Please join us from 18.30 – 20.30 tonight for the opening of Lurking for Transcendental Moments, Benny Dröscher’s first solo exhibtion in the UK. And afterwards at the Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, Tavistock Hotel, Bedford Way.

Rokeby Gallery

Hz is proud to make room for an interesting look through the eyes of NICHOLAS TAYLOR, 1/5 of the legendary GRAY orchestra featuring band-members JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT, MICHAEL HOLMAN, WAYNE CLIFFORD and VINCENT GALLO.

FRIDAY May 18th at 21h00, Hz is transformed into a kaleidoscopic look on art and music history, featuring Mr. Nicholas Taylor himself on the turntables alongside Mxll and Pac.

H-Z

Abstrakt I
Co-Lab.
Nørre Søgade 17, kld.tv. DK-1370 København K.

co-lab.cph@hotmail.com

Young Egelund

The real Jonathan Monk with one of his pantings, Rune have made the works not Mr. Monk.

Nicolai Wallner

Rune Plank

UNDER MY NAILS

Galleri Tom Christoffersen presents the comprehensive group show UNDER MY NAILS with the participation of both artists of the gallery and guests. All artists has used the same point of departure; a poem by Henrik Have.

It may border to pathetic and way to subjective when the owner of the gallery takes the initiative to an exhibition, which springs from no less than a genuine passion for poetry. It gets even worse when it is combined with personal experiences of tracing the poet tombs in the Middle East and being on the track of Ferdousi, Rumi og Sadi just after momentarily having lost the mind consulting the master of metaphors – Hafiz – in the rose gardens of Shiraz. Non-the less this is why artists from the Danish and international contemporary art scene has been invited to take up the challenge and freely depart from a particular poem. Which elements have been adopted or have motivated and fascinated the particular artists is fortunately not in the hands of Galleri Tom Christoffersen. UNDER MY NAILS is a diverse exhibition and the product of 23 artists taking up a challenge.

We would like to thank Henrik Have for the permission to use the following poem from:
Turistrejse til mine elskedes dyner.

I have turned my palms towards the ceiling
and I await a fall-down
of light and angles and juices and roses

Now and then plaster and wires
and sinful words fall

God I’ve got under my nails

Participating artists:
Claus Carstensen, Elmer, Alexander Laner (D), Anders W. Ø. Larsen, Marie Søndergaard Lolk, Pia Lundqvist (S), Henrik Menné, Mogens Møller, Mie Mørkeberg, Bodil Nielsen, Allan Otte, Krista Rosenkilde, Christian Skeel, Anna Sørensen.

By invitation: Franz Beckerlee, Anders Brinch, Peter Carlsen, James Jessop (UK), Jens Robert Jørgensen, Ferdinand Ahm Kragh, Knud Odde, Torben Ribe, Jonas Hvid Søndergaard.

Tom Christoffersen

MOGADISHNI AAR

RANDI JØRGENSEN & KATRINE MALINOVSKY

”SUPER SWEET – TWISTEE TREAT – 16 FLAVOURS – IT’S A WORLD IN IT SELF”

May 18 > June 30 2007

OPENING: FRIDAY MAY 18th 5 – 8 PM
The artists will be present at the opening

MOGADISHNI AAR proudly presents the exhibition ”SUPER SWEET – TWISTEE TREAT – 16 FLAVOURS – IT’S A WORLD IN IT SELF” by Danish artists Randi Jørgensen (DK) and Katrine Malinovsky (DK). This is the artists’ second solo show at MOGADISHNI since their graduation from the Royal Danish Art Academy in 2005.

The exotic meets the everyday suburban life of Katrinebjergvej when Randi and Katrine take over the gallery, transforming it into a pineapple production. Dividing the gallery into a lobby, a superintendents’ office, a production hall and a “forgotten fair booth”, they mimic the spacing of an industrial building. In doing that, the artists elaborate not only on the history of this specific gallery space as a former industrial building, but they also alter and question the typical gallery setting.

The name ”SUPER SWEET – TWISTEE TREAT – 16 FLAVOURS – IT’S A WORLD IN IT SELF” functions not only as the title of the exhibition, but also as the brand or slogan for this specific pineapple production, promoting the pineapple species “Twistee Treat”. Disguised as a factory that invites visitors to have a peak into the fascinating history of the brand “Twistee Treat”, Randi & Katrine’s exhibition draws not only on the different historical and symbolic references of the fruit but equally the popular cultural use of the pineapple.

Used in Indian feasts and rites, as gifts for kings and noblemen and as dinner decoration extravaganzas, the pineapple has a long history of symbolizing hospitality, welcome and good cheer. Today the pineapple is an easy accessible commodity, and it can be found in most grocery stores, not only as fresh fruit but also canned or as flavour in juice and ice creams. In the installation this long and diverse history of the pineapple is unfolded, showing today’s industrialized mass produced version which is used on Hawaii pizza’s and on commercial postcards, but not leaving out the celebration of its rarity, exoticism and visual attractiveness in earlier eras.

The works by Randi Jørgensen and Katrine Malinovsky are a result of their common interest in a combination of architecture, objects and the narrative along with a fascination of large-scale installations where a dynamic interchange between the viewer and a specific space can take place.

MOGADISHNI AAR welcomes you in the gallery!

Randi & Katrine’s next solo exhibition will take place at Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, opening in February, 2008

Mogadishni

Thorgej Steen Hansen, Christian Schmidt-Rasmusse, Lise Harlev and the girls Vibeke Mejlvang & Sofie Hesselholt made the best works.

:::::Alot of good works from EXIT 2007::::::