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Each spring, Bergen Kunsthall hosts the graduation exhibition with students from the Master鈥檚 Programme in Fine Art at UiB鈥檚 Faculty of Art, Music and Design (KMD). This year, twenty-seven artists from eleven countries present their work in Picnic, a large-scale exhibition spanning the institution and its adjacent public gardens, curated by Randi Grov Berger.

The unusual circumstances under which these young art students were educated cannot go unacknowledged. The tremendous impact of the pandemic is palpable in Picnic, which represents an important moment for an emerging generation of artists to share their works publicly, united and unmuted. Demonstrating great innovation and resilience, the exhibition showcases a wide range of media, techniques, and materials, whilst contributing to a multitude of topics central to current artistic discourse.

The sudden and reoccurring disruptions that punctuated the last two years have prompted profound doubt and unease with the systems that structure and control our daily lives, and the dependence of these systems on material and capital flows within an increasingly accelerated and unbalanced global economy. A number of the works on display confront such systems, while others question the contemporary role of the artist. Several projects reveal haunting memories and personal journeys. A deep concern for our natural environment and future is foregrounded in other works, triggering the senses whilst probing issues of identity and belonging.