Art at the airport
The Nuart Festival is considered the world's leading street art festival. Since 2001, Nuart has actively worked to facilitate new forms of art in public spaces.
Every year, the first week of September, several international artists are invited to Stavanger to leave their mark on the city. This makes Nuart one of Europe's most dynamic and vibrant festivals. Nuart is a nonprofit organization.
The organization's goal is to redefine how we experience art, by bringing art out of museums and galleries and into public spaces.
Endless Flight by Hama Woods
In a quest to communicate how important nature is to us humans, Hama Woods demonstrates through her stencils how human consumption directly affects the nature around us.
Her art shows a deep respect for nature and its connection to humans, and her works are recognized by the use of multilayered stencils hand-cut. Her goal is to get us to think through the choices we make and consider the impact these choices have on the world around us. Hama Woods lives and works in Oslo.
Gone Believer by Snik
Snik are traditional stencil artists. Some other artists use digital techniques such as laser cutters and PCs in their work, but Snik have chosen to stay true to the original craft.
They still spend a lot of time hand-cutting layered stencils for hand use. Typical of Snik's motifs are still images from situations with a lot of movement. The work focuses on the ordinary and everyday, such as images of tangled hair or creases and folds in clothes and fabric. These subtle aspects are highlighted to provide small hints of a deeper meaning. The meanings are fleeting, allowing the viewer to form their own opinion about the artworks.
Chinook Hearts by Martin Whatson
Martin Whatson is a Norwegian street artist best known for his colorful, calligraphic scribbles on gray backgrounds. Over the past decade, Whatson has developed a distinctive aesthetic that combines abstract movements with figurative stencil art. His works reflect the rise and fall of city streets, as he symbolically recreates the urban environment–only to vandalize it, to emphasize the constant and living transformation.
Disruption 04 by Add Fuel
Behind the name Add Fuel is the Portuguese artist and illustrator Diogo Machado.After becoming fascinated by the visual possibilities within symmetrical patterns and tiling, he began working with traditional tile design, specifically Portuguese glazed azulejo tiles, while simultaneously redefining this art form. Disruption 04 is an exploration of overlapping, repeating patterns on a non-linear surface where two seemingly familiar elements are interwoven. The pattern is inspired by traditional rosemaling from Rogaland. 
The Orchid Pink Runway by Louis Masai
Louis Masai's work documenting endangered animal species has often been seen as political rather than just art. "I find it a bit daunting, as I see myself only as an artist, but I definitely know that art has explosive power, and I like to use that power on walls or in social media," he says. In connection with Avinor Sola building a tomato greenhouse inside the terminal building, Masai was invited to decorate the surrounding area. He painted bees, but after hearing that a rare, endangered orchid had been discovered out on the runway, he also painted a beautiful heart-shaped orchid that the bees could climb on. Masai's endangered animals can be seen around the world, and his bees have previously been exhibited at Hå gamle prestegård south of Stavanger.Now you can also witness them here at Sola.
NO NAME
1UP is a graffiti group based in Berlin, known for their spectacular and daring stunts, and often includes political messages in their art. The anonymous group consists of a dozen men and women who hide their identity behind masks, making their age, education, and the exact number of members unknown.
The German group has left its mark on streets and buildings in their hometown and major cities all over the world since the early 2000s, earning them a worldwide reputation. Their work, OneUnitedPower, is the official artwork for the NuArt Festival in 2018 at Sola, and you can see their colorful work at the entrance to the airport.
Baggage Claim
Francesco Camillo Giorgino, better known as Millo, paints large murals with friendly figures exploring urban environments, often with architectural elements.Millo has gradually created over 150 murals worldwide, and his art can be found on every continent. The piece Baggage Claim is inspired by the artist's own life, where the airport marks both the starting and ending point for every journey. The baggage carousel symbolizes a flow of experiences: instead of regular luggage on the carousel, it is replaced with symbolic images from other countries. In this way, the baggage carousel unites the world as it moves among people without borders. A beautiful interpretation of global connection and community. 
Reaching, Climbing
Al Greenall is an artist and philosopher, with a deep sensitivity to what it means to be a conscious and thinking being in this impressive physical universe. Al believes that when it comes down to it, we are all artists and that connecting with our own creativity is becoming increasingly important in facing the extraordinary challenges of our time. The piece “Reaching, Climbing” captures the essence of the moment here and now - where you are, where you have been, and where you are going. It's about a sense of presence that you carry with you and share with every corner of the world.
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