Thorbjørn Lausten
Thorbjørn Lausten , also Thorbjörn Lausten , (* 1945 in Sörumsand ) is a Danish light artist .
life and work
Thorbjørn Lausten is an autodidact as an artist . In 1966 he first made a name for himself as a visual artist. During a stay in London from 1968 to 1969 he came into contact with kinetic art and electronic art. His first light work of art "Pointany X" was exhibited in 1972. In 1987 he was appointed guest artist at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. From 1988 to 1989 he was a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at MIT in Boston , where he had his first solo exhibition outside Denmark in 1988. In 1989 he published his book LYS-BILEDE-prjekter about light projects. Since then he has exhibited in many museums in Europe and the USA and created works of art in public spaces.
In 1996 he received the Eckersberg Medal .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1972 Gallery Ars Studeo, Denmark
- 1989 Solo exhibition at Fyns Art Museum, Odense
- 1990 Solo exhibition, Weisses Haus gallery, Hamburg
- 1991 Solo exhibition in the Danish National Gallery
- 1995 Multimedia 4, ZKM Karlsruhe
- 1997 Solo exhibition at ARKEN - Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
- 1998 Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
- 2006 Light art from artificial light, ZKMax - Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe
- 2008 MFSK - Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde
- 2008 Solo exhibition Magnet , ZKM Karlsruhe
- 2008 Solo exhibition at Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg
- 2009 Fuglsang Art Museum, Denmark
- 2010 LichtRouten , Lüdenscheid
- 2018 Light Art Weekend Extended Mind, Alte Münze, Berlin
Works in public space
- 1994/95 Light mirror : neon tubes, glass plate and electronically controlled headlights, Hansehalle Lübeck
literature
- 1991 LYSværker 1972–1990 ISBN 87-418-6016-0
- Morten Søndergaard , Peter Weibel : Thorbjørn Lausten visual systems , Verlag Kehrer, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86828-001-2
- Thorbjørn Lausten: Museum am Ostwall Dortmund, May 17 to July 12, 1998 / [Text: Klaus Peter Dencker, foreword Ingo Bartsch]. - Dortmund, 1998, ISBN 3-925998-28-4
- 2009 Thorbjørn Lausten: GENNEMSYN , ISBN 978-87-7378-300-9
Collections
- ZKM Karlsruhe
Web links
- Official website
- Literature at ZKM Karlsruhe
- Thorbjørn Lausten at artfacts.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of carriers of Eckbersberg Medal
- ↑ Lausten exhibition in the Fuglsang Museum ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Lichtspiegel , database art in public space in Lübeck , accessed on February 4, 2016
- ^ Thorbjørn Lausten in the ZKM Karlsruhe
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lausten, Thorbjørn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lausten, Thorbjorn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sörumsand |