Installation view, from the left
I want the rain to wash my broken heart away (2020),
Untitled (Traces) (2017 and 2016) and to the right the series Leave Me Breathless (2021-2024)
GRACE
solo show at
Alice Folker Gallery
Esplanaden 14, Copenhagen, DK
April 4 - June 13, 2025
As testimonies to – or perhaps memories of – people, places, things, feelings, and touches, Jóhan Martin Christiansen presents a series of plaster reliefs in his first solo exhibition in Alice Folker Gallery. Being quite literal imprints – casts of found cardboard boxes – the reliefs seem to signify something that once was, but no longer is. As afterimages or traces of the past, they carry the outlines of a footprint, a pattern, a logo, or a colour faded in the process of transference from the original cardboard box to the plaster cast.
Read the full essay by Sara Klingberg HERE.
Image credit: Jakob Storm
I want the rain to wash my broken heart away
2020
Plaster cast with remnants of cardboard, glitter and spray paint, and steel
98 x 66 x 5 cm
Leave Me Breathless
2021-24
Red pigmented plaster casts with remnants of cardboard, dirt, glitter, etc., and steel wire
Various sizes
Untitled (Traces)
2016
Dowel bar, strips, plaster cast with remnants of rust and dirt
203 x 38 x 9 cm
GRACE (portrait of babba)
2025
Green pigmented plaster cast with remnants of cardboard, paint and rust, dowel steel
148 x 73,5 x 5,5 cm
Untitled (Traces)
2016
Dowel bar, plaster cast with remnants of dirt, plastic and stone
198 x 21 x 17 cm
FALL
2024
Blue pigmented plaster cast with remnants of cardboard, ink and paint, and steel wire
34 x 25,5 x 5,5 cm
