Kaja Haven

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Rolling dustball rolling over the exhibition to a quite muffled spaghetti western guitar. Last chance to see ‘Double Bridges’, open today until 5pm! 💨 @kunstsenter Video by @saralarsenstiansen

Currently in BEKs studios, @superspaceee is back and has been working in the electronic lab and project space with multichannel recordings and different spatial setups and tested close recordings and spatial separation of them through playback. Kaja has been testing out piezo microphone recordings of surrounding architecture and crotch, and longer sound pipes and acoustics and fan systems through ventilation pipes affecting the ankle point, while reading and drawing inspiration from "How to teach quantum physics to your dog" by Chad Orzel and Cindy Sherman's Disasters and Moldy Food series. She has also tested out systems for drying clothes, and will test infrasound recordings that relate, in frequency range, to certain specific bodypoints. Kaja Haven is an emerging artist working between sound, installation, performance, video and mechanics. Her interdisciplinary practice often revolve around everyday objects, space and activation, as socially staged events and performative matter that is frequently paired with overly dramatic temperaments and emotional layerings. Kaja has exhibited at Bergen Kunsthall, the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Q Gallery, Copenhagen, Efterårsudstillingen, Copenhagen, and Distortion Festival, Copenhagen, amongst others.

Video stills from studio still-lifes between personal elements, luggage, dusk, passing flashlight and charged matter. @eaxo.stavros 🎸🥥

Golden hour and other hours on anticipated explosive, perhaps emotional, material. Oranges, daisies, banana, cake sparklers, plastic, chips, gum, screwdriver, poppy, squash and sketchbook. @eaxo.stavros 🪐

Studio research in-between process content and the romantic word dérive, the tourist, desires and drifter, in sound recordings and color filters such as probably middle rose, yellow spring and bastard amber. Created at the wonderful @eaxo.stavros

Tomorrow is the last day to experience ‘And then came, and up there’ at Mikey Laundry Art Garden, Bergen. The gallery is open from 1 to 4pm. Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed to making it come alive. Thank you to @thefudgepope for hosting and curating it under his 2025 theme ‘Heavily in love’. Thank you to @saralarsenstiansen for gorgeous pictures. To @kaisolbakken for amazing up- and down rig help. To @birk.nygaard for projector rental. To @_augustsandberg for his beautiful roof pole. To @eirik1 for speaker rent, general support and in and out of @bergenassembly help. To Nefelis for frame storage. To @dj_rundpingis for computer screen and for helping me dragging the huge and heavy metal frame across Bergen in the rain on an old milk trolley. To @clawsonandward for a couple of grapes. A big thank you to everyone coming to see the exhibition, and for @kulturdir , @kunstsentrene_i_norge , @bergen.kommune and @mikeylaundryartgarden2 for generous support.

Quantum grapes (2025), possibly the main piece in several variations in “And then came and up there”, which started out as a research in how to make a DIY quantum field amplifier through grocery shop grapes and light beams, which in the end turned out to become meta-layered, half-imaginary and romantically naïve works about trying to recreate the presence of a love lost through chasing this person’s field of interest. It’s the last week of the show, open on @mikeylaundryartgarden2 from 1 to 4pm on Saturday and Sunday the 6-7th of December. Photos: the incredible @saralarsenstiansen Thank you for generous support @kulturdir @kunstsentrene_i_norge @bergen.kommune and @mikeylaundryartgarden2 🍇

“And then came, and up there” (2025), “Flame, ankle, wall, cross” (2025), “In release of your thousand year old stiff waist” (2025) video with sound, “Speakers, shelf, curly tape and dramatic, suspended hole” (2025) and other juicy titles such as: “Mosquito trap” (2025), “Quantum graping, still” (2025), “Quantum grapes” (2025), “Grapes from Anna and Nicole so that I could come further into the development of these quantum grapes” (2025) and “Gitarren i knät” (2025) performance The exhibition at @mikeylaundryartgarden2 runs until 7th of December and is open 1 - 4pm on Saturday and Sundays. Photo @saralarsenstiansen and Martin E. Koch Thank you @kulturdir @kunstsentrene_i_norge @bergen.kommune and @mikeylaundryartgarden2 for generous support 🍇

Thank you to everyone who came out to the opening of “And then came, and up there” on @mikeylaundryartgarden2 last Friday! The show runs until 7th of December and will be open Saturdays and Sundays from 1 - 4pm. Here is a little snippet of the tiny opening performance “Gitarren i knät” (2025) - a performance so overly romantic that I absolutely had to include it into the the stripped, sparse and “barely there, half imaginative” exhibition - an acoustic cover of Lisa Ekdahl’s song about becoming Lisa whilst strolling over a windy Nybroplan in Stockholm 2024. 8’00’’. Thank you to @kulturdir @kunstsentrene_i_norge @bergen.kommune and @mikeylaundryartgarden2 for generous support Photo: @saralarsenstiansen and Martin E. Koch 🍇

Next friday is the opening of «And then came, and up there» at Mikey Laundry Art Garden, Bergen. The exhibition opens this upcoming Friday from 18 - 21:00 with a little performance at 18:30 🍇 It is an exciting week with Meteor festival, BEK music symposium and plenty of art shows happening around town, and I feel thrilled to share some new, ruminating works with you in this great company. The exhibition is generously supported by @kulturdir @kunstsentrene_i_norge - KIN regional project funds, @bergen.kommune and @mikeylaundryartgarden2 and thank you so much Michael, @thefudgepope for curating and hosting it. “And then came, and up there” is open from 21.11 - 07.12.2025, Saturdays and Sundays, 1 - 4pm by appointment.

‘Bridges’ (2024), Kungliga Konsthögskolan, Stockholm. Chain-reactive fruit, vegetables, water pumps, water hose, movement sensor, flooring and Arduino. Potatoes performing as metaphors for the artist and the Marxist proletariat. @kungl.konsthogskolan