NATURA SPIRITUALIS

Total installation by Noelia Mora Solvez, Jeppe Worning and Johannes Smed
The exhibition is the culmination of the artists' research over five years in relation to a universe that is both bizarre and alluring. Their goal is to create a universe inside the Art Center that seems to have grown naturally and organically, without human intervention. They create this as a site-specific total installation that embraces the halls, the sound and us as beings. A statement and some questions that the artists want to raise:
"The human body is not just a thing, but our indisputable starting point for understanding and experiencing the world in general. It is the prerequisite for the here and now experience of the outer and the inner. The place from which we must experience our lives, ourselves and our surroundings, and the pivot point from which we can ask questions of the world and wonder about it. Does this mean that a different body gives a different understanding of the world? Would this open up to a different world at all?" Photo of the initial sketch work.

NATURE'S EYE

Karin Lykke
Visual artist Karin Lykke shows a series of works with sizes like 1 x 3 m and 1 x 1.5 m. She has done them with a combination of liquid ink, watercolor and cyanotype on paper and textile. She juxtaposes these large paper works with a number of smaller works in terms of format: nature sketches, graphics, decorated ceramics and cyanotype prints of her finds in nature. The artist's nature motifs range from crude landscape abstractions to fine bird feathers, depictions of insects, wild plants, etc.

Nature's Eye unfolds throughout the upper floor of the Art Centre, where Karin Lykke has divided her exhibition into three or four different sections, each with their own title and theme. Her primary purpose with her art is to bring wild nature close to the audience – and vice versa. On a broader level, in her own way, she wants to contribute to the debate and convey the necessity that we take good care of nature and that we take a stand on climate change.

Nature's Eye arose from Karin Lykke's love for and anchoring in wild nature - partly in Odsherred, where she has her artistic work, partly in connection with several study stays in North Jutland, Iceland and Lofoten in the period 2016-2025. Part of the exhibition will be dedicated to nature close to the Art Center Silkeborg Bad, where she has drawn inspiration and motifs from Ørnsø, Arnakkekilden and Silkeborg Vesterskov.