Marie Thams

700IS - 10 year anniversary exhibition

22 Jan 2015

New exhibition - in Reykjavík, opening January 22, at the Nordic House.

I'm going back to Iceland for the second half of my residency at 700IS reindeerland - this time to take part in the 10 year anniversary exhibiton of 700IS.

And as artist in residency at 700IS Reindeerland I will be exhibiting the video installation sjálfboðavinna and also present a selection of DK based colleagues, namely Amalie Smith, Maj Hasager and Jóhan Martin Christiansen.

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Book launch - MAKING ROOM

18 Dec 2014

Welcome to the launch of the MAKING ROOM publication
18 December, 2014 at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Oslo Plads 1, DK - 2100 Copenhagen from 5 - 8 pm.
The launch is part of Den Frie's Christmas event - so there will be glögg, happy people and the book will be sold for a reduced price.

For more about the project MAKING ROOM. Nordic Artists, Institutions and Artist Institutions in the Modern Breakthrough and Today see here.

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Let's think of it as actually making room - as a question of re-making, re-arranging, moving matter aside or discarding it, so that other things can come into play. To make new room and to invent other spaces, like adding a balcony to your apartment - making room without taking room - and at the same time gaining a better view.

MAKING ROOM is a symposium, held between October 31 and November 1, 2013 at Den Frie Copenhagen, about the self-organised, about artists, institutions and artists’ institutions, and now also this publication, presenting the reworked and edited versions of talks and papers given at the symposium.

MAKING ROOM combines art historical research with the thinking of present artist-run institutions and their relation to the institutional landscape they operate within. Thus MAKING ROOM briefly forgets the recent past, and connects the self-organised landscape of today’s Nordic countries with an ontological institutional history of the late nineteenth century. MAKING ROOM aims to investigate and discuss the parallels and possible relations between contemporary artist-run spaces and the early artist associations and institutions of the Modern Breakthrough in the Nordic countries.

Contributions Hugo Hopping, Michael Bank Christoffersen, Kitty Corbet Millward, Kristín Scheving, Jan Cox, Mikkel Thelle, Sydhavn Station (Anne Skole Overgaard, Sonja Lillebæk Christensen, Jens Axel Beck and Thorgej Steen Hansen), Honza Hoeck, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, and representing our partner institutions: Anna Scram Vejlby from The Hirschsprung Collection, David Jackson from University of Leeds and Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg from Den Frie.

Organised and edited by Marie Thams and Hannah Heilmann et al.

The project is supported by:
Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond

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Upcoming exhibition: REVISIT at Overgaden, Copenhagen

14 Nov 2014

I hope to see you in Copenhagen at Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art, Friday November 14 at 5-9 pm for the opening of REVISIT: Musikerne maler, malerne musicerer og digterne holder kæft
 in which I'll be participating with a new work.

REVISIT: Musikerne maler, malerne musicerer og digterne holder kæft

15.11.2014 - 11.01.2015

Overgaden.
Institute of Contemporary Art
Overgaden neden Vandet 17
DK - 1414 Copenhagen
www.overgaden.org


The exhibition format REVISIT is a series of annual events that delve into Overgaden’s history and highlight some of the many important art projects that the institution has hosted over the years in order to explore them from the perspective of the present. In 2014 we revisit the exhibition The Musicians Paint, the Painters Make Music and the Poets Shut Up from 1989, organized by author and composer Vagn E. Olsson from the band No Knox. The project was an expression of the punk spirit of the time where cross-artistic experiments and amateurism were considered a creative generator. For the exhibition painters and musicians therefore swapped roles in an attempt to break down traditional boundaries between forms of artistic expression. Today the interfaces between art, music, and literature are still explored – albeit in new ways – and Overgaden has invited a group of artists who all work in a cross-media field to curate an updated version. As then the exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive event programme which includes historical anecdotes, concerts, performances, and a series of debates about the role of amateurism – or the lack hereof – in Danish contemporary art from the 80s until today.


The exhibition is curated by Amalie Smith, Theis Ørntoft og Lars Skinnebach, Hannah Heilmann, Ragnhild May og Vagn E. Olsson.


Participating artists: Signe Boe, Glenn Christian, Electrolux (Daniel Bøtcher og Vagn E. Olsson), Andreas Führer, Lars Arnfred Fynboe, Chiara Giovando, Goodiepal, Rasmus Graff, Felia Gram-Hanssen m. danser Tora Balslev, Claus Haxholm, Ida Marie Hede, Honza Hoeck, Ferdinand Ahm Krag, Karl Larsson, Manet iPad Cover, Anders Mathiasen, Michael Mørkholt, Maya Peitersen, Lea Porsager, Kristian Poulsen, Bjørn Rasmussen, Davide Savorani, Anne Mette Schultz, TS Sterndolph, Marie Thams, Kasper Vang.




Friday 14 November 5-9pm

OPENING

Welcome to the opening of Yvette Brackman's solo exhibition AGIT FLIGHT and the group exhibition REVISIT: Musikerne maker, malerne musicerer go digterne holder kæft. At the opening the will be performances by Felia Gram-Hanssen with dancer Tora Balslev, Kristian Poulsen (Spost), Michael Mørkholt, and Claus Haxholm.


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