PRESS RELEASE
5. marts 2010
Presspictures can be downloaded from Kunsthal Charlottenborgs website here.
A vision with new initiatives over a three-year period is to ensure the Spring Exhibition’s position as the most important open selected art exhibition in Scandinavia in 2014. In 2010 the Spring Exhibition has taken the two first key steps towards this accomplishment:
• A new permanent model for the jury’s work and a newly inaugurated Jury Prize is to ensure higher quality among the applying works of art.
• A new part of the Spring Exhibition in 2010: 24/7 – art made for an online exhibition space is presented in collaboration with DR K.
Each of the next three years, the Spring Exhibition will convene a jury of five people. All the Nordic countries (SE, NO, DK, FI) will be represented, and the jury will comprise two artists and two persons with curatorial and/or art theoretical practice. The fifth jury member, who is also the chair of the jury, is an international figure who works as both artist and curator.
Jury for the Spring Exhibition 2010 + 24/7 are:
Claude Closky (FR), Jury President, artist and curator
Cecilia Gelin (SE), curator
Johan Holten (DK), director and curator
Børre Sæthre (NO), visual artist
Salla Tykkä (FI), artist
For the Spring Exhibition 2010 + 24/7 there were 852 applicants. 49 artists were selected, including 29 debutants, and a total of 84 works. The jury has selected five works for 24/7. The oldest artist was born in 1951 and the youngest in 1989.
Participating artists in the Spring Exhibition 2010:
Dorthe Alstrup (DK), Theis Capion Andersen (DK), Julie Bartholdy (DK), Vivian Berg (DK), Emma Bernhardsson (SE), Karen Bjelke (DK), Peter Boel (DK), Paul Devens (NL), Søren Ebdrup (DK), Jens Frederiksen (DK),
Christine Overvad Hansen (DK), Anna Skov Hassing (DK), Mattias Härenstam (SE), Katrine Høyberg (DK),
Janus Høm (DK), Klara Lilja Jensen (DK), Christoffer Jørgensen (DK), Kristina Kersa (NL), Ragnhild Jordtveit
Kristiansen (NO), Marianne Krumbach (DK), Nanna Lysholt-Hansen (DK), Frauke Materlik (DE), Louisa Menia
(DK/DZ), Rasmus Høj Mygind (DK) & Emilie Bergrem (NO), Camilla Newhagen (DK), Mette Norrie (DK), Dorte
Persson (DK), Stine Gro Petersen (DK), Eske Rex (DK), Meriç Algün Ringborg (TR/SE), Emile Sadria (DK),
Michelle Sank (GB), Anna Schepper (DK), Carrie Schneider (US), Petrucha Sehested (DK), Sören Siebel
(DE), Tina Sejbjerg (DK), Marie Thams (DK), Nikolas Theilgaard (DK) , Line Toftsø (DK), Stefan Törner (SE),
Barbara Amalie Skovmand Thomsen (DK) and Sif Itona Westerberg (DK).
24/7 – an online exhibition space
Henrique Hinnerfeldt (DK/PT), Gitte Grønkjær Jørgensen (DK), Qohtaiwoo (CN), Dina Öhler (DE) and Jacob Østergaard (DK).
Jury Prize
A new initiative this year is that the jury has been asked to nominate ten works for the Jury Prize, and among these pick a winner. The prize is recognises the utmost artistic quality and contemporary relevance in the exhibition. With the award comes a cash prize and a statement from the jury. The winner is awarded on the opening night Thursday 11 March, 21.30. The Jury Prize is sponsored by ARTISTOYS (www.artistoys.com).
The 10 nominees for the Jury Prize:
Theis Capion Andersen, Peter Boel, Jens Frederiksen, Kristina Kersa, Rasmus Høj Mygind & Emilie Bergrem, Stine Gro Petersen, Meric Algün Ringborg, Emile Sadria, Stefan Törner and Qohtaiwoo.
24/7 – art made for an online exhibition space
24/7 is part of the Spring Exhibition 2010 and is presented in collaboration with DR K. This online exhibition space will be accessible through DR’s media platform and shown on dr.dk/24/7. The goal of the special exhibition is to present art in its newest forms in a contemporary exhibition space. 24/7 will also be accessible in Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Moreover, DR K will award an Audience Prize which is given on the basis of a audience votes.
Catalogue
In 2010 the exhibition catalogue is created in an online version which can be accessed both in Kunsthal Charlottenborg and on the Spring Exhibition’s website www.foraarsudstillingen.dk.
Opening night Thursday 11 March, 20-23.
Expanded opening hours in Kunsthal Charlottenborg:
Tuesdays-Fridays 12pm-8pm, Saturdays-Sundays 12pm-5pm. Mondays closed.
For additional information, please contact:
Helle Westergård, Charlottenborg Fonden, tel: +45 33 11 11 91 or e-mail:
info@charlottenborg-fonden.dk
Maria LaBelle, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, tel: +45 33 36 90 47 or e-mail:
marila@kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk
