Two sculptures by the late Norwegian artist Jan Groth now anchor two art sites in the Oslo area, linked by a single day of public events. On 29 October 2026, a marking celebrated the placement of Groth's "Closed" in Vigeland Park, in front of the Vigeland Museum, alongside its companion work "Open", installed in the sculpture park at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter. The programme began at Henie Onstad at 1pm before continuing at the Vigeland Museum at 2.30pm, and was open to everyone.

The two works have different owners and different homes. "Closed" has been acquired by Oslo's municipal art collections and now stands in the park in front of the museum, while "Open" is a gift from Groth's estate to Henie Onstad. Together they create a concrete connection between a coastal sculpture park and a city park, two settings with very different characters that visitors can now experience as a pair.

Groth (1938-2022) made "Open" for the 2017 festival exhibition in Bergen, where it was shown together with "Closed". The organisers describe the two sculptures as functioning both together and separately, and the October marking was built around exactly that relationship: not a general park celebration, but a public event focused on the placement of a named work and its bond with its companion.

Henie Onstad's wider autumn programme gives visitors further reason to make the trip. The Eckbos Legat Grant Exhibition runs at the centre from 17 October 2026 to 4 April 2027, alongside workshops, family activities and other events. For Groth, whose career spanned drawing, printmaking and sculpture, the pairing offers a quiet posthumous reunion: two works made to be seen together, now standing in two public landscapes a short journey apart.