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INTERVIEWS | ARTICLES

A selection of interviews and articles from artists and collaborations featured on the platform, in the gallery and in the art magazine


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Anne Risum

CARMEN HUST | STUDIO VISITS | JUN 2022
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In her current exhibition The Breath of Leviathan, Douet works on subjects on the verge of disappearing, that are threatened by economic, societal or environmental changes.

CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | MAJ 2022
The French photographer Joséphine Douet’s work explores the notions of sacred and savage in the relationship between man, death and nature. She mainly works on the agony of threatened worlds.
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Sara Goli’s minimalist photographs offer us an intriguing view on the city scapes around us and draw our eyes’ attention to details that would otherwise remain unseen

NORA BENZ | ARTICULATE #31 | APR 2022
Being a self-taught photographer with an affinity for technology, Goli describes the creation of images as the product of her mind. Most of the time, she develops her ideas when walking through a city or specific location.
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The preferred media of Plant is steel. Steel functions as an extension of his thoughts, through whom he has the most intimate relationship with and knowledge of.

CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #31 | APR 2022
The creative drive of Frank Plant is cultivated through hard work. Plant thinks of his creativity as an athlete would think of their body. It’s a sport you constantly have to work with and maintain, to keep it in shape.
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Everything comes down to the line - the most basic form of any drawing. Parmson traces edges, outline shapes and borders between shadow and light.

CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #31 | APR 2022
To Parmson, drawing has been her way of creating pockets of familiarity, of tracing her place in the world. The interiors she creates resemble her Home, they serve as anchor points that allows her to stay grounded.
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Cloud castles, beach houses, and blue skies – Danish artist Mette Nørregaard’s reflective landscapes invite us to slow down, turn our gaze inward and connect

MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #31 | APR 2022
Nørregaard prefers simple compositions and mainly works with pre-thought ideas. As a result, a major part of her creative process is unseen and takes place in her mind long before a brush stroke is made on canvas. 
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Peter Zelei creates from 3 primary sources. Firstly the exploration of his own being as a kind of therapy. Secondly, attention. The third factor is finance.

CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #31 | APR 2022
The work of Zelei are both pre-thought creations, while some of them emerge on their own. Zelei has a notebook, in which he writes down most of the ideas that occur to him during his daily life. 
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In this month's Studio Visits, Nora Benz has been visiting the Danish Visual Artist Lars Worm in his Studio at KH7 Artspace, placed in Aarhus.

NORA BENZ | STUDIO VISITS | MAR 2022
Using simple and natural materials, Worm creates art that reflect a gentle sense of nonchalance, joyfulness as well as lightheartedness while simultaneously leaving the viewer behind with an uncanny feeling. 
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This year CPH:DOX has established an exceptional collaboration with SMK, where there will be art talks, performances and creative workshops

KAWAUCHI & HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | MAR 2022
Art and film are also the focus of our NEW:VISION competition program, which explores the borderland between art and documentary. Here CPH:DOX will present 10 different interactive works.
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Sparre explores the nature of BioArt through organic and artificial materials, touching upon the complex dynamic between micro and macro cosmoses

NORA BENZ | STUDIO VISITS | FEB 2022
​Circle of Control is actually a concept to be used in stress coaching. It is about what you can and what you can't control in your life. And what Sparre did is a circle of hair which is actually pointing out a portrait, a subject. 
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Visiting the Danish Multimedia Artist Simon Juhl's Workshop in Frederiksbjerg, where he experiments with the beginning and the end of art.

NORA BENZ | STUDIO VISITS | JAN 2022
One of the most prevalent questions in art is about its definition, its borders, what art is, where it starts and where it ends. The creative work of Juhl shows that art is by no means limited to certain tools or specific methods. 
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The theme of the work of the Southern European synergetic duo DOURONE, are concerns in which they investigate, until they reach the next concern.

CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #30 | JAN 2022
To DOURONE, the key element in creating a good composition, is when you see the whole of a piece and there’s nothing that hurts your sight - it is like when you look at your partner and you fall in love.
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Sokram, introduces you to intricate worlds, making out long lines winding themselves in different directions.

MARIE M BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #30 | JAN 2022
To Sokram, painting the street is an exceptionally direct, generous, and also the most free artistic medium that exists. Another quality street art has is being democratic. A mural is free in that it is not confined to closed spaces.
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The work of French SLip saturates around everyday issues and constellations that applies for most of us

CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #30 | JAN 2022
SLip works on background topics. He’s triggered by colors, words he’s heard in the street or incidents happening live in front of him. After such appearances, pictures appears to him and inspires him to proceed his process.
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Brazilian artist and fine art photographer Tatane Onirica invites us to face the pain and master our demons

MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #30 | JAN 2022
Daunting emotions are at the heart of Tatane Onirica’s work, which is the result of an artistic ritual, where pain and fear are transformed into dark and poetic photographs on a journey to find inner peace.
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The work of Ulla Czékus is inspired by the passion for plants. Her gaze is searching for leaves, flowers, seeds and trees of different shapes, colors and textures.

CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #30 | JAN 2022
Czékus explores, in her works, not only studio images of the universe of botany, but also a conversation between the indelible characteristic of time and the impermanence of human life - identical to the leaves, fruits, and seeds she’s photographing.
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Nora Benz has been visiting Painter and Sculptor Ana Saraiva in her Atelier in Hamburg, to understand from where she captures her influences

NORA BENZ | ARTICULATE STUDIO VISITS | DEC 2021
When different currents, energies and influences flow together they become one and form a whole. Similarly, pieces of art are confluences of emotional, mental as well as technical fluxes reflecting the artist’s psychological and physical state. 
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Vulnerable lives pandemic times, and political re-imaginings. An introduction to the project Pandemic Art 1.0, by Phd Associate Professor Louise Fabian

LOUISE FABIAN | ARTICULATE PUBLICATION | NOV 2021
The project Pandemic Art 1.0 covers both a physical book, an e-book, and a virtual exhibition. The 38 contributing professional artists have, with the contributed artworks, reflected upon the first year and a half of the global Covid – 19 pandemic. 
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The architecture of public spaces as museums: The case of MOMAFAD. A project by Space 52 and Dionisis Christofilogiannis at The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

ARIANA KALLIGA | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | DEC 2021
MOMAFAD (The Museum of Modern Art for A Day)  is a project/artwork created by Greek artist Dionisis Christofilogiannis which reclaims spaces and transforms them into museums for the duration of one day. 
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Visiting Visual Artist Lotte Bækgaard ​at her studio in Hørning. Bækgaard about her sketchbooks, collaborating with other artists as well as making oneself vulnerable through one’s artwork

NORA BENZ | ARTICULATE STUDIO VISITS | NOV 2021
Through different media, Bækgaard addresses intimate topics around human mentality or motherhood, and explores art as form of expression of personal experiences and struggles in a particularly insightful way. 
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Helen Shulkin investigates the objects of new quarter in Hamburg, in which she feels the emergence of virtual technologies that solve the crisis between philosophy and postmodernism.

CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | NOV 2021
To Shulkin the architecture is a challenge to the entire city of Hamburg, concentrating high-tech and destroying traditional tectonics. These houses and bridges have incredible plasticity, a combination of volumes and shapes.
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The paintings of Roda are rooted in tradition, as her subjects are sourced unequivocally from our contemporary era, speaking directly to our everyday lives.

CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #29 | OCT 2021
Going beyond the individual, Roda's models - their very diversity represents disparate fragments of a mosaic combining to reveal an image of shared humanity, with the power to evoke the most personal of memories.
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Bailey is a magical realist who rewrites art history with her quirky, whimsical and all alluring female portraits that in their dreaminess ooze silent power.

MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #29 | OCT 2021​
Bailey’s description of her own work is as witty, amusing, disordered and dark as her art. A bundle of juxtaposed emotions and impressions flung at you with such force that you can only stand mesmerised.
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The favorite work of Brazilian Fabiano Millani is the work he hasn’t painted yet – and to estimate the best of each situation, yet unseen.

CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #29 | OCT 2021
The hyper realistic artist Fabiano Millani is a remarkable figure of Brazilian Contemporary Realism and Kitsch. Having problems with the administrational parts of teaching led him on a passionate path of creation.
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Nalyvaiko’s computer generated 3D artworks lead us into a world with almost no restrictions but where obstacles of physical properties are overcome

NORA BENZ | ARTICULATE #29 | OCT 2021
Forgotten Sanctuary is a project which clearly reflects Nalyvaiko's architectural education. With the art works created for the project, Nalyvaiko draws attention to the massive deterioration of abandoned churches in Ukraine
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Instinctively, Norwegian Fageras wants to depict what he sees with a desire of perfection, enabling him to communicate something that he cannot do with words.

CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #29 | OCT 2021
To Fageras, ideas sometimes come as bubbles of air from the depth of the water to the surface. Some are born out of conscious reflection over time, and yet some just appear by themselves. 
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Artist and architect Huiru Huang in her artistic approach of protecting the environment as well as sculpting and other forms of expressing aesthetics

NORA BENZ | ARTICULATE STUDIO VISITS | OCT 2021
Huiru Huang is a good example for the confluence of architecture and art as well as a reflection of the fluid transition between the two disciplines. Huiru takes an artistic approach towards future landscape architecture. 
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Visual artist Anne-Sofie Overgaard is pointing out her weaving practice, the relation between weaving and time, and the female connotation of the craft

NORA BENZ | ARTICULATE STUDIO VISITS | SEP 2021
Overgaard works with the powerful medium of loom and yarn to create unique pieces of art. By crossing at least two thread systems a multitude of woven pieces, from carpets to tapestries can be produced. 
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The work of Lisa Lach-Nielsen circulates around the female figure, and deal with themes such as identity, the search of it and the elements that shape it.

MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
Lach-Nielsen’s drive is generated from her desire to create and release thoughts she has in her head. The works are thus deeply connected to the artists own mind and carry deep psychological meanings.
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The main concerns of the Mexican artist Horacio Quiroz are the human condition, change, and duality in our reality expressed through the body.

MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
The freak shows and human circuses of the 18th century displayed the rarities and what was shocking and outside the accepted norms. The art of Quiroz is also a display of the deformed, the curiosities of the human body and mind.
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The artistic research of Danny Bittencourt, investigates the sharing of the sensitive as a practice, appropriating photography as a tool for personal expression

CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
The work of Bittencourt is initiated from a completely emotional urge. An impulse she cannot control. Once she identifies the feeling, the creative process becomes controlling and urgent.
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The work of Spanish artist García de Marina revolves around intuition and ideas, surrealism, and the world of the subconscious and dreams

CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
The work of Marina is deeply irreverent with reality, seeking to transform and stamp objects with new identities, challenging the obvious, and paying attention to the greatness of everyday life.
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The common thread of the work of Rafel Moreno, is the artistic expression of feelings as universal as love, sadness and the desire for freedom.

CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
The work of Moreno is very varied, for which it seems impossible to define him as an artist. He chooses his technique according to what he wants to express. Preferably, Moreno uses waste, re- and upcycle material.
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Suárez possesses an unusual mastery of capturing the rhythm, the gesture, the precise moment to freeze an image in time, while studying its dynamic potential.