Bøygd

12.09-30.12 2026

Artists: Ingeborg Tysse, Margaret Abeshu, Hege Iren Aasdal, Tor Erik Bøe, Silje Ensby and Cato Løland.
In collaboration with: Hardanger Folk Museum, Hardanger Maritime Center and FjordMoods. 

Bøygd, bøyd, to bend, to maneuver, to expand, to connect, to reach out and touch another. To be porous, to absorb, to open up and let things in. 

Curated by Daniela Ramos Arias and Siv Støldal, with strong support from Stine Aas together forming the curatorial team of Kiosken, a curatorial collective and space in Bergen. 

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Curatorial text:

In 2024 we started an exciting conversation with Sissel Lillebostad, daglig leder and main curator at Kunsthuset Kabuso. Through this conversation, Kiosken received an invitation to curate an exhibition at Kabuso in 2027. This felt like a luxury — not only to have time to plan, research and think, but also to expand our curatorial practice beyond our space in Bergen and think bigger. 

We knew we wanted to bring our interdisciplinary, collaborative identity to this project and create opportunities to meet and share ideas and processes. This led to Bøygd: an exhibition inviting artists, designers and traditional craftspeople to meet, share their knowledge and process with each other, and absorb a little from one another’s practices. 

To do this, they spent time together — both in Hardanger, where the exhibition takes place, and in Bergen. We facilitated meetings and workshops, and visits to workshops, studios and ateliers, allowing time to work side by side. This way, the practices are anchored in a deep understanding of one another, and knowledge from Hardanger resurfaces through new hands. 

Storeteigen, safeguarded and cared for by Kabuso and part of Hardanger og Voss Museum, became a base for the participating artists who live far from Hardanger. There, they stayed in a historic house surrounded by trees and flowers, with a spectacular view of the fjord — a place to get to know a rich area full of traditions and history, and to think of ways to connect with it through their artistic practices. 

The final group of artists, designers and craftspeople was chosen for their strong interest in materials and their curiosity to learn and absorb from their surroundings — a collaboration with nature and materials intrinsic to each of their practices. We suggested pairings to draw them into conversation with each other. Ingeborg Tysse was invited to explore and connect with Hardanger Maritime Center. Cato Løland and Hege Iren Aasdal, both gatherers in their own ways and deeply connected to found materials, were invited to look at each other’s practices. Margaret Abeshu was invited to explore textile through skautfelling, a pleating technique, learning from Agnete Sivertsen at Hardanger Folk Museum in Utne. Tor Erik Bøe was invited to look at food traditions in Hardanger and bring them into his food and performance practice. Silje Ensby, a photographer and filmmaker documenting traditional craft practices through film, was invited to contextualise the exhibition’s conceptual approach by documenting skautfelling and traditional basket weaving. 

Conversations with the artists have revealed thoughts on bodies, labor, identity, past, present and future — shaping a world within the exhibition that carries us to an unknown place and time, populated by characters and objects that feel both familiar and unknown. These build stories from local histories, traditions and the possibilities of materials: a familiarity situated in parallel dimensions, alongside craftsmanship, history, and the local and individual.