NATTSYNER - SUSANNA ANTONSSON
EXHIBITION
18.06.2026 - 08.08.2026
Opening: June 18, 17:00–20:00
Throughout history, the night has been a necessary time for finding the peace required for creative work. The painter Barbro Östlihn assisted her husband with his paintings during the day and used the night to create her own. Sigrid Undset wrote late into the night while caring for her children during the day. Nattsyner presents a series of paintings that explore the pace of the night and the movement into stillness. The expectations of daylight rationality and the demands of everyday life seem absent in the darkness. The night becomes a representation of Virginia Woolf’s “room of one’s own,” the space she emphasized as essential to the possibility of creation.
Antonsson uses repetition as a method for approaching thoughts on the conditions of attention. The motifs become like revenants that continually return to remind us of something forgotten. One of the recurring motifs in the exhibition points to the checkered patterns found on everyday household textiles. Using these grids, Antonsson constructs a structural and simplified painterly language. Modernist artists such as Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko similarly painted lines and simplified fields of color. They did so with the ambition of reaching beyond the earthly and toward the eternal. In contrast to this aspiration, everyday objects are always present in Antonsson’s paintings. Curtains and kitchen towels point to how we remain bound to life on earth. Yet we can always look up at the moon at night.
Susanna Antonsson holds an MFA from the The Art Academy in Bergen. She has exhibited at, among other venues, Galleri BOX (SE), LNM (NO), Hordaland Kunstsenter (NO), Galleri Knipsu (NO), Kristiansand Kunsthall (NO), Not Quite (SE), and Tag Team Studio (NO). Antonsson lives and works in Bergen.
HENRIETTE MAURITZ NORDBECK
KIOSKEN SHOP EXHIBITION
06.06.2026 - 08.08.2026
Opening: June 6, 12:00–16:00
I KIOSKEN Shop presenterer Henriette Mauritz Nordbeck veggmonterte vevde arbeider. Gjennom kombinasjoner av ull, silke og bomull oppstår mønstre og motiv som vokser frem fra selve overflaten. Resultatet er taktile overflater som aktiveres av rommet, lyset og bevegelsen til den som betrakter dem.
Etter veving farges arbeidene i en kombinasjon av plantefarger og kjemisk innfarging. Mønster og motiv fremkalles i fargebadet gjennom fibrenes ulike fargeopptak. Forskjeller i glans, struktur og valør skaper subtile relieffer som endrer karakter med lysforholdene og betrakterens posisjon.
Nordbeck undersøker hvordan materialer responderer på tid og ytre påvirkning. Gjennom plantefarging, kjemisk innfarging og lyseksponering oppstår gradvise forskyvninger i overflaten, der farger blekes, forandres og omformes. Arbeidene befinner seg i spennet mellom det permanente og det forgjengelige, og undersøker hvordan lys kan forstås som en materialisering av tid.
Materialene behandles som samarbeidspartnere i stadig forandring. Denne forståelsen av materialets responser som aktive og meningsbærende knytter praksisen til dypøkologisk tenkning, hvor menneske, materiale og omgivelser inngår i gjensidige relasjoner.
Om kunstneren
Henriette Mauritz Nordbeck (f. 1998, Oslo) har en BFA fra KHiO og fullførte sin MFA ved Kunstakademiet i Bergen i 2025. Hun har også studert stedsspesifikk kunst ved Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, og bor og arbeider mellom Bergen og Wien.
Hun har tidligere stilt ut ved Kunsthalle Exnergasse i Wien, Bergen Kjøtt, Akademirommet ved Kunstnernes Hus, Kunstverein Baden og Galleri Format, og har realisert et offentlig oppdrag i Sandviken, Bergen gjennom KOROs STUDIO(studio)-program.
KIOSKEN mottar støtte fra Bergen kommune, Kulturrådet, Norske Kunsthåndverkere og Vestland fylkeskommune.
NINA ERIKSSON: mmmbrace
EXHIBITION
23.04.2026 - 30.05.2026
Opening: 23.04.2026 KL 17:00
Live reading and publication launch: 10.05.26 KL 15:00
The show mmmbrace comes out of Nina Eriksson’s research into material and conceptual frameworks for investigating queer materiality, physicality, and imagination. The project pairs leather and latex: sister materials in association, yet entirely different in character. In mmmbrace, these two materials take and question their positions as they are formed into physical presences that long, warp, hold, and watch. The sculptural works in the show hint at a different world, gesture at hidden functions, and flirt with the line between what the body holds and what it is held by.
“The materials are fetishistic, and the way I work with leather and latex is fetishistic: I am devoted and curious in search of poetic and erotic potential. Through my sculptural and textual work I reflect on use and pleasure, and how a queer, flirtatious approach can provide new representations of desire, identity and future.”
In addition to the exhibition, Eriksson has produced the publication mmmbrace, which launches during the exhibition period. It contains an experimental essay about the time, texts and themes that have gone into the show, as well as a text work made for live reading. This text work will be performed at the launch of the publication on May 10th at 15.00 - more information to come.
Nina Eriksson (1997, SE) is an artist and writer working and living in Bergen. She graduated with an MFA from Bergen Art Academy in 2025. Recently, her work has been shown at Gyldenpris Kunsthall, Recover Laboratory in Helsinki, and Nonneseter Kapell. She is currently showing work in Homografiska Museets (SE) acquisition exhibition for 2026, and is part of Conditions Studio (UK) Online Programme’s 2025/6 cycle.
photography: @joeycbravo
This exhibition and Kioskens program is kindly supported by Bergen Kommune, @vestlandfylke, Kulturdirektoratet @kulturradet, @norskekunsthandverkere and Kunstsentrene i Norge
HEGE IREN AASDAL: SOFT SPLIT
EXHIBITION
17.01.2026 - 15.02.2026
Opening: 17.01.2026 KL 12:00
Workshop: 17.01.2026 kl 14:00
Hege Iren Aasdal is one of the few in Norway holding a journeyman's certificate as a basket maker specialising in split materials. Her practice begins not with the basket, but with the act of harvest — a temporal negotiation between maker, material, and landscape.
Each stick collected is a connection to history, to those who before her walked the same paths and tended the same land. It is about more than baskets and techniques — it is about following the seasons, about knowing when the time is right, about harvesting with thought not only for the one basket, but for all those to come for years ahead. A constant dance with nature, an eternal search for materials.
"The harvesting and processing of materials is my most important task and it forms the foundation for everything I do and make. This connection that the materials create between me and the cultural landscape and history is much of what I wish to convey. It's not only about baskets and techniques for weaving, but about how people tended the cultural landscape, what they used from what exists around us, how one can follow the seasons."
In this exhibition Aasdal wished to honour the materials, celebrated for their inherent beauty and their capacity to hold memory, place, and practice. Each stick has its story. Each basket sings its song.
FILM
The exhibition included the short film Mjuke røtter / Soft Roots, made by filmmaker Silje Ensby (b. Oslo), a visual artist educated at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design. Over the past decade, Ensby has worked with film in close collaboration with traditional craftspeople who possess unique knowledge of natural materials and traditional craft techniques. Soft Roots centred on Aasdal's work and process, documenting the intimate relationship between maker, material, and landscape that lies at the heart of her practice.
