Statens Høstutstilling
12. September - 17. October 2021Everything that shakes our security seems provocative. Contemporary art is often such an unexpected encounter. Unknown content, unknown forms of expression, new techniques and materials put our convictions and our experience of art to the test. Høstutstillingen is challenging. It amazes and delights, irritates and excites.
Link: https://www.hostutstillingen.no/
Link: Art / APOCALYPSE I-II-III-IV.
Kunzt.no / Interview Per Hess #244
28. August 2021Per Hess settles with the Kongsberg Group’s weapons production and Norway as a nation of peace.
Where there is light, there is also darkness. Per Hess has for many years worked with light and neon light, but now at Kongsberg Kunstforening takes a juicy settlement with some of the darkest things that exist: war, weapons, murder. And a look at his own background as born and raised in Kongsberg, the whole of Norway’s coat of arms.
ARTIST TALK.
22. August 2021Kongsberg Kunstforening
Hilde Honerud/Per Hess
A conversation with the artist Per Hess about his background, his upbringing on Kongsberg, his relationship with the city’s advanced weapons industry and the work on the exhibition Silver Mind
KONGSBERG SEMINAR 2021.
21. August 2021The Silver Auditorium Krona
Per Hess / Kongsberg Kunstforening
High Technology and Humanity
Lectures: Thorbjørn Jagland / Jon Hovland Honerud / Hilde Honerud / Linda Bournane Engelberth / Bernt Hagtvet. Speaker: Tone Østerdal
The KONGSBERG seminar focuses on art and is an open informative seminar project with the goal of promoting engaged conversation about the traces of today’s worldwide technology industry including mass production of digital weapons in a local community as Kongsberg. High technology and humanity are highly topical issues today in a rapidly changing world. Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, algorithms and Big Data are major challenges that give us a future we do not know. Can art be a tool for identity, meaning and understanding in a future where man as subject is challenged?