Collaborators have generously created a pre-programme in the afternoon and evening Wednesday 25 June and during the day 26 June, and you are all invited!
Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano and Neo Sinoxolo Musangi. (Phtographers unknown.)
Plattform talk
at Bergen Kunsthall
Wednesday 25 June
5 pm
Free, no sign up needed
Neo Sinoxolo Musangi will be speaking about a relevant topic to the two exhibitions on view at Bergen Kunsthall: Find Spot by Rindon Johnson and The Festival Exhibition 2025, Moon Bag by Tori Wrånes.
It is advised to see the exhibitions before the talk. Bergen Kunsthall is open from 11 am to 5 pm.
Plattform is Bergen Kunsthall’s series of conversations and debates with artists and prominent thinkers. This talk will be live streamed on their website.
Kitchen dinner
at Hordaland Art Centre
Wednesday 25 June
7 pm
Pay as you can, sign up here
Welcome to a Kitchen Dinner with Daniela Ramos Arias, Petra Rahm and Mathijs van Geest, focusing on the mediation program at Hordaland kunstsenter including the Dear Neighbour-project where they have invited artists to develop projects about, for and together with the neighbourhood of Nordnes in Bergen.
The team at Hordaland Kunstsenter will cook and serve a summer-inspired dinner, which includes an aperitif. The first drink is on the house, and after, it will be possible to purchase from the bar menu.
Through Hordaland Art Centre’s series of Kitchen Dinners exhibiting artists invite the audience to share a meal with them, while engaging in conversations related to their work. The concept is a continuation of ‘Curated Kitchen Dinners’, an initiative developed as part of Temautstillingen 2023.
About Dear Neighbour
Dear Neighbour 2024 is curated by Petra Rahm and Daniela Ramos Arias, and is part of Hordaland Kunstsenter’s programmes for Art in Public Space and Mediation. The project is supported by the Norwegian Council of Arts. Previous editions of Dear Neighbour, curated by Daniela Ramos Arias, include events and publications by Nayara Leite, Robert Carter, Maia Urstad, with Bergen Pinball Club, Frantzen&Mjanger, Sarah Jost and Mariana Murcia & Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano.
Pay as you can
The Kitchen Dinner meals aim to be an accessible platform where food and conversations around the exhibition and artistic practices can be enjoyed. In order to make it accessible to as many as possible, we have a “pay as you can” offer where, depending on your possibilities, you can pay 50, 100 or 200 kr for your experience. The money goes directly to covering the costs of ingredients and hosting of the events. We appreciate your generosity.
The Bergen art scene has a reputation for being collaborative and generous.
This pre-programme is proof of that.
VOLT commission
in public space
Thursday 26 June
11.30 am
Free, sign up needed
A commissioned city walk around the Nordnes peninsula in the centre of Bergen by Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano entitled The Fjord Is a Mouth that Hums. Duration approx. 90 minutes.
Please see more information and sign up here.
Volt is a long-term, Bergen-based curatorial project that focuses on commissioning and presenting new contemporary artworks from practitioners working across a diverse range of media. Past projects have taken the form of exhibitions, time-based media, sound art and performances, as well as publications, lectures, seminars, workshops and reading circles held in a wide variety of public venues. Founded by Marie Nerland in 2008.