Sveinung Rudjord Unneland

Visiting the unfinished institution in Bergen, cooking pizza and entering studios.

Sveinung Rudjord Unneland is an independent artist living in Bergen. His is founder of the artist run gallery Joy Forum (2018-2022) and co-found of the studio collective the unfinished institution (2022-). In 2024 he was the winner of the Coast Contemporary Art Prize in collaboration with the B-Open Studio Festival.

Between 2012-2018 he worked as assistant professor at the Art Academy in Bergen. Since graduation in 2007 he has exhibited considerable, in addition to be active in several artistic collaborations. His practice includes the work as abstract painter, writer, organizer, curator, publisher and scenographer for film and theater.

A fully functional kitchen, built as scenography by Sveinung Rudjord Unneland for Ane Hjort Guttus film Manifesto (2020) inspired by Joy Forum.

Websites related to Unnelads work
denuferdigeinstitusjonen.no
Kitchen Conversations
Joyforum.no

Sveinung Rudjord Unneland, HI, 2024, 207 x 168 cm, acrylic on canvas. Installation photo from his solo exhibition NA, at Entrée, Bergen. Image a the courtesy of the artist. — Sveinung Rudjord Unneland, HI, 2024, 207 × 168 cm, acrylic on canvas. Installation photo from his solo exhibition NA, at Entrée, Bergen. Image a the courtesy of the artist.

Unneland finished his Ph.D. in artistic research at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music, and Design, University of Bergen in autumn 2023. The project Urgent Affairs, Strange Empathy examined structural and architectural changes in art education, parallel with that it explored how to establish autonomous spaces and participatory practices within the institutional context as such.