SPRING SHOW: POTENTIAL POWER
Opening Saturday, April 26, 1-4 pm
This spring, we celebrate the power and talent of five of the gallery’s artists: Maiken Bent, Mette Winckelmann, Miriam Kongstad, Maria Wæhrens, and Hannah Heilmann. The works have been carefully curated because they, in their essence, show a fighting spirit and an ability to go against already accepted notions. This is the strength we celebrate in the gallery's spring exhibition!
In too many parts of the world, we are witnessing a rollback of hard-won rights for women, alongside a broader decline in basic human rights and freedoms for many other groups. Time and again, we see those in power restricting people’s freedom, freedom of speech, and the opportunity to grow intellectually, socially, and physically. This is deeply concerning, and it is precisely why we have chosen to present works created in a spirit of resistance, deconstruction, and a desire to show the world a different path.
The human body is central to this exhibition, as the artists explore questions and forms of resistance to contemporary norms, oppression, and anti-democratic tendencies. Together, the works form a large-scale presentation across different media. On the gallery wall stretches a more than 3.5-meter-wide constructivist painting by Mette Winckelmann, echoing the rhythm of Miriam Kongstad’s battery-like sculptures lying side by side on the floor. At the top step, a near animalistic-futuristic standing frame for handicapped children by Maiken Bent is mounted to the floor with colorful kettlebells, facing Hannah Heilmann’s three large-scale, dark photograms of souls departing from church-like lancet windows. At the back of the gallery, paintings from Maria Wæhrens’ archive reflect sexual expression and identity in the machine age, capturing bodies entangled in wires and machinery.
Each work in the exhibition invites dialogue with the viewer. Bodies hang in suspension, teeth grind, energy is building — in these dark times, conversations are mere tools for vigorous objects. Charged and ready with their potential power. Do they offer comfort from a caring, feminist perspective? Or are they lethal, ready to explode?
