Photo courtesy Julie Nymann
Anne Torpe (born 1981, Copenhagen, Denmark) holds a MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2009.
Torpes works radiates every day scenarios in a movie like setting, bits of memory from a distant time, catching up with our contemporary lifestyle.
Through a radically singular approach Torpe uses references and ideas that are integrated into the process of the composition, creating both the scene, the humans and the figures in her topia. Where glamorous non-binary characters and the surroundings are morphing together in abstractions of perspective. A figurative cubism where the collage of colors and lines plays with the degeneration of an image.
By merging several seemingly incompatible worlds into a new universe, she uses a visual vocabulary where multilayered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned. The work incorporates time as well as space – a fictional and experiential universe that only emerges bit by bit.
Her paintings are a drawn reflection upon the art of painting itself, and therefore deeply inscribed in the history of modernism – made present most palpably in the artist’s exploration of some of the most hallowed of modernist paradigms.
ANNE TORPE
B. 1981 IN DENMARK | LIVES AND WORKS IN COPENHAGEN
REPRESENTED BY
HANS ALF GALLERY
EDUCATION
2003-2009
MFA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Copenhagen / Prof. Jesper Christiansen / Prof. Anette Abrahamsson
Akademie der Bildenden Künste. München / Prof. Günther Förg
SOLO and DUO SHOWS
2020 Familiar Strangers. Solo show. Bricks Gallery. Copenhagen
2019 Silent Pilots and other Curiosities. Solo show. UDSTILLINGSSTEDET.dk, Sorø
2017 Shelf Life. Solo show. RØM. Copenhagen
2017 April Montagen. Solo show. CGK gallery. Copenhagen
2016 Opstalt. Galleri Christoffer Egelund. Copenhagen
2016 Riget. Solo show. Copenhagen
2015 Silhouettes, Solo show. Rødovre Rådhus.
2013 The Scratch of the Nib. Hürtig/Kany Gallery. Copenhagen
2008 Lights Out. Solo show. Palæ Bar. Copenhagen
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2021 The Great Big Winter Show. Hans Alf Gallery. Copenhagen
2020 December. Open Call 2020 - Winners exhibition. Delphian Gallery. London. Link to online show
2020 Groupshow. Alice Folker Gallery. Copenhagen
2020 Groupshow. Lene Bilgrav Gallery. Aarhus
2020 'The Show Must Go On'. Bricks Gallery. With Mathias Maling Mortensen and Luca Bjørnsteen. Copenhagen
2019 'Stilleben'. Kunstbygningen i Vrå. With Farshad Farzankia, Jordy Kerwick, Agnete Bertram and more.
2019 ONCE IN A BLUE MOON, SE!, Århus. With Lars Sarto Hempler, Mathias Malling Mortensen, Henning Schultz and more.
2019 'Urbilleder', Koldinggade 12, Copenhagen. With Camilla Thorup og Ida Sønder Thorhauge.
2019 OBLIQUE STRATEGIES, co_temporary, Cph. With Krista Rosenkilde and Line Busch, curated by Mie Olise Kjærgaard
2019 Om og Om Igen, Koldinggade 12, Copenhagen.
Groupshow w/ Camilla Thorup, Dea Trier Mørch, Gudrun Hasle, Pernille Egeskov, Lisa Strömbeck, Marianne Krumbahch
2018 Nye Blikke #2 - I hus med Richard Winther. Kastrupgårdsamlingen. Copenhagen
2018 Nye Blikke #1 - I hus med Richard Winther. Vindeby. Lolland
Groupshow w/ Richard Winther, Jeanette Hillig, Morten Schelde, Peter Linde Busk, Gudrun Hasle, Christian Finne, Lars Tygesen,
Camilla Thorup, Birgitte Støvring, Mette Colberg, Rikke Benborg, Claus Hugo Nielsen, Kaspar Oppen Samuelsen
2018 SHOW UP. RØM. Copenhagen
2017 We are the ones doing works on canvas, vol 1. CGK gallery. Copenhagen
2017 100 kvinder på Kro, CGK gallery, Copenhagen
2017 Det Stille Liv. Koldinggade 12, groupshow w/ Anette Abrahamsson, Erik A. Frandsen, Christian Schmidt Rasmussen, Johannes Sivertsen
2017 KONSTRUKTIONER, Vrå Kunstbygning, groupshow w/ Ivan Andersen, Ida Kvetny, Louise Langgaard, Malte Fisker, Mie Olise
2016 Ude Inde Overalt, Kunsthuset Palæfløjen Roskilde, groupshow w/ Lise Blomberg og Camilla Thorup
2016 100 kvinder på kro, Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro
2016 50x50x50, Kastrupgårdsamlingen, Copenhagen
2015 0601-0603, Anne Torpes & Louise Langgaards atelier, Grønttorvet 6, Copenhagen
2015 Beers 5, 100 kvinder på kro, Byens Kro, Copenhagen
2012 Mesh Up, Galleri Klejn, Allinge, Bornholm
2011 Illusions, Carlsberg Ny Tap, Copenhagen
2011 3rd Party. Beaver Projects, Copenhagen
2011 Late Summer, Charlotte Fogh Contemporary, Århus
2011 OK CORRAL, Toves Galleri, Copenhagen
2011 Beers 3, Byens Kro, Copenhagen
2010 SUMMER 10, Charlotte Fogh Contemporary, Århus
2009 Graphics and drawings. Galleri Rebecca Kormind, Copenhagen
2009 Beers 2. Byens Kro, Copenhagen
2009 Anne vs. Annabelle. Weltraum, München
2009 EXIT09 - graduation show. Gl. Strand, Copenhagen
2009 Human Nature. Charlotte Fogh Contemporary, Århus
2009 Nightmares & Other Fancies. Galerie Christa Burger, München
2009 Weltraum Jahresüberblick. Städtischen Kunsthalle München, Lothringer13, München
2009 Everything is swimming before my eyes. Q, Copenhagen
2008 Kleinere Arbeiten. Raum 500, München
2008 Dipmaster II. Wandergalerie Stephanie Bender, München
2008 Projektraum. GRASSEREINS, München
2008 FUNK! Charlotte Fogh Contemporary, Århus
2008 Catalogue. Charlotte Fogh Contemporary, Århus
2007 Take Away Summer 07. Charlotte Fogh Contemporary, Århus
2007 Spring 07. Århus Kunstbygning, Århus
2007 Thisted Biennalen. Det Ny Kastet,Thisted
2006 The Rehearsel Dinner. Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copehagen
2006 Papirknald. Fung Sway, Copenhagen
2006 Back to the Future. Galleri Rebecca Kormind, Copenhagen
2006 Artforum. Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin
2006 Long Island Ice Tea. +Laboratorium, Copenhagen
2006 Naturally! Mogadishni, Copenhagen
2006 Ordsprog. Portalen, Greve
2006 Spring exhibition. Århus Kunstbygning, Århus
2005 Buffet. Førstetilvenstre, Copenhagen
2005 Den Syvende/The seventh. Førstetilvenstre, Copenhagen
2005 Politikens hus. Copenhagen
2005 Fall Exhibition. Den Frie, Copenhagen
2005 Total Billede. Koh-i Noor, Copenhagen
2005 Randers Art Gallery, Randers
2005 Den Første/The first. Førstetilvenstre, Copenhagen
2005 Spring exhibtion. Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
PROJECTS
Co-founder of the artist run exhibition space RØM, Copenhagen, 2016-present
Poster design for Copenhagen University, 2015
Children book project with author Lene Asp, 2011
Co-founder of the artist run exhibition space GRASSEREINS, München, 2008
Curator, Thisted Biennalen, Thisted, 2007
Co-founder of the artist run exhibition space FØRSTETILVENSTRE, Copenhagen, 2005-2006
FUNDINGS AND GRANTS
Glashandler Johan Franz Ronges Fond, 2019
Irgens Berghs Kunstnerlegat, 2019
Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse, 2018
Danish Arts Foundation, 2013
Danish Arts Council, 2012
Danish Arts Foundation, 2012
Ole Haslunds Fond, 2010
Frøken Marie Månssons Legat, 2009
Agustinus Fonden, 2008
Toyota Fonden, 2008
Oticon Fonden, 2008