EVENTS

Current/next Exhibition

alphie hubbard - hung out to dry
12th - 19th January 2025

Exhibition opens Sunday 12th January 2025 - kl. 13-17
Continues:
Thurs 16th Jan kl. 17-20
Fri 17th Jan kl. 12-15
Sat 18th Jan kl. 12-16
Sun 19th Jan - kl. 13-16

hung out to dry explores the effect of private, personal choices about the body being turned into public discourse. Its central motif is a washing line, the epitome of the domestic, placed within a public gallery space. It stages an airing of dirty laundry - namely, the entangled personal and political zone of the ‘transgender issue’ - and uses this to explore themes of bodily autonomy and the creation of identity.

This exhibition responds to the publication of the ‘Cass Review’ (The Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People). It was published in the UK in April 2024 and sparked protests from the trans, queer and ally communities. It was criticised internationally for its misuse and misrepresentation of medical data, and for the violation of its own evidentiary standards in the conclusions it draws. However, this has not prevented it from being used to underpin the UK government’s decision to ban puberty blockers for children, and criminalise their distribution and prescription. This is just one example within a wider global trend towards increasing barriers to access gender-affirming healthcare.

Artist bio:
alphie hubbard creates installations, sculptures, drawings, writing and drag shows that explore the fluidity of relationships to the self and the body. They investigate the personal within the political, working with queer and transgender theory to explore embodiment, bodily autonomy, and the construction of identity.

Upcoming Exhibitions 2025

TBC

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Workshops

Transforming Drawing into Darkroom Prints by Cliché Verre
An introduction workshop to darkroom with Lexy Liangzi Xiao
4 participants maximum for 2 hrs
Book by contacting @lexylexyxiao, or xiaoliangzi_lexy@126.com

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 has developed and specialized in her own Alternative Silver Mirroring Toning recipes and processes. 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 during workshops in the Isotop darkroom.


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

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Past

Sarah Ryder - Imperceivable (until it isn't)
Wed 30. Oct - Sun 3. Nov 2024

Fergus Tibbs - Hosting Infrastructure (Isotop Version)
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

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