Marie Søndergaard Lolk VAGUE DISTRICT


Marie Søndergaard Lolk opens her first solo exhibition VAGUE DISTRICT at Galleri Tom Christoffersen. By her unique approach to painting and through her particular painting processes Marie Søndergaard Lolk both researches and expands what painting can and is as media – but the tactile and hermetical works are capable of so much more.
The paintings accentuate gravity, substance and time in every sense of the words. Mostly, they contain innumerable layers of paint, which are added according to a system, that the artist reformulates from work to work. The system is a method to investigate a particular issue why the final paintings appear diverse. During the process paint is weaved(!) into for example spatial form, figurations are broken up by displacement or text is used as a structural element rather than a vehicle for meaning.
Despite the conscious and strict restrictions, and despite the fact that repetition and minimal displacement recurs, the paintings never appear as mechanically rigid. The process is always dominated by an accept of what may appear why the final paintings are just as much the product of for example unpredictable deposits from the edge of the paintbrush.
The tactile and dense paintings function both as documentation of a long series of actions over time and as the result of a problem researched. Instead of easily read they appear full of linguistic resistance, and they thereby open up to a space where something important – maybe fundamental – is enclosed in the matter.
Marie Søndergaard Lolk (1981) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2008 and was granted Exit Extra 08 for her graduation project. Previous exhibitions count: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning-Contemporary Art Space (2008), Beneath the Surface, Nils Stærk Contemporary Art (2008) og Maleri Uden Grænser, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum (2007). Marie Søndergaard Lolk is represented at Malmö Konstmuseum (2008). Please see Marie Søndergaard Lolk’s profile at the website of Galleri Tom Christoffersen.
Anna Ling, who exhibits in Galleri Tom Christoffersen Cube, is represented by Elastic, Malmö (Sweden)

Tom Christoffersen

HENNING BOHL The ate rT oday


HENNING BOHL
The ate rT oday

With a first solo exhibition, we are pleased to introduce the artist Henning Bohl into our gallery program. Bohl will be showing a series of works of large format mounted as an installation within the gallery space. Attached to the cornice above the walls, the canvases seem like free- hanging curtains or tapestries, which intermittently reveal the letters THE ATE R HE UTE in between. A parallel copy of the cornice reads the corresponding fragments of the letters PSYCH OLOG Y T ODAY.
The large images, irradiating opulence despite their emphasized simplicity, show cut-out paper drops or tears, as well as circular and sickle forms, which seem borrowed from mask-like Kabuki faces covered in make-up when pasted as abstract elements onto the white-primed canvases. Large surfaces of colored paper cover these form arrays, sticking out from the edges like stubborn packing paper or rolling up at the edges, thus creating a second image plane. As if looking through a curtain, another space is opened in which the “image within the image” can be seen. The image becomes a stage.
Despite the strict canon of forms and the constriction to found material (like the limited color palette of decoration paper), the works give way to a great variety of associations and histories. Furthermore, the gallery as an exhibition space serves in this context “as a multilayered storytelling device” (Manfred Hermes). Michaela Eichwald describes Bohl’s way of working as “ein mehrschichtiges Sampler- und Composertum” (“a multilayered way of sampling and composing”). In a kind of “Workshop-weaving mill, Bohl weaves, entangles and bolts together intrinsic and extrinsic into new.” For the artist, basically everything is potential material, including his own work. Hence, motifs from earlier works might appear recycled in the new ones. By utilizing already used fragments and the negative residues of cut-out paper forms, Bohl develops an economics of image production, implying a logic of its own in its process.

Henning Bohl (*1975, Oldenburg, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the Städelschule with Thomas Bayerle and Michael Krebber. Works from the artist have been shown in individual exhibitions at the Studio Galerie in the Kunstverein Braunschweig and the “Kunstverein der Rheinlande und Westfalen” in Düsseldorf, as well as in various gallery exhibitions, the latest of which was “History of Garden Theory” at Casey Kaplan in New York. The 14th of November 2008 the artist will be opening a solo exhibition in the Oldenburger Kunstverein. 2009, the works of Henning Bohl will be presented in the collection of the “Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie” at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.

Johann Koenig

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS


STUDIO WAREHOUSE GLASGOW / + 44 141 GALLERY presents

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

An exhibition by DUNK! – Copenhagen, featuring:

Zven Balslev (DK), Søren Brøgger (DK), Rasmus Danø (DK), Rose Eken (DK),
Sonja Lillebæk Christensen (DK),Thorgej Steen Hansen (DK), Sian Kristoffersen (DK),
Sören Hüttel (DK), Daniel Milan (DK), Andreas Poppelier (SE), Jakob Rød (DK),
Louise Sparre (DK), Hartmut Stockter (DE), Ditte Knus Tønnesen (DK).

DUNK! is an artist run exhibition space located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in September 2005, it is dedicated to showing work by both emerging and more established Danish and international artists, across all medias and genres.

Since 2006 they have participated in Art Fairs across Denmark and Europe. In 2007 they began representing a selection of contemporary artists through their website, in the style of a commercial gallery. In January 2008 they were included in Flash Art International’s list of the Top 100 Galleries worldwide.

Through the Looking Glass represents DUNK!’s first major international group show outside of Copenhagen. The show at SWG3 (Studio Warehouse Glasgow) will feature new work from DUNK!’s represented artists, including three Danish guests artists who have all studied at The Glasgow School of Art.

Through the Looking Glass represents a magnified cross section of Copenhagen’s progressive art scene, providing a snap shot of the city’s contemporary critical climate. The work will investigate a diverse range of media from painting, drawing and sculpture, through to installation video and photography.

DUNK! asked each of the participating artists to focus on phenomena particular to Glasgow, referencing in one way or another aspects of the city’s recent cultural history. This open-ended thematic framework has been established as a point of departure, acting as a catalyst for the production of new work.

Through the Looking Glass is the second exhibition in an exchange between DUNK! and SWG3. Coordinated in Glasgow by resident artist Dan Miller, the project started with Miller’s solo show at DUNK!, during September 2008.

SWG3

Cuong vong cung nhan loai.


Cuong vong cung nhan loai.

Mankinds crazy ambitions.

Vuong Linh Dan, Nguyen Hong Nhung, Jon Stahn.

Opening Friday October 10. 15:00 to 21:00. FREE BEER.

The exhibition Cuong vong cung nhan loai or Mankinds crazy ambitions is a
collaboration between the Vietnamese artists Vuong Linh Dan and Nguyen Hong Nhung and
Jon Stahn who is a Danish artist.

The three artists have bridged their respective cultural backgrounds and have worked as
a single unit producing the exhibition in two weeks in Hanoi.

The artworks in the show utilize the esthetics of ads from magazines, TV-commercials
and billboards, and exploit the language of commercial advertisement to transmit
alternative messages.

The artists present a series of mega prints on vinyl canvas, neon signs, souvenir t-
shirts and a brand new sound track made for the show.

HANOI FUTURE ART
House 64, Lane 310, Nghi Tam Street. Tay Ho, Hanoi.
Open from October 11. To October 31. 2008.
Wednesday to Saturday 14:00 to 18:00.

Hanoi Future Art