Stavanger Art Museum is to open the first solo exhibition in Norway by Cory Arcangel, an artist who has made the city his home for more than a decade. Family Office runs from 14 November 2026 to 29 March 2027 and gathers work from the past ten years of a practice that moves between performance, music, video, painting, drawing and printmaking.

Arcangel, born in Buffalo, New York, in 1978, trained in music and came up through the hacker circles of the early internet era. He moved from New York to Stavanger in 2015, and the exhibition traces how the city has since entered his work, in its materials, its collaborations and its themes. The show's title refers both to the way he has combined family and working life during this period and to wider questions of technology, power, branding and economic capital. New pieces appear beside collaborations with fashion designer Phoebe Philo and music producer Oneohtrix Point Never, as well as works that test what image-processing software can do.

At the centre of the exhibition is a life-size reconstruction of the Arcangel Surfware Flagship, the shop Arcangel ran in the Stavanger district of Storhaug in 2018 and 2019. The store was at once an experimental studio, a showroom and a retail outlet for Arcangel Surfware, the self-described non-aspirational lifestyle brand he founded in 2014 for surfing the web. The museum acquired the shop in 2024 with support from the Inge Steensland Foundation, and it is now being shown for the first time as an installation.

The exhibition also reaches beyond the museum walls. Hail Mary, a composition written for the carillon, will be performed weekly in the newly restored Stavanger Cathedral on Thursday evenings from 18 November until 18 March 2027. A collaboration with vocalist and sound artist Stine Janvin, titled Identity Pitches, takes traditional knitting patterns as its starting point. A richly illustrated monograph, published by Walter Konig with a conversation between the artist, Caroline Busta and Lil Internet, will appear towards the end of the run.