Karriere – 34 leading artists from around the world make their mark in the Vesterbro quarter of Copenhagen. Art, cocktails and the old meat-packing district Kødbyen will be united in a unique, experimental café-bar project called Karriere. The Danish artist Jeppe Hein and his sister Lærke Hein have gathered a rousing array of Danish and international artists whose completely new works of art will contribute to the creation of a provocative oasis within the cityscape of Copenhagen.

The scope of Danish art and culture will soon be enriched by an injection of new energy from some of the most significant artists in the world. Jeppe Hein, the boldly advancing Danish artist, and his sister Lærke Hein are the driving force behind Karriere. It’s a new café-bar project that will emerge in the Danish capital as a long-awaited platform for new thinking in contemporary art, and a provocative alternative on the Copenhagen café and nightlife scene. In all, 34 Danish and international artists will contribute new works of art which will collectively function as a form of total installation that will beckon participation and interaction from the guests. Karriere is scheduled to open at the beginning of September and will be the first of a number of cultural and commercial projects planned to open side by side with existing butchers’ halls in the meat-packing district Hvide Kødby in the Vesterbro quarter of Copenhagen. During the next few months some of the larger old butcheries will be renovated and the works of art created specifically for the site will complete the metamorphosis. The inventories and fixtures will be redefined through the works of art, which relate to everything from aesthetics, function and the history of the area, while the installation will project the café-bar as political and social space for the public. The spot will be a regular café during the day and a cocktail bar at night. The works of art—through their interactive characteristics—will give a coffee date or night on the town a new dimension and provide a constant flow of topics for discussion. With concerts, DJs, lectures, events, and even its own newspaper, Karriere will stand out as a new centre for the creation and manifestation of contemporary art and culture.

The artists The contributing artists are all of the absolutely highest international calibre within their respective fields. Many of them have never exhibited in Denmark, because Danish museums and exhibition halls have not had the budget or not had the nerve to show them. These are artists who are normally shown at Tate Modern, MoMA, Centre Pompidou and more of the most important exhibition halls in the world. The participating artists who have been carefully selected to bolster Karriere’s interactive concept are:
Franz Ackermann (GER), Kristoffer Akselbo (DK), AVPD (DK), Kenneth Balfelt (DK), Lone Bank, Tanja Rau/ BankRau (DK), Massimo Bartolini (ITA), Monica Bonvicini (ITA), George Bures Miller/Janet Cardiff (CAN) Maurizio Cattelan (ITA), Gardar Eide Einarsson (NOR), Olafur Eliasson (DK/ICE), Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset (DK/NOR), Ceal Floyer (ENG), Thomas Poulsen/FOS (DK), Alicia Framis (SPA), Dan Graham (USA), Tue Greenfort (DK), Douglas Gordon (ENG), Natascha Sadr Haghighian (IRAN), Carl Michael von Hausswolff (SWE) Jeppe Hein (DK), Carsten Höller (GER), Jesper Just (DK), Ernesto Neto (BRA), Dan Peterman (USA), Tino Sehgal (ENG), Tomas Saraceno (ARG), Robert Stadler (FRA), Simon Starling (ENG), Rirkrit Tiravanija (THAI/USA) and Johannes Wohnseifer (GER).

Dan Graham is doing crazy walls outside…

Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset (DK/NOR) have made the name “Karriere”

Brains behind the idea Jeppe Hein (b. 1973) was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Städel Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt. He has exhibited at numerous sites in Denmark and abroad, including PS1 MoMA in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen and Biennalen in Venice. Lærke Hein (b. 1982) has a broad range of experience as a bar- restaurant- nightclub manager. For most of the past two years she has managed one of Copenhagen’s leading and most exclusive nightclubs.

Karriere

Whats coming up next….

Jeppe Hein

Jeppe had a beautiful opening @ Johan König last week….

Fantastic cube…

::: In his studio,

& in his gallery :::

Johann Koenig

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R.T.HANSEN/BERLIN

Thomaz Kramberger

Cool and new works from Neil Farber.

Arndt & Partner are presenting works by 1971 born Peruvian artist William Cordova who is based in Miami, Housten and New York.
A room-filling, wooden installation, interspersed with intimate, coloured drawings, is the scenic starting point of Cordova’s project “Pachacuti”, which is his first solo show in Switzerland . Delicate, cryptic drawings on found paper make a picture show torn between the Hip Hop and Inca cultures. Without doubt inspired by his own transcultural background, this personal iconography aims at the profound meaning of landscape, language and history as shaping society.

We look forward to welcoming you and your friends!

With kind regards,

Arndt & Partner Zurich

Arndt Partner

Daido Moriyama
“Hawaii”
July 27-August 25, 2007

Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to announce “Hawaii”, our solo exhibition with artist Daido Moriyama. In the late 60s, “Japan, A Photo Theater”, 1968, was published.
Moriyama’s photography has been described as “grainy, out of focus and high-contrast”. Such radical expression defied then present photographic conventions. Since then, he has published “Farewell Photography”, 1972, “Light and Shadow”, 1982, “Daido hysteric”,1993-97, “Shinjuku”, 2002, and others; all works having an enormous impact on the world of photography.
In recent years, Moriyama won the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Photographie (DGPh) award, 2004. Retrospectives include “Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog”, 1999, San Francisco MOMA, U.S.A., “Hunter of Light – Moriyama Daido 1965-2003”, Shimane Art Museum, Japan, “Daido Moriyama”, 2003, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, France, and “Retrospectiva desde 1965”, 2007, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Spain.

Three years ago, I just desired to photograph Hawaii and make a book.
That was an unexpected inspiration for me. So then – I went to Hawaii five times.
Almost “my Hawaii” will be the photo book.
Hawaii has shaken up a lot of memories, such as the memory of a wave, the memory of a forest, the memory of a rainbow, the memory of stars, and then the memory of darkness….
Daido Moriyama

Hawaii, “I had never felt like sightseeing, had never been interested in it, but I was always concerned with this.”
When Moriyama started shooting, he just decided to“photograph Hawaii in Black and White”, but it seems like a fluctuating perception of a trip to nowhere and a return to Moriyama’s original starting point.
This is the eighth solo exhibition presented by the artist with the gallery, The exhibition will include, 70 new works produced from 2004 to 2007.

Publication：Daido Moriyama Hawaii　published by Getsuyousha （available
at the end of July）

Takaishii Gallery

Colter Jacobsen
Light Falls
June 1 – 30, 2007
Opening reception: Friday, June 1st, 6-9pm

The Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the work of San Francisco-based artist Colter Jacobsen, titled Light Falls. The show will include a number of new drawings and watercolors interspersed with thrift store paintings, found discarded photographs and snapshots, amongst other ephemera.

“Light Falls is a meditation on the nature of drawing, painting, photography, symmetry, seeing, not seeing and memory,” describes Jacobsen. Using water as a metaphor, Jacobsen renders his work in pairs. Culled from his collection of abandoned photographs and other printed matter, he creates sets of meticulously detailed, naturalistic drawings and watercolors one of which is drawn from a source while the other is reflected from the memory of that source. By using anonymous photographs, Jacobsen does not share in the initial memory of the photographed event but rather only in his own memory of the image. The subtle differences in his twinned drawings iterates how, as Jacobsen notes, “the dream of memory gets watered down and changes,” not only over time but merely in the course of moving from the eye to the mind.

Colter Jacobsen was born in 1975 in Ramona, California and lives and works in San Francisco.
His work has been shown in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. and Europe and was recently included in a group exhibition at White Columns in New York.

Jack Hanley

PURE EVIL new print
LES FLEURS DU MAL the print made for the SOLO SHOW is now online…

PURE EVIL

Johann Koenig