KP23 Arkiv - Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling https://kp-spring.dk/en/tag/kp23-en/ Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:20:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://kp-spring.dk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cropped-KP_LOGO_20125_stort-32x32.jpg KP23 Arkiv - Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling https://kp-spring.dk/en/tag/kp23-en/ 32 32 Audience Award 2023 https://kp-spring.dk/en/audience-award-2023/ Thu, 25 May 2023 15:47:05 +0000 https://kp-spring.dk/?p=11285 ... was awarded to Annette Nielsen for the video 'Whitewash' and two paintings '2 x Banan I' and '2 x Banan II'

Indlægget Audience Award 2023 blev først udgivet på Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling.

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The winner of The Audience Award 2023 of DKK 10,000 - sponsored by the Aarhuus Stiftstidende’s Foundation was

Annette Nielsen
for the works on KP23
'Whitewash' / Video / Editing: Thinna Aniella
'2 x Banan I' / Painting
'2 x Banan II'/ Painting

The Audience Award is awarded on the basis of votes cast by the audience at KP23 and SPRING23 on 1 April - 17 May 2023.
A total of 643 votes were cast, of which 70 went to Annette Nielsen.

Congratulation to Annette Nielsen!

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Annette Nielsen's practice
For good reasons, we cannot know exactly what motivated the audience to vote as they did, but we can refer to what Annette Nielsen herself has said about her own work;

My overall art practice is based on migration, adoption and identity seen in a decolonial contemporary. I work i.a. with a reclaiming process of lost identity and culture that also opens up the question of what identity is across borders. Through my works I investigate and comment on the complexity of transnational/transracial adoption from a personal, collective, existential and aesthetic level, where the diasporic body is often included.
The works, 2 x Banana I, II, oil on canvas (2022) are a reference partly to the art collective UFOlab 2004 and Sarah Lucas' Eating a Banana 1990. The banana as an allegory for the Asian adoptee to the West (white inside and yellow outside) becomes intertwined with the criticism of the objectification and hypersexualization of the Asian woman. I also experiment with painting technique with blurring, abstraction and simplification of the motif.
The video, "Whitewash", (2022) comments on a lost identity and the perhaps eternal search for it. The title also refers to the ongoing investigation into systemic falsification of identity papers and child trafficking under the guise of the phenomenon of transnational and transracial adoption.

Annette Nielsen
Lives and works in Aarhus
Free Artschool Helsinki, Aarhus Art Academy.
@1anniecho

 

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

Indlægget Audience Award 2023 blev først udgivet på Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling.

]]> Photos 2023 https://kp-spring.dk/en/photos-2023-2/ Sat, 08 Apr 2023 13:02:42 +0000 https://kp-spring.dk/?p=11112 Photos from KP23 and SPRING23

Indlægget Photos 2023 blev først udgivet på Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling.

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Indlægget Photos 2023 blev først udgivet på Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling.

]]> KP Prize 2023 https://kp-spring.dk/en/kp-prize-2023/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 13:10:54 +0000 https://kp-spring.dk/?p=10968 ... was awarded to Charlotte Skak for the video 'Æstetisk Redskab 2' ('Aesthetic Instrument 2')

Indlægget KP Prize 2023 blev først udgivet på Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling.

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KP Prize 2023 of DKK 10,000, sponsored by Aarhuus Stiftstidendes Fond, is awarded to

Charlotte Skak
for the video
'Æstetisk Redskab 2' ('Aesthetic Instrument 2') / 09:00 min.

The award winner has been selected by a jury consisting of Pernille Lærke Andersen (KP's board), Peter Flejsborg (Galleri Profilen) and artist Jesper Rasmussen, who offer the following 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.

Congratulation to Charlotte Skak!

 

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

Indlægget KP Prize 2023 blev først udgivet på Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling.

]]> Artists at KP23 https://kp-spring.dk/en/artists-at-kp23/ Mon, 13 Feb 2023 18:39:17 +0000 https://kp-spring.dk/?p=10684 Congrats to all artists at KP23

Indlægget Artists at KP23 blev først udgivet på Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling.

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Christel Bach
Olivier Blois-Puls
Mads Borre
Erik Boye
Amanda Brix Kolstrup
Åsa Båve (SE)
Dino Cama
Christian Daugaard
Marc Du
Thora Engell-Kofoed
Emil Hedegaard
Sebastian Holmbäck
Isac Tonde Braun & Anna Seeberg Braun
Lotte Kejser
Neko Kiriyama
Carl Otto Linde
Annette Nielsen
Anneline Schjødt Pedersen
Charlotte Skak
Steen Sperling
Jens Stegger Ledaal (NO)
Stine Stubdrup
Swedish Girls (Josefin Zachrisson, Mira Bergh, Julia Jondell & Matilda Ellow) (SE)
Ihsan Saad Ihsan Tahir
Ulf Stubbe Teglbjærg
Magnus Tomt (NO)
Alberte Tranberg
Louise Franklin Wiberg

 

The Selection Committee has reviewed a total of 1952 works, spread over 422 applications.
For KP23, 59 works (3%) have been selected, spread over 28 applications (32 artists).
More statistics: https://kp-spring.dk/en/statistics

 

Indlægget Artists at KP23 blev først udgivet på Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling.

]]> Selection Committee KP23 https://kp-spring.dk/en/selection-committee-kp23/ Sat, 12 Nov 2022 19:33:18 +0000 https://kp-spring.dk/?p=10285 Mikkel Carl, Nour Fog, Eliyah Mesayer Julie Stavad and Sif Itona Westerberg

Indlægget Selection Committee KP23 blev først udgivet på Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling.

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Task of the Selection Committee

The Selection Committee, appointed by KP's board, selects the works for KP23 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.

Artistic criteria only
The Selection Committee select the works solely on the basis of artistic criteria. All other criteria are irrelevant to selection.
The whole Selection Committee evaluate all the submitted works.

Selection Conditions
The works for KP are selected over three rounds based on uploaded digital image files or video or audio files submitted on usb disk og by wetransfer.com.
First round:
All material is evaluated. If there is one committee member that wants to review one or more of the artist's submitted works, then ALL of that artist's works continues to the second round.
Second round:
Individual works can be selected. If there are at least two committee members who want to review one or more of the artist's works, then these specific works continue to the third round.
Third round:
Final and decisive - here the works are selected for KP. There must be at least three committee members (ordinary majority) in favor of a work.

 

Mikkel Carl

Photo: Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen

Mikkel Carl
born 1976 – based in Copenhagen.
Education; Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 2009. BA in History of Ideas from Aarhus University.
From 2019 prorector and associate professor of Visual Arts and Exhibition Practice at the Funen Art Academy.
Works with installations and large-scale sculptures.

Nour Fog

Private photo

Nour Fog
born 1981 – based in Copenhagen.
Education; Jutland Academy of Fine Arts, 2016.
Works with ceramics and auditive sculptures.

Eliyah Mesayer

Photo: Mishael Phillips

Eliyah Mesayer
born 1987 – based in Copenhagen.
Education; Jutland Academy of Fine Arts, 2020.
Works with sculpture and videoinstallation.

Julie Stavad

Private photo

Julie Stavad
born 1987 – currently based in Denmark and New York.
Education; Jutland Academy of Fine Arts, 2015.
International Studio & Curatorial Program, residency-ophold, New York, USA, 2021-22.
Works with sculptures and installation.

Sif Itona Westerberg

Photo: Lizette Mikkelsen

Sif Itona Westerberg
born 1985 – based in Copenhagen.
Education; Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 2014. The Funen Academy of Fine Arts, 2009.
Works with sculptures and installation.

 

Indlægget Selection Committee KP23 blev først udgivet på Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling.

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