Martin Asbæk Gallery was founded in 2005 by Martin Asbæk and is a contemporary art gallery with a mix of Danish and international artists, ranging from well-established to up-and-coming. Artists represented by the gallery work in a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and video.
For CHART 2023, Martin Asbæk Gallery will present three artists, who each work with a form of implicit, accumulated knowledge as well as with an almost nostalgic sense of materiality. Kasper Eistrup draws on imagery from various sources and his work appears as rhizomatic compositions. In Astrid Kruse Jensen’s work, the viewer similarly gets the sense of standing across from an abstraction without reference to any specific time. Mille Kalsmose’s work circles around the concept of magic materialism, which is fundamentally about seeing; seeing ourselves, seeing the world as well as seeing behind the reality of matter, in order to gain access to innate knowledge, outside time and space.
Astrid Kruse Jensen, Merged in Time and Space, Archival fiber print, 2022
Kasper Eistrup, Year of the Rat, Installation view at Martin Asbæk Gallery, 2020
Mille Kalsmose, Synliggørelser, Installation view at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, 2021
Mille Kalsmose (DK)
Mille Kalsmose’s work spans from the production of images to sculptural pieces and installation works, introducing new ways of exploring and understanding human existence and togetherness. Kalsmose’s works embody family constellations and investigate the relationship between the individual and the world.
Mille Kalsmose (b. 1972, Horsens; DK) is a Danish visual artist that lives and works between Copenhagen (DK) and New York (US). Kalsmose graduated from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona (ES), and studied at the Bio Art Lab, School of Visual Arts, New York (US). Kalsmose’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, most recently at the 59th Venice Biennale and Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg (DK). Kalsmose’s work is represented in several private and public collections, including Horsens Art Museum, Horsens (DK); Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg (DK); MANA Contemporary, Jersey City and Chicago (US); Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago (CL).
'Synliggørelser', Installation view at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning
- 2021
Courtesy of the artist and Martin Asbæk Gallery. Photo by David Stjernholm
Kasper Eistrup’s artistic expression has been shaped by the collision of several elements, collectively creating an expanded narrative that Eistrup describes as ”fragmentarism”. Each work consists of several visual expressions, ranging from meticulously detailed depictions to pure abstraction
Kasper Eistrup (b. 1973, Copenhagen; DK) is a Danish visual artist, living and working in Copenhagen (DK). He began his creative career in the 1990s as the lead singer and founder of the Danish rock band Kashmir. Alongside his musical endeavours, he has worked with visual arts on a professional level and has exhibited paintings since 1999, most recently at Kastrupgaardsamlingen, Kastrup (DK) with his solo exhibition ‘Det halve menneske’ in 2022. In 2018, Eistrup was commissioned to paint a portrait of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik.
Year of the Rat, Installation view at Martin Asbæk Gallery
- 2020
Courtesy of the artist and Martin Asbæk Gallery. Photo by David Stjernholm
Astrid Kruse Jensen is a visual artist whose work is based primarily in photography. The relationship between photography and remembrance is an important drive for the artist, who has worked with memory as a form of shifted reality throughout her entire oeuvre. This interest is expressed through a constant exploration of the fundamentals of the photographic medium.
Astrid Kruse Jensen (b. 1975, Aarhus) has been nominated for prizes such as the Deutsche Börse Preis (2014) and Anne Marie Telmányi’s prize for women artists (2017) and has had solo exhibitions in Scandinavia, France, Germany, the Netherlands and India as well as group exhibitions in Europe, North America, and China. She is represented in several collections, including the George Eastman House, ARoS, The National Collection of Photography, Manchester City Gallery, Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Artotheque de Caen, the John Kobal Foundation and the Danish Arts Foundation.
Merged in Time and Space
Archival fiber print 2022
Looking Back While Trying To Look Ahead
Archival fiber print 2021
The Shifting Memories
Archival fiber print 2019
The Room of the Past
Archival fiber print 2022
Installationview from “Fortiden foran mig” at Fotografisk Center, 2021
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Photo by Troels Jeppe
Installationview from “Fortiden foran mig” at Fotografisk Center, 2021
