Aldea - Center for Contemporary art, Design and Technology

Ledig atelier på Aldea, fra 1. september.

74 m² i C. Sundts gate 55, med vinduer på to sider — mot nordvest og sørvest — vann i studioet og tilgang til felleskjøkken og takterrasse. 10 665 kr/mnd. Strøm, internett og renhold av fellesarealene kommer i tillegg, ca. 320 kr/mnd avhengig av hvor mange som bruker rommet.

Huset deles med BEK – Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst og Kunstnerverksteder Cs55. Verkstedene i etasjene under — tre, metall og digital fabrikasjon — er åpne for leietakere til 500 kr/dagen, eller gratis med døgntilgang gjennom Pro User-programmet.

Se bilder og full info: https://aldea.art/studios
Ta kontakt: [email protected]

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Studio available at Aldea from 1 September.

74 m² at C. Sundts gate 55 in Bergen, with windows on two sides — north-west and south-west — water in the studio, and access to the shared kitchen and roof terrace. 10,665 NOK/month, plus around 320 NOK/month for electricity, internet and cleaning of the shared washrooms, depending on how many people use the room.

The building is shared with BEK — Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts — and Kunstnerverksteder Cs55. The workshops downstairs — wood, metal and digital fabrication — are open to tenants at 500 NOK/day, or free with 24-hour access through the Pro User programme.

Photos and full details: https://aldea.art/studios
Get in touch: [email protected]

Bunden form — Toril Johannessen

Åpning: torsdag 10. september, kl. 19–21
Utstillingen står: 10. september – 11. oktober
Torsdag – søndag, kl. 12–16
Aldea, C. Sundts gate 55, 5004 Bergen

Syv skulpturer i furu henger i galleriet, lyssatt slik at de kaster et skyggespill over rommets vegger. Formene begynte som konturer tegnet etter fotografier av mennesker, dyr og steder Johannessen er glad i — bygget opp av stablede, profilerte seksjoner av laminert furu, målt, kappet, frest og sammenføyd. Fra enkelte vinkler trer silhuettene frem; fra andre løses de opp.

Bunden form er diktningens betegnelse for vers med en fast og gjentagende struktur: følelse som er båret, og satt fri, i streng form.

Verket ble laget hos Aldea i Bergen i 2025, sammen med Arne Skaug Olsen (trearbeid), Soheil Hivad Nabi (3D-modellering og CNC) og Cameron MacLeod (planlegging), med produksjonsstøtte fra Lorck Schive Kunstpris — der serien ble vist for første gang i 2025. Nå vender verket tilbake til verkstedet det ble bygget i, i Johannessens første separatutstilling hos oss.

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Bunden form (Bound Form) — Toril Johannessen

Opening: Thursday 10 September, 19:00–21:00
Exhibition: 10 September – 11 October
Thursday – Sunday, 12:00–16:00
Aldea, C. Sundts gate 55, 5004 Bergen

Seven pine sculptures hang in the gallery, lit so that they cast a shadow play across the walls of the room. The forms began as contours traced from photographs of people, animals and places Johannessen loves — built up from stacked, profiled sections of laminated pine, measured, cut, milled and assembled. From certain angles the silhouettes appear; from others they dissolve.

Bunden form is the Norwegian term for verse bound to fixed metre: feeling carried, and set free, inside strict form.

The work was made at Aldea in Bergen in 2025 with Arne Skaug Olsen (woodwork), Soheil Hivad Nabi (3D modelling and CNC) and Cameron MacLeod (planning), with production support from the Lorck Schive Art Prize, where the series premiered in 2025. It now returns to the workshop where it was built, in Johannessen's first solo exhibition with us.

https://aldea.art/gallery/a7104031-dcc3-4dfa-863d-358acbbac2a4

New mobile walls, built at Aldea for our friends at BEK.

Designed by Cameron and produced in the workshop by Sohail Nabi — with a big hand from Arne Skaug Olsen. Thanks to Morten Norbye Halvorsen for entrustiung us with his treasures of acoustic dampnings.

Software:
• Fusion 360

Machines:
• CNC
• Plainer
• Various Handtools

Materials:
• Stained milled pine
• Stainless steel bolts
• Wool fabric
• Rock wool
• Stainless steel caster design wheels
• Stainless steel bolts

Human in the Loop er et todagers verksted om AI, som skjer nå på Aldea. Vi starter med en kort, jordnær gjennomgang av hvor de store språkmodellene kommer fra — historien, politikken rundt hvem som bygger og kontrollerer dem, og økonomien som former hvordan de fungerer — og går så over i praktisk teknisk arbeid. Kjernen er harness engineering: å bygge filstrukturene og arbeidsflytene som gir AI-systemer pålitelig, vedvarende kontekst, og som gir deg reell, praktisk kontroll over arbeidet. Kurset er laget for produktivitetsgevinster i hele kultursektoren — konkrete, gjentakbare måter å få gjort mer på, samtidig som du beholder kontrollen. Rettet mot kreative og kulturelle aktører. Gratis, med påkrevd søknad; 6–8 deltakere velges av en komité.

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Human in the Loop is a two-day workshop on AI, happening now at Aldea. We begin with a short, grounded review of where large language models come from — their history, the politics of who builds and controls them, and the economics that shape how they work — then move into hands-on technical practice. The core is harness engineering: building the file structures and workflows that give AI systems reliable, persistent context, and give you real, practical agency over the work. The course is designed for productivity gains throughout the cultural sector — concrete, repeatable ways to get more done while staying in control. Aimed at creative and cultural practitioners. Free, with application required; 6–8 participants are selected by committee.

22.–23. juni, kl. 10–16 / 22–23 June, 10:00–16:00
Kursholder / trainer: Cameron MacLeod

Søk her / apply here:
https://workshops.aldea.art/courses/ai-workshop-aldea-visp

I samarbeid med / in collaboration with VISP

Metal CNC wrapped up last weekend at Aldea. Thanks to everyone who joined. On Sunday, Graeme Naismith led a small group through a day on Aldea's Tormach 1100 MX, covering workholding, toolpath selection for steel and aluminium, and the specifics of cutting metal on a stiff machine.

CNC-101 wrapped up last weekend at Aldea. Thanks to everyone who joined. Over two days, Arne led a small group of artists and designers through Aldea's ShopBot CNC, covering machine operation, tooling, materials, and 3D modelling in Fusion 360, finishing by milling something each participant had modelled themselves.

Metal CNC, a one-day workshop led by Graeme Naismith on Aldea's Tormach 1100 MX. Sunday 24 May, 10:00–16:00. Free.

The day covers workholding and fixturing for metal stock, choosing endmills and toolpaths for steel and aluminium, dialling in feeds and speeds, and the rhythm of probing and tool offsets. The workshop assumes solid CNC fundamentals, and builds on that experience with a stiffer machine, coolant, and the consequences metal brings.

Aldea, C. Sundts gate 55, Bergen