A shared beginning – Individual performances – A shared ending
Pop-up Performances by Performance Art Bergen and colleagues from South Korea
Kunsthall 3,14 — Entrance, Staircase & Public Space
Friday, September 12, 2025
As part of Cultural Night in Bergen 2025, Kunsthall 3,14 is proud to present a dynamic, evolving collaboration with a group of performance artists from Performance Art Bergen and a similar performance collective in South Korea. The artists will activate Kunsthall 3,14’s transitional spaces – the entrance, stairwell, and the surrounding public areas – with a series of site-sensitive, ephemeral performances.
These performances unfold in parallel with the Cuban group exhibition inside the gallery and the local community project Vågsbunnen Stemmer, merging the global with the hyperlocal in shared physical and social space.
The invited artists are currently exploring the intersections between vulnerability, materiality, memory, and spatial experience. Working individually and collectively, they engage with the unique architecture and atmosphere of the Kunsthall – its thresholds, textures, and relationships to the street outside.
Participating artists include:
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Frauke Materlik, exploring care, plant material, and the tension between control and letting go.
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Kyuja Bae, interested in floor-based, audience-engaged performance near the gallery entrance or outdoor stone sculpture.
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Marit Tunestveit Dyre, responding to textures, acoustics, and playful impulses in the staircase and public square.
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Susanne Irene Fjørtoft, drawn to contrasts between small and large stones, with a focus on audience encounters in public space.
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Im Tae Woong and Eun Sung Cho, currently working flexibly between indoor and outdoor performance contexts.
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Hong-jae Shim, developing his Wall series – combining drawing, sculpture, and movement – ideally indoors but adaptable to outdoors if needed.
This encounter between Norwegian and Korean performance practices invites spontaneity, curiosity, and shared presence. The works will appear like quiet ruptures or poetic interruptions in the everyday flow of the city.
Please note that the performances are unannounced and will unfold over the course of the evening. Come by and stay open.
Short BIOs of artists
Frauke Materlik is an artist (MA Byam Shaw at Central Saint Martins, U.K.), gardener (Herrenhäuser Gärten, Hannover, D), landscape architect (MA University of Greenwich, U.K.) and a member of Performance Art Bergen. She understands art as a tool for exploring, navigating and negotiating in complex environments, revolving around questions on how to translate and convey. In her practice, she works in dialogue with her surroundings, combining performance, installation, and horticulture. She exhibits, researches and teaches internationally. Her performances are informed by many years of experience as a gardener, in particular the interactions and juxtapositions of control and letting go, of working within environments and slower circular time frames. Frauke has been awarded numerous residencies and grants, such as at Oak Spring Garden Foundation (U.S.), Kunstdepot Göschenen (CH), Cité des Arts Paris (F) and Nida Art Colony (LT).
More information: www.fraukematerlik.eu
Kyuja Bae is an interdisciplinary artist based in Norway, originally from South Korea. Her practice spans choreography, dance, performance art, theater, writing, and installation. She holds a Master’s degree in Choreography from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and has also studied theater, acting, stage art, and creative writing at institutions including the Norwegian Theatre Academy at Østfold University College in Fredrikstad and the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul. Kyuja approaches dance as a holistic practice—a way to heal and grow, awakening insight, wisdom, and compassion within oneself. Through her performances she explores creative well-being, interconnection, meeting points between Asian culture and Western culture and harmonious coexistence. Her recent artistic research centers on the concept of the Meditative Body, integrating movement, meditation, and mindfulness, exploring slow and silent movements. This practice emphasizes cultivating self-awareness in relation to the mind’s activities—emotions, thoughts, and dreams—while opening a poetic gaze through embodied awareness.
More information: https://cargocollective.com/kyujabae
Susanne Irene Fjørtoft is a Norwegian-based artist who works on the border between performance, performing arts, installation and scenography. Her work reflects on the intangible spaces between us humans and our surroundings where we influence and are influenced.
More information: http://www.susanneirene.no/
Marit Tunestveit Dyre works with performance, observational photography, with text, sculptural elements and in dialogue. As a material and as a source of inspiration, textile is a recurring element in her practice. It is the expanded use of textile in various cultural, economic and political contexts that captures her interest. In resent years walking has become an important working method. She walk to familiarize new social and cultural contexts, in search of inspiration, to learn, to broaden her horizons and to process. Current topics of interest are: walking, growth, hands; making and tacit knowledge, food, textile, and social, cultural, emotional and economic capital. She holds a BA in Specialized art textile (2011), and a MA in Fine Art (2013) both from Bergen National Academy of Art and Design. And a BA in Social Anthropology (2024) from the University of Bergen. Her recent studies reflect her interest and curiosity in the complexity of the societies that we live in.
More information: https://bergenateliergruppe.no/marit-tunestveit-dyre/
Im Tea Woong is Free-Style Experimental Musician – Jazzy and Not Jazzy at the Same Time. Composing and singing songs rooted in jazz, while embracing free-style experimentation. Blending and interweaving world music and diverse sounds with jazz to create a unique musical experience. Drawing inspiration from everything around us—atmosphere, nature, people, relationships, language, and actions—expressing these elements through music, singing, and playing from the deepest parts of the heart and mind.
Instagram: sojuonebottle
Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/southern-gyeonggi-jazz/1431633054
Eun Sung Cho is a performance artist and practitioner of the Korean National Intangible Heritage No. 34 the Gangryeong Mask Dance. She began acting in theater during her teenage years and pursued a career as an actor. In 2004, She expanded her focus to performance art and traditional mask dance, marking her official entry into the artistic world. Cho, Eun-sung consistently seeks authentic communication for the genuine process and outcome of art, connecting it with the audience. She also explores the deconstruction of art genres and the close integration of different genres, producing and directing various projects and performances.
Hong-jae Shim is a painter and performance artist. He organized the Peaceful Unification of Korea Eurasian Railway Crossing Project and served as its travel director in 2015. He also participated as a member of the World Peace Art Travel Europe Exploration Team in 2019 and worked as the general curator for the 1st Busan Port International Performing Arts Festival 2008. Currently, he is serving as the president of the Korea Performance Artists Association. He constantly advocates for world peace through performance art.