Asger Dybvad Larsen
Asger Dybvad Larsen takes up painting both as a medium and as an art historical object. He fundamentally questions the autonomy of painting and exposes the artist's work and process while letting works connect with each other, in order to create new contexts in a concrete and historical way.
Over the past few years, Asger Dybvad Larsen has had his primary focus on painting, its art-historical ballast and an exploratory approach to the processing of the painting's traditional materials. In his production of works one finds clear references to iconic works of art history and contemporary currents. For instance, Asger Dybvad Larsen works with acrylic castings of paint trays on canvases of various size and shapes, and thereby creates a direct formalistic link to Frank Stella's striped geometric works and polygonal paintings.
By using the painting tray as a picture, he also creates a connection to his own practice in the studio, where his process is based on a continuous production and destruction of works. It is an open process in which the works that he works on are constantly in flux; They are cut up and put together in new ways, they get applied material and then are disassembled and sewn together again. What characterizes Asger Dybvad Larsen's practice therefore becomes his production and process, where the individual work becomes a picture of the constant artistic exchange and development, rather than it becoming a work in itself. The studio thus functions as an archive, which Asger Dybvad Larsen can flip back and forth in and where he can separate, compose and construct new contexts based on detached works, processes and thoughts. He describes himself as; "... powerless archivist for the inward-looking family tree, whose branches he constantly breaks off as proof that the construction actually exists", and based on this conception, the individual works thus appear as snapshots of the artistic journey through the archive's times and places.
Asger Dybvad Larsen relates dialectically to his works and to art history. The governing art-historical reference for his work is minimalism, in which he seeks to keep the subject out of the work. Through the work with simple forms and materials, a position is established where the viewer senses the work instead of consciously reading it. Minimalism produces a work that does not postulate to be anything other than what one sees. Form, structure and material constitute the object, which appears devoid of the expressive artist-self. It is the immediate physical experience that defines the reading of the work. This simplicity of expression and sensitivity in the senses characterize Asger Dybvad Larsen's expression. He produces physical works which, despite their restriction of the surface on which they work, appear sculptural and interact with the space in which they operate. The works resonate in the viewer's body and cause a sensation of the work that points beyond the material sum of the work that we, as spectators, are facing.
Asger Dybvad Larsen (f. 1990, DK) lives and works i Århus. He is a graduate of ''Det Jyske Kunstakademi'', 2017. He has exhibited (solo) at Galerie Rolando Anselmi (DE) & (IT), Geukens & de Vil Gallery (BE), Gether Contemporary (DK), Pablo’s Birthday (US), False Front (US). He has participated in group exhibitions at Art Sonje Center (KR), L21 (ES), Nordic Contemporary (FR), Fabbrica Orobia (IT), Arroniz Gallery (MEX), Ernesto Esposito Collection (IT), Galeria Boavista (P), Viborg Kunsthal (DK), Larm Galleri (DK), Rod Barton (UK), Brask Collection (DK). The works of Asger Dybvad Larsen can be experienced in the collections of AROS Aarhus Art Museum (DK) and CCA Collection (ES). In 2017 he received Juni Fonden’s art grand and in 2018 he became awarded with a scholarship from Lepsien Art Foundation i Düsseldorf. In 2017 Roulette Rousse puplished the monography ‘SPOR 1’ about Asger Dybvad Larsen.
Selected Exhibitions & Projects
Family Portraits / Burned Out / Falling / Debris Generated by Generations - Four solo exhibitions by Asger Dybvad Larsen
Asger Dybvad Larsen: 'Minimalism-Maximalism-Mechanissmm Act 1–Act' at Art Sonje Center, Seoul
Estimated Time of Arrival
Dialogues Objectified with Colors in an Unsolvable Rubiks Cube
CV
Asger Dybvad Larsen
Born 1990, Denmark
Education:
2016-2017
Jutland Art Academy.
2016
Malmö Art Academy
2012-2015
Jutland Art Academy.
2011-2012
Kunsthøjskolen på Ærø.
2008-2011
BGK - Billedkunstnerisk Grundkursus.
Solo and duo exhibitions
2023
Family Portraits / Burned Out / Falling / Debris Generated by Generations - Four solo Exhibitions by Asger Dybvad Larsen, Gether Contemporary, DK
2022
The Window Project, duo exhibition with Li Gang, Rolando Anselmi Galerie, Berlin DE
2021
Solo exhibition ‘Pausing Sisyphus’ orbit to see how hills shaped his boulder’, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome, Italy.
Duo exhibition ‘Traveling thresholds among mundane mutations’, Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg, Denmark
2019
Solo exhibition ‘Estimated Time of Arrival’, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
Solo exhibition ‘Breaking off branches with inoculated twigs’, Geukens & De Vil Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Solo exhibition ‘A suggestion about something through a shadow’, Collectors Agenda, Vienna, Austria
2018
Solo exhibition ‘A Breed of Borders’, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, Germany.
Solo exhibition ‘Dialogues Objectified with Colors in an Unsolvable Rubiks Cube’, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017
L’Atelier Rouge, KN, Trento, Italy
A branch in relation to another, Geukens & De Vil Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
What you’re reading is a gift that’s your problem (a memory of a misread Joseph Kosuth text), False Front, Portland, USA
What has surrounded the things that has already been said, articulated identically, with this information included, Galerie Rolando
Anselmi, Rome, Italy
2016
Sense of Space, Pablo’s Birthday Gallery, New York, USA, 2016.
2015
Distorted Data, Pablo’s Birthday Gallery, New York, USA
Transformed in Translation, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, Germany
Art as Art, LARMgalleri, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013
Titel, Lunchmoney Gallery, Aarhus, Denmark
Group Exhibitions:
2022
Group exhibition ‘New Positions’ at Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
Group exhibition ‘Minimalism-Maximalism-Mechanissmmm’ at Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea
Group exhibition ‘The Colour And The Shape’ at Bohemian’s Guild, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Grand Opening, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome, Italy.
CONFINED CHALLENGE 2.0, Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, Belgium
2019
Silent Matters, Galerie Raum Mit Licht, Vienna, Austria
2018
Darkest Before Dawn, Nordic Contemporary, Paris, France
Dark was the Night, CCA, Centre of Contemporary Art, Andratx, Spain
Group show, Geukens & De Vil Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Material Art Fair with Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Mexico City, Mexico
The Bech Risvig collection, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk, Denmark
In the depth of the surface, Pablo’s Birthday Gallery, New York, USA
2017
20 cm from the ground, L21, Mallorca, Spain
Some advances in sedimentation / the things that make art, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Selected works from the Bech Risvig collection, Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro, Denmark
MICRO SALON#7, glerie l’inlassable, Paris, France
2016
#paintingssssss, Hunted Projects, Edinburgh, Scotland
Nordic Contemporary, Paris, France
DANMARK, curated by Mikkel Carl, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Hawt Show, by Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome, Italy
Abstraction 2, Arróniz, Mexico City, Mexico
In the depth of the surface, Ex Fabrica Orobia 15, Milano, Italy
Aujourd’hui je dis oui, Galeria da Boavista, Lisbon, Portugal
Face To Face, Ernesto Esposito Collection, Palazzo Fruscione Salerno, Italy
2015
Rod Barton, London, United Kingdom
Running Fence, Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro, Denmark
Negating Depressings, Sixty Eight, Copenhagen, Denmark
At the Crack of Dawn, LARMgalleri, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014
Sommer Skulptur Søby, Biennale, Søby, Denmark
Brask Collection, Munkeruphus, Gilleleje, Denmark
Das Kunstbüro, Artspace, Aarhus, Denmark
2013
Skovsnogen, Artspace, Kibæk, Denmark
2012
Sommer Skulptur Søby, Biennale, Søby, Denmark
Public Collections:
CCA, Centre of Contemporary Art.
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum.
Skovsnogen Artspace.
Prizes:
2017
The 15th of June’s Honorary Prize
Curatorial projects
2020
Albert Mertz, The Body, se!, Udstillings- & projektrum, Aarhus, Denmark
2015
Running Fence, Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro, Denmark
Residences:
2018
Silk screen grant, Lepsien Art Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2018
CCA Artist-in-Residence, Mallorca, Spain
2015
Danny Firsts, The La Brea Artist in Residence studio, Los Angeles, American
Art Fairs:
2022
Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen DK
Art Herning, DK
2021
Chart Art Fair, Copenhagen DK
Artissima Art Fair, Copenhagen DK
2020
Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen DK
2019
Art Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, DE