Author: Karen Land Hansen

You are very welcome to the talk on Monday Februar 6th at 5.30 pm. The talk takes place at The Factory of Art and Design and is part of the OCEAN GRID exhibition series. Senior Researcher Verner Brandbyge Ernstsen vil talk about GEUS’ work concerning the mapping of the seabed close to the islands of Hirsholmene in Kattegat. Karen Land Hansen will talk about the works in the exhibition and the project and collaboration with GEUS.

The OCEAN GRID exhibition at The Factory of Art and Design is the second of three exhibitions which mark the launch of a new project and collaboration between GEUS (The National Survey of Denmark and Greenland) and Karen Land Hansen.

The exhibitions are generously supported by Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond and Amager Vest Lokaludvalg.

The exhibition is open from February 2nd – 12th 2023. Address: Sundholmsvej 46, 2300 Copenhagen S. Opening hours: Monday – Wednesday 12-6 pm. Thursday to Saturday at 10 am – 2 pm. or after appointment.

The exhibition is the second of three exhibitions which mark the launch of a new project and collaboration between GEUS (The National Survey of Denmark and Greenland) and Karen Land Hansen.

The exhibitions are generously supported by Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond and Amager Vest Lokaludvalg

You are very welcome to the opening of OCEAN GRID at the Factory of Art and Design.

This Autumn GEUS (the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland) and I will launch the first manifestation of our collaboration: A series of exhibitions, workshops and events at GEUS, at the Factory of Art on Design and at Maskinhallen in Copenhagen. More information on this project will follow.

Photography by Marie Flarup Kristensen

During the months of May and June Art at Sjaelsmark organised a series of workshops at the asylum centers Sjælsmark and Avnstrup. We made clay and ceramic plates as part of the social art project ‘CERAMICS FOR TEA AND DIALOGUE’.

 – Encouraging dialogue through a universal act of generousity

CERAMICS FOR TEA AND DIALOGUE is a social art project at Sjælsmark and Avnstrup (2021-). Residents at Sjælsmark and Avnstrup participate in collective clay workshops and create a series of unique ceramic plates – or teapot stands. The participants keep the ceramic works or they can choose to donate them to the project if they wish. The teapot stands are exhibited and are subsequently given to individuals to encourage their work for human rights.

Each piece is as unique as the person who created it. It tells its own story in images, colours and gestures. The idea behind these beautiful ceramic works is to encourage conversations that focus on improving the rights of migrants and refugees in Denmark and globally. It is imperative that we treat migrants and refugees with human dignity and that we work to achieve justice for all.

Serving a cup of tea is a universal act of generosity. We encourage everyone who has one of these special teapot stands to invite a guest for tea and dialogue towards achieving dignified and human solutions. We believe that communication is the way forward  and that aesthetic, artistic and moral values are important elements in this process.

CERAMICS FOR TEA AND DIALOGUE is supported by Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond, Toyota-Fonden and Silica Nordic. The project is organised by Art at Sjælsmark with artists Tine Hecht-Pedersen, Hanne Ravn Hermansen, Tine Jakobsen, Gitte Ladegaard, Tina Kallehave, Marie Flarup Kristensen and Karen Land Hansen, working together with the Red Cross. Thanks also to staff at Sjælsmark and Avnstrup, Mette Ussing, Eoin Mac Lochlainn, Margrethe Auken, Else Marie Bukdahl, Red Barnet Ungdom.