I am working in the studio on my next solo show at Duve Berlin. Please join us at the opening on march 7.
Friday, February 7, 2014
"Between the Statum and the Unstable" @ Duve Berlin
I am working in the studio on my next solo show at Duve Berlin. Please join us at the opening on march 7.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
ZONA MACO 2014
I am happy to participate again in this years Zona Maco.
The Fair is on feb 5-9 2014
I am showing at Toca Galaeria.
http://zonamaco.com
SAWMILL ON STILTS, 230x195 cm, 2012
The Fair is on feb 5-9 2014
I am showing at Toca Galaeria.
http://zonamaco.com
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Dilapidated Constructions I Kunsthalle Philara I Dusseldorf
Dilpidated Constructions at Kunsthalle Philara in Dusseldorf Nov 7 - Dec 6 2013.
In 2013, I have been working on new paintings, getting closer to the architectural constructions and into them, this pushes the work towards a bigger abstraction.
I am very excited to see this work alongside Watergame from the Skive New Museum of Art show, which also will be included in the show.
The exhibition-space has a lot of columns that I will work with through a wooden structure where I will construct a new space within the space and show the video work "playing ship" in a very small frame on one pillar.
narrowhouse, model, 1:50
the show is supported by:
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
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.
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!
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
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
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Sunday, March 24, 2013
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
Friday, March 1, 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.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
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
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
Monday, January 7, 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.
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...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Back in New York
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!
