Marie Thams

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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Interview with Santiago Sierra and Jens Haaning

08 Nov 2014

Read the interview with Santiago Sierra, Jens Haaning, Marie Thams and Kim Kilde A sculptural manifestation in the North Harbour by Maria Bordoff at kopenhagen.dk here: A sculptural manifestation in the North Harbour

The Copenhagen Declaration

Jens Haaning / Santiago Sierra

Curated by: Marie Thams and Kim Kilde

October 30, 2014 - February 6, 2015 


Faurschou Foundation
: Klubiensvej 11
, 2150 Nordhavn
,Denmark

Hours: Tuesday–Friday 11am–5pm



See documentation of the exhibition here: The Copenhagen Declaration, Faurschou Foundation

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Curatorial project: "The Copenhagen Declaration", Jens Haaning & Santiago Sierra

30 Oct 2014

Nearly two years ago I initiated this project - and now it is all happening! Hope to see you at the opening October 30 in Copenhagen.

The Copenhagen Declaration

Jens Haaning / Santiago Sierra

Opening: 30 October 4-6pm

30 October 2014–6 February 2015


Faurschou Foundation
: Klubiensvej 11
, 2150 Nordhavn
,Denmark

Hours: Tuesday–Friday 11am–5pm



Faurschou Foundation is pleased to present The Copenhagen Declaration by the artists Jens Haaning and Santiago Sierra. The show has been created specifically for Faurschou Foundation’s exhibition premises at the Copenhagen North Harbour. The two Danish curators Kim Kilde and Marie Thams initiated the collaboration between the two internationally recognized artists and Faurschou Foundation. The exhibition originates in the wish to link two powerful artistic practices that have both created striking, socially critical contemporary art. This is the first time the two artists have collaborated on a shared work as well as the first time Santiago Sierra exhibits in Denmark.



The Copenhagen Declaration is one large installation that fills the whole of Faurschou Foundation’s exhibition space. As with Haaning’s and Sierra’s other works, this is a work that takes its point of departure in socioeconomic and political matters. The work operates in the field between the ceremonial, formal declaration and the open statement of this declaration, which is dependent on context and the cultural background of the viewer. The artists have no wish for a direct communication or interpretation of this work.



Jens Haaning (b. 1965) has from the outset of his artistic career been politically engaged. Back in the 1990s he was one of those who turned the focus on outsiders in Danish society. Haaning works with the meanings inherent in our language and the way we communicate visually. His works range from the visibly political as in Weapon production (1995) to the more minimalistic, site-specific exchanging of light bulbs between a street in Kassel and one in Hanoi, Kassel-Hanoi (Light bulb exchange) (2002). Danmark, Denmark (2005) consists of the text “Denmark” written in large black capitals on the wall of the gallery. The first time the work was exhibited in Denmark in 2005, it aroused a sensation because the Danish political debate at the time was coloured by strong resistance to giving residence permits to immigrants and refugees in Denmark. Haaning’s work gets to grips with this debate, turning the focus, black on white, on concepts like nationalism and the fear of the foreign. 



Santiago Sierra (b. 1966) is preoccupied in his practice with, among other issues, problematizing the value of labour, as can be seen in the many works where he pays excluded social groups to participate in what are often quite pointless, physically exhausting, directly humiliating, labour. This can be seen in the work 1_33 Persons Paid To Have Their Hair Dyed Blond_ (2001) where illegal immigrants were paid to have their hair bleached in connection with the Venice Biennale. A group of immigrants who primarily lived by selling copied bags were subsequently invited to sell bags as part of the actual art exhibition. The work NO (2009) consists of a simple “No” in large black-painted letters. The expression only takes on meaning when it is placed in a context and the meaning changes depending on the specific setting of which it forms a part. Sierra in other words offers us a work that is on the one hand meaningless, but on the other hand can be inserted in a multitude of contexts and functions as a kind of protest or opposition to the way things work. 




Kim Kilde (b. 1974) is a visual artist Education. He holds an MFA Fine Arts, Art Theory and Communication, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts, Copenhagen, DK (2011), has attended Lectures Art & Public Space, UvA, GRA & Sandberg Institute (2005) and holds a BFA, Fine Arts, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL.
Visual Artist (2005). This Summer he spend as artist in residency at Istanbul Residency SALT 2014 and in 2012 he Co-founded the artist group Lehman Brothers. Selected latest exhibitions: Malmö Nordic - Malmö Konsthall, SE; TesterTester - Ringsted Galleriet, DK; Copenhagen Art Week 2014 - NLHspace; FOKUS 13 Video Art Festival - Nikolaj Kunsthal; Toves Galleri; Alt_Cph 2012 - Factory for Art and Design, Copenhagen, DK; W139, Amsterdam, NL.

Marie Thams (1982) is a visual Artist. She holds an MFA Fine Arts, Art Theory and Communication, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts, Copenhagen (2011/12) and a BA (hons), Fine Art & History of Art fra Goldsmiths, London University (2009). Thams has worked as event coordinator, curator and project manager (2010-2014) at Den Frie, Copenhagen and is currently editor at Malmö Art Academy and chair woman of UKK, Unge Kunstnere og Kunstformidlere. Selected latest exhibitions: 700IS Reindeerland, Egilsstadir, IS; Demorummet - Galleri Image, Aarhus, DK; Holodeck, Oslo, NO; Screen Festival, Barcelona, ES; bull mengers, Silkeborg, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen; Trondheim Bienniale, NO; North & South Gallery, San Francisco, US.

Faurschou Foundation is a privately owned art institution with a collection of contemporary art of the highest international class, with exhibition venues at Copenhagen North Harbour as well as Beijing’s attractive art neighbourhood 798. Faurschou Foundation introduces the visitors to some of the world’s most acclaimed artists.

Art is purchased on an ongoing basis such that Faurschou Foundation’s collection is constantly developed and expanded. 

Over a very short period since its establishment in 2011 Faurschou Foundation has profiled itself as a significant art institution that shows art at the highest international level with solo exhibitions of among other artists Cai Guo-Qiang, Louise Bourgeois, Ai Weiwei, Shirin Neshat, Gabriel Orozco and Danh Vo.

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