Molly Haslund

On the long beach, you can follow in Molly Haslund's footsteps and walk for hours until time dissolves itself. The monumental work on Blåvandshuk Beach is activated by a performance with the artist in collaboration with local performers - and by guests who feel like embarking on a walk towards eternity. Molly Haslund will perform the work for the opening of First There Is A Mountain and then once a week during the exhibition period. 

Biography 

Molly Haslund works performatively and sculpturally. In her work, she examines the close connections between identity, social hierarchies and norms, and how people negotiate them via bodily gestures, cultural rituals and the layout of our surroundings. Molly Haslund's works span from musical performances and scenographic installations to choreographed group performances in public spaces. A series of her performative works involve the audience in coordinated play with modified, often scaled, tools and stage the relationship between individual and community in a public space. 

Molly Haslund is educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Glasgow School of Art (2005). She lives and works in Copenhagen. 

Molly Haslund has contributed performances to exhibitions and festivals, most recently including the performance festival Up Close at Folkemødet (2022), SMK Fridays (2021), Den Frie Morgen (2021) and Metropolis Wa(l)king Copenhagen (2020). She has collaborated with children and young people, i.a. in collaboration with KØS Museum for art in public spaces in Køge and Meetings Festival in Thyborøn. Molly Haslund's works are represented in the collections of the Statens Museum for Art in Copenhagen, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde and Wanås Konst sculpture park in Sweden.