Bergen Kunsthall is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Rindon Johnson, running concurrently with the festival exhibition 2025. Johnson, an artist and poet, explores how language, materiality, and space shape perception and value, informed by history, economics, and the limits of language. For this exhibition Johnson presents works that extend his ongoing investigations into autonomy, surveillance, and material histories. The title, drawn from archaeology, reflects how meaning is shaped by context and discovery.
A live-streamed projection of Lille Lungegårdsvann, the lake just outside Bergen Kunsthall, forms a central part of the exhibition, projected onto a modified wall of the gallery. This continuous visual feed captures the passage of time and the shifting conditions of the environment, positioning the lake as both a subject and a reflective surface—an image continuously generated yet never fixed.
Johnson also presents a new series of ceramic tiles, pit-fired using cow dung as a primary fuel. The use of cow dung reflects Johnson’s interest in transforming discarded materials into something of value. The tiles, treated with pigments including indigo and titanium white—the latter found in Norway and known as the brightest white—become a material record of transformation. These ceramic works extend Johnson’s ongoing exploration of cattle as both a material and a metaphor for economic structures, linking histories of extraction, labor, and migration.
Rindon Johnson
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Bergen Kunsthall
Rasmus Meyers allé 5
5015 Bergen, Norway
