Frederik Exner
Frederik Exner is interested in art history, archeology, belief and stories and works with figurative sculptures and reliefs. His universe could be the imagery of a fictive mythology - densely populated with ambivalent hybrid beings - in which humans seem to play a less central role.
Frogs and amphibians have been central for his recent work and research. The cultural and mythological significances of frogs in different cultures across the globe are strikingly convergent. Frogs are often considered either an omen for fertility, controllers of rain and water or lastly transformed - or yet-to-become humans. They are in quite a few creational myths even considered to be the very source of human existence. Exner is especially interested in the transformation- and creational myths as they suggest a deep but ambivalent connection between humans and this hairless and tailless animal.
Exner lives and works in Paris. His work has recently been shown at Fondation
Pernod Ricard (Paris), Palais des Beaux-Arts (Paris), Gether Contemporary
(Copenhagen), Studio for Artistic Research (Düsseldorph), Cantina (Aarhus), HIT (Geneva) og Augustiana (Augustenborg).
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B. 1991 in Aarhus, Denmark. Lives and works in Paris.
Education
2022-2024 DNSAP, École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
2021-2022 DNAP, École des Beaux-Arts de Paris
2016-2019 BFA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2023 (Upcoming) Riparia, The Community, Pantin (FR), duo with Inès Di Folco
2022 slit it, slit it, shed it, shed it, rip it, rip-it, RIBBET RIBBET, Fondation Pernod
Ricard, Paris (FR), as part of the program L'Avancée
2019 Let the flies lie like pearls around your neck, duo with Tomas Leth, Arcway Nightlands Connector Jennifee-See Alternate, Copenhagen (DK)
2018 Fang Fiction, at Gallery Q, Copenhagen (DK)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 New Ancients, Guts Gallery, London, UK
2023 Charon, la clameur des tambours, Poush, Aubervilliers (FR)
2023 Chatter 'round the Pond, Cantina, Aarhus (DK)
2022 Vestiges, 3537, Paris (FR)
2022 Set Phosphenes, Studio for Artistic Research, Düsseldorph (DE)
2022 Pleins Feux, La Chapelle, Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines (FR)
2022 Sweet to tongue & sound to eye, Augustiana, Augustenborg (DK)
2022 HIT x Limbo, publication and exhibition at HIT, Geneva (CH)
2022 The sun rises in peculiar ways, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen (DK)
2022 Histoire d'un ciel en creux chapitre II: Ce qu’il faut d’espoir pour mentir, La Brasserie Atlas, Bruxelles (BE)
2022 Acqua Alta, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris (FR)
2021 EGG COLLECTOR, DOC, Paris (FR)
2021 OK DOC, DOC, Paris (FR)
2021 Flexistock, Le Wonder, Clichy (FR)2021 La mystèrieuse affaire des styles, La Villa Belleville, Paris (FR)
2020 Ba’al-pe[ġ]’ōr, La Maison Fraternelle, Paris (FR)
2019 This Belly of the Universe, Kunsthal Ved Siden Af, Svendborg (DK)
2019 Kolonien, Kunstforeningen Kolonien, Herlev (DK)
2019 The First Annual Open Air Show, KIKhhs, Roskilde (DK)
2019 The bachelor exhibition of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Brønshøj Vandtårn, Copenhagen (DK)
2017 GMO Scarecrow, Age of Aquarius, Copenhagen (DK)
2017 Majjunivise, CSS, Copenhagen (DK)
2016 Experimental Education Protocol, Nisyros, (GR)
Residencies and Grants
2023 Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen’s Foundations talent award
2021 Mondes Nouveaux, duo with Inès Di Folco
2021 Programme ARCA at Doc, Paris (FR)
2020 - 2021 La Villa Belleville, Paris (FR)