Hosting Lands is a slow-growing, decentral exhibition movement unfolding around land, the relationship between host and guest, and the link between the hyper-local and the global. Over the course of three years, the exhibition will move between six locations throughout Denmark and engage local and international artists, activists and communities. Hosting Lands explores how we can steward and care for land differently through legal commoning of conventional farmlands and by working in collective and regenerative site-responsive manners. Hosting Lands orients itself towards futures beyond the exhibition movement itself by offering possibilities to inhabit artistic spaces as architecture of the everyday and creating lasting change in the landscapes and the worlds at stake.

Hosting Lands is an experiment and an attempt to practice and challenge some of the usual production modes of (the Western) art world. With this project, we wish to engage with, support and do radical bridge work between art and community practices engaged in land politics that inhabit communal, self-organized artistic spaces as alternative architectures of everyday life.

Hosting Lands has no linear timeline. It is a scattered, “drip by drip” exhibition project with many different, big and small, “exhibitionary moments” popping up across the sites, communities and engagements in the project. It hosts both on-site and digital activities - such as workshops, gatherings, performances, online sessions, letters, guest/host notes, residencies, artworks, etc.

Hosting Lands emphasizes participatory and durational, site-specific art practices that cultivate deep and sustained relations to land, its communities and its stories. It wishes to support artworks that become, or weave, into the infrastructures of everyday life and work.

Hosting Lands is supported by

The Bikuben Foundation,
Vision Exhibition Award

Globus Call

Nordisk Kulturfond

Danish Arts Foundation

Spar Nord Fonden

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