Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen

– The Future Begins at Home (PDF)
– Meditations on the Uncanny (PDF)
– CV
– About

In his work, Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen explores painterly space, drawing inspiration from the built environment via photography and models. His most recent solo exhibition, “The Future Begins at Home”,2011, comprised more than 40 paintings in which he explored the utopian aspirations attached to the meaning of the private space within the history of Modernism and current architectural discourse.

Havsteen-Mikkelsen’s work is permeated by an acute interest in how
architectural structures function as extensions of human consciousness while testifying to the contemporary understanding of human life and agency. Havsteen-Mikkelsen presents built environments as sites of conflict for the subject, the architectural structures being the visual representation of the
desires and (un)conscious drives of the perceiving-thinking body.