What’s Eating the Sun?
Nonneseter Kapell
22.05 -25.05 2025
Changing Currents
2025
230 cm x 180 cm
oil on linen canvas
Trolling the Tomb
2025
230 cm x 180 cm
oil on linen canvas
Informed by the gothic architecture in Nonneseter Chapel (est. ca. AD 1250), and its history of being a place of prayer for the deaf (1951-1989), the two paintings in this exhibition tell a story through the touch of marks. As the light within the room changes - the weather shifts, night becomes day - and the colours within the paintings, as a result, are altered.
The paintings and their inherent atmospheres draw from narratives found within gothic literature (1764 -1840), where errors of the past come forth to haunt the present. The past centuries of emissions are rapidly transforming the landscapes around the globe, a vision where the landscape itself forms the backdrop of the crumbling castle.
The exhibition is supported by Bergen Municipality.
Light Design: Randiane Sandboe
Documentation: Runa Halleraker
Nærvær
Trykkeriet
15.03 - 13.04 2025
By the frozen shore several rocks peak above the surface. Swaddled in crackling ice, they reminisce the heads of fish making their way out of a plastic film. Beyond the horizon, smoldering deep purple clouds stand in contrast to the blue sky above the beach. I am in the forest, it is wet, and my nose is running. There is ice on the pond. It has been melting, turning into a warm white and grimy surface, with grey and yellow hues.
For this exhibition, I am showing a series of work forming tales of different places, or landscapes, as they exist in memory. The past years I have been making images of landscape, in the studio, and by drawing outdoors. To me the experience of a spatial space through observation, is necessary in order to try and replicate its intrinsic qualities.
The past weeks I have been using the workshops at Trykkeriet, where I have explored how painterly expressions can be translated into silk screen printing. The prints in this exhibition are a result of both analogue and digital processes, with the image material originating from the paintings that are also on show.
The exhibition is supported by BKH´s regional grants.
Documentation: Daniel Persson
Twist of fate
Nye Bokboden
03.03 - 26.03 2023
The sky is pink, impenetrable, still - pink. The water is cool, resting serene and vivid blue. Brown stems carry white lumps - they lower and rise - berries like eyeballs of snow.
The paintings in this exhibition are stories and the language they speak is made up of strokes, repetitions, patterns and hues. In the paintings, the moon becomes a head, berries become eyes, and fog a body. Colours are saturated, the sky turned matt, strokes shaping mountains erase details and engage movement. Feelings, worries and hopes blend with imagined scenarios and atmospheres - connected as if by a twist of fate.
Edible Eyes
2023
180 cm x 150 cm
oil on linen canvas
Gone
2023
120 cm x 80 cm
oil on linen canvas
Solitude
2023
57 cm x 75 cm
oil on linen canvas
Documentation: Guttorm Glomsås
Refleksjoner over vann
Kunstgarasjen
01.04 - 08.05 2023
foto: Andreas Dyrdal
Havets munn / Mouth of the Sea
2022
180 cm x 230 cm
olje på lerret
Triptych of water
From the left:
I
2021
120 cm x 80 cm
oil on linen
II
2021
120 cm x 80 cm
oil on linen
III
2021
120 cm x 64 cm
oil on linen
Nattens øyne / Eyes of the Night
2022
diptych, 150 cm x 180 cm
oil on linen
Tåkespill / Play of Fog
2022
130 cm x 110 cm
oil on linen
Blå sol / Blue Sun
2022
180 cm x 150 cm
oil on linen
Glimt / Glimmer
2022
series varying between 8cm x 10 cm - 35 cm x 35 cm
oil on linen
Documentation: Andreas Dyrdal
The North Sea that flows into, and fills the fjords of Bergen is dark. During winter, the body of water can be seen as a sticky syrup with an independent will and a constant need to move. Later, in the night, all seeing eyes awakens in the reflections of electric lights. On a following day the surface is smooth, bathing in the light of clear blue hues, then on a day with little wind and overcast the surface may appear as a portal into a fog cladded valley.
These are a few of many descriptions that all aim to describe the continuous changes of the water outside my studio window on Nordnes, Bergen. In the exhibition, Reflections over water, I investigate how water, through my observations, enters the mind and in an encounter with the imagination – is made anew.
Another important element in my practice these past years has been evening courses in Japanese. Through my studies I have amongst, been introduced to the Chinese alphabet kanji, one of the oldest living written languages today, with roots in China. Many kanji have a shared origin in observations from the physical world, they are named Shōkei-moji. This palpable connection, between word, symbol and observations from a physical world has followed me into the development of this exhibition - in reflections over water.
Haruka Fukao
Illustration of Shōkei-moji (象形文字)
2022
ink on paper
When down here...
I grew up consuming volumes of manga and comics that I came across – moving on to drawing my own worlds and characters. The comic media is a new addition to a process, where ink drawings and photos, from certain locations are further developed in watercolour and gouache and then in oil painting. The comic media has in this context given me new opportunities to visualize the intrinsicalities of water. When making a comic I have the opportunity to explore new compositions, formats and the dynamics between them. The comic reveals a rhythm between the squares and the pages, a rhythm that flows into paintings of different techniques and scales.
Click here to discover the comic
BERGEN KUNSTHALL
MA-exhibtion - a little larger than the entire universe
curated by Adriana Alves
Unforeseen Changes, painting/drawing installation,
drawing: stretched between round bars in wood: 300x140(220, w. roundbar), ink on paper, on the backside, letterpressed words painting: diptych, 2x150x200cm, oil on canvas
Photo: Dale Rothenberg
Photo: Bjarte Bjørkum