BJØRG TARANGER, born Austevoll 1953, lives & works in Bergen, Norway
mail: bjorg.taranger@gmail.com
phone: +47 97060789
studio: Strandgaten 210, HO603, 5004 Bergen
MEDIA
Video/sound & photo-based installations/public space projects, paintings, prints & found objects
EDUCATION
1994-99 Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Bergen N
1997 L'Ecole Regionale des Beaux Art de Nantes FR (Erasmus exchange program)
1989-92 Kunstskolen i Bergen N
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Kunstgarasjen Bergen NO, DET HVITE TOGET mixed media installasjon
2014 Sieben-Meere- Kapelle von St. Jakobi Kirche Lübeck DE, HANSEvideoartWORKS,
Selected artists: Bjørg Taranger NO, Ulu Braun DE, Linda Perthen DE.
2013 Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art St.Petersburg RU,
Urban Mosaic ed 2013, video event initiated by University of Bergen & the StateUniversity of St. P.
2012 KABUSO Art House Øystese NO, KABUSO STATION 2022, site specific project for the foajé & café
2011 Håkonshallen 750 year & cultural night in Bergen NO, video work commissioned by the Centennial Committee for the 750-year anniversary, curated by Anne Marthe Dyvi at BEK.
2011 USF Verftet Bergen NO, Red Circles Underground video installation curated by BEK
2010 Salon Des Amateurs Düsseldorf DE, indep. artist run club in the basement of Düsseldorf Kunsthalle, Urban Mosaic ed 2010, video event curated by Ralf Rosowski & Detlef Weinrich
2010 Zona Imaginaria Buenos Aires AR, Urban Mosaic ed 2010, video event curated by Lucrecia Urbano,
2010 TRYKKERIET Center for Contemporary Printmaking Bergen NO, Urban Mosaikk ed 2010 video projection on wall
2010 Christianssands Kunstforening V3 Kristansand NO, Future Spaces videoinstallasjon
2009 Galleri Gathe Bergen NO, Urban Mosaikk videoinstallastion curated by Tommy Olsson
2009 Café Blå Time København DK, HUMAN WALLS video loops, curated by Doris Bloom
2008 Galleria Jangva Helsinki FI, City Angel 08 mixed media installation
2007 Centro Municipal de Expsiciones SUBTE Montevideo UY, TransAtlanticVideoWalks curated by Santiago Tavella
2006 SchirmerStraße 22 Düsseldorf DE, City Angel 06 video installation curated by Ralf Rosowski
2004 Aalesunds Kunstforening Ålesund NO, City Angel 04 mixed media installasjon & performance
2000 Galleria Jangva Helsinki ( ArtGenda) FI, Cityangel mixed media installasjon & performance
2000 Own billboard project at Danmarksplass in Bergen NO, Urbane Kors 2000 sponsored by Moor Group AS, simultaneously with windows exhibition and release party at Cyper House Internettcafe
1998 The London Institute Gallery London UK, Human Rights Festival, Urban Crosses mixed media installation curated by KHIB
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 USF Verftet ANTI - KRIG Festival, kuratert av Frans Jacobi, Åse Møller-Hansen og Roger Gjerstad
2020 B-open, åpne kunstneratelier, eget videoevent i Strandgaten 210 Bergen
2018 USF Verftet Bergen, Kunstkontaineren curated by Maria Øy Lojo
2018 B-open, open artists studios in Bergen
2017 Kunsthall 3.14 Bergen, PARABOL - UTSPILL- sound, curated by Gitte Sætre & Malin Barth
2017 -16 -14-12-10-08-06 B-open, åpne studio i Bergen
2015 Kuratorens utvalgte at kunstguide.no, curated by Gitte Saetre, Neptun hotel, Bergen
2014 Cinema B-open, video-screening at Festplassen Bergen, curated by Jeremy Welsh
2014 HANSEvideoartWORKS, Kunsthalle St.Annen Lübeck DE, commissioned by Bergen City Council
2011 Håkonshallen 750 years - part two. Outdoor video projections by Bjørg Taranger, HC Gilje, Kjersti Sundland and Jeremy Welch, curated by Anne Marthe Dyvi at BEK.
2010-11 BGO 1, Bergen Art Museum Stenersen, Bergen N
2010 TRYKKERIET kunsthall, Bergen
2010 RGB Neighbors, one-day festival of artists film and video, Leeuwarden, NL. Curator: Jeremy Welsh
2010-08-06-04 Cinema B-open, video show, Cinemateket USF, Bergen
2009 Nordiskt sommarljus, 4 Nordiska kvinner, Hishult Kunsthall, SE
2008 Video tour, 6 artists, produced by HKS, Kabuso, Nordheimsund
2007-98-96 Statens Kunstutstilling, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo & Trondheim Kunstmuseum (07)
2006 European contemporary video/short film show, curated by Mediaverkstedet and Apekosmonautene, KunstIBadet, Bergen
2006 Political poster project, curated by Åse Løvgren & Stine Gonsholt, HKS & Bergen City Center
2006 ACR Asia Pacific Film Festival 2006 Sydney AU, (co- production with NHH in Bergen)
2003 Lanseringsutstilling, curated by Vestlandske Kunstmisjon, Bergen
2003 Bergen-Oslo, curated by TEMP & Mesén, Oslo Central station
2001 Café Maria, 10 days art café in coop. with Anne Lise Karlsen, HKS, Bergen
2001 Et annet sted, curated by TEMP, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen
2000 BergenArtFestival, Point Break, curated by Åshild Grana, Bergen Kunstforening
2000 ArtGenda 2000, Third Biennial of Young Artists Around the Baltic Sea, Helsinki FI
1998 -97 The International Student Print Exhibition, Falmouth UK
1998 Institution, Unge Kunstneres Samfund, Oslo
1998 Institution, Bergen kunstforening & Apotekergården, Bergen
1998 Shopping Around, Kløverhuset Shoppingsenter, Bergen
1997 Artikkel 19, FN-prosjekt, USF Bergen
1997 Universal, FN-project, Vita Havet, Stockholm SE
1996 Vestlandsutstillingen, Bergen, Haugesund, Stavanger, Aalesunds, Førde
AWARDS/GRANTS/SUPPORTS
2019 Exhibition Supports, Civil Defense, Hordaland
2019 ExhibitionSupports, BEK, Bergen
2018 Exhibition Grant, Bergen City Council
2015 Artist Award 1-year, Vederlagsfondet, Oslo
2014 Travel & Exhibition Grant, HANSEvideoartWORKS & Bergen City Council
2013 Grant, PUBLIC seminar & video event by DOPPLER, Hordaland Fylkeskommune.
2013 Artist Award, Bergen City Council
2013 Exhibition Grant DOPPLER, Bergen City Council
2013 International Art and Culture Exchange Grant, Bergen City Council
2012 Artist Award DOPPLER, Bergen City Council
2012 Working grant DOPPLER, Vederlagsfondet, Oslo
2011 Working Grant The Norwegian Council for Culture Affairs, Oslo
2011 Working Grant Bergen City Council
2011 Working Grant ROM 11,Bergen City Council
2009 Exhibition Grant Bergen City Council
2009 Exhibition Grant Vederlagsfondet, Oslo
2008 Artist Award Bergen City Council
2008 International Art and Culture Exchange Grant, Bergen City Council
2008 Artist Award 1-year, Vederlagsfondet, Oslo
2007–04 Exhibition Grants Bergen City Council
2006 Ralf Rosowski, Düsseldorf DE
2004 Exhibition Grant Bergen City Council
2004 - 00 Grant Up-grading course for artists, Oslo
2002 Working Grant Norske Grafikeres Fond, Oslo
2001 Frida & Olav Rustes legat & NKVN, supports for 10 days art café in Bergen together with A.L Karlsen
2001 Artist Award, Bergen City Council
2000 Exhibition Grant Bergen City Council, Bergen Kunsthall, together with M. S. Eckhoff & E. Solberg
2000 Exhibition Grant for ArtGendaBienniale Helsinki, Bergen City Council & ArtGenda FIN together with Mona S. Eckhoff & Ellen Solberg
2000-99 Travel Grant for ArtGenda, Helsinki , Bergen City Council
2000 Own Billboard project in Bergen, sponsored by More Group AS
2000 Support for billboard project , Bergen City Council
1999 Grant for Workshop in Copenhagen, Bergen City Council & ArtGenda
1999 Grant for Equipments, The Norwegian Council for Culture Affairs
1999 Exhibition Grant, Bergen City Council
1998 Grant for Travel and Exhibition in London , KHiB
1998 Grant for Workshop in London, KHiB
PRIZE
1997 Paragon Press Price from Charles Booth – Clibbon, Falmouth UK
PURCHASED BY
2010 Augustins Matgleder A/S, Bergen ( video)
2005 Stavanger Tingrett, Stavanger ( print)
2004 Høgskolen Haukeland Hospital, Bergen ( video stills/digital print)
COLLABORATIONS
2014 Kuratorsamvirke RADIATOR ( Gitte Saetre & Bjørn Inge Follevåg)
2012- DOPPLER artist group: Bjørg Taranger, Kjersti Sundland, Maria Øy Lojo
- video events in public spaces, seminars and presentation of other artists.
Presentations of other artists by Doppler:
13.09.14 Karl Ingar Røys video work Camanita Noctura( Nattevandring). Outdoor video event during B-open, 2-screen projection onto the walls of Nykirken, Bergen & Artist Talk, by Karl Ingar Røys at Kunstnerverksteder CS55 arr. by Doppler
04.11.13 Tania Ruiz Gutierrez´s video work LA PLAZA II. Outdoor video event in the back yard of TAG TEAM Galleri with projection onto old concrete wall & artist talk by Tania Ruiz Gutierrez
Exhibitions and video events by Doppler:
04.10.13 Overlege Danielssens rapport, projection on Nygårdsbroen during Bergen Assembly
13.09.12 Cabinet of imploding Branches, projection on windows C. Sundtsgate 55, Kulturnatt Bergen
21.03.13 Video event, projection on building in Jonsvollsgaten 9, Bergen
21.01.13 Video event, projection on building site in Möllendalsveien, Bergen
14.12.12 Video event , projection on parked truck in Möllendalsveien, Bergen
2011-12 BAKROM artist group : Bjørg Taranger, Adriana Alves, Katrine Meisfjord
- project together with Romanian woman begging in Bergen.
15.09.12 - 100 NOK pr hour - set up employment office in studio
12.09.12 - Performance by artists in city space wearing BAKROM uniform
11.05.11 - Bergen City Hall, action with Roma women at a seminar on Roma
27.06.11 - Meeting at the studio in CS55 with Roma women
2006 - KUNSTJOURNALEN B-POST - www.kunstjournalen.no. Founders & Members of Drafting Committee / Editorial board: Annette Kierulf, Arne Rygg, Jannecke Heien, Sissel Lillebostad, Bjørg Taranger and Maia Urstad
NHH
2004 - Actions of Care in the Public Space, interdisciplinary video project in collaboration with NHH in Bergen, initiated by Ingeborg Astrid Kleppe
OTHER EXH. / EVENTS
2015 KUNSTAUKSJON SYRIA, Østre, Bergen
2007 MEDHUM, humanitarian action, Kunsthistorisk Museum, Bergen
2006 NEON "Film", video screening, Galleri Neon, Brösarp, SWE
2004 BAZAR – DETOX, Live program, Landmark Bergen
2002 UKS Sellout, UKS Oslo
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Seminars
2013 PUBLIC, seminar in Bergen arranged by DOPPLER at TagTeamStudio. Invited participants: Tania Ruiz Gutierrez, Anne Marthe Dyvi and Jørgen Blitzner.
2008 Hot House, Art & Human Ecology, B-open seminar at Landmark. Project manager : Bjørg Taranger & Åse Løvgren. Invited participants: Samir M'kadmi, Valentine Mareen Budden Berg, Karen O'Brien, Susanne Jaschko, Peter Fend and Heather Ackroyd.
2004 Can't buy me love, seminar and presentation by Bjørg Taranger on request from Department of Nursing, Haukeland Hospital, Bergen
2001 Seminar about the Mary myth arranged by Bjørg Taranger & Anne Lise Karlsen at Hordaland Art Center, Bergen. Invited participants: Professor of art history Gunnar Danbolt, author Marianne Solberg and artist Sissel Lillebostad.
Artist talks
2019 Art Event/Talk by Bjørg Taranger & Camilla Jebsen, Kunstgarasjen, Bergen
2012 Artist Talk by Bjørg Taranger at Kabuso, Øystese
2011 Artist Talk by Bjørg Taranger at Monday Club, arr VISP
2010 B-open reading group 1. December, led by Bjørg Taranger, arr B-open
2004 Presentation by Bjørg Taranger at KhiB
Others
2021 - Recording/editing presentation & conversation by Jan Pettersson at Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris
2006 - Recording/editing performance ´Burning down the House´ by Santiago Tavella in Montevideo.
2006- Founding of The Association of 2007 to promote the arts for reflection and debate, together with Arne Rygg, Annette Kierulf, Jannecke Heien Knutsen
2006- One of the founders & member of Drafting Committee for Kunstjournalen B-post. Annual art publication in Norway www.kunstjournalen.no, together with Arne Rygg, Annette Kierulf, Jannecke Heien Knutsen & Mari Aarre.
2004 Founder of Cinema B-open, public video screenings
2004 One of the founders of B-open, open artist studios in Bergen/ www.b-open.no
2006-12 Chairman of the board, Kunstnerverksteder cs55/ www.cs55.no
2004-09 Chairman of the board, B-open open artists studios
WORKSHOPS
2016 The Material in the Immaterial - seminar/workshop at BEK
2015 Gerilja Gathering Oljespeil , workshop Bergen, arr: Kuratorsamvirke Radiator & KHIB
2010 BEK, video, Bergen
2008 KHiB, video, Bergen
2004 Atelier Nord, video, Oslo
2000 BEK, video, Bergen
1999 ArtGenda, København
1998 Human Rights Show, London
PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
Essays
2014 The necessity of repetition by Bjørn Inge Follevaag
2009 Urban Observations by Marianne Gathe
2009 Off the grid by Tommy Olsson
2007 Bjørg Taranger´s Video Walks by Ralf Rosowski
2004 Poetic and political on our existential conditions by Elisabeth Byre
1998 Urban Crosses by Lars Vilks
Art Magazine
2000 Mare Articum the Baltic Art Magazine, Issue 2, 2000, photos/reviews by Jonas Valatkevicus s.61, Ekaterina Andreeva s.64 - 66
Reviews
2019 Bergens Tidende, kunstanmeldelse av Renate Synnes Handal
2009 Kunstkritikk.no Hc Gilje, Bjørg Taranger, Nathan Coley. Gallerirunde Bergen by Susanne Christensen
2009 UPOP, http://www.upop.no/2009/10/kunstig by Anette Basso
2009 www.omkonst.com Från fyra håll, 23.juli by Thomas Lissing SE
2009 Hallands Nyheter, Nordiskt sommarljus på Konsthallen, 7.juli by Bitte Montigny SE
2009 HD.se Kreativa rum på Hishult, 18.juli by Sören Sommelius SE
2009 Lahoms Tidning, 3.juli by Hans Bergtson SE
2008 Hufvudstadsbladet, VOLT, I MARGINALEN 23. februari 2008 by Barbro Teir FI
2001 Jomfru Maria på café, Direktesendt radio interjuv, NRK 15.08.01 kl.12.15 by Jan Isdahl
2001 Åpner kunstkafé, BA 9.08.01 omtale, by Ann Kristin Frøystad
2001 En kafé til jomfru Maria, Bergens Tidende 11.08.01 by Sissel Hamre Dagsland
2001 Jomfru Maria på café, Bergens Tidende 15.08.01
2000 Kaupunkilaista sielua etsimässã, Helsingin Sanomat 20.mai 2000 review by Anu Uimonen FI
2000 Når kunsten infiltrerer byen, eller omvendt , Morgenbladet 28.mai 2000 review by Anne Karin Jortveit
1998 Sponset og spetakulert, Bergens Tidende 12.mai review by Mia Kolbjørnsen, photo by Eirik Brekke
1998 Flygeklare studenter, kritikk Bergens Tidende 31.mai 1998 anmeldt av Tone Gjesvik
1998 Dagbladet.no Kunst fra vest, photo
Cataloques
2017 Zona Imaginaria, Book Edition ZI 2008/2016, Buenos Aires AR
2014 HANSEvideoartWORKS, Lübeck DE
2014 Jangva 20 years old, Helsinki FI
2011 Håkonshallens 750-års jubileum, Bergen
2010 BGO 1, Bergen kunstmuseum, Bergen
2009 Jangva 15 years old, Helsinki FI, ISBN 978-951-97499-3-8-
2009 Urban Mosaikk, Bjørg Taranger 2007-2009 ( Hordaland kunstsenter library, Bergen, Nasjonalmuseets library, Oslo)
2009 Nordiskt sommarljus, Konsthallen Hishult, SE ISBN 91-85348-35-X
2007 Statens 120. Kunstutstilling, Oslo & Trondheim
2006 ARC 2006 Sydney, AUS
2006 Ta ned bildene, det er krig! BKFH 1931-2006
2004 City Angel 1999- 2004 Bjørg Taranger ( KHiB library,Bergen)
2000 ArtGenda 2000, Third Biennial of Young Artists around the Baltic Sea,s.52-55
2000 Bergen ArtFestival /Point Break
1998 Human Rights Festival/ Dugnad' 98, s.10
1998 Institution
1997- 98 The International Student Print Exhibition, Falmouth UK
Press releases (outside Norway)
2014 HANSEvideoartWORKS, Lübeck DE
2013 www.sputnik8.com › Urban Mosaic: Bjørg Taranger in Erarta by Aleksandra S. RU
2013 Press Release, Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg RU
2010 Press Release, Zona Imaginaria, Buenos Aires AR
2009 Press Release, Konsthallen Hishult SE
2008 Press Release, Galleria Jangva, Helsinki, FI
2007 Press Release, Centro Municipal de Exposiciones SUBTE, Montevideo UY
2006 Düssel-dorfer – monatskalender für kultur Oktober, DE
2006 Press Release, Ralf Rosowski, Düsseldorf DE
1998 Press Release, The London Institute gallery UK
Video cartoteques
2022 Videokunstarkivet, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, NO
2008 Video interview initiated by Riitta Alto, Gallery Jangva, FI
2006 Neon gallery’s video cartoteque, Brösarp, SE
2002 Nifca’s video cartoteque, SE
MAIN FIELD TRIPS
2021 Paris, 18 Paris, 15 Madrid, 14 Berlin/Budapest, 13 Paris/ Venice, 12 Barcelona, 11 Venice, 10 Buenos Aires/Montevideo/Sao Paulo, 08 Paris, 07 Istanbul/Kassel, 06 Paris, 05 Buenos Aires/ Montevideo, 04 Paris / London, 03 Paris / Istanbul , 02 Berlin, 01 Paris/ Venice, 98 Kassel, 96 Paris, 95–00 New York, London, Roma, Helsinki, Amsterdam
MEMBERSHIPS
NBK Norwegian Fine Artists
BKFH Bildende Kunstneres Forening for Hordaland