BØYGD at Kunsthuset Kabuso
EXHIBITION
12.09–31.12.2026
Opening: September 12, 17:00–20:00
Artists: Hege Iren Aasdal, Tor Erik Bøe, Silje Ensby, Margaret Abeshu Leversby, Cato Løland, Ingeborg Tysse and FjordMoods.
Partners: Hardanger Folkemuseum and Hardanger Maritime Centre.
Curated by Kiosken — a curatorial collective and exhibition space in Bergen — with a team consisting of Daniela Ramos Arias and Siv Støldal, in close collaboration with Stine Aas.
To bend, to bow, to yield, to manoeuvre, to expand, to connect, to reach out and touch another. To be porous, to absorb, to open up and let things in.
In 2024, we at Kiosken began an exciting conversation with Sissel Lillebostad, Head of Department at Kunsthuset Kabuso, who invited us to curate an exhibition at Kabuso in 2026. This felt like a rare luxury — not only to have time to plan, research and think, but also to expand our curatorial practice.
We knew we wanted to bring our interdisciplinary, collaborative identity into this project and create opportunities to meet and exchange ideas. This led us to Bøygd: an exhibition that invited artists, designers and traditional craftspeople to come together, share their knowledge and processes with one another, and absorb something from each other's practice.
They spent time together — both in Hardanger, where the exhibition takes place, and in Bergen. We facilitated working sessions and visits to workshops, studios and ateliers, creating space to work side by side. In this way, the practices became grounded in a deep understanding of one another, and knowledge from Hardanger resurfaces through new hands.
Storeteigen, part of Kvam Bygdemuseum and safeguarded by Kabuso, served as a base for artists living far from Hardanger. There they stayed at a historic farmstead surrounded by trees and flowers, with a clear view over the fjord — a place to build connections with tradition and history through one's own artistic practice.
The invited artists share a strong curiosity and willingness to learn from their surroundings — a collaboration with nature and materials that is inherent to each of their practices. We proposed pairings to draw them into conversation with one another.
Ingeborg Tysse explored and spent time at Hardanger Fartøyvernsenter.
Cato Løland and Hege Iren Aasdal — both collectors in their own ways, with a deep attachment to found materials — were invited to look closely at each other's practices.
Margaret Abeshu explored textile through skautfelling, a traditional pleating technique being researched by Agnete Sivertsen at Hardanger Folkemuseum.
Tor Erik Bøe lived for a period in Hardanger, engaging with local traditions and the particularities of the area through textile.
Silje Ensby, a photographer and filmmaker with a keen interest in traditional craft, was invited to document skautfelling and basket weaving, contextualising the conceptual approach of the exhibition within its broader setting.
The conversations between the artists throughout this process have uncovered thoughts about bodies, labour, identity, past, present and future — shaping a world within the exhibition that carries us to an unfamiliar place and time, populated by characters and objects that feel both familiar and strange. These build narratives from local histories, traditions and the possibilities of materials: an intimacy placed in parallel dimensions, together with craft, history, the local and the individual.