Fernisering og udgivelsesreception: Fredag d. 1. marts kl. 14-20
Udstillingsperiode: 2. marts – 30. marts 2024
Åbningstider: Torsdag, fredag og lørdag kl. 14-17
Velkommen til fernisering på udstillingen REMEDIATION. Avant la lettre (2010-24) af Jonas Georg Christensen og udgivelsesreception for tre nye kunstpublikationer udgivet på forlaget Udg. Txt.
Vi serverer kolde drinks og snacks – og alle er velkomne!
Jonas Georg Christensen har med REMEDIATION. Avant la lettre (2010-24) skabt en stedsspecifik totalinstallation i c4 projects lokaler. Udstillingsarkitekturen vil, i samspil med foto-, tekst- og kunstnerbøger, udfolde et processuelt og eksperimentelt udstillingsformat.
På udstillingen vises der værker af Jonas Georg Christensen, fra de sidste fjorten år, samt tre nye kunstpublikationer – der udgives i forbindelse med åbningen:
– Projekt Kontekst kataloget til REMEDIATION. Avant la lettre (2010-24) med bidrag fra Jørn Erslev Andersen, Jonas Georg Christensen, Maria Finn, Lars Bang Larsen og Anne Munnecke. Redigeret af Jonas Georg Christensen
– BATTERI af Jonas Georg Christensen
– Transskription af Assistens Kirkegårdens ydermur mod Nørrebrogade – september, 2007 af Jonas Georg Christensen
De tre kunstnerbøger udgives på forlaget Udg. Txt – hvilket Christensen driver som en del af sin kunstneriske praksis.
Idéen med udstillingen er at vende c4 projects på vrangen for at kunne eksperimentere med udstillingen som proces og format. Det stedsspecifikke, relationelle og processuelle vil således – i tråd med Jonas Georg Christensens interventionistiske praksis – strække sig helt ind i udstillingens tid. For derved at søge samtalen, sammenhænge og erkendelser på tværs af hele udstillingsperioden.
Udstillingen er venligst støttet af Statens Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden, Beckett-Fonden, Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond og Københavns Kommune – Rådet for Visuel Kunst.
Om The Kinship Programme 2024:
Udstillingen er den anden i c4 projects udstillingsprogram for 2024: The Kinship Programme; en serie af udstillinger der undersøger temaet fællesskab. Her har vi inviteret de deltagende kunstnere til at reflektere over fællesskabets strukturelle, politiske, poetiske, materielle og kritiske potentialer. Dette kommer fra en bredere tanke om udstillingssteders interne og eksterne økologi, hvor det at skabe forbindelse mellem mennesker, tid og materie er med til at fordre nye relevante samtaler omkring samfundet og bæredygtighed.
Remediation. Avant la lettre (2010-24) er derudover en del af en mindre udstillingsrække i Kinship-programmet vi kalder GENBESØGT. Her har vi inviteret tre kunstnere, der alle tidligere har arbejdet med c4 projects, som deltagere på gruppeudstillinger. Det sker ud fra idéen om, at samarbejder ikke altid behøver at starte fra et nulpunkt.
Jonas Georg Christensen er derfor inviteret tilbage, som den første i rækken, for at udfolde hans arbejde og genbesøge tematikker fra egen praksis.
Om Jonas Georg Christensen:
Christensen er uddannet fra DFK, DJK og Det kgl. Danske Kunstakademis Billedkunstskolers Afdeling for Teori og Formidling. Hans praksis dækker skribentvirksomhed, kunstbogsproduktion, fotografi og undervisning – blandt andet i kunsthistorie.
Christensens praksis er ‘interventionistisk’ og undersøgende; eksempelvis undersøger han den kunstneriske forsknings præmisser og mulighedsrum, set i forhold til den gældende orden og vores opfattelser af viden. Via sin praksis fungerer Christensen også som udgivende redaktør for Udg. Txt: Via denne platform udgives der kunstnerbøger og teoretiske tekster. Primært med et fokus på undersøgelser der angår fotografiets rolle og funktioner i nutidens kultur. Han har modtaget legater fra bl.a. Statens Kunstfond, Akademiraadet og senest Sven Dalsgaards Fonds legat i 2023.
Jonas Georg Christensens hjemmeside
Link til samtale mellem Jonas Georg Christensen og Maria Finn
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REMEDIATION. Avant la lettre (2010-24)
Opening and publication reception: Friday March 1st 2-8 pm
Exhibition period: March 2nd – March 30th
Opening hours: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 2-5 PM
With REMEDIATION. Avant la lettre (2010-24), Jonas Georg Christensen has created a site-specific installation. This exhibition design seeks to – in interaction with photo- and text- artist’s books – unfold a processual exhibition, as and through an experimental format.
The exhibition features work by Jonas Georg Christensen, gathered from the last fourteen years, as well as three new art publications – released in connection with the opening:
– Project Context
the catalogue for REMEDIATION. Avant la lettre (2010-24) with contributions from Jørn Erslev Andersen, Jonas Georg Christensen, Maria Finn, Lars Bang Larsen, and Anne Munnecke. Edited by Jonas Georg Christensen
– BATTERI
by Jonas Georg Christensen
– Transcription of the Assistens Cemetery’s outer wall, pointing towards Nørrebrogade – September, 2007
by Jonas Georg Christensen
The three artist books are published via Udg. Txt – in English, Edition Txt – the imprint that Christensen is the publishing editor of, and which in turn functions as an active part of his artistic practice.
The idea of the exhibition is to turn the c4 project space inside out, to experiment with the exhibition as both a format and a process in itself. The site-specific approach, a relational thinking, and all the processual aspects of this will thus – in line with Jonas Georg Christensen’s interventionist practice – extend into the duration and the time of the exhibition. This is done so as to search for new conversations, other connections, and yet unknown aspects of the exhibited work.
The exhibition is kindly supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, the Augustinus Foundation, the Beckett Foundation, the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen Foundation, and the Municipality of Copenhagen’s Council for the Visual Arts.
About The Kinship Programme 2024
The exhibition is the second in c4 projects’ exhibition program for 2024: The Kinship Programme; a series of exhibitions exploring the theme of community. Here, we have invited the participating artists to reflect on the structural, political, poetic, material, and critical potentials of the notions of communality and community.
This stems from a broader idea concerning the internal and external ecology of exhibition spaces, where the quality of creating connections between people, time, and matter helps foster new relevant conversations about society and sustainability.
Remediation. Avant la lettre (2010-24) is also part of a smaller exhibition series within the Kinship program – curated by Anne Munnecke – that we have called REVISITED. Here, we have invited three artists, all of whom have previously worked with and in c4 projects, as participants in group exhibitions. Exploring the idea that collaborations doesn’t need to start from a ‘ground zero’, Jonas Georg Christensen is therefore invited back, as the first in the series, to unfold his work and revisit themes from his own practice.
About Jonas Georg Christensen
Christensen is educated from DFK, DJK, and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Department of Theory and Communication. His practice spans writing, the production of artist’s books, photography, and teaching – including art history and theories of the arts.
Christensen’s practice is ‘interventionist’ and investigative; he, for example, examines the premises and possibilities of artistic research as knowledge production, in relation to the prevailing order and our perceptions of knowledge as a positive X instead of a negative X.
Christensen also functions as the publishing editor for Udg. Txt – in English, Edition Txt: Via this platform, artist books and theoretical texts are published. Primarily with a focus on investigations concerning the role and functions of photography in contemporary culture.
He has received grants from the Danish Arts Foundation, the Academy Council, and was most recently awarded the Sven Dalsgaard’s Funds grant, in 2023.
Website
Link to conversation between Jonas Georg Christensen and Maria Finn