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EXHIBITION PROGRAMME 2010
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.
JENS HAANING
October 9th - November 14th
This soloexhibition shows artworks made by Danish artist Jens Haaning who works with investigations in the borderland of art, identity and society. The nature of his work has a social character, where the aim is to expose the complexity surrounding multicultural coexistence and globalization and point at cultural, social and ethnic borders and norms.
THE GRANT OF CARL NIELSEN AND ANNE MARIE CARL-NIELSEN
November 26th 2010 - January 2nd 2011
The grant of Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl Nielsen is awarded every second year as an award to three artists, each receiving 600.000 Danish kroner. The winners of the prize is yet to be found, but will be chosen within the end of this year.
EXHIBITION PROGRAM 2011
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION PRACTICES, EXPLORATION OF THE EXHIBITION MEDIUM AND INTERDISCIPLINARY INVESTIGATIONS
Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art is checking the pulse of contemporary art 2011 with a series of experimenting, changing and surprising exhibitions, initiated or curated by artists. The exhibition program reflects the diversity that is tied to contemporary art, being an art medium through curated exhibitions, artist association exhibitions and theme and process exhibitions with the collective as focal point. The exhibitions present different thematics, production methods and attempts to set new standards for when the audience can take part of the exhibition space.
The Spring at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art focuses on contemporary art’s different means of expression and potentials. The year commences with the exhibition Koh-i Noor Collecting, which focuses on what contemporary art is and can today. Next comes the artist group Transit with their take on various artistic installation expressions. Following the group exhibition Art and Design investigates the borderland between today’s art and design and gives insight to new encounters between the mediums. The Spring concludes with the exhibition Lake of Fire where the viewer’s phenomenological meeting with high culture and popular culture, linear and cyclical time and the present and afterlife is investigated.
The Summer offers an international presentation of new views on contemporary art, pin pointing prevalent tendencies on the art scene.
Hereafter follows a big international performance venture, which will explore the performance medium from different angles.
In the Autumn Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art will house the tradition bound association Decembristerne who will take departure in the artistic community while exploring new ways to exhibit as a group and collective. The Autumn ends with The Artist’s Autumn Exhibition, giving their interpretation of new art and artists, and lastly with a significant solo presentation.
KOH-I-NOOR
8th of January – 6th of February 2011
The artists behind the Copenhagen based non-profit exhibition space, Koh-i-Noor, are constructing a temporary collection of contemporary art. Koh-i-Noor has invited a number of young and established Danish artists to participate in the exhibition. The idea is that each artist contributes with a piece of work unknown to the organisers. In the absence of a predetermined plan, the accumulation of works is expected to result in some degree of chaos; chaos aiming to question assumed underlying systems that often act as a premise for institutional and private collections. Koh-i-Noor investigates the production of meaning by removing this premise and presenting the works of art independent of any structuring principle. The question is whether this strategy results in a show of multiple perspectives or if the identities and meanings of each individual work disappears in the accumulated chaos? Perhaps new alternative meanings arise in the absence of structure.
TRANSIT
19th of February – 27th of March 2011
The artist association Transit was founded in 1980. Common for the artists is the way they site specifically work with installations and material experiments. As regard to the content Transit’s artists deal with human interaction with nature by using different natural materials and experimenting with studies of various aesthetic expressions. The exhibition in Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art will consist of a series of total installations creating a network of sense experiences throughout the building.
Participating artists:
Jane Balsgaard, Alfio Bonanno, Vibeke Glarbo, Marianne Hesselbjerg, Lotte Tauber Lassen og Britt Smelvær.
JAM SESSION - ART AND DESIGN
9th of April – 15th of May 2011
The exhibition presents artists and designers who explore the demarcation between art and deign in their own practice. A long series of Danish and international artists and designers will be invited to show their take on current tendencies. The exhibition shows artists whose work lies close to the mechanisms seen in the commercial scene where the artwork appears as products. Likewise are designers, producing objects and practice based art concepts far away from the sellable and functional object, invited. The exhibition wishes to question this ambiguous field. The exhibition is curated by the artist Jørgen Carlo Larsen and the designer Ditte Hammerstrøm.
LAKE OF FIRE
21st of May - 26th of June 2011
Lake of Fire is curated by the artist Mikkel Carl. The figurative title refers to a physical meeting between fire and water – two of the world’s specific and metaphorical basic elements since the Pre-Socratic nature philosophers. Lake of Fire is a beautiful passage in Dante’s ’Divine Comedy’ in which the image universe of the whole Middle Age systematically is appropriated in a poetic transgression of the scholastic philosophy. Lake of Fire is also a song by the grunge band Nirvana. The exhibition thematizes the destruction of the split between high culture and popular culture and the connection between linear and cyclical time through the confrontation of the West and the East’s notions of afterlife. Through the viewer’s phenomenological meeting with a surprising, recontextualized material, one searches for insight to the sign structures creating the world of yesterday.
Participating artists:
Amanda Taarup Betz, Mikkel Carl, Ryan Gander, Lasse Schmidt Hansen, Jeanette Hillig, Uffe Holm, Jytte Høy, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Alicja Kwade, Heine Thorlauge Mathiesen, Rasmus Høj Mygind, Rolf Nowotny, Lars Bent Petersen, Kasper Sonne, Ulrik Weck, Pernille Kapper Williams
VIEW ON ART NOW
2nd of July - 7th August 2011
View on Art Now is an initiative by the Special Committee at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art. The aim is that Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art each Summer will bring current thematics in art of our latitude into focus. Specific aspects, practices or approaches will be illustrated and explored of a Danish or international artist or artist group. The intention with View on Art Now is to create the frame for a returning Summer exhibition, giving both a Danish and international audience the possibility to gain insight to selected current tendencies on the art scene of the local area. In 2011 the Summer exhibition presents various takes on artistic research practises.
PERFORMANCE-ART
17th - 24th of August 2011
With Performance_Art Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art wishes to create a platform for the meeting between visual art and performativity: A forum where international visual and performance artists can develop their work specifically to Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art’s unique rooms and take part in creating discussion about the future of performance art. The project strives is to contribute to the development of performance art in Denmark and give the audience insight to how visual art, performance and stage art are related and enrich each other as genres. Performance_Art explores the field’s different expressions from production/concept development and live-performance to documentation and remake in shows, exhibitions and workshops.
Performance-Art is a performance venture launched in collaboration with the Swedish Lilith Performance Studio from Malmö, the American-Czechish artist Klara Hobza, RISK:RECLAIM:ENTERTAIN from Denmark, the Nordic performance artists Viggo Mörck og Frederik Auster and a series of Danish and international performance artists.
DECEMBRISTERNE
3rd of September – 9th of October 2011
Decembristerne was founded in 1928 by five artists: Holger J. Jensen, Svend Albrectsen, Søren Hjorth Nielsen, Emil Sievert and Jørgen Thomsen. As most artists associations, Decembristerne started as a consequence of the young artists’ need for an exhibition space. Both Den Frie Udstilling and Grønningen were closed for new talents and the galleries where few at that time. In this exhibition all the artists each show a work on a wall.
Participating artists:
Elmer, Doris Bloom, Ole Broager, Inge Ellegaard, Henrik Flagstad, Henrik Have, Sys Hindsbo, Ellen Hyllemose, Oda Knudsen, Jørgen Carlo Larsen, Jan Leth, Henrik Menné, Bodil Nielsen, Jesper Rasmussen, Steen Møller Rasmussen, Ane Mette Ruge, Hans Christian Rylander.
KE – The Artist’s Fall Exhibition
15th of October – 20th of November 2011
KE -The Artist’s Fall Exhibition aims to discover and exhibit the best of the emerging talents in new Danish art and to be a yearly event on the Danish art scene. KE - The Artist’s Fall Exhibition is a dynamic organisation that have excited for more than 100 years. KE will with a series of new initiatives continue to insist to be a motivation factor for the talents. That is the best guarantor for that KE gives a good description of the tendencies in new Danish art.
UNCONFIRMED SOLO
3rd of December 2011 – 1st of January 2012
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