ARIEL - Feminisms in the Aesthetics

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Read about the project and the exhibition Society of Molecules at Aalborg Midwifery Centre.The article “Art in Practice:...
22/04/2026

Read about the project and the exhibition Society of Molecules at Aalborg Midwifery Centre.

The article “Art in Practice: Dreams of the Care Spaces of the Future” featured at Art Matter.

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In Danish.

Først havde vi naturen: Vandring & Samtidskunst Kom med på en sanselig vandring i Aalborg med billedkunstner Sara Hagins...
14/04/2026

Først havde vi naturen: Vandring & Samtidskunst 

Kom med på en sanselig vandring i Aalborg med billedkunstner Sara Hagins, naturvejleder Mikkel Rødvig og litteraturformidler Sara Boe Hansen.

Vi starter ved Aalborg Jordemodercenter, hvor et kunstværk introducerer temaer om krop, fertilitet og økologi – og bevæger os derfra ud i naturen mod Karolinelund. Undervejs fortæller Sara Boe Hansen om litteratur, der forbinder sig til emnerne fertilitet, økologi og klimakrise. 

Vi afslutter med kaffe, kage og fælles samtale. 

Vandringen er en del af udstillingen “Samfund af Bindinger” på Aalborg Jordemodercenter, kurateret af lím collective, ARIEL - Feminisms in the aesthetics, og Aalborg Bibliotekerne. 

〰️ D. 20. april kl. 16:00–19:00 
〰️ Gratis tilmelding via www.aalborgbibliotekerne.dk/hovedbiblioteket-i-aalborg/arrangementer/voksne/forst-havde-vi-naturen

Grafisk design: Kamilla Mez

“Bukken, Venden, Åbnen” by visual artist and graphic designer Kamilla Mez is based on a “conversation flower” used in co...
09/04/2026

“Bukken, Venden, Åbnen” by visual artist and graphic designer Kamilla Mez is based on a “conversation flower” used in consultations at the midwifery center. In Mez’s version, the model is expanded into a poetic tool for reflection in the form of a foldable sheet that can be shaped into a water lily. In nature, the water lily functions as a purifying element in murky waters. Similarly, the work is intended as a tool for processing thoughts and conversations, where doubts and expectations can take form.

The sheet contains questions, bodily exercises, and poetic invitations. It can be used by pregnant individuals alone or together with a partner and taken home between consultations. When the sheet is folded and unfolded again, the reflections are revisited.

It is part of the exhibition Society of Molecules, which is a collaboration between ARIEL - Feminisms in the Aesthetics, the Aalborg-based artist run platform Lím Collective, Aalborg Midwife Center at Aalborg University Hospital, and the hospital task force “Patientnær Kunst og Kultur”.

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Generously funded by the Danish Arts Council, Augustinus Fonden, and Aalborg Municipality.

〰️ Photos by Simon Bendix Borregaard

On one of the walls in the waiting room at Aalborg Midwifery Centre, The Great Clotheslines by the Netherlands-based Mex...
09/04/2026

On one of the walls in the waiting room at Aalborg Midwifery Centre, The Great Clotheslines by the Netherlands-based Mexican curator and editor Eva Posas and the Mexican visual artist and writer Alan Sierra, spreads across the surface in dotted lines resembling clotheslines strung from a tree – forming a poetic and sensory backdrop. The tree’s trunk twists into a shape reminiscent of a DNA strand, while its branches and clotheslines carry small baby socks, kitchen utensils, a bird’s nest with eggs, and other symbols of motherhood, lineage, and belonging.

The work is executed in blood-red sanguine pigment using a spolvero technique from the Renaissance, which Mexican modernists employed during the 1910s muralist movement when transferring a drawing onto a larger wall surface.It is created on the basis of collaboration between the two. Eva Posas’ engagement with writing and the politics of care meets Alan Sierra’s embodied drawing practice, and the piece functions both as a document or archive and as an open gesture. The intention is that the work can serve as a wordless companion in a waiting situation—a way of communicating without words and opening up an inner dialogue for those present in the space.

It is part of the exhibition Society of Molecules, which is a collaboration between ARIEL - Feminisms in the Aesthetics, the Aalborg-based artist run platform Lím Collective, Aalborg Midwife Center at Aalborg University Hospital, and the hospital task force “Patientnær Kunst og Kultur”.

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Generously funded by the Danish Arts Council, Augustinus Fonden, and Aalborg Municipality.

〰️ Photos by Simon Bendix Borregaard

Teach-in: Alternative TechWe invite you to this year’s first teach-in on Wednesday, March 25, 2026, from 10:00–12:00.  A...
24/03/2026

Teach-in: Alternative Tech

We invite you to this year’s first teach-in on Wednesday, March 25, 2026, from 10:00–12:00.  
Adr: Thoravej 29, NV

David Walther Birk Lauridsen from Teknologisk Arbejderkooperativ and Ukrudt.net will give a talk on digital infrastructures and our dependence on big tech, while pointing toward alternative technological pathways.

The program includes a short introduction, a one-hour talk, a Q&A session, and a closing workshop for those who wish to explore and test the presented technology.

Everyone is welcome.

www.not-just-art.dk

A transformative day at Aalborg Midwifery Centre! Last week, midwives and artists came together for a professional devel...
20/03/2026

A transformative day at Aalborg Midwifery Centre!
Last week, midwives and artists came together for a professional development day as part of the Society of Molecules collaboration.

During the workshop, staff reflected on how the artworks offered a new experience of their workplace — and a different way of encountering art, helping them connect more deeply with their environment through sight, touch, and feeling.
As one of the midwives shared: “You get a sense of wholeness in the rooms now. The textile softens them. It moves, it lives.”

It was especially valuable to see midwives and the artists behind the works in conversation, creating a shared space for reflection and exchange.

The works in the waiting area turn attention back to the heart of the space — care, consultations, and the relationships between midwives and the pregnant women they support.

Several participants pointed to how the spaces are already changing: “Before, it was just a small corridor. I often arrive early, and now I look forward to seeing this space.” The atmosphere is described as calmer and more cohesive, with smaller “rooms within the room” creating space to pause — particularly meaningful for those who arrive in vulnerable situations.

The day marked an important step in the ongoing exchange between healthcare workers and artists, exploring how contemporary art can become an integrated part of everyday care — as a starting point for reflection, dialogue, and shared experience.

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This inspiring collaboration is generously funded by the Danish Arts Council, Augustinus Fonden, Bikuben Foundation, and Aalborg Municipality.

〰️ Photos by Simon Bendix Borregaard

In connection with the exhibition Society of Molecules at Aalborg Midwifery Centre, we have invited the centre’s midwive...
10/03/2026

In connection with the exhibition Society of Molecules at Aalborg Midwifery Centre, we have invited the centre’s midwives to a guided tour of the exhibition together with the visual artists behind the works. Here, the midwives will be given the space and opportunity to articulate their experience of the exhibition’s works and to share their wishes and ideas for future works in the new department.

This professional development day is part of the project’s overall intention to continuously share and exchange knowledge between healthcare and artistic perspectives. Its purpose is to provide insight into how living contemporary art can become part of the everyday spaces of the Midwifery Centre – serving as a starting point for reflection, dialogue, and shared formation of experience.

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It is generously funded by the Danish Arts Council, Augustinus Fonden, Bikuben Foundation, Danish Visual Arts, and Aalborg Municipality. 

Graphic designer: Kamilla Mez

The third part of the exhibition program “Society of Molecules” at Aalborg Midwifery Centre presents works by artists Ka...
06/03/2026

The third part of the exhibition program “Society of Molecules” at Aalborg Midwifery Centre presents works by artists Kamilla Mez  and Eva Posas in collaboration with Alan Sierra.

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Alan Sierra (1990, Mexico)  is an artist and poet who lives and works in Mexico City. His practice brings together drawing, writing, sculpture, and live acts. In his projects, reading is not a passive gesture but a form of authorship. He approaches written culture through its adjacent professions – editing, translation, illustration – in order to expand the conditions under which meaning is produced and shared. His work proposes that to read is also to intervene.

He was part of the Educational Program at SOMA (2019-2021) and completed a master’s degree at the Institute Art Gende Nature in Basel, Switzerland. He has participated in group exhibitions in Mexico. Internationally, his work has been presented at Castello di Rivoli (Turin, 2023), La Capella (Barcelona, 2022), and the Denver Art Museum (2021). In 2019, Gato Negro Ediciones published Nonverbal, his first book of drawings. In 2021, the same publisher released Pregnant Fable, an essay on the metaphor of male pregnancy and its instrumentalization within literary practice. 

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It is generously funded by the Danish Arts Council, Augustinus Fonden, and Aalborg Municipality. 

Graphic designer: Kamilla Mez

The third part of the exhibition program “Society of Molecules” at Aalborg Midwifery Centre presents works by artists Ka...
06/03/2026

The third part of the exhibition program “Society of Molecules” at Aalborg Midwifery Centre presents works by artists Kamilla Mez  and Eva Posas in collaboration with Alan Sierra.

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Eva Posas (b. 1985, Mexico) is a curator, writer, and editor working at the intersection of curatorial and editorial practices. Her work engages the immateriality and politics of language, non-Western imaginaries, and intergenerational memory as forms of resistance and reflection, grounded in Binnizá (Zapotec) culture.
Through exhibitions, publications, pedagogical programs, and public art projects, she explores publishing and storytelling as curatorial methodologies, as well as the politics of subtlety and the shifting boundaries between public and private space.

She is the initiator of Xiagagueta, a program of art, writing, and thought from Binnizá land, and the author of Mbuchi: Turtle Words. On Forbidden Mother Tongues (PrintRoom, 2024). Since 2024, she has been curator of Resquicio at Casa del Lago, UNAM. She holds a background in German literary and language studies and conducts ongoing research and dissemination activities related to Binnizá culture.

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It is generously funded by the Danish Arts Council, Augustinus Fonden, and Aalborg Municipality. 

Graphic designer: Kamilla Mez

The third part of the exhibition program “Society of Molecules” at Aalborg Midwifery Centre presents work by artist Kami...
27/02/2026

The third part of the exhibition program “Society of Molecules” at Aalborg Midwifery Centre presents work by artist Kamilla Mez and Eva Posas in collaboration with Alan Sierra.

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Kamilla Mez (b. 1993, Berlin, she/her) is an artist and arts organizer living and working in Aalborg, Denmark. In 2022 she graduated from the Master of Fine Art program at HDK-Valand in Gothenburg, Sweden, and has exhibited on several platforms, including Göteborgs Konsthall, Kunsthal Aarhus, Skal Contemporary and Kunstbygningen i Vrå. She has received a working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

In her artistic practice, Mez flirts with newer technological expressions which unfolds from a feminist and critical perspective, exploring the many tensions between body, landscape, space and technology that seem to have an ever-increasing impact on our lives. She is interested in following technological developments, especially by looking at what tools, power relations and aesthetic expressions are at play, what they mean in the interaction with human relations, and how they can be radically rethought in a context of care, knowledge, and reflection.

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It is generously funded by the Danish Arts Council, Augustinus Fonden, and Aalborg Municipality.

Graphic designer: Kamilla Mez

Waiting just got a little softer — explore SWAY by Liesel Burisch in the waiting area at Aalborg Midwifery Centre 💫SWAY ...
11/12/2025

Waiting just got a little softer — explore SWAY by Liesel Burisch in the waiting area at Aalborg Midwifery Centre 💫

SWAY is part of “Society of Molecules” which aims to expand the space between art, health, and everyday life—inviting the healthcare system to reflect on its own practices in dialogue with citizens.

The exhibition Society of Molecules is generously funded by the Danish Arts Council, Augustinus Fonden, and Aalborg Municipality. 

Photos by Reasat Hasan

We are excited for you to move and bounce to the installation SWAY by artist Liesel Burisch for the second part of the e...
05/12/2025

We are excited for you to move and bounce to the installation SWAY by artist Liesel Burisch for the second part of the exhibition program “Society of Molecules” at Aalborg Midwifery Centre.

Liesel Burisch is an artist and birth attendant whose practice spans video, text, and activism. Their practice explores themes of care, night and postpartum life, and the commercialization of bodies. For Society of Molecules, Burisch is bringing the awareness of support as relational structures and as physicality into the Midwifery Center’s waiting room.

Burisch is the author of the first inclusive breastfeeding book, Q***r Nursing, and has exhibited widely both in Denmark and internationally, most recently at Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen, Dundee Contemporary Arts in Scotland, and The Glucksman in Ireland.
The Society of Molecules aims to expand the space between art, health, and everyday life—inviting the healthcare system to reflect on its own practices in dialogue with citizens.
Society of Molecules is a collaboration between ARIEL - Feminisms in the Aesthetics, the Aalborg-based artist run platform Lím Collective, Aalborg Midwife Center at Aalborg University Hospital, and the hospital task force “Patientnær Kunst og Kultur”.

The exhibition is generously funded by the Bikuben Foundation, the Danish Arts Council, Danish Visual Arts, Augustinus Fonden, and Aalborg Municipality. 

Photos by Reasat Hasan
Slides “How Can I Help” by Liesel Burisch

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