Countdown to launch
My countdown to the launch of the colour-themed bookazine no. 12, which comes out on 27 March 2025, began in August 2024, when I met with Cecilia Westerberg. She showed me how she makes her own artists’ colours, some of them based on pigments from the Pigment Garden at the Rønnebæksholm art centre.
At the time, Cecilia was working on a large colour design and decoration project at Rønnebæksholm in collaboration with designers Matilde Friese & Stine Friese.
You can read about my first meeting with Cecilia and our follow-up meeting in November in the upcoming bookazine.
After our meeting, I was also counting down to the unveiling of the decoration and colour design project, which includes the museum’s corridors, café, shop and art workshop.
The latter three were also redecorated with a mix of existing furnishings curated by the Friese sisters and new bespoke furnishings designed by them.
The decorative project is titled ‘The Indoor Garden: Outside is Inside – Inside is Outside’.
Rønnebæksholm’s programme for 2025 is focused on tactile materiality and community as materiality and features exhibitions and events to facilitate learning and community-building at Rønnebæksholm, both indoors and out.
The project was ready for unveiling on 1 February, coinciding with the opening of the year’s first exhibition, which shows works by Magnus Andersen.
I was given a sneak peek the day before.
The paint on the walls was still damp, the cushions for the seating furniture had not yet been delivered from the furniture upholsterer, the shop shelves were still being stocked, and the workshop – which will focus on embroidery under designer Stina Resting’s leadership – was not yet ready to open.
Rønnebæksholm is a beautiful art centre, and the adjacent garden is well worth a visit. The new colour scheme and the redecoration of the public areas have added one more reason to visit this art venue in South Zealand.
The woodwork, walls and ceilings in the hall and corridors have been given new colours. The wall paint was made using pigments from the garden, just as local pigments were used to dye the delicate silk curtains, which do not cover but highlight the windows.
An employee assured me that the elegant café – which is named Cafe Haralda after Haralda Judithe Johanne Margrethe Haraldsdatter Toft, who owned the Rønnebæksholm estate from 1851 to 1896 – will be serving excellent coffee. I sampled the tea, which was delicious.
The walls in both the café and shop are decorated with paintings by Cecilia Westerberg and with a large pigment library.
When I visited Cecilia in her workshop in November, she spoke highly of her collaboration with Matilde and Stine Friese. The three have done several joint projects since 2018.
As she showed me around Rønnebæksholm, she mentioned how delighted she was with what they can achieve together.
I share her delight, the result is truly beautiful.
Congratulations to Matilde, Stine and Cecilia!
Congratulations to Rønnebæksholm!
Min nedtælling til bookazine 12, med temaet farve, som udkommer 27. marts 2025, begyndte i august 2024. Da mødte jeg Cecilia Westerberg, som viste mig, hvordan hun fremstiller sin egen kunstnerfarve blandt andet med pigmenter fra pigmenthaven på Rønnebæksholm.
Cecilia var, sammen med designerne Matilde Friese & Stine Friese, i gang med en stor farvesætnings- og udsmykningsopgave på netop Rønnebæksholm.
Dette første, og yderligere et møde i november med Cecilia, kan du læse om i bookazinet.
Jeg har også siden talt ned afsløringen af udsmykningsopgaven og farvesætningen, som strækker sig over gangarealer, cafe, museumsbutik og publikumsværksted.
Sidstnævnte tre er desuden nyindrettede med et miks af eksisterende inventar og inventar tegnet og kurateret af søstrene Friese.
Udsmykningen bærer titlen ”Haven indenfor: Ude er inde – inde er ude.
Kunsthallen Rønnebæksholms årsprogram 2025 har fokus på taktil materialitet og fællesskab som materialitet og rummer et udstillings- og arrangementsprogram, der giver mulighed for læring og fællesskaber både inde og ude på Rønnebæksholm.
Første februar stod værket færdig, samtidig med at årets første udstilling med Magnus Andersen blev ferniseret.
Jeg fik et sneak peek dagen inden.
Malingen på væggene stadig var fugtig, hynderne til de polstrede møbler var på vej fra møbelpolstreren, butikken havde endnu ikke fået varer på hylderne, og værkstedet, som under ledelse af designer Stina Resting, vil have fokus på broderi, var endnu ikke klar.
Rønnebæksholm er en fin kunsthal, og den omkransende have i den grad en spadseretur værd, farvesætningen og nyindretningen af publikumsarealerne er nu en yderligere anledning til at køre en tur til Sydsjælland.
Hall og gangarealer har fået nye farver på træværk, vægge og lofter. På væggene har Cecilia malet direkte med farve fremstillet af pigmenter fra haven, og de sarte silkegardiner, som ikke dækker, men fremhæver vinduespartierne, er ligeledes indfarvet med lokale farvepigmenter.
Cafeen, som er elegant stylet og navngivet Cafe Haralda, efter Haralda Judithe Johanne Margrethe Haraldsdatter Toft, som ejede godset Rønnebæksholm fra 1851-1896, kommer til at servere virkelig god kaffe, bedyrede en ansat, jeg smager teen, den var der i hvert fald intet at udsætte på.
På væggene i både cafe og butik hænger værker af Cecilie Westerberg; malede værker foruden et stort pigmentbibliotek.
Da jeg talte med hende i forbindelse med mit værkstedsbesøg i november, lovpriste hun sit samarbejde med Matilde Friese & Stine Friese, de tre har arbejdet samme siden 2018.
Mens hun viser rundt på Rønnebæksholm gentager hun sin glæde over det de kan sammen.
Jeg glædes også, resultatet er uendeligt smukt!
Tillykke til Matilde, Stine og Cecilia.
Tillykke Rønnebæksholm
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