Bergen Kunsthall is a centre for contemporary art and presents a programme of exhibitions, events, and learning activities with some of today’s most influential artists. Our programme has a global and diverse approach and examines questions that shape and inspire us as individuals and as a society.

The live programme at Bergen Kunsthall presents interdisciplinary practices and discursive events from different fields, including music and sound, lectures, debates, conversations, workshops, moving images and performative practices, and club nights. It explores live forms as relevant parts of artistic and cultural practice and, through its broad scope, reaches a wide and diverse audience.

Bergen Kunsthall’s new live programme strand Knowing We Won’t Have Each Other Forever takes queer realities and ideas of the ephemeral as its departure point. Together, we will explore the possibilities of alternative world-making, thinking through movement and live practices. The experiential, more sensory character of this art form and its ephemerality open up new contemporary perspectives on intersectionality.

We will play around with temporalities, alter realities, producing new takes on the present as a means of coming together and finding ways of exercising freedom. A moving target, the ever-changing idea of queerness is hard to aim at. To move, dance, and flounder is to shake off labels — challenging viewers’ expectations and pre-assumptions of the straight linear narratives — and reshaping the overall understanding of what is possible.