https://en.bergenassembly.no Bergen Assembly Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://en.bergenassembly.no en https://en.bergenassembly.no/Home-after-BA-2025 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000 Bergen Assembly https://en.bergenassembly.no/Home-after-BA-2025 Bergen Assembly <img width="3500" height="2334" width_o="3500" height_o="2334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fdfe719fc164ec0d161755c20b12036564a8cfbd2b08cde4555066e69569e178/BA_Abrakadabra_2025_D3_B__-849.jpg" data-mid="245316847" border="0" alt="The Literature Boat Epos brought visitors to the Textile Industry Museum in Salhus during the Opening Days of across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." data-caption="The Literature Boat Epos brought visitors to the Textile Industry Museum in Salhus during the Opening Days of across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fdfe719fc164ec0d161755c20b12036564a8cfbd2b08cde4555066e69569e178/BA_Abrakadabra_2025_D3_B__-849.jpg" /> Bergen Assembly is a recurring platform for art in Bergen that opens the city to new artistic processes and perspectives. Every three years, a new edition takes shape, developed over time and on its own terms by invited convenors. Through collaboration with artists and local partners, we create encounters between art and the public that engage with issues shaping our present. We are now working toward 2028 → Open Office Bergen Assembly's offices function as both a public work- and event space. Are you or your group interested in using our office? Read more here → <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/169f73d5f5b3b6812d20c3db4f9eccdab057af4155479cdf61ea85fab09a7ca8/Bergen-Assembly_Apent-kontor.jpeg" data-mid="241027772" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/169f73d5f5b3b6812d20c3db4f9eccdab057af4155479cdf61ea85fab09a7ca8/Bergen-Assembly_Apent-kontor.jpeg" /> The Communist Museum of Palestine The Communist Museum of Palestine is a community-hosted museum initiated for Bergen Assembly 2025, across, with, nearby, where donated artworks are cared for and displayed across domestic and public spaces throughout Bergen. Read more here → <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2dd36087dfcf469d99f36347efce27d89c2ba961aacfeac61c2b7f8189b9ffee/PXL_20251017_094137373.RAW-01.COVER.jpg" data-mid="245891163" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2dd36087dfcf469d99f36347efce27d89c2ba961aacfeac61c2b7f8189b9ffee/PXL_20251017_094137373.RAW-01.COVER.jpg" /> La Cantina de la Touriste La Cantina de la Touriste is a permanent installation by the artist Sol Calero that reimagines the interior of Kafé Mat &amp; prat. The installation was part of the fourth edition of Bergen Assembly in 2022, Yasmine and the Seven Faces of the Heptahedron. Read more here → <img width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b33e2c37dd12957cf738907c105f0847333df48aba698aebafa99f593d2a08d/La-Cantina-de-la-Touriste_Sol-Calero_Bergen-Assembly-2022_.jpeg" data-mid="241027763" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/7b33e2c37dd12957cf738907c105f0847333df48aba698aebafa99f593d2a08d/La-Cantina-de-la-Touriste_Sol-Calero_Bergen-Assembly-2022_.jpeg" /> https://en.bergenassembly.no/La-Cantina-de-la-Touriste-en Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:08:43 +0000 Bergen Assembly https://en.bergenassembly.no/La-Cantina-de-la-Touriste-en La Cantina de la Touriste NO / EN <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a45dae4b0e0698eb191ee93d9f31209690c7e5937843320859634deddc82076/La-Cantina-de-la-Touriste_Sol-Calero_Bergen-Assembly-2022_Photo-Bjrn-Mortensen_2.jpeg" data-mid="169054701" border="0" alt="La Cantina de la Touriste at Kaf&eacute; Mat &amp; prat. Photo: Thor Br&oslash;dreskift. " data-caption="La Cantina de la Touriste at Kafé Mat &amp; prat. Photo: Thor Brødreskift. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a45dae4b0e0698eb191ee93d9f31209690c7e5937843320859634deddc82076/La-Cantina-de-la-Touriste_Sol-Calero_Bergen-Assembly-2022_Photo-Bjrn-Mortensen_2.jpeg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75eaaf7bdec66d8626d381197a1be173a8bc983bffa9eee1894daabdc6ddffb8/La-Cantina-de-la-Touriste_Sol-Calero_Bergen-Assembly-2022_Photo-Bjrn-Mortensen_1.jpeg" data-mid="169054702" border="0" alt="La Cantina de la Touriste at Kaf&eacute; Mat &amp; prat. Photo: Bj&oslash;r Mortensen." data-caption="La Cantina de la Touriste at Kafé Mat &amp; prat. Photo: Bjør Mortensen." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75eaaf7bdec66d8626d381197a1be173a8bc983bffa9eee1894daabdc6ddffb8/La-Cantina-de-la-Touriste_Sol-Calero_Bergen-Assembly-2022_Photo-Bjrn-Mortensen_1.jpeg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27830c2a7fc5486dc4fb44264de7d1a1bb5409ccd7ced4d64b063f9c1d045264/La-Cantina-de-la-Touriste_Sol-Calero_Bergen-Assembly-2022_Photo-Bjrn-Mortensen_3.jpeg" data-mid="169054739" border="0" alt="La Cantina de la Touriste at Kaf&eacute; Mat &amp; prat. Photo: Bj&oslash;rn Mortensen." data-caption="La Cantina de la Touriste at Kafé Mat &amp; prat. Photo: Bjørn Mortensen." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/27830c2a7fc5486dc4fb44264de7d1a1bb5409ccd7ced4d64b063f9c1d045264/La-Cantina-de-la-Touriste_Sol-Calero_Bergen-Assembly-2022_Photo-Bjrn-Mortensen_3.jpeg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04da2ba4801a0c17b9a5a265d6bcb2f4ed20b70444a57220f5a248cf56e44f05/La-Cantina-de-la-Touriste_Sol-Calero_Bergen-Assembly-2022_photo-Thor-Brdreskift_2.jpeg" data-mid="169054768" border="0" alt="La Cantina de la Touriste at Kaf&eacute; Mat &amp; prat. Photo: Thor Br&oslash;dreskift. " data-caption="La Cantina de la Touriste at Kafé Mat &amp; prat. Photo: Thor Brødreskift. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04da2ba4801a0c17b9a5a265d6bcb2f4ed20b70444a57220f5a248cf56e44f05/La-Cantina-de-la-Touriste_Sol-Calero_Bergen-Assembly-2022_photo-Thor-Brdreskift_2.jpeg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6ce4ce54a31a04905867ab6afcfad22b7b99e9e4039998d899a2cd1709e9a98/La-Cantina-de-la-Touriste_Sol-Calero_Bergen-Assembly-2022_photo-Thor-Brdreskift_1.jpeg" data-mid="169054770" border="0" alt="La Cantina de la Touriste at Kaf&eacute; Mat &amp; prat. Photo: Thor Br&oslash;dreskift. " data-caption="La Cantina de la Touriste at Kafé Mat &amp; prat. Photo: Thor Brødreskift. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6ce4ce54a31a04905867ab6afcfad22b7b99e9e4039998d899a2cd1709e9a98/La-Cantina-de-la-Touriste_Sol-Calero_Bergen-Assembly-2022_photo-Thor-Brdreskift_1.jpeg" /> La Cantina de la Touriste is a permanent installation by the artist Sol Calero that reimagines the interior of Kafé Mat &amp; prat. The installation was part of the fourth edition of Bergen Assembly in 2022, Yasmine and the Seven Faces of the Heptahedron.&nbsp; You can experience La Cantina de la Touriste at Kafe Mat &amp; prat and try their tasty and affordable lunch menu with healthy dishes from all over the world. Open for lunch Monday to Friday, 10:00 - 15:00. Calero's La Cantina de la Touriste has given the institutional-looking café at Engensenteret a new, welcoming and colorful atmosphere. The new canteen paves way for social exchange and new connections. Mat &amp; prat is an education and work training program run by Ny Sjanse (Bergen municipality). The participants come from many different countries, and they therefore bring with them knowledge of different food cultures which is reflected in the rotating menu. Calero’s extensive redesign, created in close conversation with Kafé Mat &amp; prat’s community, invigorates an existing project with meaningful social benefits, allowing visitors and participants to become, momentarily, tourists in their own city. With a bright, tiled wall mural, hand-painted furniture, and room dividers that recall somewhere south of Norway, Calero’s imagery reflects her interest in tropical aesthetics as well as those of applied design, and determinations of the self-consciously “exotic.” &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Artist Biography&nbsp; &nbsp; Sol Calero creates site-specific installations that work as spaces for gathering. She often uses opulent three-dimensional tableaus, and has staged situations as far-ranging as a school, spa, and currency-exchange office. Calero’s works are at once vibrant, bright, and playful, while also examining the political overtones of themes such as cultural representation, national identity, exoticism, and marginalisation. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Kafé Mat &amp; pratTeatergaten 435010 BergenMonday - Friday10:00–15:00<img width="667" height="1000" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/667/q/75/i/a786606a57a80be859f289665433511be11e44d82b67d5c83c84fab8be7e08a8/BergenAssembly_NicolasRsener_20220912_preview-0270.jpg" style="width: 194.842px; height: 292.117px;"> https://en.bergenassembly.no/About Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:58:03 +0000 Bergen Assembly https://en.bergenassembly.no/About About NO / EN <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b514a48b653ecb5f444cc7740c07d288eec16186d5fe8afca317235acd202f9/SynneSBBnes_yen_Pas15.jpg" data-mid="102216093" border="0" alt="Bergen Assembly neon sign through office window at Halfdan Kjerulfs Gate. Photo: Synne S. B. B&oslash;nes" data-caption="Bergen Assembly neon sign through office window at Halfdan Kjerulfs Gate. Photo: Synne S. B. Bønes" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b514a48b653ecb5f444cc7740c07d288eec16186d5fe8afca317235acd202f9/SynneSBBnes_yen_Pas15.jpg" /> Bergen Assembly is a perennial model for art production structured around public events that take place in the city of Bergen every three years. Each edition is guided by a convenor who is free to invent new ways of conceiving the event, allowing each iteration of Bergen Assembly to take on a distinctly different shape and format.&nbsp; Bergen Assembly originated from the Bergen Biennial Conference in 2009, in response to a proposal by the municipality of Bergen to establish an international biennial for contemporary art in the city. The conference, which discussed the question “To biennial or not to biennial?” with international curators, artists, and academics, was followed by The Biennial Reader (Hatje Cantz/Bergen Kunsthall, 2010)—to date the most comprehensive publication on the global history and practice of biennials or regularly occurring exhibitions and art events. The first edition of Bergen Assembly, convened by Ekaterina Degot and David Riff in 2013, was titled Monday Begins on Saturday and organized as a narrative unfolding across a series of exhibition spaces. The second edition, in 2016, was led by artist and composer Tarek Atoui, the freethought collective and the collaborative platform PRAXES, who each produced a distinct project. The third edition, Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead, convened in 2019 by Iris Dressler and Hans D. Christ, explored new notions of political assembly in collaboration with a core group of ten artists, curators, writers and activists. The fourth edition, Yasmine and the Seven Faces of the Heptahedron, of Bergen Assembly took place in 2022, and was convened by the artist Saâdane Afif. The last edition, across, with, nearby, took place in 2025, and was convened by Adania Shibli, Ravi Agarwal, and the Bergen School of Architecture. The next edition of Bergen Assembly will commence in 2028. Bergen Assembly’s team works at the office at Halfdan Kjerulfs Gate 4, 5017 Bergen, from Monday to Friday. For general inquiries contact: post@bergenassembly.no Bergen Assembly Team Ingrid Haug ErstadDirector&nbsp;(on maternity leave 01.05.26 - 01.03.27)ingrid@­bergenassembly.noKirsten WandschneiderInterim Managing Director - Operations &amp; Projects (01.05.26 - 01.03.27) kirsten@­bergenassembly.noMaria Råkil Interim Deputy Director - Communications &amp; Mediation (01.05.26 - 01.03.27) maria@bergenassembly.no Christina Hannestad Administrative Coordinator christina@­bergenassembly.noTor Steffen EspedalProject Coordinatortor@­bergenassembly.noAlex Hamish Millar Events &amp; Project Coordinator alex@bergenassembly.noEirik HunnesEvents &amp; Bar Manager events@bergenassembly.no Tora Karoline Dahl Digital Content tora@bergenassembly.no Advisory Board Ina BlomMaria HlavajovaRanjit HoskoteAnaïs TondeurMichael MarderExecutive Board Stein Olaf Onarheim (chair)Henriette SölterAntonio Cataldo Marit EikemoSveinung Unneland Karen Sofie Sørensen <img width="859" height="406" width_o="859" height_o="406" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0e019e5eadd0ff2be601823178b61a2f9a195e83bb2e275a627e1049e7427c4/Alternativ_logo_eng_258026a.png" data-mid="102216327" border="0" data-scale="61" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/859/i/e0e019e5eadd0ff2be601823178b61a2f9a195e83bb2e275a627e1049e7427c4/Alternativ_logo_eng_258026a.png" /> <img width="2249" height="485" width_o="2249" height_o="485" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e46f5ddc6a212963940100b0ed83107380a55148e46a4bcbea56a3bbc0327ccf/ArtsCouncilNorway_Endorsed_Black.png" data-mid="102216337" border="0" data-scale="89" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e46f5ddc6a212963940100b0ed83107380a55148e46a4bcbea56a3bbc0327ccf/ArtsCouncilNorway_Endorsed_Black.png" /> <img width="546" height="149" width_o="546" height_o="149" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/feb4c8412ce8c63a401efb1ee56ea7308975b5d2e0c1fced8a5f377647cf07a6/Vestland-County-Council_RGB.png" data-mid="102216340" border="0" data-scale="73" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/546/i/feb4c8412ce8c63a401efb1ee56ea7308975b5d2e0c1fced8a5f377647cf07a6/Vestland-County-Council_RGB.png" /> <img width="1280" height="426" width_o="1280" height_o="426" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e30b126baaeb7074753b28fd3f75aafcdd652bab3a79314f1a43fa16b994967e/Perennial-Biennial-logo-black.png" data-mid="102216341" border="0" data-scale="61" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e30b126baaeb7074753b28fd3f75aafcdd652bab3a79314f1a43fa16b994967e/Perennial-Biennial-logo-black.png" /> <img width="2836" height="771" width_o="2836" height_o="771" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a0c59d8c11ff7ee8488a9720ac762d6962bdb72a7b6c090824dc0287b46541a/eu_flag-creativeeurope_vect_bw_0.png" data-mid="102216348" border="0" data-scale="61" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a0c59d8c11ff7ee8488a9720ac762d6962bdb72a7b6c090824dc0287b46541a/eu_flag-creativeeurope_vect_bw_0.png" /> DATA PRIVACY https://en.bergenassembly.no/News Sat, 26 Dec 2020 12:28:07 +0000 Bergen Assembly https://en.bergenassembly.no/News News NO / EN &nbsp; https://en.bergenassembly.no/All-Events Mon, 13 Feb 2023 18:32:45 +0000 Bergen Assembly https://en.bergenassembly.no/All-Events Upcoming Events &nbsp;&nbsp;NO / EN&nbsp; ←Previous Events https://en.bergenassembly.no/Open-Office Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:53:13 +0000 Bergen Assembly https://en.bergenassembly.no/Open-Office Open Office NO / EN <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f68b42e4eb7b0a6b3b2affd8a4ca667987dab4e132c8b6dc76a436e9e1c41c89/TBR_Bergen-Assembly-_17.jpeg" data-mid="168412220" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f68b42e4eb7b0a6b3b2affd8a4ca667987dab4e132c8b6dc76a436e9e1c41c89/TBR_Bergen-Assembly-_17.jpeg" /> <img width="3557" height="2379" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1500/q/75/i/8f51a4d9760c6998719c6a2aaebcb3a7999ec4ea5d6447dd1d344c5b0d56d690/flashigjenaaaa.jpg"> <img width="3637" height="2433" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1500/q/75/i/650edbd639151edc76b1c6f0d3e90bd16a3ae95d20779a132394bb125544911a/R1-00604-0022.JPG"> Bergen Assembly’s offices function as both a public work- and event space. Are you or your group interested in using our office? Our open office is a low-threshold offer where we wish to lend our space to local groups and initiatives that are in need of space for their closed meetings and public events. We charge NOK 300 per hour for events where alcohol is served, or there is need for a bartender/event host.If you wish to borrow the space, we can be contacted at events@bergenassembly.no. On weekdays 11:00-16:00, you are welcome to bring your own computer or work and spend time at our office. Here you have access to free coffee/tea and can connect to our free wi-fi.&nbsp;Drop by! <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ec7f17e0fa228eeec8624117c82c6092c80562f3d6630be1edbfa913a5b9e9c/SynneSBBnes_yen_Pas5.jpg" data-mid="102215750" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ec7f17e0fa228eeec8624117c82c6092c80562f3d6630be1edbfa913a5b9e9c/SynneSBBnes_yen_Pas5.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1357" width_o="2048" height_o="1357" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d5bc561334cdfef33ea224244f9c1d22346558499e4ac14be4c00fa08e67738/SynneSBBnes_yen_Pas21.jpg" data-mid="102215894" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d5bc561334cdfef33ea224244f9c1d22346558499e4ac14be4c00fa08e67738/SynneSBBnes_yen_Pas21.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1377" width_o="2048" height_o="1377" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7cd6cf17eaa7494251d625b3379d6df465bb41e7ebfa50b6c1571eee2b147a6b/SynneSBBnes_yen_Pas20____.jpg" data-mid="102215871" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7cd6cf17eaa7494251d625b3379d6df465bb41e7ebfa50b6c1571eee2b147a6b/SynneSBBnes_yen_Pas20____.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47461d5101e0208851f72f44316b612c6e9270513792ec3569c539620d3bf485/SynneSBBnes_yen_Pas1.jpg" data-mid="102215767" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/47461d5101e0208851f72f44316b612c6e9270513792ec3569c539620d3bf485/SynneSBBnes_yen_Pas1.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b514a48b653ecb5f444cc7740c07d288eec16186d5fe8afca317235acd202f9/SynneSBBnes_yen_Pas15.jpg" data-mid="102215773" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b514a48b653ecb5f444cc7740c07d288eec16186d5fe8afca317235acd202f9/SynneSBBnes_yen_Pas15.jpg" /> Our open office is fully accessible from street level and our toilets are gender neutral. At Bergen Assembly we are committed to supporting an inclusive and diverse arts scene in Bergen. We work to provide a space free of all forms of discrimination and injustice. HISTORY:&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In 2016, Partisan Café, held inside the Old Fire Station in Bergen, was a shared space for conversations, art, education, debate and performance and functioned as the main information point for Bergen Assembly. Conceived by Nora Sternfeld in collaboration with artists Isa Rosenberger and Jenny Moore, it was a location for educators and café workers to think about and practice radical hospitality. For the 2019 edition, Bergen Assembly opened KODE 2, an old archiving and restoration wing, as Belgin. It became the central working space for Bergen Assembly, but also a community space which all were welcome to use. It was a place of work, play, collaboration, celebration, and rest. Both of these spaces offered a meeting place with no purchase obligation in the city centre for the community to use and engage with. We have established our new office on Halfdan Kjerulfs Gate as an open space for exchange and gathering, as well as work, taking from the experiences of these previous projects and those who realised them. Bergen Assembly’s offices in Halfdan Kjerulfs Gate 4 was designed and refurbished by musician Kristoffer Wie Van Der Pas and Bergen-based architect Tord Øyen. If you or your group are interested in using our office, contact us at: events@bergenassembly.noHalfdan Kjerulfs gate 45017 BergenMonday—Friday11:00–16:00<img width="1168" height="716" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/q/75/i/7c76f0fedb2aa4e01f1e23dfca1efa96ba2bc76293f3ef9cce4a496fe156155e/map-s.png" style="width: 423.712px; height: 259.741px;"> https://en.bergenassembly.no/Perennial-Biennial-en Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:23:55 +0000 Bergen Assembly https://en.bergenassembly.no/Perennial-Biennial-en Perennial Biennial WEBSITE → NO / EN Europe witnesses significant political and cultural changes regularly putting the cohesion of European countries and actors at risk. This unrest has brought about an urgency and desire for closer collaboration in the arts. The Perennial Biennial was a partnership of five European Contemporary Art Biennials working together to develop and explore sustainable models for perennial practices in the biennial field. The Perennial Biennial ran as a year-round collaboration aiming to challenge and further the field of biennial practice and strengthen European biennial collaboration across five partners in Germany, Latvia, Slovenia, Norway and the UK. In partnership with the International Biennial Association (IBA). Liverpool Biennial, Berlin Biennial, RIBOCA, MGLC and Bergen Assembly were working together on this programme for four years from september 2018 until september 2022. The project supported research, writing and the formulation of new narratives in the biennial field through collaborative working, staff exchanges and the sharing of expertise and models for sustainable practice. Its aim was to create a dynamic European platform of exchange which could strengthen the contemporary Art sector at global, European and local level. The project was supported by Creative Europe which is the European Union's programme to support the cultural, creative and audio-visual sectors. Local Perspectives on a Global Format→ Download <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f6cf7acfa0858dc6277191b018f80908253ee35242550795577353f032609be/1_PB.jpg" data-mid="177024380" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f6cf7acfa0858dc6277191b018f80908253ee35242550795577353f032609be/1_PB.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e17a1b467e1d19fb50fd07b72b106ca9615b6e87d7494fd07199c44a924b092c/2_PB.jpg" data-mid="177024385" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e17a1b467e1d19fb50fd07b72b106ca9615b6e87d7494fd07199c44a924b092c/2_PB.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/174c6e117ee8201f0c3d5f2a56ff9a7ddbbf7c99007bd0ce02d7c32cf86c4c55/3_PB.jpg" data-mid="177024390" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/174c6e117ee8201f0c3d5f2a56ff9a7ddbbf7c99007bd0ce02d7c32cf86c4c55/3_PB.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29a88ec8aa9222f27eedad368825026f17317926c44ac98cf3b32cb432562d13/4_PB.jpg" data-mid="177024392" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29a88ec8aa9222f27eedad368825026f17317926c44ac98cf3b32cb432562d13/4_PB.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/721efb7c2e6daecefaa45e3e0e38d0e70e8d2b7a0014dde8c22eba2222af3aeb/9_PB.jpg" data-mid="177024406" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/721efb7c2e6daecefaa45e3e0e38d0e70e8d2b7a0014dde8c22eba2222af3aeb/9_PB.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/623bef2b295b5995fcc3450958493011ef2116f737acf03925cdc573e67210f2/10_PB.jpg" data-mid="177024429" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/623bef2b295b5995fcc3450958493011ef2116f737acf03925cdc573e67210f2/10_PB.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9c1da4063ac7c24b249bdcf85853f1a73e8449ea25aff27e16e55e1144d40f2/8_PB.jpg" data-mid="177024404" border="0" data-scale="71" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9c1da4063ac7c24b249bdcf85853f1a73e8449ea25aff27e16e55e1144d40f2/8_PB.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b64cc17333d9ef73d2dcd637defbb3244848ad513982dddcf11214acbb74feb/7_PB.jpg" data-mid="177024402" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b64cc17333d9ef73d2dcd637defbb3244848ad513982dddcf11214acbb74feb/7_PB.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8cf59645e0fd3a875646981048bcdfd46bdb86dc2a9d998bdeca5651b28b2a86/5_PB.jpg" data-mid="177024394" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8cf59645e0fd3a875646981048bcdfd46bdb86dc2a9d998bdeca5651b28b2a86/5_PB.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6c2b1debef5eefdcaa95d72536614e76153383dd93ad8e43fdfff5cf1a936d1/6_PB.jpg" data-mid="177024401" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a6c2b1debef5eefdcaa95d72536614e76153383dd93ad8e43fdfff5cf1a936d1/6_PB.jpg" /> Each art biennial forms a kind of microcosm of the art world, aiming to address and attract current cultural movements as well as exhibit a region’s contemporary art production, or at least a curated segment. Viewed from the outside, the presence of a biennial designates its host as a participant in a globalizing art system and its larger economy. But how are these biennials perceived in the cities or regions where they’re held? What roles can they take in their local contexts and communities? Does a biennial reflect the local scene, is it integrated, accessible to its inhabitants, representative? How can the local discourse around biennials inform our understanding of this proliferating form of exhibition? Responding to the need to reflect on the mechanisms of the art biennial, this publication collects six local responses to biennials (and one triennial) in Shanghai, Ljubljana, São Paulo, Aichi, Dhaka, and Glasgow, and how they relate to the intentions, both stated and implicit, of their organizers. First published outside the international art press, these texts address the realities of an art exhibition that is caught between a tendency to universalize and a local, regional, or national desire for representation and participation. By revisiting these texts—and making some accessible in English for the first time—we aim to highlight the local urgencies, responses, and discussions around biennials, and how they diverge from the international biennial discourse. This publication does not attempt to be a history of the biennial, rather it hopes to contribute to the literature of local art and cultural criticism in a biennial context. Not simply condemning the neoliberal tools of the (Western) biennial complex or an exclusionary art system, the authors of these essays unpack the specifics of a particular biennial to discuss its potentials and flaws, how it both creates and exposes contradictions, from a perspective committed to the cities and their art scenes. Local Perspectives on a Global Format is published in the context of Perennial Biennial, a collaboration of five European contemporary art biennials—in Liverpool, Berlin, Riga, Ljubljana, and Bergen—to develop and explore lasting sustainable models in the biennial field. The contributions were selected from responses to an open call, and each text includes an introduction by the colleague(s) who nominated it for inclusion. Download Links to partners’ websites: Berlin Biennale Liverpool Biennial International Centre of Graphic Arts The Bergen Assembly Riga Biennial of Contemporary Art <img width="1280" height="426" width_o="1280" height_o="426" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e30b126baaeb7074753b28fd3f75aafcdd652bab3a79314f1a43fa16b994967e/Perennial-Biennial-logo-black.png" data-mid="97317771" border="0" data-scale="88" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e30b126baaeb7074753b28fd3f75aafcdd652bab3a79314f1a43fa16b994967e/Perennial-Biennial-logo-black.png" /> This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. <img width="2836" height="771" width_o="2836" height_o="771" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a0c59d8c11ff7ee8488a9720ac762d6962bdb72a7b6c090824dc0287b46541a/eu_flag-creativeeurope_vect_bw_0.png" data-mid="97317770" border="0" data-scale="89" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a0c59d8c11ff7ee8488a9720ac762d6962bdb72a7b6c090824dc0287b46541a/eu_flag-creativeeurope_vect_bw_0.png" /> Published by the Perennial Biennial Edited by Max Bach andIngrid Haug Erstad Design by Gaile Pranckunaite Content: Introduction Max Bach and Ingrid Haug Erstad The Situation of “Underground Going International” Should Be Changed: The Value of the Shanghai Biennale Liu Xiaochun Introduction by MelodyDu Jingyi and WilsonYeung Chun Wai Reflections on Manifesta Eva Čufer Conover Introduction by Gregor Dražil The Case of Caroline Pivetta da Mota at the 28th São Paulo Bienal Artur Matuck, CristianeArenas, Euler Sandeville Jr.,Flavia Vivacqua, GavinAdams, George Sander, and Henrique Zoqui M. Parra Introduction by Gabriela Saenger Silva Was Freedom of Expression Violated? Problematic Aspects of the Aichi Triennale 2019 Tomoki Sakuta Introduction by Daisuke Sato Dhaka Art Summit: Cultural Capital and the Long Tail of Colonial Time Parsa Sanjana Sajid Introduction by Sarrita Hunn and James McAnally Leaving the Auld Toon Neil Clements Introduction by Ruby Eleftheriotis ISBN 978-1-3999-3495-4 https://en.bergenassembly.no/Side-Magazine Sun, 29 Aug 2021 12:54:33 +0000 Bergen Assembly https://en.bergenassembly.no/Side-Magazine NO / EN&nbsp; Side Magazine<img width="1440" height="810" width_o="1440" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a040d9bf21d401a63274bbab7c4a6928b382a1cd71a977baf0a5932518597db7/side-professor.gif" data-mid="117647882" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a040d9bf21d401a63274bbab7c4a6928b382a1cd71a977baf0a5932518597db7/side-professor.gif" /> ︎︎︎ Buy or Subscribe Side Magazine is conceived as a site of research for the fourth edition of Bergen Assembly convened by artist Saâdane Afif. Afif has invited Berlin-based Yasmine d’O. as curator of the edition and executive editor of Side Magazine. Side Magazine is dedicated to the seven characters in The Heptahedron, a play written by the French poet, essayist, and scholar Thomas Clerc in 2016. In order of apparition these characters are the Professor, the Moped Rider, the Bonimenteur, the Fortune Teller, an Acrobats, the Coalman, and the Tourist. Yasmine d’O. says, “The seven characters in The Heptahedron resemble a game—a tarot deck—and that’s handy, because my work as a curator requires a certain level of divination. I am becoming better acquainted with them, exploring and discovering them through their puzzling names. I consider Side Magazine a tool of poetic prospection, if you will. It is neither an art magazine, nor an academic magazine. Instead, it gives a body to the seven faces of The Heptahedron, physicalising the questions that they raise. Subsequently, they will become the motifs guiding the seven exhibitions that will shape the seven sides of the upcoming Bergen Assembly.”&nbsp; &nbsp; Seven issues of Side Magazine will be released in the run up to the opening of Bergen Assembly 2022, each comprised of seven articles respectively. A special eighth issue includes installation images, which will be published after the opening days. This, combined with the existing seven issues, make up the collection that constitute the exhibition catalogue and guide. The Professor <img width="2480" height="3307" width_o="2480" height_o="3307" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c62e7bbbd78cb7b54526763bb527518747a434eeef49ac96bbf88468c18d906/Side-Magazine-01-Professor-2021-07-19-Jacket-RZ.jpg" data-mid="117585943" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c62e7bbbd78cb7b54526763bb527518747a434eeef49ac96bbf88468c18d906/Side-Magazine-01-Professor-2021-07-19-Jacket-RZ.jpg" /> The first issue of Side Magazine is dedicated to the figure of the Professor. It features seven articles, each of which explores the identity, role, and position of the Professor. Contributors include Uli Aigner and Valérie Chartrain, Jörg Heiser, Christian Nyampeta, Lili Reynaud-Dewar and Yasmine d'O., Tatiana Rybaltchenko, Marjorie Senechal, and Vivian Slee. The editorial committee for the first issue is comprised of Saâdane Afif, Anna Bühler, Alix Chambaud, Louisa Elderton, Ingrid Haug Erstad, Jonas von Lenthe, John McKiernan, Yasmine d’O., Tatiana Rybaltchenko, and Pit Stenkhoff. ︎︎︎ Buy or Subscribe THE MOPED RIDER <img width="1512" height="2016" width_o="1512" height_o="2016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d05751e97d6e25cae4bfcfb6c1e8dd2dc980936a05561beb7562a7d6b73205b/Side-Mag---Moped-Rider---Portrait.jpg" data-mid="130606173" border="0" data-scale="64" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d05751e97d6e25cae4bfcfb6c1e8dd2dc980936a05561beb7562a7d6b73205b/Side-Mag---Moped-Rider---Portrait.jpg" />What are you hiding under your helmet, dear Moped Rider? Where will your wanderings lead you and what encounters might they bring? The second issue of Side Magazine is dedicated to the manifold figure of the Moped Rider, approached differently by seven contributors. The full list of contributors includes: Haci Akman, Michèle Bernstein, Lou Ferrand, Pierre-Henry Frangne, Patrick Jagoda, Yasmine d’O., Lars Ole Kristiansen, Marcella Lista, and Kristian Vistrup Madsen. The editorial committee for The Moped Rider is comprised of Saâdane Afif, Anna Bühler, Alix Chambaud, Louisa Elderton, Jonas von Lenthe, Yasmine d’O., Tatiana Rybaltchenko, and Pit Stenkhoff.The Moped Rider is supported by the City of Bergen, Arts Council Norway, and Fundació Antoni Tàpies. ︎︎︎ Buy or Subscribe The Bonimenteur <img width="1512" height="2016" width_o="1512" height_o="2016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a12a5ef66cf0891a173d647194b97a4a7eeb3cc4ed5cbb2515094319550e6882/Bonimenteur-portrait-cover.jpg" data-mid="136528336" border="0" data-scale="64" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a12a5ef66cf0891a173d647194b97a4a7eeb3cc4ed5cbb2515094319550e6882/Bonimenteur-portrait-cover.jpg" /> Coming from the French word bonir (to tell stories in a nice way), their speech is&nbsp;often exaggerated, and aims&nbsp;to please, convince, and seduce—illusionary tricks often used as a means to&nbsp;an end. Seven contributors explore the soul of this talkative figure: Aurélien Gambonianalyses Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Conjurer (1502); Polly Wiesnerdiscusses storytelling at night among the Ju/’hoansi (!Kung Bushmen); a reprint of Marion Baruch’s NAME DIFFUSION&nbsp;links commodity with cultural production; Helmut Draxler looks at the relation between art and its display;Deborah Bowmann harnesses neoliberalism’s individuation; Jean Breschandputs Pier Paolo Pasolini’s masterpieces in the frame; and finally, Jacqueline Barus-Michel explores belief and our desire for meaning. The editorial committee for The Bonimenteur is comprised of Saâdane Afif, Anna Bühler, Alix Chambaud, Louisa Elderton, Ingrid Haug Erstad, Jonas von Lenthe, Yasmine d’O., Tatiana Rybaltchenko, Pit Stenkhoff, and Kirsten Wandschneider. Bergen Assembly thanks the City of Bergen, the Arts Council of Norway, Mehdi Chouakri and the French Ministry of Culture for supporting this project. ︎︎︎ Buy or Subscribe The Fortune Teller<img width="1512" height="2016" width_o="1512" height_o="2016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b4730a454bbdd5a412014f9ccafdf53c004030edda8957ccfa171a3da22a174/Side-Magazine_Issue-4_The-Fortune-Teller_single-pages_LR--dragged.jpg" data-mid="141647548" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b4730a454bbdd5a412014f9ccafdf53c004030edda8957ccfa171a3da22a174/Side-Magazine_Issue-4_The-Fortune-Teller_single-pages_LR--dragged.jpg" /> Divine Fortune Teller, what do the cards say today? Won’t you fill the void of our hypothetical futures? Professor Alain Schnapp’s abyssal knowledge of ruins was called upon to offer an unmissable forecast. The message delivered by the oracle Franco “Bifo” Berardi at the temple of Apollo in Delphi to the students of the Dirty Art Department (Amsterdam) is transcribed. Good fortune often flows from the outsider; Aage Borchgrevink recounts how the geologist Farouk al­ Kasim, an Iraqi immigrant, helped establish the Norwegian oil industry. The reproduction of selected pages from Verena Dengler’s diaries offer the possibility that the voices of all ages who wrote them cast spells on her future as an artist. Sébastien Wit reveals the nuances that inhabit chance by recalling two famous artistic dis­putes. Could the bookseller be a kind of fortune teller? This is the question asked to siddhartha lokanandi and Theresa Clasen. Concluding with the sounds of the Saami drums, Fredrik Prost tells us stories about this divinatory instrument.The editorial committee for The Fortune Teller is comprised of Saâdane Afif, Anna Bühler, Alix Chambaud, Louisa Elderton, Eirini Fountedaki, Ingrid Haug Erstad, Jonas von Lenthe, Yasmine d’O., Pit Stenkhoff,and Kirsten Wandschneider. Bergen Assembly thanks the City of Bergen and the Arts Council of Norway for supporting this project. ︎︎︎ Buy or Subscribe The TOURIST <img width="1240" height="1653" width_o="1240" height_o="1653" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1cac8339d3e53737990c3724c9ea35903c7c83117c2d54a1ac341f7b94e1878/Side-Magazine_The-Tourist_Catalog-images_3.png" data-mid="146082310" border="0" data-scale="71" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1cac8339d3e53737990c3724c9ea35903c7c83117c2d54a1ac341f7b94e1878/Side-Magazine_The-Tourist_Catalog-images_3.png" />Dear Tourist, what have you brought back from your wonderful travels? Which memories are spinning under your bucket hat?Abdelmajid Arrif takes us to a “Territory of Misunderstandings,” Marrakech’s famous Jemaa el-Fna square; Saint Augustine analyses the governing mechanisms of his own memories in his Confessions, written towards the end of the fourth century; Daniel Buren’s text from 1988, which relates to his Photo-Souvenirs series, reminds us of the difference between the photograph of a work and the work itself; Maggie Popkin reflects on the phenomenon of souvenirs; Xavier de Maistre’s voyage around his room from 1794, written during his house arrest in Turin, is interwoven with photographs by the artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster; and Moses März refers to Edouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation to explore the issues of borders, migration, and political communities in contemporary Germany. Finally, Ida Lødemel Tvedt reflects on her relationship to her hometown through the lens of Ragnar Kjartansson’s monumental sculpture which no traveler arriving by plane can miss, asking: BERGEN?The editorial committee for The Fortune Teller is comprised of Saâdane Afif, Anna Bühler, Alix Chambaud, Louisa Elderton, Eirini Fountedaki, Ingrid Haug Erstad, Jonas von Lenthe, Yasmine d’O., Pit Stenkhoff, and Kirsten Wandschneider.Bergen Assembly thanks the City of Bergen and the Arts Council of Norway for supporting this project. Thanks also goes to Ministère de la Culture, Institut Français, Perspektive, and PSSBL for supporting Side Magazine The Tourist. ︎︎︎ Buy or Subscribe The Coalman <img width="1506" height="1970" width_o="1506" height_o="1970" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/969c66d6a1dac473129ce0750a2406d82eba540935f9713c41272367b3c5cf46/The-Coalman_Portrait.png" data-mid="149512483" border="0" data-scale="71" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/969c66d6a1dac473129ce0750a2406d82eba540935f9713c41272367b3c5cf46/The-Coalman_Portrait.png" />Coalman, Coalman! Which stories are hidden beneath the burden you carry, bending your body like a fragile blade of grass under the morning dew? Charles-François Mathis discusses the two historical bodies of King Coal —its physical form and symbolic capital— looking at how its rule began, and the march to-wards its end. Meanwhile, Jean-Luc Nivaggioni situates the experience of the miners in 1984, as they were striking for their right to exist, along-side the LGBT groups who came to support them. Continuing our series of individual painting analyses, Isolde Pludermacher digs into Gustave Courbet’s A Burial at Ornans (1849). In the spirit of honouring the Victorian era, when coal was oh so revered, Richard H. Horne’s series The True Story of A Coal Fire is reprinted as it was originally published in Household Words, edited by none other than Charles Dickens. Denis Herlin sings to the sweet tunes of Claude Debussy’s last composition, Les soirs illuminés par l’ardeur du charbon (“Evenings Lit by the Burning Coals,” 1917), produced for his coal merchant, Monsieur Croquin. Professor Irena Bukowska-Floreńska explores the tradition of coal being used by Polish miners as a material for sculpture, and finally, Gabbi Cattani writes an elegy to all of the dead organisms that gave rise to coal.The editorial committee for The Coalman is comprised of Saâdane Afif, Anna Bühler, Alix Chambaud, Louisa Elderton, Eirini Fountedaki, Jonas von Lenthe, Yasmine d’O., Pit Stenkhof, and Kirsten Wandschneider.Bergen Assembly thanks the City of Bergen and the Arts Council of Norway for supporting this project. Thanks also goes to Ministère de la Culture, Institut Français, and Perspektive for supporting Side Magazine The Coalman. ︎︎︎ Buy or Subscribe AN ACROBATS <img width="1585" height="2014" width_o="1585" height_o="2014" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/370066729624b05e2475eb9a89351c2d5cf5598de7ffd35d582bf4d6fe8d656a/Acrobats_Portrait.png" data-mid="152691719" border="0" data-scale="71" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/370066729624b05e2475eb9a89351c2d5cf5598de7ffd35d582bf4d6fe8d656a/Acrobats_Portrait.png" />Dear Acrobats, what kind of incredible figures are you going to unravel today before our stunned eyes?Seven contributors shed light on this figure: Jörg Heiser takes us on an ever-twisting journey through the universal force of gravity; Anton Escher looks at how a group of Moroccan acrobats have been invited around the world to demonstrate their prowess, participating in the modern tradition of highly-skilled migration; Anri Sala and Tacita Dean contextualise Sala’s work A Spurious Emission (2007); Gerald Bär tells us how Fernando Pessoa used specific literary strategies to encourage the sense of strangeness in himself; Eran Schaerf brings to life his many inner voices, which inhabit the script of his performance Blinded in Remembering the Present? Ask Franz; and finally, curator Marcella Lista offers us a journey through La Ribot’s conceptual Distinguished Pieces series, with selected pages from the legendary choreographer’s notebooks published as facsimiles.The editorial committee for an Acrobats is comprised of Saâdane Afif, Anna Bühler, Alix Chambaud, Louisa Elderton, Eirini Fountedaki, Jonas von Lenthe, Yasmine d’O., Pit Stenkhoff, Kirsten Wandschneider, and Asya Yaghmurian. Bergen Assembly thanks the City of Bergen and the Arts Council of Norway for supporting this project. Thanks also goes to Ministère de la Culture, Institut Français Deutchland, PERSPEKTIVE and CRAVAN for supporting Side Magazine An Acrobats.︎︎︎ Buy or Subscribe ︎︎︎ Buy or Subscribe Executive Editor: Yasmine d’O. Chief Editor: Louisa Elderton Associate Editor: Jonas von Lenthe Concept: Saâdane AfifEditorial Coordinator: Alix Chambaud Research Assistant: Eirini FountedakiTranslator: Nina KettigerProofreader: Hannah SatzGraphic Design: Neue Gestaltung Side Magazine is published by Wirklichkeit Books https://en.bergenassembly.no/2025-eng Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:33:57 +0000 Bergen Assembly https://en.bergenassembly.no/2025-eng across, with, nearby NO / EN <img width="3500" height="2334" width_o="3500" height_o="2334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e620e14ef3bb4b31e6bf096d8d837a29175027a1cf43e3188ec3b9801653afb/BA_Abrakadabra_2025-464.jpg" data-mid="245314977" border="0" alt="Opening speeches at the Bergen School of Architecture for across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." data-caption="Opening speeches at the Bergen School of Architecture for across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8e620e14ef3bb4b31e6bf096d8d837a29175027a1cf43e3188ec3b9801653afb/BA_Abrakadabra_2025-464.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="2334" width_o="3500" height_o="2334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d527fc87c16fdac77a6e62964ef38126ace3dcea962b76ca288b03fce76f77cb/BA_Abrakadabra_2025_D1_-575.jpg" data-mid="245314978" border="0" alt="Introduction to the BAS Trajectories at USF ROMMET as a part of across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." data-caption="Introduction to the BAS Trajectories at USF ROMMET as a part of across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d527fc87c16fdac77a6e62964ef38126ace3dcea962b76ca288b03fce76f77cb/BA_Abrakadabra_2025_D1_-575.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="2334" width_o="3500" height_o="2334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2faeefb8457f7ef12c0ce662fa51e7876b7952b57d40ae674b1334220ec77bb9/BA_Abrakadabra_2025_D1_-830.jpg" data-mid="245314979" border="0" alt="Archives for Social Change at Stranges Stiftelse as a part of across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." data-caption="Archives for Social Change at Stranges Stiftelse as a part of across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2faeefb8457f7ef12c0ce662fa51e7876b7952b57d40ae674b1334220ec77bb9/BA_Abrakadabra_2025_D1_-830.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="2334" width_o="3500" height_o="2334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/abf2106a5a9ef7cbe62e465788ef8982055adc418cf351881e34fee2657cd756/BA_Abrakadabra_2025_D3_A__-140.jpg" data-mid="245314981" border="0" alt="AgriForum's Acts of Re/Collection at Bergen Kunsthall as a part of across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." data-caption="AgriForum's Acts of Re/Collection at Bergen Kunsthall as a part of across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/abf2106a5a9ef7cbe62e465788ef8982055adc418cf351881e34fee2657cd756/BA_Abrakadabra_2025_D3_A__-140.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="2334" width_o="3500" height_o="2334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa3746844de330dafe98fab72baf148a1a221e3ac83854074932449a9f0a8d53/BA_Akrakadabra_2025_Entree_Maasai-Mbili_Maasai-Mbili-Republik-3.jpg" data-mid="245314984" border="0" alt="Maasai Mbili Artist Collective's exhibition at Entr&eacute;e as a part of across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." data-caption="Maasai Mbili Artist Collective's exhibition at Entrée as a part of across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa3746844de330dafe98fab72baf148a1a221e3ac83854074932449a9f0a8d53/BA_Akrakadabra_2025_Entree_Maasai-Mbili_Maasai-Mbili-Republik-3.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="2334" width_o="3500" height_o="2334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/608cfca07907e0fd644dfd0ded32c2d03284ca600745846a4c674f4261da4027/BA_Akrakadabra_2025_Bergen-School-of-Architecture_Joar-Nango_Ken-Are-Bongo_Post-Capitalist-Architecture-TV-270-Version_installation-view-3.jpg" data-mid="245314985" border="0" alt="Joar Nango and Ken Are Bongo, Post-Capitalist Architecture-TV &lsquo;270&deg; Version&rsquo;, 2024, at the Bergen Architecture School as a part of across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." data-caption="Joar Nango and Ken Are Bongo, Post-Capitalist Architecture-TV ‘270° Version’, 2024, at the Bergen Architecture School as a part of across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/608cfca07907e0fd644dfd0ded32c2d03284ca600745846a4c674f4261da4027/BA_Akrakadabra_2025_Bergen-School-of-Architecture_Joar-Nango_Ken-Are-Bongo_Post-Capitalist-Architecture-TV-270-Version_installation-view-3.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="2334" width_o="3500" height_o="2334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29a8bee558fc29c8fa2c949f1cac223a5b9d67211e0c0f74877ea1de38e868ee/BA_Abrakadabra_2025_D3_B__-849.jpg" data-mid="245314982" border="0" alt="The Literature Boat Epos brought visitors to the Textile Industry Museum in Salhus during the Opening Days of across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." data-caption="The Literature Boat Epos brought visitors to the Textile Industry Museum in Salhus during the Opening Days of across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29a8bee558fc29c8fa2c949f1cac223a5b9d67211e0c0f74877ea1de38e868ee/BA_Abrakadabra_2025_D3_B__-849.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="2334" width_o="3500" height_o="2334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92cd696c5abe9497d49b061b1630ff3a445cb3ac794450005c3b19706ba81e32/BA_Abrakadabra_2025_D2_-631.jpg" data-mid="245314980" border="0" alt="Lapdiang Artimai Syiem, Lait&iuml;am, 2025, performance at T&aring;rnsalen KODE Lysverket as a part of across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." data-caption="Lapdiang Artimai Syiem, Laitïam, 2025, performance at Tårnsalen KODE Lysverket as a part of across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92cd696c5abe9497d49b061b1630ff3a445cb3ac794450005c3b19706ba81e32/BA_Abrakadabra_2025_D2_-631.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="2334" width_o="3500" height_o="2334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/419ec7797b51565e8cc3465e79d3190cb4e955e6487db29f29326ee8023026d2/BA_Abrakadabra_2025_D3_B__-1118.jpg" data-mid="245314983" border="0" alt="Laurie Grundt, Police Methods, 1972, installation view of Gruppe 66 at Bergen Kunsthall as a part of across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." data-caption="Laurie Grundt, Police Methods, 1972, installation view of Gruppe 66 at Bergen Kunsthall as a part of across, with, nearby, Bergen Assembly 2025. Photo: Abrakadabra Studio." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/419ec7797b51565e8cc3465e79d3190cb4e955e6487db29f29326ee8023026d2/BA_Abrakadabra_2025_D3_B__-1118.jpg" /> Opening days: 11.–14. September 2025 Running period: 11. September–9. November 2025 What does it mean to cultivate a sense of neighbourliness nearby and from afar? In what sense can love act as a public force, capable of countering social, ecological, economic, and political injustices? How can we challenge pedagogy that flattens diverse worlds, cultural differences, forms of knowledge, engagement, and ways of being? The fifth edition of the Bergen Assembly invites you to participate alongside others in approaching these questions and to share in processes of learning across, with, and nearby. We intend to cultivate a series of collective and intimate responses to the paralysing uncertainties and cruelties inflicted in our time. By embracing curiosity and a spirit of collaboration, guided by new and abandoned insights alike, we seek to forge paths through the abyss into reflective and creative kinds of uncertainty.Carried in the aforementioned questions is the diversity of practices that interweave in this edition of the Bergen Assembly, convened by Ravi Agarwal, Adania Shibli, and the Bergen School of Architecture (BAS). These inquiries—some of which emerged through encounters in the Cross Course programmes already initiated by the convenors—invite you to join, expand upon, and carry them forward as you engage with the triennial’s upcoming programme. This edition will be experiential: a communal, living, and evolving process of artistic and knowledge formations through practices of sharing rather than showing. across, with, nearby lays an aspect of its foundation in the idea of mutual care. It brings together visual and audio artists, authors, archivists, activists, architects, and other practitioners that seek relational processes for shared learning. If knowledge can move through lived experiences and reciprocity, it is vital to acknowledge any accompanying uncertainties, intimacies, and fragilities. We therefore propose situations of engagement based on trust and mutuality as a way of co-creating. These unfold in the shape of works that can be viewed and listened to, and which also take the form of invitations to collaborative performances and spaces of hosting, gathering, and neighbouring.The convenors have sought forms of knowledge that are in motion and in relation to one another—forms which, in their complexity, might recall what the poet and author Aimé Césaire called “poetic knowledge.” This approach foregrounds a kind of learning that resists categorisation or exclusion, and which unfolds over time across places, humans, and more-than-humans. It invites you to allow a space for what is there, though unacknowledged, as well as new shapes of understanding and ways of being, both in Bergen and beyond. 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aad5b3c9dda89c0310e02f9b00dff0004098c796540ce32d90382756f8da0702/Bergen-Assembly-2024-foto-Thor-Brdreskift_181.jpg" data-mid="234402041" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aad5b3c9dda89c0310e02f9b00dff0004098c796540ce32d90382756f8da0702/Bergen-Assembly-2024-foto-Thor-Brdreskift_181.jpg" /> <img width="1182" height="788" width_o="1182" height_o="788" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9187d378b6b86cc41e602c16efc7ca10a489b67a7f472ee1237b14311305be24/Bergen-Assembly-Cross-Course--foto-Thor-Brdreskift_0.jpg" data-mid="234402043" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9187d378b6b86cc41e602c16efc7ca10a489b67a7f472ee1237b14311305be24/Bergen-Assembly-Cross-Course--foto-Thor-Brdreskift_0.jpg" /> As a starting point for exploring questions central to the upcoming edition of Bergen Assembly, in 2024, the joint convenors drew on an existing format at Bergen School of Architecture - the cross course. These courses were a platform to look into new methodologies, knowledges and forms of being and creating together–intended as spaces for collective exploration and new ways of learning-with, that would reverberate long after these four days. Each cross-course had both a sharer and a tracer. While the sharer shaped and formed the course, the tracer reflected on the course process from the perspective of their own practice, discovering traces that carried forward in different forms towards Bergen Assembly 2025 and beyond. Held over five days in February and October 2024, and February 2025, the cross-courses brought together students, artists, and researchers to share ideas, questions and practices on a diverse range of topics: from Sámi architecture or the complexities of urban development explored through comedy, to the ecological significance of houseplants, disrupted radio signals and unearthing archival material. You can read more about each round of cross courses below, and by following the link for the full program and details of each course. Cross Course Program 04.02 - 07.02.25In the most recent round of cross courses in February 2025, participants explored a range of topics from neighbouring cultures through acts of care and conversation, to reflections on how to proceed after destruction, beyond the idea of reconstruction. They learned about the Sámi practice of leaving no traces, shifts in language across borders, urban planning, made their own paint and immersed themselves in artistic practices reclaiming ruins and leftover materials. &nbsp;Cross Course Program 29.10 - 01.11.24A second round of cross courses took place 29. Oct - 01. Nov. The October courses were offered to a broader audience, who engaged in a range of subjects: turfing and Sámi architecture, unsorted archive material, explored sites in transition, listened to fish, got to know the individual trees in the ancient Havrå forest, explored the potential of discarded hospital garments, uncovered stories hidden in everyday life, and got friendly with house plants. Cross Course Program 20.02 - 23.02.24The first cross courses took place from 20. - 23. Feb, with 10 courses running in parallel alongside broader public lectures. These were open to students and faculty at BAS, as well as to specially invited groups, including students at the Art Academy – Institute for Contemporary Art, Skrivekunstakademiet, and other smaller groups and initiatives in Bergen (such as the African Student Union and the Sámi Association in Bergen). Ravi Agarwal (Delhi, 1958) is an artist, environmental campaigner, writer and curator. He addresses entangled questions through an interrelation of art, research and activism, focusing on the subject of nature and its futures. His work has been shown at major museums in solo and group exhibitions, and at international biennales. He has co-curated large public art exhibitions, including the Yamuna-Elbe project (Hamburg and Delhi, 2009) and Embrace our Rivers (Chennai, 2018). More recently he curated New Natures, A terrible beauty is born at the Goethe Institute and CSMVS Museum, Mumbai, and Imagined Documents at the Les Rencontres d’ Arles 2022. Agarwal is also the founding director of the environmental NGO Toxics Link and the founder of The Shyama Foundation, which engages with art and ecology practices in India. He has both written and edited books and journals, including The Crisis of Climate Change (Routledge, 2021), and Marg Journal of the Arts – Art and Ecology (Mumbai, April 2020)Adania Shibli (Palestine, 1974) has written novels, plays, short stories and narrative essays. Her novel Tafsil Thanawi (Minor Detail) was published by Al-Adab in 2017. Its English translation, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and New Directions (US), was subsequently nominated for the National Book Award 2020 and the International Booker Prize 2021. She is currently the writer-in-residence at the Literaturhaus Zürich and Stiftung PWG. Alongside her fiction writing, Shibli is engaged in academic research, teaching and lecturing. She received a PhD in 2009 from the University of East London in the field of Cultural Studies. She has collaborated as a curator of artistic projects with institutions such as the A. M. Qattan Foundation in Palestine and Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Germany.Bergen School of Architecture (BAS) began in 1968 as a nomadic teaching model providing informal seminars, lectures, outdoor workshops and studio courses. This was formalised in 1986, with BAS gaining full rights to award Master’s degrees in 1990. BAS was founded as a pedagogic alternative to architectural education at the time. Its curriculum is grounded in Oskar and Zofia Hansen’s ideas about Open Form. The didactic methods developed at Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts from the 1950s to 1980s was brought to BAS and Bergen by the school’s founder Svein Hatløy. Open Form encourages inclusive processes and ambiguous designs, developing spatial and temporal situations with diverse forms of collaboration and collective action.&nbsp; 2025 Website → Running time:11 Sep - 9 Nov Opening Days:11 Sep - 14 Sep ConvenorsRavi Agarwal Adania Shibli Bergen School of Architecture With: Ken Are Bongo and Joar Nango, Susan Philipsz, Koki Tanaka, Prabhakar Pachpute, and Jana Winderen at Bergen School of Architecture. Vikrant Bhise, Marcus Coates, AgriForum: Acts of Re/Collection (facilitated by FICA, with contributions by Anga Art Collective, Malavika Bhatia, Ankan Dutta, Sanchayan Ghosh, Blaise Joseph, Rashmi Kaleka, Shubham Kumar, Maksud Ali Mondal, Ashis Palei, Bhikari Pradhan, Gopa Roy, Sheshadev Sagria, Niroj Satpathy, Umesh S, and Gyanwant Yadav), Kåre Aleksander Grundvåg, Gram Art Project and Matskogen, Clara Hastrup, Ánddir Ivvár Ivvár / Iver Jåks, Sajan Mani, Gruppe 66, Karen Werner, Singing Wells, og Karan Shrestha, and co-ritus events by Susan Philipsz, Maasai Mbili Artist Collective, Jakkai Siributr, and Tenthaus Art Collective at Bergen Kunsthall. Izz Aljabari, Priya Bains, Olav Bleie, Blocknotes with Christine Otten and Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Tora Sanden Døskeland, Leander Djønne, Shahram Khosravi, Lars Korff Lofthus, Layli Long Soldier, Maaza Mengiste, Christine Elsebet Rahlff, Agnes Ravatn, Philip Rizk, Einar Økland, Gunhild Øyehaug, Elin Már Øyen Vister, and the Hardangerfjord community at the Literature Boat Epos. Nepal Picture Library: Dalit Archive, Feminist Memory Project, PARI Archive (Grindmill Song Project), and Norwegian Queer Archives at Stranges Stiftelse. INTERPRT and Climate Rights at Bergen Public Library and MLAG. Monica Ursina Jäger at Grand Hotel Terminus, Amundsen Bar. Maasai Mbili Artist Collective at Entrée. Floating University at Kristiansholm. Builder’s Hut and Trajectories at ROMMET, USF. Communist Museum of Palestine and Tenthaus Art Collective with Ayreen Anastas, Rana Anani, Rana Batrawi, Munir Fasheh, Rene Gabri, Mandaloun Collective, Mezna Qato, and others in P1 Studio at Bergen Cathedral School ‘Katten’. Lapdiang Artimai Syiem and Monica Ursina Jäger at Nonneseter. Al Borde and Traces at Bergen Assembly Open Office. Jakkai Siributr and Erlend O. Nødtvedt at the Textile Industry Museum. Sarah Kazmi at Norway Fisheries Museum. Hans Petter Blad, Pedro Carmona-Alvarez, Shwan Dier Qaradaki, Ulla Schildt, Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, and others in Vinduet. Sites Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen School of Architecture, Kristiansholm, Entrée, Stranges Stiftelse, Nonneseter, Textile Industry Museum, Bergen Public Library, Bergen Cathedral School, MLAG, ROMMET, Amundsen Bar at Grand Hotel Terminus, Bergen Assembly Open Office, and the Literature Boat Epos.&nbsp; Bergen Assembly 2025 team: Ingrid Haug Erstad Director Kirsten Wandschneider Head of Project Christina Hannestad Administrative Coordinator Tor Steffen Espedal Project Coordinator&nbsp; Fergus Tibbs Project Coordinator Michael Stumpf&nbsp; Project Development Alex Millar Project Coordinator Hannah Jacobi Project Coordinator Jonatan Wejnold Opening Days Coordinator Eirik Hunnes Events &amp; Bar Manager Maria Råkil Communications and Outreach Lead&nbsp;Tora Karoline Dahl Digital Content and Exhibition Host CoordinatorEmbla Sunde Myrva Website&nbsp; Arash Shahali Communication and International Press Louisa Elderton Text and Editiorial Lead Cross Courses: Cross courses shared by: Nabil Ahmed, Blenda Elin Josefin Groth Albrektsson, Sander Andersson, Linnea Axelsson, Rana Batrawi, Bloc Notes and prisoners, so so brafield, Chen Hsi-Chao, Marcus Coates, Klubb Diaspora, Emma Esmeralda Domino and Maia Alva Martinsen Garrido, Tomas Espedal, Munir Fasheh, Fem_Arc, Floating University, Tanja Geiss, Sanchayan Gosh, Olle Helin, Sofie Hviid Vinther, Aleksandra Ivashkevich, Nina Katchadourian, Sarah Kazmi, Jan Liesegang, Siddhartha Lokanandi, Majdal Nateel, Jutta Pöstges, Shareef Sarhan &amp; Rana Batrawi, Kasper Svendsen, Trond Hilmar Søbstand, Synnøve Marie Vik and Trond Hilmar Søbstand, Karen Werner, Jana Winderen, Maria Wenye. And traced by: Marco Bruzzone, Ingvild Burkey, Ocean Space (Bernice Donszelmann &amp; Nancy Couling), Freya Coursey and Fergus Tibbs, Katarina Dorothea Isaksen, Harald Gaski, Saskia Holmkvist, Shahram Khosravi, Vibeke Jensen, Jason Wallis Johnson, Sofya Markova, Ciprian Muresan, Ngartia Mũrũthi, Sina Najafi, Vilde Salhus Røed, David A. Rios, Ananda Serné, Cristian Ștefănescu, Tenthaus, Jessica Warboys, Karen Werner, Larissa Fassler, Luke Drozd, Radha D’Souza. Cross Course Program 04.02 – 07.02.25Cross Course Program 29.10 – 01.11.24Cross Course Program 20.02 – 23.02.24 https://en.bergenassembly.no/2022-en Fri, 04 Mar 2022 10:33:52 +0000 Bergen Assembly https://en.bergenassembly.no/2022-en Yasmine and the Seven Faces of the Heptahedron NO / EN <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35dd75f10ff3f89f4406e4e8490c113157a21d5725fba4c45760460293c7b0c9/Autumn-Mediation-Programme_photo-Thor-Brdreskift_BA2022.jpg" data-mid="170037082" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35dd75f10ff3f89f4406e4e8490c113157a21d5725fba4c45760460293c7b0c9/Autumn-Mediation-Programme_photo-Thor-Brdreskift_BA2022.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bfbc534458e082e8e9d044aad6a26e5fc7bccf55fd2b776332460d89a2c53519/Autumn-Mediation-Programme_2_photo-Thor-Brdreskift_BA2022.jpg" data-mid="170037076" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fba36fd1a644d146117966f138ba1a7656fc76617c96c560de6f69e52200e9ff/Shirin-Sabahi_photo-NicolasRosener_BA2022.jpg" data-mid="170037069" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fba36fd1a644d146117966f138ba1a7656fc76617c96c560de6f69e52200e9ff/Shirin-Sabahi_photo-NicolasRosener_BA2022.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/661f7e98b9c42c7862fef313d73fb9f40947fd24692327c2be1e1aca20e34056/Opening-Party_photo-Thor-Brdreskift_BA2022.jpg" data-mid="170037067" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/661f7e98b9c42c7862fef313d73fb9f40947fd24692327c2be1e1aca20e34056/Opening-Party_photo-Thor-Brdreskift_BA2022.jpg" /> For our fourth edition, curator Yasmine d’O. invited the public to follow another Yasmine, a fictional character on her quest for a mysterious form, a seven-sided solid body called the Heptahedron. Her search was guided by seven enigmatic characters that she encountered along the way: the Professor, the Bonimenteur, the Moped Rider, the Fortune Teller, an Acrobats, the Coalman and the Tourist. These seven characters lent their names to seven exhibitions spread across different venues in the city of Bergen from September 8th to November 6th, 2022. Each character-exhibition brought together three distinct artistic positions, offering a multiplicity of perspectives on the issues raised by their puzzling titles. After having shared this quest with Yasmine, what remained were memories in each visitor’s mind which gave form to the many-sided Heptahedron. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Professorwith Lars Korff Lofthus, Gruppo Petrolio and George Grosz at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, UiB (KMD) The Bonimenteur with Bernhard Martin, GRAU and Neue Gestaltung at Bergen Kunsthall The Moped Rider with Denicolai &amp; Provoost, Katia Kameli and Shirin Sabahi at Bryggens Museum The Fortune Teller with Alvaro Urbano, Jessika Khazrik and Miriam Stoney in a side street called Østre Skostredet at Østre, Northing Space and an old wooden house. The Coalman with Augustin Maurs, Claude Debussy and a selection of vernacular coal sculptures by miners at Gyldenpris Kunsthall An Acrobatswith Protektorama, Schwarmwesen and Transformella (fed and cared for by JP Raether) at Kunsthall 3,14 The Touristwith Daniel Buren, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Sol Calero at Permanenten and Kafé Mat &amp; Prat at Engen behandlingssenter (care home). The quest of the Heptahedron was based on a play written by the French author Thomas Clerc after a performance by Saâdane Afif that took place in Marrakech in 2014. The idea sparked by this performance had since migrated from Morocco towards northern Europe. Having encountered different contexts and people along the way, the story had been enriched and transformed to evolve into an assembly in Bergen. CONVENOR&nbsp; Saâdane Afif <img width="240" height="320" width_o="240" height_o="320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45c46c8a7d820b984cb16b280d4e3dbda5f2d65a9325103b986f73d6bd036423/Saadane-Afif---Yasmine.jpeg" data-mid="135291930" border="0" alt="Sa&acirc;dane Afif, photo by Anri Sala 2018. " data-caption="Saâdane Afif, photo by Anri Sala 2018. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/240/i/45c46c8a7d820b984cb16b280d4e3dbda5f2d65a9325103b986f73d6bd036423/Saadane-Afif---Yasmine.jpeg" /> &nbsp;Saâdane Afif (b. 1970, Vendôme, France). For our fourth edition that took place between 8.9. and 6.11.2022, Bergen Assembly appointed the artist Saâdane Afif as convenor. This was the first time an artist had convened Bergen Assembly. Saâdane Afif has since the early 2000s gained international recognition for his practice of creating and instigating thematic projects that move across a multiplicity of formats, media and institutional frameworks. Through numerous collaborative structures with practitioners from different disciplines, his motifs develop over time through interaction and response, constantly generating and embracing new contributions to the work. Exhibitions include This is Ornamental, Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Austria (2018); Paroles, Wiels Brussels, Belgium (2018); The Fountain Archives, Foundation Jumex, Mexico, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco, and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2017 and 2019) and Anthologie de l’Humour Noir, Museum für Moderne Kunst – MMK Zollamt, Frankfurt, and Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010 and 2013). &nbsp;His work was included in documenta 12 (2007), 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2014), Marrakech Biennale 2014 (2014), &nbsp;56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (2015), 1st and 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2005, 2015) and Taipei Biennial (2016). He received the Prix International d’Art Contemporain de la Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco (2006), Prix Marcel Duchamp (2009), Preis der Günther-Peill-Stiftung (2012) and the Prix Meurice pour l’art contemporain (2015). CURATOR Yasmine d’o. <img width="3033" height="3946" width_o="3033" height_o="3946" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4534523bea8ceb0531f67909c80ae94e27c0b6b40fd445049ae474363bb85990/Yasmine-dO-cropped-2.png" data-mid="135291931" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4534523bea8ceb0531f67909c80ae94e27c0b6b40fd445049ae474363bb85990/Yasmine-dO-cropped-2.png" /> Portrait by Neue Gestaltung (2021).&nbsp; Convenor Saâdane Afif appointed Yasmine d’O. as curator for the fourth edition of Bergen Assembly. Yasmine d’O. had been invited to further develop her ongoing quest in search of The Heptahedron – a solid body with seven enigmatic faces. &nbsp; “For a few years now, I have been searching for a mysterious form: a solid body with seven faces. The French writer Thomas Clerc revealed its potential existence to me when he interpreted the seven faces of this solid body as the characters of a luscious little play-script that he titled The Heptahedron. The characters in order of apparition are the Professor, the Bonimenteur, the Moped Rider, the Fortune Teller, an Acrobats, the Coalman, and the Tourist. As you might have noticed, these characters resemble a game—a tarot deck—and that’s handy, because my work as a curator requires a certain level of divination. For now, I am becoming better acquainted with the seven characters of “The Heptahedron”, exploring them and discovering them through their puzzling names. They will then become the motifs guiding the seven exhibitions that will shape the seven sides of Bergen Assembly.” Yasmine d’O. is a curator based in Berlin. Questioning the identity in formation, as opposed to inherited identities, she prefers the harvests to the roots. In her work she explores alternative narratives and using a transdisciplinary approach to fiction, she is concerned with the migration of ideas, hybridisation and mutation, and mythologies of the constructed self.&nbsp; Afif and d’O. began working together in 2014 and continue to collaborate often, most recently for the current exhibition The Fountain Archives and Beyond at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona. 2022 Website → Running time:8.9. – 6.11.2022 Opening Days: 8.–11.9.2022 ConvenerSaâdane Afif CuratorYasmine d’O. ArtistsAlvaro Urbano Augustin Maurs Bernhard Martin Claude Debussy Daniel Buren Denicolai &amp; Provoost Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster George Grosz GRAU Gruppo Petrolio Jessika Khazrik Katia Kameli Lars Korff Lofthus Miriam Stoney Neue Gestaltung Protektorama, Schwarmwesen, and Transformella (fed and cared for by JP Raether) Shirin Sabahi Sol Calero a selection of vernacular coal sculptures by miners Sites(KMD), Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen, Bergen Kunsthall, Bryggens Museum, Østre – House for Sound Art and Electronic Music, Northing Space, Østre Skostredet 8 (An Old Wooden House), Gyldenpris Kunsthall, Kunsthall 3,14, Permanenten (KODE 1), Kafé Mat &amp; Prat, Bergen Assembly Open Office and Domkirken. <img width="3805" height="2107" width_o="3805" height_o="2107" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5f314aa263a86355a8756c03beb03fc6611eaaf0e58d32d86454cc075e9b49d/BA-web-1080-x-1920-Artists-transparent-landscape.svg" data-mid="139323134" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5f314aa263a86355a8756c03beb03fc6611eaaf0e58d32d86454cc075e9b49d/BA-web-1080-x-1920-Artists-transparent-landscape.svg" />Side Magazine&nbsp;→ <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ffad5725cad2f268b32d31122fadafac15493af698cee9c81c57fccd534ded31/The-Heptahedron-2022.jpg" data-mid="169990247" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ffad5725cad2f268b32d31122fadafac15493af698cee9c81c57fccd534ded31/The-Heptahedron-2022.jpg" /> In the run up to the opening days of Bergen Assembly 2022, the seven faces of the Heptahedron are explored through Side Magazine published by Wirklichkeit Books. Each of the seven issues are dedicated to one of the characters. The issues introducing the Professor, the Moped Rider, the Bonimenteur, the Fortune Teller, the Tourist, the Coalman and an Acrobats have all been released. An eight special issue functioning as this edition’s exhibition catalogue have also been published.&nbsp; To stay informed about upcoming events and developments subscribe to the Bergen Assembly newsletter. Bergen Assembly 2022 Team Ingrid Haug Erstad Directoringrid@bergenassembly.noKirsten Wandschneider Head of Project kirsten@bergenassembly.noChrista Mako Teigen Communications Manager &amp; International Press Officerchrista@bergenassembly.no Dipha Thiruchelvam&nbsp; Events &amp; Norwegian Press dipha@bergenassembly.no Christine V. Olsen Administrative Coordinator&nbsp; christine@bergenassembly.noTor Steffen Espedal Project Coordinator tor@bergenassembly.no Vilde Salhus Røed Project Coordinator vilde@bergenassembly.noSasha Azanova Project Coordinator sasha@bergenassembly.noIngrid Engesæter Røen Events CoordinatorEirik HunnesChief BartenderJonas von Lenthe Associate Editor info@­wirklichkeitbooks.com Louisa Elderton Chief Editor, Side Magazine / Communications Editor, Bergen Assembly louisa@bergenassembly.noAlix Chambaud Editorial Coordinator, Side Magazine sidemagazine@bergenassembly.noEirini Fountedaki Research Assistant eirini@bergenassembly.noCamille ReichProject AssistantTord Øyen Production &amp; Architecture Coordinator tord@bergenassembly.no Fergus Tibbs Production &amp; Technical Coordinator tibbsfergus@gmail.com Daniela Ramos Arias Mediation &amp; Collaborative Projects Producerdaniela@bergenassembly.noTorleif BayMediation &amp; Collaborative Projects Producertorleif@bergenassembly.noDiouma DiakiteMediatorformidling@­bergenassembly.no Ruby Eleftheriotis Mediation &amp; Collaborative Projects Assistant formidling@bergenassembly.no Embla Sunde Myrva Social Media and Digital Content Assistantembla@bergenassembly.no Exhibition Hosts &amp; Bartenders Mathura AmirthalingamCynthia KangetheDianne MurphyPolina MedvedevaEleni LeremiaVivi-Ann LillefosseJason DunneMinka SalonenLisa AhlersMario De La Ossa SætreUnn DevikDiouma DiakitéHinda Sheikh Ibrahim FarahMartin Midtbø RokkonesRuby EleftheriotisDaniel GardebrandtMarte Helene Solgaard DahlSarita Helen ØygårdCaroline StamponeHanna PhersonEnara Barnes Larrukert Exhibition ProductionTine Adler JørgensenHåkon AsheimStig AndersonAsle Bakke BrodinFreya CourseyJason DunneTim EkbergRobin EverettGuttorm GlomsaasFinlay J. HallTrine HansenThea HundsnesSara JostenNjål Armin Kaland HomeyerKristen KeeganKatarina KierulfovaBenjamin KnutsenRune KvamSara Lindberg HansenKevin Maung AyeAlex MillarAlfred MoldvikAnthony Charles MortonDale RothenbergSarah StreitenbergerJohanne Øra DanielsenMagnus WibeKristoffer Wie van der PasEric Alvin WrangelTechincians at Østre Further Project-related SupportMaud CeuterickEwa BorysiewiczSerhii ChervonopilskyNastya FeschukNayara LeiteBjørn MortensenNicolas RösenerBo SchleisnerSindre SørensenGina TandbergSunniva Vik ExchangeGregor DrazilYuyue Eunice Chen Visual Identity, Design &amp; CodingNeue Gestaltung, BerlinPit Stenkhoff, Anna Bühler, Christian Lindermann, Lisa Dannebaum, Fabian Barth AdvisorsHenriette SölterNiklas KleppeIrem MüftüogluIngrid Røen Advisory BoardIna BlomMaria HlavajovaRanjit HoskoteSolveig ØvstebøAnselm FrankeAnais TondeurMichael Marder Executive BoardStein Olaf Onarheim (chair) Henriette GallusPedro Gómez-EgañaHanne MugaasSveinung Unneland