Enter Art Fair

Cathrine Raben Davidsen will present new paintings and drawings with Jacob Bjorn Gallery at Enter Art Fair, which is Scandinavia’s largest international art fair and a nexus of creative and commercial exchanges. The annual four-day event takes place in Copenhagen, and brings the global art community together to discover and acquire the best of contemporary art from the world’s leading galleries and their artists.

The 2024 edition will welcome more than 20.000 visitors at Lokomotivværkstedet from August 29th to September 1st. 96 galleries from 46 cities and 20 countries will present artworks from over 350 artists, showcasing the highest quality and diverse representation across all mediums including paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, glass, video, photography, digital works and more. Curated by Diana Velasco, the Art and Talks Program will focus on how art is accessed, created, and shared in our digital age.

Established in 2019 by Julie Leopold, the fair is organized by a strong team of experts dedicated to bridging the excellence of its partners with its international audience. Known for its innovative approach and unwavering commitment to quality, the fair’s Art, Event, VIP and Digital program is dedicated to fostering growth to the Danish, Scandinavian and international arts industries.

Practical information
Enter Art Fair 29th August – 1st September 2024

Opening hours:
Friday August 30: 11.00 – 20.00
Saturday August 31: 11.00 – 19.00
Sunday September 1: 11.00 – 18.00

Monomythology

The Hole is proud to present Monomythology our yearly guest-curated summer group show in Tribeca, this year organized by The Asbæks who run COLLABORATIONS art consultancy and contemporary art space in Copenhagen. Monomythology looks at a new generation of religious avatars and idols, with artists creating their own religious visual language and deeply subjective images of “God”. Religion is polemical and the curators and artists did not seek to ruffle too many feathers but instead hoped to inspire viewers to think their own thoughts on a personal level. No good new “god” has been invented and visualized for many centuries. Why is this? Are we happy and satisfied with the ones we have?

The idea for the show came about, like all good ideas, through a conversation with an artist: this one between the curators and Martin Brandt Hansen, whose work stems from his Greenlandic origin exploring mythology from Inuit culture reinterpreting the classic tupilaq figure. In discussing art as a global language (and the most democratic language we have) alongside the underlying common ground of religions practically and visually, the invitation and inspiration for artists to create their own interpretations of religion came to fruition. Martin’s contribution Asiaq (a weather goddess accessionaly a god) depicted by a distorted face blasted by the wind in dark ceramic.

From Cathrine Raben Davidsen’s four Pietá (a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Christ), to Miju Lee’s Under the Bodhi Tree that references the site of Buddha’s enlightenment, to Zev’s performance during the opening that liquidates the sun (one of the earliest entities of worship), the show focuses on religion yet each artist interprets religion on their own terms. While there are recognizable references to preexisting religions and practices, there are plenty that at first glance don’t read that way at all: Laust Højgaard brilliantly muscular Vessels for one or Maria Rubinke’s Uneasy Lies The Head That Wears A Crown, where a huge toad sits on top of a sitting girl’s head. Without this press release perhaps you wouldn’t know that this show was about religion? While the work contains a plethora of icons and symbols, the hierograms (sacred inscriptions or symbols) are individual and invented.

We’ve got a little bit of heaven and hell in the gallery: Chris Oh’s Fountain depicts beautiful details from Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, meticulously painted on the cross-section of an anatomical model. On one side water flows, gushing life, fertility, and rejuvenation: the other side humbles us with the gory internal anatomy of the human head. Musculature, nerves, and blood vessels are exposed in an array of primary-colored venation.

In Brittney Leeanne Williams’s paintings we see self portraiture, placing herself in the works of Caravaggio and Segher, a new lead protagonist in these sacred paintings and stories. In Dream of St. Joseph (after Gerard Seghers) we see an update to Seghers painting from the 1600s: in both paintings a figure sits with an angel to the left, a candle and book to the right. Here in Brittney’s version, a late-night studio light bulb glows and a notebook sits above a page of sketches, with her recognizable arch paintings propped up against the table below.

If you look at the gods of the whole world, global and regional, there is a kinship between the various manifestations—both in purpose and physics, of course with cultural and practical differences—but on the whole, they are cut from the same material: human needs and human potential.

Participating artists: Brittney Leeanne Williams, Cathrine Raben Davidsen, Chris Oh, Evren Tekinoktay, Laust Højgaard, Maria Rubinke, Martin Brandt Hansen, Miju Lee, Noah Umur Kanber, Salomé Chatriot, Shona McAndrew, Urara Tsuchiya and Zevs.

Summer Show

Participating artists are: Mathias Malling Mortensen, Søren Sejr, Anita Jørgensen, Amalie Jakobsen, Frode Steinicke, Cathrine Raben Davidsen, Maya Stefania Wibling, Graham Collins, Nelo Vinuesa, Anders Hald, Thomas Juul-Jensen, Mikkel Carl, Kristian Jon Larsen.


Jacob Bjorn Gallery
Mejlgade 35A
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark

Jacob Bjørn / mail@jacobbjorn.com
Isabel Anil Shergill / manager@jacobbjorn.com
+45 23 24 56 64

Please contact Jacob Bjorn Gallery for available works by Cathrine



Let Everything Happen to You

Fernisering den 6. juni 2024 på Horsens Kunstmuseum kl. 16.00 – 19.00. Alle er velkomne.

Det er med stor glæde, at vi kan byde velkommen til fernisering på særudstillingen Let Everything Happen to You på Horsens Kunstmuseum torsdag d. 6 juni 2024. Den omfattende retrospektive udstilling af Cathrine Raben Davidsen blev vist på Copenhagen Contemporary tidligere på året. På Horsens Kunstmuseum vises nu et stort udvalg fra udstillingen.

I udstillingen Let Everything Happen to You udfolder både malerier og tegninger helt nye sider af den danske billedkunstner Cathrine Raben Davidsens (f. 1972) markante kunstnerskab. Gennem et tværsnit af kunstnerens tre perioder fra – midt-halvfemserne (1995-1998), midt-10’erne (2015-2017) og nutid – viser udstillingen en personligt forankret side af Cathrine Raben Davidsens virke rundet af erfaringer som tab, identitetssøgen og transformation.

For mere information om udstillingen, se pressemeddelelse fra Horsens Kunstmuseum her

Vi glæder os til at se jer!

Cathrine Raben Davidsen & Horsens Kunstmuseum

Horsens Kunstmuseum
Carolinelundsvej 2
8700 Horsens

For info om tilgængelige værker kontakt info@crdstudio.com

Cathrine Raben Davidsen, Selvportræt, 1996, Oil on Canvas, 100 x 80 cm

Cathrine Raben Davidsen, Debris, 2023, Oil on canvas, 65 x 110 cm