IN THE LIGHT OF NEON
30. september - 29. october 2023Solo exhibition
Opening 29. september 19.00 – 22.00
Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery, map.
Rustavelli Ave #11
0108 Tbilisi, Georgia
KONGSBERGSEMINARET 2022
27. August 2022. 10.00 - 16.00Sølvsalen, Krona, Kongsberg, map.
Host: Tone Østerdal.
NEONMEDITATIONS 7
10. June 2022Gallery Sagene Kunstsmie, map.
Performance: Risto Holopainen/Per Hess.
At the opening of the exhibition
Die Verwandlung by Nina Bang and Ingebjørg Une Hagen.
10.06 – 26.06
OSLO OPEN 2022
23. April 2022During this year’s Oslo Open, Per Hess / Nina Bang opens her studio in Trafo Kunstnerhus, room 2035 for the public. Meet the artists, see what they’re working on now and ask what you want to know about their art.
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?
NEONMEDITATIONS 6
8. July 2021Kongsberg Kunstforening
Performance Risto Holopainen/Per Hess
Link: Art / Silver Mind
Kongsberg kunstforening
12. June - 22. August 2021Silver Mind
The extensive, site-specific exhibition Silver Mind shows neon works, paintings, performances, daguerreotypes and graphic works. Here, Kongsberg’s history is linked to a local / national / global perspective. A both industrial and cultural history that spans almost 400 years, from early mining with the extraction of silver, to the contemporary high-tech and globalized industry that also includes the highly topical debate topic Norwegian weapons production.
Link: Art / Silver Mind
P2 Kulturstripa
15. April 2021Oslo Open
With Nina Bang. Interview in our studio by Guri Skeie about Oslo Open and the situation for artists in Oslo.
Link: https://radio.nrk.no/serie/kulturstripa/MKAK04007521
Time period 38 min. – 49 min.
Kunzt.no / Interview Per Hess #63
22. November 2017Join the studio of Per Hess, one of Norway’s foremost artists and one of the few artists in the world who work with neon lights.
Link: https://www.kunzt.no/post/per-hess-forelsket-seg-i-neonlys