Ebbe Stub Wittrup - The Third Room

In his works, Stub Wittrup combines various scientific theories, historical and literary references, with our notions of the supernatural. His works are often linked to actual places shrouded in mystery and possibly rooted in real stories. They often involve an extra layer of meaning - a kind of third space - connected to the unknown.

The exhibition Ebbe Stub Wittrup - THE THIRD ROOM will be the artist's largest solo exhibition to date. It includes a wide selection of works - including film, slides, sculpture and photography - from previous series to brand new works.

From surrealist André Breton's hotel room in Paris to mysterious devil bridges in southern Europe to an enigmatic island in northern Scotland, we are taken on a strange journey where real and unreal phenomena meet. In the film series Mary Rose - A Play in Three Acts (2011), Stub Wittrup interprets J.M. Barrie's horror story about the girl Mary Rose who mysteriously disappears, first for 21 days and later for several years, after which she returns with no memory of where she has been and no obvious signs of ageing. In the photographic series Eight Cards (2011), Wittrup uses psychoanalyst Max Lüscher's personality test, which was a common psychological method in the 1970s. The test consisted of eight coloured cards that the individual being analysed had to place in a pile on the table in a random order, after which the psychologist could decode the person's state of mind based on the (unconsciously) chosen order. In Eight Cards, Wittrup has transformed the different states of mind represented by the piles of cards into a series of beautiful digital colour portraits.

Ebbe Stub Wittrup - THE THIRD ROOM will be staged in a theatrical and atmospheric way with powerful lighting and corridors of curtains to pass through when moving from one room to another. The curtains will act as a kind of passageway into a new and unknown place - a third space - between myth and reality, the conscious and unconscious, the visible and invisible.

Exhibition curator: Museum curator Maria Kappel Blegvad.