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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.
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.
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.