V1 Gallery (DK)

V1 Gallery represents a select group of emerging and established artists and is committed to introducing art, in all media, to an international audience. Seeing art as a profound and competent media for social and political discourse, the gallery aspires to serve as a platform for art that interacts with the surrounding society. Today the gallery has two locations in the central meatpacking district of Copenhagen.

V1 Gallery
Flæsketorvet 69
1711 Copenhagen
Denmark
(+45) 33 31 03 21

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CHART

For CHART 2023 V1 Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by the British artist Danny Fox in the main section. Fox has created a new suite of paintings for the occasion. On the stairs leading up to the exhibition halls Spanish artist Cristina de Miguel has created 3 new large scale works on paper. This will be the first time Miguel presents large works on paper in Europe. The Danish sculptor Klara Lilja will present a new work in the Start Collecting for CHART exhibition and Danish artist Oliver Sundqvist will present a new series of large-scale sculptures in the wonderful CHART in Tivoli exhibition in the Tivoli Gardens.

Danny Fox, 'Baden House or Methadone', 2023

Cristina de Miguel, 'Naroa on a Blue Chair', 2023

Klara Lilja, 'Rafflesiciro', 2021

Danny Fox (UK)

Danny Fox’s recent paintings engage with the place of his birth and the nature, buildings, bars, inhabitants, and the folklore of St. Ives, Cornwall, a small coastal town in Southwest England. In his lyrical and feverish style, Fox conjures forth grotesque and wonderful scenes that capture real people and lived moments, which he superimposes onto references from British and European art history. While quotes and alliterations were common in Fox’s previous work, his new paintings chart a kind of counter art history, incorporating autobiography, and investigating how meaning, identity and memory are constantly made and re-made through images.

Danny Fox (b. 1986, St. Ives; UK) lives and works in St. Ives, Cornwall (UK). The artist’s recent exhibitions include Saatchi Yates, London (UK); Yuz Museum, Shanghai (CN); Hannah Barry Gallery, London (UK); Alexander Berggruen, New York (US).

Death Of A Loved One

Acrylic on canvas
2022

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The Spirit Leaving The Body

Acrylic on canvas
2022

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Apple Index

Acrylic on canvas
2022

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Avalanche Index

Acrylic on canvas
2022

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Lake Index

Acrylic on canvas
2022

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Cristina de Miguel (ES)

The female protagonists in Cristina de Miguel’s (b. 1987) energetic and expressive works surf, dance, do yoga and perform exorcisms, even the ones lounging appear to be in action. Empowered radiant women, feeling freedom in their bodies. The sensation of motion is amplified by de Miguel’s painterly gestures. In her new suite of large-scale drawings, you experience freedom. The sensation you get when you do activities that makes you feel free, be it dancing, yoga, surfing, running, skating, meditating, watching the sun rise or painting. The euphoria of being present in the moment. Freedom in form and being.

Cristina de Miguel, born in 1987, Sevilla, Spain, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA. De Miguel holds a Master in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2012 and a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the University of Sevilla, Spain, 2010. Recent exhibitions include: About Last Night, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2023, Cristina de Miguel & Jenny Brosinski, Almine Rech Gallery, NY, USA, 2023, El Caer y el Viento, Villa Magdalena, San Sebastian, Spain, 2023, Gente Cayendo del Cielo, L21 Gallery, Mallorca, Spain, 2022, Wheels, Flying Bodies, and Other Stories, Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY, USA, 2022, Procession Paintings, Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery, New York, NY, USA, 2021 and Paintings of Through and Fell, Allouche Benias Gallery, Athens, Greece, 2021.

Naroa on a Blue Chair

Acrylic and oil stick on canvas
2023

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Exorcism

Acrylic and oil stick on canvas
2023

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Surfer

Acrylic and oil stick on canvas
2023

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Klara Lilja (DK)

In Klara Lilja's (b. 1989) fantastical worldbuilding, abstract biomorphic forms are transformed in an organic genesis of imaginative beings, flora, and fauna. These otherworldly ceramics, enveloped in mesmerizing glazes, channel history, science and popular culture through Lilja's eclectic visual language and personal experience: “The events that left their mark on me happened in days gone by, in my head”, Lilja quotes one of her Symbolist heroes, the French painter Odilon Redon (1840-1916). Bestowing her figures with an aura of enchantment, Lilja's works materialize in a wondrous microcosm, bridging her idiosyncratic universe with the inner world of the viewer.

Klara Lilja’s recent exhibitions include ‘Between Myth and Reality,’ Willumsen’s Museum, DK (2022-23), ‘Parangkera,’ V1 Galley, DK (2021); ‘Fantasy,’ Collaborations, DK (2020), ‘Philosopher’s Mountain,’ V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK (2019), ‘Dryade,’ Politikens Forhal, DK (2018). In the spring of 2023, she will participate in a new group exhibition at Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund, DK.