Marianne Heier
Bergen Kunsthall
The annual Festspillutstillingenthe visual art component of the Bergen International Festivalwas first held in 1953. Hosted by the city’s Kunsthall, it has since become one of Norway’s most prestigious solo exhibitions. Successful Norwegian artists such as Bjarne Melgaard and Elmgreen and Dragset have had their turn; this year’s exhibition was Marianne Heier’s “Surplus,” curated by the Kunsthall’s director, Solveig Øvstebø. As usual in Heier’s politically and conceptually driven practice, lucid reflections on social and economic structures were given simple but efficient sculptural