Skriftkompani Exhibitions – Skriftkompani Exhibitions, Skrift i Oslo, Ingen veit kven Trygve er, Røyk, Grafill, Norwegian typography, and graphic design history
Exhibition projects on signage, Norwegian graphic design, and visual culture
Skriftkompani’s exhibitions bring together research, typography, and visual culture through projects rooted in local material, overlooked histories, and everyday graphic forms.
Installation view of the exhibition Skrift i Oslo. Photograph: Daniel Spiro.
Skrift i Oslo exhibition on Oslo signs and lettering
Skrift i Oslo (2020) is a photographic survey of Oslo’s signs and letterforms across a century, tracing how everyday words, materials, and urban routines accumulate into a local visual dialect.
Wall installation with drawings and lettering by Trygve M. Davidsen in Ingen veit kven Trygve er. Photograph: Jørn Aagaard.
Ingen veit kven Trygve er exhibition on Trygve M. Davidsen and early Norwegian graphic design
Ingen veit kven Trygve er (2023) reintroduces Trygve M. Davidsen through his own scrapbooks, showing logos, covers, posters, packaging, and drawings that sit at the roots of Norwegian graphic design.
Exterior view of the exhibition Røyk at Grafill. Photograph: Jørn Aagaard.
Røyk exhibition on Norwegian posters from 1886 to 1938
Røyk (2026) brings together one hundred Norwegian posters from 1886 to 1938, following a pre-standardised field where painters, architects, theatre hands, and illustrators approached the poster in markedly different ways.