Bergen Assembly

Presented in Bergen Assembly 2025, Across, With, Nearby, at Bergen Kunsthall (11 September to 9 November 2025).

Grundvåg showed the ongoing project Grunnarbeid (Earthworks): sculptures 3D printed in soil and clay that act as small biotopes. Moss, algae, and other local vegetation take hold and slowly transform their surfaces. Since the first Entrée edition in 2021, the works have been kept growing in transparent boxes in homes and studios; at some point they may be dried, raku fired, and buried back at the soil sample sites as markers for future archaeologists.

Each iteration reuses and recombines soils from earlier phases, material gathered from places reshaped by human activity and recent exposure. At Kunsthall the works sat among practices concerned with living, relational knowledge, seed and soil (including AgriForum / Matskogen / Gram Art Project), and other positions across the Assembly’s city wide programme.

Photography: Bjarte Bjørkum (detail courtesy Bergen Assembly artist page; sculpture and install from the Entrée documentation of the same ongoing works).