3,14 LIVE disrupts passive viewership. Since 2016, debate editor Gitte Sætre has expanded our exhibitions into a platform for live discourse, generating urgent conversations through radical formats. In 2023, we launched Dare to Hear (Spotify)—a podcast that hijacks the airwaves to extend these collisions of art and thought, one unfiltered guest at a time.
The story and myths of Kunsthall 3,14
(2025)
In the preparations leading up to the celebration of the 40th anniversary of Kunsthall 3,14, the first director Bjørn Inge Follevaag talks about the formation of the contemporary art institution that embraced the exchange of world culture and dared to see social and cultural blind spots outside the Western discourse before anyone else saw the value of it.
The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project
(2024)
This episode explores The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (CCP) by the Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen. What is the potential hidden in biological and cultural diversity? What started by crossbreeding a Belgian chicken with one from France has, over the past 25 years, evolved into a universal breeding project that challenges monoculture both metaphorically and in practice
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/dashboard/episode/e2ppntp
Panel dicussion at the Universty Museum
(2024)
A conversation brings together Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen, palaeontology professor Hanneke Meijer, and anthropologist Karin Lillevold from the University of Bergen. The conversation was moderated by Gitte Sætre, debate editor at Kunsthall 3,14.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1964rjvsr17g5pw5O8CUtU?si=jO7EmZRcRp2yEK_XgVLnHA
Art and Human Rights
(2023)
Kunsthall 3,14 is in dialogue with Chris Duckett, the founder of the Human Rights Art Foundation. Duckett has worked with human rights issues for over 20 years, and he played a key role in introducing the Irish artist Brian Maguire’s painting series «Missing and Murdered Indigenous People» to Kunsthall 3,14. The episode follows up a series of exhibitions, talks and seminars on resistance and solidarity.
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kunsthall3148/episodes/Art-and-Human-Rights-e29t8hq
Painting as an Act of Solidarity
(2023)
Gitte Sætre discusses the exhibition law of the land at Kunsthall 3,14 during the summer of 2023, with the Irish artist Brian Maguire. The painting series Missing and Murdered Indigenous People and The Remains, Arizona call out the violence against Indigenous peoples and immigrants unfolding in the American West. How can art function as resistance and a way to fight against injustice?
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kunsthall3148/episodes/Painting-as-Act-of-Solidarity-e29t53i
Punk Sound Collage for a Bike Ride to the Suburbs
(2023)
The episode challenges you to notice logistical systems and details in everyday life that we might take for granted. It´s a punk sound collage in collaboration with the American artist and researcher Benjamin Gerdes and the bicycle director of the City of Bergen, Einar Grieg. The episode premiered as a part of a performative lecture on a bike ride from Kunsthall 3,14 to the suburbs of Fyllingsdalen. The tunnel to Fyllingsdalen is the longest cycle and pedestrian tunnel in the world.
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/dashboard/episode/e2ala3t
Det oseaniske som kunstnerisk metode
(2023)
Hvor ligger krysningspunktet mellom billedkunst og scenekunst, og hva skjer når man blander inn horrorsjanger? I denne episoden diskuterer Kunsthall 3,14 med billedkunstner Søren Thilo Funder og forfatter Ida Lødemel Tvedt om utstillingen «Oceanic Horror or How to Survive the Night in the Haunted Mansion of Absolute Capitalism». Utstillingen, som ble vist på Kunsthall 3,14 i våren 2023, var en del av Funders Ph.d. prosjekt ved KMD.