Eva Rowson

Eva Rowson (b. 1985) is a curator and director of Bergen Kjøtt, one of Norway’s largest non-profit cultural venues. They produce 150 public events a year (exhibitions, performances, concerts) and are home to 110 long-term tenants working in sound & music. In 2021, she co-founded GRIP – Norway’s only sound engineering training program to empower more women, non-binary, transgender technicians in the cultural field.

Her work as a curator over the last 10 years is rooted in maintenance, collaboration, creating equity – focusing on how different types of work are valued and the consequences for sustainable (and radical) organizational development. This research is at the core of her leadership reflections at Bergen Kjøtt "#AdventuresInConcrete: R(adical)evolution, courage and maintenance in changing institutional structures" and curatorial projects: 38b – independent artist-run living room exhibition space (London, 2010-18); "Como imaginar una musea?" – Catalan-Spanish-English public program on creating alternative, feminist cultural institutions (BAR Project, Barcelona, 2017-19); "Who’s doing the washing up?" – curatorial program on institutional re-imagining (Re-Imagine Europe, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway & Lighthouse Brighton, UK, 2018-19).

Since 2019, Eva is lead lecturer of "Collaborative Practices" on Fine Arts Master’s program, University of Bergen. In 2019, she curated "with eyes closed, call me" at Bergen Kunsthall, the graduation exhibition of the Fine Art Master’s Program. Before moving to Bergen in 2020, she worked in fundraising, external relations, project management at non-profit institutions and museums including The Showroom, Delfina Foundation and Tate (London, UK) and Bergen Assembly (Norway).

Eva holds a 1st class BA Honors degree in Fine Art (University of Leeds) and she was an associate artist of Open School East (London). In 2024, she completed the leadership program "Transformational Leadership for Sustainability" led by Dr. Monica Sharma, former Director of Leadership & Capacity Building at United Nations.

Eva Rowson, Director, Bergen Kjøtt, Bergen, Norway, has been awarded by OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo.