For this year's RESPONSES, where an artist is invited to respond to our summer cycle of exhibitions, Kunsthalle Bern is pleased to present Ivan Cheng.

Whether meaning to be clean as a whistle, wolf whistling, or simply alerting, it’s very possible for an instrument or device to not be used to its full potential. whistles is conceived as one of Ivan Cheng’s characteristic filmed situations, for Kunsthalle Bern on the 18th of June 2026. The Amsterdam-based, Australian artist deploys performance as a technology where voice, subjectivity, and recognition are always unstable, distributed, and shaped by systems of power.