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Funen Art Academy presents LEVERUM – a solo exhibition by artist Milena Bonifacini

Exhibition opening, Skulptursalen, Thursday, 14 November, 4-6 pm
Artist talk by Milena Bonifacini, Wednesday, 8 January, 4-5:30 pm

Milena Bonifacini’s exhibition Leverum, presented in the Academy’s Skulptursal, seeks to create a unified, immersive installation featuring both new and older works, displayed alongside selected everyday objects which evoke a sense of home. Yet in Bonifacini’s installation, the familiar and comforting always coexist with the uneasy and uncertain.

Milena Bonifacini (b. 1963) engages in an investigative artistic practice and has wide array of exhibitions and commissions to her name. Originally trained as a painter, she has cultivated a long-standing interest exploring the painterly with the field of sculpture, emphasising its formal and sensory qualities in her objects. Milena Bonifacini lives on Funen and graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1989, later earning a cand.phil. from the School of Theory and Communication in 1991. Her honours include the prestigious Anne Marie Telmányi née Carl Nielsen Grant, awarded in 2016.
The exhibition is generously supported by the Danish Arts Foundation and runs until 30 January, 2025.

Lecture series: Art in Public Spaces
Mondays, 4–5:30 pm, Foredragssalen at Funen Art Academy

Funen Art Academy is delighted to announce a new lecture series on art in public spaces. Thanks to support from the Danish Arts Foundation’s Knowledge, Dialogue and Debate programme, we’re now able to continue the conversation opened this spring, led by some of Denmark’s most prominent and experienced artists in the field.

In autumn 2024 and spring 2025, we are proud to present another outstanding lineup of speakers, including Camilla Berner, Benedikte Bjerre, Kåre Fran, Tue Greenfort, Thorgej Steen Hansen, Peter Holst Henckel, Marie Kølbæk Iversen, Hanne Nielsen and Birgit Johnsen as well as Randi and Katrine.
First lecture by Randi and Katrine will take place Monday November 18 from 4-5.30 pm. Find more information here (only in Danish…)

Group exhibition at Fredericia Kulturkaserne
Exhibition opening Friday, 8 November, 3-7 pm

Join us for the opening of CHECK IN, a group exhibition at Kulturkasernen in Fredericia, featuring nine art students from Denmark’s three art academies. The exhibiting artists are: Amanda Brix Kolstrup, Augusta Wolffbrandt, Emilie Ørum Damsgaard, Luna Gitt-Henderson, Frida Daugaard Wamsler, Magnus Gitt-Henderson, Selma Elving, Silas Høegh and Sofia Constantino.
The exhibition runs until 10 November 2024.

Lecture by curator Sigrún Alba Sigurðardóttir:
Poetic Storytelling and Processing in Traumatic Times
Foredragssalen, Thursday, 28 November, 10-11:30 am

In this lecture, Sigrún Alba explores connections to nature and artistic interpretations of contemporary traumas brought about by the climate crisis, acceleration and demands for efficiency, with a focus on Nordic art and photography in particular. She also shares insights from her collaborations with Nordic and international artists in the exhibitions Snowflakes and Other Surprises and High Tide – Low Tide, both from 2022.

Sigrún Alba Sigurðardóttir is a curator and writer who has published extensively on photography, contemporary art and cultural history. She teaches art history at the University of Iceland, and she is currently working on a Ph.D. project on poetic storytelling and trauma processing in Danish contemporary art and literature. She lives and works in Reykjavik and Copenhagen.

Lecture by curator Tone O. Nielsen 
Activism – Art and Curation
Foredragssalen, Friday, 29 November, 10-11:30 am

The global community is currently facing its most urgent crises and humanitarian emergencies since World War II, yet solutions have remained elusive. In this lecture, independent curator and artistic social developer Tone O. Nielsen will explore whether contemporary art, critical thinking and curatorial practice have the transformative power to address these crises and help change the world, sharing examples drawn from her own 25-year practice focusing on generating social, political and systemic change in the areas of racism and forced migration

Christmas Market
You are warmly invited to attend Funen Art Academy’s annual Christmas Market which takes place in the the students’ Project Room, Saturday November 30th, 12-18.
At the market you can find e.g. photographic prints, engravings, conceptual art-merchandise, zines and drawings made by Funen Art Academy’s Fine Arts Students.
Gløgg can be purchased. The money raised goes towards charity.

Artist talk by Jules Fischer
Foredragssalen, Tuesday, 21 January, 4-5:30 pm

Funen Art Academy invites you to an artist talk by Jules Fischer – one of Denmark’s brightest emerging talents, currently exhibiting the video work Vanitas at Kunstmuseum Brandts.

A graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2009-17) as well as Portland State University, Art and Social Practice (2012) and the Danish National School of Performing Arts (2014), Jules Fischer has developed a multifaceted practice encompassing performance art, sculpture, video and photography. In 2023, Jules Fischer was awarded the Danish Arts Foundation’s prestigious three-year grant.