Doors: 13:30
Event start: 14:00
Note: The event is free but be aware that a ticket does not guarantee a seat. Due to limited capacity in The Sky Room, please arrive early to secure your spot. Ticket to the talk includes admission to the exhibitions.
Remember to set aside time to put away bags, umbrellas and liquids in the lockable wardrobe in the lobby, before entering the exhibition area.
Yamamoto’s artistry typically involves paper-thin silk textiles, vivid colours and energetic movement. Giving the audience space for action and freedom is a red thread running through the whole of their artistic practice; a way of encouraging museums to be more open and accessible for all.
This conversation will examine in depth what is required in order to give visitors access to art; how the term ‘movement’ is about not just physical, but also mental movement; and what happens when art takes on the antagonist’s role in an exhibition space.
Kiyoshi Yamamoto
Kiyoshi Yamamoto is a Japanese-Brazilian artist living and working in Bergen. They work with materials including textiles, silk-screen prints, printing, jewellery and performance. Their materials are often recycled, or large, colourful sheets of silk and cotton. These works often ask critical and challenging questions about societal structures, at both the social and political level.
For many years, they have been inspired and influenced by artists and textile designers such as Anni Albers and Frida Hansen – by their thoughts, ideas, art, lives and position in art history. Albers and Hansen began working with handmade textiles and were able to produce many large works based on the same visual, tactile style.
Yamamoto has an MA in Art from the Kunsthøgskolen in Bergen (2013) and has studied at London College of Fashion and Escala de Belas Arts in Rio de Janeiro. They have exhibited at various national and international venues, and created artworks for several public buildings. In 2025 Yamamoto is working on two commissions for the Oslo Courthouse and the Cissi Klein School in Trondheim.
Tove Sørvåg
Tove Sørvåg is a curator at MUNCH and is the curator of Come Think With Us (2022–), an exhibition series for children exploring the role of participation in young people’s experience of art. She plays a central role in the development of MUNCH’s education and research programme, and is head of the museum’s diversity strategy. Sørvåg holds MAs in Art History and Curatorial Practice from the University of Bergen, and has worked at the museum since 2015.
©Maya Økland, Kiyoshi Yamamoto
