Lagune Ouest (DK)

Nikolaj Stobbe founded Lagune Ouest in 2021 with the ambition to make new exhibition and career opportunities, primarily for local artists. The gallery has an emphasis on curated exhibitions and aims to amplify and establish the voices of a new generation of artists.

Tagensvej 85, kld.,
2200 Copenhagen N
Denmark
+45 61 30 52 08

info@laguneouest.com
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Curated for
CHART

For CHART 2024, Lagune Ouest will present new works by Sara Sjölin and Mathias Toubro. Despite obvious differences in their art practises both artists touch upon subjects and artifices like realism, storytelling, a certain roughness, conceptual nostalgia, installation and performativity. Sjölin will show a video work along a floor based installation and Toubro will show a series of paintings.

Mathias Toubro (DK)

Mathias Toubro works with environments, both as staged social performative events and in his image production. In his recent series, Toubro portrays the artist bar as a significant site for the artist to nurture their network and get inspiration. He draws information from historically important places such as Antico Caffè Greco in Rome, Les Deux Magots in Paris, and Krasnapolsky and Andy’s Bar, both in Copenhagen. By incorporating personal experience and actual material from the restaurant business in his artistic practice, Toubro’s environments become equal parts realistic and illusory.

Mathias Toubro (b. 1986; DK) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Toubro holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2016) and Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing (2012). Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Etablissement d’en Face (Brussels; BE), Damian & the Love Guru (Brussels; BE), Lagune Ouest (Copenhagen; DK), Cucina (Copenhagen; DK), Kunstverein Hamburg (Hamburg; DE), Éclair (Berlin; DE), and Salon 75 (Frederiksberg; DK). As Mathias & Mathias he exhibited at Holstebro Kunstmuseum (Holstebro; DK), Overgaden (Copenhagen; DK), Heart Museum of Contemporary Art (Herning; DK), Tranen (Gentofte; DK) and Last Resort Gallery (Copenhagen; DK). Toubro is the recipient of Anne Marie Carl Nielsen’s talent prize (2020), the Niels Wessel Bagge’s prize (2018) and the Sven Dalsgaard reward (2018). His work is represented both in private and public collections such as The National Gallery of Denmark - SMK (Copenhagen; DK).

Shower Suite 2

Oil, bees wax and paper on photo paper mounted on wooden board
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Lagune Ouest. Photo by Malle Madsen

Shower Suite 4

Oil, bees wax, paper and MDF on photo paper mounted on wooden board
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Lagune Ouest. Photo by Malle Madsen

Wet Spectre

Oil, pencil, bees wax on MDF
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Lagune Ouest

Ventilator (still)

Video, 4:3, 11 min:12 sec
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Lagune Ouest

Mathias Toubro, Showers, Installation View, 2024

Courtesy of the artist and Malle Madsen. Photo by Malle Madsen

Sara Sjölin (SE/CH)

Sara Sjölin is a multimedia artist whose main practice revolves around comedy, film, speech, performance and installation. In her work, she explores comedy rooted in tragedy, where feelings of anxiety or discomfort can through art be transformed into moments of affection and laughter.

Sara Sjölin (b. 1991; SE/CH) holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2018). Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: SALTS (Basel; CH), New Jörg (Vienna; AT), Lagune Ouest (Copenhagen; DK), Konstnärshuset (Stockholm; SE), Kunsthaus Zürich (Zürich; CH), Bikubenfonden (Copenhagen; DK), Loggia (Munich; DE), Galleri Susanne Ottesen (Copenhagen; DK), Hamlet (Zürich; CH), Celsius Projects (Malmö; SE), Lille Vega (Copenhagen; DK), CPH:DOX film festival (Copenhagen; DK), Copenhagen Contemporary (Copenhagen; DK), Sydhavnsambassaden no.5 & 6 (Copenhagen; DK), Skjold Contemporary (Copenhagen; DK), Kunsthal Aarhus (Aarhus; DK). Sjölin is the recipient of Niels Wessel Bagges Art Foundation prize (2022) and the Anne Marie Carl Nielsen’s talent prize (2024).