

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Silja Leifsdottir – Curating the Underground: Fermentation, Collaboration, and Iter Subterraneum
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 16 Mar, 2026 at 10:00 am – Mon, 16 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Monday Lectures at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen is pleased to invite you all to the public lecture "Curating the Underground: Fermentation, Collaboration, and Iter Subterraneum" by Silja Leifsdottir!

In this lecture, curator Silja Leifsdottir reflects on her curatorial practice through the lens of fermentation. Drawing on microbial cultures as a metaphor for collaboration, transformation, and time, she approaches curating as a practice of cultivation rather than control.

Moving through a selection of exhibitions from her practice, the lecture considers how exhibitions can operate as living systems—spaces where artists, ideas, and publics meet and evolve in relation to one another. Particular attention will be given to the recent group exhibition Iter Subterraneum at Bergen Kunsthall, inspired by Ludvig Holberg’s Niels Klim’s Underground Travels. The exhibition explores subterranean worlds and speculative ecologies, inviting audiences to consider shifting relationships between human and more-than-human forms of life.

Bio
Silja Leifsdottir (b. 1984, Reykjavik/Bodø) is Exhibition Curator at Bergen Kunsthall, where she develops exhibitions and commissions, and collaborates on public programmes. Her curatorial work often engages with speculative fiction, ecology, and more-than-human perspectives.

Previously, she worked as curator at the Norwegian Sculptors Society in Oslo (2017–2022). Earlier in her career, she worked at Fotogalleriet in Oslo (2011–2017) and was part of the artist-run initiative Holodeck, where she co-initiated Grønland Gallery Weekend in 2013, a project that later developed into Oslo Art Weekend, now organised by Oslo Art Guide, which she co-founded. She studied Fine Art Photography at the Glasgow School of Art and Curatorial Practice at Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KMD), University of Bergen.


This Monday Lecture is brought to you in collaboration with Bergen Kunsthall.
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- **Event Categories**: art, exhibitions, fine-arts
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 27

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Bergen
- **state**: HO
- **country**: Norway
- **location**: Fakultet for kunst, musikk og design, UiB
- **lat**: 60.37911
- **long**: 5.35312
- **full address**: Fakultet for kunst, musikk og design, UiB, Møllendalsveien 61,Bergen, Hordaland, Norway

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 16 Mar, 2026 at 10:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fakultet for kunst, musikk og design, UiB, Møllendalsveien 61,Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Monday Lectures
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, exhibitions, fine-arts
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Silja Leifsdottir – Curating the Underground: Fermentation, Collaboration, and Iter Subterraneum ?
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