Schutzhaus is a gallery of contemporary art housed in a converted bunker shelter created post world war II during the cold war era

in Oslo, Norway. The gallery still bear traces of the bunker's lineage when it was first used as a bomb shelter, telecommunication

centre for the norwegian special forces and later as a bank vault. Each exhibition in the gallery includes site-specific works that refer to and interact with the interior space, its unique long reverbial audio and strange atmosphere.

Schutzhaus features exhibitions and musical performances of international works. The founders Kristian Engelsen and Elias Hein started the gallery with the energy from the hardcore scene with the idea to disprove the notion that (disruptive) art is dead.

Some say real (non-nostalgic) punk culture doesn't really exist anymore, and if that is true, would it make a comeback? The art circle(s) has spent so long accommodating each other, especially where evidence of sensitivity reigns as the only value. The mainstream scene has become overly polite, hyper-focused on emotional fragility at the expense of bold, raw expression.

Instigation and disruption can really make a comeback if some school of thought comes around to wanting to make people uncomfortable. What if the axis mundi is three subway stops from Oslo city centre?