On Saturday, 21 March at 2pm, Kai Art Center hosts a conversation between the artists of Exploded View, Paul Kuimet and Magnhild Øen Nordahl, moderated by the exhibition’s curator Anthea Buys (ZA).
The talk takes place on the first publicly open day of the exhibition and offers an opportunity to hear from the artists themselves about the works on show and the ideas that drive their practice.
Admission is with an exhibition ticket. The conversation will be held in English.
In the exhibition Exploded View, new and recent works by Estonian artist Paul Kuimet and Norwegian artist Magnhild Øen Nordahl consider the relationship between visual representation and the lived experience of spaces and objects. The title refers to a method of technical drawing in which the components of a functional object, tool or machine are depicted in such a way that their component parts are visible, in order to show how they should be assembled.
Exploded View presents two parallel but intersecting artistic investigations: Kuimet’s new analogue photographic and filmic works take as their starting point hand-drawn architectural plans for domestic spaces and Nordahl’s sculptures look at how we experience objects that have gone through digital and physical abstractions, which in turn lead to changes in form, function and cultural meaning. The exhibition is open at Kai Art Center from 21 March to 9 August 2026.
Paul Kuimet (b. 1984) is an artist working with photography, 16mm film, and installations comprising these media. The indivisibility of depicted material and the image’s material support is a recurring motif in his practice, as is the tension between formal qualities and narrative possibilities. Modernist building materials such as steel, glass, and tracing paper appear in his work not only as subject matter, but also as malleable material for creating new forms and spaces.
Magnhild Øen Nordahl (b. 1985) is a visual artist based in Bergen, Norway. Her work examines how scientific and technological abstractions shape objects, environments, and perceptions. Through sculpture, she materialises these systems, translating abstract structures into spatial and physical forms. She recently completed a PhD in artistic research and is the co-founder of Aldea Center for Contemporary Art, Design and Technology in Bergen.