Click on frontcovers to see catalogues in PDF version

KP19
21x15 cm

KP18
21x15 cm

KP17
16x12 cm

KP16
12x16 cm

KP15
12x16 cm

 

SPRING15
19x19x3 cm incl. various parts.

The SPRING15 catalogue is assembled in an elegant black cardboard box and contains a vinyl record with sound sequences by Søren Lyngsø Knudsen, an original photo by Laura Stamer, an original material sample by Katrine Hvid, as well as a booklet with work listing and texts as well as images from the exhibition.

 

SOLO15
16x12 cm

 

KP14
12x16 cm

 

KP13
Has not been printed on paper - only available in PDF version

 

SPRING13
32x24 cm

 

 

Inserts in SPRING13 catalogue made by Anne-Sofie Overgaard, Jona Borrut, Litten Nystrom, Morten Barker and Olivier de Bree. Each image is printed on paper of size 46x31 cm and folded in the middle.

KP12
12x16 cm

SPRING12
20x14 cm incl. booklets

SPRING12 catalogue is a small folder with four separate booklets with text and images documenting each artists SPRING contribution

SOLO12
27x20 cm / 20 pages

KP11
21x21 cm / 56 pages

KP10
20x26 cm / 32 pages (KP10 catalogue is not yet available in PDF version)

KP09
20x26 cm / 32 pages (KP09 catalogue is not yet available in PDF version)

KP08
20x26 cm / 28 pages (KP08 catalogue is not yet available in PDF version)

KP07
20x26 cm / 24 pages (KP07 catalogue is not yet available in PDF version)

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... as soon as older catalogues are scannet they will be available in PDF versions here (in danish only)

KP 1950

KP is delighted to finally be able to declare KP20, SPRING20 and KP21-digital as open.

KP21-digital is an online exhibition, directly accessible via this link: https://kp-digital.kp-spring.dk/en/front-page/

The situation is slightly different with relation to KP20 and SPRING20 in Kunsthal Aarhus, which are still subject to the current Covid-19 restrictions and therefore will first open on Wednesday 21 April.
The exhibition period is 21-29 April. Open every day at 11-19 including Monday 26 April. Corona passes are required to enter Kunsthal Aarhus.
Head to more info: https://www.sundhed.dk/borger/min-side/corona/covidpas/

Although both KP20 and SPRING20 are now installed in Kunsthal Aarhus, we have not had sufficient time to document the exhibition in its entirety, unfortunately. However we will continue to publish images/sounds and excerpts from the exhibition, until such time as it is possible to experience it in real life.

For the moment, both catalogues are available here

It is of course regrettable that we are unable to meet up in person in Kunsthal Aarhus today, but we have nonetheless asked KP board member Pernille Lærke Andersen and treasurer for KP Ole C Hansen to provide a brief welcome speech for the occasion; sadly this is as close to a live situation as we can get, at this time.

Art Awards – will be announced today

Saturday 27 March, at 15.00, we will reveal the recipients of three of our art awards on this page.

The KP Prize of DKK 10,000 sponsored by the Aarhuus Stiftstidende’s Foundation. The recipients have been chosen from the exhibitors of KP20, by a jury composed of Lisbeth Bachman, pernille Lærke Andersen, Jens Erik Sørensen and Jesper Rasmussen.
The H+H travel grant of DKK 10,000 sponsored by Hans-E Møller-Hansen and Per Haansbæk, has also been chosen from the exhibitors in KP20.
The Selection Panel’s Award of DKK 10,000 supported by KP-digital. The recipient has been chosen from the exhibitors in KP21-digital, by Amalie Smith, Signe Klejs and Jacob Tækker.

The fourth Art Award, in conjunction with KP, is the Audience Award of DKK 10,000 supported by the Aarhuus Stiftstidende’s Foundation. This will be awarded at the closing of the exhibition period at the end of April. It is awarded on the basis of votes from visitors to the exhibition.

 

- for the interactive digital work 'Roll up into a ball'

In the words of Amalie Smith, the Selection Panel at KP21-digital have motivated the choice as follows:

We have chosen Cecilie Penney’s Roll up into a ball as the recipient of this year’s Selection Panel Award. An interactive map of Aarhus provides access to five spaces, where the first person narrator has found themselves under a course of treatment for depression: at the doctor’s, the psychologist, the body psychotherapist, in a yoga room and at home. Each of these five rooms has been 3D scanned, incorperating all the glitches and deficiencies that this technology currently involves, and the architecture of each space therefore hangs down in tatters, as if damaged by fire or leaks. Here, digital technology is actively used to manifest the depressive’s gaps in their sense of the world around them , and not least, in their memory. At the same time, a clear subdued voice ties the notes and fragments from the personal medical journals with the institutional surroundings, where the patient is reduced to the abbrieviation PT . We have selected Roll up into a ball because it is an intense art work that actively addresses both the possibilities and limitations of digital media.

Amalie Smith

Congratulations to Cecilie!

 

 

The founders of H+H Travel Grant Hans-E Møller-Hansen and Per Haansbæk would have preferred to give a speech at the presentation of the award, if there had been an audience. But the audience was not there. Instead, you get the speech in writing here:

H+H Travel Award
We have been asked why we have instituted this travel award and what our aims are.

Our motivation
For artists, both young and old, there can be a long way from their first works to the polished interiors of galleries and art museums.
But we suspect that there is not quite so far to the Artists’ Easter Exhibition here in Kunsthal Aarhus as there is to ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, for example.
Therefore, this demonstration of encouragement.

What are our intentions?
As we are not overburdened with art historical knowledge, we can only act on the basis of ’like or dislike’.
An approach that also characterises what we hang on our own walls.
With this travel grant we want to promote artistic directions that align with our taste and which at some stage may end up on those walls. Pure egoism, in other words.

We have visited KP, here in Kunsthal Aarhus, over the last couple of years.
And we have agreed that many of the selected works seem to be based on specific ideas rather than displaying well-executed craftsmanship or being decorative. Creativity is not simply a question of ideas, but also of the artist choosing and discarding among them.

Therefore we have decided on a small, but definitive number of stipulations to the work we chose:
They work should be
Well-executed
Original
Decorative
and hopefully, provocative

We are delighted to award this year’s H+H Travel Award of DKK 10,000 to
Christian Daugaard
who we believe meets all our criteria.

Congratulations to Christian Daugaard!

 

Covid 19 has dominated the agenda over the past year; equally within the cultural sector, sending artists and audiences onto digital platforms to create, present and experience art works. Encountering art online has underscored which works are in their proper element there and those which should be preferably viewed in an exhibition space. KP recognised this as an appropriate moment to examine digital art more closely; its potential and space of possibility.
This year’s KP open call states: ’Digital art offers an essential opportunity to reflect on perhaps the most significant paradigm shift of our time – from the analogue to the digital era – through art’. In light of this, KP will host the first selected open submission exhibition exclusively for digital art in Denmark: KP-Digital, which will be shown alongside KP 20.
With fresh negative Covid tests, the selection panel comprising myself, Jacob Tækker and Amalie Smith met in early February in a deserted Kunsthal Aarhus. Three artists working in digital practices and two members of KP’s board, who guided us through the stack of submissions processed over the space of two days.
KP-Digital received 176 works in all, from 54 submitters. All of these works were created to be presented on digital platforms and were, for the most part, produced using digital media.
Under a new approach, we, the selection panel, had access to the all of the works for three days prior to the meeting. The majority of the submitted works contained a temporal dimension and required a solitary viewing situation of their prospective audience. Therefore, we needed time to see, hear, experience and play the works in their full length beforehand.
At the Kunsthal we reviewed the works one by one, using a system of elimination where selected works continued to the next round – through three rounds in all. Those works that reached the third round constitute the exhibition.
As the jury we have looked at the strength of the artistic idea and the relevance of the content, as well as for an elaborated presentation that balances the sensual and the digital aspects, and whose compositional integrity would reach the audience.
The scope of submissions was broad, stretching from incarnated digital artists, where the approach, method and technology sprang from the digital universe, to artists with other techniques and experiences who had embraced digital formats.
This has resulted in a pronounced diversity in the selected works, which you will also experience in the exhibition.
The exhibition provides an insight into the breadth and potential in art that is presented virtually, and illustrates the importance of taking our contemporary digital lives under consideration – artistically.
We hope that in the future KP will continue to offer a platform for KP-Digital.

Signe Klejs, on behalf of the selection panel

KP21-digital_List of works, list follow names
(numbers refers to the order at the online exhibtion)

All images below are still images from works that move, are interactive or consist of several images.

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Christel Bach / https://christelbach.myportfolio.com

14. ENTER THE BLUE
Interactive multimedia

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Emilia Bergmark / http://emiliabergmark.com

15. Potato the Greatest
Video animation / 6:15 min

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Magnus Pind Bjerre og Marie Mathilde Harm Skousen / http://instagram.com/magnuspind

5. Facetime
Interactive micro-performance / 3-5 min

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Anna Seeberg Braun / http://www.annaseebergbraun.dk

9. Untitled
Stopmotion / 0:50 min

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Hannibal Dahl

8. Is but a Locked Door
Video animation / 15:57 min

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Siri Feil

16. Der er en heks på mit toilet (There is af Witch at my Toilet)
Video / 9:45 min

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Mads Høbye / http://www.hobye.dk

11. Perception as participation
Interactive work

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Lasse Korsgaard / https://lassekorsgaard.com

4. Airplane - Approach, Arlanda 16 May 2018 15:13
Video, Screen recording of Bubble Level app / 0:52 min

 

12. Ferry - Molslinjen 19 September 2017 20:39
Video, Screen recording of Bubble Level app / 0:15 min

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Pål Lersveen

2. Æon’s dance
Video / generative

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Daniela Maciel / https://www.danielamaciel.dk

3. And the demons sang: Forget me not
Video /

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Jonathan Nielsen

13. Meet Jake Poser
Video animation / 1:21 min

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Brit Caroline Pallesen / https://www.britcarolinepallesen.dk

6. My daughter’s right hand strokes our dog on our sofa in our sitting room
GIF, loop

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Cecilie Penney / https://www.ceciliepenney.dk

10. Roll up into a ball
Interactive digital map, video and sound / 12:56 min

Awarded the Selection Panel Award 2021.

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Camilla Reyman / https://kunsten.nu/journal/ugens-kunstner-camilla-reyman

1. An Intimate Connection Vol. 2
Video, 3D modelled animation / 0:33 min loop

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Line Maj Skuldbøl / https://linemaj.dk

7. The Great Pause
Digital graphics, 46 images

Reviews are in danish

Signe Klejs

Signe Klejs

Born 1974 - lives and works in Aarhus (DK).
Master’s in design with Digital Media from Design School Kolding and Universität der Künste Berlin.

Signe Klejs works across many genres including, stage art, visual arts, site specific art, installations and transmedia projects. Klejs’ art has been exhibited all over Scandinavia, in Europe, Asia and the US. During the European Cultural Capital in Aarhus 2017 Klejs created the piece Hesitation of Light. Since May 2019, her permanent light installation Zeitgeist has been installed on the façade of The Women’s Museum in Aarhus.

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Amalie Smith

Amalie Smith

Born 1985 - lives and works in Copenhagen (DK).
Master of Fine Arts degree from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2015 and a BFA from the same school in 2012. In 2009 graduated from The Danish Academy of Creative Writing.

Amalie Smith works with text and image in the shape of exhibitions, video, sound and books, and has published eight books, most recently Thread Ripper (2020). She is broadly interested in how idea and matter are interwoven and this interest has led her to work on diverse subjects such as the Greek sponge divers dance, woven textile as the fabric of the digital, uploading and the colour of ancient sculpture.
Amalie Smiths visual work has been shown in Denmark at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, ARoS, The Museum of Contemporay Art in Roskilde and The National Gallery of Denmark among other places, and abroad in Melbourne, London, Leeds, Reykjavik, Riga and Kunstmuseum Bonn in Germany.

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Jacob Tækker

Jacob Tækker

Born 1977 - lives and works in Helsingør (DK).
Graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 2006 and Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam 2003.

Jacob Tækker works with digital media, installations and performance. Tækker has exhibited both solo and in group exhibitions in the Scandinavian countries as well as in Germany.
Here some highlights;
2019: Planet Cockaigne, House of Art and Design, Holstebro, DK
2018: Today I died, Kulturcentrum Konsthall, Ronneby, Sweden.
2014: Apophenia Cloud Travel Apparatus, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, DK
2013: Sognet/The Parish, V. Sottruo Church, DK
2012: All in my head / Alles in meinem Kopf, Kiel, Germany

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The Selection Committee, appointed by KP's board, selects the works for KP21-digital on the basis of the submitted digital files + possibly project descriptions or statements of artistic intentions, if provided by the submitter.
During the evaluation, the Selection Committee gets no further information about the submitter than journal number and, if applicable, the name by reasoned request.