[May 30th 2002]
Press release

Kirsten Pieroth at MELLEMDÆKKET

Kirsten Pieroth's exhibition opens Friday 31st May, 5-7 pm
Exhibition: 1 June - 4 August 2002

Mellemdækket
Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall
Nyhavn 2, DK-1051 Copenhagen K
Tel. +45 33 13 40 22
fax +45 33 14 25 70
Mon-Sun 10am-5pm, Wed 10am-7pm
www.charlottenborg-art.dk

MELLEMDÆKKET - a new space for solo-exhibitions in Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall. As an innovation and initially for a period of 2 years, the board of Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall has decided to reserve Mellemdækket - the building's mezzanine floor - for solo-exhibitions by Danish and foreign artists. The exhibitions will be spread over the year and will be initiated with a series of exhibitions arranged by younger Danish artists-cum-curators.

The free-lance curator Jacob Fabricius is the first, having invited the following artists:

31 May - 4 August The German artist Kirsten Pieroth, b. 1970. www.klosterfelde.de

9 August - 6 October The Danish artist Henriette Heise, b. 1966. www.copenhagenfreeuniversity.dk & www.infopool.org.uk

11 October - 8 December The German artist Stephan Dillemuth, b. 1954. www.societyofcontrol.com

Each exhibition will be accompanied by a text, edited by the curator.

To quote from Jacob Fabricius' presentation of Kirsten Pieroth: "Kirsten Pieroth works with objects which normally belong to domestic spheres. Daily-life objects classified through their form, function or cultural identity are removed from their original context and analysed in comparison to other objects - or to themselves. As basis for her work Kirsten Pieroth compares opposite or common characteristics leading to unusual connections and com-binations. Even when the external form is occasionally altered the typical identifying marks of the object remain and the spectator's corresponding connotations prevent a final categorisation of the various sign-ifications … Summing up, the works of Kirsten Pieroth put the interrelations of thought and object and the very process of vision into question."

Earlier exhibitions by Kirsten Pieroth:

Solo-exhibitions (selected):
"There are two Temperatures: One outside, one inside". Kirsten Pieroth/Henrik Olesen. Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, I. (2002)
Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg (2001)
Klosterfelde, Berlin (2000)
rraum, Frankfurt/M. (2002)

Group-exhibitions (selected):
Tirana Biennial 1, National Gallery, Tirana, Albania (cat.) (2001)
IASPIS Galleriet, Stockholm (2000)

Mid-February 2003 the artist Jesper Fabricius will initiate his series of exhibitions at MELLEMDÆKKET to be followed in the autumn 2003 by artists invited by the artist Frode Gundorf.

MELLEMDÆKKET will be open to the public every day, 10am - 5 pm, irrespective of temporary closures in the main exhibtion hall, in which case entry is free of charge.

Ole Sporring
Chairman of the Board