Exhibition Bergen Kunsthall: Everything Is So Alive!

Utstilling Bergen Kunsthall: <i>Everything Is So Alive!</i>
24.01–30.03

Free entry for everyone with Borealis Pass.
Opening hours exhibition:
Tues–Sun 11.00–17.00

Works by Dora Budor, Tianzhuo Chen, Nikita Gale, Ventura Profana, Tracey Rose and Tejal Shah.
Curated by Nora-Swantje Almes og Silja Leifsdottir
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Everything Is So Alive! offers a hopeful exploration of the possibilities for cohabiting the ruins of a world moving into collapse. Rather than viewing collapse as mere destruction, the exhibition embraces it as a generative force. It considers collapse as a moment of new beginnings, where brokenness is understood as a condition to embody and negotiate, rejecting the neoliberal logic of repair.

Through strategies of storytelling, preservation, and engagement with Indigenous knowledge systems, Everything Is So Alive! offers perspectives on navigating the state of brokenness. Beauty can be found in chaotic city soundscapes, kinship can be found in wastelands, and connections — both human and non-human — can be found in light and shadow, in forests and in the depths of the ocean. The new and existing artistic works depict forms of past, present and future life that seem like fiction: personal visions of hell and heaven; the appearance of a whale as a blessing; a motorised character traversing the galleries; caffeinated and intoxicating stimulants for managing contemporary life; and a frozen performance. Where do we go from here?