\Peter BondeIt's Good Enough for Nansy08.06. - 03.08.2024
Peter Bonde, *1958 in Copenhagen, Denmark,
lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark
Danish painter Peter Bonde presents his latest works in the exhibition It’s Good Enough for Nansy, at Galerie Barbara Thumm. The gallery will show some of the artist’s pieces from 2023 and 2024 for the first time in Berlin.
Bonde’s practice blends inspiration from Abstract Expressionism and Conceptual Art with a contemporary approach. His abstract and colorful compositions explore the power and function of mass-circulated imagery, the fragility of memory, and personal archives. With a career spanning over four decades, Bonde was part of the 1980s “De Unge Vilde” (The Wild Youth), a group of artists who attended Copenhagen’s Royal Academy of Art between 1976 and 1982. His career expanded internationally and he represented the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1999 (with Jason Rhoades), to later showcase his works in Danh Vo’s installation at the Biennale’s 2019 iteration.
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Exhibition Views
Selected Works
Peter Bonde
130 x 115 cm
Peter Bonde
130x115cm
Peter Bonde
130 x 115 cm
Peter Bonde
130 x 115 cm
Peter Bonde
190x200cm
Peter Bonde
200x160cm
Peter Bonde
100x70 cm
Peter Bonde
100 x 70 cm
Peter Bonde
190x200cm
Peter Bonde
160x140cm
Peter Bonde
115x130cm
Peter Bonde
140x160cm
Peter Bonde
130 x 115 cm
Peter Bonde
190 x 240cm
Peter Bonde
160x140 cm
Peter Bonde
130x115cm
Peter Bonde
160x200cm
Peter Bonde
100 x 80 cm
Peter Bonde
130x115cm
Peter Bonde
160x200cm
Peter Bonde
200 x 160cm
Peter Bonde
200x160cm
Peter Bonde
100x80cm
Peter Bonde
200x160cm
Peter Bonde
200x160cm
Peter Bonde
200 x 160cm
\Roméo MivekanninHuman in Motion08.06. - 03.08.2024
Roméo Mivekannin, *1986 in Bouaké, Ivory Coast, lives and works between Toulouse, France and Cotonou, Benin
Roméo Mivekannin born in Bouaké, Côte d‘Ivoire, is a multidisciplinary artist blurring the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and installation. His diverse background includes training as a cabinetmaker, studying Art History and Architecture, and writing a novel.
Informed by his academic knowledge and his family‘s experience with colonization (he is a descendant of Behanzin, the last King of Dahomey, present-day Benin), he (re)creates compositions that challenge European iconography, taking classical paintings and photographs and substituting the subjects’ faces with self-portraits. Oceane Kinhouande refers to his practice using the concepts “visual quotes” or “plastic quotation process” to indicate the artist’s choice to reappropriate and reinterpret previous artistic productions. Mivekannin incorporates archival material to expose the colonial gaze in those underrepresented or unspoken (non-dits), basing his work on the “memory of history,” literally and figuratively. His canvases, like palimpsests, bear various layers of content beyond the visual, as he uses old bedsheets, kitchen rags, and tea towels and soaks them in elixir baths following voodoo practices, a spiritual belief rooted in the Kingdom of Dahomey.
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Selected Works
Roméo Mivekannin
220 x 360 cm
Roméo Mivekannin
300 x 200 cm
Roméo Mivekannin
250 x 360 cm
Roméo Mivekannin
250 x 350 cm
Roméo Mivekannin
250 x 250 cm