What's Inside What's Inside

This February in Bergen, two exhibitions find their origins in caves. At Northing, the solo exhibition by Qi Tan, "What's Inside What's Inside", departs from the artist's grandmother experience of a grotto in China. At Bergen Kunsthall the group exhibition, "Iter Subterraneum", is inspired by Ludvig Holberg's Nils Klim's fall into a slit in Bergen's Rothaugsfjellet, toward the center of the Earth. Playing on the synchronicity, a collaboratively curated two-day event weaves together both exhibitions’ mythology and the perennial appeal of the subterranean.

Join us on February 12 at Landmark for an artist film screening delving into the central motif shared by both exhibitions: the cave as transitional space – between life and death, between the real and the speculated. During the evening, we will screen Qi Tan’s Silver Dragon (2024), Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Dalena Tran and Andrew Yong Hoon Lee’s collaborative film, Quickly open your hand to free the light prisoner (2025), Of Other Tomorrows Never Known (2023) by Natasha Tontey, and other films tba. 

Image credit: Natasha Tontey, Of Other Tomorrows Unknown (2023).