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E XH IBITIO N
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BER G E N
KU N STHA LL
DATE / TI M E
Opening:
Thursday 23 May
at 13:00
Thursday 23 May–
Sunday 11 August
Monday–Sunday
at 11:00–17:00
Thursday
at 11:00–20:00
Guided tours:
Every Sunday at 13:00
(for families)
Every Sunday at 14:00
Platform:
Artist talk with
Mari Slaattelid at
Bergen Kunsthall
Saturday 25 May
at 14:00
TICKET
Standard: 50
Senior: 25
Student: 25
Children, Bergen
Kunsthalls members,
with KODE-ticket:
Free admission
Free admission
Thursday evenings
17:00–20:00
Tickets can be
purchased via
Bergen Kunsthall.
Festival ticket dis-
counts do not apply.
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BERGEN KUNSTHALL
The Festival Exhibition
Mari Slaattelid
For close to three decades
Mari Slaattelid has insisted on the
relevancy of the painting, regardless
of shifting trends and perceptions of
its status in the arts scene. 
To Slaattelid, the painting possesses the neces-
sary arsenal of means to explore foundational
questions about art itself, convey a personal voice
on the medium's own terms and at the same time
maintain an open dialogue between artwork and
society. Without restricting the painting to a cer-
tain form of expression, she alternates effortlessly
between figurativism and abstraction, between
expressive and conceptual painting, all the while
exploring the painting in relation to other forms of
art such as photography and literature.
The Festival Exhibition in Bergen Kunsthall will
consist of many new works, produced especially
for the exhibition. The exhibition is presented
in collaboration with Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo,
where a version will be shown in 2020. Together,
the two exhibitions constitute the most exten-
sive presentation of Slattelid's oeuvre yet.
The Festival Exhibition, produced by Bergen
Kunsthall since 1953, is established as one of
Norway's most important solo exhibitions.
MARI SLAATTELID (1960–)
Produced by Bergen Kunsthall
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