Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen was born in 1977. He graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen 2009. Living and working in Berlin.
Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen is in his artistic practice absorbed by formal experiments with the image's structural contexts. Compositorial as well as conceptual. He has his artistic roots in the abstract visual language of the 20th century and, in particular, the concrete art of modernism in which color and geometric shapes are in focus.
Often the paintings show a kind of architectural landscape inspired by concrete buildings or urban spaces, which, however, can not be fully recognized. In that sense, the works appear more as abstractions of the notion that the architecture can represent metaphysical moods or ideals.
His images often have an untraditional cropping, despite the stringent image structure, creates visual dynamics. It is emphasized by a complex mark of the shadows of the room.
The pictures are always figurative, human-minded. As with art-historical choreographers like Giorgio De Chirico or Edward Hopper, the rooms have a glimpse of something surreal and dreamy. It's like being somewhere you know, yet you do not recognize anything.
Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen is in his artistic practice absorbed by formal experiments with the image's structural contexts. Compositorial as well as conceptual. He has his artistic roots in the abstract visual language of the 20th century and, in particular, the concrete art of modernism in which color and geometric shapes are in focus.
Often the paintings show a kind of architectural landscape inspired by concrete buildings or urban spaces, which, however, can not be fully recognized. In that sense, the works appear more as abstractions of the notion that the architecture can represent metaphysical moods or ideals.
His images often have an untraditional cropping, despite the stringent image structure, creates visual dynamics. It is emphasized by a complex mark of the shadows of the room.
The pictures are always figurative, human-minded. As with art-historical choreographers like Giorgio De Chirico or Edward Hopper, the rooms have a glimpse of something surreal and dreamy. It's like being somewhere you know, yet you do not recognize anything.
