Cool, Calm, and Collected
Cool, Calm and Collected is a song by the Rolling Stones about being suavely self-assured, but the expression is also used to describe a cool, Scandinavian aesthetic. The phrase serves as the title of this special exhibition featuring Danish contemporary artists who, in spite of their different approaches, all actively engage with an aesthetically stringent, poetic and cool formal idiom.
Overall, the exhibition showcases the aestheticizing tendency evident in many Danish artists over the course of the last fifteen years. At the same time the exhibition wishes to demonstrate the great diversity of their work, partly in their choice of materials and media, but also in the themes selected. For even though an overall aesthetic tendency seems to dominate the Danish art scene, the alluring exteriors of the art often hide surprisingly subversive, conceptual or critical content seething beneath the surface.
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Cool, Calm and Collected is a song by the Rolling Stones about being suavely self-assured, but the expression is also used to describe a cool, Scandinavian aesthetic. The phrase serves as the title of this special exhibition featuring Danish contemporary artists who, in spite of their different approaches, all actively engage with an aesthetically stringent, poetic and cool formal idiom.
Overall, the exhibition showcases the aestheticizing tendency evident in many Danish artists over the course of the last fifteen years. At the same time the exhibition wishes to demonstrate the great diversity of their work, partly in their choice of materials and media, but also in the themes selected. For even though an overall aesthetic tendency seems to dominate the Danish art scene, the alluring exteriors of the art often hide surprisingly subversive, conceptual or critical content seething beneath the surface.
Artists on show
- A-Kassen
- Alexander Tovborg
- Amalie Smith
- Christian Falsnaes
- Danh Vo
- Ebbe Stub Wittrup
- Elmgreen/Dragset
- Hesselholdt & Mejlvang
- Jakob Kolding
- Jeannette Ehlers
- Jens Haaning
- Jeppe Hein
- Jesper Just
- Jette Hye Jin Mortensen
- Kirstine Roepstorff
- Lea Guldditte Hestelund
- Lea Porsager
- Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
- Maiken Bent
- Marie Søndergaard Lolk
- Mette Winckelmann
- Mikkel Carl
- Mille Kalsmose
- Morten Sondergaard
- Nanna Abell
- Nanna Debois Buhl
- Nicolai Howalt
- Nina Beier
- Olafur Eliasson
- Pernille Kapper Williams
- Peter Land
- Rikke Benborg
- Ruth Campau
- Sergej Jensen
- Simon Dybbroe Møller
- Sophia Kalkau
- Sophie Dupont
- Søren Thilo Funder
- SUPERFLEX
- Tal R
- Torben Ribe
- Tove Storch
- Trine Søndergaard
- Troels Sandegaard
- Tue Greenfort
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