Mads Lindberg (DK)

The starting point of Mads Lindberg’s practice is found imagery, that he appropriates and re- elaborates with the aim of questioning its material, formal, symbolic and economic meanings. The action of translating discarded paintings, spotted in thrift stores and flea markets, into his own artworks is for Lindberg a way to approach the canvas from a detached and analytical point of view. This allows Lindberg to carry on a systematic study of painting as medium, while avoiding the implications connected to the mystic aura surrounding the "artist at work". In Lindberg's vision, every image has the right to exist beyond its aesthetic quality, and for this reason it should belong to a circular economy that trespass the parameters imposed by the hierarchic and elitist art market.

Mads Lindberg (b. 1984; DK) lives and works in Copenhagen. He has exhibited widely across Europe and The United States, including: FRAC (FR), Kunsthal Aarhus (DK), Kyoto Art Center (JP), Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (NO), Museet for Samtidskunst (DK), Simian (DK), JIR SANDEL (DK), Freddy (US) and C.C.C. (DK).