3 x Widerberg: Prints, Sculpture, Photographs, Kihlegalleriet, Horten, from 30 June – 8 August. 

Attends the opening of Kongsberg Maritime Headquarters in Bergen with its collection of paintings and sculpture by Frans Widerberg and his son Nico Widerberg. 

Attends the opening of his exhibition Frans Widerberg: Woodcuts at Norske Grafikere, Oslo, from 9 September – 3 October. 

Participates in a panel discussion on The Legacy of Frans Widerberg with Richard Nygård, Kristian Skylstad, Dag Hofseth, Holger Koefoed and Truls Ramberg, on 16 September. 

Selected Works, one-man exhibition of recent prints at Gallery Fine Art in Oslo, from 20 October – 4 November.

One-man exhibition at Ålesund Kunstforening.

Attends the opening of his exhibition Hand-Coloured Prints at Baerum Kunstforening, from 4 – 26 February, by Elsebeth Heyerdahl-Larsen, former Director of the Artists’ Association, Oslo. 

Landscape and Myths – Mysticism and Ecstasy, opens at Kunstverket, Hovedøya, from 12 May – 19 August. The accompanying catalogue has essays by Holger Koefoed and Theodor Barth. 

One-man exhibition Dreamer in a Landscape including watercolours, prints and sculpture opens at the University Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, from 30 November – 8 February.

Watercolours, Lithographs and Hand-Coloured Etchings, Gallery Svae, Gjøvik, from 19 January – 3 March. 

Celebrates his 80th birthday in April. Attends the opening of his exhibition at the Artists’ Association in Oslo, from 5 June – 31 July and the launch of the monograph Frans Widerberg: The Art of Re-Enchantment with essays by William Varley, Michael Tucker and Holger Koefoed, published by MHW Publications. 

Participates in a panel discussion with Holger Koefoed at the Artists’ Association.

In London, attends the opening of his exhibition The Art of Re-Enchantment at Kings Place Galley, Kings Place, London, from 5 September to the 19 December.

The exhibition, The Art of Re-Enchantment, opens at the University Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne from the 6 February to 2 April. The artist’s son Thomas attends on behalf of his father whose health is deteriorating due to complications following a stroke. 

Publication of Det Visuelle er Undelig, by Kjell Stand, Gallery KS

Attends the opening of his exhibition Alchemist Watercolours at Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, from 6 February to 30 December. Produced in 1982, the series of 23 watercolours, painted on the pages of books containing translated texts from alchemistic literature were discovered by Kjell Strand, an art dealer from Tønsberg while visiting Widerberg’s studio. The accompanying illustrated book includes an introduction by Kjell Stand, extracts of Widerberg’s texts and a selection of Stein Mehren’s poems. Published in a limited edition of 100 signed copies, by Gallery KS, Tønsberg.

In the last year of his life, Widerberg’s health deteriorates rapidly. He dies peacefully at home on 7 April, on the eve of his 83 birthday. The funeral service is held at Oslo Cathedral on the 21 April, attended by HM Queen Sonja of Norway. His ashes are interred at the Cemetery of Our Saviour (Vår Frelsers Gravlund) in Oslo, Norway.