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            Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark 06/2023

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is probably the most important museum for modern and contemporary art in Denmark.

It is located 35 kilometres north of Copenhagen in Humlebæk, directly on the shore of the Öresund. The museum buildings were designed by different architects and are located on a hillside site by the sea. All the buildings are directly connected to each other. The park facing Öresund and a garden with a lake on the west side are integral parts of the museum. Sculptures, landscape art and designed nature are coordinated with each other.

The artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset planned their work Powerless Structures, Fig. 11, for Louisiana’s Panorama Room in the South Wing. The work consists partly of the view from the Panorama Room that was already there: the sea, a few trees outermost in the visual field and the sky. And it also consists of an object that the artists have placed in the room: a white diving board, ready to use – and then again not. The big difference between the diving boards you see on holiday or at a swimming pool and this one is that the diving board is placed in a room at the Louisiana Museum. The view is real enough, but in the middle of the diving board, the thick pane of glass puts a stop to any further fantasies of jumping out into the blue. It is also a little too far to the water and a little too far down.
As in many of their works, Elmgreen & Dragset’s piece in Louisiana is based on a familiar object. But the meaning of the diving board has changed – partly because it has been placed somewhere else than where we expect to see it and partly because it has been deprived of its function.

Taken on: June 18, 2023

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