International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
May 13 – November 16, 2017
Kirstine Roepstorff
Influenza: theatre of glowing darkness.
Developed by visual artist Kirstine Roepstorff, the exhibition project influenza challenges us to
embrace darkness as a positive force of healing, transformation, and empowerment. To give birth
to our future.
If the entirety of necessary information pre-exists within all forms, the only action that’s required to
effect change is to dissolve prevailing beliefs – to enter the rumbling, alive unknown. One must be
willing to completely abolish old systems to advance towards new ways of thinking, understanding
and being.
Darkness dissolves form and can be seen as the pregnant void out of which all things
arise. The exhibition will explore the metamorphosis that occurs between the destruction of the
known and the embrace of the new.
Darkness.
At the beginning of all creation.
When everything was just floating energy in complete darkness…
Maybe you remember, which choices you made here?
And what you chose to rehearse and to learn in this life?
How much did you dare to risk in order to grow?
How much darkness did you absorb?
Do you remember?
influenza consists of an immersive theatre and a structural intervention in the pavilion and
surrounding gardens. “theatre of glowing darkness” is a dynamic large-scale installation that uses
darkness, light projections, glass and a dialogue between three protagonists. Using the pavilion
itself as a sculptural form, the artist has created an architectural re-structuring project altering preestablished
borders to mediate with her surrounding landscape intervention.
The exhibition is accompanied by a booklet with contributions by Angela Rosenberg, Sepake
Angiama, Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Ute Meta Bauer. The four contributors form the Consortium
for the exhibition project, and have acted as a ‘sounding board’ for the artist through every stage of
the project’s development.
Biography and selected exhibitions
Born in 1972, Kirstine Roepstorff lives and works in Fredericia, Denmark. She graduated from the
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Roepstorff’s artistic practice consists primarily
of mixed media collages pointing out existing power relations, and critically investigating the history
and failures of political ideas. By editing and decomposing original materials, her work generates
new contexts that open up spaces for negotiation and new narratives.
Roepstorff’s practice is
situated in those “in-between” spaces of negotiation.
Selected exhibitions: Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK (2016); Den Frie, Copenhagen,
DK (2015); Kunstverein Göttingen, DE (2014); Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum
Basel, CH (2010); The National Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, NO (2010).
In recent years, Kirstine Roepstorff has created several large-scale public art projects,
including "The Gong" for Dokk1 in Aarhus, DK (2015) and "Klangfrø" for the Department of Nordic
Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, DK (2014).
Her work is included in the
permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; The Saatchi Gallery, London,
UK; National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, NO; National Gallery of Denmark,
Copenhagen, DK among others.
The Danish Arts Foundation and La Biennale di Venezia
The Danish Arts Foundation Committee for Visual Arts Project Funding is the Commissioner of the
Danish pavilion and has appointed the artist Kirstine Roepstorff to represent Denmark at the 57th
International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
The Committee consists of Gitte Ørskou
(chair), Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Bodil Nielsen and Jacob Tækker.
With the generous additional support of:
New Carlsberg Foundation for the “theatre of glowing darkness”.
Kvadrat collaborated on the tapestry and supported the textiles.
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