Tour of the exhibition TWO ROOMS
Photo curator Charlotte Præstegaard Schwartz tours the exhibition TWO ROOMS with the artists Ismar Čirkinagić and Per Bak Jensen.
In the exhibition TWO ROOMS, Ismar Čirkinagić and Per Bak Jensen explore the nature of war and the traces it leaves on civilizations and cultures. Photo curator Charlotte Præstegaard Schwartz, together with Čirkinagić and Bak Jensen, will this afternoon show us around the exhibition and talk about their works and the considerations behind them. The exhibition shows the war as a phenomenon that can both be felt from the inside and viewed from the outside, and that both positions can challenge our ethics and empathy.
Ismar Čirkinagić
Ismar Čirkinagić (b. 1973) was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2000-2006. Čirkinagić was born in Prijedor, Bosnia-Herzegovina, but fled in 1992 from the war in Bosnia to Denmark. Remembrance and socio-political conditions are pervasive themes in his practice. He has exhibited at such places as Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast (2016), The Meštrović Pavilion, Zagreb (2021) and Liverpool Biennial (2012), as well as at several museums and art galleries in Denmark, including Aros, SMK, Arken, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kunstmuseum Brandts, Kunsthal Aarhus, Sorø Art Museum, HEART and Esbjerg Art Museum.
Per Bak Jensen
Per Bak Jensen (b. 1949) was in the period 1986-2009 lecturer in photography at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He tries to capture a kind of timelessness in his images without the use of manipulation and has inspired several generations of photo artists in Scandinavia. His works are presented internationally in collections at MoMA, New York, Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, as well as in Denmark at ARKEN Museum for Modern Art, Louisiana Museum for Modern Art, Sorø Art Museum and Royal Danish Library, National Collection of Photography.
Charlotte Præstegaard Schwartz
Charlotte Præstegaard Schwartz is a photo curator and research librarian in charge of the National Collection of Photography at the Royal Danish Library. She has a master's degree. and PhD in art history with a focus on art from the 20th and 21st centuries. Charlotte Præstegaard Schwartz specialises in photography and photography history.
TWO ROOMS
Dialogue about the nature of war is the central focal point for this spring's special exhibition in the Black Diamond with Ismar Cirkinagic and Per Bak Jensen.
