Funen Art Academy

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to DFK III, Funen Art Academy’s third year exhibition. The exhibition has been made in collaboration with three students of art history from Copenhagen University and Aarhus University.

In the exhibition the artists have focused on their individual praxis and work and to some extent made the three art historians take over the curatorial and communicative aspects of the exhibit. DFK III is hence an exhibition where the 15 art students both controls and tries to lose control.

This double task of both defining and letting oneself be defined by others – the difference between speaking for yourself and having others speak for you is the underlying theme in the exhibition. Something which principle Merete Jankowski also will focus on in her speech at the opening of the exhibition the 17th of May.

The exhibition will reflect the praxis of the 15 art students as of this given moment. It marks a stop on the way between the familiar surroundings at Funen Art Academy and the more established art institution at Kunsthallen Brandts. Both of which, the students have previously challenged in the exhibition “Odense Kunsthal” 2010 and the exhibition “The Occult” in 2011, which took place in a townhouse in the outskirts of Odense.

With the school show DFK III the art students now subordinate themselves to the frames of the institution and moves focus from the concept of the exhibition to the individual’s own work and praxis.

The participating artists are:
Aniara Omann, Anna Samsøe, Camilla Hedetoft, Diana Prim, Christian Bang, Johannes Sivertsen, Laurits Dall, Maj Horn, Niklas Bruhn, Sara Plinius, Sif Hedegaard, Stine Gro, Nick Bojesen, Luise Sejersen, Johanne Rude Lindegaard. The exhibition has been curated in collaboration with: Eirin Bergum, Stine Lykkebo og Signe Havsteen.

Find the exhibiton here:
Stairway to 4th floor and FAA Project Room, Funen Art Academy
Brandts torv 1 (entrance through Brandts)
5000 Odense C

Opening hours:
The exhibition is open from the 18th – 31rd of May
Tuesday– Sunday 10.00 am – 5.00 pm, Thursday 12.00 pm – 21.00 pm

Opening:
Thursday the 17th of May 5.00 pm – 8.00 pm in FAA Project Room. Speech by Merete Jankowski, Principle at Funen Art Academy at 17.30 pm. Everyone is welcome!

For more information please contact christianbangjensen@hotmail.com

Click on the orange download icon for press photo and poster.

School Show 2012 1st, 2nd and 4th year
Opening: 23rd of May 2012 5pm – 9pm. Performance by Anders Christian Eriksen at 5.30pm. Everyone is welcome

The students from Funen Art Academy 1st, 2nd and 4th year exhibit their works at Pantheonsgade in an empty warehouse. “Same procedure as last year” – this time with new people and works. Come by and see what has borne fruit after another year at the top of Brandts.

Participating artists:
Kamilla Askholm Jørgensen, Louise Uth Pedersen, Sara Grønborg, Katrine Stensgaard Jensen, Svend Bager, Rasmus Myrup, Sofia Albidus, Maj Bjørnholdt Kjærsig, Emilie Hansen, Nilas Dumstrei, Anders Christian Eriksen, Levin, Alaya Riefenstahl, Gustav Bisgaard, Jacob Morell, Katrine Skovsgaard, Martha Hviid, Sarah Ridao, Katti Pärkson-Kull, Sara Marie Sandfær, Emily Gernild, Emil Linnet, Iben Lilleriis, Solveig Thimm, Jonna Ljósá, Tom Kietz, Louise Foo Lind.

Opening:
23rd of May 2012 5pm – 9pm

Find the exhibition here:
Pantheonsgade 2-4, 5000 Odense C

Opening hours:
24th of May 12pm – 9pm
25th of May – 3rd of June 12pm – 6pm

For further information please contact:
Sofia Albidus: tlf.: 52501555, mail: sofia@albidus.dk
Levin: tlf: 29647543, mail: levincamillagjern@gmail.com

Click on the orange download for press photos
Poster: School Show 2012 1st, 2nd and 4th year

Funen Art Academy / Graduation 2012 Kunsthallen Brandts, May 25 – July 29, 2012.
Opening, Thursday May 24, at 5 pm. Everyone is welcome.

For the fourth time in succession Funen Art Academy holds a graduation show at Kunsthallen Brandts. The graduation show is the culmination of the five-year education at Funen Art Academy, and this year ten artists take part in Funen Art Academy / Graduation 2012. This group exhibition presents the multifaceted field in which contemporary art operates, and the exhibition’s themes range over such diverse elements as urbanity, the personal sphere, nature as material, gender, identity, virtual space and psychedelic states. The exhibition is rich in artistic expression and manifests itself in many different media and materials. What unites the artists and the works one encounters at Kunsthallen Brandts is that they have all been nurtured by a common platform at Funen Art Academy, and this period of learning has been a process, which has helped shape an individual practice characterised by personal expression. Some of the graduating students work alone, others participate in close collaborations, and several work in the intersection between visual art, music and film.

The presentation of the finished works in the graduation show is the result of a long artistic working process, where far more is involved in the groundwork of the final project than actually manifests itself in the exhibition space. The catalogue for this exhibition is free, and it is intended as supplementary material that can act as an expanded exhibition format, as the space of the book allows the opportunity to show other aspects of the artistic practice than those which can be experienced at Funen Art Academy / Graduation 2012.

Participating artists:
Anna Bak, 
Anne Munnecke Christensen
, Nanna Bjerregaard Hansen
, Lena Katrine Johansen (& Heidi-Anett Haugen), 
Skjold Avlund Michelsen, 
Vilhjalmur Hilmar Bak Pedersen, 
Kasper Skovsbøl
, Anne Sophie Streyffert, Oskar Sølvsten Sørensen and Signe Ohayv Aarestrup.

The exhibition is curated by Stine Hebert & Nanna Grunnet.

For further information please contact:
Funen Art Academy, press coordinator, Marlene Bregndahl: mb@detfynskekunstakademi.dk
Kunsthallen Brandts, press coordinator, Trine Søndergaard: trine.soendergaard@brandts.dk / +45 65207092

Press photos for download:

Anna Bak:
Cabin
320 cm x 240 cm
Mixed materials

Anne Munnecke Christensen:
The Frame
15,5 x 20 cm
Mixed materials

Anne Sophie Streyffert:
Højder
3 min 16 sec
Animation

Lena Katrine & Heidi-Anett Titel:
Closer (to Ana Mendieta)
100 x 150 cm
Photography

Nanna Bjerregaard Hansen:
It All comes Out of Something
4 min 35 sec
Video installation

Oskar Sølvsten Sørensen:
Lidt uden for Odense
105 x 105 cm
Watercolour and gouache on paper

Signe Ohayv Aarestrup:
Play
Video

Skjold Avlund Michelsen
Without title
Photography

Opening Thursday May 3rd 2012 in FAA. Everyone is welcome

Find the exhibition at:
FAA Project Room, Funen Art Academy
Brandts Torv 1, 4th floor (entrance through Brandts)

Opening hours:
3rd – 10th of May 2012
Tuesday through Sunday 10am-5pm, Thursday 12pm – 9pm

Opening:
Opening Thursday 3rd of May at 5 pm 

For further information please contact:
Johannes Sivertsen
e-mail: johannes@sivertsen.fr
Tlf: 50207538

Click on orange download for press photos:

Gagny, 2012
60 x 81 cm
Oil on canvas

Rosny sous Bois, 2012
50 x 65 cm
Oil on canvas

Anatole France, 2012
50 x 65 cm
Oil on canvas

Forestière, 2012
70 x 100 cm
Oil on canvas

1st year students exhibit at Historiens Hus

Opening: Thursday 19th of April 4pm – 7pm. Everyone is welcome!

First year students from Funen Art Academy have chosen to make a self-organized exhibition at Historiens Hus in Odense. The reasoning behind this expo has been to challenge how the students interact with a place filled with so much history.

Historiens Hus, the old St. Knud’s Monastery, is Denmark’s oldest Benedictine monastery. Throughout time it has been subject to many speculations. Things like the murder of King Knud, secret monk’s societies and being a drop-in centre for “Lonely Oldies’ Friends” (Ensomme Gamles Venner) have all taken place there. Today it functions as the city archives.

Come and experience the student’s works that in various ways are site specific. The society “Ensomme Gamles Venner” (todays Ældresagen) will reopen at the opening, where there among other things will be coffee and cake for everyone past 60 years of age.

The students exhibit in the staircase and the entrance hall, where you can see medias like video, installation, collage, and photography.

The participating artists are:
Kamilla Askholm Jørgensen, Louise Uth Pedersen, Sara Grønborg, Katrine Stensgaard Jensen, Rasmus Myrup Mortensen, Sofia Albidus, Maj Bjørnholdt Kjærsig, Emilie Hansen, Nilas Dumstrei, Anders Christian Eriksen, Levin Gjernals

You can find the exhibition here:
Historiens Hus, Klosterbakken 2,  5000 Odense C

Opening hours:
April 19th – May 16th 2012
Monday – Tuesday 12pm – 4pm, Wednesday 10am – 4pm, Thursday 2pm – 7pm

Opening:
Thursday 19th of April 4pm – 7pm

For further information please contact:
Sofia Albidus: tlf: 52501555.
E-mail: sofia@albidus.dk

Maj Kjærsig: tlf: 24877424.
E-mail: majways@gmail.com

2nd Year Exhibition 2012

Opening Thursday February 2nd 5 pm. Live performance at 6 pm.

In Sèvres, France, The International Bureau of Weights & Measures resides. Here 6 atomic clocks set the standard for the accurate time of day in the whole world – they call it The Coordinated Universal Time.

A day consists of 24 hours and an hour of 60 minutes.
In 1 minute 267 babies are born into the world. In 1 minute 108 people leave this world.
Lightning strikes earth 360 times and about 5 earthquakes happen every minute. In 1 minute 168 million e-mails are sent and 6000 videos are uploaded to Youtube. The world never sleeps and in 1 minute everything changes, although everything might sometimes feel the same.
You can look at the facts of time but as we all know time will also present itself in relative forms.

What can you manage to do in 1 minute? Maybe you can make your morning smoothie, or maybe rather melt cheese in the microwave? You can play a really fast punk song or make a money transfer.

How do you experience 1 minute when you ”just need 1 more minute in bed”? Remember a 1-minute kiss you have had while in love? Maybe time stood still  – though it never really does.

So what would you do with 1 minute?

The 2nd year students at The Funen Art Academy gave it some thought, made up their minds and now cordially invite you to experience the results in FAA project room, on the 4th floor at Brandts, Odense.

You can expect art in the form of video, photography, installation, and painting amongst other medias.

For more info go to www.1minute.dk

Participating artists:
Alaya Riefenstahl, Gustav Bisgaard, Jacob Morell, Katrine Skovsgaard, Martha Hviid, Sarah Ridao, Katti Pärkson-Kull, Sara Marie Sandfær, Emily M. Gernild, Emil Linnet, Iben L. Andersen, Solveig Thimm and Jonna Ljósá.

Find the exhibition at:
FAA Project Room, Funen Art Academy
Brandts Torv 1, 4th floor (entrance through Brandts)

Opening hours:
2nd – 16th of February 2012
Tuesday through Sunday 10am-5pm, Thursday 12pm – 9pm.

Opening:
Opening Thursday February 2nd 5 pm. Live performance at 6 pm.

Everyone is welcome!

School Show
May 18- May 24

Opening May 18, 5-9pm, Pantheonsgade 2-4, Odense

It is with pleasure that we are able to invite you for this year’s school show

This year the school show is what it is – a school show! Students from 1st, 2nd and 4th study year show a selection of works from the past year. You can expect a wide spectrum of expressions and media, such as fish-in-blenderism, painting, window blindism, cabbage head art, body art,  indoor street art, sculpture and many other genres.

The exhibition takes places in a temporarily empty shop in Pantheonsgade.

Hope to see you – love,
1st, 2nd and 4th year at Funen Art Academy

Participating artists:

Alaya S. Hjorth, Gustav Bisgaard, Jacob Morell, Katrine Skovsgaard, Martha Hviid, Sarah Ridao, Katti Pärkson-Kull, Sara Sandfær, Emily M. Gernild, Emil Linnet, Aniara Omann, Camilla Hedetoft, Diana Prim, Christian Bang, Johannes Sivertsen, Laurits Dall, Maj Horn, Nicolai Legind, Niklas Majland Bruhn, Sara Plinius, Anne Danelund, Luise Sejersen, Lena Johansen, Kasper Skovsbøl, Nanna Bjerregaard og Oskar S. Sørensen.

For more info, contact Christian Bang +4528738580, email: christianbangjensen@hotmail.com, Diana Prim +4522539577 email: primjensen@hotmail.com

On WORLD IN MY EYES – Funen Art Academy Graduation Show 2011 – 14 artists participate who in various ways relate to the world from both mico- and macroperspectives, through mental and physical landscapes, fiction and concrete reality.

Participating artists:

Maria Bojsen, Magnus Fuhr, Meri Sidsel Gustafsson, Henriette Hellstern-Kjøller, Janni Mai Larsen, Naja Maria Lundstrøm, Daniel Mikilati, Rikke Ehlers Nilsson, Helene Ringkjær, Lucy Siame, Merete Vyff Slyngborg, Ditte Boen Soria, Tue Sprogø og Dan Stockholm.

WORLD IN MY EYES is curated by Anna Johansson and Jessica Segerlund.

The artists observe or are being observed. They put their eye at the center of the world and investigate to see, discover or ponder what nobody has discovered yet. And at the same time the limitless value of every single lived moment is revealed. The title of the show thus refers to both distant and close worlds – seen through 14 different gazes, works and artistic profiles, which the visitor is invited to become part of at the show.

Narrative is central to several of the artists. Not necessarily narrative in the sense of a story running from A to B, but more in the sense of tales taking detours and illuminating fragments of our collective as well as individual history.
The question of the role of the spectator is also touched upon in the show. With which gaze do we see our surroundings – how does what we see depend on where we are from, our ethnicity, sexual orientation, and social status?
Many of the artists also address questions relating to the being and function of art in itself – how is art to be classified and function in our societies?

The 14 exhibiting artists work in a wide variety of artistic media such as water colours, photography, sound, drawing, text, and video.

Artist talks
The art academy and Kunsthallen Brandts arrange two artist talks with graduate students. They take place at Kunsthallen Brandts on June 9 and June 23 from 5-6pm.

Opening
Thursday May 19, 5pm

More information
Funen Art Academy, coordinator Sara Gjøde sg@detfynskekunstakademi.dk
Kunsthallen Brandts, presseansvarlig Trine Søndergaard: 65207092

3rd year at Funen Art Academy exhibits around Odense from May 17th. The show – or rather, the shows – constitute the graduation projects of the students finishing the Basic Module at Funen Art Academy.

The students have chosen different sites around the city to suit the nature of their projects. There will be an opening, film screenings and a concert at Teater Momentum, an archive-based project in Historiens Hus, a public text work in city space, a mapping work in FAA Project Room at Brandts, a self-publishing project at the public libraries in Odense and finally a self-organized exhibition space on Skt. Knuds Kirkestræde.

The students have chosen to gather the presentation of the shows on the website http://www.syttendemaj.dk, which will function as a catalogue and platform for the project in its entirety. Here you will be able to find the works in digital shape, art theoretical texts relating to the different works of art and, finally, information on how and when the physical works of art can be experienced.

The opening is held at Teater Momentum on May 17th from 7pm-02am. During the night, there will be film screenings and and a free concert with Giana Factory.

Participating artists:
Kristian Blomstrøm Johansson, Nenad Milcevic, Karen Marie Aagaard Ørsted, Josefine Struckmann Pedersen, Niels Pugholm, Sophie Krøll Heelsberg, Tom Kietz, Deniz Eroglu, Johanne Helga Heiberg, Pascal Mayet, Louise Foo Lind, Tuk Bredsdorff.

www.syttendemaj.dk (launch May 17th at 7pm)

www.myspace.com/gianafactory

Funen Art Academy has employed Tue Greenfort as professor. With this employment, Funen Art Academy wishes to strengthen its international profile further and increase its focus on the young generation of artists, who in their practices debate current societal issues.
Tue Greenfort (born 1973) was trained as a visual artist at Funen Art Academy and Städelschule in Frankfurt. Taking a point of departure in sculpture and installation, Tue Greenfort has in later years especially focused on subjects such as nature, sustainability and the relationship between the natural sciences and art in his projects, which often take the shape of large-scale installations in exhibitions venues or public space.
In recent years, Tue Greenfort has had a very productive international career with shows at some of Europe’s most prestigious art institutions, such as Witte de With in Rotterdam, Ludwig Museum in Bidapest, Secession in Vienna, Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm, etc. In Denmark, his works have most recently been on display at RETHINK Kakotopia at Nikolaj Kunsthal and Deep Green at Den Frie.

Tue Greenfort commences his professorship at Funen Art Academy on September 15, 2011.