WORKS
©mette gitz-johansen
©mette gitz-johansen
Building towers 2025
150 cm x 135 cm
plywood and video
“HVAD ER ARBEJDE?”
KH7 artspace , Sydhavnsgade 7, 8000 Aarhus C
Udstillingens titel er en hilsen til kapitallogiker og SABAE-medlem Gustav Bunzel, der ofte stillede spørgsmålet “Hvad er arbejde?”, vistnok uden nogensinde at få et tilfredsstillende svar. Han argumenterede for, at arbejdsbegrebet både var langt mere uklart og desuden langt mere virkningsfuldt end eksempelvis Gudsbegrebet.
Ligesom Gud eller Godot synes arbejdsbegrebet i dag at findes allevegne og ingen steder. Imens automatiseringen af arbejdsprocesserne breder sig, opfordres borgerne til at arbejde mere.
Coronatidens eksperimenter med Zoom- og Teams-medieret produktion har løsrevet arbejdet fra tid og rum i en grad, hvor det ikke længere kun er kunstnerne, der er forvirrede: Hjemmearbejdet hersker! Til gengæld viser statistikker, at de (kunstnere), der arbejder mest, også er dem, der tjener mindst. Stadigt flere fagfelter må leve med forskellige og ofte modstridende definitioner af det immaterielle arbejde. Ligesom mange praksisformer åbner sig for det hårde arbejde, der kan lægges i at ligne én, der ikke arbejder for meget (non-productive attitude), som et alternativ til pseudo-arbejde!
Arbejdet findes også i Sydhavnen i Aarhus, hvor KH7 har til huse. Det har længe været forankret i havnen, men nye brydninger sker med de gennemgribende forandringer, der præger Sydhavnsområdet i disse år. Udover anlægsarbejdet, som i sig selv er kolossalt, findes arbejdet i forskellige former, der tegner en morfologi over gentrificeringen: industriarbejde, kunstnerisk arbejde og åbent kontorlandskab.
Deltagende kunstnere er: Christian Bang Jensen, Anders Benmouyal, Birgit Bjerre, Bente Bundsbæk, Jette Ellgaard, Ulla Eriksen, Jette Gejl, Mette Gitz-Johansen, Kim Grønborg, Ulla Hvejsel, Åse Eg Jørgensen, Stine Kloster, Tanja Nellemann Kruse, Camilla Nørgård, Cai Ulrich von Platen, Bodil Sohn og Iben West.
Udstillingen er kurateret af Benjamin Asger Krog Møller
Udstillingen er støttet af Aarhus Kommunes Kulturudviklingspulje
Still life 2024
photoinstallation / window display
KIOSK, Hovedgaden 7c, Frederiksberg Hospital
in cooperation with Piet Gitz-Johansen https://www.pietgitz.com/
a 3 dimensional intepretation of the concept Still-life (or in german Still-leben) – the kiosk as an arcitectural scene and an unkoordinated interaction with reflecsions of the life outside and the one, who looks through the window.
Photo: Torben Petersen
Photo: Torben Petersen
VACCUMING 2024
Photo / print Ø 110 cm
SOJA – a groupshow, KH7artspace, Aarhus
Photo: Heidi Hove
ACT 2023
videoinstallation , projections, plywood and ricelamps
LOKALE, Kbh.
the exhibitionproject ACT focused on the artistic strategies: time, slowness and act.
in cooperation with Kerstin Bergendal https://kerstinbergendal.com/
Et ekko af LOKALE 2022
Video – projection
150 x 250 cm
KH7artspace, Aarhus
Et ekko af LOKALE 2022
Installationview
Streetcinema
KH7artspace, Aarhus
EXPLORER -installation 2021
Videoinstallation, projection, plywood, fisheye mirror
260 x 360 x 360 cm
Performer: Uma Kaya Sarauw Gitz-Johansen
Concepts & Objects – Gammelgaard, Herlev
Photo: Torben Petersen
SELFIMAGE 2021
180 x 560 cm
Drawing – pencil and color pencil on paper and cardboard
Concepts & Objects – Gammelgaard, Herlev
PORTRAIT 2021
110 x 395 cm
Photoprint on fabric, collar, wood, railing grip
Concepts & Objects – Gammelgaard, Herlev
Photo: Torben Petersen
MAKING REPLICA 2021
*235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002, United States
Photoprint 70 x 133 cm
MAKING REPLICA 2021
* Asmali Mescit Cd. 17 – 27, 34430 Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Photoprint 100 x 133 cm
Concepts & Objects – Gammelgaard, Herlev
http://www.billboardistanbul.org
Photo: Zuhal Kocan
CAGING BIRDS 2019
280 x 280 cm
drawing – pencil and colorpencil on paper
DRAWING ATTENTION, DEN FRIE, Kbh. DK
RANDOM PICS 2020
72 x 101 cm
Drawings – pencil and colorpencil on paper
A series of drawings with a common point of reference that attaches importance to the ambiguity that emerges by randomly selecting and connecting diverse images, observe elements and excerpts from various fields of meaning. The composition is made up of images that have been seamlessly woven into each other.
RANDOM PICS 2018 / 20
72 x 101 cm
Drawings -pencil and colorpencil on paper
RANDOM PICS 2020
72 x 101 cm
Drawings – pencil and colorpencil on paper
RANDOM PICS 2020
72 x 101 cm
Drawings – pencil and colorpencil on paper
INSIDE THE GLOBE 2019
video installation – chloroprene ballon 8′ – pump – projection, Ø: 170 cm. – cooperative work with actor PIET GITZ-JOHANSEN – LOKALE, KBH og
KH7-ARTSPACE, AARHUS, DK
https://www.kh7artspace.dk/#/video-mettegitz-johansen-evakock-jettegejlskulptur/
INSIDE THE GLOBE 2019
detail – photo installation
LOKALE, KBH. og
KH7-ARTSPACE, AARHUS, DK
https://www.kh7artspace.dk/#/video-mettegitz-johansen-evakock-jettegejlskulptur/
Ø
130 x 170 cm – photo, inkjet latex print, wood and polystyrene
Ø (island) – an ambiguous sign, a metaphor for refuge – longing – a break and isolation – for the utopias, for distant travel destinations, imaginary, as well as real – for space in the middle of nothingness – for the discovery of loneliness or social unpredictability in an unfamiliar context.
SOMMERSKULPTUR SØBY 2018
LEFTOVERS 2018
– photo series – one of 5 pieces 60 x 80 cm
SURIYA – the land that was – 2018 – (group show) VENDSYSSEL MUSEUM OF ART, HJØRRING – DK
http://vkm.dk/udstillinger/2018/suriya-i-det-land-der-var-2174/
The timeliness of the war – the experience of loss and getting lost – is a reference for both a larger pencil drawing on cardboard and a series of photographs.
GETTING LOST 2018
drawing – pencil on cardboard 210 x 280 cm
SURIYA – the land that was – 2018 – (group show)
VENDSYSSEL MUSEUM OF ART, HJØRRING – DK
http://vkm.dk/udstillinger/2018/suriya-i-det-land-der-var-2174/
The exhibition include the video “Green”, which, based on footage from the Umayad Mosque in Damascus, shows intensely awareness and a committed community around a place and at the same time the feeling of being cut off from real insight as the outside observer.
http://vkm.dk/udstillinger/2018/suriya-i-det-land-der-var-2174/
MIRRORMIRROR 2017
MIRRORMIRROR 2017
video installation – drawing – pencil on paper – projection – 300 x 500 cm
Møstings Hus – Frederiksberg, DK
Photo: Torben Petersen
MIRRORMIRROR 2017
– installation view – drawing – pencil on paper – mirrors – light
Photo: Torben Petersen
MIRRORMIRROR 2017
– installation view – drawing – pencil on paper – projection – light
Photo: Torben Petersen
– working with KAMMER – residency The Danish Workshop / SVFK – Copenhagen – DK
KAMMER 2016
Commision work – video installation for The University of Copenhagen’s South Campus – Mediamesh / 174 x 324 px2 /12,4 x 7,4 m. / 60 min. – Performer Piet Gitz-Johansen
https://kunsten.nu/journal/kaempe-media-mesh-udsmykker-ku/
https://vores.kunst.dk/da/objects/details/13948/kammer;jsessionid=4C1700B87427B1C6A48
REPLACING 2015
the video installation – projection – paper – chairs – 280 x 450 cm – performer Piet Gitz-Johansen – NK59, Copenhagen, DK
REPLACING 2015
the video installation – projection – paper – chairs – 280 x 450 cm – performer Piet Gitz-Johansen – NK59, Copenhagen, DK
REPLACING 2015
the photos – each 38 x 68 cm – NK59, Copenhagen, DK
REPLACING 2015
the drawings – each 60 x 80 cm – NK59, Copenhagen, DK
THE EMPOWERMENT OF AESTHETICS 2013
Danish Pavillon – Tne Venice Biennale
Drawings for projection in collaboration with Stig L. Andersson
OBSERVING PINK 2013
video installation – projection – canvas – object / wood – 400 x 300 cm – (5 x solo) Den Frie – Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen – DK
OBSERVING PINK 2013
installation – oil on canvas – parttime black & white video projection – 300 x 750 cm
(5 x solo) Den Frie – Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen – DK.
DET STØRSTE OG DET MINDSTE 2011
Video installation – projection – chairs – tree – 500 x 1000 cm – Vor Frue Kloster – Helsingør – DK
CROSSING THE STREET 2008
video installation – projection on cardboard in a store window – 250 x 350 cm. RACA – Copenhagen – DK
FENSTER 2005
video installation – projection and chalk – 500 x 700 cm – Urban Art Stories – Alexanderplatz – Berlin – DE
TRANSIT 2005
Video 10:17 min
SIMPLICITY’S TEMPTATION 2005
video installation – projection – oil on canvas – objects – 300 x 500 cm – Overgaden, Institut for Samtidskunst, Kbh.
SIMPLICITY’S TEMPTATION 2005
video installation – projection – oil on canvas – objects – 300 x 500 cm – Overgaden, Institut for Samtidskunst, Kbh.
INSIDE 2004
installation – oil on canvas – object / wood – frames – fabric – 150 x 200 cm – Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
INSIDE 2004
installation – oil on canvas – object / wood – frames – glass – 250 x 180 cm – Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Kbh.
