Sunday Guided Tours
14:00
Welcome to our Sunday guided tour of our exhibitions with Edgar Calel and Åsa Elzén. Every Sunday in the exhibition period.
Bergen Kunsthall is proud to present an extensive exhibition by artist Edgar Calel, his first solo presentation in Europe. Working in a variety of media, Calel celebrates the traditions and spirituality of his Mayan Kaqchikel heritage in Comalapa, Guatemala. The works in the exhibition “Ni Musmut (It’s Breezing)”, made specifically for the spaces of Bergen Kunsthall, continue Calel’s engagement with the Mayan Kaqchikel cosmovision and the connections of its concepts and practices to other cultural contexts.
Parallel to the exhibition by Edgar Calel, we present “Notes on a Fallow – The Fogelstad Group and Earth” by Åsa Elzén. For a long time Elzén has worked with the legacy of the queer feminist Fogelstad Group, that among other things ran the Women Citizens’ School at Fogelstad (1925–54 in Julita, Sörmland). At a time when industrial agriculture was emerging, the Fogelstad Group was highly critical of what they saw coming, such as pesticides, chemical fertilisers, and farming on an increasingly large scale but with less biodiversity.
