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29/03/2026, GATHERING
Exhibition & Easter Market
On Sunday, March 29
Hosting Lands weaving into Lystbækgaard, the farm of shepherdess Berit Kiilerich
Lystbækvej 1, Ulfborg, West Jutland
With contributors:
Elyes Lariani — Rahima Gambo and Tatsuniya Artist Collective — Marie Kølbæk Iversen — Marianne Noer — Ellen Martine Heuser — Lise Hovesen
A Whole Animal is a Hosting Lands project unfolding within the annual Easter Market at Lystbækgaard in Ulfborg, West Jutland.
Rather than separating art from life, the exhibition weaves itself into the market. Artworks appear among crafters’ stalls, wool processing, weaving, plant dyeing, animals, and communal exchange. The market celebrates pastoral traditions and art as everyday practice.
A Whole Animal foregrounds forms of resistance to industrial abstraction through care, slowness, and embodied human–animal–land relations.
A Whole Animal is part of Hosting Lands and its ongoing work with land, commons, and ecological solidarity.
At the center of the exhibition is a collective lamb meal conceived as artwork and celebration, bridging Tunisian culinary traditions with local heathland practices. The lamb dinner is a shared wish between HL curator Aziza Harmel and shepherdess Berit Kiilerich, which has grown from conversations around mutualities in traditions across cultures and geographical contexts. Therefore, we have invited Tunisian chef Elyes Lariani to prepare a lamb feast that will honor the whole animal.
Lariani will be unfolding three ateliers in total. On Friday the 27th the meals will be prepared during workshops as part of the Shepherd School programme, and later served as a shared long-table dinner on Sunday afternoon at 5 pm.
The dinner is open to everyone.
Price: 50 DKK. Sign-up required (limited seats) see below.
Merguez – fresh lamb transformed into spiced sausages through balancing, seasoning, and preservation practices.
Osban – stuffed lamb casing using offal, herbs, grains, and greens, honoring secondary cuts and preventing waste.
Lamb Stock – slow simmering of bones and trimmings into nourishing broth, extending the animal’s life beyond a single meal.
Nigerian Tatsuniya Artist Collective and Rahima Gambo presents two art installations Sukursukur – eleven suspended raffia hammocks forming a sculptural installation and Market Remains – a six-meter embroidered textile responding to the 2023 Monday Market fire that displaced thousands of traders.
10:00 Easter market opens
11:00 HL curators welcoming speech and introduction of artworks and activities
11:15 Marianne Noer – Collective waulking ritual workshop
Marianne Noer invites visitors to take part in a collective waulking ritual of preparing a wool textile woven from Lystbækgaard wool, recalling a pre-industrial tradition of cleaning and softening wool to the rhythms of folk songs.
12:00 Chef Elyes Lariani serves the lamb couscous
13:30 HL curators introduce the installation and artworks of Tatsuniya Artist Collective and Rahima Gambo
14:15 Ellen Martine Heuser - Artist talk & heathland reflections
Ellen Martine Heuser introduces her artwork Memorial That Unveils Its Being in the Heathland (ANTHEA, 2023), reflecting on reciprocity between humans and the Danish heathland.
15:30 Barefoot walk & foot-bathing ritual – Lise Hovesen
Lise Hovesen leads a barefoot walk through the national park among wild grazing horses, returning for a collective foot bathing ritual PEDILAVIUM using raw sheep wool and heated water.
16:45 Audio-Monument No. 7, bell performance by Ellen Martine Heuser
Ellen Martine Heuser performs Audio-Monument No. 7 - a ritual with a handmade bronze bell and demonstrates the technique of the Old Norse herding call ’kulning’ in the open landscape.
17.00 Common Lamb Stock dinner served by Elyes Lariani
Common Lamb Stock dinner served by Elyes Lariani. Everyone is welcome – sign-up required (limited seats). Please register and pay 50 DKK via MobilePay: 53 29 17 54.
18:00 Marie Kølbæk Iversen – Songs from her art work Donnimaar. Accompanied by guitarist Niels Bjerg and trumpeter Jimmy Nyborg
Marie Kølbæk Iversen performs songs from her artwork Donnimaar, rooted in West Jutlandic Heathlands life, gathered by the ethnographic collections of Evald Tang Kristensen. Iversens singing will be accompanied by guitarist Niels Bjerg and trumpeter Jimmy Nyborg.
