Henrik Olesen
Henrik Olesen (* 1967 in Esbjerg ) is a Danish conceptual artist .
Live and act
Installation view, in Neven-DuMont-Straße, Cologne Buchholz Gallery
Olesen studied from 1989 to 1996 at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen and from 1995 to 1997 at the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main in Christa Näher's painting class .
In his conceptual sculptures, room installations and collages, the artist takes up current and historical topics from art and cultural history as well as natural science, which for him are the starting point for examining the exclusion of minorities and social categorizations. In 2011 he was awarded the Villa Romana Art Prize and in 2012 the Wolfgang Hahn Prize .
Olesen lives and works in Berlin.
Exhibitions
- 2012: Henrik Olesen. Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2012 , Museum Ludwig , Cologne
- 2011: Henrik Olesen - overview exhibition , Museum für Gegenwartskunst , Basel; Projects 94 , MoMA PS1 , New York
- 2010: Malmö Konsthall , Malmö
- 2008: Pinakothek der Moderne , Munich (with Sergej Jensen ); Kunstverein Munich at Ludlow 38, New York
- 2007: Migros Museum for Contemporary Art , Zurich; Doors , Portikus , Frankfurt am Main (with Judith Hopf )
Web links
- Henrik Olesen at the Buchholz Gallery
- Literature by and about Henrik Olesen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Henrik Olesen on kunstaspekte.de
- Art Museum Basel
Individual evidence
- ↑ Winner 2011
- ↑ Henrik Olesen receives the Wolfgang Hahn Prize ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Report in the art magazine Monopol from January 25, 2012, accessed August 22, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Olesen, Henrik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish concept artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Esbjerg , Denmark |