Artist Statement – Rasmus Nielsen
Rasmus Nielsen (b. 1984) is a visual artist living in Copenhagen.
He debuted with his first solo exhibition in 2005, after having been apprenticed to the Iraqi/Danish multimedia artist Mahmoud Alibadi.
Rasmus Nielsen’s practice is based on a recently started intuitive working process where he experiments with emulating organic forms, repeated in different sizes and media such as textile, installation, painting and collage.
The result is a simple abstract idiom that is both tactile and sensual.
He has been part of the Danish/Greenlandic art project SIIKU (2017-2023), and has exhibited at Kunsthal Aarhus, SOPHIENHOLM, Augustenborg_Project and Thorvaldsens Museum.
Represented at Shoes or no shoes? Museum in Belgium, and member of UKK.
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Rasmus Nielsen, Born 1984, Lyngby, Denmark
Apprentice with Mahmoud Alibadi 2003-2004
Co-founder of the art project SIIKU (2017-2023)
Member of UKK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024 RE:PATCH, EKS-RUMMET
2024 ANOMALI, Kunsthal Vejle
2024 TID, Relæet, Copenhagen Light Festival
2023 Preview, Villa Kultur (1-dags udstilling)
2022 IMPRINT, Augustenborg_Project (m/ SIIKU)
2019 MELTAGE – The Act, Result and Amount, Gjethuset (m/ SIIKU)
2018: ANKOMST, Arttra Gallery (w/ SIIKU)
2017 Origin, Galleri Kbh Kunst
2007 Welcome to the real matrix, Cobra Rummet, Sophienholm
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2021 I Sagens Natur, Davis Gallery (m/ SIIKU)
2021 X UNLIMITED, Til Vægs (w/ SIIKU)
2021 GRØNLAND – I KUNSTEN GENNEM 300 ÅR, Museet for Religiøs Kunst (m/ SIIKU)
2020-21 NYT LYS, Sophienholm (m/ SIIKU)
2012 DiT Europa, Toftegårds plads, Valby kulturhus
2010 Hul i hækken, SAK
2006: A-Huset, A-Huset
INSTALLATION WORKS:
2023 BØLGELAND, Copenhagen Light Festival / Nordatlantens Brygge (m/ SIIKU)
2022 OUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE, Folkemødet + Ungdommens Folkemøde (m/ SIIKU)
2021 AD CORONAM, Kulturnatten / Cisternerne (m/ SIIKU)
2020+2021: BLOOMING PHASE / TEMPUS FLORENS, Light art installation, Thorvaldsens Museum (m/ SIIKU)
2020 INITUS x SPECULUM, 1-dags installation, Kunsthal Aarhus (m/ SIIKU)
2019: OMNI CHRONOS, Leth & Gori Gallery / CAFx (m/ SIIKU)
COLLECTIONS:
2008 Childlabour (skulptur), Shoes or no shoes? Museum, Belgien
CURATORY WORK:
2021 X UNLIMITED, Til Vægs (m/ SIIKU)
2017 Relæet (m. bl.a. Nat Bloch Gregersen, Anna Walther, Anna Taina-Nielsen)
ARTIST TALKS:
2024 Fagligt seminar om Kunstig Intelligens i kunsten, samtale med Jacob Remin, BKF Syd / Kunsthal Vejle
2023 Bølger & Bobler, Nordatlantens Brygge / Copenhagen Light Festival (m/ SIIKU)
2021 Free Lunch, Art Hub Copenhagen (m/ SIIKU)
