Kiosken

Kiosken at Kabuso with presentations by Andreas Kuhne, Polina Medvedeva, Fjordmoods and Kiosken (Daniela Ramos Arias & Siv Støldal).

When: November 2nd, 12:00 – 14:00
Where: Kafé and Concert Hall

Kiosken has been invited to curate an exhibition at Kunsthuset Kabuso in autumn 2026, featuring artists and makers based in Norway and the Hardanger region. The exhibition will highlight local talent, resources, and expertise that enriches this community. The goal is to create space for dynamic and inspiring artistic work that emphasizes the connection between art, design and traditional craftsmanship in the area.

In the coming year and a half, Kiosken will organize a series of pop-up events at Kabuso to connect with Øystese and Hardanger. These events will introduce both the project’s creative approach and the participating artists and makers.

For our first pop-up event, we present the work of artists Andreas Kuhne and Polina Medvedeva, alongside designer Pieter Van Tulde and his partner Katrine Van Tulde of the Hardanger-based furniture studio FjordMoods. We will introduce Kiosken, share the project’s vision, and set up our nomadic mini shop while enjoying drinks and snacks together.

The exhibition title will emerge naturally as we get to know the region and engage in conversations with the community. For now, we are simply calling it “Kiosken at Kabuso.”

Kiosken is an interdisciplinary gallery and project space dedicated to the region’s artists, designers and artisans. Through our shop, residency- and exhibition programme, we aim to increase the visibility and earning potential of arts, crafts and design in Vestland. Kiosken’s team consists of Daniela Ramos Arias, Siv Støldal and Stine Aas who run and curate Kiosken.

Bios:

Polina Medvedeva works within the intersection of film, installation and performance. She is portraying individuals or communities who exist by circumventing political prohibitions, societal stereotypes, and effects of economic crises and conflicts. Questioning linearity in storytelling, she explores formats that allow for nuance and multiplicity of narratives. Her focus on the tactics of civil disobedience and mechanisms of vernacular resilience – improvised, passed through generations as oral histories, smuggled in through migration – speaks of the (im)possibilities of existing within while being against systems of oppression.

Medvedeva has been a resident at de Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam (2020-2022) and her work was exhibited at among others Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels; Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem and Bak Basis voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht. Performances include: Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall; Baltic Circle Festival, Helsinki; HYBRID Biennale, Dresden; Sonic Acts festival, Amsterdam; Lofoten International Art Festival, Svolvær; Brighton Festival, Brighton. Medvedeva has been a guest tutor at Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, KMD Bergen, ArtEZ Zwolle, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam and a tutor and lecturer at the Utrecht University of the Arts.

She is a member of the selection committee for the Creative Industries Fund NL and a board member of The One Minutes Foundation.

Andreas Kühne (b. 1988) is a Dutch sound artist, composer, and drummer involved in making electroacoustic music, collaborative audiovisual performances and interactive installations that focus on listening positionalities and cross-pollination between improvisation practices and the environment.

His doctoral research proposes field improvisation as a methodology for sounding material that is aimed to reflect on the relational affects between human and more-than-human beings. It explores the potential for field improvisation to aid imagining alternative futures, critical pedagogy, multispecies collaboration and theorising in the fields of acoustic ecology, contemporary archaeology, sound art and visual art within numerous field sites across Northern Sápmi and Norway.

Andreas is a PhD fellow in electronic music and music technology at the Musikkonservatoriet, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Kühne’s work has been exhibited and performed at Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall (NO), Lofoten International Art Festival (NO), Sonic Acts Festival (NL), HYBRID Biennale (DE), Baltic Circle Festival (FI), Inversia Festival (RU), Lighthouse (UK).

FjordMoods, founded by designer and maker Pieter Van Tulder in collaboration with his wife Katrine Helgheim Van Tulder, is a Hardanger-based furniture company revolutionising sustainable design through their “2050 Furniture” model. By transforming local waste wood into quality furniture, they demonstrate their commitment to environmental care while creating beautiful, functional pieces. Their work ranges from their signature Sondre chair to unique, made-to-order designs.

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