Can Serrat

Since 1988 I have been involved in Can Serrat - an Artist Residency located in an old farmhouse near the Montserrat Mountain in the small village El Bruc 40 km from Barcelona.

As a group of 11 very young Norwegian students together with our art teacher, we bought a beautiful large half-ruin of an old Masía in the Catalonian countryside. Together and with help from literally hundreds - friends, strangers, local builders, generations of Norwegian Art School students, passers-by, artists-in-residence and good village people, we have created a place in the world.

It is a place for work and play, food, stories – likely and unlikely encounters and collaborations.

Several thousand people – children, artists, writers, students, travelers, friends and family from all over the world have spent time at Can Serrat in the 30 years that have passed.