David Stjernholm

Elastic, thin + tougher than steel: Heavy Paws group show Copenhagen’s Hans Egedes Gade, Aug 24 – 27

21 August 2017

The Heavy Paws group exhibition is on at Copenhagen’s Hans Egedes Gade 21, opening August 24 and running to 27.

Featuring work by Annie Åkerman, Cecilia Hylta Bjartmar, David Stjernholm, Gianna Surangkanjanajai, Hrefna Hörn Leifsdóttir, Hannibal Andersen, Nathan Gassaway, Anna Rettl and Sarah Rosengarten, the show is the second iteration of Per Person, on at New York’s The Westin Hotel in Times Square on June 10.

The press release includes a narrative about coming across a sea of webs that ‘exp(anded)(loded)(lored)(osed)’:

“My nephew rubbed his hands clean on my felt vest, contently saying: ‘There we go — A skillful combination of the 20 types of amino acids with an endless potential for unprecedented versatility. Elastic, thin and tougher than steel’.”

Visit the FB event page for details.**

Per Person(2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artists.
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Beyond the binary of cultural/natural value in Like A Little Disaster’s So Natural!

24 March 2017

The So Natural! group exhibition is on at Polignano a Mare’s Like a Little Disaster, opening March 11 and running to April 18.

Top to bottom: Gioia Di Girolamo, ‘Freckeall,’ ‘Frumpty Dumpty’ (2016); Julie Grolsch, ‘Mineral Ceremony’ (2017). Installation view. Courtesy the artists + Like A Little Disaster.

In the run up to the show, we caught up with participating media artist Adham Faramawy on his video work ‘Sparkling Life, Pure Water, Healthy World,’ which was included in the show. Additionally, it featured Maria Gondek, Julie Grosche, Hannah Regel, David Stjernholm, Struan Teague, Gioia Di Girolamo and Andreas Ervik.

Through site-specific installation, painting and video, So Natural! explored the in-betweens of binary oppositions, using its structure as “a starting point to remove and reaffirm,” curating a space of diverse takes on “cultural/natural (and therefore political) value.”**


Like a Little Disaster’s So Natural group exhibition is on at Polignano a Mare’s Foothold gallery, running March 11 to April 18, 2017.

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