Bergen Kunsthall
Rasmus Meyers allé 5
5015 Bergen
Norway
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Bergen Kunsthall is pleased to announce our forthcoming programme for the period autumn 2014–summer 2015. Beginning with the first exhibition in Scandinavia of acclaimed American artist Robert Overby, it is followed by new exhibitions and projects by Ciara Phillips, Knut Henrik Henriksen, HAiK, Will Benedict, Julia Wachtel, Steven Claydon, Urbanomic, Simon Ling and Ane Hjort Guttu.
As part of a fresh approach to our programmes across the building, we announce two new strands of activity:
In our NO.5 space we launch an innovative new programme dedicated to revisiting and re-presenting important works and exhibitions previously shown elsewhere in the world. Initiated in response to the increasing acceleration of both the production and reception of art over the last decade, NO.5 provides an opportunity to slow down, focus on and look again at particular works, exhibitions or fragments of exhibitions. Bergen Kunsthall will commission a new critical text to accompany each of these re-presentations. Ciara Phillips is the first artist in this strand, followed by Julia Wachtel in October and Steven Claydon in January 2015.
Elsewhere in the building we also introduce a new programme for our Upstairs space. The Norwegian fashion collective HAiK have been invited as the first guests in what will become an occasional series of short residencies for organisations, collectives and groups. They will be followed in the new year by Urbanomic, the independent publisher and arts organization.
Offsite, we present Knut Henrik Henriksen: Notes to Stones at Bergen City Hall.
In January we are excited to announce a major two-part exhibition: I AINT THE NOING UV IT IM JUS ONLE THE SHOWING UV IT. Part 1 takes the form of a group exhibition, curated by Martin Clark in collaboration with artist Steven Claydon, while Part 2 will comprise a solo exhibition, the largest to date, by British painter, Simon Ling.
Finally, in the spring we present a major new exhibition and film commission by Norwegian artist Ane Hjort Guttu.
Programme autumn 2014–summer 2015:
Robert Overby
Works 1969–1987
Bergen Kunsthall
29 August–19 October
Curated by Alessandro Rabottini with Martin Clark
Robert Overby, Works 1969–1987 is a collaboration with CAC – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneve; GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, and Le Consortium, Dijon; organized with the collaboration of the Estate of Robert Overby, Los Angeles.
Ciara Phillips
Just You
Bergen Kunsthall, NO.5
29 August–19 October
Ciara Phillips, Just You, was first shown at Galerie Praterstrasse in Berlin, March 1–April 4. The re-presentation of the exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall is accompanied by a new text by Melissa Gronlund.
Knut Henrik Henriksen
Notes to Stones
Offsite: Bergen City Hall
12 September–9 November
HAiK
Bergen Kunsthall, Upstairs
13 October–9 November
HAiK is a Norwegian clothing brand created in 2011 by the designers Siv Støldal, Ida Falck Øien and Harald Lunde Helgesen.
Will Benedict
Corruption Feeds
Bergen Kunsthall
31 October–14 December
Including works by David Leonard, Michele Di Menna, Sergei Tcherepnin, Wolfgang Breuer, Clegg & Guttmann, Pentti Monkkonen, Paul Theriault and Howard Finster.
Julia Wachtel
Bergen Kunsthall, NO.5
31 October–14 December
This exhibition re-presents part of Julia Wachtel’s solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 23 March–13 April 1991. The re-presentation of the exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall is accompanied by a new text by Bob Nickas.
THE NOING UV IT
Curated by Martin Clark in collaboration with artist Steven Claydon
Bergen Kunsthall
9 January–15 February 2015
THE SHOWING UV IT
Recent paintings by Simon Ling
Bergen Kunsthall
27 February–5 April 2015
Steven Claydon
Video works
Bergen Kunsthall, NO.5
9 January–5 April 2015
Ane Hjort Guttu
Bergen Kunsthall
28 May–16 August 2015
