EVENTS
Current/next Exhibition
Poetic Decay
Lexy Liangzi Xiao
9th - 25th May 2025
Opening on Fri 9th May, kl. 18.00-21.00
* BYOB: bring friends and some drinks/snacks to share
Lexy is based at Fotoverkstedet and Isotop in Bergen. Her artistic practice includes image-making by the alchemy of photography, and research into the phenomenon of silver mirroring degradation of photographs.
The exhibition focuses on the phenomenon of Silver Mirroring and the concept of durational images, featuring her handmade Silver Mirroring prints and film sheets, and unique artist’s books. It shares her technical, artistic and philosophical findings from her long-term practice and research in the field of experimental analogue photography. The exhibition explores how photographic decay can be transformed into an aesthetic experience— revealing the poetic qualities within the process of decay.
Opening hours after the vernissage:
Mondays & Wednesdays: 14:00–18:00
Saturdays & Sundays: 13:00–18:00
Until 25th May (last day); closed 17th May.
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Creatures and Clouds
Charlotte Besuijen
19th - 22nd June 2025
Opening Friday 20th June 2025, kl. 18.00-21.00
Opening hours after the vernissage:
Saturday 21st June: 12:00–18:00
Sunday 22nd June: 12:00–18:00
Charlotte's work is inspired by the idea that any material can be a material to make art with. With her work she aims to make the creation process visible. Her practice includes screen-printing, photography, collage and papier-mâché sculptures, as well as an interest in collaborating with others.
The exhibition CREATURES AND CLOUDS contains sculptures that are made of papier-mâché, balloons, screenprints, found materials and photographs. They are reminiscent of lying on your back on the beach while recognizing the shapes of different creatures in the clouds.
Simultaneously Charlotte is exploring screen-printing. Her prints are based on paper-scraps, left over after making collages. Some resemble creatures, teardrops or clouds. Through the screen-printing process, they come together in a playful and intuitive way, revealing new images.
Together these works aim to engage the viewer with their personal imaginations.
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A Wet Room Drama
Vibe Kilde and Frida Agerhus Vikström
28th - 31st Sept 2025
Taking their inspiration from theatre and performance, the duo use concepts of effects and spectacle to create a visual language and a sense of drama.
A Wet Room Drama continues their exploration of the body as a pipe system and how identity can be expressed through the movement of fluid substances and wet environments. It builds on their exhibition All The Pipes Go; pSht shWüSH glk!, Kilde and Vikström will present a new site-specific exhibition transforming the gallery into a wet room, inspired by a bathroom or laundry room, and creating a sensory space for the audience, using elements of smell, temperature and lights. The work will serve as a form of abstracted scenography made up of found objects, pipes and mirrors, wet consistencies, and re-purposed images.
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Craig Fisher
Title and date TBC
Fisher’s artistic research includes making paintings, objects and large-scale sculptural installations that explore representations of violence, destruction and its aftermath. Employing fabrics and techniques specifically associated with textiles, his work questions the seduction and desensitization of such mediated imagery, while exploring the subversive potential of the decorative as a way to challenge ‘macho’ gendered stereotypes.
For his work at Isotop Fisher will explore ideas of destruction or ruination, juxtaposing this with decorative motifs and craft techniques from textiles; playing with boundaries, exploiting and employing contradictory methods and mixing techniques of art and craft. It will explore the sculptural as a potential space of slippage, one that allows for discoveries beyond confined and referenced fields of art production.
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Isotop's exhibition programme is supported by Bergen Kommune and Kulturrådet.
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For further information about Isotop events please contact us via isotopfellesatelier@gmail.com
Current/next Exhibition
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Poetic Decay
Lexy Liangzi Xiao
9th - 25th May 2025
Opening on Fri 9th May, kl. 18.00-21.00
* BYOB: bring friends and some drinks/snacks to share
Lexy is based at Fotoverkstedet and Isotop in Bergen. Her artistic practice includes image-making by the alchemy of photography, and research into the phenomenon of silver mirroring degradation of photographs.
The exhibition focuses on the phenomenon of Silver Mirroring and the concept of durational images, featuring her handmade Silver Mirroring prints and film sheets, and unique artist’s books. It shares her technical, artistic and philosophical findings from her long-term practice and research in the field of experimental analogue photography. The exhibition explores how photographic decay can be transformed into an aesthetic experience— revealing the poetic qualities within the process of decay.
Opening hours after the vernissage:
Mondays & Wednesdays: 14:00–18:00
Saturdays & Sundays: 13:00–18:00
Until 25th May (last day); closed 17th May.
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Upcoming Exhibitions 2025
Creatures and Clouds
Charlotte Besuijen
19th - 22nd June 2025
Opening Friday 20th June 2025, kl. 18.00-21.00
Opening hours after the vernissage:
Saturday 21st June: 12:00–18:00
Sunday 22nd June: 12:00–18:00
Charlotte's work is inspired by the idea that any material can be a material to make art with. With her work she aims to make the creation process visible. Her practice includes screen-printing, photography, collage and papier-mâché sculptures, as well as an interest in collaborating with others.
The exhibition CREATURES AND CLOUDS contains sculptures that are made of papier-mâché, balloons, screenprints, found materials and photographs. They are reminiscent of lying on your back on the beach while recognizing the shapes of different creatures in the clouds.
Simultaneously Charlotte is exploring screen-printing. Her prints are based on paper-scraps, left over after making collages. Some resemble creatures, teardrops or clouds. Through the screen-printing process, they come together in a playful and intuitive way, revealing new images.
Together these works aim to engage the viewer with their personal imaginations.
* * *
A Wet Room Drama
Vibe Kilde and Frida Agerhus Vikström
28th - 31st Sept 2025
Taking their inspiration from theatre and performance, the duo use concepts of effects and spectacle to create a visual language and a sense of drama.
A Wet Room Drama continues their exploration of the body as a pipe system and how identity can be expressed through the movement of fluid substances and wet environments. It builds on their exhibition All The Pipes Go; pSht shWüSH glk!, Kilde and Vikström will present a new site-specific exhibition transforming the gallery into a wet room, inspired by a bathroom or laundry room, and creating a sensory space for the audience, using elements of smell, temperature and lights. The work will serve as a form of abstracted scenography made up of found objects, pipes and mirrors, wet consistencies, and re-purposed images.
* * *
Craig Fisher
Title and date TBC
Fisher’s artistic research includes making paintings, objects and large-scale sculptural installations that explore representations of violence, destruction and its aftermath. Employing fabrics and techniques specifically associated with textiles, his work questions the seduction and desensitization of such mediated imagery, while exploring the subversive potential of the decorative as a way to challenge ‘macho’ gendered stereotypes.
For his work at Isotop Fisher will explore ideas of destruction or ruination, juxtaposing this with decorative motifs and craft techniques from textiles; playing with boundaries, exploiting and employing contradictory methods and mixing techniques of art and craft. It will explore the sculptural as a potential space of slippage, one that allows for discoveries beyond confined and referenced fields of art production.
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Isotop's exhibition programme is supported by Bergen Kommune and Kulturrådet.
⚫️ ⚫️ ⚫️
For further information about Isotop events please contact us via isotopfellesatelier@gmail.com
Workshops
Transforming Drawing into Darkroom Prints by Cliché Verre
An introduction workshop to darkroom with Lexy Liangzi Xiao
4 participants maximum for 2 hrs
Sign up at https://www.lexyxiao.com/register
An experimental workshop based on drawing on transparent film, followed by B&W printing and development at the Isotop darkroom under professional guidance by Lexy Liangzi Xiao. Cliché Verre is originally a print made by placing light sensitive photographic paper beneath a glass plate or a transparent material, where a design has been scratched through an opaque coating, and then exposed to light to get an inverted image on a photo paper. The workshop will provide 1 piece of transparent film and limited amounts of photographic paper per person, and the chemistry for the development. Participants can bring a drawing on a piece of transparent film (size about 4x5 inches) for the printing, instead of finishing a drawing at the workshop.
Lexy is an artist and researcher based in Bergen. She has been working with alternative and analogue photographic processes since 2018, and teaching the tecniques in photo festivals and events. She aims to spread the art and analogue photography related knowledge, reinterpret the traditional techniques from a contemporary perspective, and provide more hands-on experience at Fotoverkstedet.
Bergen Akt og Kroki - WEEKLY
Mondays at kl 18.00 - 21.00
Doors open 17.50
Bergen Akt & Kroki holds weekly drop in drawing sessions with a live model, open to professionals & amateurs.
For more info see: www.facebook.com/Bergen-Akt-og-Kroki-108683831645415
Past
Make or Brake
Arranged by Torild Stray & Trine Lise Nedreaas with 40 artists
24th April - 4th May 2025
I know what I see, but not what I am
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Dubbing Stills
Sonnenzimmer & Luke Drozd
2nd - 6th April 2025
hung out to dry
alphie hubbard
12th - 19th January 2025
Imperceivable (until it isn't)
Sarah Ryder
Wed 30. Oct - Sun 3. Nov 2024
Hosting Infrastructure (Isotop Version)
Fergus Tibbs
Fri 6th Sep, from 18:00 continued Sat 7th - Sun 22nd Sep, 12:00 - 17:00
Hosting infrastructure is an ongoing project by Fergus Tibbs which explores ways of creating the spaces and objects needed for gatherings and communal experiences.
Pop-up Members’ Exhibition & Summer Party
Mathilde Sæthre, Lexy Liangzi Xiao, Torild Stray, Hanna Pherson, Luke Drozd, Viktorija Semjonov, Rune Werner Molnes, Solvor Holan, Marie-Louise Lorentzen, Kim Diaz Holm
Wed 5. Jul
Frseeeeeeeefronnnng
Hanna Pherson, Helle Kongstad Holm Petersen
Wed 5. - Sat 8. Jun 2024
<3 OVE CALLS BACK <3
Veronika Öberg, Mattias Hellberg, Henna Ner, Mila Elisabeth Larvoll, Laura Bus, Ida Christina Mårdhed // MISS MOTH
Fri 26. - Sun 28. Apr 2024
Natt
Frank A. Unger
Fri 22. - Sun 24. Mar 2024
Entropy
Rune Werner Molnes
Thursday 30. Nov – Sunday 3. Dec 2023
DRAWING PEOPLE
Viktorija Semjonova
Torsdag 23. Nov - Søndag 26. Nov 2023
A Warm Gray Fabric Lined On The Inside With The Most Lustrous And Colorful Of Silks!
Eleni Ieremia
Onsdag 1. Nov - Lørdag 5. Nov
FERAL TONGUES
Ananda Serné (with Kristen Keegan and Eira Søyseth), Hamid Waheed and gentian rhosa
Lørdag 21. Okt
Produced for Isotop Fellesatelier by artist and curator Alex Hamish Millar. Supported by Arts Council Norway.
B-Open 2023
Open studios and group exhibition from studio members Amani Al-Kidwa, Birgit Brühl Studio, Daniel-in Heggelund, Eleni Ieremia, Lexy Liangzi Xiao, Luke Drozd, LUOM (Luke Drozd and Omar Johnsen), Sara Guttormsen, Simen Skaarup, Solvor Holan, Rune Werner Molnes, Torild Stray and Viktorija Semjonova.
Lørdag 23. Sept 2023
12:00-19:00
In the Flesh
An exhibition of new paintings by Torild Stray
Thursday June 8th - June 12th
17:30-20:30
Zion
Ewa Lorenc og Maria Helena K. Nerhus
Tirsdag 2. mai, 2023
Kl.18:00 – 19:00
GIVE ME A BREAK
Sofie Hvid Vinther
4-5 og 10-12 feb 2023
Spoon carving workshop
Amber Ablett
9th February 2023
Members Exhibition
8 - 11 desember 2022
We're Here: We're Queer - WILD THINGZ @ ISOTOP
Lise Carlsen, Courtney Coombs, Nina Eriksson, Henna Nerg, Mina Paasche, and Tobias Valentin
20-27 November, 2022
Isotop workshop series
Andrea Urstad Toft, Kim Diaz Holm, Håvard Legreid and Amber Ablett
Workshops in photogram, ink illustration, digital illustration and carving.
Autumn 2022
In Search of the Receptionists of The Genetic Salon
Bobby Yu Shuk Pui
29 October - 6 November
Spoon carving workshop
Amber Ablett
27th October 2022
Meus Caros Amigos – part IV
Nayara Leite
20 - 23 oktober 2022
Shapeshifting
Eli Mai Huang Nesse
24. september - 2. oktober 2022
WAYS
Tine Adler, Nayara Leite, Sigrid Lerche, Derek Sargent.
16 - 25 september 2022
Introduction to silk screen workshop with artist and designer Siv Støldal.
Sunday 18th September, kl 1300 - 1600
The Box aka Collections and the Thingness of Stuff or I Am Not a Collector
Luke Drozd
16 - 18 September 2022
Fra Leire til Lyd (From Clay to Music)
Elever fra Bergen Kulturskole og Øyvind Skarbø
27 august - 10 september 2022
Kutta av
Maria Helena K. Nerhus
12 - 17 august
ANIMISMS Film Festival
25th June 2022
huggers and gropers
Ingrid Forland
10 - 19 juni 2022
Spoon carving workshops
Amber Ablett
April, May, June 2022
all overgrown by cunning moss
Alex Hamish Millar
1 - 14 april 2022
Happy Man
Robert Carter
25 feb - 6 mars 2022
The Grave Project (Skeiv Norge)
Derek Sargent & Jess Miley
25 - 27 februar 2022
Isotop Medlemsutstilling
4 - 11 desember 2021
B Open
25 - 26 september 2021
Workshop Open day
12 juni 2021
TIME CRISIS CONFERENCE: STAGE ONE
Samuel Brzeski and Robin Everett
18 - 20 september 2020
Landships and Ownerscapes
Sara Nielsen Bonde & Sidsel Bonde
6 - 8 mars 2020
Fanzinekveld de Amore
presentert av Pamflett & Kiosken & Eira Søyseth
14 februar 2020
If you are interested in being a Workshop Member or in renting our project room for a large scale project, have a look on pages for the WORKSHOP and PROJECT ROOM.