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Anke Feuchtenberger

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Charlotte Fogh Contemporary is proud to present thefirst solo exhibition in Denmark with Anke Feuchtenberger; one of Germany’s leading avant-garde artists within comics. The exhibition presents a selection of charcoal drawings in giant format, a number of smaller drawings and comics as well as examples of her cartoons.

Anke Feuchtenberger was born in 1963 and raised in Eastern Berlin, where she also was educated. Since the Fall of the Wall in Berlin in 1989 she has lived in Western Germany, where she now is a professor in drawing and illustration at Fachhochschule für Gestaltung in Hamburg. In 2008 she was named Germany’s best and most original comic artist and her style has greatly influenced contemporary comic art.

Anke Feuchtenberger has a unique style with references to both classical Western imagery like Rembrandt and Goya, African primitivism and contemporary comics. The motifs are mainly people and animals creating narratives with strong underlying psychological aspects.

Anke Feuchtenberger has exhibited in China, Canada, USA and in Europe at museums, galleries and international Cartoon-festivals. In Denmark she has earlier been shown at Kunsthallen Brandts, but the exhibition at Charlotte Fogh Contemporary is her first soloshow in Denmark.

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NEWS FROM THE NEIGHBOURS

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Charlotte Fogh Contemporary has invited our Nordic neighbours and can with great pleasure, and in corporation with Gallery Steinsland Berliner from Stockholm, present some of the latest newcomers within the contemporary art scene of Scandinavia. The exhibition “News from the Neighbours” offers collage, drawing, sculpture, painting and video by the artists Erik Tidemann, Danilo Stankovic, Finsta, Nadine Byrne and Ragnar Persson.

Norwegian Erik Tidemann (b. 1982) finished in 2006 from Slade School of Fine Art in London. His work is characterised by including very different media – from paintings to dead animals. Tidemann’s works are often grounded in fictive narratives about extreme characters that in different ways comment on our society. The inspiration is found in B movies, sub and pop culture as well as in the relation between live and death.

Danilo Stankovic (b. 1981) has roots in both Sweden and former Yugoslavia and is studying at Malmö Konsthögskola. His works mainly consist of drawings on paper and fabric that often are included in large installations. The central theme for Stankovic is the meeting between the earthly and the divine – the sublime that takes shape in nature.

Finsta – Sweden’s answer to the Danish artist RememberMyName (HuskMitNavn) – was born in 1978 and educated at Konstfack Univeristy of Arts, Crafts and Design in 2004. Finsta is one of the leading street artists in Europe with his passion for both popular culture and urban environment. He works nationally and internationally in different media and contexts – such as illustration, film, animation and graphic design.

Nadine Byrne (b. 1985) is studying at Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm. She works in numerous media for example video, sound, sculpture, performance and collage. The works take off in a fascination of the occult and religion, which she links with an investigation of her own past.

Ragnar Persson is born in 1980 and is educated at Konstfack Univeristy of Arts, Crafts and Design in 2007. His drawings are grounded in the Heavy Metal environment alongside with classic landscape painting, which he mixes with memories from his upbringing. He hereby not only creates a world that tells about Persson’s life, but also a world that anyone else can see themselves in.

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ANDREAS SCHULENBURG, JESPER DALGAARD & ULU BRAUN

It is with great pleasure that Charlotte Fogh Contemporary presents a group exhibition with the artists Andreas Schulenburg, Jesper Dalgaard and Ulu Braun.

As a presentation of the three artists the exhibition embraces sculptures, reliefs, video and collages. The common denominator of the three artists is a profound focus on the imaginative in their work on the relationship between nature and culture.

With his felt sculptures, Andreas Schulenburg strives to change our usual view of the logic of things. Through a humoristic and absurd twist of nature/culture the artworks creates a reflection on the traditional order of reality.

The works of Jesper Dalgaard take off in an immanent interest in culture’s effect on nature and vice versa, which is expressed in a peculiar sculptural universe questioning our cultural history and its constructions.

Ulu Braun presents small concentrated collages, that operate in the area between imagination and reality as well as nature and culture. With their surreal atmosphere the artworks are exuberant, eccentric, beautiful and terrifying fiction.

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Jacob Taekker

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Charlotte Fogh Contemporary is happy to introduce the video artist Jacob Taekker’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, “Cave and Reality”.

The exhibition presents his latest video installations that all focus on the human need of and drive towards communication and artistic expression. Generally, the videos revolve around man’s eternal struggle to reach the top and how to balance in the world we have constructed. The main work of the exhibition, “Cave and Reality”, therefore poses the question of what is reality and what is construction based on Platon’s famous Allegory of the Cave.

With his influence from feature films, music videos and computer games, Jacob Taekker has contributed in setting new standards for video art and has exhibited at various galleries and museums both nationally and internationally. The videos of Jacob Taekker are represented in both private collections and in the collection of Skive Museum of Art.

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