Kjetil Berge

Kjetil Berge is the head curator of AMIFF 2026, fourth year in a row.

Berge studied in Bergen, Lisbon, has an MA from the Slade, UCL London, and lives in London and in Kvalnes, Lofoten, Norway. Each year, Kvalnes attracts creatives locally and from the rest of Norway and abroad. Berge’s invites artists to contribute to his initiative the Midnightsunscream Festival, a collaborative curatorial project, and an important part of his artistic practise.

Kjetil Berge has exhibited at Ryvarden in Sveio, Nordens Hus, Reykjavik, and was invited to the 9th Havana Biennale, where he participated with ALYAN’s, a social sculpture, w. performance and events. He has made large sculptural towers in Norwich UK, for EAST International, in Belize as part of the Paustinia Project, for LaSalle, Singapore and at Nordberg fort, Lista.

In 2013, the North Norwegian Artists Center, Free the Word, the Norwegian Arts Council and Nabroad supported the project, Breaking the Ice, where Berge, midwinter, traveled from England via Russia to Barents Spektakel, Kirkenes in an ice cream van. Along the way, he exchanged ice cream for conversations about the weather.

Collaboration is often part of Berge’s practice. Together with Jason Havneraas, he participated in the Autumn exhibition in Oslo in 2021. Invited by Ida Lykken Gosh as co-curator, they created the exhibition BEND IT at Atelier Nord 2022. During Pride Reykjavik 2023 he exhibited, with works now in KODE Museums, Bergen, his first collaborative project with Gøran Ohldieck in Nordens Hus, Reykjavik. In 2024, Berge and Havneraas won the Photography Art Prize at the Spring Exhibition in Oslo—this time, also together with Signe Holm.