Press release, December 2022
We are very pleased to present a new exhibition by Danish artist Jens Axel Beck.
The Circular is a recurring element in the exhibition’s works, and the circle as an allegory for the flow of time has led to the exhibition title “Circle in the Sand”. The title is taken from Belinda Carlisle’s long-outdated 1987 pop hit. The exhibition is a series of reflections on time that are forever seeping, in a world where we have to settle for having our own expiry date in sight. Within this horizon, the works also deals with the individual as a singularity that is hung up on the systems of society. Structures which you often simply have to rotate along with, as they are difficult to influence, all the while one seeks to give his or hers rotation a certain spiritual substance.
The pop song “Circle in the Sand” is yet another in the line of pop culture’s eternally simple love songs, perhaps as banal as our pursuit of everyday necessities, like over-the-counter drugs and Matador Mix. The song is about a moment in time, when two individuals meet in the experience of endless love, which, however, has been brought to an end, and now only lives in the memory of it. The story of something that once was and is no more is embodied in the New Shelter Plan KIOSK exhibition space. The place is no longer a kiosk but an exhibition venue, which exudes the function of the past, traces that will slide into the exhibition and play tricks on the exhibited works and vice versa.
Opening: Friday the 6th of January, 17-20.
Exhibition period: 6 January - 3 February, 2023.
Opening hours: Thu-Fri-Sat: 11-16.
More info: www.newshelterplan.com
The exhibition is supported by: Statens Kunstfond. KIOSK is supported by: Frederiksbergfonden, Frederiksberg Kommune, Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond.
New Shelter Plan KIOSK. Press photo
KIOSK is a satellite space located in a former kiosk at the Frederiksberg hospital grounds. The kiosk building still has the furniture and outside appearance of its past life, but contemporary artists will install site-specific new works in the atmosphere-filled space – both inside and outside. KIOSK will host one exhibition every other month, opening in January 2023.
The old New Shelter Plan was a contemporary, non-profit exhibition space situated in the old Carlsberg district in Copenhagen. The primary focus was new contemporary art by upcoming as well as established artists working in a wide range of media. The aim was to present exhibitions that we believe challenges the existing Danish art scene. In our 185m2 unusual exhibition space, we featured solo shows, group shows and collaborative exhibitions as well as shorter events – ‘Shorts’. The program from the beginning to May 2015 was based on open call applications and selected by the advisory board.
New Shelter Plan distinguishes itself from other artist run exhibition spaces in Copenhagen by size and the constellation of an advisory board that curates the program. By the regular advisory board meetings and relatively short exhibition periods New Shelter Plan manifests itself as a vibrant, dynamic and engaging exhibition space able to maintain a flexibility and energy within the program.
Curators: Johan Rosenmunthe and Wendy Plovmand.