Exhibition consisting of three different approaches to the artist run and the curatorial role.

Background:

Hordaland Art Centre is an artist run institution which also employs curators. This division in focus and exhibition profile can sometimes be blurred and difficult to juggle, so I wanted to address this issue as the institution was taking a big part in the B-open happening.

This way of curating "by chance" proved to be very successful, thanks to in depth discussions in the whole process with my good colleague and friend Malin Barth. In retrospect I think we both see this as a successful group exhibition which talks about the difference between keeping old systems because they are familiar and trying out new things because of their newness to see if they works as expected.

Competition:

Every artist in the region was invited to vote on ten different artist's proposals for an exhibition to be made for B-open. The Norwegian artist living in Stockholm Lars Traegde won this competition whivh was called Evig og alltid kunstnerstyrt? (Always and forever artist run?) with his project “l’Orangerie”.

Themed curating:

The basement gallery was already decided to be Annika Borg’s archival project ”mulig (i) her/der” curated by head curator Malin Barth of Hordaland Art Centre, to be the last in a series of exhibitions focusing on minimalism.

Invitation:

In the entrance of the gallery I invited André Marandon with site specific installation; radar on top of building continually mapping the close perimeters of the gallery.