Art Space Snæversti
The Museum of Contemporary Art has expanded its exhibition room with an exhibition case placed in the little passage Snæversti as a part of "The Culture Wall" - 8 exhibition cases used as show windows for the local cultural institutions in Roskilde.
The starting point for Art Space Snæversti will be to invite young newly qualified artists to experiment with the untraditional exhibition space. The artists invited get the chance to show a work, a process or an artistic experiment to a broad audience in public space and to give the citizens a taste of what The Museum of Contemporary Art is engaged in.
Until 30. September you can experience artworks by Danish artist Majken Bent after which Art Space Snæversti exhibits photography and sculptures by Dutch artist Frank Koolen, which refers to his exhibition PLAY HARD at the Museum of Contemporary Art at Stændertorvet.
In recent years Myntekærs work has concentrated on light as working material. Myntekær examines how light makes the world visible to the human eye.
She is fascinated by the duality of light as something tangibly and at the same time illusory. She tries to unite the physical and real with the transparent and imaginary.
Light has the ability to condense, intensify and dramatize the experience of the world and by doing so it makes the illuminated more present and emotionally relevant. Its ability through its illusory but yet real existence to manipulate and transform spaces visually and architecturally is the take off for Myntekær's environmental light settings.
For Art Space Snæversti Myntekær presents the work Lover, Loner, Loser for the first times to be displayed in public. She uses UV lighting as medium.
About Astrid Myntekær
Astrid Myntekær (born 1985) graduated from the The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Art in 2012 and has alreday had several exhibitions nationwide.
Myntekær is inspired by club culture, goth and cyber culture and very often uses high tech materials like fresnel lenses and magnetic fluids as well as minimalistic references like nano technology and knowledge-based systems combined with cheap electronic gadgets. However, the at times noisy accessories are always subordinated a wish for a general simple, intimate and intense atmosphere.
For more information about the artist http://astridmyntekaer.com/
The Sponge Diver
Instalationen er en montreudstilling om en græsk svampedykker, der i år 1900 forveksler marmor med hud og tror, han ser en bunke lig på havbunden.
Oktober år 1900: En græsk svampedykker opdager en bunke lig på havbunden på 60 meters dybde. Dykkeren gør signal til at blive trukket op til sit skib og fortæller ved overfladen, hvad han har set. Skibets kaptajn tænker, det må være dykkersyge, der får dykkeren til at se syner, men trækker alligevel i dykkerdragten for selv at se efter. Kaptajnen ser ingen lig, men en gruppe antikke marmorstatuer, der ligger halvt begravet i havbunden.
Til udstillingen hører en tekst-plakat, som fås i museets reception i åbningstiden eller downloades under "pressematerialer" her på siden.
Om kunstneren
Amalie Smiths arbejde med tekst, billeder og objekter forbinder abstrakte begreber og tekniske detaljer i en materiel tænkeform, der bygger på præmissen, at tanke og materiale er sammenviklede, gabet mellem ånd og materie konstrueret. Vi tænker med tingene, og tingene tænker igennem os.
Smith gestalter en tænkning om og med materialerne for at undersøge, hvad det (også) vil sige at være menneske, og for at nærme sig hvad det vil sige ikke at være det.
Med afgang fra Forfatterskolen i 2009 og planlagt afgang fra Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi i 2015 placerer hun sig solidt vaklende mellem to stole, tekst og billede. Amalie Smith har udgivet fem bøger med både billeder og tekst og skriver kunstteoretisk speciale om overflader.
Potential modes
Claus Haxholm udstiller en skulptur i form af et langt og bølgende digitalt print i Kunstrum Snæversti, som både i størrelse og format vil udfordre det lille udstillingsrums begrænsninger. Til værket hører også en video, som publikum selv kan udforske via et link her på hjemmesiden. Du kan opleve Potential Modes indtil 1. december 2014.
Om kunstneren
Kunstneren Claus Haxholm dimmiterede fra Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi i 2014. Haxholm arbejder med performance, prints, malerier, video og lyd. Han kommer fra en musikbaggrund, der dyrker improvisation, og den bevidsthed har han med sig i kunsten. Haxholm har gennem de sidste tre år udsendt musik og tekster i ind- og udland, samt deltaget i kunstudstillinger over hele landet, senest udstillingen CLAUS CLAUSEN FREDERIK MAGNUS HAXHOLM i Møstings Hus i samarbejde med kunstner Magnus Frederik Clausen. På Museet for Samtidskunst opførte Haxholm sammen med Tobias Kirstein under ACTS festival i 2014 en performance, hvor de manuelt flyttede fire tons kalk fra et sted til et andet ledsaget af hvid støj.
Columns
Columns by artist and composer Christian Skjødt is a study of the physicality of sound. Columns contains 16 vertical structures. Acting as a base of each structure, a loudspeaker produces a frequency below the human hearing range. The loudspeaker is extended with a metallic spring, hereby sending vibrations resulting in longitudinal waves into the spring. The frequency activates the metal spring and become a visualization of inaudible sound.
The Museum of Contemporary Art will use four showcases at Snæversti on occasion of the exhibition. So the installation of Christian Skjødt will be significantly bigger than earlier artwork exhibited at the same place.
You can experience Christian Skjødt's installation at Art Space Snæversti from the 17th of December 2014 until the 15th of March 2015.
Columns is a new installation created specifically for MFSK and Art Space Snæversti
About the artist
Artist and composer Christian Skjødt explores the temporal and spatial aspects, as well the physicality and aesthetics of sound and noise. His installatory works are often site-specific and deal with enhancement of the unheard and hidden. He holds a Master's degree from the Royal Academy of Music in Denmark and has been working in most of Europe.
Read more about Christian Skjødt here.
Jamboy is an artistic company led by curator and cosmopolitan Eggart Gregersen. Jamboy is working in a mine field of economic, social and political tendencies and its immanent problems and opportunities. The working process is often based on local inquiries and collaborative forms within design, art and everyday life, often mediated through performances, installations, poster productions and video works. Jamboy has earlier exhibited advertising campaigns about and with socially disadvantaged in Mumbai and Turin. Jamboy is working in an urban, anthropological and situationist fusion in which their work production happens as a social collaboration with disadvantaged people, street vendors and immigrants. Jamboy has exhibited in galleries and museums in Mumbai, Taipei, Turin, Paris and Copenhagen.
In Maiken Bent's art practice, tensions and paradoxes are underlying themes. In the art works traditional antagonisms meet and mix; the feminine and the masculine, readymade and crafts, tactile and smooth, pain and pleasure, aesthetics and fetish, rationality and functionality.
Issues of gender and body are central in Bent's works, where several transformations take place. Masculine (survival) tools are transformed into feminine, aesthetic design products that can be connected to our contemporary fetish, fitness and consumer culture.
