Deterrence and Reassurance
with Toril Johannessen
What is it about?
We are very excited to open a new edition of the exhibition Deterrence and Reassurance with Toril Johannessen
Opening Saturday, May 31st at 2 pm
The exhibition will run from May 31st to August 31st
Deterrence and Reassurance examines how geopolitics and military presence shape society and everyday life in Norway, with a particular focus on Northern Norway. The works in the exhibition form an interwoven civil-military landscape, and thematize how militarization and soft power leave their mark on language, landscape and experiences of safety and unrest.
During the installation period, we will invite audience to a volunteer evening on Tuesday, May 27th at 4-7 pm. Here, anyone who wants to can help sew together the main work in the exhibition, which consists of rug rags woven from military surplus material.
Previous editions of the exhibition have been shown at Bergen Kunsthall as the Festival Exhibition 2024, and most recently at the Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter in Svolvær.
Toril Johannessen (b. 1978) grew up in Harstad, and lives and works in Bergen. She is educated at the Bergen Academy of Fine Arts, and has achieved international recognition after an extensive exhibition practice both nationally and internationally. Johannessen has been represented at dOCUMENTA(13) (2012) in Kassel, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo(2016), the Munch Museum in Motion (2018) and the Festival Exhibition in Bergen (2024), in addition to public art projects for the Bergen City Hall (2022) and Evenes Air Base (2023).