Bergen Kunstmuseum

October 4 - February 3

Real Life Stories

Jing Kewen – Xiang Jing – Li Songsong – Ai Weiwei – Xu Bing - Liu Jianhua – Song Dong – Yin Xiuzhen – Mao Tongqiang - Yue Minjun

Installations, sculptures and paintings by ten of China’s leading artists.

Over the last 15 years, Chinese contemporary artists have gained phenomenal popularity and recognition in the international art world. Real Life Stories presents, for the first time in Norway, installations, sculptures and paintings by ten of China’s leading artists.

Like an exhibition within an exhibition, the occasion marks the world premiere of a new work by Ai Weiwei. In 2011, ArtReview magazine deemed this artist to be the most powerful figure in the art world, and one of the trendsetters for the international contemporary art scene. Ai Weiwei’s art often deals with themes pertaining to Chinese culture, tradition and craftsmanship, and China’s relationship to the West.

Chief curators: Feng Boyi and Bjørn Inge Follevaag. Co-curators: Erlend Høyersten and Eli Okkenhaug.

The exhibition is produced by Art Museums of Bergen.

Nikolai Astrup

We present the Nikolai Astrup Collection in a new permanent exhibition in Lysverket. Visitors will encounter a presentation of well-known paintings and a large selection of Astrup’s prints and drawings in our new purpose-built area for works on paper.

Bergen Art Museum has opened Norway’s first art museum especially for children!