2025 program

Thin Places are, according to Celtic mythology, sites where the boundary between earthly and spiritual realms is unusually thin and easily crossed. Inspired by this image, this year's program investigates spaces of mediation where different domains of experience become permeable.

Curated by South into North.

Kunsthal 44Møen’s 2025 program unfolds through artists residencies, outdoor commissions, a group exhibition, two solo presentations, a public program and a mini-music festival that form a coherent whole under the conceptual frame Thin Places. Located on the Danish island of Møn, Kunsthal 44Møen was established in 2008 by a group of artists and curators connected to the Fluxus movement. This unique heritage and a strong tradition of experimental sound practices have shaped the institution’s profile since its beginnings. The 2025 program continues this legacy while engaging with contemporary artistic practices.

Thin Places are, according to Celtic mythology, sites where the boundary between earthly and spiritual realms is unusually thin andeasily crossed. Inspired by this image, the program investigates spaces of mediation where different domains of experience become permeable. By stretching liminal spaces between digital and natural realities, technological and spiritual environments, visible and invisible realms, the project dwells in zones of passage and mediality. Grounded in the Kunsthal as a site of encounter between rural landscape and artistic experimentation, the program proposes ecological thinking as methodology rather than subject matter: a practice of finding connections between systems – living and non-living – and exploring how different forms of experience meet and co-exist. Engaging with the existential anxieties of current environmental and political collapses, Thin Places navigates between worlds as a way to rehearse alternative epistemologies and ways of inhabiting layered realities.

Through a radical questioning of separations – not only between art and life but across artistic disciplines and languages – Fluxus artists explored territories of intersection and exchange. Their embrace of multiplication over originality and pioneering experiments with audio-visual media inspire the program’s focus on technologies of mediation. Sound plays a central role in this investigation. As an invisible yet materially present medium, it inherently challenges our usual categories of visually-centred experience. Building on 44Møen’s rich heritage of experimental sound practice – from Henning Christiansen’s compositions to contemporary sonic investigations – the project explores how acoustic space can create its own form of “thin place,” where physical and immaterial realities interweave.

Outdoor exhibition

“Some Windows Are Blind”

  • Aia Sofia C. Turan,

  • Cecilie Skov

The exhibition “Some Windows Are Blind” presents a series of five sculptures placed in the landscape around 44Møen. They resemble abstract maps and boards that both collect and transmit information. Made of various metals – copper, aluminum, steel and tin – they react differently to weather and touch. They take the form of enlarged sheets of paper; some have holes like those of a hole punch, while others have dog-ears, folds or a crumpled post-it note. Their titles open up a poetic space where literary narratives merge with the materials and the surrounding landscape. The works are a continuation of the artistic dialogue between Aia Sofia C. Turan and Cecilie Skov. With “Some Windows Are Blind”, they extend this dialogue by creating collaborative works for the outdoor space.
The exhibition is curated by Julia Rodrigues and generously supported by Statens Værksteder for Kunst, Statens Kunstfond, L.F Foghts Fonden, William Demant Fonden and Overretssagsfører L. Zeuthens Mindelegat. In conjunction with the exhibition Aia and Cecilie have been invited to be resident artists for a project with two primary school classes from local schools on Møn. The kids will try their hands at crafting, moulding and casting, traces in natur, and understanding the effects of weather on objects. The project is housed in 44Møens Laboratory for Nature and Art.