KOROs art programme for NTNU Campussamling 2024–2031, is inspired by the informal spaces that students and faculty create and define outside of and alongside an educational institution. The art programme explores how to establish and maintain free spaces, starting from the framework of art, i.e., spaces which are kept physically and ideologically open, that invite shared exploration, and where the freedom to think and to create is preserved and strengthened.

The programme is organised by the curators Thora Dolven Balke, Marit K. Flåtter and Alexander Eriksson Furunes. KORO’s curators work in close communication and coordination with a project committee to help facilitate and realise all the parts of the programme. Tre Kunstrom will run until 2031, when NTNU Campussamlingen at Gløshaugen is completed, with the aim to have initiated collaborations that extend this timeline into the future. 

‍Tre kunstrom consists of three spaces for art, developed by each of the curators, conceptualised and developed by artists and architects, with the goal to involve students, faculty and others in the process. One will be temporary, developed in collaboration with the municipality of Trondheim, and the other two will be permanent buildings as art works on campus. As part of the art programme, they can house residencies, exhibitions, conversations and gatherings, and invite artists to work together with students and researchers at NTNU. The outcome of these processes will further develop into permanent artworks, archives or impressions throughout campus.