Best wishes for the holiday season from Martin Asbæk Gallery 🎄 One of the greatest joys of this season is the opportunity to say THANK YOU and to wish you the very best for the New Year The gallery will be open between Christmas and New Years (December 28-30), and we look forward to seeing you. ⁠ Pictured: Howalt & Søndergaard - How to Hunt: Kromanns Remise I, 2005-2010. Digital C-print.⁠ ⁠ @nicolaihowalt @trine_sondergaard #nicolaihowalt #trinesøndergaard #howtohunt

Jacob Stangerup has found the perpetual motion machines among the sketches of the great masters. From Leonardo da Vinci to Jacob Leupold, the efforts have been in vain. It is an ironic archaeology to discover these ill-fated inventions that try to take command of eternity, try to materialize the ultimate transcendental. Mania is embedded in passion, and desperation in motivation. Like art, these ambitions and projects can be said to be what psychoanalysts call sublimation; the process in which the libido is transformed into more “socially useful” endeavors.⁠ ⁠ Pictured: Jacob Stangerup - Olympia #20 (Brancusi), 2021. Charcoal on paper⁠ ⁠ #jacobstangerup

In 'Olympia', Stangerup is very conscious of art history, and a wide variety of works have served as source material for the female figures. They are unreal, yet the gaze reveals that they are attractive, tantalizing. The machines are sketches for perpetual motion machines; hypothetical and, by their very nature, futile attempts to construct infinity itself. In each their own way, they are expressions of an obsession. An insatiable hunger. It is a fusion that exudes desire; desire for achievement, innovative as well as carnal.⁠ ⁠ 📷 Morten Kamper Jacobsen⁠ ⁠ #jacobstangerup

In his recent work, Ebbe Stub Wittrup follows in the footsteps of the Danish Enlightenment Era botanist Nathaniel Wallich, unfolding a narrative of Western, economic and scientific logic in relation to local knowledge and experience and not least, a question of⁠ ownership. ⁠ ⁠ When collecting plants, botanists typically make a so-called herbarium in order to preserve and further study the specimens. This creates a space for naming and assigning a place in the traditional scientific taxonomy – in Western culture, this is a Linnaean system of classification. Consequently, the plant is removed from its original context, in this case Indian culture, and inserted into a Latinized world that accommodates a European perspective.⁠ ⁠ Pictured: Ebbe Stub Wittrup - Authors of Names – Wallich Herbarium 1459, 2021. Inkjet print on fiberbased paper in plexiglass case. Edition of 5 + 2 AP.⁠ ⁠ @ebbestub #ebbestubwittrup

Jacob Stangerup is very conscious of art history, and a wide variety of works have served as source material for the female figures. They are unreal, yet the gaze reveals that they are attractive, tantalizing. The machines are sketches for perpetual motion machines; hypothetical and, by their very nature, futile attempts to construct infinity itself. In each their own way, they are expressions of an obsession. An insatiable hunger. It is a fusion that exudes desire; desire for achievement, innovative as well as carnal.⁠ ⁠ Jacob Stangerup's current solo exhibition 'Olympia' can be experienced until January 15, 2022.⁠ ⁠ Pictured: Jacob Stangerup - Olympia #27 (Eder), 2021. Charcoal on paper. 42 x 27 cm.⁠ ⁠ #jacobstangerup

The empty, silent rooms are all characterised by the grey colour palette, the indirect light and the empty living rooms. In Trine Søndergaard’s universe, this is translated into silent evocative photographs of historical and empty manors and spaces. Behind the open doors, new rooms are revealed in a world of unseen. The images create a poetic experience of space, while offering a more existential interpretation of some of the basis tenets of life: loneliness, abandonment and reflection.⁠ ⁠ Pictured: Trine Søndergaard - Interior #24, 2008-2013. Archival pigment print.⁠ ⁠ @trine_sondergaard #trinesøndergaard #trinesondergaard

Our current exhibition, Olympia by Jacob Stangerup, is also open between Christmas and New Year's.⁠ ⁠ In the Danish artist’s drawings and sculptures, a multitude of women appear alongside mechanical parts. The works in the exhibition are inspired by and based on a figure in the author E.T.A. Hoffmann’s short story ‘Der Sandmann’ (1816). The character Olympia is an automaton, a robot that the protagonist falls in love with. As he inevitably learns the truth, he goes insane. It is a story that subsequently has inspired several others, from Sigmund Freud’s theories about “the uncanny” to Ridley Scott’s movie 'Blade Runner'.⁠ ⁠ 📷 Morten Kamper Jacobsen⁠ ⁠ #jacobstangerup

The works of Mille Kalsmose engage the architectural, spiritual and social realms through a mixture of organic, industrial, found or untraditional elements that are connected in a network of objects, all linked in time and place. In her installation 'Tribe', the scultural objects evoke individuals of various heights and ages standing, rod-straight, like parents and children at a reunion. Even though nominally inanimate, each one has a distinct anthropomorphic presence. With this approach, Kalsmose investigates things, in terms of physicality as well as interconnectedness.⁠ ⁠ Pictured: Mille Kalsmose - Tribe (Assembly #1), 2019. Iron, silk, wood and skin. 110 x 90 x 10 cm.⁠ 📷 David Stjernholm ⁠ @millekalsmose #millekalsmose

You can experience a number of works by Peter Bonde at UR | Contemporary Art & Interior, alongside contemporary furniture maker Overgaard & Dyrman. ⁠ ⁠ While Peter Bonde has been part of the art scene since the 1980s, and Overgaard & Dyrman was founded in 2013, both contain a similar stringent drama and sculptural tension in their work.⁠ ⁠ UR | CONTEMPORARY ART & INTERIOR⁠ Amager Strandvej 101A 2300 Copenhagen S⁠ ⁠ NOVEMBER 26 - JANUARY 8⁠ Tuesday - Friday 12am-6pm⁠ Saturday 10am-3pm⁠ ⁠ Contact UR | Contemporary Art & Interior for a private showing.⁠ Pictured: Peter Bonde - Untitled, 2019. Acrylic on mirror foil. 130 x 115 cm. ⁠ @urartinterior @nordicartbank @peter_bonde #peterbonde

Helen Sear is currently exhibiting at the National Museum Cardiff, alongside Clare Woods. The exhibition 'The Rules of Art?' brings together five hundred years of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, film and ceramics to pose questions about representation, identity and culture.⁠ ⁠ Pictured: Helen Sear - Blocked Field, 2012. Print on brushed aluminium, each of the 16 panels is 129 x 75 cm⁠ ⁠ @hmsear #helensear @museumwales #walesnationalmuseum

We look forward to seeing you the opening of 'Olympia' by Jacob Stangerup, today at 4-7PM. In the Danish artist’s drawings and sculptures, a multitude of women appear alongside mechanical parts. The works in the exhibition are inspired by and based on a figure in the author E.T.A. Hoffmann’s short story ‘Der Sandmann’ (1816). The character Olympia is an automaton, a robot that the protagonist falls in love with. As he inevitably learns the truth, he goes insane. We follow the current guidelines and regulations in order to ensure a safe event. Masks are required. #jacobstangerup

Opening tomorrow! We look forward to seeing you at the opening of 'Olympia' by Jacob Stangerup. The vernissage will take place at 4-7PM. #jacobstangerup