SPRING is the Artists' Easter Exhibition talent show with a handful of artists who in recent seasons have made a strong impact on the juried exhibition KP.
It is KP's board that selects the artists for SPRING.
The purpose of SPRING is
- to highlight significant artistic expressions and investigations that may otherwise have difficulty finding a public platform
- to support the individual artist in his/her career
- in a wider perspective, to strengthen the upcoming arts
SPRING has three major focus
- Care of talent: Early on in the process, the artists are assigned a qualified supervisor who advises on the individual works. Artists and supervisors collaborate on the overall exhibition and on the form and content of a catalogue.
- Exchange: A platform is created for new networks and collaborations artists in between.
- Communication: The relationship between works and the audience is developed by publishing catalogues, handouts, launching public talks, etc.
SPRING26 present works by
Laura Degn (participated at KP22 and KP24)
Peter Rolsted (participated at KP24)
Supervisor: Ahmad Siyar Qasimi
SPRING26 runs at the same time as KP26 in Kunsthal Aarhus 28 March to 17 May, 2026
SPRING26 artists
Laura Degn (participated at KP22 and KP24)
Peter Rolsted (participated at KP24)
Supervisor: Ahmad Siyar Qasimi
Laura Degn
Tequment
Tegument is Latin for skin or protective layer. The work explores the function of skin as both boundary, imprint, and connection between human and non-human bodies. For the exhibition, Laura Degn will create a large, unified surface of skin shaped like a curtain — made from dried gelatin, with small imprints from her own skin.
The work emerges in the tension between what we shed from the body daily and what we try to hold onto. Small parts of ourselves constantly detach — dead skin cells, imprints, traces of a body in transformation and decay. When these traces move out of the body and into the artwork, a strange boundary arises between the corporeal and the non-corporeal — a kind of presence within absence, where the work almost becomes a remnant of a shed skin.
The installation takes the form of a draped curtain, referencing a façade — something one can hide behind, yet which simultaneously reveals and lets light through. When the gelatin is struck by natural light, the microscopic structures of the skin are highlighted, and the work appears both intimate and fragile — like a remnant of a dissolving body.
(The image shows a sketch.)
Laura Degn (born 1999) Lives and works in Silkeborg (DK).
https://lauradegn.wixsite.com/lauradegn
Peter Rolsted
Children of the Night
A painterly reinterpretation of the classical bacchanal: young people in moonlight as an image of hedonistic escapism in a world in decay.
In ancient Rome, secret nocturnal festivities were held in honor of the wine god Bacchus — rituals in which the usual social rules were suspended and participants surrendered themselves to intoxication, dance, and sexual freedom. The Bacchanalia were both religious ceremonies and social outlets, where aristocrats and slaves met in Dionysian ecstasy. The Roman Senate later banned these decadent gatherings and executed thousands for participating, yet the celebrations lived on in imagination and art history.
In this project, Peter Rolsted seeks to reinterpret the Bacchic celebration as an image of a world in decline.
The project is a loose interpretation of Titian’s The Bacchanal of the Andrians, in which Peter Rolsted reconstructs the scene using friends, acquaintances, and himself as models. The aim is both to make a direct reference and to recreate the luminosity and grandeur characteristic of the paintings of that period.
The result will be a spectacular, baroque, and decadent painting on a monumental scale — up to 3x4 meters, depending on the final composition.
(The image shows a sketch.)
Peter Rolsted (born 1996) Lives and works in Copenhagen (DK).
https://peterrolsted.com/