Art Weekend Under the Dark Sky
Art Weekend Under the Dark Sky took place in June 2024 and was a weekend dedicated to art, talks, music, performance and sound at Kunstrum Fyn. The weekend program included an international group exhibition with the artists Wolfgang Tillmans (DE/UK), Birgit Johnsen & Hanne Nielsen (DK), Louise Beer (NZ/UK), Marian Wijnvoord (NL/DE) and HC Gilje (NO), a live program with musician and composer Sidsel Nørgaard Nielsen (DK), DJ Kurt Vildgren (NO) and artist Susanne Christensen (DK), artist talks & conversations, and special activities for children.
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans is a German artist working with photography, video, installations, music and sound. part of our Art Weekend Under the Dark Sky. At Kunstrum Fyn he presented his newest work “Build from Here” (2024) alongside “Moon in Earthlight” from 2021, both full-length music albums and films. This interplay of sound and image — what the artist calls “audio photography” — underscores the performative nature of music and its role in bringing people together.
In a career spanning almost four decades, Tillmans has consistently redefined the medium of photography through a seamless integration of genres, subjects, techniques, and exhibition strategies. In addition to his expansive photographic work, his practice extends to include musical recording and songwriting, as well as significant engagements with architecture and design. His foundation, Between Bridges, supports the advancement of democracy, international understanding, the arts and LGBTQ+ rights.
Louise Beer
Louise Beer is an artist born in Aotearoa New Zealand. She now works between London, Margate and Aotearoa. Louise uses installation, moving image, photography, writing, participatory works and sound to explore humanity's evolving understanding of Earth’s environments and the cosmos.
Her experience of living under two types of night sky, the first in low level light polluted areas in Aotearoa, and the second in higher level light polluted cities and towns in England, has deeply informed her practice. As light pollution increases around the world humanity is losing a symbolic visual connection to the cosmos, shared by our ancestors throughout history. She explores how living under dark skies, or light polluted skies, can change our perception of grief, the climate crisis and Earth’s deep time history and future.
Hanne Nielsen & Birgit Johnsen
Working with video, documentary and installations since 1993, Nielsen and Johnsen`s investigative and experimental approach to video, has given them pioneer status on the Danish art scene.
“In the video installation Particles, Nielsen and Johnsen perform as a kind of female clones of the past plague doctor and a futuristically dressed scientist. Together, they wander through Tarkovsky-inspired scenes - an overgrown fun park, overgrown ruins, a rocky landscape and burning fields - equipped with drones, tools and measuring equipment. Drones flying in jerky movements act as the performers' extended arm and provide vertical perspective, to be able to travel through time and space
Marian Wijnvoord
Wijnvoord is a painter whose work comes close to a certain definition of painting itself: the illusion of space created on a flat surface. When we look at her work, we see brushstrokes - colour and nothing more.
Yet we believe in the space within the painting. Contradictions guide us through her works: Figuration versus abstraction, the physicality of colour versus the transience of the image. The magic of her painting lies in the moments when the two worlds meet.
HC Gilje
HC Gilje presented his site-specific light installation Ebb & Flow, a work commissioned for our indoor silo last year in connection with Tårup Dark Sky Festival.
HC Gilje has moved between installation, experimental video, live performance and set design since he graduated from the intermedia department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim in 1999.
For over a decade HC has been working with a general idea arching over his various projects, called Conversations with Spaces, where he looks at different ways of transforming spaces using light, projection, sound and motion: ephemeral media that create temporary transformations of physical spaces, which in turn influences how we experience these spaces. Questions of how we live our lives through our bodies, how we place ourselves in time and space, how we relate to others and our environment, and how technology is deeply entangled in the answers to these questions are important motivations for his work.
Photos from Art Weekend Under the Dark Sky
