Yvette Brackman, Robert Gassner, Hannah Heilmann: Arkadisk Frederiksberg

Arcadian Frederiksberg was an affective and associative reading of Møstings Hus' place in a a contemporary archaeology of the city of Frederiksberg.

It all began in a time when a self-critical eco-bourgeoisie was searching for the simplicity, originality and idyll in a geopolitically complicated equation between local and global, between city and country and between notions of sustainability, the good life, wealth and debt. From this point, the artists fantasized about Møstings Hus' architecture, history and place in the middle of Frederiksberg's greenery and green imagery.

The works moved in an eclectic direction of painting, pickling, sculpture, guided tours and installations, embedded in the house as architectural interventions. Like an indoor open-air museum with sauerkraut, kombucha drinks, a rowboat pavilion with teasmades, king's pheasants and falcons, Laura Ashley vintage dresses, portraits of bank robbers and a post-expressionist debt sauna.

What this eclectic set of reflections had in common were ways of thinking through the house's changing spatial, contextual and functional affiliations to historical and contemporary social and popular cultural phenomena in a discussion of the house's current, spatial and 'material' relevance.

The exhibition was supported by the Statens Kunstfond, the Frederiksberg Foundation, the Austrian Embassy, the Dreyers Foundation as well as Statens Verksteder for Kunst.