This is now the third time the two Central Jutland visual artists Marianne T. Pedersen and Lotte Kejser are exhibiting together. This time it is in Pakhuset in Viborg. The first MINDstof exhibition could be experienced in autumn 2020 in Museum Ovartaci’s Pop-up museum in Aarhus N and the second in Helligåndshuset in Randers in the spring of 2022. A common feature of MINDstof exhibitions is a focus on colour, shape, thought and the mind but also on man.
The exhibition thematizes war, the use of force and war trauma through the multi-voicedness that the three artists’ works create in the encounter with each other. Seen in the light of the war in Ukraine, the theme of the horrors and secrecy of war has gained renewed force and relevance
Marianne T. Pedersen’s precise and executed to perfection textile works revolve around power, body, fetish, desire and representation. In this context, she has created a series of works that speak to a childhood memory of the forbidden forest, Undallslund, near Viborg. The forest where children were not allowed to come because it was haunted by evil forces, ever since the Danish law enforcement executed 16 collaborators there, after the end of World War II.
Lotte Kejser deals with the 16 executed in the minutes before they are hit by the killing bullets. She uses, among other things, his expressive and semi-figurative style to portray the states of mind of the executed shortly before the killings.
Through lending works from Hans Horn’s family, Hans Horn has also had a voice in this exhibition about the dark shadows of war. Hans Horn himself spent his whole life, after serving the German army on the Eastern Front, to process his own war traumas. He was a self-taught visual artist and left behind a rich image and test material, which has been collected and produced with great success by Tom Buk-Swienty in the book “Det Ensomme Hjerte.”
In dialogue with Hans Horn, who cultivated the flower as a metaphorical figure in his heart-rending artistic processing of the horrors of war – and perhaps also as a break from the inner images of the horrors of war – Lotte Kejser and Marianne T. Pedersen also work with flower motifs. They have – as a reference to Kaj Munk’s poem “The blue anemone” – chosen to work with the blue anemone.
There will be 2 lectures in connection with the exhibition: “Light and darkness – the painter Hans Horn” by museum director and art historian Christian Kortegaard Madsen and “On the executions in Undallslund Forest” by museum inspector, Ph.D. Dorte Kook Lyngholm. It is free to participate, but it is necessary to register by 10.4 at the latest. to lotte@lotte-kejser.dk
In addition, Marianne T. Pedersen and Lotte Kejser will hold artist talks and there will be a workshop with the blue anemone as the theme. It is free to participate in the workshop, but registration is required no later than 31.3. to marianne@skrikesvej.dk
There will be a vernissage on April 4 at 16 – 18 with an opening speech by head of culture Steen Lindgaard.
Free admission
