Author Archives: Theis Vallø

Liberty Smeared

Posted on April 20, 2013

This envelope was found somewhere else in Mogens Otto Nielsen’s mail art archive, outside the Pocket Museum.

Posted in Pocket Museum | Tagged mail art, Carsten Schmidt-Olsen, rubberstamp, Jørgen Christensen, Gallery Gold, Gold, Statue of Liberty, Århus Kunstmuseum, ARoS, communication | Leave a comment

More Pictures from The Pocket Museum

Posted on April 4, 2013

Please see this earlier post about The Pocket Museum.

Posted in Pocket Museum | Tagged cigarette packet, Denmark, Finland, Helmuth Löhr, Marianne Rønnow, matchbook, Mika Taanila, Mogens Otto Nielsen, Smell, West Germany | Leave a comment

Piece to the Ear

Posted on March 24, 2013

American artist Alison Knowles /Allison Knowless’ contribution to Mogens Otto Nielsen’s “Send a piece of your nature”.

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Sliced and Stamped

Posted on March 12, 2013

Posted in Send a piece of your nature | Tagged collage, envelope, haha, Italy, Jean-Paul Morelle, mail art, Mogens Otto Nielsen, nature, rubberstamp, stamps | Leave a comment

Mogens Otto Nielsen’s mail art archive is truly an open-ended archive. Last spring, pulling my hair trying to figure out a way to organize the archive, he visits the museum and delivers a new box with more mail art objects … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged beard, box, Denmark, Erik Gram:Hanssen, glass, hair, Mogens Otto Nielsen, new, open-ended | Leave a comment

Liberty for All Rubber Bears

Posted on February 16, 2013

A contribution to Mogens Otto Nielsen’s Send a piece of your nature from Galerico i East Germany (possibly Hildegard Weiss).

Posted in East | West correspondence, Send a piece of your nature | Tagged Atmosphere Controlled, East Germany, Galerico, Germans help Indians, Hildegard Weiss, mail art, marginal, Mogens Otto Nielsen, money, non-commercial art, Polish artists, rubber bear, send a piece of your nature | Leave a comment

Documenting work

Posted on February 14, 2013

A big part of the archive is documentation of mail artists’ work (work that would not fit into an envelope), for example this scan of a letter from Japanese artist Seiei Nishimura. Of course, this kind of documentation often becomes a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged collage, documentation, Japan, mail art, Seiei Nishimura | 1 Comment

The Stasi Prison in Berlin

Posted on January 16, 2013

This gallery contains 35 photos.

A few of Karla Sache’s (GER) photographs and stripes of text about the Stasi prison on Penzlauer Allé in Berlin.

Gallery | Tagged Berlin, East Germany, Karla Sachse, prison, Stasi, windows | Leave a comment

Short film: Mapping the Archive

Posted on December 31, 2012

An interaction designer made a short film about “Mapping the Archive”, the digital mapping project that experiment with new ways of visualizing and presenting archives and collections. Mapping and visualizing a digital version of Mogens Otto Nielsen’s mail art archive … Continue reading →

Posted in Mapping the archive | Tagged Christian Duus, digital mapping project, mapping, Mogens Otto Nielsen, Short film | Leave a comment

Melting Earth/Heart

Posted on December 10, 2012

These photos of Mogens Otto Nielsen’s E A R T H / H E A R T icesculptures was filed under “Crackerjack Kid” in the archive. Probably by mistake.

Posted in The filing cabinet | Tagged Crackerjack Kid, icesculpture, Mogens Otto Nielsen, photography | Leave a comment

Poster art (I)

Posted on November 8, 2012

Mogens Otto Nielsen’s mail art archive contains around 50 posters from mail art exhibitions and other events related to Nielsen and mail art. This is just a small selection (more to come).

Posted in Poster | Tagged Andrzej Dudek-Dürer, Anna Banana, Canada, Kurt Thaler, mail art exhibition, Mogens Otto Nielsen, Poland, portrait, Switzerland | Leave a comment

More Pictures of the World’s Smallest Museum

Posted on October 31, 2012

Is this the world’s smallest museum? Mogens Otto Nielsen’s “Pocket Museum” (1984-1985) contains pocket objects from a little more than a hundred artists in the mail art network. Photos: Niels Fabæk.

Posted in Pocket Museum | Tagged Anna Banana, B. Kirkman, Bernd Olbrich, Bjørn Bennike, Carsten Schmidt-Olsen, cigarette lighter, coins, Hase & Igel, Helgi Fridjønsson, Hildegaard Weiss, keys, Leif Eriksson, mail art, Mark Bloch, Mogens Otto Nielsen, Niels Fabæk, Ole Holm, pocket fluff, visual poetry | Leave a comment

Zeitschrift für Alles

Posted on October 23, 2012

“Zeitschrift für Alles | Review for Everything | Tímarit fyrir allt 9″ (ed. Barbara Wien, 1975-1978, 840 pages) was in the archive. What more do you need? Photo: Niels Fabæk

Posted in Artists' books, Assemblings | Tagged Barbara Wien, everything, West Germany | Leave a comment

Atmosphere Controlled

Posted on October 17, 2012

The Danish artist Mogens Otto Nielsen (b. 1945) collected all the material on display here. His works in his “Atmosphere Controlled” art lab/studio/home, and this “Atmosphere Controlled” keeps popping up in the archive. From Mogens Otto Nielsen to György Galantai … Continue reading →

Posted in Postcard, The filing cabinet | Tagged Atmosphere Controlled, Bernd Olbrich, György Galántai, John Held Jr., Mogens Otto Ni | Leave a comment

A Couple of Artists’ Books

Posted on October 9, 2012

The photographer Niels Fabæk has been working in the museum archives photographing many of the pieces in Mogens Otto Nielsen’s mail art archive that does not fit in a scanner. Many of his photos will find its way in here. … Continue reading →

Posted in Artists' books, Mapping the archive | Tagged Chuck Welch, Denmark, Francesc Abad, Guy Bleus, Hanneke Clappers, Henryk Gajewski, Keith Bates, Masao Kanai, Mogens Otto Nielsen, photography, Robin Crozier, Steen Møller Rasmussen | Leave a comment

Mapping the messy mail art archive

Posted on October 2, 2012

There has been an interesting development in my work with Mogens Otto Nielsen’s mail art archive. A cooperation of very different people and organizations in Denmark – three museums, three organizations within the field of digital dissemination, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, … Continue reading →

Posted in Artists' books, Mapping the archive | Tagged Chuck Welch, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Francesc Abad, Guy Bleus, Hanneke Clappers, Henryk Gajewski, Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Keith Bates, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Masao Kanai, Meaning Making Experience, mock-up, Mogens Otto Nielsen, Naturhistorisk Museum i Aarhus, network, Robin Crozier, Seismonaut, Share Play, The Mapping Project | Leave a comment

Nuclear New Year

Posted on August 31, 2012

Many of the items in Mogens Otto Nielsen’s mail art archive are personal messages, and it is very difficult to distinguish private messages and artistic expressions intended for the network or a more general public. As in many other cases … Continue reading →

Posted in Artists' books, Uncategorized | Tagged Denmark, Henning Mittendorf, mail art exhibition, Mogens Otto Nielsen, network, new year, personal greetings, stamps, West Germany | Leave a comment

Money All Around Me

Posted on August 14, 2012

The Danish artist Mogens Otto Nielsen contributed to Bernd Löbach-Hinweiser’s mail art project about art banknotes (1985-88). Nielsen’s piece “Money all around me. Body & Soul” from 1987 was a Danish 20 kroner note-papercut that you could crawl through, if you … Continue reading →

Posted in Assemblings, Uncategorized | Tagged artnotes, banknotes, Bernd Löbach-Hinweiser, Denmark, Joseph Beuys, Mogens Otto Nielsen, money, West Germany | Leave a comment

Photographing Berlin

Posted on August 1, 2012

This gallery contains 8 photos.

Karla Sachse (Germany/East Germany) mailed these photos taken at different locations in and outside Berlin. Date unknown.

Gallery | Tagged Berlin, East Germany, Karla Sachse, photography | Leave a comment

Book-flute

Posted on July 16, 2012

Mail art piece from Russian artist Rea Nikonova: A braided music sheet/photography of a woman with a book-flute.

Posted in Artists' books, The filing cabinet | Tagged book-flute, braided, music, photography, Rea Nikonova, Russia | Leave a comment