Left to Right: Dea Antonsen, Aziza Harmel, Ida Bencke, and Pujita Guha, in Løkkegravene, Nov 2023
We are a team of independent curators, living and working through different art-world and financial, visa or bureaucratic precarities. We work together in Denmark when budget and border regimes allow us to, and in between mostly meet on zoom across borders and time zones.
Aziza Harmel is a curator based in Tunis. Harmel works with nomadic exhibition productions, and questions around inhabiting the ruin and restoration, reclaiming the public space and decolonization of exhibition formats.
Pujita Guha is an educator, writer, and curator. Her interests always circle around environmental, land and forested places and relations, indigenous thought and politics, and contemporary art in Asia and elsewhere.
Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology is a self-organized curatorial platform for experimental exhibition makings and publishing practices situated in Denmark. LAE was founded in 2014 by Dea Antonsen and Ida Bencke in an urge of cultivating spaces for soft resistance in the intersection between ecologies of care, planetary survival and social justice.
We are also in gratitude of Laura Gerdes-Miranda and Thea Møller Jensen for their curatorial insight and help to the project. We would also like to acknowledge Michal Jurgielewicz for his design and graphic wizadry, and Mikolaj Antonik for his technical, web, and coding related support to the project.