5 October 2024 - 12 Januqary 2025
Mirko Zrinšćak - Essence of Nature
Mirko Zrinšćak is a sculptor, born in 1953 in Volosko in Croatia. His sculptural forms have in common that they are made of wood that he finds in his immediate surroundings - a protected nature reserve in the forest of Mount Učka, where he lives and works.
Zrinšćak works like a craftsman with the material and it is the work with the wood in ecological and spiritual balance that is in focus. Some of Mirko Zrinšćak's sculptural works are of a constructive nature, others are more organic, and as an artist Mirko Zrinšćak follows in the footsteps of Brancusi and Arp: He searches for the soul of nature, which he translates into sculpture.
Anne Berk, who is the curator of the exhibition, emphasizes: "For me, his fluid forms reflect energy, growth and longing. Many of his elongated forms reach for the sky. They have a soul.”
5 October 2024 - 12 January 2025
FEEL THE SPACE OF THE FOREST
FEEL THE SPACE OF THE FOREST is an exhibition of works of art and projects that, with different starting points, give the viewer an impression of the special space that the forest represents.
The theme of the exhibition - forest - has relevance for artists from different places on the globe. Their approach is different and to some extent reflects where they come from.
The theme is broad. Like many other exhibitions in these years with a focus on "nature", it gives us the opportunity to think about and appreciate the part of our surroundings that is the forest. Perhaps even expand our knowledge of the forest and its importance to our lives - both the physical and psychological part of human existence.
The 11 represented artists of different nationalities have very different approaches to the phenomenon of forest: as memory, botanical site, climate maintainer, CO2 absorber, as a place for activism, as sacred and a place for contemplation.
Actors in the exhibition are: Abel Rodríguez (1941, Columbia), Margit Lukács (1973, NL) & Persijn Broersen (1974, NL), Cecylia Malik (1975, PL), Marinus Boezem (1934, NL), Helge Hommes (1962, DE) & Saxana Nicole Schötschel (DE), Antti Laitinen (1975, FI), Sanna Kannisto (1974, FI), Malin Arnell (1970) & Åsa Elzén (1972)(both SE).
The exhibition is curated by Dorte Kirkeby Andersen from Art Center Silkeborg Bad and Anne Berk (NL). In 2018, the latter curated the exhibition Beyond the Body at the KunstCentret.
13 October - 8 December 2024
ON THE TRAIL OF A SLUMBER CARPET – AND A SHORT STORY OF KJELLERUP WEAVING MILL:
ANNE METTE LARSEN
Sideshow in Skovvilla
Weaver Annemette Larsen says: "Seven years ago he said no - Poul, the old owner of Kjellerup Weaving Mill, when I came up with my Midtjyske Tæpper (Central Jutland Carpets) project. And maybe it was good, because it ended up in Norway and it was as local as it could get back then. That's a whole other story (and a good one).
But I was so happy when I heard one day that Kjellerup Weaving Mill had new owners, that all the machines were not packed in a container and sent east. Claus and Christian said yes! - Yes, for a collaboration on a new carpet. With their yarns on their looms and with my design and binding, developed in a quality adapted to their equipment. A long cherished dream.
Think that Denmark's only weaving factory is only 34 minutes from my workshop! And to think that the two manufacturers let me in and let me get my hands on all their machines!
This exhibition and accompanying book describe the long road from the first failed attempts until we reached the goal of something viable. My meeting with Kjellerup and the old weaver. All the samples, all the woven yards, a mixed bunch: The sad and the quirky and the runaway. The outdated and abandoned and the sour with too much yellow. The nice ones and the delicate ones and the obscure ones that were just sitting in the cupboard at the first shot. The boring ones and the ones far out in the woods. And then there are those who just long for the sofa - they are all there.
Welcome them when they land in reality! They are from me and Kjellerup Weaving Mill.”