Charlottenborg Foundation
Foundation

Spring Exhibition
Spring Exhibition

1 / 2 - 13 / 3
2023

Kunstnere / Artists:

1. Solveig Aalberg (NO)
2. Anders Aarvik (DK)
3. Emil Alenius (DK)
4. Marcus Trappaud Bjørn (DK)
5. Adam Bloch (DK)
6. Yasmina Derradj (DK / DZ)
7. Ash Garwood (US / AU)
8. group-aja (DK)
9. Siri Hammarén (SE)
10. Lene Harbo (DK)
11. Maria Hardin (US / SE)
12. Helen Haskakis (SE)
13. Torkild Helland Kleppe (NO)
14. Laurits Honoré Rønne (DK)
15. Jan Ijäs (FI)
16. Yasmin Jalilian (DK)
17. Ria Albano (BR/DK)
18. Flemming Jensen (DK)
19. Ebba Johansson (SE)
20. Iida Jonsson / Ssi Saarinen
/ Ona Julija Lukas Steponaityte (FI / LT )
21. Mads Juel (DK)
22. Carl Lützen (DK)
23. Amalia Melchior Hyldahl (DK)
24. Bjørg Dyg Nielsen (DK)
25. Ivan Nylander (DK)
26 Theodor Nymark (DK)
27. The Royal Academy's School of Architecture, Institute of Architecture and Culture, Master programme in Art and Architecture / Det Kongelige Akademi, Institut for Bygningskunst og Kultur, kandidatprogrammet Kunst og Arkitektur.

Students / Studerende: Philip Alexander Antons (DK), Nina Ballegaard (DK), Nomi Ancher Bekker (DK), Frederik Bergan (NO), Anne Louise Bjerre (DK), Malin Eva Katarina Eliasson (DK), Anna Fogh (DK), Esther Kristine Fröhlich (DK), Kajsa Gustafsson (SE), Marcus Alexander Bøhmer Hornslien (NO), Mads Vagn Jacobsen (DK), Jonathan Carl Jensen (DK), Ane Bella Sjøsten Panholm (DK), Rose Bygholm Risager (DK), Clara Sabel (SE), Anna Eglite Sørensen (DK), Anne Marie Stahl (DK), Magnus Johan Storgaard (DK), Torjus Tenge (NO) and Tobias Uldahl Thomsen (DK). Rikke Sandbugt (NO), Høgni Hansen (DK) and Thomas Knud Gunnersen Harboe (DK)

28. Nisei Ota (JP)
29. Signe Ralkov (DK)
30. Nicklas Randau (SE)
31. Sophie Søborg Mosbæk (DK)
32. Jørn Hulgaard Sørensen (DK)
33. Ihsan Saad Ihsan Tahir (DK)
34. Meri Toivanen (FI)
35. Jelena Lilija Kimsdotter Vänts (SE)
36. Frej Volander (DK)
37. Kristoffer Bech (DK)

I 2023 inviterede Charlottenborg Fonden for 166. gang til Forårsudstillingen på Kunsthal Charlottenborg og præsenterede årets antagne kunstnere.

Mere end 944 kunstnere og kunstnergrupper søgte om optag på årets Forårsudstilling og med de rekordmange ansøgere gennemgik juryen mere end fire tusinde værker. Feltet blev skåret ned til 37 kunstnere og kunstnergrupper, som kunne opleves på dette års Forårsudstilling, der var åben 1. februar – 5. marts 2023.

Værkliste / Work index

Floor Plan / Gulvplan

Introduktion / Introduction

Curator's statement

Colophon / Colophone

Solveig Aalberg (NO)

1

Continuum #069 (2020)
White x 25, black x 26, grass green x 24, grass green // leaf green x 13, grass green // strong lime x 9. Sting: neon pink. Woven; linen, cotton and polyester.
24 x 19 x 5cm.

Continuum #056 (2020)
May green, navy blue x 62, white x 62, lemon yellow,
light manganese violet x 16, light manganese violet // neon pink x 16, deep cobalt green, brilliant orange. Woven and sewn. Flax, cotton and polyester.
24 x 19 x 5cm.

Continuum #070 (2020)
Bright orange x 2, shiny white x 40, dark petrol x 41, dark turquoise, medium flesh // neon yellow x 74, strong lime. Sting: neon yellow. Woven and stitched. Flax, cotton, polyester and polypropylene.
24 x 20 x 5cm.

Continuum #052 (2020)
Front: white x 111, black x 110, lemon yellow x 22.
Back: white x 111, black x 110. Twist, loops, knots: lemon yellow, may green, cream, golden yellow, deep red. Woven, sewn, twisted and tied. Linen, cotton and polyester.
24 x 20 x 9cm.

Continuum #043 (2020)
Back: white x 2, baby blue x 70, shiny grey x 68, chain colours. Front: white x 2, baby blue x 70, shiny grey x 68. Twisted threads: black and white, light violet and white, light aqua and white, baby blue and white. Woven, sewn and twisted. Linen, cotton, polyester and polypropylene.
24 x 20 x 9cm.

Anders Aarvik (DK)

2

Untitled (capsule) (2022)
Mouth-blown grail glass, earth, wheat seeds, mummified amphibians.
55 x 250 x 150cm.

Untitled (Man, Amphibian) (2022)
Etching, fluorescent pen applied by plotter, passepartout, stained oak frame
44 x 34 x 2cm.

Emil Alenius (DK)

3

(No title) (2022)
Paper

(No title) (2022)
Paper

Marcus Trappaud Bjørn (DK)

4

Heroin (2022)

Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle museum
Edition ⅕49,2 x 61,2 cm / 56x68cm. (incl. frame)

Adam Bloch (DK)

5

Street Birds (2022)
Act (2022)

Gallery print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308g, glued on dibond with passepartout. 15x30mm profile, white painted, 10mm white spacer strip, UV70 glass. Edition 1/2

58 x 48 x 1cm. (incl. frame)
58 x 48 x 1cm. (incl. frame)

Yasmina Derradj (DK/DZ)

6

(A) G3CKOKIDB0Y MUNIR (2022)
Photo print, graphic
168 x 118cm.

Algiers 2018 + green choir 2022 (2022)
Graphic, sound
118 x 84 cm, 1:22 min.

G3ckokidboyMunir (2022)
Photograph collage/self-portrait
148 x 111cm.

Callback (2022)
Video, 2:53 min.

A HEART, SOUMWHERE (2022)
Audio, 1:41 min.

Ash Garwood (US/AUS)

7

Equivalence #4 (2021)
Silver Gelatin Print from digital render
Ed 2 / 3 (+2AP)
164 x 112cm .

Bitter Lake (2020)
Silver Gelatin Print from digital render
Ed 2 / 3 (+2AP)
164 x 112 cm.

group-aja (DK)

8

Columbarium (2022-2023)
Aerated concrete and brass
95 x 60 x 95cm.
Edition 2/2

Siri Hammarén (SE)

9 

The House Remembers, What I Don't Know (2022)
Digitised 16 mm. film, 4:53 min. (tape loop)

Lene Harbo (DK)

10

Melting in your eyes 2 (2022)

Photo wallpaper, inkjet print - self-adhesive. 150gr high quality print on non-woven wallpaper, white (PVC-free).
360 x 240 x 0,2 cm.

Maria Hardin (US/SE)

11

don't memento mori memento everyone who obliterates themselves in that knowingness of girlhood (2021)
Giclée print on 230g matte art paper
69,3 x 90cm.

devotion (2021)
Sound, 5:18min.
Sound composed by Simon Eliasson.

hungry i cum 2 u (2022)
Video, 3:33 min.

Helen Haskakis (SE)

12

Hundra rötter dricker tyst (2022)
Oil on canvas
120 x 210cm.

Torkild Helland Kleppe (NO)

13

Minimegalith<3 (2023)
Overskudsjord fra byggeprojekter i København, hønsenet, gazebind, plast, papir.
50 x 65 x 80cm.

Capture the Forest I (2022)
Colored pencil, paper
13 x 20 x 1cm.

Capture the Forest II (2023)
Colored pencil, paper
13 x 20 x 1cm.

Laurits Honoré Rønne (DK)

14

DROP FROM A MELODY (2022)
Video, 12 min.

Jan Ijäs (FI)

15

HOUSE OF THE WICKEDEST MAN IN THE WORLD (2022)
HD video (original shooting format 16 mm and 35 mm film), 25 min. Edition 1/5

23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Brussels (2023)
HD video, 17 min. Edition 1/3

Waste no.6 How Great (2021)
HD video (original recording format 16mm and 35mm film), 53 min. Edition 4/5

Belgrade Forest Incident ...and What Happened to Mr.K? (2021)
HD video (original 16 mm film format), 31 min. Edition 1/5

Yasmin Jalilian (DK)

16

They Call You Aziz (2022)
4K video, 23:12 min.

Ria Albano (BR/DK)

17

The Shrine At Home Mary and Jesus (2022)
Jute, guache, paper, cardboard, wood, materials that hold everyone from cradle to coffin.
29 x 45 x 13cm.

Offering to the Queen of the Sea (2022)
Video, 16:00 sec. 

Sunset (2022)
Video, 52:00 sec

Flemming Jensen (DK)

18

Solstrejf (2022)
Acrylic on canvas.
120 x 80cm.

Ebba Johansson (SE)

19

Lost Things ll (2022)
Oil on canvas. 61x76x1cm.

Secret message ll (2022)
Oil on canvas. 23x30x1cm.

Iida Jonsson (FI), Ssi Saarinen (FI), Ona Julija Lukas Steponaitytė (LT)

20

Terrarium (2022)
40 x 200 x 200cm., video (loop)

Greywater (2022)
Aluminium containers, dip boilers
80 x 30 x 30cm.

Mads Juel (DK)

21

In the Days Where the Fog Doesn't Lift (2022)
Analogue photography and notes. Print on Hahnemühle paper, 308 grams. 108x133cm. Edition 1/5

A Collective Self-Portrait (2023)
Analogue photograph and notes. Print on Hahnemühle paper, 308 grams. 108x133cm. Edition 1/5

Carl Lützen (DK)

22

Buoyant (2022)
Watercolour on cut-outs of etchings, lithographs and various kinds of paper pasted on canvas.
50 x 40 x 2cm.

Amalia Melchior Hyldahl (DK)

23

Montre, earth, stones, roots and human bone.
120 x 145 x 60cm.

Bjørg Dyg Nielsen (DK)

24

Not all battles are fought with sharp swords (2022)
Mouth-blown glass
49 x 18 x 4cm.

Ivan Nylander (SE)

25

Skordatura (2022)
30 min performance. 

Theodor Nymark

26

Chapel (2021)
Paper box, magnetic paint, magnet, whiteboard foil, whiteboard marker, candle. 25x15x35cm.

Untitled (2020)
Styroform, plaster, roadkill pigeon, dried tangerines. 30x25x40cm.

Students from the Royal Danish Academy, Department of Building Art and Culture, Master's programme in Art and Architecture:

Philip Alexander Antons (DK), Nina Ballegaard (DK), Nomi Ancher Bekker (DK), Frederik Bergan (NO), Anne Louise Bjerre (DK), Malin Eva Katarina Eliasson (DK), Anna Fogh (DK), Esther Kristine Fröhlich (DK), Kajsa Gustafsson (SE), Marcus Alexander Bøhmer Hornslien (NO), Mads Vagn Jacobsen (DK), Jonathan Carl Jensen (DK), Ane Bella Sjøsten Panholm (DK), Rose Bygholm Risager (DK), Clara Sabel (SE), Anna Eglite Sørensen (DK), Anne Marie Stahl (DK), Magnus Johan Storgaard (DK), Torjus Tenge (NO) and Tobias Uldahl Thomsen (DK), as well as teachers: Rikke Sandbugt (NO), Høgni Hansen (DK) and Thomas Knud Gunnersen Harboe (DK)

27

The Leaky House (2022)
Steel, wood, aluminium, concrete and earth.
535 x 902 x 616cm

n.a works (JP)

28

X=X prototype (2022)
406x410x300cm.
Edition 3/12

Signe Ralkov (DK)

29

Sapient tongue (2022)
Soft pastel on canvas
27 x 26cm.

Nicklas Randau (SE)

30

The rain of the whole (2022)
Oil and cold needle etching in silver on canvas
205 x 280cm.

Untitled (clouds) (2022)
Oil on canvas
24 x 32cm.

Nightbrain (2022)
Oil on canvas
160 x 230cm.

Sophie Søborg Mosbæk (DK)

31

Washed (2022)
HD video (16mm, chlorine, citric acid, soap), 11:00 min.

Jørn Hulgaard Sørensen (DK)

32

The Queen (2022)
Playing cards, cardboard, fibreboard and MDF
49 x 41 x 2,3cm.

Ihsan Saad Ihsan Tahir (DK)

33

CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST (2022)
Stoneware, glaze, decal
65 x 50 x 50cm.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF MOURNING (2022)
Stoneware, glaze, decal
47 x 28 x 28cm.

My Brother (2022)
Stoneware, glaze, decal
25 x 31 x 31cm.

mitt notre dame (2022)
Stoneware, glaze, decal
42 x 55 x 55cm.

Think Harder (2022)
Stoneware, glaze
54 x 22 x 22cm.

Meri Toivanen (FI)

34

Yard Games (2022)
Oil on canvas
50x40x2cm.

Stage No. 3 (2022)
Oil on canvas
32 x 27 x 2cm.

Jelena Lilija Kimsdotter Vänts (SE)

35

ONE THAT I WEAR (CARRY) (2021)
Marble, glass mosaic, ceramic.
42 x 53 x 15cm.

Frej Volander (DK)

36

Symphony for dagger (2021)
Tricks. Drums. Sticker.
Performer: Malte Frej Linnebjerg.
SD video, 0.58 min.

Kristoffer Bech (DK)

37

ext: parque (2022)
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm

Introduction

As is tradition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg is the venue for the Spring Exhibition, one of the most important open, censored exhibitions in Europe. Since 1857, the Spring Exhibition has exhibited art, architecture, design and crafts. The exhibition gives a considerable number of artists the opportunity to show their work to a wide public.

Over the years, the Spring Exhibition has been a significant first step for many artists on their way to a professional career, as well as an opportunity for more established names to present new works

This year, the Spring Exhibition received artistic contributions from 944 applicants. Of these, 36 artists and artist groups are now being exhibited. Behind the 69 selected works are participants with very different backgrounds and experiences.

The works in the Spring Exhibition 2023 have been selected and curated by a jury consisting of Ann Sophie von Bülow (artist), Julie Falk (artist), Isabella Hemmersbach (curator), Nina Nørgaard (glass artist and designer), Skjold Rambow (artist), Søren Rønholt (photographer) and Peter Møller Rasmussen (architect).

In addition to the selection of works, two prizes will be awarded: the Solo Prize in collaboration with Politikens Forhal, and the Deep Forest Art Land Prize. The Solo Prize includes an invitation to a solo exhibition at Politikens Forhal in 2024, while the Deep Forest Art Land Prize includes an invitation to create a work for the sculpture park in Kibæk.

Introduction

As is tradition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg hosts the Spring Exhibition - one of the most important open, censored exhibitions in Europe. Since 1857, the Spring Exhibition has presented art, architecture, design and craft by a significant number of artists to a wider public. 

Throughout the years, the Spring Exhibition has constituted an important first step on the path towards a professional career for many young artists.

This year, the Spring Exhibition received entries from 944 applicants, of whom 36 artists and artist groups are now on display. Behind the total of 69 selected works are participants with vastly different backgrounds and experience.

The works presented at the 2023 Spring Exhibition were selected by a jury consisting of: Ann Sophie von Bülow (artist), Julie Falk (artist), Isabella Hemmersbach (curator), Nina Nørgaard (glass artist and designer), Skjold Rambow (artist), Søren Rønholt (photographer) og Peter Møller Rasmussen (architect).

In addition to selecting the works for the exhibition, two prizes are awarded: The Solo Award in collaboration with Politikens Forhal, and the Deep Forest Art Land Award. The Solo Award is accompanied by an invitation to present a solo exhibition at Politikens Forhal in 2024. While the Deep Forest Art Land Award entails an invitation to present an artwork at the sculpture park in Kibæk, Denmark.

Since 1857, when the first Spring Exhibition took place, the world has changed in countless ways. Multiple local conflicts, a couple of world wars, at least two pandemics and several artistic revolutions have marked the evolution of society. And the earth is still collapsing under climate change. All this and more has helped to define and refine art, applied art and architecture in different aesthetic directions. For many decades, there was fervent talk of "debuting" at the Spring Exhibition, but today it is clear that, thanks to the technological revolution, many are now making their debut on the internet. However, the democratic tradition of a censored exhibition, where anyone can enter works judged by an art jury, remains in its basic form. The Spring Exhibition is an exhibition where the halls of Charlottenborg are filled with a sample of all the art being made in the many layers of art. An exhibition where a much wider range of artists than we are used to are given the opportunity to express themselves - the inexperienced, the self-taught and the academically trained as well as craftsmen, architects and designers. In a way, the spring exhibition offers a decentralisation of art, presented in the centre of the art scene. In this way, the Spring Exhibition finds new meaning at a time when decentralisation and a critical overturning of established formats are a necessity for the development of both platforms and artistic activity.

With this year's exhibition, we have decided that we, as the board of the Charlottenborg Foundation, will take on the job of jury. As censors, it is first and foremost our job to keep an open mind to the entire alphabet in all artistic languages. A democratic selection that can be difficult, but by removing all categories in the application procedure, we have softened the fixed framework a bit and achieved a process that both maintains the basic format of the exhibition and at the same time manages to create a more fluid, natural context during the exhibition. A kind of curation that happens gradually, as we as a working group select all the different works and put them together. Internal logics emerge between the works, themes and motifs recur, contradictions become clear, and all the worlds the works come from form an invisible system and move towards each other, closer, as if they were planets in a solar system without a sun or a centre. To build an exhibition with so many different parts, you have to show trust in the working group, and instead of limiting interests to our individual fields, we have experienced the jury more as a common brain where views, instincts and opinions rub off on each other. 

Whereas a curated exhibition often looks for art that can respond to a specific idea or theme, with the spring exhibition we try to find meaning and some kind of structure in the complete diversity that exists within the arts. At the same time, the Spring Exhibition will probably never be a clearly defined organism - its cultural turmoil is too fundamental for that. But just as the actors in a biotopic landscape talk to each other through roots, fungi and other transmitters of knowledge, so the works in the exhibition also talk to each other and the audience about their basis of existence, their origins and how this (or none of it) is expressed in the work.

Therefore, you will experience a complex exhibition with red threads, original heroes, good stories and a lot of talent. All driven by a cultural folklore across communities. Works with a classic demarcation, works that eschew particular distinction. Is it a house, a model or a sculpture? Either way, its physical presence makes us feel our own, with an unsettling force. 

The zeitgeist of our times is largely determined by the humanity that binds us together, but also by the things that nevertheless divide us. When the disappearance of species can be counted by the minute and the climate continues to build up, as a mathematical consequence of the way we live in large parts of the world. When information, politics and emotions connect at a constant pace on internet platforms. When wars and occupations happen so close that no one can look away anymore. When pandemics put brakes
on society's rotation. How do we live with these fundamental changes, disasters and collapses in our everyday lives? With horror and fear? With care and passion? With aesthetics? This year's exhibition offers both explicit and subtle takes on these complexities. Earth, leaky houses, home guard, prepper and camping aesthetics, hanging fruit and sanctuaries at home. Not even in the aftermath is everyone equal and in the exhibition this is met with different conditions and outcomes. 

The Spring Exhibition is a tradition that brings many art worlds and peripheries to the centre of the art scene. The art worlds that live in the garage, on the street, in the province, as well as in the professional studio and workshop. Experiencing this art can be seen as a social interaction between you and the work, where the aesthetics and language of the work express something and a conversation starts. A conversation that does not always end with agreement and closure, but also asks questions about the whole breadth of what is possible in art and in life.

Copyright © 2023
Charlottenborg Fonden, kunstnere og tekstforfattere
/ The Charlottenborg Foundation artists and writers 

Jury & Kurator / Jury & Curator:
Charlottenborg Fonden bestyrrelse & daglig leder
/ The Charlottenborg Foundation Board & Daily manager

Charlottenborg Fonden Forperson
/ The Charlottenborg Foundation Chairperson:
Peter Møller Rasmussen

Charlottenborg Fonden Næstforperson
/ The Charlottenborg Foundation Deputy Chairperson:
Ann Sophie Von Bülow

Bestyrelsesmedlemmer / Board members:
Søren Rønholt
Skjold Rambow
Nina Nørgaard
Julie Falk 

Exhibition coordinators:
Julie Koldby and Isabella Hemmersbach

Texts: Louis Scherfig

Translation: René Lauritsen

Design / Graphic Design: stanza

Print: Actum Kopi & Tryk

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