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, during 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 taking it 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 shows through her stencils how human consumption directly affects the nature around us.
Her art shows a deep respect for nature and the connection to humans, and her work is recognized by the use of layered stencils hand-cut. Her goal is to make us think about the choices we make and consider the effect 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 has chosen to stay true to the original craftsmanship.
They still spend a lot of time cutting out layered stencils by hand. 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 folds and creases in clothes and fabric. These subtle aspects are highlighted to give small hints of a deeper meaning. Meanings that are fleeting, so that the viewer can form their own opinion about the artworks. 
Control Tower by M-City M-City, or Mariusz Waras as he is actually named, is an artist and amateur architect who loves to travel – which might explain where his artistic strength and precision come from. He lives in Gdansk, but his art can be experienced all over the world. M-City's murals are exceptionally rhythmic and precise, an effect he achieves using stencils cut out by hand. He constructs urban areas where the main subject is the metropolis, and the perpetual development of the big city.His works are characterized by his two greatest sources of inspiration; video games and geopolitical themes.
Chinook Hearts by Martin Whatson
Martin Whatson is a Norwegian street artist best known for his colorful, calligraphic scribbles on gray backgrounds. Over the last 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 vibrant 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, especially 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 species has often been viewed as political and not just art. “I find it a bit scary—since I just see myself as an artist—but I definitely know that art has explosive power, and I like to use that power on walls or on social media,” he says.
In connection with Avinor Sola's construction of 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 was discovered out on the runway, he also painted a beautiful heart-shaped orchid for the bees to climb.
Masai’s endangered animals can be seen all over the world, and his bees have previously been exhibited at Hå old vicarage 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, often including 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 exact number of members unknown.
The German group has left its mark on the streets and buildings of their hometown and major cities around 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 airport entrance.
Baggage Claim
Francesco Camillo Giorgino, better known as Millo, paints large murals featuring friendly figures exploring urban environments, often with architectural elements.Millo has gradually created over 150 murals worldwide, and you can find his art 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 stream 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 at the core, we are all artists and that connecting with our own creativity is becoming increasingly important when facing the extraordinary challenges of our time. The work "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.