Metamorfosen under mikroskopet
Et essay om Cathrine Raben Davidsens forvandlede blik på metamorfosen – og om et mangeårigt samarbejde med Carlsberg-institutionerne, som kulminerer i hovedkontorets private rum Cathrine Raben Davidsen har altid…
Read more >Oracle
A conversation between Cathrine Raben Davidsen (CRD) and Anna Kærsgaard Gregersen (AKG) SPACE AKG: Let’s talk about your current exhibition ORACLE at the Rudolph Tegner’s Museum, which the Danish sculptor Rudolph Tegner…
Read more >Orakel
En samtale mellem Cathrine Raben Davidsen (CRD) og Anna Kærsgaard Gregersen (AKG) RUM AKG: Lad os tale om din aktuelle udstilling ORAKEL på Tegners Museum, som den danske billedhugger Rudolph Tegner (1873 – 1950)…
Read more >HYBRID IMAGES
Museum director at The Museum of Religious Art, Christine Løventoft (CL) in conversation with Cathrine Raben Davidsen (CRD) CL: The exhibition is titled Hybrid , meaning cross or blend. What kind of hybrids do you…
Read more >HYBRIDE BILLEDER
Museumsdirektør for Museet for Religiøs Kunst; Christine Løventoft (CL) i samtale med Cathrine Raben Davidsen (CRD) CL: Titlen på udstillingen er Hybrid, som betyder krydsning eller blanding. Hvad er det for nogle…
Read more >METHAPHORICAL AND MATERIAL ALCHEMY
The Melancholy Paintings of Cathrine Raben Davidsen by Maria Kjær Themsen. “Imagine there is no background Imagine there is no foreground Imagine there is no Nature” Timothy Morton The world is awash. The sky washes…
Read more >Conversation - Inner Images of The Soul
Copenhagen November 2022. Marie Laurberg (ML) in conversation with Cathrine Raben Davidsen (CRD) ML I’d like to start by asking about a new direction in your painting. You’re an artist who comes out of figurative…
Read more >Metaforisk og materiel alkymi
– Om Cathrine Raben Davidsens melankolske malerier. ”Imagine there is no background Imagine there is no foreground Imagine there is no Nature” Timothy Morton Det er en verden, der driver. Hvor himlen driver ned i havet,…
Read more >Samtale - Sjælens Indre Billeder
København November 2022. Marie Laurberg (ML) i samtale med Cathrine Raben Davidsen (CRD) ML Jeg vil gerne begynde vores samtale med at spørge til en ret ny drejning i dit maleri: landskabet. Du er jo en kunstner, der…
Read more >Beckett Prisen
Ny stor kunstpris stiftet af Beckett-Fonden i samarbejde med Copenhagen Contemporary hædrer Cathrine Raben Davidsen Beckett-Fonden indstifter i samarbejde med Copenhagen Contemporary (CC) en ny kunstpris, der årligt…
Read more >Above Below Beyond
En af vores helt store malere – det tøver jeg ikke et sekund med at kalde Cathrine Raben Davidsen som indledning til denne bog. Bogen folder hendes personlige bidrag til maleriets store historie ud gennem mere end 100…
Read more >Medusas mange ansigter
Man kan godt få lidt højdeskræk, når man beskæftiger sig med Cathrine Raben Davidsens oeuvre. Hvis hun var en fugl, ville man måske lægge hende i rede med kunstnere som Judith Ström, Kathrine Ærtebjerg og Julie Nord.…
Read more >Hun kan folde en hel verden ud ved at sætte en streg
Hvis man kan kalde en moderne kunstner for klassisk, så er det vel det, Cathrine Raben Davidsen er. På denne retrospektive udstilling med henved 250 værker vises for første gang et udvalg af hendes imponerende store…
Read more >I Lyset og Mørket
Marie Laurberg i samtale med Cathrine Raben Davidsen Jeg møder Cathrine Raben Davidsen i hendes atelier en oktoberdag. Under en kolonnade i det indre København træder man fra gaden og direkte ind i et atelier, hvor…
Read more >In Light and Darkness
Cathrine Raben Davidsen in conversation with Marie Laurberg On an October day, I meet Cathrine Raben Davidsen in her studio. Under a colonnade in central Copenhagen, I walk from the street straight into a space…
Read more >Cosmic Mind
Mythological material, historical accounts and fictional narratives comprise the foundation for the works of Danish artist Cathrine Raben Davidsen. These thematics are once again explored as we proudly present the solo…
Read more >Interview
Som en af de få har billedkunstner Cathrine Raben Davidsen besluttet sig for at stå helt uden gallerist. Det kræver en særlig stamina og en vedholdende tro på sig selv – blandt andet når krisen kradser. Selvom hun…
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Cathrine Raben Davidsen har som kunstner haft stor succes med sine tegninger, keramiske krukker, skulpturer og unikke håndlavede lamper. Men hun vender altid tilbage til maleriet. Fordi det langsomme, ældgamle medie kan…
Read more >Transformation
En tidlig morgen i september møder jeg kunstner Cathrine Raben Davidsen i hendes studie i Sølvgade til en snak om alkymi, symbolik og cykliske transformationer. Raben Davidsen er nemlig ved at forberede hele to nye…
Read more >Alkymisten
Cathrine Raben Davidsens univers fører én tilbage til det urgamle og det fællesmenneskelige – og til forestillingen om, at også ting er besjælede. Måske trænger vi mere end nogen sinde til det? "Jeg vil lige vise dig…
Read more >Clay Keramikmuseum
I en tid, hvor menneskets spiritualitet ligger i dvale, tager billedkunstneren Cathrine Raben Davidsen livets åndelige dimension alvorligt. Med dyr, planter og mennesker som motiv beskæftiger hun sig med de mytiske,…
Read more >ROYAL COPENHAGEN’S CERAMIC LEGACY
Starlit Sky, Butterfly Wing, Clair de Lune, Agouti Gold, Oxblood, Sung and Fang – what a sparkling array of poetic names! It may come as a surprise that they are all names of stoneware glazes created over the past…
Read more >TOTEM – Animism, Spirituality and Rhizomatic Connections
“Art is (...) the most powerful means of putting into practice some aspect of the chaosmosis, to plunge beneath the subject/object division and to reload the real with new possibilities” – Jean Claude Polack Dating back…
Read more >Totem
Udstillingen TOTEM, der lige nu kan opleves på keramikmuseet CLAY, peger tematisk tilbage til religiøse traditioner, men er også relevant i dag. Kunsten.nu har talt med Cathrine Raben Davidsen om ansigtsurner,…
Read more >Mellem det sagte og det usagte
Maleren Cathrine Raben Davidsen dimitterede i 2003 fra Det kgl. Danske Kunstakademi. Hun har haft et meget aktivt udstillingsprogram, primært i Danmark. Senest viste hun nye værker i Aarhusgalleriet Jacob Bjørn med…
Read more >Kenosis
Cathrine Raben Davidsen works in a broad artistic practice that encompasses painting, drawing, ceramics, photography and printmaking, often with a consistent theme from the universe of figuration. She challenges the…
Read more >Swoon
The artist book SWOON - A Play for Cathrine Raben Davidsen is written by the English writer Charlie Fox and in the book, the drawings and paintings of Cathrine Raben Davidsen are juxtaposed with both lyrical and musical…
Read more >Keramik - Ceramics
Historical accounts, works of fiction and mythological material combined with personal memory often form the point of departure for the work of Danish artist Cathrine Raben Davidsen. Her activities are characterized by…
Read more >Losing our Heads
At Cathrine Raben Davidsen’s exhibition Losing our Heads at Munkeruphus we are invited into a universe of mythology, tales and history. The title is borrowed from the American author Regina Janes, whose book Losing our…
Read more >The Artist as Harlequin
It works like this, as it often does: I saw some works—paintings and drawings—by Cathrine Raben Davidsen and something about them made their mark on me. I wanted to know more—to see more. And the best way to do it…
Read more >Masks
The exterior of the form of art is its interior. August Macke, 1912 Prologue In 1913 Picasso painted a Cubist picture of Harlequin – totally disintegrated but with an ear and a small beard, like an attempt to maintain…
Read more >The Mask as Metamorphosis
“For me the theme of transformation is something that affects everyone. In one way or another, human beings are constantly in a process of transformation. Events that impact on our lives, the transition from child to…
Read more >The Historic Aura of Ink
Cathrine Raben Davidsen’s exhibition Blækhuset (The Inkwell) at Trapholt Museum for Contemporary Art and Design uses the historic aura of ink to conjure up a world in black and white. Certainly, there are colours in the…
Read more >The Secret Language of Art
“When you create art, there doesn’t have to be a clear logic. Anything can be done, and that’s what’s liberating about it,” says Cathrine Raben Davidsen (b. 1972), when we meet on an early June day in the printing shop…
Read more >Beyond the Figure
Reflectively, the faces emerge. At once floating and fixed in the fluid space of the pictures, they calmly take form, absorbed as they are in their surroundings and their own inner spirit. As with any other classic…
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