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6/6/2014

Dan Stockholm

Grimmuseum, Berlin

Humans Construct. His two new sculptural bodies of works are based on the act of looking and touching as processes of tracking shapes of places and objects, exploring the potentialities of both senses in developing memories and in recording the existent.


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Curated by Mario Margani

Grimmuseum is pleased to announce the first solo show in Berlin by Dan Stockholm (1982, DK). After meeting each other at Grosses Treffen at the Nordic Embassies, Berlin in 2013 Stockholm developed an exhibition project for the Grimmuseum presenting two new sculptural bodies of works. These are based on the act of looking and touching as processes of tracking shapes of places and objects, exploring the potentialities of both senses in developing memories and in recording the existent.

Collaborating with the IT University of Copenhagen enabled Stockholm to work with an Eyetracker, a device that traces the movements of the eye. Stockholm uses the Eyetracker to look at photographs of different archaeological ruins from around the world that he has been visiting during the last ten years. The resulting diagrams from tracing the movement of his eye across the photographs have become the blueprints for The Phantoms, a series of large iron sculptures. The Phantoms will interact with the architecture of Grimmuseum and with Stockholm’s other body of work, the site-specific series Archive of surfaces.

Archive of surfaces consists of various casts that are made from solid plaster and reproduce different architectural details and surfaces of the exhibition space and of the building itself, whose facade is listed as an architectural landmark. The casts have been produced by a careful process that begins with Stockholm rubbing metal foil on the various surfaces of Grimmuseum. These negative rubbings of the space go on to become the moulds of the final works, which he is producing during his stay in Berlin prior to the opening. Stockholm addresses the stratification process of narratives of places through their physical decay and alteration. A frozen gaze and the traces of architectural elements become remains of the current condition.

Dan Stockholm lives and works in Copenhagen and Aarhus. He primarily works with sculpture and objects. His working method involves equal parts: studio work, field praxis and research. In his work, he investigates if the site specific can come into existence as something new between site and object. Often different localities are physically present in the works – in a material sense or existing of references In his latest works he has been working with what he calls Performative Process: His complicated processes cannot be accessed by viewing the work; but rather through narratives that can be activated in retrospect. This mirrors another interest of Stockholm’s, namely that which happens when works oscillate between the seeing act and the imagination.

Dan Stockholm studied at the Funen Art Academy, Odense DK, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main, and Institut für Raumexperimente, Berlin. Aside from exhibiting his work at different institutions and artist-run spaces in Denmark and Berlin, Stockholm has also shown at Malmö Konsthall, SE 2013, Lo10 Kunstenfestival, Lo-reninge, BE 2012, MOT Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, JP 2011, Reykjavik Art Museum, IS 2011, Townhouse, Cairo, EG 2008.

In collaboration with the IT University of Copenhagen and with the kind support of the Danish Art Council.

Opening | June 7, 7 pm

Guided tour with the artist and curator, followed by a talk with: Marie Egger, Erna Fiorentini, Alona Rodeh, Dan Stockholm, Mario Margani | June 22, 4 pm

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