Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2017

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2017

Exhibition period: 3 February - 11 March 2017

The Spring Exhibition is an open, censored exhibition, which for 160 years has been an annual event in Kunsthal Charlottenborg's annual programme. The spring exhibition is organized by the independent institution Charlottenborg Fonden.

The Spring Exhibition 2017 presents artists from all over the world: many are from Denmark and northern Europe, but behind the contributions are also artists from countries such as Japan and the United States. The exhibited works cover the subject areas of art, architecture and design.

As jury member Line Clausen Pedersen describes in this year's catalogue, art remains sought after as a space for human reflection and, in these years, not least the digital. Classical art such as drawing, painting and sculpture must give way to the digital and electronic, while the semi-religious and mystical are recurring themes at this year's Spring Exhibition.

Participating artists
A total of 781 artists have applied to participate in the Spring Exhibition 2017. Of these, 61 artists have been selected, showing a total of 105 works. The participating artists are: Rodo Abdirahman (DK), Alexei Alexander (GB/RU), Laura-Sophie, Behrends (DE/DK), Alex Bunn (UK), Sarah Busk & Stine Aagesen (DK), Matyáš Chochola (CZ), Brent Cole (US), Annette Dam (DK), Julie Falk (DK), Rasmus Bækkel Fex (DK), Mika Kata rina Friis (DK), Philip Louis Glazer (DK), Aulis Harmaala (FI), Clara Hastrup (DK), Inger Sif Heeschen (DK), Marie Holmgren (SE), Mads E Hvidtfeldt (DK), Jan Ijäs (FI), Rolf Jacobsen (DK), Sine Jensen (DK), Sanne Lund Jensen (DK), Billie Maya Johansen (DK), Anna Johansson (SE), Kevin Josias (DK), Jane Kantsø (DK), Ada Kobusiewicz (PO), Tove Kommedal (No), George Koutsouris (GR), Hans Helmer Kristensen (DK), Maria Kristoffersen (DK), Inka Kynkäänniemi & Iiris Kaarlehto (FI), Lap-See Lam (SE), Per-René Larsen (DK), Kim Laybourn (DK), Emilie Lundstrøm (DK) , Lisbeth Nielsen Lyrstrand (DK), Laura Løwe & Katrine Krohn (DK), Louise Madsen (DK), Marcus Matt (SE), Steven Morgana (AU/FR), Sara Möller (DK), Salla Myllylä (FI), Will Narby (UK), Jakob Nilsson (DK), Theodor Nymark (DK), Lolita Pelegrime (LT), Stefan Peters (BE), Bodil Porse (DK), Physical Culture (Julie Héne Margaux Parillaud, Ursula Marcussen, Line-Gry Hørup) (FR/DK), Sarah Michelle Riisager (DK), Mette Sandfær (DK), Lilybeth Sebaldus & Gudrun van Zijl (DK/NAM), Kristina Skantze (SE), Susanne Schmidt-Nielsen (DK), Yusuke Sugiyama (JP), Kristine Bech Sørensen (DK), Ben Livne Weitzman (ISR), Emil Willumsen & Gustav Holst Kurtzweil (DK), Mai-Britt Wolthers (BR/CH), Timo Wright (FI) and Jay Alan Yim & Marlena Novak (US).

Jury
The works at Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2017 have been selected by a jury consisting of: Torben Ribe (artist, DK) Stig L. Andersson (architect, DK), Hanna Nilsson (designer, SE) and Line Clausen (curator, DK).

Solo Award 2017
In addition to the work selection, the jury has nominated five artists for the 2017 solo award of the year. With the solo prize comes an invitation to exhibit at the Spring Exhibition 2018. The five award-nominated artists are: Rodo Abdirahman, Julie Falk, Anna Johansson, Steven Morgana and Lilybeth Sebaldus & Gudrun van Zijl. The winner is: Rodo Abdirahman

Solo exhibitions 2017
Last year's recipients of the national and international solo prize were The Danish artist Aase Seidler Gernes and Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic. This year's exhibition therefore features two solo exhibitions with newly created works by these artists.

For more information, please contact
Mette Skov : mette@charlottenborg-fonden.dk / +45 4028 2941