The winner of The Audience Award 2020 of DKK 10,000 - sponsored by the Aarhuus Stiftstidende’s Foundation - is:

Marie Kaarøe
for two works on SPRING20
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)

The Audience Award is awarded on the basis of votes cast by the audience at KP20 and SPRING20 on 21-27 April 2021.
A total of 164 votes were cast, of which 21 went to Marie Kaarøe's works.

Congratulation to Marie Kaarøe!

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!