Anniversary exhibition at TagTeam "Temp invites" 10.–26. October
Temp has worked together as an artist group since 2000 and consists of Anne Helen Mydland, Ruth Moen, Heidi Bjørgan and Anne Thomassen. We ran Gallery Temp for 2 years in Skottegaten (2000-2002) and have since been curators for a number of exhibitions and created exhibitions together.
Temp will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2025. We have decided to mark this with a group exhibition. Daily management at Tag Team, Morten Kvamme launched ideas and has offered us the use of Tag Team's premises for the exhibition.
With the anniversary exhibition, we want to highlight the emergence of artist-initiated galleries and project spaces in Bergen in particular. And the importance of these as a living part of the cultural city of Bergen.
Opening friday 10. october at 19.00.
Artists presented:
Bjørn Mortensen, Marianne Moe, Kristin Tinsa Sæterdal, Daniel Persson, Rita Marhaug, Nina Malterud, Åshil Bøthun, Lisa Rytterlund, Runa Halleraker + Temp
The exhibition is supported by:
Bergen Kommune
Billedkunstnernes vederlagsfond
Kunsthåndverkeres fond
About the artists:
Bjørn Mortensen (b. 1977) lives and works in Bergen. He is educated at Central Saint Martins in London and the Bergen Academy of Art and Design. Mortensen works at the intersection of function, form and speculation, with ceramic sculptures, pewter objects, drawing and painting as central expressions. His works balance the symbolic and the practical, and explore potential uses – such as birdhouses, fountains or incense holders – that often remain hypothetical, but give the works a speculative and charged expression.
Drawing has a central place in his practice, and draws inspiration from bodily, often obscene expressions in underground comics such as Python and MAD, which Mortensen reads as expressions of collective impulses.
He has exhibited at, among others, the Norwegian Sculptor's Association, KODE, the Norwegian Artists' Association, VOLT, Kunsthall Oslo, Standard (Oslo) and the Norwegian Sculpture Biennale at the Vigeland Museum. In 2017 he was nominated for the Sparebankstiftelsen DnB artist grant. His works are represented in collections such as the National Museum in Oslo and KODE in Bergen. Mortensen also runs the publishing house Apis Press together with artist Mathijs van Geest.
Marianne Moe (b. 1975) was born and raised on Herøy in Helgeland, and lives and works in Bergen. She holds a master's degree in textile art from the Bergen Academy of the Arts. The core of her artistry lies in exploring and finding new ways into the material – with wool felt as her main medium.Her work is inspired by traditional textiles such as boaters and sleighs, as well as the formations and changes of nature. Moe is attracted by the compact and sculptural properties of wool felt, and often works in a large, spatial format.She has exhibited both at home and abroad, and is represented in a number of public collections, including the National Museum, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Oslo Municipality Art Collection and KODE Art Museum in Bergen.
Kristin Tinsa Sæterdal (b. 1963) lives and works in Oslo. She works mainly with large-format tapestries, but also with drawings, objects, text and digital tapestries. Themes in her work often deal with popular culture and technology.Sæterdal is educated at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and has a two-year tapestry education from OsloMet. She has had a number of solo exhibitions in Norway, including at Format Oslo, Østfold Art Center, Kunstbanken and BO billedkunstnerne in Oslo. Her works have been purchased by institutions such as the National Museum, Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Oslo Municipality and Norges Bank. She has also completed several art commissions in public buildings.My main expression is tapestry technique, often in large formats that can take between 6 and 12 months to complete. Tapestry has no reverse side, as the back is just as thoroughly worked as the front. I am interested in how technological developments affect human lives, and how the distinction between the artificial and the natural is increasingly blurred. Scenes from science fiction and virtual worlds have become part of our cultural backbone. My themes include screen time, surveillance, “No Signal”, space junk and control rooms. I am currently working on themes such as overconsumption and waste, where “The Dump” is inspired by a photograph I took in the USA in 2017.
Daniel Persson (b. 1974, Sweden) is based in Bergen, where he also received his bachelor's degree in graphic design from the Norwegian Academy of Art and Design in 2005. He works primarily with graphic design and photography, and thematizes the relationship between humans and their surroundings – with a particular interest in the landscapes we identify with and the traces we leave behind.Through a material-based approach and a clear craft focus, Persson explores the interface between abstraction and representation. His motifs often revolve around urban fringes and the marginal landscape on the outskirts of the city, where the accidental and the man-made meet.Persson is co-founder and project manager at Trykkeriet – a center for contemporary graphic design in Bergen, which functions as both a workshop, exhibition space and professional meeting place. In recent years, he has exhibited at, among others, Bærum Kunsthall (Fornebu), Bodø Kunstforening, Norske Grafikere (Oslo), Galleri Briskeby (Oslo) and Trykkeriet (Bergen).
Rita Marhaug (b. 1965) is a visual artist based in Bergen. She works cross-media with graphics, drawing, photography, artist books, video and performance. Her practice is material-based and conceptually rooted, and often revolves around the body, identity, nature and culture – as well as the vulnerable relationship between humans and their surroundings.Marhaug has a master's degree in fine arts from Bergen Academy of the Arts (1989) and a bachelor's degree in art history from the University of Bergen (1996). She was a professor at Bergen Academy of the Arts (KHIB) from 2001 to 2013, and has participated in a wide range of exhibitions and performance festivals nationally and internationally since the 1990s.Her work is represented in several public collections, and she has also been involved in various artist-driven initiatives and collaborative projects. Today, Marhaug focuses entirely on her own practice, where she continuously explores the relationship between craft, technology and perception.
Nina Malterud (b. 1951) is an artist based in Bergen, working with earthenware where she explores the painterly and material possibilities of ceramics. She takes historical forms such as tiles and dishes as her starting point, but places greater emphasis on expression than function. The works often undergo multiple firings, and she uses unexpected effects such as cracks and holes in the glaze as active parts of the expression. The result is works that seek a physical presence without narrative – rather associations than representation.Malterud was educated at the State School of Crafts and Art in Oslo (1971–74), and has had a central role in Norwegian art education, including as professor and rector at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts. Today she works as an artist and participates in professional contexts with a particular interest in artistic development work and artistic PhDs.In 2022 she showed a major solo exhibition at Kode in Bergen, and in the same year was awarded the Ulrik Hendriksens Honorary Prize and appointed Knight of the 1st Class of the Order of St. Olav
Åsil Bøthun (b. 1971) lives and works in Bergen. Educated at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (1996–2002), she has developed a distinctive approach to sculpture and installation that explores space, materiality and relationships between form and context. Bøthun often works with materials and forms that invite reflection on the tactile and sensual. She has participated in a number of national and international exhibitions, received several awards, and has been purchased by significant museum collections. Today, she is a professor of sculpture and installation at the Faculty of Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen.
Lisa Rytterlund (b. 1988 in Sweden) lives in Stockholm. She has a master's degree from the Bergen Academy of Fine Arts and has taken courses in Byzantine icon painting with the icon painter Efti Papadopoulou Georlin. Rytterlund has had a solo exhibition at Mikey Laundry Art Garden (Bergen), and has shown work in group exhibitions at places such as Hadeland Glassverk (Jevnaker), KRAFT (Bergen) and KNIPSU (Bergen). She has also participated in the Norwegian Craftsmen's Annual Exhibition. In 2025, Rytterlund received the Porsgrunn Porcelain Scholarship.
Runa Halleraker (de/hen) is a queer visual artist and poet from Trondheim, living in Bergen. Hen is educated at the Bergen Academy of Fine Arts, Camberwell College of Arts and the Norwegian School of Photography. Halleraker’s practice revolves around paintings created on canvas or textile, often presented in series or as spatial installations. The works move in an abstract and colorful expression that creates atmospheric spaces – places for reflection, memory or grief, without demands for logic or linearity. Through an expressive vocabulary, Halleraker plays with depth, color and ephemerality, and seeks to distance the work from recognizable forms. By embracing the laborious, incomprehensible and random, the work invites us to consider the in-between and the changeable as a foundation for survival. Recent exhibitions include Galleri LNM, Nye Bokboden and Bømlo Kunstlag.
Ruth Moen (b. 1972) majored in ceramics from 2000 at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts. Over the years, she has held leading positions at various art and cultural institutions in Bergen, most recently as project manager for the start-up of Kunstgarasjen. Moen last had an exhibition at Galleri KRAFT in 2020. Moen lives and works as an artist in Bergen.
Anne Thomassen (b. 1966) lives and works in Oslo. She completed her master's degree in Ceramics at the Bergen Academy of Fine Arts and the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee. Her works have been purchased by the National Museum in Oslo, Kode in Bergen and the Municipality of Trondheim. "The works are often based on places I have been to that have a history or "speak" to me. They are taken from different landscapes in Northern Norway that I have walked a lot in.We often do not notice changes until it is too late, and we do not see the consequences of interventions in nature until after they have happened. With the series "Places I have been to. Places that mean "something" I want to preserve something valuable. Clay is nature in itself and many of my works are connected to it. The slowness means that the thought process develops along the way in interaction with the material".
Anne Helen Mydland, (born 1971), is a professor specializing in ceramics and clay at the Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Music and Design, UiB. She is educated in archaeology and art history at the University of Bergen and in ceramics at the Bergen Academy of the Arts. Mydland works as an artist, curator, teacher and researcher, and has a practice that crosses professional and material boundaries.She works both nationally and internationally, and is represented in several leading collections, including at the National Museum.
Heidi Bjørgan (b. 1970 in Trondheim) is based in Bergen, where she works as an artist and curator. She is educated at the Bergen Academy of the Arts and the Konstfack in Stockholm. In 2015 she was awarded the Norwegian State's 10-year work grant for established artists, which was later extended for another ten years.Bjørgan has exhibited at, among others, KODE and Tag Team Studio (Bergen), Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum (Trondheim), Kunstnerforbundet and Galleri Format (Oslo), Museum Angewandte Kunst (Frankfurt), Patrick Parrish Gallery (New York), Maison Louis Carré (France), CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art (Denmark), Simone DeSousa Gallery (USA) and Officine Saffi (Milan).Her works have been purchased by a number of public and private collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), the National Museum, KODE, Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim Art Museum, Sørlandets Art Museum, Sogn og Fjordane Art Museum and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art, Denmark
