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COLLECTIVISM, THE IDEA OF COMMUNITY, INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK AND SOLO PERFORMANCES
As a house of artists, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art wants to contribute to the discussion of the relevance of collectivism in the 21st Century, and at the same time uphold and rethink the nature of a community among artists and what it can produce. Artist unions, roles of artists, community and the collective are therefore on the agenda in 2010.
During the spring Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art will show four exhibitions with focus on the collective and the idea of community. The purpose is to examine forms of community and network in a historical perspective and contribute with a contemporary view on the collective.
The programme presents unions rich in tradition such as Den Frie Exhibition and Kolloristerne, as well as the exhibition Party and Lost with four young female artist unions and the large international summer exhibition GROUND FLOOR AMERICA, generated by the curator group WHW. The autumn offers great diversity with the group exhibition Bedlam about normality and the images of madness as well as Denmark’s largest art award the grant of Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Nielsen.
In 2011 we offer exhibitions with Decembristerne, the critical of society contemporary art museum Kooh-i-Nor, a solo exhibition with Gunnar Aagaard Andersen and an exhibition about space, art and architecture generated by Jacob Noel and Claus Egemose.
See the exhibition profile of Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art at www.denfrie.dk
EXHIBITION PROGRAMME 2010
April 10th - May 16th / KOLORISTERNE
For the artist union Koloristene, the language of the colours is essential and the very element which unites the groups many painters, designers and sculptors. The artists works both in traditional materials such as stone, steel and clay, but also conventionally with for example installation art.
Following artists exhibit: Søren Ankarfeldt, Eli Benveniste, Martin Berge, Svend Danielsen, J. P. Groth-Jensen, Jens Peter Helge Hansen, Jørgen Teik Hansen, Ole Heerup, Nanna Hertoft, Ingvald Holmefjord, Anne-Birthe Hove, Astrid Klenow, Leif Lage, Toni Larsen, Finn Nielsen, Lisbeth Nielsen, Niels Reumert, Pia Schutzmann, Kurt Tegtmeier, Helle Thorborg, Ejgil Westergaard, Inge Lise Westman og Poul Winther.
May 29th - June 27th / PARTY AND LOST
The four artist unions Bank & Rau, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Randi & Katrine and Ingen Frygt compose the artistic core in this exhibition, which are an exploration of artist unions and the general essence of the collective. As something rather complex but also not so complex, the work result of a united group of artists is often in a very sharp contrast to works of art created by only one artist. The exhibition investigate this loss of The Self which each artist comply with, in the aspiration to be a part of a larger context, and it also shed light upon the unity which is necessary within the group in order to reach an actual artistic production.
The exhibition is planed to consist of a total installation which occupies the whole architecture of Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art.
July 3rd - August 1st / GROUND FLOOR AMERICA
Ground Floor America is an exhibition created by the curator group WHW, who investigates and comment on the political situation and economical crisis of the time, with focus on the marginalisation of the Middle East, Central Asia and Eastern Europe in relation to the modernism of the Vest.
Following artists are exhibiting: Hala Al Alabdallah (Damascus), Vyacheslav Akhunov (Tashkent), Saba Innab (Amman), Tigran Khachatryan (Yerevan), Rustam Khalfin (Almaty), Ira Kurmaeva (Tbilisi), Maha Maamoun (Kairo), Avi Mograbi (Tel Aviv), Museum Group - Meder Ahmetov, Asad Kadyrov, Jamilya Tokacheva (Bishkek), Darinka Pop Mitić (Belgrade), Canan Senol (Istanbul), Vahid Sharifian (Tehran), Soska Group (Kiev), Mohammad Soueid (Beirut).
August 21st - September 26th / BEDLAM
With the exhibition Bedlam the artists Jeanette Land Schou and Karen Gabel Madsen seek to explore the images of madness in relation to the chaotic and the offbeat. “One is not securing ones own sanity by locking away ones neighbour”, Dostojevskij wrote. But if we look at the history of madness it is evident that most societies have secured and protected normality (and reason) by isolating or locking deviants away. During to Foucault the history of madness is a key to understand a society. By judging the ones who are different as dangerous, mad or totally unstable the society strengthen its understanding of normality and the superiority of this normality.
Participating artists:
Nina Maria Kleivan, Lotte Tauber Lassen , Pernelle Maegaard, Vicky Steptoe, Karen Gabel Madsen, Bodil Brems, Jeanette Land Skou
November 27th - January 2nd / THE GRANT OF CARL NIELSEN and ANNE MARIE CARL-NIELSEN
The grant of Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl Nielsen is awarded every second year as an award to 3 artists on each 600.000 Danish kroner. The winners of the prise is yet to be found, but will be chosen within the end of this year.
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