Exhibition Programme
The exhibition programme at Brunsberg Konsthall presents new and established contemporary artists/groups and their projects. It promotes the production and communication of contemporary art on a local, nordic and international level.
In June 2025 the exhibition ANNO 55 shows works of 6 norwegian artists – all born in 1955, who share a long and profound friendship through their artwork.
In the summer of 2025 Brunsberg Konsthall will launch the project The Botany of Desires*, an exhibition series with a supporting programme consisting of artist-talks, film-screenings and lectures. The project aims to reflect aspects of the co-evolution of plants and human culture through artworks by three generations of contemporary artists from Sweden, Norway, France and Germany. This exhibitionserie refers to some of the thoughts that were the starting point of the former research station.
Exhibtions 2025
June: 2025 ANNO 55
Juli 2025: „Botany of Desires #1“, Opening 5. Juli 2025
August 2025: „The Botany of Desires #2“, Opening 9. August 2025
Glasshouse exhibitions 2024
“Work in Progress…”
Exhibition The Botany of Desires
9th of August until 20th of September 2025
The Botany of Desires *
Välkommen till den internationella utställningen för samtidskonst med konstnärer från Sverige, Tyskland, Norge och Frankrike
Eva Margarethe Ballo N
Eva Gröttum N
Åse Liv Hauan N
Helene Karlsson Se
Tonia Kudrass D
Sabine Mohr D
Kim Ramberghaug &
Jessika Thörnqvist Se
Sylvie Réno F
Regine Steenbock D
Vernissage 9. Augusti 2025 kl. 16:00 -21:00
20.00 Filmvisning / Filmscreening: “Kinesisk väv” / „Chinese Weave“. A movie by Regine Steenbock
Facing the nowadays problems of climate change and the human centered view of nature in all its connotations like monocultures of food production, empoisonment of soils, genetic manipulation of crops, etc.
Brunsberg Konsthall will mount a project, which is questioning the blurred line of what is the wild and the natural in a series of exhibitions and side programmes under the title:
The Botany of Desires*
The border between the natural and the artificial is blurred.
Let us try to change the perspective and start with the plants eye’s view on survival. On the most basic genetic level, plants want to make more copies of itself during its long way through evolution. Since a plant cannot move, the best way to do that is to induce animals – bees or people, no matter what – to spread their genes, by playing on the animal/ humans desires, conscious or not.
Might be that these evolutionary strategies were to figure out, how best feed, heal, clothe, intoxicate and be of use us, in order to make themselves some of nature’s greatest success stories?
After thousands of years of co-evolution the genes of plants are archives of informations which have undergone natural as well as artificial selection. Human needs have changed the plants as well as the plants have changed and manipulated human needs and desires.
After Darwin´s „The Origin of Species“ in co-evolution, every being is both a subject and an object.
The fact that plants are tied to their place allowed them to follow a fundamentally different path in evolution than humans. For example, they developed photosynthesis and perfected organic chemistry in order to defend themselves against unpleasant enemies using camouflage, poisons or bad smells or to attract useful creatures by meeting or satisfying their needs.
Even though plants have a much longer evolutionary history of survival than humans, they find in humanity a playing partner, “user” and “follower”, who is responsible for the distribution and cultivation as well as for the unimagined extent of todays destruction. The question for the artists interventions and works seems to be: “What is the nature of that game?*”
Brunsberg Konsthall
is an exhibition and research station working within the fields of contemporary art and embodied knowledge. Its facilities consist of a 400 square meter exhibition hall and two artist residences/studios.
ONGOING Juli 2025
Botany of Desires* #1
Vernissage /Opening Lördag 5. Juli 2025, kl. 12:00 – 17:00
tills 6. Juli till 20. Juli 2025 | Öppettider: Lör och Sön 14:00 – 17:00
Eva Margarethe Ballo N
Eva Gröttum N
Åse Liv Hauan N
Helene Karlsson Se
Kim Ramberghaug Se
Jessika Thörnqvist Se
The Botany of Desires* #1 och #2* (* efter Michael Pollan´s bok (2002) med samma titel. “En växts öga över världen”, 2002)
belyser med hjälp av bildkonst aspekter av samutvecklingen mellan växter och mänsklig kultur. De medverkande konstnärerna bor i Sverige, Norge, (Tyskland och Frankerike, Botany of Desires #2: Vernissage 9. Augusti 2025 12:00)). I sina konstverk ägnar de sig åt växter som material, struktur, textur, färg, symbol och kulturell användning på olika sätt. Programmet syftar till att öka medvetenheten om hur den minskande biologiska mångfalden är kopplad till förlusten av mänskliga kulturtekniker.
The Botany of Desires** after Michael Pollan`s book (2002) with the same title “A Plants View on the World”, illuminates aspects of the co-evolution of plants and human culture with the means of visual art. The participating artists come from Sweden, Norway, (Germany and France, Botany of Desires #2, Vernissage 9. August 2025, 12:00). In their artworks, they take different approaches to plants as material, structure, texture, colour, symbol and cultural use. The programme aims to raise awareness of how dwindling biodiversity is linked to the loss of human cultural techniques.
The Botany of Desires* ( nach Michael Pollan´s Buch mit dem dem gleichen Titel, “ Die Welt aus der Sicht der Pflanzen“) #1 und #2, beleuchtet Aspekte der Koevolution von Pflanzen und menschlicher Kultur mit Mitteln der bildenden Kunst. Die teilnehmenden Künstlerinnen und Künstler kommen aus Schweden, Norwegen (Deutschland und Frankreich, Botanik der Wünsche #2, Vernissage 9. August 2025, 12:00 Uhr). In ihren Kunstwerken beschäftigen sie sich auf unterschiedliche Weise mit Pflanzen als Material, Struktur, Textur, Farbe, Symbol und kultureller Nutzung. Das Programm soll das Bewusstsein dafür schärfen, wie der Rückgang der Biodiversität mit dem Verlust menschlicher Kulturtechniken zusammenhängt.
The Botany of Desires
Special Guest: Jacob van Walscapelle (1644 – 1724)
Painting: Flowers in a Stone Vase
Juni 2025
ANNO 55
7. tills 15. Juni 2025 |
Inger Marie Berg – Smycken | Edgar Ballo – Ritningar | Axel Ekwall – Målningar Geir Yttervik – Målningar | Tor Alex Ericsen – Keramik | Ole Henrik Hagen – Målningar
Work in Progres | Exhibition 2024
Sabine Mohr D, „Climate Curtain“, Installation, Exhibtion 2024
ANNO 55 | Exhibition Juni 2025