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Current & Upcoming
2025 Kiruna Overdrive, Planetary Expeditions #3 (with Karsten Wind Meyhoff), Antipyrine.
2025 Planetary Aesthetics (152 pages), A Mock Book, Copenhagen
2025 Habitat - Art Souterrain Festival (group), Montreal, Canada.
2025 Archi-Nature (group), Galerie MøllerWitt, Copenhagen.
2025 European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (screening of videofilms from Melting Barricades).
About
I have in my practice been investigating the ideologies of architectural modernism and how modern architecture attempted to create a new framework for human life. Primarily through painting, but also installation and sculpture I have attempted to capture the utopian aspirations of the early modernism, parallel with an understanding of the negative aspects of modernism and its unintended consequences. Currently very interested in the rewilding of Denmark and how architecture can integrate a sensibility towards non-human nature into its aesthetic dimension.
Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen
b. 1977, Aeroe, (DK). Lives and works in Copenhagen.
Education
2003-09 MFA, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen.
2007-08 Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg.
2004-05 CCA Research Program, Kitakyushu, Japan.
1996-03 MA in literature and philosophy, University of Copenhagen.
Solo exhibitions
2024 Melting Barricades (with Inuk Silis Høegh), Nuuk Art Museum, Kalaallit Nunaat.
2024 Fake Empire, Gallery Kant, Copenhagen.
2023 New Denmark, BioKuben, Islands Brygges Culture House, Copenhagen.
2023 MISC Athens (with Mihalis Zacharias), Athens.
2023 Revisions & Postscripts (with Mihalis Zacharias), Prospect, Copenhagen.
2023 The Surge, Gallery Kant, Copenhagen.
2023 Arena, Gallery DGV, Svendborg.
2022 Sunset Waltzing (with Karsten Wind Meyhoff), X-and-Beyond, curator Jacob Lillemose, Copenhagen.
2021 More News from Nowhere Gallery Kant, Copenhagen.
2021 Privacy (Wilding), Kastrupgaardsamlingen, Copenhagen.
2020 Sketches, Skitsehandlen, Faaborg.
2019 Area X (with Ulrik Møller), DGV Gallery, Svendborg.
2019 Lost in Space, Gallery Kant, Copenhagen.
2019 Total Transformation, Galerie MøllerWitt, Aarhus.
2018 Demolition, Gallery Kant, Copenhagen.
2018 The House of Being, Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg.
2017 Tectonical (with Florian Schmidt), Fold Gallery, London.
2016 The Territorial Trap, Gallery Kant, Copenhagen.
2016 New Buildings (with Jesper Rasmussen), Galerie MøllerWitt, Aarhus.
2014 The Infinity Complex, Galleri Kant, Copenhagen.
2013 Approximations, Charlottenburg Amtsgericht, Berlin.
2013 Look at this World, Fold Gallery, London
2012 Blue Devils, Galerie MøllerWitt, Aarhus, Denmark.
2011 The Future Begins at Home, Rønnebæksholm ArtCenter, Denmark.
2010 Estrangement City, Politikens Galleri, Copenhagen.
2010 Meditations on the Uncanny, Helene Nyborg Contemporary, Copenhagen.
2008 Life in the Box, Helene Nyborg Contemporary, Copenhagen.
2007 Supernumeral (with Emil W. Hertz), Marstal Museum, Aeroe.
2006 Mentalscapes, Helene Nyborg Contemporary, Copenhagen.
2006 Frontal/Sideways, The Scandinavian House, Prague.
2004 Melting Barricades (with Inuk Silis Høegh), North Atlantic House, Copenhagen, and Katuaq, Nuuk, Greenland.
2004 Collapsing Structures (with Rune Søchting and Jonas Olesen), The Projectroom, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen.
Selected group exhibitions
2024 Flussbad Auction, Bundesstiftung Baukultur, Berlin (group).
2024 (Auto) Destruction and Against It (group), Danube Dialoges Festival, Contemporary Art Museum, Novi Sad.
2024 Presented Melting Barricades as part of 'Pia Arke - Silences and Stories' at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton.
2023 Kunstnernes København, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen.
2023 Nature-Scapes, Geoscience - curated by SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen.
2022 Uferhallen Kunstaktien. N.B.K. Berlin.
2022 Melting Barricades (with Inuk Silis Høegh) in New Red Order,
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen.
2021 Gå!, Sophienholm Art Museum, Copenhagen.
2021 Greenlandic Art 300 Years, Museum of Religious Art, Lemvig.
2020 Architectoniques, Ecolinth, Geneva, Switzerland.
2019 GRAFIK GRAFIK GRAFIK,Kastrupgaardsamlingen.
2019 Beyond the Sea, Sydhavnsambassaden.
2019 Carry On, Fold Gallery, London.
2018 Facing Concrete, Gallery Kant, Copenhagen.
2018 Floating Art, Vejle Art Museum (project ‘Flooded Modernity’).
2017 IDEALS – Concrete Art Then and Now, Randers Art Museum.
2017 Scenario, DGV Gallery, Svendborg, Denmark.
2017 IDEALS – Concrete Art Then and Now, Esbjerg Art Museum.
2017 Show Me The Money, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde.
2016 Good Fortune, No Blame, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen.
2016 IDEALS – Concrete Art Then and Now, Fuglsang Art Museum.
2016 Aeroe Dog Days – Art & Music Festival, Aeroe, Denmark.
2016 Either Those Curtains, Fold Gallery, London.
2016 50x50x50, Kastrupgaard Art Museum, Copenhagen.
2015 BASTARD – Claus Carstensens Collection, Esbjerg Art Museum
2015 3-1 Kunstaktion, Aros, Aarhus.
2015 White Energy, Galleri Kant, Copenhagen.
2014 Stetige Wiederkehr des Utopischen, Trittau, Germany
2013 Winter Exhibition, Galleri Kant, Copenhagen.
2012 Needle In A Cloud, Fold Gallery, London
2011 Enter II, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark.
2011 Primitive Accumulation, Fold Gallery, London.
2011 Uferhallen Kunstaktien, Uferhallen, Berlin.
2011 3-1 Kunstauktion, Kunsten, Aalborg.
2011 Painterly Delight II, Ystad Konstmuseum, Sweden.
2010 Geist III, Auguststr. 17, Berlin.
2010 No Food No Drink No Sticky Lollies, Stadtbad Wedding, Berlin.
2010 Painterly Delight, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Denmark.
2010 Greetings to Ib Geertsen, Danish Graphic Center, Copenhagen.
2010 Radical Adults, The Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin.
2010 CRW – Contemporary Reflections on Warfare, BKS Garage, Copenhagen.
2010 Copenhagen City Art Collection 2006-2009.
2010 The Hello Show, Helene Nyborg Contemporary, Copenhagen.
2010 Art in the Blood, Utzon Center, Aalborg.
2010 A Formal Figure, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin.
2009 Out of Wedding, UferHallen, Berlin.
2009 Exit, Gl. Strand, Copenhagen.
2008 InnenRaum, Galerie MøllerWitt, Aarhus, Denmark.
2007 Autolabor, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam e.V., Germany.
2007 PT07, Vestjyllands Kunstmuseum, Tistrup, Denmark.
2006 Proverbs, Portalen, Greve, Denmark.
2006 Re-thinking Nordic Colonialism, The Living Art Museum, Nifka, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2006 Contemporary Art, Spring Exhibition, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen.
2004 Typhoon, Maeda Studio, Kitakyushu, Japan.
2004 Minority Report, Aarhus, Denmark.
2003 Young Contemporary Art, Frederiks Bastion, Copenhagen and Inkonst, Malmø, Sweden.
Bibliography
2025 Review of Melting Barricades on NPR by Juana Summers read
2025 Why We Fight, B20 Editorial collective Watch
2025 Defending Greenland - interview (together Inuk Silis Høegh) by Louise Steiwer, Kunstkritiikk. Read
2025 Da Grønland fik sin egen hær - interview by Jesper Hansen, Sermitsiaq, Nuuk.
2024 Ermächtigung der Ästhetik, by Mikala Holme Samsøe, Die Arkitekt, nr. 4, p. 51.
2024 Anthropocene Metabolism, article published in Green and Low-Economy Journal. Read
2024 'Flooded Modernity' in Décoloniser l'architecture by Mathias Rollot, le passager clandestin, p. 91.
2023 Review of 'Terra Nova', by Bror Axel Dehn, Information, 13th January. read
2022 'Øko-fiktion i international klasse', review by Freddy Hagen, Pio read
2022 Re-Upcycling, catalogue text for Aeroe Sculpture Biennal.
2022 'Kunstværk, udenværk og visuel kultur', p. 504-507, analysis by Anders Troelsen, Aarhus Universitetsforlag.
2021 'Die Architectur braucht den Unfall', by Laurent Stalder, p. 37, NZZ, 31st Oct. Switzerland.
2021 'Fjendebilleder', review by Martin Keiding, in Arkitekten 06, August, p. 30-31.
2021 'Det intimiderende Parcelhus', review by Peter Michael Hornung, Politiken, 15th of June.
2021 'Ein Blick zurück weist den Weg nach vorn', interpretation of 'Flooded Modernity', by Fabio Merlini, Skilled no.2, p. 22-23.
2020 'Aesthetics of the Anthropocene', contribution to Handbook of Business Legitimacy: Responsibility, Ethics and Society, ed. Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, Springer Verlag. Read.
2020 'Modernism', contribution to 'Connectedness', publication by the Danish Pavillon, Venice Biennale for Architecture, Strandberg Publishing . Read
2020 Interview, Louisiana Channel. Watch.
2019 'Manifest for en ny Natur i Danmark', Manifest Stafet, Arkitekturforlagt B.
2019 'Flooded Modernity', Point of Design, Poland, January Issue, p. 98-97.
2019 'The Man Who Sank Villa Savoye', ICON Eye Magazine, London, Issue 187, p. 54-58.
Read article here
2018 Translation of ‘Non-philosophy and Contemporary Art’ into Serbian-Croation by ‘GCP’ (Group for Conceptual Politics), Novi Sad.
2018 Contribution to ‘100 years Bauhaus’, Edition DETAIL.
2018 Artist Sinks Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye in Danish Fjord, ICON EYE, 27th July, 2018.
2018 Bag facaden – og det menneskelige arkiv, review by Trine R. Andersen, Kunsten.nu, April, 2018. Read
2018 Det Konkrete bliver Metafysisk, review by Mai Misfeldt, Kristelig Dagblad, 4th April, 2018. Review
2018 The House of Being, catalogue, Viborg Kunsthal, 2018.
2017 New Danish Art, interview by Lisbeth Bonde, Gyldendal, Copenhagen. Order here
2017 Tectonical, review by Laurence Noga, Saturation Point, May 2017. Read
2017 Det Frosne Danmark, Danmark – en kolonimagt, Gads Forlag, p. 439, 2017.
2017 Fascineret af Fremmedgørelse og Rationalitet, interview, Fyns Amts Avis, 22th of February.
2017 Non-philosophy and Contemporary Art – 4 essays published at Kunsten.nu, 6th, 13th, 20th & 27th February.
2016 Livet forsvinder og bliver til Materiale, essay on Emil Westman Hertz, Politiken, 11th Nov. Read
2016 Bybilleder (red. Scavenius & Michalaelis), Strandberg Publishing, p. 304-305.
2016 Arkitekten – Magazine, Volume 118, 6th of June, p. 8.
2016 Psykologiske Rum, Information, 27th May.
2016 For Mig er Arkitekturen en Måde at Fortælle Historier På, interview, Kunsten.nu, April. Read
2016 Artistoftheweek.dk, interview, April.
2015 Art and Economy, radio-interview by Michael Müller, P1 28 Dec.
2015 RUM-Magazine (cover story), Stockholm, Sweden, Oct.
2015 Man Rejser i Linjer, interview, Regnfang, March.
2015 Demo Mod Vinter, Kunsten.nu, Feb.
2015 Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Den Store Danske Encyclopædi, Sept. Read
2014 Latest Works: Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Formagramma, Siracusa, Italy, Nov.
2014 Positive Propaganda, interview, Aripaev newspaper, Estonia, Oct.
2014Imagine Architecture. Artistic Visions of the Urban Realm, p. 64-65. Gestalten, Ed. Lukas Feireiss, Aug.
2014 Sven Nommesen: Structure as Habitat. Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsens View of Cities and Images, in catalogue: Stetige Wiederkehr des Utopischen, Wassermühle Trittau, Feb.
2013 Mit Berlin, DR K, 30 min. documentary on national television, Oct.
2013 Approximations in Grüntuch Ernst Dialoges, Distanz Verlag, Berlin, Aug.
2012 Malene Birkelund: Videnskaben lagt i blød, Fyens Stiftstidende, 19. Dec.
2012 Arne de Boer: Stand By for Hyperdrive, Text for Blue Devils exhibition, Nov.
2012 Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Kunsten.nu., Nov.
2011 Enter II, catalogue, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense.
2011 The Future Begins at Home, catalogue, Rønnebæksholm, Næstved.
2011 Dina Feilberg: Subtile Undersøgelser af Rum, Kunstmagasinet Janus, Juni.
2011 Arne de Boer: New Wounds, in Primitive Accumulation, catalogue, London.
2010 Estrangement City, Politiken, October 28th.
2010 Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Information, July 24th.
2010 Meditations on the Uncanny, catalogue, Lettre Publishing, Copenhagen.
2010 Kunsten at føle sig hjemme, radio-interview, P1 – Vita, May.
2009 Lettre International 20 Jahre Mauerfall (visual contribution), Berlin und Europa.
2009 Beyond Architecture – Imaginative buildings and fictional cities, p. 40-41. Edited by Lucas Freireiss, Gestalten Verlag, Berlin.
2008 Melting Barricades, Sleek Magazine, Berlin, Dec.
2008 The Way We Live Now (visual contribution), Lettre Internationale.
2008 Bente Scavenius: Klinisk renset for liv (review), Børsen, Aug.
2007 Torben Weirup: Udflugt til Blokland, Danish Art 07, Aschehoug, Copenhagen.
2007 Jesper Rasmussen: På Kant med Byens Dybder, Kunstmagasinet Janus, Sept.
2007 The Celeste Art Prize 2007, catalogue, London.
2006 Proverbs, catalogue, Portalen, Greve.
2006 Frontal/Sideways, catalogue, The Scandinavian House, Prague.
2005 May Misfeldt: Melting Barricades, Danish Art 05, Aschehoug, Copenhagen.
2005 Intimate Absence, Patrick Huse (ed.), Delta Press, and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway,
2005 CCA Research Program 2004-2005, cataloque, Kitakyushu, Japan.
2004 Melting Barricades, catalogue, North Atlantic House, Copenhagen.
Publications
2024 Grundloven 2049. Order
2023 One World or None, Monograph, Forlaget Aftryk, 124 pages. Order
2023 Danish Speciesism, A Mock Book, Copenhagen. Order
2022 Terra Nova - Lovelock i Hambach (with Karsten Wind Meyhoff), Antipyrine, Aarvhus. Order
2021 Zoom & Bloom, A Mock Book. Order
2021 Det generøse fællesskab, A Mock Book. Order
2021 Privacy (wilding), catalogue, Kastrupgaardsamlingen.
2021 Herzogs Sidste Dage (with Karsten Wind Meyhoff), Antipyrine, Aarvhus. Order
2020 Community of Contribution (144 pages), A Mock Book, Copenhagen.
2019 Mentalscapes, monograph (192 pages), Kerber Verlag.
2018 Louis Kahn in Denmark, A Mock Book, Copenhagen.
2018 House of Being, catalogue, Viborg Kunsthal.
2017 Endurance, A Mock Book, Copenhagen.
2015 Non-Philosophy and Contemporary Art, A Mock Book, Copenhagen.
2015 Mobile Verdener, A Mock Bock, Copenhagen.
2014 Generic Singularity, A Mock Book, Copenhagen.
2013 Propositions on Painting, A Mock Book, Copenhagen.
2011 Future Begins at Home, catalogue, Rønnebæksholm, Næstved.
2010 Meditations on the Uncanny, catalogue, A Mock Book, Copenhagen.
Collections
2024 RUC, Roskilde, Denmark
2024 Nuuk Art Museum
2022 Ny Carlsberg Fondet
2019 Statens Kunstfond, Denmark
2017 Swedish Art Counsil, Stockholm
2016 Kastrupgaard Samlingen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 Novo Nordisk Art Collection, Denmark
2014 Ny Carlsberg Fondet, Denmark
2013 Horsens Gymnasium, Denmark
2012 Statens Kunstfond, Denmark
2009 Copenhagen City Counsil, Denmark
2008 Statens Kunstfond, Denmark
Private collections in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland, France, USA and South Korea.
Commissions
2020 Prize sculpture for Human Act Award.
2017 Retten i Roskilde, Den Hielmstierne-Rosenkronske Stiftelse, Denmark.
2015 Vestre Landsret, Ny Carlsberg Fondet, Denmark.
2013 Horisonter, site-specific painting, Middelfart Gymnasium.
2013 Approximations, in Dialoges, Gruntuch&Ernst, Distanz Verlag, Berlin.
2012 Det Komplementære Rum, The Science Building, Nyborg Gymnasium.
2012 Interferens, site-specific painting at Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen.
2007 Eye-D, Carl Jakobsens Vej, Valby.
Competitions
2020 3rd prize for the project: 'The Rambunctious Garden'.
Public art commission by Odense Municipality, Vollsmose.
2016 Winner of public competition for design of facade of Valsemøllen, Esbjerg, Denmark. View here as pdf valsemøllen
Other Activities
2024 Talk at ParArcticVision seminar, Katuaq, Nuuk.
2024 Talk at Aeroe Literature Festival, Søbygaard.
2024 Grundloven 2049, speech on 5th June, Kunsthøjskolen Aeroe.
2023 Booksigning, Chart Art Fair, Saturday 26th, Charlottenborg.
2022 Workshop, Center for Art and Mental Health, Copenhagen.
2021 Design of The Blue Elephant, 5x5x7m, inflatable sculpture, commissioned by Human Act Foundation.
2020 'Burning Dog', Aeroe Dog Days, Aeroe.
2020 Sydhavnsambassaden#5 (with Adam Drewes), Studio Event.
2021 Sydhavnsambassaden #6 (with Adam Drewes), 13th of August, Studio Event.
2018 Curator of exhibition 'Facing Concrete' with Christian Danielewitz, Gallery Kant, Copenhagen.
2018 Art ExpoChigaco (solo-booth with Magnus Pettersen, Gallery Kant and Fold Gallery).
2018 Aeroe Dog Days, ‘Burning Dog’, Aeroe.
2018 Space on the Move, workshop, Viborg Visual HF.
2017 Community of Contribution, workshop in Meta-design, Växjö University.
2017 Aeroe Dog Days, ‘Burning Dog’, Aeroe.
2017 Scenario, Curator, groupshow at Gallery DGV, Svendborg.
2016 The Future is a City, Worhshop with Globale Gymnasier, Aarhus.
2015 Mobile Worlds, public art project with Globale Gymnasier, Denmark.
2015 Heat, Art-demo with April Gertler, 31th of January, Berlin
2015 White Energy, curator, groupshow at Gallery Kant, Copenhagen.
2013 – 2015 Organiser of The Group Crit – a monthly session group where Berlin based artists and writers can present work and discuss new ideas.
2009 – 2010 Founder of Büro für UrbanPraktik with Boris Boll-Johansen.
2007 Co-organizer (with Andreas Harbsmeier and U-Turn) of Spaces of Desire, Desire for Spaces, a seminar with Roman Ondak and Ivaylo Ditchef, held at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen.
2006-2007 Co-organizer (with Andreas Harbsmeier and Lars Bang-Larsen) of Ideas and Processes: Four Conversations About the Making of Contemporary Art, held at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Participants: Miwon Kwon & Joe Scanlan; Claire Bishop & Phil Collins; Ina Blom & Tobias Rehberger; Diedrich Diederichsen & Judith Hopf.
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