Luxuria // part ii

23. marts - 4. april
Pavillon No. 11 Kronprinsessegade 11, Kbh K

Luxuria // Desire & Deception

March 8th, 5-7pm, 2019
Pavillon No. 11 Kronprinsessegade 11, Kbh K

Luxuria is an exhibition about desire and deception. Our craving for luxurious excess and our longing for pleasure. Danish artist Mie Mogensen will exhibit works in two shows at Pavillon No 11 in King’s Garden in Copenhagen.
The first show will offer an array of juicy fruits and attractive vegetables, a largescale alluring relief on the wall and pompous ceramics. A kind of large-format still life installation, where all the works are part of a larger narrative that revolves around the sinful surrender to luxuria aka lust, which the Italian theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas noted as one of seven deadly sins.
With abundance, ambiguous motives and material effects Mogensen reminds us of how extravagance is a human urge in all of us.
The following show will be a shadow story of the first. It will be more ascetic and reduced to the colours black and white. The works will be in 2D and resonate the consequences of uncontrolled submission.
Inspired by the baroque and it’s aesthetics, Mogensen makes use of a recognizable imagery and updates the medieval moral doctrine in a contemporary manner. With Rosenborg Castle in the background and King Christian the IV's great appetite for life and his hazardous lifestyle, Mogensen mirrors the lively king's beloved renaissance castle and the inciting works in the small pavilion emphasizing the mutual issues at stake.

Mie Mogensen has an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, 2013. Mogensen has primarily exhibited in the USA, where she has had solo shows and participated in group exhibitions. She has been based in San Francisco, London and Reykjavik and is now residing in Copenhagen. Mogensen works in a broad field of media such as drawing, ceramics, concrete, vinyl and video.

Dansk:
Luxuria // Begær & Fortabelse

Luxuria er en udstilling om begær, lyst og fortabelse - vores hang til overmål og svaghed for det luksuriøse. Mie Mogensen vil i Pavillon No 11 i Kongens Have vise værker fordelt over to udstillinger.
Den første udstilling vil byde på et opbud af saftige frugter og tillokkende grøntsager, et stort dragende relief på væggen og pompøs keramik. En art iscenesat stilleben i storformat. Udstillingen er en totalinstallation, hvor alle værkerne er del af en større fortælling, der kredser om det syndige i at give sig hen og lægge under for luxuria; nydelsessygen, som den italienske teolog og

filosof Thomas Aquinas optegnede som en af syv dødssynder. Med sine tvetydige motiver og materialevirkninger præsenterer Mogensen os for det rigelige, og minder os om overdrivelsen som en menneskelig drift i os alle.
Den efterfølgende udstilling vil være en form for skyggefortælling til den første. Den vil være mere asketisk og reduceret til farverne sort og hvid. Værkerne vil være i 2D og resonere vrangsiden og konsekvensen af den ukontrollerede fortabelse.
Med inspiration i barokkens formsprog og æstetik spiller Mogensen op af et genkendeligt billedsprog og den middelalderlige morallære bliver gjort aktuel og nærværende. Med Rosenborg i baggrunden og Christian d. IVs risikovillige livsstil trækker Mogensen, med sine æggende værker, tråde mellem den livfulde konges afholdte renæssanceslot og den lille pavillon i haven.

Mie Mogensen har en MFA fra San Francisco Art Institute, 2013. Mogensen har primært udstillet i USA, hvor hun har haft soloshows og deltaget i gruppeudstillinger. Hun har boet i San Fransisco, London og Reykjavik og er nu bosiddende i København. Mogensen arbejder i et bredt felt af medier som tegning, keramik, beton, vinyl og video.

75-året for oktober '43

Fra slut september og ind i oktober 2018, afholder menneskeretsforeningen, Humanity In Action, i anledning af 75-året for oktober '43, hvor jøder og andre forfulgte blev hjulpet over Øresund, en auktion og gruppeudstilling i Politikens Hus’ forhal.
Seks tusinde jødiske danskere flygtede til Sverige. Fem hundrede blev tilbageholdt og sendt til Theresienstadt.

Humanity in Action vil med pengene fra auktionen oprette et årligt ”Oktober 43-rejselegat” for unge, som arbejder med menneskerettigheder og mindretalsbeskyttelse.

Værket som Mie Mogensen har doneret til auktionen hedder ”Nat”. 

Mie Mogensen om værket: 
”Billedet er en del af en serie, jeg har malet, der handler om afsked. 
Jeg har beskæftiget mig med afskeden som en overgang til noget nyt eller en noget nødvendigt. Jeg prøver at vise en dobbelthed i billedet, hvor det aldrig er klart, hvem der skal afsted, og hvor de er på vej hen.”

De medvirkende kunstneres værker kan ses her.

Sted: Politkens Hus’ Fohal
Dato: 21. september 2018, klokken 16-18
Dato for auktion: 23. oktober 2018, klokken 16-18
Link: Kunsten.nu

Home is where the House is
29th June – 1st of July 2018

Article ablut the show

Secrets, longings, dilemmas and ghosts are exposed and explored when Danish artist Mie Mogensen and American artist Carissa Potter let you peek inside a private home, which has been transformedinto a fictional domestic space.
Odd kitchenware, unbridled plants, dark and amorphous ceramic objects, and a huge book case ofwritings are some of the works which have inhabited the homely space. The two artists twist and turn life paradoxes and human conditions with their confessions and exposed fragility. They alsocelebrate creative women and examine the empowerment of sharing and articulating suchvulnerable and compromising issues.

The installation elements are all related to the interior functions. They are somehow in dialogue or disruptive interaction with the connotations of a domestic space.
In a greenhouse in the backyard there will be a sound piece which comprises, taboos, andconversation topics the two artists have engaged with throughout the recent years.

Mie Mogensen received her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2013. Mogensen has primarily exhibited in the US, where she has had solo exhibitions and participated in group shows. She has lived in San Francisco, and London, and she is now based in Copenhagen. Mogensen works in awide range of media such as drawing, ceramics, concrete, vinyl and video, where she speaks of theartist role, draws up narratives and personal life stories.

Carissa Potter has received her MFA in printmaking in 2015 from the San Francisco Art Institute. Potter lives and works in Oakland, California. She primarily works with drawing, printed works, and assembled objects. Her drawings, prints and writings are humorous and poignant comments on life situations. She is a founding member of Colpa Press and founder of People I’ve Loved by which she has published books, created ceramic projects and printed textiles.

The artists will be present during the visiting hours.

Past Shows 2018

March 2018

With a Little Bit of Luck, We'll Make it Through the Night

Bass and Reiner

A two-persons show with Carissa Potter and Mie Mogensen. Through a visual correspondance of large ink drawings, Carissa and Mie create an intimate space of longings and dreams with interior as framework.

• Pre-opening, workshop and performance March 3rd 2018.

• Opening March 10th 2018

• Workshop/performance March 16th