On Friday, January 24, Kunsthal Aarhus opens its doors to an atmospheric solo exhibition with Danish artist and researcher Marie Kølbæk Iversen. At the opening you can also experience the concert DONNIMAAR: O TILLI with Kølbæk Iversen, Katinka Fogh Vindelev and the string duo Hettarher'.

New Atlantics invites you into a sensory-saturated exhibition universe featuring large-scale luminescent graphic works, bronze shark sculptures, and video works with underwater footage from the Atlantic Ocean.

With her art, Marie Kølbæk Iversen creates a unique access to intense current topics such as ocean death, biodiversity crisis, and climate issues. She does this through mythological stories and a consistent and compelling tone in her art, allowing the audience to experience the serious through the captivating and sensuous.

New Atlantics unfolds in the large underground Gallery at Kunsthal Aarhus.

On the occasion of the opening of New Atlantics, Kølbæk Iversen also releases his second LP. The record is called Donnimaar. O Tilli, produced by Laurent Schmid and released on the Swiss art music label Speckled-Toshe with arrangements by Katinka Fogh Vindelev, Andreas Tykjær Restorff and Torleik Mortensen.

Kølbæk Iversen's Donnimaar project is based on song lyrics collected by Evald Tang Kristensen in Hammerum Herred and Ørre Sogn in the 1870s, including from Marie Kølbæk Iversen's great-great-great-great grandmother Johanne Tygesdatter. On Donnimaar. O Tilli, she sings songs about merfolk to try to access the perspective of the sea as a response to the human gaze that has brought the world and the oceans to the current state of crisis.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆:
Danish Art Foundation
Augustinus Foundation
The Obelisk Family Fund
Musikpuljen Aarhus Kommune
Axel Muusfeldts Fond
Beckett-Foundation
Spar Nord Foundation