Join us for the opening of three new exhibitions at Kunsthall 3,14! As we move towards the darkest time of the year, the new exhibitions create spaces of withdrawal – room to dwell with hidden and forgotten histories.
Mohamed A. Gawad: Dusk Air at Closing Time
Laura Gaiger: Sketch for a Mural
Jonáš Gruska: Vodné štúdie
PROGRAM
18:00 3,14 LIVE Conversation between artist Mohamed A. Gawad and Professor Frans Jacobi (KMD)
18:30 Opening speech by Professor of Philosophy Franz Knappik (UiB)
Mohamed A. Gawad's exhibition Dusk Air at Closing Time, presented in the main hall, explores how memories, regimes and ideologies materialise through film and monumental spaces. The exhibition invites us to explore traces of history in works that move between Egyptian and Iranian contexts.
Laura Gaiger's diptych painting, presented in the Vault, raises questions about which histories are commemorated and which are overlooked. Whose lives are considered worthy of monumental representation? Jonáš Gruska's sound installation in PARABOL takes us into underwater worlds through unconventional rhythms.
The opening speech will be held by Franz Knappik, professor of philosophy at the University of Bergen. His research centers on the history of modern philosophy and critical theory, with a specific interest in colonialism, racism, and collective memory.
In the 3,14 LIVE conversation, artists Mohamed A. Gawad and Frans Jacobi will reflect on questions surrounding the politics of memory and place. How can artistic strategies challenge what we remember? How can different, even contradictory, stories of a place coexist in collective memory?
Mohamed A. Gawad is an artist and filmmaker based between Cairo and Trondheim. He has recently completed his doctoral project in Artistic Research at the Academy of Fine Art in Trondheim. His work has been exhibited and screened internationally, including at Berlinale and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Whitechapel Gallery and the Barbican Centre (London).
Frans Jacobi is a Danish visual artist and Professor of Time-based Art and Performance at the University of Bergen. His artistic practice spans performance, installation, film and text, exploring political and societal questions, collective action and shared realities. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), de Appel (Amsterdam), Museum Fridericianum (Kassel) and Louisiana (Denmark).
The event is free and open to everyone, join us!
