Lone Haugaard Madsen
Raum#261 – Geländer
28. Januar – 20. März 2011

Danish artist Lone Haugaard Madsen is showing a new series of sculptures, installations and paintings created in her Vienna studio at Kunstverein Arnsberg. They are supposedly autonomous objects, often based on used materials, found objects and remnants from artist friends. Her work questions the framework conditions of art production and (re-)presentation by critically reflecting on and further developing her works and the respective exhibition context.

Analytical and intuitive are two working processes that are often seen as opposites, but which come together in Madsen's work. Her works are based on found objects, but are not ready-mades. By deforming and adding, disguising and coloring, she creates sculptures and objects that form groups in the studio, make friends and split up. In the exhibition space, these groups again take new paths in order to assert themselves individually in a new context and bring them together.

For Madsen, not everything is art, but it can be. With humor and gesture, she mixes her collection of artifacts and memories, materiality and modality to give her objects a new life. Randomness plays an important role in the process of creation, as for Madsen everything that happens next to it can also be very interesting. This possibility of giving the insignificant and discarded a chance creates an unexpected tension - not only in the exhibition space, but also on the way home.

Lone Haugaard Madsen was born in Silkeborg, Denmark, in 1974 and lives in Vienna. In 2011 she had another solo exhibition at the Overgaden Institut for Samtidskunst Copenhagen. Madsen's most recent exhibitions were at the Kunsthalle Wien (2010), the Grazer Kunstverein (2010), the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin (2010) and the Kunsthalle Lingen (2009).