Nov. 3 - Dec 6

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Richard Tuttle

Venue: The Art Museums of Bergen - Lysverket / Opens: Saturday November 3 at 2pm

Bergen Kunsthall is proud to present the American artist Richard Tuttle’s first solo exhibition in Norway. The exhibition will be held in the Art Museums of Bergens department Lysverket.

In the middle of the 1960s Richard Tuttle established a unique position for himself on the American post-war art scene. Since then he has presented a large number of exhibitions at regular intervals, and his oeuvre has been the object of constantly renewed interest. Tuttle is often described as a post-minimalist, with a background in the artistic milieu in which he first became known; nevertheless Tuttle’s works elude simple characterizations. It is striking to see how his whole oeuvre appears as relevant today as ever in the light of the renewed current interest in formal issues and an orientation towards the meaning-bearing features of materiality in sculpture and painting.

October 4 - February 3

Real Life Stories

Jing Kewen – Xiang Jing – Li Songsong – Ai Weiwei – Xu Bing - Liu Jianhua – Song Dong – Yin Xiuzhen – Mao Tongqiang - Yue Minjun

Installations, sculptures and paintings by ten of China’s leading artists.

Over the last 15 years, Chinese contemporary artists have gained phenomenal popularity and recognition in the international art world. Real Life Stories presents, for the first time in Norway, installations, sculptures and paintings by ten of China’s leading artists.

Like an exhibition within an exhibition, the occasion marks the world premiere of a new work by Ai Weiwei. In 2011, ArtReview magazine deemed this artist to be the most powerful figure in the art world, and one of the trendsetters for the international contemporary art scene. Ai Weiwei’s art often deals with themes pertaining to Chinese culture, tradition and craftsmanship, and China’s relationship to the West.

Chief curators: Feng Boyi and Bjørn Inge Follevaag. Co-curators: Erlend Høyersten and Eli Okkenhaug.

The exhibition is produced by Art Museums of Bergen.

Nikolai Astrup

We present the Nikolai Astrup Collection in a new permanent exhibition in Lysverket. Visitors will encounter a presentation of well-known paintings and a large selection of Astrup’s prints and drawings in our new purpose-built area for works on paper.

Bergen Art Museum has opened Norway’s first art museum especially for children!

September 28 - Januray 27

Material Information

Zarouhie Abdalian (US), Abbas Akhavan (CA), Danai Anesiadou (BE), Siri Brekke (NO), Asli Cavusoglu (TK), Hilde Angel Danielsen (NO), Goldin+Senneby (SE), Hadley&Maxwell (CA), Iman Issa (EG), Katrine Meisfjord (NO), Alex Morrison (CA), Shahryar Nashat (CH), Amalia Pica (AR), Praneet Soi (IN), Ola Vasiljeva (LV/NL) og Aoi Yoshizawa (JP/FI)

Spotlight on the production and collection of objects in a globalized world.

Arts & crafts and museums of the decorative arts are closely related, both originating around 1850 in response to the negative consequences of the industrial revolution – aesthetic decline and alienation from production – referred to by Marx as ‘commodity fetishism’. In contrast craftsmen concerned themselves with every stage of the process from concept to finished product.

Juan Gaitán, curator of the exhibition Material Information – the 2012 thematic exhibition of the Norwegian Arts and Crafts Association, asks why craftsmanship is still dominated by the mindset of the 1800s, while industrial production has been radically updated.

The kind of industrial production that is considered a benchmark of European craftsmanship has almost disappeared from the Western world today. It has been outsourced and fragmented, and its products are global and anonymous.

This exhibition not only poses a challenge to the area of arts and crafts but also to the museum. The artists turn the role of the museum as collector and storyteller upside down, and in doing so deprive the museum of its monopoly over the representation of the objects in its collection and the narratives associated with them.

Material Information brings a set of contemporary practices together in order to present a multiple meditation on the new and old objects of industry.

The exhibition is curated by Juan A. Gaitán, and will take place in three different venues and around the city of Bergen. The main exhibition will take place here, at the Art Museums of Bergen Permanenten between September 28th and January 31st.

May 8, 2012 - May 8, 2019

Silver Treasure

For centuries Bergen was Norway’s key production site for beautiful and prestigious objects made from gold and silver.´The Silver Treasure´ shows you a variety of these.

Permanenten (West Norway Museum of Decorative Art) is the repository for Norway’s largest private collection of Bergen silver, which is presented together with the museum’s own holdings and deposits from other museums.

Bergensian goldsmiths
For centuries Bergen was Norway’s key production site for beautiful and prestigious objects made from gold and silver. These objects represent Norway’s foremost classic handcraft. Here you will find tankards, drinking vessels, goblets, terrines, snuffboxes, silverware, jewellery and other objects from the 16th through 20th cen.

The exhibition
The museum has commissioned Kristin Jarmund Architects to design a ‘magpie’s nest’ of display cases for the objects. An audio guide with discussions about the objects will be available, as well as a database of information about Bergensian silver and gold. Films about the production process will also be shown.

October 4 - December 16

Skin, Flesh and Bone

Cao Hui, Feng Feng, He Yunchang & Ma Quisha

Curator: Feng Boyi

Curatorial Team: Wang Dong, Bjørn Follevaag & Malin Barth

The artists examine different aspects and issues of the body in their artistic production. Changes of time, the identification of, appeal for, and even the ideology about the human body explored. The exploration that takes place is not purely private nor purely Chinese, but closely linked to comparable conditions and situations, as well as to the general experience of what it means to be human.

April 27 - June 17

A Neutral, Flexible Structure

Morten Torgersrud

For many years Morten Torgersrud has photographed various landscapes in the Barents region and investigated their meaning; from residential areas, architecture and town plans, to the ideological landscape created by certain ideas of geography in older photographs. In the exhibition A neutral, flexible structure it is the economic and abstract landscapes that are investigated through a series of images from this area.

May 25 - May 27

Opening Friday May 25th at 20:00

Open Saturday and Sunday 14:00-18:00

Simon Torssell Lerin /Bettina Hvidevold Hystad

Artist duo Simon Torssell Lerin/Bettina Hvidevold Hystad (1985), lives and works in Stockholm where they are currently doing a Master in Fine Art at Konstfack - University College of Arts, Crafts and Design.

For their show at Gallery Premiss, Simon and Bettina will present the first part in their ongoing project (DAMO) about the Japanese musician and traveller Damo Suzuki, most famous for being the vocalist in the German krautrock band CAN during the early 1970´s.

May 23 - June 17

The mind is given to you, you are not given to the mind

Monica Winther

Du våkner og ser rommet omkring deg. Kroppen er lammet og du er ute av stand til å bevege deg. Noe presser mot brystet. Hallusinasjoner i et ellers velkjent rom, en følelse av at noen er der, at noen griper deg. Skrekken sprer seg i kroppen i dét det går opp for deg – det er nå du skal dø. I en ubestemmelig tid er du fullstendig paralysert, som om du var sydd fast til madrassen under deg. Angsten fra disse nattlige opplevelsene, et sted mellom det bevisste og det ubevisste, kryper sakte inn på deg og du begynner å tvile på dine egne sanser. (...)

May 25

Marit Dyre

May 11 - June 24

Og bakom synger skogene

Kristine Fornes

May 23 - June 24

Sum

BÃ¥rd Breivik