In recent years, many new international art biennials have popped up in peripheral places around the world that have not before been introduced to and incorporated into the space of art, as places from which to propagate and explore trends in contemporary art. The dialogue that is conducted in contemporary art becomes involved in the context of the biennial and the place itself, the locality becomes a target for artistic work, which makes the biennial and the art present and interesting for a local audience. In contrast to the fact that biennials are often some huge national machinery of national importance, the Nørrekær Biennale wants to show another model with a single theme and limited participation, which functions more as a laboratory or as a learning process, not only in art, but also in the practical world. LAND was inaugurated as an art project in 2000 by the artist group N55 as part of a larger project LAND, which consists of 17 enclaves in various parts of the world. Each of these enclaves is equipped with a 1 meter high cairn (Cairn), made of stainless steel and polycarbonate. COUNTRY at position: N 56 ° 59 ′ 55 ″ E 009 ° 19 ′ 33.7 ″. consists of an area of ​​approx. 650 m2 on a field in the flat land near the Limfjord in Vesthimmerland. COUNTRIES also see http://www.n55.dk/MANUALS/LAND/land.html

In 2001, the artist Karin Lorenzen placed a 6 m high tower with 7 legs in the square. From the tower platform you can see the Limfjord where it separates Vesthimmerland and Hanherred. The tower, with its characteristic pink color, has become a landmark for LAND in Nørrekær Meadows. The artist group Perfume visited as some of the first artists LAND in 2001 with their tractor and shed. They left behind a game of bar tennis, which has long since disappeared. Later in 2006, the visual artist Thomas Bo Østergaard erected a piece of urban pavement on LAND with a bench and a lamppost. With the Nørrekær Biennale in 2014, wind / solar energy was installed.

LANDSCAPE AROUND COUNTRY

LAND lies on raised fjord floor with dikes out to the fjord. It is a flat, open area with wide views and high to the sky, but also open to the wind. LAND lies in the middle of a cultural landscape, like an oasis between cultivated fields. A rich bird life has been greatly reduced by the construction of an adjacent wind farm. But in the fall, the wild geese settle here when they are moving from Scandinavia to the south.

To the south, the flat fjord landscape is bounded by a hillside, and just here, a few hundred meters south of LAND, archaeologists in the seventies excavated Denmark’s only known settlement from the Bronze Age. Here, a small community lived 3-4,000 years ago based on fishing and beginning farming. At the excavations, the archaeologists found a cult site with a rock carving on a stone. (see picture)

Today, only a few people move on the surrounding dirt roads. Therefore, it is a special experience for those who find the position LAND in Nørrekær.