The Ocean
In Autumn 2021, Bergen Kunsthall presents an international exhibition with 27 artists, research projects and an extensive events programme focusing on the relationship of Bergen and the ocean. With some of the artist projects taking place in public space, the exhibition takes the city as a topic, bu...
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/35515/ https://www.kunsthall.no/en/exhibitions/the-ocean/ |
| Summary: | In Autumn 2021, Bergen Kunsthall presents an international exhibition with 27 artists, research projects and an extensive events programme focusing on the relationship of Bergen and the ocean. With some of the artist projects taking place in public space, the exhibition takes the city as a topic, but also as an arena in which art can initiate public discussions. Over centuries, the city of Bergen has been largely defined by its relation to the sea. Situated on the Norwegian coast, halfway between the fishing grounds in Northern Norway and continental Europe, the city has developed as an international trading hub and is today one of the most important cities for the oil industries and maritime research. The exhibition and research project at Bergen Kunsthall uses these diverse relationships to the sea as a starting point for exploration. The future of the oceans has become one of the most pressing issues today due to intensification of human activities. Oceans are crucial providers of necessary and valuable resources and form a giant interconnected ecosystem, and many artists and designers are working on related questions of ecology, climate change and global geographies. The exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall looks at oceans from a very localized perspective, taking the city and its history and future as a field of realities in which the ocean as a resource and infrastructure is deeply engrained. Using specific fragments and locations, the exhibition investigates larger topics, such as the extraction of natural resources, the global circulation of goods, colonial histories and ocean life, as well as their impact on the everyday reality of the city. Artists and designers present projects that map the field of conflicts that connect to the topic of the sea: as a border and an infrastructure of relations, as a resource and a hazard, as a concrete reality and a field of imagination. New works include a monument for feminist evolution by Swiss artist Bea Schlingelhoff, a film installation about Svalbard by Susa Schuppli, ... |
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