As a member of the Association of Visual Artists (BKF) and a graduate within the last three years, you have the opportunity to participate in BKF's exhibition scheme.
Exhibitor of the month of April-May, Johanne Helga Heiberg Johansen, explores the possibilities of drawing in his works. Here she talks about her work:
"The works exhibited at BKF are characteristic of what I am working on right now. The two ink drawings hanging in the office were made for BKF's handbook 2018 and are part of a longer series of ink drawings for that purpose.
My idea was that the drawings should describe something realistic and recognizable like a desk or a staircase. At the same time, the drawings try to tell a story, but in individual fragments, which the viewer has to find his or her own way through.
The fabric works that hang in BKF's meeting room come out of a process where I try to push the act of drawing itself, make the drawings into something spatial and create a more physical experience for the viewer.
Hanging of works in BKF's secretariat, April 2018.
With my sewn drawings, I examine the boundaries of when something is a drawing and when it becomes something else, such as an embroidery or a tapestry.
When I change my usual medium, I am forced to look at lines and spaces in a new way. In my text-oriented projects, I work with cut-up, where I sample found text with my own. I try to create a new dialogue through the manipulation of text and images. My pictures are in many ways a continuation, where I have often used found material, which I cut together and compose a new picture over.”
At BKF, Johanne Helga Heiberg Johansen shows two graphic works (- shown at the top of this page):
The orange peeler. Marker, ink on paper (2017). Room. Marker, ink on paper (2017).
And two works sewn in thread on stout: Bar. Thread on stout (2017). Toilet. Thread on stout (2018).
Johanne Helga Heiberg Johansen graduated from the Funen Art Academy in 2015. The graduation work was the graphic novel Dear Frida.
Bar. Thread on stout (2017).
Current exhibitions spring/summer 2018:
In March-April 2018, Johanne Helga Heiberg Johansen will attend The Cromists' annual exhibition in Nykøbing Sj.
In August 2018, she exhibits in the project room C4 projects at Vesterbro.
Follow Johanne on Instagram, where she with the profile @helgahei continuously shows his works and work processes.
Johanne Helga Heiberg Johansen's works are displayed until 17 May 2018 in BKF's secretariat.
It happens as part of BKF's Graduate exhibitions, where the union's younger members have the opportunity to show examples of their work.
Visit the exhibition during the secretariat's opening hours, Monday-Thursday at 10.00-15.00 in Vingårdstræde 21, 3.th., 1070 Copenhagen K.
Are you a member of BKF and a graduate of a Danish or foreign art academy within the past three years? Then you can exhibit with us. Read more here…
Toilet. Thread on stout (2018).