Laurits Honoré Rønne

About

Laurits Honoré Rønne (b. 1997) holds an MA in Architecture from the Royal Danish Academy (2024). Through an interdisciplinary practice spanning installation, video, text and architecture, his work engages with landscapes, infrastructures and environments through the images, practices and narratives that surround and shape them. Selected works have been shown at Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Den Frie Udstillingsbygning. Alongside individual work, his practice extends into curatorial and organisational roles through the co-founded initiatives open-source.tv and second.garden, as well as teaching at the Master’s programme Political Architecture: Critical Sustainability at the Royal Danish Academy.

Collaborative practices:
open-source.tv
second.garden

Teaching:
Political Architecture: Critical Sustainability,
Royal Danish Academy

Works

Selected works:

Daemon 1 (2026)
Stoppers (2026)
At the moment still malleable (2025)
Lawnmower (2024)
MA Thesis: growing together, on the banks of a dying river (2024)
Big scrape 1&2 (2024)
Ranger shirt (2024)
DRYP FRA EN MELODI (2023)
Untitled (2023)
FRIE STEN (2022)
Untitled (2021)
Untitled exercise (2020)
Untitled (2020)

Contact

Feel free to reach out,

Mail:

Lauritsronne@gmail.com

Daemon 1 (2026)

Description

Emergency light fittings
70x35x5cm

Daemon is a term from computing used to describe a process that runs quietly in the background to keep a system working. The word comes from the ancient Greek daimōn: a spirit that acts or guides, not always for the better. Buildings have long been imagined as inhabited by such beings, shaping how a place is perceived, inhabited and cared for. Part of a larger series, this work asks where such presences might reside today, revisiting what it means to read, care for and negotiate with an environment that may never be entirely passive.

Installation view, Ny Romantik, second.garden, 2026.

Stoppers (2026)

Description

Variable dimensions
Spray-painted branches

Stoppers is an ongoing series of improvised markers and barriers, operating somewhere between instruction and suggestion. Borrowing the visual language of public regulation, they can frame and intensify existing spatial conditions, depending on the extent to which they are recognised and responded to.

At the moment still malleable (2025)

Description

Essay
Published by IDOART, 2025

Links:
IDOART
Standing unfinished for years following defects in its concrete foundation, the high-rise Njals Tårn holds an ambiguous place within the Copenhagen skyline. Drawing on first-hand observations from within the building, the essay follows the site during a prolonged period of suspension, observing the forms of presence, occupation and life that emerges in the absence of ongoing construction.

Lawnmower (2024)

Description

Digital print on canvas, stretch-wrapped
60x130cm

Links:
secondgarden

Operating through satellite technology within a set of virtual boundaries, the robotic lawnmower has become a familiar feature in the contemporary garden. Reproduced from promotional imagery, this work captures the robot at eye level. The image has been bleached and stretch-wrapped, further softening the distinction between the machine and its surroundings. The work originally appeared in the letter Ongoing work on second.garden.xyz

growing together, on the banks of a dying river (2024)

Description

MA thesis
Political Architecture: Critical Sustainability, Institute of Architecture and Culture, The Royal Danish Academy

Links:
Royal Danish Academy
Dezeen

Situated along the Spree River in Berlin at the former divide between East and West Germany, the project proposes a long-term ecological maintenance strategy in response to the river’s ongoing ecological decline. Addressing both local residents and surrounding tech industry, the thesis developed a series of architectural proposals and speculative scenarios through which a new socio-ecological landscape could emerge based on the cultivation of a shared urban wilderness.

Big scrape 1&2 (2024)

Description

Laserprinted mirrorboard on HDF
40x30cm (x2)

Based on imagery sourced from a technical report on subsurface gravel wetlands, the series reproduces terrain documentation on reflective mirrorboard. Responsive to shifting light conditions, the images change appearance according to viewing position. In one image, a back figure appears at the edge of a depression in the landscape. Presumably the photographer or terrain worker themself, momentarily shifting from observer to subject.

Ranger shirt (2024)

Description

Laserprinted mirrorboard on HDF
Various dimensions

Installed as part of the exhibition series Grave Dwellers at a megalithic tomb near Jægerspris, Denmark, the works reproduce a polo shirt from the Danish Forest and Nature Agency alongside three protected bird species sourced from birdwatching forums. Printed, mounted and cut as reliefs in reflective mirrorboard, the motifs draw on imagery associated with environmental monitoring and custodianship. Together, the works assemble a small cast of figures engaged in the ongoing observation and care of the site.

Installation view, Grave Dwellers, Jægerspris Jættestue, 2024

Photos: August Hugo

DRYP FRA EN MELODI (2023)

Description

Video, 11:30 min

The video work unfolds as a loose sequence of encounters during the arrival of spring in the northern Scandinavian wilderness. Through the lens of a handheld camcorder, attention gradually drifts across an open valley, moving between animals, helicopters, and the appearance of a solitary flute player performing improvised melodies on a homemade metal flute.

Installation view: Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition. Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2023

Untitled (2023)

Description

One-way mirror, black mirror, blue liquids, charcoal, plywood, posters
Installation view, The Danish Energy Agency, 2023

Presented in the foyer of the Danish Energy Agency, the installation took the form of a speculative institutional display reporting from an unspecified future. Developed in dialogue with the foyer’s existing displays of fuels, minerals and models, the work provided access to a series of early AI-generated future scenarios through a QR code embedded within the installation.

Curated and facilitated by PLATFORM, hosted by the Danish Energy Agency, supported The Danish Arts Foundation

FRIE STEN (2021)

Description

Video, 04:10 min

Set within a remote mountain landscape, the video work documents an improvised process of classifying stones according to two categories: ‘free stones’ and ‘fixed stones’. Zooming back and forth between individual stones and the wider landscape, the camera wanders across the terrain as the situation gradually escalates.

Installation view, Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling, Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, 2022

Untitled (2021)

Description

Found materials (feathers, metal, tyre rubber, electrical cable, wire, plastic and wood)

A series of artefacts assembled from discarded materials gathered on a remote parking site. The works were developed around the idea of an ‘archaeology in reverse’ - a process in which information is obtained through the continued evolution of a found object rather than through its analysis.

Untitled exercise (2020)

Description

Three-channel video, 12:05 min.

Originally developed as a three-channel video installation, the work documents an improvised tracing of tyre marks across a large, remote parking site. Different moments of the same circular movement unfold simultaneously across the screens, producing a continuous overlapping motion. The work forms part of a broader series of studies on the site between 2020 and 2022.

Untitled (2020)

Description

Found plastic sheets (15x20cm)

Found plastic sheets from a remote parking site, inscribed with fragments of the surrounding landscape. Held directly against their subjects, the transparent surfaces were used as drawing screens, with motifs scratched into the plastic using stones and other found objects from the site.