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We are pleased to present the first exhibition of the young Ukrainian artist Sofiia Yesakova and the German sound artist Sascha Kregel in Denmark. 

Vi er glade for at kunne præsentere den første udstilling af den unge ukrainske kunstner Sofiia Yesakova og den tyske lydkunstner Sascha Kregel i Danmark. 

 

Sofiia Yesakova moved to Berlin shortly after Russia invaded her home country. Since then, she has been dealing intensively with the war, its horrors, its dynamics and its consequences.

The artist works with minimal elements. Her pictures are based on traditional forms of representation from Eastern church Renaissance painting, which she ‘updates’ by replacing them with scenarios and phenomena of war in her home country. 

This may not be recognisable at first glance, but the religious reference is made clear not least by the technique of Orthodox icon painting, which Sofiia studied intensively at the academy in Kyiv and in which her pictures are produced.

Sofiia Yesakova flyttede til Berlin kort efter, at Rusland havde invaderet hendes hjemland. Siden da har hun beskæftiget sig intensivt med krigen, dens gru, dens dynamik og dens konsekvenser.

Kunstneren arbejder med minimale elementer. Hendes billeder er baseret på traditionelle repræsentationsformer fra renæssancemaleriet i den østlige kirke, som hun »opdaterer« ved at erstatte dem med scenarier og fænomener fra krigen i hendes hjemland. 

Det er måske ikke genkendeligt ved første øjekast, men den religiøse reference tydeliggøres ikke mindst af teknikken i det ortodokse ikonmaleri, som Sofiia har studeret intensivt på akademiet i Kiev, og som hendes billeder er produceret i.

For our exhibition, we asked the artist to transform the exhibition space into a kind of chapel, a place of contemplation where her works enter into dialogue with the sounds produced especially for the exhibition by artist Sascha Kregel, perhaps offering a joint answer to the question of how relevant contemporary art can still be in face of the ongoing terror of the Russian war in Ukraine.

Til vores udstilling bad vi kunstneren om at omdanne udstillingsrummet til en slags kapel, et sted for fordybelse, hvor hendes værker indgår i dialog med de tonerne, som kunstneren Sascha Kregel har skabt specielt til udstillingen, og måske giver et fælles svar på spørgsmålet om, hvor relevant samtidskunst stadig kan være i lyset af den fortsatte terror fra den russiske krig i Ukraine.

 

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Sofiia Yesakova was born 1998 in Kyiv and did her master’s degree there at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. 

She has already had numerous exhibitions in the Ukraine as well as in other European countries, at last at the Contemporary Cluster Gallery in Rome, Italy; at the Antwerp Art Box, Belgium or at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany among others.

Sofiia Yesakova er født i 1998 i Kiev, hvor hun tog sin mastergrad på National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. 

Hun har allerede haft adskillige udstillinger i Ukraine såvel som i andre europæiske lande, senest på Contemporary Cluster Gallery i Rom, Italien; på Antwerp Art Box, Belgien eller på Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Tyskland blandt andre.

 

Sascha Kregel (*1989) is a sound artist who uses drawings as random generators for tonal ghost grids and scales. The sounds produced range from a-rhythmic minimal patterns to resonance fields and noises.

Sascha Kregel completed his degree in Fine Arts at the Braunschweig University of Art in 2018. He received a grant from the Kölnischer Kunstverein and now lives and works in Worpswede. His works have been shown in group exhibitions at the studios of the Kölnischer Kunstverein (2020/2019), Galerie Dechanatstraße Bremen (2018), Kunstverein Braunschweig (2017), Shoot the Lobster in New York (2017) and the Museum für Photographie in Braunschweig (2016), among others.

Sascha Kregel (*1989) er en klangkunstner, der bruger tegninger som tilfældige generatorer for tonale ghost grids og skalaer. De frembragte toner spænder fra a-rytmiske minimalmønstre til resonansfelter og støj.

Sascha Kregel afsluttede sin uddannelse i billedkunst ved Braunschweig University of Art i 2018. Han modtog et stipendium fra Kölnischer Kunstverein og bor og arbejder nu i Worpswede. Hans værker har været vist på gruppeudstillinger i Kölnischer Kunstvereins atelierer (2020/2019), Galerie Dechanatstraße Bremen (2018), Kunstverein Braunschweig (2017), Shoot the Lobster i New York (2017) og Museum für Photographie i Braunschweig (2016), blandt andre.