For me wage work, children, and exhibitions have a tendency to coincide. Everything at once or nothing. In the meanwhile, I can sit for hours staring into space. I imagine it as a kind of meditation, a useful emptiness. In reality, it’s the diametrically opposite. Myriads of images at a high pace penetrating my mind. Only the wagon-wheel effect allows me to note a figure or a pattern in brief glimpses. The days I am with my daughter appear as asymmetric ornamentations in my calendar. There is nothing else in it. No narrative. Only discrepancy. As if she is the only person, I have a relation to. Part of me has deserted, I´m defeated on all levels, without precisely knowing by what and whom. Despite that, I sense that I am perceived as a danger, a threat to something. As if my naked presence, my year-end account statement, my struggle against absolute time, my staring into space, is read as something contagious, a premonition of an impending revolt.

OPENING:

Thursday March 14^th from 4-9pm.

CONVERSATION:

Thursday March 21th at 7pm

Technical Materialism and coincidences

A conversation about proces and artistic practice between artist Henriette Heise and Thomas Bo Østergaard.

OPENING HOURS:

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 12pm-4pm.

BIO:

Thomas Bo Østergaard (b. 1981) is an artist based in Copenhagen. He works across multiple mediums such as drawing, text, and sculpture. With his post-minimalist aesthetic, which deliberately cracks open to subtle poetic shifts of meaning, he often critically portrays the uncanny familiarity of urban landscapes. Østergaard’s artistic material is the tropes of modernist architecture and their afterlives in the spaces that define contemporary society: the home, the city, the artist’s studio, the white cube, and those of the individual and collective consciousness. He has exhibited at Den Frie, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Overgaden, Kunsthal Aarhus, Ringsted galleriet, Galleri C.C.C, Kristiansand Kunsthal, Inter.Pblc and Simian. He has also taken part in several seminars and been giving lectures at University of Southern Denmark and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen where he is also educated.

The exhibition is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation and The Municipality of Copenhagen – Council for Visual Arts.

Dear Astrid,

Excavation, the underground goddesses. They are many, but one was here. I place its chthonic young one by your young man who plants a tree, because just as anything can sprout, there are internal organs that can grow and grow. Put down roots and sprout up. Break through concrete. They thought they could take us down but they didn’t know we were seeds. The young man who plants a tree still inhabits your studio. Here you have lived, here you have worked, here lives the young man who plants a tree. Along with the underground. The young man who plants a tree here has been surrounded by many artists and works of art over time. I grant here, for a time, attendants to your young man planting a tree. It is korai, young women. your daughters, Ειμαι η κορι σου, Kore Dear Astrid we are archaic we are your women your mothers your children. I take in. I become your kore your daughter my body your mother mother mold for a while. While I mother your rooms. and temporally and for a while anachronistically I am resurrected. like the technology that also has a body. The mother capsule, a matrix, is erected. Dear Astrid, there is a sculpture buried in your backyard. A pulse, an erectile body in concrete, it’s for you. Yours forever. Your chthonic. Kore.

OPENING:

Friday December 8th from 4pm-7pm, performance (Kore, Standing woman) at 5pm.

FINISSAGE AND PRESENTATION WITH BASTARD PRESS:

Saturday December 16th from 2pm-3pm,

Script, text, writing and performance: Nanna Lysholt Hansen in conversation with Lise Margrethe Jørgensen editor at bastard Press, and editor of Nanna Lysholt Hansen’s recent publication the camera body & OBSTETRICAL DEPARTMENT / birth / pregnant.

OPEN BY APPOINTMENT:

Contact Nanna Lysholt Hansen (60329184 & nannalysholthansen@gmail.com)

Mother Mould part II is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, The Council for Visual Art Copenhagen Municipality and BKF.

We invite you to a collaboratively curated day of performance art in Astrid Noacks Atelier.

A group of artists will present performances throughout the day, jointly manifesting how the struggle against the occupation and invasion in Palestine and Gaza can be connected to the struggle for climate justice and against[1] [2]  geopolitical structures of oppression.

We find that the Danish media’s representation of the violence in Palestine and Gaza is unjust, silencing, and de-sensitizing. With this performance day, we want to contribute to a re-sensitizing and understanding of how we in this place and this now are connected to the struggle in Palestine.

Program:

The overall message is that of solidarity with Palestinian civilians losing their lives and livelihoods. A Fundraiser through a pay-what-you-can entrance by the door will be sent to The Danish House in Palestine.

There will be food (vegetable soups and cakes) and a bar throughout the day.

CONTACT: If you are interested in contributing to this event, 

–       as a helping hand 

–       by showing your performance-work 

–       by donations

please write us at performancedecember2023@gmail.com.

Organized by David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo, Ran Suh and Sara Hamming.

Thanks to:

All the participating artists,
Klejner & Gløgg (Jesper Aabille)
Food donators (Yong Sun Gullach),
Flyer designer (Bora Kim @deer studio in)

Image from GROFS1-expedition (GLOBE Institute, Section for Geobiology), Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, 2023

Mud in the Earth System follows up on Rikke Luther’s The New Mud, which was presented in ANA in 2021. In the first part, Luther through a series of research-based works illuminated, how new unpredictable weather caused by climate change – which relates to human activities – creates new unpredictable mud. In the second part, Luther continues her lengthy investigations into the movements of the mud.

The exhibition partly includes new textiles, stills and research material from the on-going work in relation to the art practice-based research project The Ocean-Lands: Mud Within the Earth System. And partly a work from the former project Concrete Aesthetics: From Universal Rights to Financial Post Democracy (2017-2021). The new work which examines the new ‘mud-scapes’ in Iceland, Greenland, Svalbard and the sea-scape from the perspective of Gotland thus focuses on the social and the political, as well on acceleration and the bio-chemical effects of the mud motion in the landscape – in the geosphere and the biosphere.

For millennia, static muds facilitated cultural exchanges across legal boundaries. Warming global temperatures result in their motion. Melting glaciers and inland ice result in mud. Ancient mud-flats and swamps reclaim space as human occupation recedes. Permafrost melts and sinks; land slips; lakes recede, and their beds collapse. Swelling muds slide toward the oceans, helping to facilitate the increasingly garbled circulations of the Earth System.

As part of the larger attempt to build a new ethical and aesthetic public language capable of communicating the crisis within the Earth System the exhibition explores the social-organisational effects of ocean-land muds in motion and the bio-communicative effects of the ocean-land muds in transition.

The exhibition is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, the Novo Nordic Foundation, Baltic Art Center and Art Hub Copenhagen (NAARCA).

OPENING:

Friday November 3th at 6pm-8pm.

EVENTS:

Thursday November 9th at 5pm ANA invites you to the conversation ‘Death and life in mud, a split second of 2 million years’ between Rikke Luther and geochemist Karina Krarup Sand. The conversation will, among other things, revolve around the processes between what we define as organic and non-organic; between organic molecules and mineral surfaces as well as the significance for life in muddy environments with fragmented 2 million year old e-DNA everywhere. What happens when the ocean carves out new landscapes with land and river erosion, and when oceans of material are transformed and moved from melted areas?

Monday November 27th at 5pm: artist talk with Rikke Luther who will talk about the comprehensive issues she tries to map and turn into film in relation to the work Ocean-Lands: Mud Within the Earth System.

OPEN:

Fridays from 3pm-5pm or by appointment (rikke.luther@sund.ku.dk) The exhibition is also open in connection with the conversation on Thursday November 9th and the artist talk Tuesday November 28th from 3pm-5pm.

BIO: Rikke Luther is currently working on a postdoctoral, practice-based artistic research with the title The Ocean-Lands: Mud Within the Earth System at the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate (CMEC), Globe Institute, Copenhagen University.Rikke Luther’s current work explores the new interrelations created by environmental crisis as they relate to Earth System. Those relation compass themes related to landscape, language, politics, financialisation, law, biology, and economy, that expressed in drawn images, photography and film, which can then be investigated in pedagogical situations. Since the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo in 2016, Luther has been working solo. Prior to that, she worked exclusively in collectives. She defended the PhD Concrete Aesthetics: From Universal Rights to Financial Post-Democracy in 2021. It will be published with extended texts by Esther Leslie and Jaime Stapleton.