Bergen Assembly
Bergen Assembly is an contemporary art triennial structured around public events that take place in the mountainous city of Bergen, Norway. Guided by a convener who is free to invent new ways of conceiving the event, each edition of Bergen Assembly may take on a distinctly different shape and format. The next edition of Bergen Assembly will be convened by the artist Saâdane Afif.
Bergen Assembly originated from the Bergen Biennial Conference in 2009 discussing the question "To biennial or not to biennial?". The first edition of Bergen Assembly, convened by Ekaterina Degot and David Riff in 2013, was titled Monday Begins on Saturday and organized as a narrative unfolding across a series of exhibition spaces. The second edition, in 2016, was led by artist and composer Tarek Atoui, the freethought collective and the collaborative platform PRAXES, who each produced a distinct project. The last edition, Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead, convened in 2019 by Iris Dressler and Hans D. Christ, explored new notions of political assembly in collaboration with a core group of ten artists, curators, writers and activists.
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