Ina Hagen, Marjam Idriss, Jade Meili Barget

On A Combustible Grammar – a conversation

Bergen Kjøtt
Skutevikstorget 1, Bergen Map

At 13:00

A conversation between the artist Ina Hagen and writer Marjam Idriss, moderated by Jade Meili Barget, organised in conjunction with Hagen’s solo exhibition, A Combustible Grammar, with Volt in Bergen.

Hagen and Idriss share an interest in the construction and perpetuation of national petro-narratives within Norway, as well as the through-line from our colonial past to our fossil-extracting present. Idriss’s second novel, Halvt (Half) (2023), explores the colonial history of Denmark and Norway, and examines Norway’s contemporary oil industry.

Photo credit: Ina Hagen: Gadea Burgaz/WIELS; Jade Meili Barget: Andrés Baron; Marjam Idriss: Alf Simensen

Ina Hagen

Ina Hagen is an artist, and writer based in Oslo. Her artistic practice, spans video and digital media, text and printed matter, collective making practices and pedagogical forms. Her work has been shown at, among others, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo; Bergen Kunsthall; ‘MOMENTUM’ Nordic Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moss; and Index, Stockholm.

Marjam Idriss

Marjam Idriss is an author and translator from Sola and Jåsund in Rogaland, Norway. She holds a BA in English Literature and an MPhil in Medieval Literature from the University of Cambridge, UK. Idriss made her literary debut with the novel The Gospel According to Jannike in 2017. She has translated the work of Amanda Gorman, Jenny Hval, Yusef Salaam, Zadie Smith and Ibi Zoboi.

Jade Meili Barget

Jade Meili Barget is a curator based between France and Norway. She is Live Programme Curator at Bergen Kunsthall. Her practice has a focus on performance, moving images and experimental discourse. Meili Barget writes micro-fictions and essays, which have been published in Momus, frieze, Art Monthly, diaCRITICS and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others

Volt´s programme in 2026 has received funding from Arts Council Norway and the City of Bergen.

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