“Of the vivid natural environment, today only a distant, fleeting memory remains — a melancholic semblance glimpsed within symbolic frames, like paintings or phone screens, or in physical ones, strolling through the domesticated nature of elegant city gardens, private or aristocratic.”¹

Diversione takes its point of departure in a residency at the Danish Institute in Rome. Emerging from research into landscape painting, urban theory and the historical layering of cultivated space, the exhibition considers diversion as detour and displacement, between image and site, memory and intervention.

The exhibition is accompanied by texts by Nikolaj Schultz, Assistant Professor of Social Theory and Ecological Thought at Aarhus School of Architecture, and writer Matteo Giovanelli.

Theodor Nymark is an artist and curator. In his practice, he systematically examines the metaphorical and physical conceptions of the environment, engaging with it by exploring the role of spirituality in a post-industrial world. Through a narrative and research-based approach, Nymark addresses the landscape by investigating themes such as art history, national identity, land politics, collective memory, and local architecture, while exploring their interconnections and impact on ecological thinking and governance.

¹ Excerpt from Matteo Giovanelli’s text for the exhibition.