated to representing the local art landscape within a broader national and international context. A public conversation about art criticism that took place as part of this year’s Coast Contemporary and Open Studios Stavanger is an example of these efforts. In a conversation that sparked much engagement with the audience, curators, writers and critics Arnau Horta and Foteini Salvaridi – both part of Coast Contemporary International Visitor’s Program – shared their practices and their perspectives on the state of art criticism.

CAS is proud to announce Brazilian curator, researcher, and writer Cristiana Tejo as the recipient of the 2025 Itchy Fingers – A Writing Residency on Art Books. Through her research she utilizes methods of archival fiction and curatorial fabulation to question the authority of the archive, and embraces matriarchal curatorial practices. During the residency period, Tejo will be embedded in the art book archive at Stavanger Library and Culture Centre, where she will question how artist books can exist simultaneously as works of art, historical documents, and living agents.