Co-ritus by Tenthaus Art Collective
Thursday, 6 November,
17:00-19:00


Join us for an evening with Tenthaus Art Collective at Bergen Kunsthall.

Tenthaus’ will frame the co-ritus as a special radio program for Tenthaus Radio, carrying the present towards the future structured around the question “What is haunting you now?” The program will include a segment revisiting the original Group 66’s co-ritus idea, reading their manifestos and introducing a collective rite for both the on-site participants and radio listeners.
A second part will invite the audience—and Tenthaus—to share reflections on the question “What is haunting you now?” as a central point of reflection in an open discussion. The entire event will be recorded and broadcast on Tenthaus Radio on 11 November at 20:00.




For the duration of across, with, nearby, a series of co-ritus events will unfold across four Thursday evenings alongside the Gruppe 66 exhibition at the Bergen Kunsthall. The fourth artist to engage with the concept of co-ritus is Tenthaus Art Collective; an encounter you can partake in at Bergen Kunsthall on 6th November at 17:00.

Co-ritus is an improvisational and process-based approach to collective art making that was introduced in Bergen in 1966 via the Scandinavian avant-garde and Situationists who formed or collaborated with Gruppe 66. The artists in Gruppe 66 explored participatory strategies of being and making together. Co-ritus challenged conventional roles of authorship and spectatorship, proposing the artwork as a live, communal situation, rather than a fixed object.

This new programme of co-ritus events is inspired by the practice of Gruppe 66. It does so not to look back with nostalgia, but to look forward and engage with a view to the present and the future. Cooperation and interaction with the audience are central to these co-ritus acts. The invited artists and collectives engage in process-based practices over the span of one evening, with durational traces that are shaped by encounter and sharing rather than showing. Whether material, spatial, or affective, these traces remain within the exhibition. In this way, the context in which the historical works are presented continues to shift and evolve.




Make sure to also pay a visit to Tenthaus Art Collective's P1 – Mobile Studio (2025). Placed in front of Bergen Katedralskole, it hosts the Communist Museum of Palestine.




Tenthaus (established in 2009) is an art collective based in Oslo, working at the intersection of socially engaged art and collective practice. From its origins in educational settings, Tenthaus has since evolved into a network that includes an exhibition space, discursive programmes, a radio platform, and a mobile studio for residencies. The collective prioritises context-specific approaches, dialogue, and long-term relationships, creating projects that include workshops, performances, publications, and situations of collaborative learning. In 2018, Tenthaus expanded its exploration of art as education and education as art through the development of P1, a mobile studio designed as a pilot project.
P1 brings artistic practice into schools and public spaces, fostering new forms of encounter and production outside conventional institutional settings, exploring the intersections of art and pedagogy through contemporary, practice-based approaches to learning and making. Since then, Tenthaus has operated both locally and internationally. In Oslo, it is currently part of STEDSVEVEN, a project in Grønland and Tøyen instigated in collaboration with Oslo Kommunes Kunstsamling (Oslo City Art Collection) from 2024 to 2026. Tenthaus also engages in ongoing collaborations with international artist-run spaces, institutions, and fellow collectives.