Name: Erde
Start: 2025-10-03T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Håkonsgaten 9, 5015 Bergen, Norway

Welcome to a new season at Gallery Taxi, it's our pleasure to present this weeks exhibitor;
Mads Mehlum (b. 1998)
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Third Year, Bergen Art Academy.
Erde is an exhibition that takes its starting point with the island of Laesoe, which bears witness to how landscapes are transformed within the tension of geological processes and human activity.
Laesoes geological foundation was formed during the last Ice Age, when deposits from the Yoldia Sea formed layers of clay that were later covered by sand. Rising and falling sea levels, land uplift, and sediment accumulation have continuously reshaped the extent and form of the island over millennia. Later, human activity would make profound impact on the landscape. In particular, salt production from the Middle Ages until the mid-17th century caused extensive deforestation, triggering sand drifts that transformed large parts of the island into barren wastelands, leaving the population impoverished. Fields, farms, and even the church were swallowed by sand dunes.
The exhibition explores this interplay and the blurring of boundaries between natural and human forces, where human interventions both collide with, mimic, and at times surpass natural transformative processes. The installation positions the land as an active agent, both necessary and violent, while revealing how labor, belief, tradition, myth, and survival are inscribed onto a landscape.
Friday: 17-20
Saturday/Sunday: 12-15