I Love Seagulls!

2023 · Tromsø Kunstforening · co curated with Camilla Fagerli · CV: I … Seagulls

Group exhibition at Tromsø Kunstforening (17 June to 1 October 2023) about living with black legged kittiwakes that have nested on the museum façade and elsewhere in the city, climate refugees from collapsing cliff colonies, and a source of local conflict.

Co curated with Camilla Fagerli, the show gathered artistic and scientific responses to coexistence with the birds. It sits beside, but is not the same as, the mobile nesting hotels documented under Kittiwakes; those structures were developed with Tromsø municipality, NINA researchers, AT Arkitektur and Lawrence Malstaf and appear outside TKF’s premises.

Photography: Tromsø Kunstforening exhibition documentation.

I Love Seagulls! exhibition poster, Tromsø Kunstforening, 2023

Scaffold banner with sensationalist seagull headline. Photo: Tromsø Kunstforening

Video of a seagull chick on stacked tires with headphone stations. Photo: Tromsø Kunstforening

Visitors listening at tire seats wrapped in yellow-green net. Photo: Tromsø Kunstforening

Scaffold platforms and works in the Materialbanken space. Photo: Tromsø Kunstforening