Platform * Ditte Krøyer x Klara Li Scheutz
In "hard core", the sugar industry of Lolland, its farmland, factories, history, and fragility, Lolland’s cute climate threat, its people, families and connection to the artist’s own life are all parts of the contradicting landscape that is being treated. She has taken a lifeworld and poured it in the space. Inside the dark room are works that zoom in on their microcosmos and expand and change.
Almost opposing sculptural and sound pieces created in materials of metal and sugar, mirrors, hair and tar-like mass, intense electronic music and growl that Ditte Krøyer writes and performs in the exhibition, each in their own way examine how the most fragile and the most tough make up the same world. Within the contradictions, there is room for both the personal story about the home and the land, the catastrophe of the home and the land, shameless romanticising of the home and the land, and the real death. These are elements in the world of the exhibition. And in the black landscape, there has been a flood and its return remains ominous, machines restructure the fields into industry, and it is also a beautiful place, where family, loss, and love connect you to the land.
In a mirror forest, there is the possibility of an upside-down, where that and those who are lost take up residence in new ways. On a big metal board, the divide is painted clearly, in the bottom is a black tar sea and above good portraits of two beloved grandparents. The transition is represented and put to work. A mohawk, worn in spite, cut off like a turned leaf, is as its own, on the floor.
"hard core" renegotiates a place, an origin, and the position that these can give. In the culturally exalted, final liminal space that the sacred room in Nikolaj Church used to be – which incorporates some and excludes others – Ditte Krøyer creates her own ritual, another alter. A transitional corridor that forces a place for itself anew.
The exhibition “hard core” will be on view at Nikolaj Kunsthal from November 28, 2025, to January 11, 2026.
The opening takes place on November 27, 2025, from 4:00-7:00 PM. Admission is free - and so are the beers from Depanneur while supplies last.
A finissage will be held on January 8, featuring a conversation between artist Ditte Krøyer and curator Klara Li Scheutz, followed by a performance.
The exhibition “hard core” is supported by Statens Kunstfond, Knud Højgaards Fond, and Københavns Kommune. The project space Platform is supported by Det Obelske Familiefond.
