On display at KODE 1 until 12 March: Who collects, who decides – and how does this affect art history and our common cultural heritage? Explore 161 masterpieces by internationally recognised artists including Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois, Claude Monet, Nikolai Astrup, and Barbara Hepworth at KODE this winter!
Opening October 7: Artists and sisters Annette Kierulf and Caroline Kierulf have played a major role in revitalizing printmaking in Norway. This autumn KODE Bergen Art Museum launches To Make a World — an extensive exhibition of their work curated in close collaboration with the artists
What does it mean to make queer art?
KODE is proudly hosting The Tourist at Permanenten, KODE 1. This is a part of Bergen Assembly 2022's Yasmine and the Seven Facesof the Heptahedron.
At display in 2022: Ole Bull's violins in the Rasmus Meyer Collections in KODE 3.
For nearly fifty years, Nina Malterud has been one of Norway’s foremost artists in her field. This summer KODE presents Material Statements – a major solo exhibition of the artist featuring more than hundred works from every stage of her career.
At KODE 2 until 11 September: KODE launches NABO (NEIGHBOUR), an architecture exhibition exploring futuristic housing visions highlighting collective solutions.
Throughout December 2022 at KODE 4: The exhibition ‘The Queer Gaze’ explores and highlights the diversity of queer perspectives, narratives and identities found in the museum collections. This comprehensive exhibition features almost 160 works ranging from Classical antiquity to the present day. It fills a whole floor at KODE 4, Lysverket and part two opens this fall.
What have we bought up in the last two years? See the new acquisitions to KODE’s collection!
Closing 27 March: Next in line in KODEs series of exhibitions featuring prominent American artists is a living legend. KODE presents Dead End Hole, an exhibition of new and recent works by the American artist Paul McCarthy (b. 1945).
Until 29 May at KODE 1: "La Vie Moderne: Bergen Painters in Paris 1920" is an intimate exhibition curated by Professor of art history Gunnar Danbolt, where we are transported to Paris and Bergen around the beginning of the 1920s.
An extensive exhibition on the celebrated Norwegian painter Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928), who deftly wove tradition and innovation into his artistic production.
Experience great works of art in an intimate setting: For the first time a number of masterpieces by Cézanne will be shown in Norway.
This May, KODE launches the first large retrospective presentation of Norwegian artist Arvid Pettersen’s work. The exhibition “On View” encompasses more than 60 works from five decades, with an emphasis on the 1980s and recent works.
In the series of contemporary projects created for KODE, Marit Følstad (b. 1969) takes over the Stenersen Room with a process-oriented work developed over the course of several years.
This spring we are reopening the doors to KODE 4, this time with an entirely new and dynamic content.
