Tag: Denmark
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Per Kirkeby: Geological Messages – Paintings from 1965-2015
Although he gave up his academic studies in natural history to pursue his art, what is clear from this small and vibrant retrospective is that he never lost his love for geology
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Alexander Tovborg – interview: ‘If you jump, you don’t necessarily come back down’
The Danish artist mixes his paint with holy water. Here, he talks religion, irony and bringing mystery back into art
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Superflex’s Rasmus Nielsen: ‘I would not call us do-gooders, but maybe doers’
The work of the Danish collective has included everything from designing a public park to producing soft drinks and biogas lamps for farmers. Rasmus Nielsen explains how the group started and its refusal to be boxed in
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Danh Vō: Homosapiens
The work of the Vietnamese-born Danish artist Danh Vō explores colonialism and nationalism through artefacts and text. His current exhibition, Homosapiens, is a critical study of history and the human condition from the artist’s unique perspective
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‘Poet of Light’ Vilhelm Hammershoi: The Poetry of Silence
The exhibition of the work of the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916), entitled ‘The Poetry of Silence’, is part of a sequence of exhibition events held since 1986. These exhibitions have brought a wider audience closer to the mysteries of…
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The Danish Gift
In 1974, following a visit to the Furniture Fair in Copenhagen, the question was raised, How will Denmark follow the work of Borge Mogensen, Arne Jacobsen, Hans Wegner and Verner Panton, whose designs seemed so classically timeless that it was…
