On the final weekend of Saodat Ismailova’s exhibition Amanat – As We Sleep, we invite you to join us for a special event. The programme includes a visit to Ismailova’s sound installation in the Steppe House of the Botanical Garden of the University of Bern (BOGA), a talk and soundwalk with Mélia Roger, followed by a guided tour of the exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern.

16:00, Steppenhaus (BOGA)
Sound installation Arslanbob Under Sun (2025) in the Steppenhaus

16:20, Sukkulentenhaus (BOGA)
Insights into the journey to Arslanbob and the field recordings with Mélia Roger

16:45, Start Sukkulentenhaus (BOGA)
Sound walk to Kunsthalle Bern with Mélia Roger

17:15, Kunsthalle Bern
Introduction to Saodat Ismailova's exhibition

Mélia Roger (she/her) is a field recordist and artist engaged to inspire ecological change with environmental and empathic listening. Coming from a sound engineering background (ENS Louis-Lumière in Paris, ZHdK in Zürich), Mélia is now a practice-based PhD candidate at the University of Lille (together with Le Fresnoy), focusing on the relations between sound arts and acoustic ecology. Her last sound sculpture "Under my finger, the woods" explores how the soundscape is slowly evolving after wildfires.

Places are limited. Please register by emailing celine@kunsthallebern.ch.