The View from Nowhere, 2010, oil on canvas, 105x105 cm
The Bridge, 2009, oil on canvas
Delirious Disaster, 2009, oil on canvas, 184x120 cm
Hotel Juventus, 2009, oil on canvas, 90x125 cm. 
Modern Living, 2008, oil on canvas, 100x130 cm
Schönefeld, 2007, oil on canvas, 103x184 cm
Driveway, 2007, oil on canvas, 134x187 cm
Asmund Havsteen-MikkelsenIn his work, Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen explores painterly space, drawing inspiration from the built environment via photography and models. His most recent solo exhibition, “Life in the Box”, 2008, comprised paintings in which he examined the connection between Modernistic architecture and psychoanalysis by juxtaposing these as utopian discourses: according to the artist, both strove to give space to the desires of modern man. Havsteen-Mikkelsen’s work is permeated by an acute interest in how architectural structures function as extensions of human consciousness while testifying to the contemporary understanding of human life and agency. Havsteen-Mikkelsen presents built environments as sites of conflict for the subject, the architectural structures being the visual representation of the desires and (un)conscious drives of the perceiving-thinking body. CV Born 1977, Aeroe, Denmark Lives and works in Berlin
Education: 2003-2009 MFA Royal Academy of Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark 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 exhibtions: 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, Denmark Frontal/Sideways, The Scandinavian House, Prague 2004 Melting Barricades (with Inuk Silis Høegh), North Atlantic House, Copenhagen, and Katuaq, Nuuk, Greenland Collapsing Structures (with Rune Søchting and Jonas Olesen), The Project Room, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen Selected group exhibitions:2010 Painterly Delight Art Centre Silkeborg bad, Silkeborg, Denmak Beskrivelse uden Sted Galerie MøllerWitt, Århus, Denmark En hilsen til Ib Geertsen Danske Grafikeres Hus, Copenhagen Radical Adults Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin Art in the Blood Utzon Center, Aalborg, Denmark Københavns Kommunes Billedkunstudvalg 2006-2009 Copenhagen City Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark CRW - contemporary reflections on war BKS Garage, Copenhagen The Hello Show, Helene Nyborg Contemporary, Copenhagen A Formal Figure, The Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin 2009 Out of Wedding, Ufer Hallen, Berlin Formation, Halle 41, Berlin Exit, Gl. Strand, Copenhagen 2008 Jahresausstellung, HfBK, Hamburg InnenRaum, Galerie MøllerWitt, Aarhus, Denmark 2007 Autolabor, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam e.V., Germany PT07, Vestjyllands Kunstmuseum, Tistrup, Denmark 2006 Proverbs, Portalen, Greve, Denmark Re-thinking Nordic Colonialism, The Living Art Museum, Nifka, Reykjavik, Iceland Contemporary Art, Spring Exhibition, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen 2005 Total Production, Islands Brygge 83, Copenhagen 2004 Typhoon, Maeda Studio, Kitakyushu, Japan Minority Report, Aarhus, Denmark 2003 Young Contemporary Art, Frederiks Bastion, Copenhagen and Inkonst, Malmö, Sweden Bibliography: 2010 Meditations on the Uncanny Catalogue, Lettre, Copenhagen, 2010 2009 The Empty Swimmingpool, visual contribution p. 95 to Lettre Internationale 20 Jahre Mauerfall, Berlin und Europa, 2009 Beyond Architecture – Imaginative buildings and fictional cities, p. 40-41. Edited by Lucas Freireiss, Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, 2009 2008 Melting Barricades, Sleek Magazine, Berlin, December 2008 Cherry Blossom, visual contribution to The Way We Live Now Lettre Internationale Edition, 2008 Bente Scavenius: Klinisk renset for liv, Børsen, August 2008 2007 Torben Weirup: Udflugt til Blokland, Danish Art 07, Aschehoug, Copenhagen, 2007 Jesper Rasmussen: På Kant med Byens Dybder, Kunstmagasinet Janus, September 2007 The Celeste Art Prize 2007, Catalogue, London, 2007 2006 Proverbs, catalogue, Portalen, Greve, 2006 Frontal/Sideways, catalogue, The Scandinavian House, Prague, 2006 2005 May Misfeldt: Melting Barricades, Danish Art 05, Aschehoug, Copenhagen, 2005 Intimate Absence, edited by Patrick Huse, Delta Press and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway, 2005 CCA Research Program 2004-2005, Cataloque, Kitakyushu, Japan, 2005 2004 Melting Barricades, catalogue, North Atlantic House, Copenhagen, 2004 Other activities:
2009 Presentation of work at Institut für Raum Experimente, UDK, Berlin, December 2009. Founder of Büro für Urban Praktik 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 Dithef, held at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
2006-07 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 Diedrichsen & Judith Hopf
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