Exhibitions

03 February 2023 Martin Asbæk Gallery is proud to present the exhibition Magic Materialism by the Danish visual artist Mille Kalsmose. The exhibition is the artist's first solo exhibition in the gallery and is based on Kalsmose’s distinctive artistic expression, defined by philosopher and writer Ole Fogh Kirkeby as magical materialism. This ism covers an acknowledgement of the materiality of our body and our surroundings, as well as of the invisible, immaterial reality’s importance – especially in the digital age.

20 April 2022 Collected Memory – A diary of the world is a continuation of the Collected Memory project. For the Republic of Cameroon’s pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, the project's vast archive has been remediated as NFTs.

12 February 2022 Between February 12 – June 26, 2022, you can experience Mille Kalsmose's sculpture Re-Programmed Relations at Horsens Art Museum.

07 April 2022 In the Cherry Garden (Kirsebærhaven) in Folehaven, Valby, Mille Kalsmose has created a tiled pavement, named "Kirsebærbæltet", a path decorated with plants from around the world, carefully selected on a workshop held together with the local residents.

24 September 2021 Humanness: inner studies in a collective cloud is the latest work in the series Collected Memory and part of the exhibition Work It Out! at Kunsten in Aalborg. Accessable from 24th of Septemper 2021 to 16th of January 2022

27 August 2021 Weight of Memories concerns a substantial, heavy load and time. The work consists of brass pendulums, as they are known from traditional grandfather clocks, and iron cores escavated from some of the world's oldest rock formations.

08 October 2020

12 September 2020

21 August 2020 Collected Memory is a work that is silent from the outside yet filled with voices as painting has always been. How to consider the status of collective memory in our present times, whereas all our social and human references are constantly changing or mutating? Today, we live in an “all-memory” society, where new archiving methods or techniques are invented every day in order to protect us from “memory lapses” …

06 March 2020 Re-Sounding Organ, Listening Back in Time, Traces of Memory, Spatial Memory, Points in Time & Untitled  Through her works, Kalsmose seeks to create and give space and shape to the intangible— that which our eyes cannot see—and direct our attention to phenomena such as memory, identity, psychological mechanisms and spiritual connections.

13 November 2019 The site-specific sound installation “Liquid Relations, Listening Back in Time” was exhibited at Museo de Artes Visuales (MAVI) in Santiago de Chile as part of the 14th Biennale of Media Arts. Alongside artists Juan Pablo Langlois, Lea Porsager, and Uffe Isolotto among others, Kalmose has been invited to participate in the exhibition “Situated World” under the biennale-theme “The Fourth World”; a subject that refers to the current unstable global political climate and the necessity to embrace a liquid reality.

14 September 2019 The sculptural sound installation Cosmic Family was exhibited at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art Exhibition in Copenhagen as part of the exhibition Cosmic Existence. Kalsmose works in the field of contemporary art called Art & Science, but she does so by drawing on intuitive sensations which she together with astronomers and other scientists scientifically explore.

20 July 2019 Collected Memory, the first of the series premiered at the United Nations NOVUS SDG Moonshots Summit: From the Oceans to the Moon, Making the Impossible Possible, in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations Headquarters, New York on July 20, 2019

15 March 2019

28 April 2019 Inverted Rituals was exhibited at the exhibition Flat Out: Drawings, 2000–2019. Inverted Rituals is a set of 24 videos presented in an installation of 24 screens and loud speakers surrounding the viewer as if the viewer had entered the mind of the artist or themselves.

The 2019 theme “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” will be a cross-pollination of female artists across mediums, generations, and ethnicities from a multitude of social backgrounds. As a hybrid art festival/exhibition - cooperative/laboratory/incubator - organizing platform, our mission is to provide opportunities to emerging and established artists to elevate each other.

03 November 2018 In the solo exhibition “The Shape of Us” at Horsens Art Museum, Mille Kalsmose examines our identity and relations through a selection of new, large-scale installations. With artworks that combine iron, living matter, blood, algae, moss, rocks, silk, wood, plaster and sound effects as her medium, Kalsmose enters a broad field of research of the human existence. She is exploring the inner realms, but also looking into what is stored within our collective human consciousness. Constellations of material and non-palpable elements make up artworks remarkable on both the physical as well as conceptual plan, and the works point towards elements and concepts that transgress what we know from our everyday lives.

Tribe-My Survival: Mille Kalsmose's work can be described as a constant search for and development of survival strategies. In her works, she explores both her own psychological terrain while opening up a metaphysical understanding of her surroundings.

01 June 2017 Mille Kalsmose’s exhibition, Re-sounding Organs, consists of three works, which were all made in July 2017 during her artist-in-residence sojourn at CCA Andratx. The works are site-specific and were inspired by the space, the character and the climate of the atrium courtyard of CCA Andratx in Mallorca, Spain.

In 2017, Denmark and Japan celebrated the 150th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. This was done with exhibitions, concerts, animation and film festivals, symposia, performing arts and theater as well as a great focus on architecture, crafts and design.

01 September 2017 Mille Kalsmose's new work, Cosmic Relations, carries her signature themes—personal identity and the connections between the self and others, especially family members—to a higher, more abstract level. Previously, the artist kept her explorations grounded, so to speak, despite a high degree of stylization.

The group show presents a compilation of contemporary female portraits created through various media. Video, painting, drawing, photography, participative happening installation and sculpture. Only one art work presented in each media. No narrative, analysis or comparison, rather an abstract expression to let the art works speak for themselves as well as together

It is visual storytelling where she and her new mother performs as a real physical mother and daughter.

The project revolves around the ideal relationship between a mother and a daughter. This relationship is a common bond which, in one way or another, occupies or has occupied considerable mental or physical space within the lives of all humans, regardless of cultural customs, whether because of the presence or absence of such relations.

SITE-Seeing at Traneudstillingen is a total-installation including audio, lights and visuals, all installed in a purpose build dark room at Gentofte Bibliotek.

The ongoing project, All My Suicides, which has so far resulted in both a Part One, Two and Three consists of Kalsmose's five official name changes – from the name, ”Henriette Olesen”, she was christened through several variations until she reached her present name, ”Mille Kalsmose-Hjelmborg”, in 2008.

The general title The Core shows that Mille Kalsmose has the real world as her artistic point of departure – both the actual outer world and our actual inner world: The Core refers to a direct dialogue with the new architecture and the physical space in Kernen, where the works are positioned, but the title also refers to the visual source and inspirational framework that Mille Kalsmose has used in all four of her works, namely our own inner cell world.