The SHORES project reached its final shore in Trondheim, Norway. Over a week in August 2026, hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the third and last artistic residency drew the project’s transnational journey to a close, and gathered its three coastlines into a single exhibition at Kunsthall Trondheim.
As in the earlier residencies, the artists began in the landscape itself. They sailed out onto the fjord towards the island of Tautra, met with marine biologists whose research listens to the life of these waters, and, in the late hours of the night, recorded the great organ of Nidaros Cathedral — one more voice in a thread of church organs the project has followed from shore to shore.
The week culminated in the opening of the SHORES exhibition at Kunsthall Trondheim (7–14 August 2026), where the work of the three artists-in-residence, carried from coast to coast, was realised as a suite of installations that hold Aveiro, the Wadden Sea and Trondheim together in one space. In Jasmine Karimova’s ISOBAR, three coastlines are connected by winds and held in cyclical sonic tandem: the salt plains of Aveiro, the tidal flats of the Wadden, the flooded valleys of Trondheimsfjorden. Jônatas Manzolli’sShoreScapes: edges where sound lingers, an audiovisual installation for exhibition and live performance, reimagines the sonic and ecological traces of the three sites as a shared environment in which distant shores resonate together, its live dimension performed on the Marimba Lumina by Øyvind Brandtsegg. Carlos A. Correia’s Until it comes, a work in progress in aluminium, salt, water and cornflour, distils a research process shaped by the tide’s continuous movement and structured around waiting.
Alongside them, Fragile Frequencies, by NTNU professor Heather Frasch, carried the exhibition beyond the gallery walls: an interactive listening score and guided sound walk beginning at Kunsthall Trondheim and ending at the fjord, drawing on the research of NTNU professors Ana Širović and Lena van Giesen into underwater acoustic environments and the fragile ecosystems of the Trondheim Fjord.
With this final exhibition, the SHORES journey came full circle. Across three residencies and three shores, the project set out to listen to Europe’s coasts — their beauty, their fragility, and the environmental pressures they face — and to let distant waters resonate together through musical creation. The work unfolded under the supervision of team members from across the consortium’s institutions, led by the University of Aveiro with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Navalha Associação Cultural.
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