Dare to hear? Kunsthall 3,14’s own podcast disrupts the airwaves, one unfiltered guest at a time. In the series, our debate editor Gitte Sætre dives deep into urgent themes explored in our exhibitions and live program, together with artists and relevant experts. Art and thought collide through radical formats – tune in on Spotify!
Economic Imaginaries –
A conversation with the artists Fanja Bouts and Jannecke Knudsen Heien
What happens when art confronts the ecological paradoxes of our time?
In this episode, we explore the intersections of decoupling—the idea that an economy can grow without increasing environmental pressure—speculative futures, and material storytelling. These themes are inspired by the Dutch artist Fanja Bouts' exhibition at Kunsthall 3,14 (on display until August 10, 2025).
Joining us is Fanja Bouts and the Bergen-based artist Jannecke Knudsen Heien. Together, we discuss how art can act both as a critique and a proposal—challenging unsustainable systems while also imagining alternatives, often in collaboration with researchers and policymakers.
Both artists share a deep interest in temporal imagination:
How do we think across deep time? How can materials carry memory—and future possibilities? Through archival gestures and collaborative world-building, their practices ask:
What grows when growth is no longer the goal?
Metafysisk og eksperimentell samtale med Gunnar Wærness
En utforskning av språkets ulike dimensjoner med forfatteren og kabaretkunstneren Gunnar Wærness.
Ved å rette oppmerksomheten mot stemmen, åpner vi for en åndelig dimensjon i språket – ikke bare forståelsen av ord, men opplevelsen av den underliggende energien de bærer.
Gunnar Wærness er mottaker av Doblougprisen 2023 og forfatter av 11 verk, fra debutboken Kongesplint (1999) til det eksistensielt ladede Kosmos' beibi (2023), en bok som omfavner alt fra gudinner til krig, poesi til salamandere.
The story and the myths of Kunsthall 3,14
2025
In the preparations leading up to the celebration of the 40th anniversary of Kunsthall 3,14, the first director, Bjørn Inge Follevaag, talks about the formation of a contemporary art institution that embraced the exchange of world cultures, and dared to recognize social and cultural blind beyond Western discourse, before anyone else saw their value.
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The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project
2024
What is the potential hidden in biological and cultural diversity? Ths episode delves into the Cosmopolitan Chicken Project with Koen Vanmechelen. What started by crossbreeding a Belgian chicken with one from France has, over the past 25 years, evolved into a universal breeding project that challenges monoculture both metaphorically and in practice.
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Panel dicussion at the University Museum
2024
This conversation brings together Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen, palaeontology professor Hanneke Meijer, and anthropologist Karin Lillevold from the University of Bergen. The conversation was moderated by Gitte Sætre, debate editor at Kunsthall 3,14.
Art and Human Rights
2023
Kunsthall 3,14 is in dialogue with Chris Duckett, the founder of the Human Rights Art Foundation. Duckett has worked with human rights issues for over 20 years, and he played a key role in introducing the Irish artist Brian Maguire’s painting series Missing and Murdered Indigenous People to Kunsthall 3,14. The episode follows up a series of exhibitions, talks and seminars on resistance and solidarity.
Painting as Act of Solidarity
2023
In episode 3,14 Gitte Sætre discusses the exhibition law of the land by the artist artist Brian Maguire at Kunsthall 3,14 in 2023. The painting series Missing and Murdered Indigenous People and The Remains, Arizona call out the violence against Indigenous peoples and immigrants unfolding in the American West. How can art function as resistance and a way to fight against injustice?
Punk Sound Collage for a Bike Ride to the Suburbs
2023
The episode challenges you to notice logistical systems and details in everyday life that we might take for granted. It's a punk sound collage in collaboration with the American artist and researcher Benjamin Gerdes and the bicycle director of the City of Bergen, Einar Grieg. The episode premiered as a part of a performative lecture on a bike ride from Kunsthall 3,14 to the suburbs of Fyllingsdalen. The tunnel to Fyllingsdalen is the longest cycle and pedestrian tunnel in the world!
Det oseaniske som kunstnerisk metode.
2023
Hvor ligger krysningspunktet mellom billedkunst og scenekunst, og hva skjer når man blander inn horrorsjanger? I denne episoden diskuterer Kunsthall 3,14 med billedkunstner Søren Thilo Funder og forfatter Ida Lødemel Tvedt om utstillingen Oceanic Horror or How to Survive the Night in the Haunted Mansion of Absolute Capitalism. Utstillingen, som ble vist på Kunsthall 3,14 i våren 2023, var en del av Funders Ph.d. prosjekt ved KMD.