Patricia Asbæk

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Maria Patricia Tonn Asbæk (born May 3, 1945 in Casablanca ) is a Danish gallery owner and curator. From 1959 to 1962 she studied at the École du Louvre in Paris. In 1975 she and her husband Jacob Asbæk founded the Asbæk Gallery in Copenhagen. From 1988 to 1991 she ran the Pilou gallery and from 1991 to 1993 the Patricia Asbæk gallery in Copenhagen. In February 1992 she presented works by Terry Atkinson there . In 1996 Asbæk initiated an exhibition of video sculptures by Nam June Paik at the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, she wrote the foreword for the catalog. In 2003 Asbæk curated the exhibition for Bayer's cultural department Either / Or: Art Spaces in the North in Leverkusen.

From 2001 to 2011, Asbæk was the representative of the international gallery advisory board and chair of the international admissions committee at Art Forum Berlin .

In 1998 the Asbæks initiated the center for contemporary art Centro Cultural Andratx in Andratx on Mallorca , which opened in 2001. Furthermore, Patricia Asbæk had an appearance in 2005, as herself, in the Danish television series Penselstrøg and Smagsdommerne .

The artist couple are parents of the Danish actor Pilou Asbæk and the gallery owner Martin Asbæk .

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  1. ↑ Patricia Asbaek at the Art Foundation Mallorca ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / artfoundationmallorca.dk
  2. ↑ Terry Atkinson: Ruses, mutes, monochromes and bombers. Patricia Asbæk Gallery. Copenhagen, 1992. ISBN 978-87-88223-32-3
  3. ↑ Nam June Paik: Nam June Paik video sculptures. Electronic undercurrents. Statens museum for kunst (Denmark), 1996, ISBN 978-87-7551-081-8
  4. ↑ Little man with a trumpet . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger of March 15, 2003, accessed on November 14, 2015
  5. ↑ Patricia Asbæk, Bayer Cultural Department: Art spaces in the north = Nordic Art. Galerie Asbæk, 2003, ISBN 9788788223989
  6. ^ Art Forum Berlin 2004 - The International Fair for Contemporary Art on kunstmarkt.com, accessed on November 14, 2015
  7. ^ Lothar Schmidt: Travel Guide Mallorca . Baedeker Verlag, 2013, p. 142 ISBN 9783829794824
personal data
SURNAME Asbæk, Patricia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Asbæk, Maria Patricia Tonn (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish gallery owner and curator
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Casablanca