Artists: Ina Vang ∣ Håvard Kranstad ∣ Renate Desiree Dahl ∣ Ida Siebke ∣ Ask Bjørlo ∣ Steffen Andre Nilsen ∣ Elin Hedberg ∣ Lissette Escobar ∣ Cato Løland ∣ Marsil Andjelov Al-Mohamid ∣ Marthe Minde ∣ Maria Koshenkova ∣ Morten Klitgaard ∣ Astrid Skibsted ∣ Jonas Edvard ∣ Stine Bidstrup ∣ Anne Brandhøj ∣ Alexandru Murar ∣ Carl Emil Jacobsen ∣ Stine Mikkelsen ∣ Maria Viftrup ∣ Wang & Söderström ∣ Karin Roy Andersson ∣ Anna Nordström ∣ Matilda Kästel ∣ Maja Michaeldotter ∣ Lisa Juntunen Roos ∣ Milja Morset ∣ Emilia Olofdotter Sundqvist ∣ Fadhel Mourali ∣ Maja Stjärna ∣ Lotta Snijder ∣ Ýr Jóhannsdóttr

Curators: Charlotte Jul (DK), Marcia Harvey Isaksson (SE) and Vidar Koksvik (NO)

Exhibition periods: Risør Kunstpark (NO): 8 July–3 September 2023, Rundetaarn (DK): 9 March–28 April 2024, Rian Design Museum (SE): 1 February–4 May 2025

Generation WHY is a Scandinavian travelling exhibition initiated by the association behind the Norwegian Villvin Crafts Market on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Risør city in 2023. The exhibition opened at Risør Kunstpark in July 2023, was shown in The Round Tower in Copenhagen in 2024, and will be presented at Rian Design Museum in Falkenberg in 2025.

Generation WHY collects a group of Scandinavian artists and designers from "Generation Y" (born between 1977 and 1994). The curators from different Nordic countries, selected artists and designers from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland that explore existential themes such as trauma, grief, physical ailments, gender, and climate issues, with materials like textile, glass, ceramics, metal, wood, pigment, dust, and fungal mycelium.

Norwegian Crafts has contributed to Generation WHY with artistic advisory for Villvin in the early stages of the project, support to the exhibition catalogue, and to the opening at Risør Kunstpark. The organisation will also support the transport of artworks from Rian Design Museum back to the participating artists that are based in Norway.