An article in the Greenlandic newspaper Sermitsiaq by Knud F. Larsen
As an acknowledgment that climate change is the world's biggest challenge, Nordatlantisk Hus in Odense is working purposefully in the future to help focus on what happens when the climate changes.
Saturday 27 Apr 2024
Follow the link to the original article, which is available in Danish and Greenlandic.
Friederike Gründger during the hanging of the exhibition. Knud F. Larsen
In the long term, the big vision is to have a climate center developed as an integral part of Nordatlantisk Hus at the harbor in Odense with a focus on climate change in the North Atlantic and in the Arctic. There is already an idea that the climate center should be built as an extension to the existing building.
With a grant of DKK 500,000 from the Klima og Miljøforvaltningen in Odense Municipality, a project employee has been hired, who, in a broad collaboration with many different interested parties, must now try to get the big ideas described and realized in the long term, at the same time that are means of including the climate in Nordatlantisk Hus' popular school education.
Arctic Terrain
Director of Nordatlantisk Hus and Det Greenlandske Hus Annette Lyberth is very satisfied that the ideas and initial thoughts, which were conceived a few years ago, have now come so far that the house's first major exhibition focusing on the climate can be presented.
- Arctic Terrain, as the exhibition is called, is inspired by Greenland and not least by the area at Ilulissat Isbræ, and I hope that the exhibition, together with the hopefully many initiatives of the coming years, can help create awareness towards a more sustainable future, says Annette Lyberth to the online newspaper sermitsiaq.
Nature is so important
The exhibition was created by the two artists and not least researchers Friederike Gründer, who uses the alias "Girl in the Tangerine", and Mark Hutchison. They are very much inspired
by the Greenlandic nature, which is also evident from the various works in the exhibition.
They both have extensive knowledge of the Arctic acquired over many years as researchers and as artists. The exhibition is the result of a five-year collaboration between the two and is divided into different themes that reflect the close connection between people and the environment.
The two artists work, among other things, with topographical maps, with acrylics and with photographs.
The exhibition explores some of the many things that happen to the climate: Among other things, the relationship between people and the environment, how the landscape affects us, and how we humans affect the landscape. And perhaps not least the dynamism that arises when research, art and nature meet.
The first time we are exhibiting together
In connection with the hanging of the large exhibition, we spoke to the two artists.
- We hope that we reach so widely that we make people think about what is happening to nature. We know that the different themes can be difficult to understand when we mix different sciences and try to verify how it all fits together.
- We work with the close connection between people and the environment, where everything has its price.
- The topographic maps show, for example, how much the ice has retreated, was some of what Friederike Gründger and Mark Hutchison said.
It is the first time that they are exhibiting together.
Reception
There was a reception on Thursday afternoon with the obligatory speeches. Among others, the chairman of Nordatlantisk Hus Claus Hovden was on the podium, and at the end Josepha Lauth Thomsen performed with a mask dance.
The exhibition, which is both inside Nordatlantisk Hus and out on the terrace, can be seen until 14 August.
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