{{primary sources|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox recurring event | name = Bergen Assembly 2013 | image = Marks Maxim Spivakov Bergen Assembly 2013 image Nils-Klinger.jpg | genre = Contemporary art | begins = 31 August 2013 | ends = 27 October 2013 | frequency = Triennial | location = Bergen | country = Norway | organizer = Ekaterina Degot; David Riff | website = {{official website|https://en.2013.bergenassembly.no/index.html}} | next = Bergen Assembly 2016 }}
'''Bergen Assembly 2013''', titled ''Monday Begins on Saturday'', was the first edition of Bergen Assembly, held in Bergen, Norway, from 31 August to 27 October 2013. It was convened by Ekaterina Degot and David Riff.<ref>{{cite web |title=Monday Begins on Saturday – Bergen Assembly 2013 |url=https://bergenassembly.no/2013 |website=Bergen Assembly |access-date=9 February 2026}}</ref> The title was taken from the 1965 novel ''Monday Begins on Saturday'' by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, whose fictional research institute served as a conceptual point of reference for the exhibition’s structure.
The programme combined an international exhibition, publication, and symposium presented across multiple venues in the city. Conceived as an archipelago of fictional “research institutes”, it brought together newly commissioned works and historical material to explore artistic research, speculative inquiry, and hybrid curatorial formats.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Institute of the Disappearing Future |url=https://www.kunsthall.no/en/exhibitions/the-institute-of-the-disappearing-future/ |website=Kunsthall Bergen |access-date=9 February 2026}}</ref>
Critical reception noted the edition’s attempt to rethink the structure of large-scale recurring exhibitions by foregrounding research processes and discursive formats rather than a single centralized exhibition model.<ref>{{cite web |last=Larios |first=Pablo |title=Bergen Assembly |url=https://www.frieze.com/article/bergen-assembly |website=Frieze |date=2013 |access-date=9 February 2026}}</ref> Other commentary described the project as a critical meditation on artistic research that blurred boundaries between exhibition-making, scholarship, and curatorial practice.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bergen Assembly 2013 Monday Begins on Saturday |url=https://museumpublicity.com/2013/08/28/bergen-assembly-2013-monday-begins-on-saturday-2/ |website=Museum Publicity |access-date=27 January 2026}}</ref>
== Participants ==
{| class="wikitable" |- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Bergen Assembly 2013 – Venues and Participants |- ! Venue ! Project / Institute ! Artists and Contributors |- | KODE 4 | ''Institute of the Anti-Formalism'' | Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas; Władysław Strzemiński; Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnychenko; Carlfriedrich Claus; Dmitry Gutov; Ane Hjort Guttu |- | Bergen Kjøtt | ''Institute of Defensive Magic'' | Pedro Gómez-Egaña; Roee Rosen; Stephan Dillemuth and Clemens von Wedemeyer |- | Bergen Kunsthall | ''Institute of the Disappearing Future'' | Kiluanji Kia Henda; Ilya Kabakov and Emilia Kabakov; Anton Vidokle and Pelin Tan; Ritwik Ghatak; Uriel Orlow; Ivan Melnychuk and Oleksandr Burlaka (Grupa Predmetiv); Minze Tummescheit and Arne Hector (cinéma copains); Mariusz Tarkawian |- | KODE 1 (West Norway Museum of Decorative Art) | ''Institute of Imaginary States'' | Lars Cuzner and Fadlabi; IRWIN / NSK State; Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle; Eduardo Molinari; Pavel Pepperstein; Pyotr Subbotin-Permyak; Urban Fauna Laboratory |- | KNIPSU | ''Institute of Love and the Lack Thereof'' | Chto Delat; Keti Chukhrov |- | The School Museum | ''Institute of Lyrical Sociology'' | Olga Chernysheva; Josef Dabernig; Dora García |- | Kunsthall 3.14 | ''Institute of Perpetual Accumulation'' | Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann; Yuri Leiderman and Andrey Silvestrov |- | Østre Skostredet | ''Institute of Pines and Prison Bread'' | Aleksandr Rodchenko; Wong Men Hoi; Imogen Stidworthy |- | Rom8 | ''Institute of Tropical Fascism'' | Inti Guerrero |- | Visningsrommet USF | ''Institute of Zoopolitics'' | Jan Peter Hammer |- | Entrée | ''Institute of Political Hallucinations'' | Christian von Borries |}
== References == <references />
== Further reading == * Museum Publicity, "Bergen Assembly 2013 Monday Begins on Saturday," 28 August 2013. [https://museumpublicity.com/2013/08/28/bergen-assembly-2013-monday-begins-on-saturday-2/ museumpublicity.com] * Bergen Assembly, "Monday Begins on Saturday: Catalogue," 2013. [https://2013.bergenassembly.no/catalogue PDF] * Ekaterina Degot and David Riff (eds.), "Bergen Assembly 2013: Monday Begins on Saturday," Bergen Assembly, 2013.
== External links == * {{official website|https://en.2013.bergenassembly.no}}
Category:21st century in Bergen Category:2013 in Norway Category:Contemporary art exhibitions Category:Organised events in Bergen