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Two Minutes Every Three Weeks and Two Minutes Everyday‍

Gwangju Biennale, The Danish Pavilion
Curated by Kristian Kirk, Johanne Jacobsen, and Jacob Fabricius

Artists: Haloplus+, Eigil Bakdal Jørgensen, Lee Dong-hyun, Lee Eusung, Li Hanwai, Kristina Nagel, Rolf Nowotny, Charlotte Thrane, and Cosey Fanny Tutti
Opening Live Acts, Sep. 4: Haloplus+, Ditte Krøyer, Soli City, Wedding
Gwangju Civic Center 15 Jungang-ro, 107 beon-gil, Nam-gu, Gwangju 61636, Republic of Korea

Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation, fake foundation, and The New Carlsberg Foundation

Graphic design by Lukas Danys

Thanks to the artists, Seolhui Lee, Ah Ram Kang, and The Embassy of Denmark in Korea
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The setting of the exhibition is a stage-like architecture at the Gwangju Civic Center. The space is designed within a raw, concrete modernist indoor and outdoor space and should be considered as a stage for contemporary art, performances and bodies. Two Minutes Every Three Weeks and Two Minutes Everyday presents artists exploring the unspoken…

Performance as body / Body as architecture / Architecture as concrete / Concrete as interior / Interior as exterior / Exterior as concrete / Concrete as skin / Skin as sex / Sex as whining guitars / Whining guitars as performance / Skin as leather / Leather as body / Body as performance

The exhibition will mime the spatial characteristics of the building and through the curatorial methods attempting to soften the building, turn it inside out, and make the static concrete, raw industrial building into a living environment where sound, movement, and bodily presence continuously reshape the experience of the space and exhibition. The title of the exhibition Two Minutes Every Three Weeks and Two Minutes Everyday is taken from the Throbbing Gristle song Hamburger Lady from 1978.

Haloplus+

The band Haloplus+ – a trio consisting of Joakim Wei Bernild, Stine Victoria Kobæk Pedersen, and Isa Nam Sook Steensen Tind – produces a mixture of acoustic sensitivity, cool electronics, atmospheric psychedelic sounds and playful songs. They usually perform on stage, but at Two Minutes Every Three Weeks and Two Minutes Everyday their sound installation is inspired by aleatoric music and cut-up techniques, where fragmentation and shuffling construct and reveal new meanings. The work blurs the lines between sound, music, art and life. In a screen-based world where social media in particular controls our way of experiencing, the sense of sight is exalted. With a generative sound work that develops over time, Haloplus+ wants to zoom in on the transformative power of sound and how it can in itself transform a place, and create a dialogue between time and space. Haloplus+ was formed in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2021.

Eigil Bakdal Jørgensen

The style of Eigil Bakdal Jørgensen’s paintings are extremely hard to pin down to one kind of subject, one type of motif, a specific narrative, or even something as simple as a painterly style. The paintings often look and appear real, but at a closer look there is always something wrong about them, even the most realistic looking paintings are slightly distorted. No matter if the painting portrays an elf or is a realistic painting of one of his friends they all have an uncanny twist. Bakdal Jørgensen masters many different techniques within the field of painting and he is not afraid of mocking and mixing them within one single work. The world is the viewer of a dizzy kaleidoscopic vision, and something this view is literally seen through a glass, glass crystal balls, or security and surveillance mirrors. Eigil Bakdal Jørgensen (Denmark, b. 1998) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Lee Dong-hyun

Lee Dong-hyun works with sculptures, performances, texts, drawings, and films. In Lee Dong-hyun’s performances he often creates and wears masks and costumes that appear as shelters, nests, or shells for Lee’s body. The costumes function as protection and soothing comfort to the body and Lee Dong-hyun uses them to symbolise the transformation of the body. The performances remind the viewer of the fragility of the queer body. Lee’s scruffy textile and plaster sculptures have a different kind of delicate and queer appearance, they are playful and humorous, juvenile and cartoonish, yet sensitive and thought-provoking. They evoke memories and desires and recall a rough primal instinct. Lee Dong-hyun (South Korea, b. 1993) lives and works in Seoul, South Korea.

Lee Eusung

Lee Eusung is dedicated to sculptural investigations of form, materiality, and symbolic imagery. She brings together wood, metal, clay, paper, fabric, plaster, yarn, and ready-made objects in her sculptures and wall-mounted works. In Lee Eusung’s practice, she embraces materiality and tactility in new, intricate, and challenging ways. Lee engages in an interplay between hard and soft, warmth and cold, brutality and care, found and meticulously handcrafted materials. The works juxtapose materials and techniques that are not usually combined. The human body recurs throughout Lee’s practice, evoking bodily presence, otherworldly manifestation, and new narrative possibilities. Lee Eusung (South Korea, b. 1989) lives and works in Seoul, South Korea.
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Li Hanwei

Li Hanwei works with a variety of mediums both as an artist and a curator. Whether sculpture, painting, photography or installation, his works share a characteristic cacophony, a mashed-up investigation of things in contemporary work, life and society. Through methods of assemblage, citation, and reorganisation, Li Hanwei manages to comment on interconnections, ecology, humanity, society, and post-modern neo-capitalist consumerism. Li Hanwei is interested in creating and simulating the feeling of living within a platform-driven reality, and the result appears as messy as the aftermath of a chaotic gathering. Li Hanwei (China, b. 1994) lives and works in Shanghai, China.
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Kristina Nagel

Kristina Nagel works with photography as a material process in which abstraction becomes a radical form of representation. Her practice investigates how the photographic image changes when recognizable references recede and image, surface, and material become inseparable. Decentering the individual is a defining aspect in her work: not as the erasure of identity, but as a shift from personal subjectivity toward conditions of perception. Through abstraction and transformation, forms and materials are reorganized into configurations between image and object. Leather functions as a structuring element in Nagel’s practice. It does not operate iconically, but transforms bodily references into forms, texture, and materiality. Printed on PVC, Nagel’s photographic works extend beyond the two-dimensional image surface and acquire a physical presence. They generate an anti-aura: their effect emerges through material presence and embodied perception, allowing photography to exist as an autonomous structure. Kristina Nagel (Germany) lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
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Rolf Nowotny

An eerie atmosphere reminiscent of a lost epoch characterizes Rolf Nowotny’s sculptures, drawings, paintings and installations. They have certain anthropomorphic features, but their bodies often resemble amoebic beings at an indeterminate stage of evolution before – or possibly after – Homo sapiens. Nowotny’s installations often suggest liminal spaces where the membrane between the worlds of bodies, objects and language becomes porous in uncanny yet beautiful ways. The barrier between dream and reality, science fiction and reality lie like a gloomy filter between the viewer and the work. Rolf Nowotny (Denmark, b. 1978) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Charlotte Thrane

Charlotte Thrane orchestrates meetings between mass produced – often discarded – flexible and firm materials, objects and structures, which become sculptures and site-specific installations. Thrane’s works are centred around sculptural experiences and speak directly to the body and the senses as aesthetic and spatial gestures. Central to the works are the traces and markings that we leave through touch and through living. Through combining multiple used, recognisable everyday objects – such as mattresses, hot tubs, duvets, and clothing into a single body – Thrane points towards capitalism, consumerism, mass- and overproduction. Thrane compresses the materials in numerous ways and makes them appear as modern fossils of our time and society. Charlotte Thrane (Denmark, b. 1975) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Cosey Fanni Tutti

Cosey Fanni Tutti is a pioneering English artist working across film, photography, performance, and music. Between 1973 and 1981, Tutti deliberately embedded herself within London’s adult entertainment and glamour industries, navigating modeling agencies, strip clubs, and pornographic magazines, culminating in the seminal exhibition Prostitution at the ICA London. Cosey Fanni Tutti was co-founder of the radical performance collective COUM Transmissions and a founding member of the legendary group Throbbing Gristle. Through abrasive soundscapes, transgressive live actions and a relentless refusal to compromise, she helped create influential, controversial, and legendary music and performances. The work of Cosey Fanni Tutti, both her corpus of pornographic magazines and her performances, is based on an emancipatory practice that transgresses institutional or social structures. The work Harmonic COUMaction is a living, shifting archive. Weaving together the historic debris, memories, and sonic frequencies of her formative years in her hometown of Hull into a loop of creative defiance. Cosey Fanni Tutti (England, b. 1951) lives and works in the UK.

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