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Hinterland: solo exhibition

Neudecker works with landscape. Her concerns are the way ideas of landscape are embedded in culture and charged with history, politics and ideas. She has returned repeatedly to making reference to the traditions of landscape in art and to issues of place and collective experience and memory, and specifically to landscape representations within the Northern European Romantic tradition.

Hinterland, a solo exhibition curated by/with Pontus Kyander (Director of the Museum), was the largest exhibition of Neudecker’s work to date from 1997 to 2013 providing a contextual survey. 38 works were shown that encompass the full range of her practice: sculpture, installation, video, film and photography. One work: The Great Day Of His Wrath (2013), a video installation with two mirrors (45.5 x 142cm x 160cm 26min loop), first exhibited in ‘Hinterland’ was subsequently shown at the Brighton Festival in May 2013 and the British Science Festival in September 2013.

Neudecker (with Kyander) also reconfigured and re-hung the entire collection of the Museum around agreed themes: Reflected Landscape, Power, The Eyes and the Gaze, Deep-Time and Variations. Her works were exhibited amongst and alongside works from the Museum collection, which contains works of painting and sculpture from 1700 to the present day.

Neudecker was only the second artist to be invited to work with this Museum collection in this way, with Mark Vuokola the first (September 2012-January 2013). These exhibitions encouraged the viewers to get to know the collection in a different way, and to see new meanings and possibilities in the displays.

Catalogue published post-exhibition and is due in January 2014 (208 pages, 5 essays, 3 other texts,142 colour plates). www.trondheimkunstmuseum.no