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Rune Christensen
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Group Exhibitions include Fight Club, Better Go South Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2023); Coffee at Bedale Street, Cohle Gallery, Paris, France (2023); Enter Art Fair, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2023); Now Now Vol.2, Breach, Miami, Florida, USA (2023); Ephemeral Pleasures, Richard Heller Gallery, California, USA (2023); Where the Wild Roses Grow, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Germany (2023); 13 a Dozen, curated by Joachim Lambrechts, Gallery Sandberg, Odense, Denmark (2023); California Dreamin’, Lorin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2023); Fightclub, Better Go South Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2023); Watch me burn, Ruttkowski 68, Paris, France (2022); KIAF, Elligere Gallery, Seoul, Korea (2022); Human, Piermarq Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2022); Disco Nap, Elligere Gallery, Seoul, Korea (2022); Duo show with Joachim Lambrechts, Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark (2022); In us we trust, Breach, Miami (2021); In Momentum, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2021); Værkoversigt - When Sinners Feast, Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Denmark (2021); Interconnected, John Wolf Art Advisory & Brokerage, Los Angeles, USA (2021); Stars Are Never Sleeping, Ruby Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (2021); No Church on Sundays, Galleri Sandberg, Odense, Denmark (2021); Figurativ Samplers, Det nye Kastet Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (2021); Somebody, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, US (2020); Lately, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, USA (2020); Stilles Leben, Affenfaust Galerie, Hamburg, Germany (2020); Påskeudstilling: Camilla West + Gruppe, Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark (2020); Oprydningssalg, Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark (2020); Group Show, Piermarq Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2020); Group Show, Vra Contemporary Museum, Denmark (2019); Stillleben, Vrå, Contemporary Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (2019); Urban Dawn, Beirut, Lebanon (2016); URBAN DAWN, Kazakhstan (2015).Highlights and CollectionsRune Christensen’s work can be found in the collection of The House of KOKO (London) ; The Easton Capital Collection and The W Art Collection (China).
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While these latest works refer to the history of still life painting as well as the contemporary social media trend for designing our domestic spaces, the disconnect from reality is important: it’s what allows Christensen to place a tiger on the shelf of a cabinet alongside a bunch of purple grapes. The tinges of fluorescent colour, a mainstay of the artist’s palette, add to the other-worldly atmosphere while also complicating our sense of time. These vivid flashes of orange, recalling the bold aesthetics of graffiti, feel startlingly contemporary while the many patterned vessels that permeate Christensen’s work reflect on craft traditions and ancient ways of living. As Christensen notes, ‘Humans first created pots as a way of storing food and water, enabling us to move away from hunting and gathering. In a similar way, painting acts as a vessel for my experiences and a release.’Unusually for Christensen there are no figures in any of these paintings but a spectral human presence lingers around the positioning of the objects. Each ‘thing’ has been given a place to create a particular order or visual effect. ‘The arrangement of things – objects, time, family, relationships – is a process of making sense but also progress, it allows us to move from one thing on to the next,’ says Christensen. At the same time, the unruliness of the plants – the ways in which leaves cascade down the shelves or the stems of sunflowers droop and bend into awkward positions – perhaps points to the impossibility of absolute control. In a similar way, Christensen’s paintings may appear from afar to present an image of perfection, but on closer inspection, the brushstrokes become visible as well as subtle seepages of colour. It is in these imperfections that we discover surprising moments of beauty, harmony and authenticity.Christensen’s paintings are, as all images, curated to tell a story or conjure a certain atmosphere, but they are also works of the imagination, a series of fragments or beginnings that is offered to the viewer for them to reassemble into their own narrative.
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