BODIL BREMS, Painter
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UDDANNELSE:
Kunstakademiet i København 73-81 heraf Grafisk Skole 75-79 og Skolen for Kunstpædagogik, nu Medieskolen 79-81
UDSTILLINGER:
Debut på Charlottenborgs Forårsudstilling 73, siden Charloftenborgs Forårs - og Efterårsudstilling, Kunstnemes Etterårsudstilling 75-76, Kunstriernes Påskeudstilling 75-77, 77: Kunstnemes Sommerudstilling, Nordisk Grafikunion,Helsinki. Xylon 7, Fribourgh og Galleri A Gruppen, Internationale Grafikbiennaler i Ljubljana, Frederiksstad, Frechen, Varna, Intergrafik 80 DDR, Premio di Bellio Italien, "Sætstykker af en Virkelighed" Kastrupgårdsamlingen 79. Å-udstillingen i Danmark og Feste Cobourgh 79, "Blik på dansk Nutidskunst" Charlottenborg 81, Deæmbristerne 81, Ovalen 78-81, "Kunstnere for Fred" Charlb. 83. "De nære Ting" Vejen Kunstmuseum 87, Albertslund Rådhus, Galerie Admiralgade 20, nu Galerie Dahl 80 - 88 - 93 - 99, Blennale international de ville de Menton 88, Dansk Grafikbiennale Nykøbing-Falster 89, Galleri Thi, Thistrup 81, 90, Galleri øst i Vest 91, Galleri Malling, Lyngby 93. gallerier, kommuner, kunstforeninger,Galleri Lærken Hazerswoude Holland 93 og 95. 95:Thorasminde Gladsaxe,Skovhuset, Skagen hos Glasblæseren. 96: Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum. Minimal VII, VIII, IX og X i Varmegalleriet, Galleri Sulegården Assens 96,97, 98, 99. Skovbo Rådhus 92 og 97, 96:MINI PRINT internacional 16 Gadaques Spanien, præmieret og separat 97. Taastrup Kulturcenter 98, "Gennem Muren" Assistens kirkegårdsmur, Galleri Lund & Lund Klampenborg 99, Galleri "K" Gråsten, Galleri 2rn Bornholm 99 98/99: "Konkret og Abstrakt". FNforbundets vandreudstilling om menneskeretserklæringerne med TROLDROSEN:Charlottenborg 81 ,Haderslev Kunstmuseum 82, Den Frie Udstillings Bygning 83-87, Lolland - Falster Kunstmuseum 83, Trapholt Kolding 8; med DANSKE GRAFIKERE: Nikolaj Kirke 80 og 83, Århus Kunstbygning 84, Skovgårdsmuseet Viborg 87 og 95, "Triangel" 88-89, Skovhuset 86, "Fotografi i grafisk kunst", Danske Grafikeres Galerie 95
UDSMYKNING:
Malerier, prints og farvesætning af lællesareal og gang på VUC Vest, Albertslund 98/99.
CENSUR:
Kun stnernes Efterårsudstilling 1977-78, KS samt andre.
REPRÆSENT:
Kastrupgårdsamling en, Statens Kunstfond, Esbjerg KunstpavilIon. Ny Carlsbergfondet. Trapholt, Kolding, Frederiksberg, Albertslund, Ledøje, Gentofte, Gladsaxe m. fI. kommuner, Sophienberg Slot, Frederikshavn Sygehus.
LEGATER:
Carlssons Præmie 76, Frk. Suhrs legat for Kunstmalere, Hammans legat, Kunsthandler Bachs udstilling~ og konærtlegat 78, flere af Akademiets legater, Heerups legat, Gangsted- fondet, Statens værksteder for Kunst og Håndværk, GI. Dok 92, 98. 94 Alexander Thorvald Klinspor og Ellen Marie Schrøders Fond, 96 Brødrene kunstmaler August Lorange og vingrosserer Georg Lorange's mindefond ved prokurist Finn Lorange.
MEDLEM AF:
Kunstnersamfundet, Danske Grafikere, KKS, BKF.
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BIOGRAPHY
Born 1943, in Denmark
EDUCATION
The Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen 1973-81. Department of Graphic Art 1975-79.
EXHIBITIONS
Debut on Spring Exhibition of Charlottenburg 1973. From 73-79 all major censored exhibitions in Denmark: Artists Autumn Exhibition, KE, KP, Charlottenburg Spring- and autumn etc. Northern Graphic Union 77 in Helsinki, Xylon 7 Fribourgh, International Graphic Biennales in Frederiksstad, Frechen, Ljubljana, Varna, Intergrafik 80 DDR, Fremio di BelIi Italy." Settings of a Reality" Collection of Kastrupgard 79. "Danish Contemporary' Art" Charlottenburg 81, "Artists for Peace" charlottenburg 83, "Things around us" Museum of Art in Vejen 87, Museum Trapholt Kolding 87, Biennale International De Ville de Menton 88, Art-museum of Frederikshavn 1996, Galerie Admiralgade 20, now Galerie Dahi 80 -88 - 93, Miniprint Internacional 16 Cadaques Spain 96, Galleries in Norway, Denmark, Holland.
Group exhibitions in major danish cities, mostly Copenhagen f ex. "Photography in graphic arts" in Gallery of graphic Artists 95, Skovgardsmuseum in Viborg 87-95.
REPRESENTED
Art Collection of Kastrupgård, Foundation of Ny Carlsberg, Foundation of the Danish State, Art Museum Trapholt in Kolding, Museum of Art in Maribo.
GRANTS
Several Danish grants, Working period in The Workshops of the Danish state, "Gammel Dok" 92. Awarded in Miniprint Internacional 16 Cadaques 96.
MEMBERSHIPS
Society of artists of the Royal Danish Academy. Danish Graphic Society, BKF (General society of Artists in Denmark)
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TEXT
I travel. I move. New sites are taken in. That which yesterday I took for granted and which had therefore become invisible, is suddenly becoming visible, perhaps provokingly much so and is reconsidered. I look and photograph, both the marvelous, the ugly, the weird, the banal. I travel on airplanes, trains, buses, I walk on my legs. The tempo mix-up things. Standing in New York I may believe that it is a fjell on Iceland which I see out the corner of my left eye. I remember what it felt like to walk there. The haste of the city reminds me of Gullfoss, the North Sea in storm or a dream I had once. In Sct. Petersborg I once had a grand experience seeing the big sculptures of the siege of the city during worldwar II- but the great things that man can do may be destroyed in a moment by nature. These thoughts and speculations I visualize in my pictures of "time-collapse". Here time, things and places that have nothing to do with each other are brought together, and the construction of a well-known reality falls apart, it collapses.
Mostly I print my graphics in black and silver. Silver will make a landscape flat and psychical so that it may function as the sky over an American city. The feeling of greatness from the Russian sculptures suit in fine - at first glance anyway - when you look closer it may fall apart - the meaning collapses. The Danish title "samtidig" has the double meaning "at the same time" and "collapse".
At this moment I have a series of 20 lithographs of that theme. I print them myself from offsetplates on a lithographic press. My material is photos taken by me on the different locations. The prints are from 10 x 10 cm to 25 x 30 cm. I plan some bigger ones to print this summer. I also paint pictures over this theme. They are from 20 x 24 to 80 x 120 cm.
Bodil Brems
