• item_info:   Installation/Intervention Kunsthall Bergen (Norway) 2018
• description: “This project takes shape in the building of the Bergen Kunsthall, a public arts institution that was built in 1935 in the city of Bergen, on the west coast of Norway. Because the building is considered of important architectural heritage, the Kunsthall has not been able to make physical improvements to the main entrance to ensure an accessible access to people with movement difficulties. Under this premise and as part of the Kunsthall’s programme of live commissions ‘Who’s doing the washing up?’, Jordi Ferreiro, members of "Unge Kunstkjennere" - the Kunsthall's youth group - and the inhabitants of the institution, proposed an ‘acupuncture’ process to the body of the Bergen Kunsthall building. A series of architectural actions that led the building, visitors and inhabitants to question: Who is the institution for? Who can have access to culture? And above all, in our programmes of inclusivity and hospitality, who is still excluded? These modifications in the building led to closing the main door of the Kunsthall for one day, inviting visitors to use only the accessible ramp entrance on the side of the building, altering the exhibition spaces and constructing structures and ramps to rethink how, and for whom, the access routes throughout the building are constructed. As a conclusion to the project, a publication was published that includes the process and some of the experiences of the participants.