Bergen Assembly 2013
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Bergen Assembly 2013, titled Monday Begins on Saturday, was the first edition of Bergen Assembly, held in Bergen, Norway, from 31 August to 27 October 2013. It was convened by Ekaterina Degot and David Riff.[1] The title was taken from the 1965 novel Monday Begins on Saturday by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, whose fictional research institute served as a conceptual point of reference for the exhibition’s structure.
| Bergen Assembly 2013 | |
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| Genre | Contemporary art |
| Begins | 31 August 2013 |
| Ends | 27 October 2013 |
| Frequency | Triennial |
| Location | Bergen |
| Country | Norway |
| Next event | Bergen Assembly 2016 |
| Organized by | Ekaterina Degot; David Riff |
| Website | Official website |
The programme combined an international exhibition, publication, and symposium presented across multiple venues in the city. Conceived as an archipelago of fictional “research institutes”, it brought together newly commissioned works and historical material to explore artistic research, speculative inquiry, and hybrid curatorial formats.[2]
Critical reception noted the edition’s attempt to rethink the structure of large-scale recurring exhibitions by foregrounding research processes and discursive formats rather than a single centralized exhibition model.[3] Other commentary described the project as a critical meditation on artistic research that blurred boundaries between exhibition-making, scholarship, and curatorial practice.[4]
Participants
| Bergen Assembly 2013 – Venues and Participants | ||
|---|---|---|
| Venue | Project / Institute | Artists and Contributors |
| KODE 4 | Institute of the Anti-Formalism | Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas; Władysław Strzemiński; Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnychenko; Carlfriedrich Claus; Dmitry Gutov; Ane Hjort Guttu |
| Bergen Kjøtt | Institute of Defensive Magic | Pedro Gómez-Egaña; Roee Rosen; Stephan Dillemuth and Clemens von Wedemeyer |
| Bergen Kunsthall | Institute of the Disappearing Future | Kiluanji Kia Henda; Ilya Kabakov and Emilia Kabakov; Anton Vidokle and Pelin Tan; Ritwik Ghatak; Uriel Orlow; Ivan Melnychuk and Oleksandr Burlaka (Grupa Predmetiv); Minze Tummescheit and Arne Hector (cinéma copains); Mariusz Tarkawian |
| KODE 1 (West Norway Museum of Decorative Art) | Institute of Imaginary States | Lars Cuzner and Fadlabi; IRWIN / NSK State; Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle; Eduardo Molinari; Pavel Pepperstein; Pyotr Subbotin-Permyak; Urban Fauna Laboratory |
| KNIPSU | Institute of Love and the Lack Thereof | Chto Delat; Keti Chukhrov |
| The School Museum | Institute of Lyrical Sociology | Olga Chernysheva; Josef Dabernig; Dora García |
| Kunsthall 3.14 | Institute of Perpetual Accumulation | Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann; Yuri Leiderman and Andrey Silvestrov |
| Østre Skostredet | Institute of Pines and Prison Bread | Aleksandr Rodchenko; Wong Men Hoi; Imogen Stidworthy |
| Rom8 | Institute of Tropical Fascism | Inti Guerrero |
| Visningsrommet USF | Institute of Zoopolitics | Jan Peter Hammer |
| Entrée | Institute of Political Hallucinations | Christian von Borries |