ABC Art Fair Berlin

Sept 18-22

For the abc Art Fair I will build a structure that will form a space within the space as well as host my paintings.

Looking forward!

Stage two -170x150 cm, 2013

 Other end - 120x110 cm, 2013

model of the structure I am building at the fair 1:50.

Hanging the work onto the wooden folds installation created a conversation between the representation and the real material of the wood.

Commission of the City of Holbaek finished

I am proud to show the finished wall painting of Holbaek City Council.
As a part of the project: How far is The Horizon - curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen, my 11.5x5.5 m commission is finally there.
more about the project here: HOW FAR IS THE HORIZON

Floor Piece, Zona Maco, Mexico 2013

folding floor

Elapsed Intoxications -The Rotary, New York City

In Case we Don´t Die at Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles

I will participate in the groupshow IN CASE WE DON`T DIE at Torrance Art Museum in LA, the opening is March 30

Theatre, acrylic on canvas, 78x90 ", 2013

Crystal Bites of Dust

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CRYSTAL BITES OF DUST. January - March 2013.

an exhibition by Mie Olise at Barbara Davis Gallery.

Mie Olise moved to a new studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn prior to working on the project.

Crossing the 9st bridge over Gowanus Canal every day, with abandoned factories and layers of monuments Olise became interested in this specific urban situation. Bridges on top of eachother and a canal so polluted that it reflects the sky in every colour.

The situation is similar to the one of New Jersey, bridges over polluted water. Monuments and ruins of Industrialism. Olise is interested in these non-spaces and voids that the industrial constructions creates. The space under the bridge. The pores of the city, left behind to fall into dust.

In 1967 Robert Smitson wrote ”The Monuments of the Passaic”, published in Art Forum. A day-trip to his native New Jersey and the monuments inhabiting it. Going over the bridges of the Hackensack River. The trip also became a series of photograhps. Robert Smitson uses the term ”non-spaces”, which in Olises vocabulary translates to ”pores”, the empty pores of the city (that she referred to in her 2008 exhibition at Barbara Davis, Penetrating Pores of Construction).

Mirroring New Jersey, on the other side of Manhattan, Olise investigates the monuments of Gowanus. The spaces beneath the bridges, an abandoned factory and the polluted waters of the Gowanus Canal.

As Robert Smithson went to the west of Manhattan, the Passaic bridges of New Jersey, describing the decaying monuments of the Hackensack River area, Olise goes east to Brooklyn, and though in another much more inhabited context and in another time, she found a smiliar situation around the Gowanus Canal – black and dry as hell.

Olise views the industrial landscape as a ruin, falling apart constructions that, while they are still working, still hints the end of themselves and what they represent. Passing through these monuments, the crystals of industrialisation - falling apart, the visitor becomes one of the moving layers in the center of crosspaths, vertically, horisontally and historically.

The black dust falling down from the bridge, to the factory and into the canal – dust of the non-dissapearing kind.

As a part of investigating Olise - as Smithson - borrows material from the site, and in the proces she became interested in testing the water of the Gowanus Canal and later digging into the mud, to examine the pigmentation of the place. Painting has used earth pigments for colour since the cave paintings, which is still referred to in the names of the colours, Sienna, Umbra etc. All colour pigmentation used to come from the earth, today they are chemically made. Olise decided to use the mud from the canal as colour pigmentation following the ancient tradition. Only has the world changed and the earth pigmentation is today chemical – on site.

ZONA MACO Art Fair, Mexico, 2013

I´ll participate at Zona Maco Art Fair i Mexico City with a wooden site-specific installation and a few large and small scale paintings.
April 10-14 2013 http://zonamaco.com/en/

 House with three streetlamps, acrylic on canvas, 84x84", 2013

A hole in the floor, acrylic on canvas, 84x90", 2013

Alone House, acrylic on canvas, 26x30", 2013

Crowsfeet, acrylic on canvas, 46x50", 2013

Crystal Bites of Dust at Barbara Davis Gallery

Crystal Bites of Dust at Barbara Davis Gallery is a show about a very specific place in Brooklyn. A place I bike through every day, a kind of a non-space; the area around the Gowanus Canal.
I have been in a dialogue with Roberth Smitson´s "Monuments of the Passaic" which he wrote for Art Forum in 1967. His trip was west of Manhattan to New Jersey and the bridges over the Hackensack River. I mirrored this journey and went East to Gowanus Canal and the bridges over that.
My ongoing interest in abandoned constructions, the end of Modernism, and the life after that, is still very much present...

After two big shows of installation at Honor Fraser in LA and Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre, I have been returning to painting, and the show is actually my first pure painting show.

Back in New York

I am back in New York, working on my solo show "Crystal bites of Dust" at Barbara Davis Gallery coming up in January.
This time I have relocated to Red Hook, and from my studio you have a splendid view to the Statue of f.... Liberty,-D Thats hilarious! Only realized it as I picked up my bike after having viewed the studio - and said yes!

Mixed Greens - Video Walk through and photos

VIDEO WALK THROUGH

PAPER MATCH

- PAPER MATCH -

34 artists shows newly produced works in relation to paper, spanning from sculptures to drawings and conceptual work. The venue, Halmlageret, is an abandoned building in the Carlsberg area of Copenhagen, complimenting the fragile paper work with it's brutal space. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Vandret with texts by Lisbeth Bonde and Barry Phipps. Curated by Johan Rosenmunthe and Artist Wendy Plovmand. 

Exhibition:
Open: 21. September - 13. October, Tue-Sat @ 14:00 - 18:00
Halmlageret Ny Carlsberg Vej 84 Copenhagen, Denmark

Participating artists:
Andreas Schulenburg Asger Carlsen Cai-Ulrich von Platen Christian Falsnaes Christina Malbek Eske Kath Flemming Ove Bech Gudrun Hasle Henrik Menné Ida Kvetny Jakob Hunosøe Johan Rosenmunthe Jonas Hvid Søndergaard Kaspar Oppen Samuelsen Kasper Sonne Krista Rosenkilde Frédéric Dilé Lotte Fløe Christensen Malene Nors Tardrup Markus von Platen Mie Mørkeberg Mie Olise Melou Vanggaard Peter Funch Rasmus Danø Rose Eken Sian Kristoffersen Sidse Carstens Sophie Kalckar Theis Wendt Tomas Lagermand Lundme Tove Storch Viktoria Wendel Skousen Wendy Plovmand Yvette Brackman

Mie Olise. A Way In, 30 x 40 x 5 cm, Cardboard cut framed in Box, 2012

COPENHAGEN ART FESTIVAL 2012

I am proud to ba a part of Copenhagen Art Festival. I will be in the videoprogramme ILOVIT, Jeppe Heins public art project at Højbro Plads.The festival is organised by the five art centres and together they have developed the concept for the festival. A number of other cultural institutions dedicated to architecture, film and music are also contributing to the festival with interdisciplinary projects. In total the festival will give an outstanding opportunity for the audiences to experience what is happening on the contemporary art scene right now.

Copenhagen Art Festival will open 24. August 2012 with an event-packed programme until 2. September. Hereafter the newly opened exhibitions will continue throughout the autumn. The festival is one of the major presentations of international contemporary art in the region. 

Copenhagen Art Festival presents a multifaceted exhibition programme with art works by Danish and international artists. The festival will take place in the streets and squares of the inner city of Copenhagen and at the major contemporary art centres: Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art and Kunstforeningen GL STRAND




http://www.cph-artfestival.org/index.php?lang=en#/home 

         

Searching Artists: Bas Jan Ader, Arianna Carossa and Mie Olise at Mixed Greens New York

Searching

Artists: Bas Jan Ader, Arianna Carossa and Mie Olise

September 6 – October 6, 2012

Opening: Thursday, September, 6-8pm

Mixed Greens is thrilled to present Searching, a group exhibition focusing on the work of Bas Jan Ader, Arianna Carossa and Mie Olise. All three artists explore formal and conceptual ghosts, romanticism, and myth.  Through open-ended narratives and juxtapositions, their work comes to represent an artist’s timeless search for connection and communication.

It is often said that a sailor’s boat becomes an extension of himself.  In Searching, the artists use the horizon, the ocean, and the vessel as stand-ins for their own quests for meaning. Their work is an extension of their personal histories and research. All three are searching for something that is more easily felt than named, and the process of searching is far more important than any one object of the search.  

                                                                 Jan Bas Ader - In search of the Miracoulous

1975, Bas Jan Ader completed an exhibition that was intended to be part one of a three-part project titled In Search of the Miraculous.  Part two consisted of setting off on a small boat to traverse the Atlantic alone. Nine months after embarking from Cape Cod, Spanish fishermen found his boat and he was never heard from again.  His life was a search for limits and what lies beyond the horizon. Each piece in his short career explored gravity, absurdity, challenge, and failure. Through his disappearance, he has left us searching and he entrusts us to continue his project. 

 

 

                                                                               Olises studio in Copenhagen, july 2012

Mie Olise’s work is fundamentally about searching—both literally and metaphorically.  Her recent work explores her family history in relationship to the characters from the fictional writings of Danish author Aksel Sandemose (Olise grew up off the Island of Mors on a boat called Espen Arnakke, taken from the name of Sandemose’s main character).  Through her paintings of floating vessels and a video where she plays an abandoned ship as a musical instrument, Olise invites the viewer to a specific place and time where fact and fiction overlap, melt, and morph. Through constant retelling, Olise recontextualizes her own story to the point of universal

                                                                                          Adriana Carossa, Nurture Art, 2011.

Arianna Carossa’s body of work consists of sculpture, photographs, and objects inspired by the Argo, a mythical boat said to posses the gift of language and transformation. Using the anthropomorphized vessel as a starting point, Carossa builds moveable boat fragments that possess meaning based on their contexts.  The mythical and nautical topics deconstruct and expand to include tools and images that work together to create a narrative. When placed in close proximity to one another, the objects begin to converse with each other and the viewer.  A series of photographs taken from UFO sightings found on the Internet, for instance, reference a never-ending quest for connection and the limits between truth and fiction, nature and culture. Another series of photos that place hand-made paper objects in majestic arctic landscapes imply a timeless voyage and man’s search for self-discovery.

Finished - my first permanent commission,-)

After I came back from New York I headed north to work on my first commission. A climbing cliffscape for the older kids to hang out on, it will contain sound, lights, cartoons and some secrets to discover... It is now open for everybody to experience,-)

KLIPPEN at Helsingør Kulturværft / Commission.

The building proces at the amazing old ship wharf started yesterday and progess is happening quite fast. Tomorrow the Douglas wood is arriving from the sawmill, and we are ready to cover the structure,-)