HOSTING

COMMON GROUND exhibition series - October 2024

ARTISTS :
Marie Kaae
Marie Vedel and Tringa Gashi
Anne Langgaard
Natasja Loutchko

For the opening of HOSTING, choreographer, dancer and producer Marie Kaae invited the audience to experience the hidden spaces of the gallery, in a performance influenced by house culture and house dance. Installing a most often closed room for visitors of Celsius Projects, Marie Vedel and Tringa Gashi presented a photographic score composed of script-like images and notes. Taking these as starting points and with the adjoining rooms with car mechanic workshops and randomly stored left-over objects as

a backdrop, an experimental film emerged shown parallel with a performance by the artist duo at the exhibitions finissage. In the main gallery room, Anne Langgaard’s sculptures functioned as playful reminders of the magical potential of everyday life and objects. Their importance, presence and poetry, and the values of the seemingly insignificant and unimportant of shared realities, strengthen the awareness of being alive. As a small haven to sit and stay, Natasja Loutchko’s video works were presented at the back of the gallery in a Beautiful Hall. They are reflections on intimacy, (dis)connections, crisis and care systems, and mismanagement, about the spaces in between and about mothering both oneself and others. The works use play as a practice to explore how one can navigate inner sensitive landscapes together within a healing process, for instance as two people dance with their inner ghosts, draped in their grandmother’s old linens. The Beautiful Hall will was adjusted and activated during a food-related performance by the artist at the end of the exhibition period. Besides hosting artists, visitors, and performances, the different works in the exhibition co-existed hosting each other.

Arranged by Elísabet Anna Kristjánsdóttir and Janneke Schoene.

Photo credit: Elísabet Anna Kristjánsdóttir

With support from: