Rebecca Ackroyd

Peeing Boy, 2025

Public Sculpture

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Opdahl

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Localization: TBA

Rebecca Ackroyd unveils Peeing Boy, a bold new sculpture for Stavanger Secession 2025 that channels the tradition of the classic public fountain. Inspired by Gustave Metzger’s assertion at the Destruction in Art Symposium that fountains represent the first kinetic sculptures—staging perpetual motion and accident—Ackroyd’s work extends this lineage in a city perhaps more than most is phobic to the notion of accident. For Metzger, art had to stage accidents to sensitise new generations to the destructive potential of capitalism. Peeing Boy also explores the dynamics of public shame, referencing Jean Genet’s notion that shame is wielded by aggressors but can be reclaimed and inverted. By making the personal public, Peeing Boy celebrates defiance, fragility, and the subversive power of exhibiting shame with pride.

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Per Dybvig

Dog barking, telephone rings, 2025

Stop motion animation, pencil on synthetic paper

Edit: Andreas Joner

Courtesy of Per Dybvig

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JCDecaux digital screens  

Everyday 3 a.m. to 6 a.m, 13/06/25 - 13/07/25 

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Per Dybvig’s latest animated short merges his signature dark humor with a lineage stretching from Norwegian satire to the grand tradition of J.J. Grandville’s anthropomorphic art. Infusing grotesque elegance into his characters, Dybvig channels a caricatural legacy where animal forms mirror the basest facets of human morality. The film is made through a direct, improvised process, each line drawn without preparation, with scenes appearing in the same sequence they were made. No sound accompanies the film—only written sound effects and spontaneous decisions. Screened exclusively on JCDecaux screens from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m., it invites night wanderers into its world of absurdity and subtle cruelty.

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Matias Kiil

A-Historical Now Choir, 2025

5 cuckoo clocks

Courtesy of the artist

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SpareBank 1 SR-Bank Bank,  Domkirkeplassen 1, 4006 Stavanger, Norway

Regular office hours, 13/06/25 - 13/07/25 

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Matias Kiil’s A Historical Now Choir transforms the maintenance records of Oslo Cathedral’s clock tower into an oscillating, accidental symphony. Drawing on Gustave Metzger’s notion of art staging accidents, Kiil’s installation stages time itself as a score of mishaps, with five cuckoo clocks performing in discord. The piece echoes the 14th-century marriage of church bells and mechanical clocks—symbols of civilization’s conquest over time. But today, as chrono-capitalism internalizes the rhythm of productivity, Kiil’s work exposes the comic origins of our obsession with precision, productivity, and the mechanization of daily rhythm. Five Cuckoo Clocks invites us to reflect on the control and management of the body through the political and economic use of time.