News about upcoming exhibitions and ongoing projects
18.11.2024
Protest, maske, yngling, strejke - lidt om mit udvalg af Janus Kambans værker
Short essay on the Faroese sculptor Janus Kamban published in the journal Periskop – Forum for kunsthistorisk debat [Periskip – Forum for art historical debate], Department of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.
Link to the essay in Danish HERE.
21.08.2024
Træðrir [Threads]
The intaglio series titled Jeppe Sleeping are currently part of the group show Træðrir [Threads] at the National Gallery of the Faroe Islands. The show also includes works by Alda Mohr Eyðunardóttir, Maibrit Marjunardóttir, Ragnhild Hjalmarsdóttir Højgaard and Randi Samsonsen.
The show curated by Kirstin Helgadóttir and is open until March 9th, 2025.
Read more about the show by following the link below:
https://art.fo/framsyningar/framsyning/398
13.05.2024
Happy to announce that I have received a three-year work scholarship from the Faroese Culture Foundation.
https://mentanargrunnur.fo/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/list24_tidindaskriv.pdf
16.02.2024
Upcoming exhitions and projects:
DOUBLE / 5+12 Sculptures
Duo show with Kaare Golles at Kunsthal Kongegaarden, Korsør, Denmark
Opening March 2, 2024
https://kongegaarden.dk/udstilling/johan-martin-christiansen-og-kaare-golles
RELIEF
Solo show at Kohta, Helsinki, Finland
Opening April 10, 2024
Fog Swept Cargo
Group show at Scandinavia House, New York City, USA, curated by Kinna Poulsen
Opening April 13, 2024
Body
Group show at The National Gallery of the Faroe Islands, curated by Dagmar Winther
Opening April 19, 2024
https://art.fo/framsyningar/framsyning/379
SAMMENBRUD
Group show at Ved Skoven, Falster, Denmark, curated by Charlotte Thrane
Opening June 2, 2024
Jeppe Sleeping
Solo show at Bonne Espérance, Copenhagen, Denmark
Opening June 21, 2024
https://bonneesperance.org/exhibitions/upcoming
29.10.2023
Don't tell me 'cause it hurts
Exhibition opening Thursday, November 30, 2023, 4-7pm
The Smoking Room
Hoydalar, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
The exhibition will include new plaster casts and two new steel sculptures.
For the exhibition art critic and curator Kinna Poulsen will write an essay.
30.08.2023
Join us for reading of the poem
CONVERSATIONS WITH MAMMA
by Beinir Bergsson
Saturday September 2, 2pm
Danske Grafikeres Hus
Sølvgade 14, CPH K
The reading will be in Faroese and English (translated by Marita Thomsen)
Free for everyone, refreshments will be served
The poem was written on the occasion of the exhibition Leave Me Breathless which runs until September 10th.
Photo by Búi Rouch
Beinir Bergsson, image by Búi Rouch
26.07.2023
Leave Me Breathless
Upcoming solo exhibition at Danske Grafikeres Hus, Copenhagen
Opening on August 18th, 2023, 5-8p
On view from August 19 - September 10, 2023
In connection with the exhibition art critic and curator Kinna Poulsen has written an essay and poet Beinir Bergsson a poem.
The exhibition will include new plaster reliefs and copper etchings. The new copper etchings are made in collaboration with Printer's Proof and at Danish Art Workshops.
The projec is generously supported by Almanna- og Mentamálaráðið, Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse, Fjølrit, Grosserer LF Foghts Fond, Københavns Kommune, Lizzi og Mogens Staal Fonden, Mentanargrunnur Landsins,Poul Johansen Fonden, Statens Kunstfond and Statens Værksteder for Kunst
Link: https://danskegrafikere.org/
26.07.2023
Gerandisopinberingar
Four plaster casts presented at the annual St. Olaf's Exhibtion at the National Gallery of the Faroe Islands. This year's exhibition is curated by Kirstin Helgadóttir.
On view from July 28 - August 13, 2023
Link: https://art.fo/framsyningar/framsyning/366
25.06.2023
Leave Me Breathless - Ole Vinter Room, Valby, Denmark
A new series of plaster casts are currently presented as a frieze at the project space Ole Vinter Room runned in connection with Printer's Proof. On view until December 15, 2023
Link: https://printersproof.dk/
30.05.2023
Down North - Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
The sculpture Flip Flop (pictured below, picture curtesy: Bildmusset) is currently on view at Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden. The exhibition Down North - Contemporary Art in the Artic is on view until January 14th, 2024.
Read a review of the exhibition in Expressen by Gunilla Brordrej:
https://www.expressen.se/kultur/konst/kultureliten-vill-inte--latsas-om-norrland/
Image: Ole Vitner Room
25.04.2023
Video interview by Printer' Proof in connection with the exhibition Leave Me Breathless at Ole Vinter Room
Filming: Giacomo Lenzi
30.03.2023
Two textile pieces currently on view in the groupexhibition Faith and Image at the National Gallery of Art
Read more about the exhibition HERE.
Cloth
2017
Cotton textile, acrylic paint, ink, food oil, tea, salt
Approx. 270 x 280 cm
From the Spring Exhibtion at the National Gallery of Art, 2018
13.03.2023
Very excited to announce this.
I'm opening a project space called Bonne Espérance in my studio in Valby.
First show in June by Kaare Golles.
Stay tuned at: www.bonneesperance.org
24.02.2023
Confronting Coloniality: Trans-Cultural Connections in the Faroe Islands and Beyond
Seminar on March 3rd, 2023 at the Nordic House in the Faroe Islands
I will do a presentation titled DISH - A place of family history and ruin
Seek more info here:
https://www.nlh.fo/en?event=9497/kolonialitetur-og-list-i-einum-tvoermentanarligum-samanhangi
30.09.2022
FALL
New plaster reliefes presentet at Víngarðurin, Tórshavn
Opening October 15
12.09.2022
New departures: Faroese contemporary art in large formats
Group exhibiton at the National Gallery of the Faroe Islands
August 26th, 2022 - January 15th, 2023
For more info click HERE
Interview by Kinna Poulsen in Faroes about the works:
https://www.listaportal.com/tidindi/2022/9/6/stl-blmur-gips-poesi
10.08.2022
You are a flower and in the winter I miss U
Solo exhibition at Heerz Tooya, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Opening August 27th, 2022
For more info click HERE
31.03.2022
The North Atlantic Triennial - Down Иorth is now available online.
Explore the exhibition online here:
https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=EspqRZJBYLc&referrer=https://www.portlandmuseum.org
https://www.portlandmuseum.org/triennial
24.01.2022
tell me more, tell me more
Flag project at North Atlantic House, Copenhagen
On view from January 28 - February 3, 2022
https://www.nordatlantens.dk/en/exhibitions/2022/flag-erfalasoq-13-changing-artists-on-the-quay/
06.12.2021
The sculpture Flip Flop (pictured below) will be part of the North Atlantic Triennal
co-organized by Portland Museum of Art, Maine, USA; Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland
and Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
See more here:
https://www.portlandmuseum.org/triennial
20.09.2021
Tell It To My Heart
Exhibition at Steinprent, Tórshavn, the Faroe Islands
October 1 - November 6, 2021
Link to images HERE
24.06.2021
Talent award from Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen
http://nielsen-legat.dk/en/awards-in-2021/
13.04.2021
Nature in Transition – Shifting Identities
Group show at The Nordic House, Reykjavík, Iceland
April 17th - August 1st, 2021
https://nordichouse.is/en/event/i-sikvikri-motun-vitund-og-nattura/
12.03.2021
Twelve months working scholarship from the Faroese Art Foundation
Article in Faroese on Listaportal
http://www.listaportal.com/tidindi/2021/3/9/mentanarstarvslnir-latnar
05.02.2021
Summer Night City
Víngarðurin, Tórshavn, the Faroe Islands
February 6th - March 6th, 2021
http://www.listaportal.com/tidindi/2021/2/1/jhan-martin-christiansen-summer-night-city-vngarinum
20.12.2020
If we speak in tongues, will anyone understand
Interview in Danish on I Do Art with Theodor Eli Dam Olsen, Hansina Iversen and Jóhan Martin Christiansen
https://www.idoart.dk/blog/if-we-speak-in-tongues-will-anyone-understand
14.12.2020
Honoary grant from Winkel & Magnussens Memory Foundation
Article in Danish on Kunsten.nu
https://kunsten.nu/journal/winkel-magnussens-mindelegat-uddeles-for-sidste-gang/
30.10.2020
Conversations About Fog
Group exhibition curated by Kinna Poulsen
North Atlantic House, Copenhagen Denmark
October 30 2020 - February 21, 2021
Link to images HERE
