Imeq – Eternal Flux
af Mark Hutchison & Friederike Gründger
30 oktober 2025 - 9 januar 2026
Imeq – Eternal Flux
An artistic collaboration on water
Kalaallit Illuutaat – The Greenlandic House in Copenhagen has the pleasure of inviting you to the opening of ”IMEQ - ETERNAL FLUX ” by Mark Hutcison & the Girl in the Tangerine.
Water is the engine of Greenland. At the heart of the landscape, past, present and future. Ice protects Greenland in watery mountains towering above the land. Ice made Greenland’s coastline, gouging fjords, carving mountains, sculpting peaks. Ice to rivers to sea in a continous flow. Rock to sand to beach. In Greenland, water touches all.
Water is the heart of Greenland. At the core of the people, from the very beginning. Mother came from water, from the sea. Sassuma Arnaa. The people, from her, the animals. From the sea. The sea sustains Greenland, through its bounty, the highways and network which connects its peoples. In Greenland, water is everywhere.
Imeq – Eternal Flux is a collaborative exhibition between two artists, Mark Hutchison (mth Studios) and the Girl in the Tangerine (aka. Friedeike Grûndger), exploring the beauty and mystery of Greenland. Imeq, the Greenlandic word for water, holds a place of vital importance to the lives of modern and ancient Greenlanders, as seafaring peoples. But a coastal country represents only a tiny fraction of the importance of water to Greenland. The glaciers which we see today and the water that they hold, are the reason why Greenland is as it is. Even when we are inland, and are far from the sea, far from the ice, we are reminded that the landscape owes itself to water. And the terrain created by water continues to change, under the influence of rain, rivers, glaciers, sea, icebergs and/or through the absence of water.
The exhibition
The exhibition grows from a six year collaboration between the two artists. It showcases pieces from several projects representing different extents of artist interaction, from individual pieces, to works inspired directly by each other. All works reflect the theme of the exhibition – the eternal flux and ever evolving role of water on landscapes, humans and the environment, even the effect of its absence.
Mark’s pieces draw from his Humano Terrarum series, including a large ouvre of new artworks created for Imeq – Eternal Flux. By combining terrain with the human form he explores the dramatic and powerful impact of our water-formed landscapes on us as humans. We cannot live without water, just as water is an inseparable component of our landscape and environment.
Friederike presents her Water Sample installation, pieces from her Greenland’s Ice Sheet and The Perpetual Cycle series, including new works for Imeq – Eternal Flux. The Perpetual Cycle explores the present-day snapshot – where we are located in the cycle of ice and water imposed upon Greenland’s vast geological timescale, the rise and demise of mountains, the influence of erosion through ice. Greenland’s Ice Sheet explores the push-back, how our environment responds to the stressors we create – where the Greenland’s ice has been, where it is going. Water Sample is a audience-interactive piece with diminishing dimensions.
The works by the two artists, are displayed intermingled in the same way that water permeates landscape and lives in Greenland.