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✨ Two books, two Wood Pencils ✏️✏️

We are incredibly happy (and still a little surprised) to share that La Liberté ou L’Amour and Open the Book have each received a Wood Pencil at the D&AD Awards 2026 in Book Design.

A lovely moment to celebrate the artists, and , and our in-house designers, and who brought these books to life.

South Korean visual artist Naeun Kang returns to Bergen after three years with a solo exhibition at Northing Space.

The exhibition presents a new body of oil paintings, graphite drawings, and watercolours. The works continue the artist’s longstanding exploration of what is awkward, broken, messy, vulnerable, absurd, or hidden, and the ambivalence these states hold. The works move between reflections on psychology and interpersonal relationships, and the artist‘s transient or recurring fixations and daydreams.

About the artist
Naeun Kang (b. 1994) is a South Korean artist based in Oslo. She works with paintings, drawings and sculptures. Kang holds an MFA (2023) from the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo, Norway, and a BFA (2018) from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Netherlands.

Kang’s previous solo exhibitions include Centralbanken (Oslo, 2024), and NEVVEN (Bologna, 2024, and Gothenburg, 2025). Kang‘s works have been included in group exhibitions at the Norske Billedhoggerforening (Oslo, 2025), Galleri LNM (Oslo, 2024), Kunstnerneshus (Oslo, 2023), and the Intercultural Museum (Oslo, 2021). She is the recipient of the 2026 one-year working grant for young artists, the 2026 Oslo Kommune Establishing Stipend, and the 2023 FKDS Atelier Stipend at the Kunstnernes Hus. Her work is held in the public collection of Västra Götaland (SE) and Kunst på Arbeidsplassen (NO).

This exhibition is kindly supported by Arts Council Norway.
Northing Space is supported by Arts Council Norway and Municipality Bergen