Eva Rowson (she / her)

Hull Music Cities Convention ✨ 9–11 June! I’m taking our Adventures in Concrete from @bergen_kjott to the annual @sound_diplomacy gathering and conference on music, cities and sustainable development 🛠️🏭❤️‍🔥 This year in Kingston upon Hull, UK 🙌🏽 I’ll be talking about how we work with sustainability and accessibility in everything we do in our old building — to try to create a more equitable music industry locally and beyond ♻️ Use this code: MCC_SN_Hull for 25% off tickets! Link in comments ✨ #AdventuresInConcrete

NO TO WAR! 🧡 Thanks @ciaraphillips for the message on my running top for @bergencitymarathon ⚡️ 3 years after pulling out of @bergencitymarathon because I burned myself to the ground, I got the energy back to complete this 21km feeling on fire! 🔥 TAKK to the beautiful supportive team I have at @bergen_kjott ❤️ TAKK to my best supporter and carb-eater @lukedrozd 💛 TAKK to the tiny village of Bruvik which seems to produce incredibly brilliant and strong people who have helped me every week with stamina, self-belief and building legs of power @kristianbruvik @pedersenhildemarie 💕⚡️ TAKK to my strong woman @tora__ggg & top-tip peach-provider Sverre Sæbø 🍑 TAKK to all the @bergencitymarathon volunteers non-stop slinging out gallons of sports drink and cleaning up at the end. 🙏🏼 YES to keeping going, whatever your challenge and however long it takes ⚡️ NO TO WAR! #BergenCityMarathon

Thank you so much to my amazing concrete-comrade Nora Dyrvik and Kulturrom for this deep dive into Bergen Kjøtt! And how we have worked to make it a more sustainable, accessible and inclusive cultural venue since 2019 🧡🏭🛠️ Huge props to Bergen Contemporary Art Project for their vision and investment in this empty old building in 2010 and imagining it could become a vibrant place for more than 100 musicians and creatives to work every day.⚡️ This article really means a lot. It has been six (quite tough 🤪) years of taking care of this building and community — and trying to keep at the centre of it all a commitment that we can embrace accessibility as an attitude, build inclusion into everything we do, and make the best decisions by learning and listening and valuing everyone’s work equally. Thank you everyone who has made and continues to make Bergen Kjøtt vibe! This is a gigantic team effort from everyone working, on the board, supporting us, in the studios, on stage, behind the scenes and answering our calls when we most need help⚡️🙌🏽🔥 We love to share what we are doing at Bergen Kjøtt so please get in touch 🧡 Read in full >>> https://kulturrom.no/2026/03/30/bergenkjott/ #BergenKjøtt #WhoAreWeAtBergenKjøtt #WhosDoingTheWashingUp

I’m taking a break from taking about concrete to talk about weightlifting! And the way it’s helped me find new strength in my work and life ⚡️🛠️🔥 Me and my champion @kristianbruvik will join the @abel.health Connect Conference in Oslo — which focuses on taking health at work seriously — to share our experiences working together 🔥 I’ll also share some of the weightlifting methods I’ve learned from Kristian which help me in everyday life now, outside the gym ✨ Thank you @abel.health for putting the spotlight on how we can adapt our leadership and workplaces to support the physical and mental health of our teams 🙌🏽 Join us! 🔜 ABEL Connect Conference Thursday 7. may in Oslo More info >>> @abel.health Thanks again to Marie Mundal for the focus on burnout in @bergensavisen and to everyone who has got in touch since then 🫶🏼 Burnout is not a failure 🧡 #AdventuresInWeightlifting

Today! Join us online with @cimam_museums as we share how GRIP is transforming the technical field behind the scenes in culture 🎛️⚡️ REPOST @cimam_museums Join us for the first CIMAM webinar of 2026, a conversation with the three museums practices recognised with the Outstanding Museum Practice Award (OMPA) 2025 during the CIMAM Annual Conference in Turin. 🔎”From Local Initiatives to Structural Transformation: Exemplary Modern and Contemporary Art Museum Practices.” 🗓 Monday 23 March 2026 🕒 13:00 (CEST) 💻 Online | Open access During this webinar, we will reflect on what makes a museum initiative transcend its local context and inspire structural change across the field of modern and contemporary art museums. Through the experiences of the three 2025 awarded institutions, we will explore questions such as: 👉🏽 How can museums move beyond participation towards genuine co-creation with communities? 👉🏽 What are the processes behind initiatives that can become models for others? If you are considering nominating your museum for the 2026 OMPA awards, or if you are interested in understanding how these practices were conceived and developed in response to the specificities of their communities and local contexts, join the conversation with the professionals who led them. 🎤 Speakers 🫴 María Eugenia Cordero, Director, Museo Barda del Desierto (Argentina) – Awarded practice: mBDD Architectural Project 🫴 Eva Rowson, Director, Bergen Kjøtt (Norway) – Awarded practice: GRIP 🫴 Amer Shomali, General Director, The Palestinian Museum (Palestine) – Awarded practice: Gaza Remains the Story The session will be moderated by Kamini Sawhney, CIMAM Board Member, Chair of the OMPA Program, and Artistic Director of the Public Arts Project (BLR Hubba). 👉 Register today and join the conversation. /rapid-response-webinars/httpswwwcimamorgrapid-response-webinarscimam-precedent-webinars2026-webinars/from-local-initiatives-to-structural-transformation/ CIMAM 2026 Webinars are made possible with the support of the Getty Foundation through its Connecting Professionals/Sharing Expertise initiative @gettymuseum

NEW GIRLS + old mountains 🖤🏔️ The #38b archive on the walls - from one London living room to another in Norway. Here from the very first few 38b exhibitions in our Peckham flat by Jennifer Bailey and Edward Newton more than 15 years ago 😵‍💫 What an amazing chapter that was with @lukedrozd - working with so many incredible artists to transform our little living room into an exhibition space. ✨ #38b #Peckham

Meet Eva Rowson as part of our International Women’s Day Series. ⚡️ As Managing Director of Bergen Kjøtt, one of Norway’s largest non-profit cultural centers for music production, she oversees 28 studios, two interdisciplinary stages and an award-winning venue recognized for accessibility and inclusion. Eva is also co-founder of GRIP – Norway’s only sound engineering training program dedicated to welcoming more women, non-binary and transgender people into the industry. Let’s hear her story!

Community umbrella and concrete roses ❤️ So good to visit the best @louiseshelley0 and the amazing @metrolandcultures 💫 And to see the life coming up through the concrete in their new garden and pick up a copy of this beautiful publication by @pesovisuals honoring the concrete roses of lives cut too short 🌹⚡️🌱 Small-team-non-profit-low-budget-studio-buildings unite! 🙌🏽🏭💫 Look forward to sharing together how we manage and make things happen ✨

It feels a bit strange to have my big face in the newspaper like this. This time it’s not about Bergen Kjøtt or bankruptcy or building works or elevators catching fire but about my experience reaching burnout 3 years ago, and learning how to manage energy and expectations to find new ways of working - especially when taking a break feels impossible. 🛠️ Weightlifting is one of the things that has taught me a lot about how to understand rest as necessary, that it´s ok to show up as I feel, and the joy of finding an unexpected hobby and a new community beyond my job. Thanks to @tora__ggg & @kristianbruvik for holding me! 🙌🏽 Thank you to Marie Mundal in @bergensavisen for sharing and creating such a supportive interview space - kudos to you for putting a spotlight on this 💛 I hope this can be helpful for others going through similar stress. Burnout is not a failure. Take the symptoms seriously, and I´m here for you! 💕 Some snippets from the online article are here (translated into English) and it will be published in the paper this week. Including some really good advice from Ole Petter Hjelle @abel.health on stress and health. If you don´t have an abonnement for BA, just let me know and I´ll send it to you. 💞💞💞

Fredag 13.02. kl. 18- 19 Hvordan utløse potensialet i eksisterende bygg gjennom kultur?   I anledning at nyttårsfesten avholdes på Rommet, ser vi på eksempler fra Bergen hvor kultur har gitt sluknende bygg nytt liv. Musikk- og kulturaktører har en unik evne til å skape identitet og tilhørighet. De kan forvandle tomme bygg til levende møteplasser for kunstnerisk utvikling og sosiale fellesskap. Men veien fra idé til virkelighet er ofte lang: kompliserte regelverk, uklare driftsmodeller og manglende felles språk mellom kulturfelt, byggebransje og myndigheter gjør prosessen krevende. Her har arkitekter og planleggere en viktig rolle som bidragsyter og fremsnakker.   Vi får høre fra aktørene bak Rommet på Verftet, Smien på Laksevåg, Bergen Kjøtt i Sandviken og Valsemøllen på Hegreneset, som alle er i ferd med å transformere industribygg utenfor Bergen sentrum til kulturarenaer med puls og sjel. Medvirkende: Velkommen!     BAF_ Planer og fokus for året: Transformasjon.  V/ Leder Arvid Bjerkestrand 18:10- 18:20     Hvordan skape liv i gamle bygg gjennom kultur? Prosesser og tilskuddsmuligheter. Arkitekt Nora Dyrvik, Kulturrom 18:20- 18:30     Ingebrigt Ryland Røyrane – ROMMET 18:30- 18:40     Tord Træen - Smien 18:40- 18:50     Caroline Gullaksen – Valsemøllen 18:50- 19:00     Eva Rowson- Bergen Kjøtt 19:00- 19:10     Spørsmål: Hvordan kan vi sikre at flere utbyggere, eiendomsforvaltere og planleggere gir rom til kultur?  19:10-                  Fest!

#AdventuresInConcrete 2025 🛠️💫🪜 This year the adventures took us through replacing a massive steel beam to prevent the building falling down, filling cracks, painting accessibility, installing new ramps and accessible entrances, meeting the ghosts of our past, turning Fabrikkhallen on its head for @dennationalescene and becoming a national CONCRETE LEGEND 🏆 Thank you to the amazing crew at Bergen Kjøtt and all the workers who help us keep this building not only standing, but developing and shining a way forward for accessible and sustainable old buildings 🏗️💛🫶🏼 #AdventuresInConcrete #BergenKjøtt

Last weekend in Torino 🌟GRIP🌟 won the @cimam_museums Outstanding Museum Practice Award! In front of more than 300 museum professionals from across the world in gold second-hand sequins and a reminder that everyone’s work is equally important. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ For taking a sound system and making it work harder than just being the gear in another concert venue or museum - and using it to change the inequitable world of sound engineering. To technically-empower more than 250 people in sound engineering and double the number of cis-women and non-binary sound engineers working in Bergen! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Huge admiration for my inspirational co-winners @palmuseum and @bardadeldesierto for doing such important work to re-invent the purpose of a museum to care of your lands, communities, heritage and futures. @amershomali & @mariaeugenia.cordero - you are amazing 🖤❤️🤍💚 Thank you to CIMAM! And @oca_norway who made it possible for me to be a part of CIMAM as a travel grantee last year 💛 GRIP is open to everyone - all genders and all ages above 18. BIGGEST admiration of our trainees who are becoming new role models and supporting each other in the process. ❤️‍🔥 And big thanks to our instructors and funders and collaborators who are making this happen. 🙏🏼 We are currently in the process of applying for funds to continue GRIP but watch this space for new courses (including lights!) coming next year! ❤️‍🔥 Photos: Giorgio Perottino / CIMAM #GRIP #HowToChangeTheWorldWithASoundSystem #CIMAM #OMPA #FreePalestine