Møstings Hus, Frederiksberg Municipality's exhibition hall, is centrally situated at Frederiksberg, just next to Frederiksberg Have, a very popular park. Originally, the house was erected in 1800 as the country house of a rich family. Today Møstings Hus' ground floor is converted into about 100 m2 of exhibition space.

Møstings Hus focuses on Danish Contemporary Art, and at the 9-10 yearly exhibitions, both well-established artists as well as up-coming artists are represented. The exhibitions represent a wide range of artistic expressions leading from painting, photography and video to sculpture and installation.

Møstings Hus, to a large extent, functions as an artistic laboratory: Here it is possible to try new artistic collaborations and experiment with artistic methods and curating within an extraordinary setting.

Møstings Hus' unique position and the showrooms' intimate atmosphere and almost homelike character is thus often adapted and interpreted in exhibitions that in very different ways thematize and relate to the history of the house and the almost rural surroundings in the centre of the city. At any rate, the character and the dimensions of the space challenge the artists to think the art works and the exhibitions in another way than in the gallery room's ”white cube” with its large wall space and high ceiling.

At alt_cph Møstings Hus presents:

Christina Bredahl Duelund's artistic starting point is in the sculptural/three-dimensional area, but she also likes to work with other medias such as video and photography; however it is always with the same interest in the formal, the simple and the aesthetical. Starting with the movement, drifting from the eternal to the meditative, she creates works, which offer a sense of tranquillity and absorption. The spectator is forced to slow down and concentrate on the essential.

Mette Høyen Andersen has been interested in drawing as a unique media for many years. Experimenting is an important set off, both when speaking of thoroughly prepared works and the works characterized by the sketch's more open and loose structure. The concepts of the visible/invisible are in play, as well as the body's movement in the studio, rhythm and reiterations are important elements in the works. The drawings can be seen as a kind of inner and outer landscapes, mappings and paraphrases of forms and structures in the surrounding world that are set free and get their own meaning in the drawings. The drawings are connected with memories, and they have a narrative and poetic expression.

Finn Mickelborg's form of expression is based on the concept of MODULATION. Through modulation of colour, that is, through the very precise graduation and fade-out off colours, Mickelborg is able to create a sense of speed and movement in the painting. A sense that is reinforced by his use of ”shaped canvases” – that is canvases whose shape emphasizes the impression of speed and movement; a second's movement caught on the surface of the canvas.

Peter Chr. Petersen works with painting, painting-installations and painting oriented objects. His works are characterized by being built on an underlying system – mostly a grid – that restrains the extensive patterns and myriads of dots and cell like elements. This also means that the works have a certain coolness and never becomes mere decoration. In the paintings the tight and precise structures and repetitive patterns make any attempt of depth in the picture impossible, while the surface on the other hand is unfolded and becomes three-dimensional in the works, where the elements crawl down walls, across floors and up stairs.

Christina Bredahl Duelund and Mette Høyen Andersen's exhibition ”Threshold” is coming up at Møstings Hus from October 14 to November 12, 2006.

Finn Mickelborg and Peter Chr. Petersen are coming up same place with their exhibition ”40 Years in between” from January 5 to February 4, 2007.

Møstings Hus

Andebakkesti 5
2000 Frederiksberg

Manager and curator: Caroline Marott Clausen

+45 38 21 01 12

cacl02@frederiksberg.dk

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