InstantHERLEV institute/ BORDERLAND
Krøyersplads, Copenhagen

Art and landscape/ exhibition open all day September 2011 – 2012.

Springing from the Danish detached house suburb, InstantHERLEV institute (IHi) is a mobile unit organising interchanging exhibitions elsewhere as well. It has now temporarily moved out of its daily surroundings and into the Køyersplads, Copenhagen The original garden gate from IHi is reinstalled at Krøyersplads along with a garden fence. Together they form a landscape and bench and framing an empty blue space.

BORDERLAND: is a landscape installation. The empty blue space is open and: “to fill in with your own imagination”. The BORDERLAND is the first art project there will be shown in an exhibition process for the next year.

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InstantHERLEV institute/FRONTGARDENKITCHEN
Krøyersplads, Copenhagen

Architect Gitte Juul exhibits FRONTGARDENKITCHEN at the InstantHERLEV Institute.

Opening Monday 22. August 16.30- 18.00 hrs.
Exhibition period: 23. August – 2. Oktober, 2011.
Open all day.
Byskovvej 28. DK -2730 Herlev, tlf: +4526203536. www.instantherlev.dk

InstantHERLEV institute has invited architect Gitte Juul to create an exhibition inspires by the concept of the Danish “parcelhuse” (single family, usually one storey and small garden surrounding the house. Spread through the 50’s and 60’s to become the dominant form of housing for upper working class and middle class). The exhibition aims to demonstrate the dialogue between the public and the private space. With this in mind Gitte Juul has created the exhibition: FRONTGARDENKITCHEN, which aims purposely to span the limits contained in the concepts of “mine” and “yours” and to break down the hierarchy found between inside and outside, indoors and outdoors. The FRONTGARDENKITCHEN is an installation mixing interior and exterior elements such as plants, tools and furniture. The exhibition focuses on the meal as an event – removed from the “parcelhouse”  usual kitchen elements, normally reflecting family togetherness – and brings the kitchen out into public space, abandoning its 60 cm x 60 cm element system, putting instead a series of components, combined in new constellations, taking part in a dialogue between surroundings, plants and people. All the plants are edible and exhibition viewers can walk straight in from the pavement into the front garden and prepare their own salad. In the hedge between the public and private space a long kitchen table has been placed with a kitchen sink, a water hose, a washing up tray, kitchen utensils and garden tools. In the front garden, between flowers and plants, a long dining table has been placed, with benches so exhibition guests can sit and eat their salad.

Walking House

Kunstprojekt af N55

WALKING HOUSE
artproject by N55
Fernisering 1. october kl. 15.00 - 19.00
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PRESSRELEASE Instant HERLEV institute – IHi October 2010

Artist group N55 shows WALKING HOUSE in the front garden of Instant HERLEV institute.

OPENING Friday the 1 of oct. at 3 pm to 8 pm Exhibition open all day from 10 am to 8 pm.
Byskovvej 28. DK -2730 Herlev, phone:+4526203536. www.instantherlev.dk

"WALKING HOUSE visits Instant HERLEV institute"
An exhibition about the meeting between the strange and the nomadic home in a typically Danish suburb. People can stay over for free in the WALKING HOUSE in contrast to the Danish suburb and ownership where the home, the garden are private space make a living structure of living.

WALKING HOUSE requires no permanent use of land and thereby challenges ownership of land and suggests that all land should be accessible for all persons. Society could administrate rights to use land for various forms of production of food for example, but ownership of land should be abolished.
N55 furthermore suggest that WALKING HOUSES should be owned by all persons in common and used by the persons wanting to live in them.
www.n55.dk

Exhibition sponsor: www.rullegraesset.dk

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InstantHERLEV institute
www.instantherlev.dk

Director and artist Anja Franke.
www.anjafranke.dk

DOWNLOAD CATALOG FROM EXHIBITION 2009:
instantherlev, Suburb Site Environment

Download CATALOG FROM EXHIBITION 2004:
instantherlev, projects for a Copenhagen suburb


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InstantHERLEV institute is an international space for urban landscape, architecture and artistic research, development and project in a Copenhagen suburb. The project and exhibition shows in dialog between the mental and the physical private and public urban space in the neighbourhood of Herlev.

Cited by Malene Vest Hansen:
The IH institute examines and challenges familiar interpretations of spatial organization. The unwonted placement and arrangement of contemporary artworks cantered in and around the plot of Anja Franke´s private home raises a series of questions concerning private and public space, and the placement and role of art project in these spaces.

InstantHERLEV institute temporarily introduces a new distinction to this suburban district, supplying a new angle on the familiar surroundings. This type of residential district is such a widespread phenomenon in Danish suburbs, that it can be difficult to see it. When visitors arrive to view an art exhibition, it suddenly becomes possible to see the neighbourhood in a new light. IH institute demonstrates – far more clearly than the artist and the curators involved could have imagined – that it dose not take much for the neighbourhood to reveal the other vice implicit rules and regulations which normatively control private life here. Who lives here is not only determined by resident’s financial status. There is a consensus on how people should be, certain rules on how to live.

There are no tangible borders between public and private space; they are historic-cultural constructions. The definitions are intimately related to our notions of human conditions and the kind of political society we desire. In others words IH institute denotes the organization of urban spaces as an ideology and art as spatial politics.

Summer 2009 InstantHERLEV institute will show a new exhibition including artists and architects from Los Angeles, Mexico and Denmark. The exhibition is a meeting between international artists in a local context in Herlev. All artists will do site-specific art project reflecting on everyday life and global circumstances with focus on climate, society and consumption, and how this phenomenon influence architecture, culture, land, owner ship, and environment in the private and the public space. In summer 2004 the first exhibition was shown: instantHERLEV-project for a Copenhagen suburb.

Download catalog from the exhibition: instantherlev.dk

meeting with Giacomo in tijuana, mexico

cactus project by Camilla Berne&Johan. 08-09

meeting Jenna & Oliver, Silverlake blvd. 06-09

Fallen Fruit meeting

The late summer offers a unique exhibition in a private garden in Herlev, a suburb of Copenhagen, curated by the artist Anja Franke. For the second time Franke has invited
international artists to produce and exhibit works in her garden and home.
Visitors are met by a beach installed in the frontyard of this quiet
neighbourhood in Herlev. They are thereafter led through a tunnel one that leads to the garden which is open 24 hours a day. The private garden is redefined to function as a public exhibition in the tradition of garden displays in Los Angeles where some of the artists in the exhibition live and work. In Denmark gardens are more private and often hidden behind large well managed hedges and this exhibition seeks to break with that tradition.

The artists will create their projects during the course of the summer in Herlev, interacting with the local environment and community exerting and influence on the individual in the private and public space. Recycling and our living conditions are affected in regards to the climate in USA and Scandinavia
will be questioned. Furthermore how nature, culture and the environment affect our daily lives i.e. what conflicts do we run into as a globalized culture in a local neighbourhood.

The participating artists are :

Giamoco Castagnola, Tjiuana, Mexico.
Fallen Fruit , consisting of Matias Viegner, David Burns and Austin Young, Los Angeles, USA
Didier Hess ved Jenna Dider and Oliver Hess, Los Angeles, USA
Jens Haaning, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Gillion Grantsaan, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Camilla Berner, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Kristina Ask, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Anja Franke, Herlev, Denmark.

Anja Franke
Born inDenmark, lives and works in Copenhagen.
”Room Divider”
wood, iron, concrete and textile.
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Camilla Berner and Johan
Born in Denmark, lives and works in Copenhagen/Herlev.
”Bakkedraget and Friends”
cactus, wood shelter, daylight and photo.
PHOTOS

Matias Viegener, David Burns and Austin Young
Born inUSA, lives and works in Los Angeles.
”Fallen Fruit of Herlev”
print on t-shirts, fruit, vodka and video.
PHOTOS

Giacomo Castagnola
Born in Peru, lives and works in Tijuana, Mexico.
”Tunnel”
wood, stone and iron.
PHOTOS

Dider/Hess
v/ Jenna Dider og Oliver Hess
Born inUSA, lives and works in Los Angeles.
”Ukendt Beach”
Rubber line, tile, wood and water.
PHOTOS

Jens Haaning
Born in Denmark, lives and works in Copenhagen.
”Reducing Europe by 1m³”
earth, europallets and pvc.
PHOTOS

Kristina Ask
Born inDenmark, lives and works in Askeby.
”Storm”
Dinghy, sun cell, cerox, and mp3 player.
PHOTOS

Catalog:

Kristina Ask

Catalog editing:
Kristina Valborg Valberg

Writers:

Sanne Kofod Olsen

Gillion Grantsaan

And artistic contributions

Mediator and PR:

Kristina Valborg Valberg

Web:

Anders Budolf Andersen

Exhibition assistant:

Malene Valberg

Curator and project manager:

Anja Franke

Project consultant:

Tomas Nordlund

Curatorial consultant:
Jenna Didier

Thank you to:

The Danish Arts Agency for funding for the exhibition

The Danish Arts Foundation for funding for research in USA and Mexico.