Annette Kierulf & Axel Wieder
Talks and readings
Sat 11 Jul, 18:00

This recording will be streamed live her and be made available later, on Vimeo, Youtube, Facebook and on the programme page for the series.

ANNETTE KIERULF´s work ranges across a wide variety of media – from woodcuts, artist books to installation. She uses visual art is as a means of exploring issues on economy, production, technology and contemporary life.

Since graduating from Bergen Academy of Art and Design in 1992 she has worked as an artist, curator and writer. Recent exhibitions include Brannon, Büttner, Kierulf, Kierulf, Kilpper at Bergen Kunsthall and Night work in the Garden at Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo. She is Co-Founder and Editor of Kunstjournalen B-post, an independent magazine with annual editions on contemporary art.

She was the curator of the 4th Momentum – Festival of Contemporary Art, together with Mark Sladen in 2006. From 1999 – 2007 she ran the art project By the Way in the centre of Bergen, a gallery space consisting of five large windows. She has experience with public art commissions as consultant for KORO – Public Art Norway and Art for National Tourist Routes in Norway.

AXEL WIEDER, a curator and writer, is director of Bergen Kunsthall since 2018. He has been director of Index – the Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm (2014 – 2018), where he organized solo exhibitions with Simone Forti, Stephen Willats, Willem de Rooij and Anna Boghiguian and a collaborative project by John Skoog and Emanuel Röhss, together with an extensive program and learning activities. During his tenure, Index established two programs for young people, the Teen Advisory Board and a long-term collaboration with schools, The Residents.

Previously, he has been Head of Programme and Curator of Exhibitions at Arnolfini Center of Contemporary Arts in Bristol since 2012, where he organized, amongst others, “The Promise” (2014, curated with Lucy Badrocke), involving works of artists and offsite projects alongside urban planning and architectural models of Bristol, and solo exhibitions with Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Josephine Pryde and Ian Hamilton Finlay. From 2007 to 2010, Wieder was artistic director of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, and in 2010 he worked as Visiting Curator at Ludlow 38, Goethe-Institut New York.

TALKS AND READINGS SERIES
In response to the limitations in our live program capabilities in 2020, Bergen Kunsthall has produced a new series of recorded talks and readings with local and international artists and writers, developing a dialogue surrounding our exhibition program and exploring practices of local artists which we will be presenting to wider online audiences.

This new series utilises the input of artists and writers to initiate dialogues in connection with our current exhibition program and expands upon themes socially and politically relevant within their own studio practices. Artists invited in the series include Annette Kierulf, Kobie Nel, Elsebet Rahlff and Maia Urstad, with three readings provided by Lisa Robertson, Elvia Wilk and Rebecca Tamás.

Release dates and times:

Mon 28 Jun 18.00
Lisa Robertson, Weeds: For the Natufians

Wed 1 Jul 18.00
Elvia Wilk, Reading from Oval

Sat 4 Jul 18.00
Maia Urstad in conversation with Karen Werner

Mon 6 Jul 18.00
Kobie Nel in conversation with Julie Lillelien Porter

Wed 8 Jul 18.00
Rebecca Tamás, Reading from Witch

Sat 11 Jul 18.00
Annette Kierulf in conversation with Axel Wieder

Mon 13 Jul 18.00
Elsebet Rahlff in conversation with Eva Rowson

Part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. Re-Imagine Europe is initiated by Sonic Acts (NL) and coordinated by Paradiso (NL) in collaboration with Elevate Festival (AT), Lighthouse (UK), INA GRM (FR), Kontejner (HR), Landmark / Bergen Kunsthall (NO), A4 (SK), Disruption Network Lab (DE) and Ràdio Web MACBA (ES)