KP Prize 2024
Marc Du // 'Mod en blødere verden' ('Towards a softer world') / painting / 120x100 cm
(Jury; Pernille Lærke Andersen, Peter Flejsborg and Charlotte Fogh)
The jury offered this motivation for their choice:
This is a persuasive work combining direct intent, conviction and clear technical ability. It invites the viewer into the past, with references to both Munch, Hammershøi and Pop art, while also depicting the present through an image of Nour Fog’s remarkable sculptural world. As you look deeper, the reality faced by the artist becomes more and more tangible. Through its lucid and meticulous connections to both past and present, the work expresses a mood that many artists often experience; one of uncertainty and a search for justification. Marc Du has previously exhibited at KP in 2022 and 2023, and if the evolution and distinct approach evidenced here continues, we believe there is much to look forward to.
Congratulation to Marc Du!
Audience Award 2024
Peter Rolsted // 'Lyset er noget særligt' / acrylic on canvas, 118x68 cm, 'Nice 1999' / acrylic on canvas, 55x100 cm and 'Mads og Peter' / acrylic on canvas, 55x100 cm
(A total of 898 votes were cast, of which 93 went to Peter Rolsted)
Congratulations!
Peter Rolsted is a second-year student at the Jutland Art Academy.
@prolsted
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KP Prize 2023
Charlotte Skak // 'Æstetisk Redskab 2' ('Aesthetic Instrument 2') / video / 09:00 min.
(Jury; Pernille Lærke Andersen, Peter Flejsborg and Jesper Rasmussen)
The jury offered this motivation for their choice:
Charlotte Skak’s video “Æstetisk Redskab 2” (“Aesthetic Instrument 2”) is an example of the power of simplicity when the core substance is well-defined. Little happens in the piece: three elderly women in their underwear dance quietly and silently in a dark, indefinable space.
One could easily interpret the video as a straightforward body-political statement, where the three women represent an alternative physical ideal to the youthful, slim, well-trimmed appearance normally promoted by the media.
But that would merely be a banal political expression of opinion, one which is already familiar and integrated in the social debate.
So that’s not so interesting in itself.
No, the video’s strength lies in the fact that it is gracefully self-contained, and honest and faithful to both its subject and its actors. There’s no unnecessary staging, no distancing irony, just a steadfast belief that the dancing women are participating in their own right: they’re not representing anything other than themselves and their beautiful bodies.
They’re clearly enjoying it, their own presence, no matter what others might think.
Historically, art has always been obsessed with the concept of beauty. Here beauty unfolds with startling power: not least in the close-up shots of stomachs and thighs, where the shapes, colours and movements of the skin are pure, simple, and exquisite, like in a Renaissance painting.
As the title makes clear, an aesthetic instrument.
Audience Award 2023
Annette Nielsen // '2 x Banan I' and '2 x Banan II' / paintings / - 'Whitewash' / video.
(A total of 643 votes were cast, of which 70 went to Annette Nielsen)
Congratulation!
Annette Nielsen
Lives and works in Aarhus
Free Artschool Helsinki, Aarhus Art Academy.
@1anniecho
KP Prize 2022
Jonatan Wejnold // 'Dear Rock of the Real World' / video / 05:03 min.
(Jury; Pernille Lærke Andersen, Peter Flejsborg and Jesper Rasmussen)
The jury offered this motivation for their choice:
In his avatar video Dear Rock of the Real World, Jonatan Wejnold depicts a digital universe with an accomplished aesthetic and a strong poetic undertone.
You are led into a digital flower world of great, sensual beauty which is emphasized by music that is both simple and seductive.
But beauty has a downside, an inherent dystopia, where the ecological catastrophe threatens so that it all capsizes and perishes, and where glitch and flaws appear in the picture at intervals.
With its digital tools, the video is a convincing manifestation that points to an uncertain future.
Review (in danish)
Skønheden har en bagside: KP-prisen 2022 går til æstetisk og dystopisk værk / 13 April 2022 / Aarhus Stiftstidende / by Kirstine Lefevre Sckerl
Audience Award 2022
Pia Skogberg and Mette Hegnhøj // å andra sidan / installation
(A total of 768 votes were cast, of which 49 went to å andra sidan)
KP Prize 2020
Ditte Johanne Krogh Bertelsen // 'Untitled (kitschen)' / video
(Jury; Lisbeth Bachman, Jens Erik Sørensen and Jesper Rasmussen)
The jury offered this motivation for their choice:
The five minute long video consists of two simple views of a kitchen where a body, lying on the floor, moves in small jerks across the space.
The video is a performative registration and exploration of the space involving elements of sexual stereotypes, such as nudity, vulnerability, high-heeled shoes and a kitchen, and at the same time is completely enigmatic in its difference, which resembles nothing we have seen before. This in itself is a remarkable achievement!
Audience Award 2020
Marie Kaarøe // Kilo(Cubic)Meter (100 x 100 x 100 cm - 1000 metres parashute line, steel)
I + I + I (220 x 200 x 30 cm - Pencil on paper, mdf)
Review (in danish)
Lykkelig prisvinder: Arkitekten vil helst være kunstner / 29. april 2021 / Aarhus Stiftstidende / Hans Petersen
Audience Award 2019
Johnny Schmidt Erbs // 'Poem Memories' / paintings
Review (in danish)
Vinder af Kunsthal Aarhus' Publikumspris: Erbs var deres suveræne favorit_Århus Stiftstidende_2019-04-24_af Hans Petersen →
Audience Award 2017
Pascal Mayet // 'Ellinikon' / drawings
Review (in danish)
KP17 prisvinder var også publikums favorit_Århus Stiftstidende_2017-04-27_af Hans Petersen →
KP Prize 2016
Jane Pedersen/Ulrik Lund // 'Darkness III' / 'Hidden Suppression Fragments of Control II' and 'Hidden Suppression Fragments of Control IIII' / Stereoskoper
(Jury; Mikkel Svane Kristensen, Bodil Sohn and Jesper Rasmussen)
Reviews (in danish)
>> Han har luret mange store kunstnere af_Århus Stiftstidende_2016-03-20_Hans Petersen
KP Prize 2015
Maria Bang Espersen // 'Another layer' / Latex on floor
(Jury; Sanne Grauengaard, Bodil Sohn and Jesper Rasmussen)
Reviews (in danish)
>> Vi skaber vores egne sandheder_Om Maria Bang Espersen, modtager af KP-prisen 2015_Aarhus Stiftstidende_31-03-2015_Hans Petersen
Audience Award 2015
Maja Malou Lyse // 'Womanliness can be assumed and worn as a mask' / 'Hang In There, Baby'/ Photo
Reviews (in danish)
>> Her er publikums favorit_omtale og interview med Maja Malou Lyse, modtager af Publikumsprisen 2015_Århus Stiftstidende_02-05-2015_Hans Petersen (pdf)
KP Prize 2014
Katrine Hvid // 'Goldberg Revisited, triptych' / 'ENS UENS' / 'Ai-iro x-rays' / paintings
(Jury; Anne Katrine Graah Rasmussen, Jens Erik Sørensen and Jesper Rasmussen)
Reviews (in danish)
>> The KP-prize 2014_review in KOPENHAGEN.DK/magasin 15-04-2014_Anne Kristine Hvid Petersen
>> Vinderen tager et opgør med hurtigheden_omtale i Aarhus Stiftstidende 17-04-2014_Hans Petersen
>> Prisvinder får invitation til talentudstilling_Århus Stiftstidende_06-02-2015_Hans Petersen
>> Gensyn med en vinder med inspiration fra USA_Århus Stiftstidende_26-03-2015_Hans Petersen
Audience Award 2014
Olga Benedicte Sandborg // 'Veni, Vidi Vici' / 'Nonverbal kommunikation - Mislykket samtale' / video and installation
Reviews (in danish)
>> Hun maler en nøgen mand grøn_omtale af Olga Benedicte Sandborgs deltagelse i KP14_JP Aarhus 09-04-2014_Louise Bull Nyvang (omtalen refererer ikke direkte til kunstpriserne, men Olga Benedicte Sandborg fik efterfølgende Publikumsprisen for de omtalte værker).
KP Prize 2013
Stig Kaj Aunfelt // 'The Green Fairytale from Damascus 1-5' / tapestries
(Jury; Anne Katrine Graah Rasmussen, Jens Erik Sørensen and Jesper Rasmussen)
Reviews (in danish)
>> Stig Kaj Aunfelt vinder KP-prisen 2013_Kopenhagen.dk 3. april_Louise Stiewer
Audience Award 2013
Herdis Jensen // 'Living Outside 3-4-5' / paintings
Reviews (in danish)
>> Sårbarheden findes overalt_Aarhus Stiftstidende 23. marts_Hans Petersen
KP Prize 2012
Marija Griniuk // 'Factory' / 'Drums' / video
(Jury; Marianne Markvad, Jens Erik Sørensen and Jesper Rasmussen)
Reviews (in danish)
>> Godt initiativ for kunsten_Leder i Århus Stiftstidende d. 10. januar 2012 (pdf).
>> Priser skal trække flere kunstere til_Artikel i Århus Stiftstidende d. 10. januar 2012 (pdf).
Audience Award 2012
Michael Würtz Overbeck // 'Deconstructing Reality' / installation
Reviews (in danish)
>> Om Publikumsprisen_Kopenhagen d. 25. april 2012
>> Interview med Michael Würtz Overbeck_v. Torben Zenth, Kopenhagen d. 4. maj 2012
A professional recognition and a financial boost
Awarding the KP Prize and Audience Award is an initiative coming from KP's Board, and with support by Aarhuus Stiftstidende's Foundation has been made possible a long nurtured desire to upskill talent care in connection with KP.
Winning one of the prizes has meant a professional recognition and financial boost. For as everyone knows, it is the artist who, in principle, bears both expense and risk when creating art works.
KP Prize and Audience Award are donated by Aarhuus Stiftstidendes Foundation and awarded as travelgrants
