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Bergen Kunsthall is pleased to announce Pedro Gómez-Egaña as its Festival Exhibition Artist for 2027.Born in Colombia, Pedro Gómez-Egaña resides and works in Oslo. He works within an extensive artistic field where sculpture, installation, sound, and performance are part of a dynamic interplay. With a comprehensive installation spanning four galleries of Bergen Kunsthall, Gómez-Egaña will examine the subterranean space as a site for extraction, power, and historical oppression.
The Festival Exhibition is considered one of the country’s most important solo exhibitions. It is curated and produced by Bergen Kunsthall and has run in parallel with the Bergen International Festival since its inception in 1953.
“It is with great pleasure that Bergen Kunsthall presents Pedro Gómez-Egaña as the Festival Exhibition Artist in 2027. Gómez-Egaña has for many years distinguished himself both nationally and internationally as an innovative and boundary-breaking artist. In his striking productions, poetry and politics, fun and seriousness, the immediate and the complex converge in works that seem to defy gravity. We look forward to presenting an artistic practice that springs from a profound knowledge of materials, technology, and contemporary times.”
– Kjersti Solbakken, Director of Bergen Kunsthall
With the Festival Exhibition 2027, Gómez-Egaña continues his interest in the surface as a place of friction and displacement, where the visible continually points towards something that lies below, behind, or beyond that of the immediate. The extensive new body of work examines the relationships between that of the geological, the human, and the infrastructural. Fragments from everyday life meet references to mining, material extraction, and subterranean labour through displacements and distortions of surfaces, objects, and architectural elements.
Storytelling, appropriation of historical and literary texts, and site specificity are among the consistent approaches in his practice. With his long-standing connection to the local art community in Bergen, Gómez-Egaña has built up a solid foundation of experience for working on the exhibition within Bergen Kunsthall’s distinctive historical, architectural, and artistic context.
Gómez-Egaña examines land, territories, and the underground as material and cultural fields shaped by narratives of progress and nation-building. Through his works, he exposes stories of extraction, where notions of mystery and desire related to the subterranean space are inscribed in the landscape.
The exhibition is titled “GEODEATH” and opens on Thursday 27 May 2027, together with an exhibition by Helle Siljeholm in Gallery V.
Watch a short introduction film by Pedro Gómez-Egaña:
Portrait of Pedro Gómez-Egaña by Linn Heidi Stokkedal
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