Meeting with the artist – Mette Vangsgaard

Meet the artist Mette Vangsgaard and get a unique insight into the special exhibition "helium". She works with modern human life and its relationship with nature.

The themes of the exhibition helium are rural life and the instability and uncertainty that characterizes the changing times we live in. The motifs are the plant life of childhood. Everyday scenes. Wildlife and plants that are site-specific for Odsherred and Vestsjælland.

Mette Vangsgaard creates works of art in a wide range of materials. For this exhibition, she works with ceramics and glass, among other things - and she has also produced animation films.

Mette Vangsgaard writes about the exhibition project:

"The core of my artistic practice is the life of modern man and his relationship with nature. I grew up in the middle of Zealand's nature and my childhood has influenced my work. I therefore feel a natural kinship with the Odsherred painters.

For the exhibition at the Odsherred Art Museum, I am working on how demographics and nature have changed in rural areas, and how official narratives can help shape an area. I am interested in the rural population and I try to understand how forced changes affect people, especially the young. How nature and man continue to be inextricably linked even in an eternal change. Flowers and plants have been depicted as long as there has been art. Artists have always had an interest in depicting flora that played an important role in society. The ways in which flora are represented are historically determined. We have now reached a point in history where wherever you look in nature there are traces of people: A piece of plastic, a coffee lid, a bag…”

Limited number of tickets. Be sure of a place and buy a ticket in advance. Possibly. remaining tickets are for sale at the door.

Read more about the special exhibition, which can be seen until 20 October.