Laesoe Art Hall was invited by the Danish Art Council and the Ministry of Culture to take part in the opening of the Danish pavillion at this year’s Biennal in Venice. For that we are grateful. Here are some pictures from the day. Photo by Jon Eirik Lundberg.
The Polish TV Republica has made a presentation of the exhibition “Odd Nerdrum – Painter of the North”, presenting the exhibition space, details in the paintings and talks by director Piotr Bernatowicz and curator Jon Eirik Lundberg from the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art.
Læsø Kunsthal vil i 2023 og 2024 arrangere udstillinger i samarbejde med Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum. Det første projekt er fotoudstillingen “Beauty Will Save The World”, som er kurateret af Tamara Paliienko. Tamara kom til Læsø som flygtning i marts 2022, og udstillingen viser et landskab i Ukraine som hun har et helt specielt forhold til. Halvøen Kinburn ligger i Aszovhavet øst for Mariupol, og minder på flere måder om Læsø. Ikke kun det flade landskab, der minder om havbund der er steget op over havets overflade, men også saltproduktion, den store himmel og vilde natur. Værkerne er skabt af nogle af Ukraines mest betydningsfulde fotografer.
Fernisering: torsdag 23/2 kl. 17:00 i Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum
Udstillingsperiode: 23/2 – 18/3 2023
Medvirkende:
Yevgen Samuchenko
Helen Saponova
Yevgen Monta
Annette Sagal
Igor Moiseev
Sergio Adventure
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Laesoe Art Hall and Frederikshavn Art Museum will collaborate on a number of exhibitions in 2023 og 2024. The first joint project is the exhibition “Beauty Will Save The World”, curated by Tamara Paliienko, who came to Laesoe as a refugee in March 2022. The exhibition is dedicated to the Kinburn Peninsula in the Azov Sea, a mystical landscape with several similarities with Laesoe, portrayed by some of the most important Ukrainian photografers:
Yevgen Samuchenko
Helen Saponova
Yevgen Monta
Annette Sagal
Igor Moiseev
Sergio Adventure
Opening day: 23/2 at 5 pm, Frederikshavn Art Museum
Exhibition period: 23/2 – 18/3 2023
Nordjyske Stiftstidendes kunstkritiker, Troels Laursen, giver Læsø Kunsthals jubilæumsbog “At skabe virkelighed” fire stjerner og en hel side med ros.
Sommerens katalog er en bog på 128 sider, righoldigt illustreret med billeder fra kunsthallens spæde begyndelse. Bogen fortæller historien om, hvordan kunsthallen i sin tid opstod ud af en forladt skibssmedie, og om hvordan den udviklede sig til en aktør på kunstscenen. Hvert år er dækket med detaljerig information, ligesom bogen også fortæller historierne om de litteraturfestivaler kunsthallen har arrangeret i perioden. Kunstneren og forfatteren Erik Steffensen bidrager med et essay om kunsthallens historiske udstillinger. Alle kunstnere og forfattere der har bidraget i de enkelte sæsoner er med, ligesom bogen inddrager alle andre partnere og medhjælpere der har sat deres præg på et projekt. I sidste ende er der tale om et lille stykke Danmarkshistorie.
Bogen kan foreløbig bestilles fra Læsø Kunsthal og koster 199,- plus porto. Fra medio august kan den bestilles i alle boghandlere.
Kontakt: jel ( at ) laesoekunsthal . com
Telefon: 30 14 22 21
God fornøjelse!
F.v. Jørn Mortensen, Tommy Johansson, Vebjørn Pedersen og Iris Andreasen
Lørdag 9. juli får Læsø Kunsthal besøg af tidligere rektor ved Kunsthøjskolen i Oslo, Jørn Mortensen, og medlemmer af kunstprojektet “Not Today, Satan!”, også fra Oslo, til en talk om woke, “cancel culture” og andre stærke strømninger i kunstlivet.
Arrangementet starter kl. 12 og der sælges almindelige entrébilletter. Arrangementet er skabt i samarbejde med Læsø Gamle Skole Aps.
Tidsskriftet kunsten.nu, som dækker den danske kunstscene med månedligt opdaterede guides online og på papir, anbefaler Læsø Kunsthals udstilling “At skabe virkelighed” som en udstilling man ikke må gå glip af.
The Danish art magazine kunsten.nu recommends our current exhibition, “To Create Reality”, in their current edition.
”At skabe virkelighed” er Læsø Kunsthals 10 års jubilæumsudstilling. Den afspejler den rejse kunsthallen har befundet sig på, fra et eksperiment i midlertidige bygninger til en aktør på den nationale og internationale kunstscene. Undervejs har Læsø Kunsthal fundet sin niche. Som er at skabe udstillinger der giver publikum en nøgle til en gåde i tilværelsen.
I 2022 stiller vi spørgsmålet Hvad er kunst? Hvad er det kunstværker egentlig gør, som både kan skabe interessante samtaler og overraskende erkendelser, men også raseri og usikkerhed? Hvad er det der er på spil? Rundt om kunsten opstår der noget der har betydning for os selv, de fællesskaber vi indgår i og verden som helhed. Vi er stolte af at kunne belyse dette gennem værker af markante kunstnere, som alle har fået en relation til Læsø gennem kunsthallen, og hvis arbejder har bidraget til at placere Læsø på verdenskortet.
Vi præsenterer værker af Christian Vind, Hartmut Stockter, Miriam Elia, Steen Rasmussen, Erik K. Christensen, Helene Høie, Alexander Thieme, Till Verclas, Jonas og Peter Lautrop
+ værker fra den faste samling af Jørgen Haugen Sørensen, Per Kirkeby, Pablo Picasso, Erik Sparre og Salvador Dalí.
I videorummet viser gæstekurator Tamara Palienko nutidig videokunst fra Ukraine. De 14 videoværker er skabt af Surenzh, Ziu Poberezhniuk, Victoria Ostrenko & Kira Max, Mano Glonti & Nika Nazarenko, Annete Sagal og Katya Sytazkiva & Kira Max.
I selve udstillingen viser Tamara billed-objekter af Roman Piar.
Arrangementer afvikles løbende hen over sommeren. Følg os på Facebook for nyheder.
Særarrangement 9. juli kl. 12:00: ”Kunst og cancel culture”: Samtale med Jørn Mortensen, Dekan på School of Arts, Design, and Media, Høyskolen Kristiania, Oslo. Tidligere rektor på Kunsthøjskolen i Oslo. Efterfølgende debat. Arrangeret i samarbejde med Læsø gamle skole. Eventen opdateres.
CREATING REALITY
”Creating Reality” is the 10 years anniversary exhibition in Laesoe Art Hall. In this exhibition we reflect over the question what art is, or rather what art does. Art plays a crucial role in the process by which we organise our experiences. We do so in narrations, and nowhere is this process more materially at hand than in works of art. Narrations organising experiences is the foundation of what we call reality. We are proud to present a group of exceptional artists whose works acutely brings forth the essential features of art; from the thought-thing to the materialised idea; and from the mystical depth of subjective experiences to the curious observations of everyday life.
In the video room guest curator Tamara Palienko present contemporary Ukrainian video art. The 14 videoes are created by Surenzh, Ziu Poberezhniuk, Victoria Ostrenko & Kira Max, Mano Glonti & Nika Nazarenko, Annete Sagal and Katya Sytazkiva & Kira Max.
In the main hall Tamara presents picture-objects by Roma Piar.
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Udsnit af udstillingen “At skabe virkelighed”, Læsø Kunsthal 2022. Foto: Jon Eirik Lundberg
Alexander Thieme, “Carpet Bomber”. På væggen: Till Verclas, “Tugs”. Foto: Jon Eirik Lundberg
Steen Rasmussen, “Oplysningens søjler”, “”Forbandede ungdom”, “Rejsebøger”. Foto: Jon Eirik Lundberg
Roma Piar, “One of all / All is many”, “Lovebirds”, “Inextricable parting”. Foto: Jon Eirik Lundberg
Peter Lautrop & Jonas Lautrop, tegninger. Foto: Jon Eirik Lundberg
Helene Høie, “The Spirited”. Foto: Jon Eirik Lundberg
Hartmut Stockter, “Mand i træ”, Steen Rasmussen, “I begyndelsen var”. Foto: Jon Eirik Lundberg
Tak til / The exhibition is sponsored by
Augustinusfonden, Læsø Kommune, Region Nordjylland,
Knud Højgaards Fond, Toyotafonden og Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond
for støtte i 2022
(In English below)
En ny podcastserie i tre dele, “Oprør i kunsthallen”, går i kødet på Læsø Kunsthals udstilling “Den politiske kunst” fra 2019, og dækker også den opfølgende udstilling “Political Art” i Warszawa 2021-22.
Undervejs bidrager professor og filosof Henrik Kaare Nielsen ved Aarhus Universitet med denne smukke passage:
”De her offentlige udstillingssteder er jo kendetegnet ved at de skal være der for os alle sammen.Kunsthaller, kunstmuseer, koncertsale, biblioteker er offentlige kulturinstitutioner som i de sidste hundrede år har været helt afgørende for udviklingen af et demokratisk og kulturelt rigt samfund. De er grundlagt på den kulturelle offentligheds idé, som handler om at vi har fælles anliggender … de her institutioner er sat i verden for at skabe tilbud og udfoldelsesmuligheder for vores samtale. (…) Det at være menneske i et moderne samfund skal kunne artikuleres og blive gjort tilgængeligt for alle.”
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In a new podcast serie, a Danish cultural anthropologist explore the story of Laesoe Art Hall’s exhibition “The political art” and its repercussions in 2019. In conversations with artists, curators, politicians and scientists Tine Sommer closes in on the deeper mechanisms behind this one example of “cancel culture” as it unfolded, and what it means. The philosopher and professor at Aarhus University, Henrik Kaare Nielsen, says in a particularly brilliant passage:
“These public exhibitions are characterised by the fact that they should be there for all of us.
Art galleries, art museums, concert halls and libraries are public cultural institutions which, over the last hundred years, have been crucial to the development of a democratic and culturally rich society. They are founded on the idea of the cultural public sphere, which is about our common concerns … these institutions were created to provide opportunities for our conversation. (…) The experiences of how to be a human being in a modern society must be articulated and made accessible to all.”
(My translation / Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version))
The picture below says: “Riot in the Art Hall”
The Critic Magazine recently published a strong review and interpretation of the exhibition “Political Art”, which is created in a partnership between Laesoe Art Hall and Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw. The author, Manick Govinda, states that: “The opening of the exhibition is an exuberant display of optimism against tyranny.”
Jon Eirik Lundberg
Programmet “Norsken, svensken og dansken” omtaler udstillingen “Political Art” i Warszawa (05:38). Journalist Åsa Linderborg har været i Polen og set udstillingen. Hassan Preisler tager et opgør med den behandling den har fået i medierne:
”Det er jo også helt tosset … at man ligesom pr. automatik har udskammet og udskældt den her udstilling. Den er kurateret af den, efter min mening, modigste museumsdirektør vi har i Danmark; som faktisk er norsk, og som hedder Jon Eirik Lundberg og er leder af Læsø Kunsthal. Jon går op imod de kollektiver der er i Danmark. Og han gør det ikke i politisk opposition, han gør det som kunstnerisk uafhængigt menneske. Det interesserer ham, at udfordre de fælles strømninger der er, og den tidsånd som dominerer. Og på den måde så er han derfor en af de mest interessante formidlere i Danmark lige nu. Og jeg forstår ikke at vi har sådan en automatisk tendens til at have behov for at udskamme og kategorisere det her. Han er selv, har jeg læst, meget, meget træt af at skulle stå på mål for det noget der bliver kaldt ”højreorienteret kunst” bare fordi det ikke indtager de fælles holdninger der er blevet besluttet af ”de rigtige”.”
Programmet bliver sendt i alle de tre skandinaviske lande.
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The inter-scandinavian program “The Norwegian, the Swede and the Dane” addresses the exhibition “Political Art” in Warsaw. The Danish writer and journalist Hassan Preisler praises the exhibition concept and Laesoe Art Hall’s work as “the most courageous and interesting dissemination of art in Denmark right now”.
The Swedish film director Peter Cohen has written a smear towards the late artist Lars Vilks, who died in a tragic car accident on October 3rd. This is a reply to that text.
The fate of Lars Vilks, being under heavy security protection for 14 years, was a constant embarassment to Sweden. The country is one of the most advanced in the world and portrays itself as a “humanitarian superpower”. Yet a bunch of fanatical lunatics managed to boss around with Sweden over a simple drawing. The country had no idea what to put up with this enemy, and still doesn’t. In forseeable future it will be difficult to treat the legacy of Vilks with normal scientific practice in Sweden due to the security issues.
The head of Sweden’s most prominent museum, Gitte Ørskou, denounced Vilks’ most famous work only a few days after the death of the artist. It is not hard to see that the accusation that the drawing is “based on hateful iconography” is an excuse covering up the real issue, which is security.
Peter Cohen is on a twofold mission. On the one side he wants to divert attention away from these complex problems. On the other he wants to smear the Polish government.
For this purpose he has to invent a complete parallel reality. The Polish government, he claims, has ordered an exhibition from Laesoe Art Hall. This accusation is pointing to the exhibition “Political Art” at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warzaw. 18 works of Vilks are presented there. Why, you might think, would the Polish government purchase the services of the perhaps smallest art institution in the world? According to Peter Cohen beceause the art hall is the base for a right wing extremist network. As something quite unusual, at least historically speaking, this network is engaged in the production of contemporary art.
Alas, the right wing Polish government has found a partner in crime.
In the process of making this story up the film director starts portraying Lars Vilks as a kind of Don Quixote. The satirical figure is, however, also the center of the former mentioned “right wing cult” which has come into existence on Laesoe. Cohen seems to disagree with himself as to the status of Vilks; whether he is comical or dangerous. Unable to make the choice Cohen goes with both at the same time.
Five days before his piece was published Peter Cohen called me. He did not present himself, so I had no idea who I was talking to. He had only two questions: 1) Did the Polish government order the exhibition? 2) “Do you have Facetime on your phone?”
I immediatly thought I was talking to some slightly confused fellow citizen, and answered politely, making sure he had understood what I said.
1) No, the government of that huge Central European country did not order an exhibition from Laesoe Art Hall.
2) Learning that I did have Facetime on my phone Cohen said he would call me back another day and talk about the exhibition.
He never did so. Instead he produced what could serve as the plot for a Scandinavian version of Pirates of the Caribbean. Which is a bit funny, since I actually always thought of the art hall as a pirate ship, a privateer, in that the Art Hall is not funded by the government. Being “hired” by foreign governments makes that story even more entertaining, as the historical pirates were also used by governments in shady operations.
Jon Eirik Lundberg
