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Meeting

An azure, woven surface meets a laminated, patterned white one. In the contrast between the strong blue and the unassuming white, visual communication occurs, both between the textiles and out towards the viewer.

Strips of Color in a Meeting Room

In Kari Dyrdal's Aleppo II strips of cloth are stretched up against the wall, like Italian clotheslines, with clothes in all the colors of the rainbow hanging outside the windows of floor after floor. But the surroundings here are as far from the southern street facades as they get. White walls. A...

Pensive heads

The faces hang on the wall, they are first and foremost an eye, sometimes a mouth that is clearly outlined, a Greek nose. They look down on us, or over at each other. The public art at the Social Sciences Library is a series of sculptural reliefs made by artist Ingri Egeberg and goldsmith Helge...

Rainbow Children

If you turn around upon entering the main hall at the HF library, you will see a round relief hanging above the door. It shows a number of small, simplified human figures in a circle. They represent all the colors of the rainbow, and an array of different expressions.

© Else Marie Jakobsen / BONO, Den røde tråd

The largest tapestry in Norway

Den røde strek (The Red Line) is the title of the tapestry in the Science Building, and the name is apt. Move as you may, you can never see this artwork by Else Marie Jakobsen in its entirety. Pieces of textile wind through two floors, across two wall sections, and are partially hidden by a sloping...

Nail Biting About the Universe

It is a matter of doubt. It’s about holding on, and about daring to let go. About not knowing whether it was right that one did let go. Kurt Johannessen’s philosophical essay on the universe as he sees it is in the shape of a green leaf; a slice of the universe. The fine, lighter green veins that...

Thomas Hestvold: maleri på betongvegg, 1995.

To see a wall

In auditoriums 1-3 at the Faculty of Law the concrete walls, which are mainly held in a rough blue, show hints of other colors in rectilinear fields. The painted fields are produced by artist Thomas Hestvold.

What is a relief?

Else Hagen's wall art in the HF library is a vibrant play with depths and colors.

Modern rock carving

John Audun Hauge made a decoration for the Science Building at the University of Bergen in the early 1980’s. More than ten years later, he again put his stamp on the University environment. He produced a thrice-magnified replica of an authentic rock carving, in aluminum. The rock carving is placed...

Mosaic

What is a mosaic? Traditionally, a mosaic is a flat decoration composed of small pieces of stone, often so that the rocks form a picture. Nowadays, the word is also used of tiles laid in patterns. The duo anne © merete has made a somewhat unusual mosaic, composed of plates of painted birch veneer.

Sculpture? Drawing? Architecture?

In Kjell Varvin’s installation artwork the sculpture grows out of the wall. It has an architectonic function, as a supplement to the room. Part of it is painted, other parts sculpted.

Mental landscapes

Playful, airy and feminine. Such is the first impression of the wall Marit Victoria Wulff Andreassen has painted in the cafeteria in Christies gate 12.

A mythological mural

The motif in Olaf Ansgar Larsen’s mural at the Faculty of Psychology is mythological. The message is about good health, which can be found outdoors, in the green nature. The rich color palette gives the picture a cheerful, warm ambience.

Childlike patterns

A multitude of black patterns and decorations on colored fields. Plaster blocks of various sizes, some square, some rectangular. Together they form a square surface. The picture is small, but there is much going on here.

The Magic of the Pattern

The eyes are the windows of the soul, as the saying goes. They reveal you if you smile with your mouth, but are actually sad. They can convey what you are unable to say. They can be closed, to shut out the world. Eye contact is one of the most important and most intimate forms of communication...