It is generally a touring exhibition held in various places in Western Norway.
[1] The Western Norway Exhibition has been an important venue for artists from the region ever since it started in 1922.
The initiative for it came from Axel Revold and the art historian Einar Lexow[4] or, according to a 1975 newspaper article, from the artistic milieu in Stavanger, in which artists in the town met regularly at Harry Landås's apartment, where the discussion at one point turned to the Autumn Exhibition and Olav Ansgar Larsen suggested setting up their own exhibition for Western Norway.
The exhibition has been held annually since 1928, with participants coming from the four counties of Western Norway.
The point of departure for the exhibition in 2011 was the short story "Rom for sten og hjort" (Space for Rock and Deer) by Tormod Haugland.