© Bergen AssemblyThe curators of the Third Bergen Assembly will be Iris Dressler and Hans D. Krista, the leaders of one of the oldest art organizations in Germany Württembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart).
According to the website of the Bergen Assembly , the third Triennale of contemporary art in the Norwegian Bergen, which received the working name "Bergen Assembly 2017–2019", they think as an "open, collective and decentralized project."
Seminars, conferences, promotions and public programs will be held in 2017-2019. The culmination of the project will be a large international exhibition in Bergen.
In the work of the Bergen Assembly 2017–2019, artists, curators, activists and theorists from different countries will take part. Under the general leadership, Iris Dressler and Hans, Cryste, “They will take the concept of the Assembly as a starting point and consider the forms and formats directly related to the institutions and norms (national) state, as well as formats that go beyond the boundaries of the state and give him a challenge.”
The first Bergen Assembly under the name "Monday begins on Saturday" took place in 2013. Her curators were Ekaterina Dygot and David Riff . In 2016, the second Bergen Assembly was supervised by the artist of Taretia, the Freethouught team and the founders of the Berlin Center for Contemporary Art of Praxes .