Working Animal

2026

Solo exhibition at Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, Denmark. Exhibition period: 12 September – 6 December 2026.

In Working Animal, we enter Hannah Toticki’s universe, where the office, the production floor and the landscape merge. The works in the exhibition keep the boundaries between human and animal, plant and machine in constant flux, opening up the questions at the heart of Toticki’s practice: Is efficiency the ideology of our time? Is the production landscape our nature? What is the value of that which cannot be measured and weighed? How are we connected to other creatures and forms of life? 

Toticki explores the relationship between humans, animals, work and value creation in a society shaped by production chains, industrialised agriculture and constant availability. The exhibition does not express a longing for a lost past, but instead highlights the connections between the office, the stable and the landscape. Workwear becomes costume, insects become monuments, hay bales become meeting places, and a crop sprayer becomes a mythological figure. Familiar objects open up new stories about our relationship with the land, the body and the species with whom we share the world. 

Working Animal invites us to slow down and take a closer look at the structures of which we have become part. The exhibition asks not only how we work, but also how we want to live. Because questions about nature, work and the landscape are ultimately also questions about who we are. – Curator Vibeke Kelding Hansen

Photo: Malle Madsen