In the Darkness, We Ask the Sun to Remember Us

In the Chapel Park, Sct. Hans Garden, Roskilde, a large patterned decoration has been cut in the grass. Together, visual artist Maria Finn and landscape architect Jacob Kamp have created the large-scale grass installation “Mirakel” (after Josef Frank)”. The work is created by shaping the grass and leaving it to grow. The work is based on a textile pattern from the 1920s designed by Austrian-born architect, artist and designer Josef Frank (1885-1967), in which a complex and varied pattern emerges and continually develops by repeating and rotating a single element. A small part of Frank’s pattern has been transferred in a large scale to the grass of the Chapel Park by Finn and Kamp. Here, it once again becomes part of the landscape and visitors can view it from a distance or step inside it.

Miracle (after Josef Frank), Museum for Contemporary Art, Roskilde, at Sct. Hans Garden, 2024.

Kivik Art Centre 5.5.2020

In Kivik Art Centre’s unique environment, visual artist Maria Finn and landscape architect Jacob Kamp established the work Grid in a wheat field, in the summer 2020. Grid had previously been established in Amorparken in central Copenhagen in 2019, where a grid pattern was transferred on the lawns. In the squares, the grass was allowed to grow high while the passages were cut so that visitors could move through the work and thus get a different experience of the park. The work Grid was reestablished at Kivik Art Centre, where the part of the wheat field that leads to Snöhetta’s sculpture Viewfinder was cut in the same geometric pattern. The corridors made it possible for the visitor to move through the field to reach to Viewfinder, which made the landscape accessible in a completely new way. By moving through the wheat field the visitor experienced it up close, and not from a distance, offering an intimate experience of fields we usually only pass by.

Kivik Art Centre 21.6.2020

Kivik Art Centre 21.6.2020

Kivik Art Centre 21.6.2020