Kirstine Roepstorff
dal 27/1/2006 al 23/3/2006
Segnalato da
27/1/2006
Kirstine Roepstorff
Peres Projects, Berlin
The artist's medium is large scale collage and sculpture using common found visuals and vernacular materials. These works are often overtly political but play with abstractions and figurations recognizable to most viewers.
A Handfull of Once
Javier Peres is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Kirstine Roepstorff: A
Handfull of Once, in the Berlin gallery. This will be the Danish born artist’s first
one-person exhibition in Berlin.
Kirstine Roepstorff’s medium is large scale collage and sculpture using common found
visuals and vernacular materials. These works are often overtly political but play
with abstractions and figurations recognizable to most viewers. In the present body
of work, Roepstorff takes inspiration from the lack of something that once existed
but is no longer present. This ‘presents of absents (sic),’ she states, is a
determining factor in creating identity in an individual’s life and in society. The
notion of the void, which Roepstorff explores in this body of work, is depicted as
political content, as well as by her use of museum tableaux of objects and artifacts
of now destroyed cultures or absent people. Roepstorff’s work has often been called
neo-feminist, a label that she neither refutes nor accepts. Always preferring
to speak of her work in abstract terms, she very much accepts responsibility for
both its content and its presentation all the while considering the real focu
s of her work as “poetic politics," the dealing with proportions and gravity in the
world we live in.
The artist will be exhibiting over a half dozen new collages, and one large scale
sculpture. The title of the exhibition, A Handfull of Once, references the multitude
of movements, ideas, etc. that exist in the world as a way to get around the absence
of the present. This exhibition scrutinizes the idea of longing by placing
objects and creating narratives that explore Roespstorff’s recent observations of
various forms of longing in the media, in politics and even in museum exhibitions.
Kirstine Roepstorff was born in Copenhagen in 1972 and received her degree in Fine
Art from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark. Recent museum
exhibitions include: “Critical Societies," Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe,
Germany; “Fairy Tales Forever," ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark (catalog);
“Populism," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius and
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (catalog); “I feel mysterious today," Palm Beach
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; and, “Momentum," Nordic Festival of
Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway. In 2006, Roepstorff will be included in
“Bjerge," curated by Erik Steffensen, Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark; “Normalisation"
curated by Katarina Stenbeck, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo,
Sweden; “The Real and the Fantastic," Den Frie Udstillingsbygning Kunsthalle,
Copenhagen, Denmark; and,“Sea-Change/Undo Redo," Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany. In
2007, she will have a solo presentation of her work at the Esbjerg Kunstmuseum in Esbjerg, Denmark.
The artist currently lives and works in Berlin and Copenhagen.
Opening, Saturday, January 28, 6-9:30pm
Peres Projects GmbH
Schlesische Str. 26 - Berlin
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, from 12 PM to 6 P.M.