Mikroinstitut : Book Launch : Michala Paludan : The Unposed (EoAT)
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During the evening, Head of Art & Research at AHC, Lars Bang Larsen introduced the book and the overarching themes and framework of Michala’s research as part of AHC Micro Institute. Later in the evening, Michala elaborated on the project in dialogue with curator at Kunsthal Aarhus, Seolhui Lee.
The book was available for purchase from Disko Bay during the evening.
ABOUT MICHALA PALUDAN
Michala Paludan (b. 1983) is a Danish artist living and working in Copenhagen. Paludan is a fellow of the Whitney Independent Study Program (2012) and received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts (2011). She studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 2005 to 2009. During the past decade, Paludan has framed how power is produced and negotiated across networks and movements, through media such as video, photography and installation. Paludan has exhibited widely in Scandinavia and abroad. Recent exhibitions include: I am Your Body: Automation at Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Open Shut Them at C.C.C. Gallery, Copenhagen and Our Work at Lunds Konsthall, Lund.
In 2024, Michala Paludan is a part of AHC’s program Micro Institute, an alternative format for practice-based research with an emphasis on process, collaboration, and the development of method. Please read more below.
ABOUT MICRO INSTITUTE
The Micro Institute is a unique format for practice-based research that consists of a two-year research residency for an artist or a curator.
The Micro Institute is based on the assumption that the artistic process creates an excess or surplus of aesthetic experience through a multifarious working through of knowledge, language, and materials, often in collaboration with others, including researchers, specialists, communities, and audiences. But not all the elements of this process are used in, or wholly represented by, the final form of the work and the artist’s signature.
The outcome of Michala Paludan’s Micro Institute includes the solo exhibition at Kunsthal Aarhus, as well as the book The Unposed (EoAT) published by Disko Bay. Additionally, Michala will convene discursive events with scholars and practice-based thinkers as part of the research process.
ABOUT SEOLHUI LEE
Seolhui Lee (b. 1987, South Korea. Based in Denmark) is a curator at Kunsthal Aarhus (2023–) and the artistic director for the Korean Pavilion 2024, Venice Biennale with Jacob Fabricius. She previously served as the head of the exhibition team for the Busan Biennale 2020, a curator at the Seoul Museum of Art (2018–2019), and worked for the Korea Artist Prize 2012 at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea (2012–2013). Lee has curated multitudinous exhibitions in many countries – South Korea, Denmark, Sweden, Romania, and Italy, among others. In addition, she held the position of an adjunct professor at the Korea National University of Arts (2019–2022) and the Kaywon University of Art & Design, South Korea (2022–2023). In conjunction with her studies, Lee’s essays have been published in Korean Contemporary Art Since 1990 (2017) and Reading Korean Contemporary Art with Keywords (2019). She is also a contributor for various art publications, including the contemporary Korean art magazine Art In Culture since 2020.
