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Claus Carstensen (b. 1957 DK)
1977-1983 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenagen
1979-1983 The Department of Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen
1981-1983 Copenhagen Circle of Semiotics
1993-2002 Professor at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Claus Carstensen held a major retrospective exhibition, What’s Left (Is Republican Paint) – Nine Sisters, at ARoS – Aarhus Art Museum in 2015 (catalogue: Eds. Claus Carstensen & Maria Kappel Blegvad: What’s Left (Is Republican Paint) – Nine Sisters, 200 pp., ARoS 2015).
2010-15 he executed a curatorial exorcism entitled Shibboleth – 76 by-appointment-only shows at his studio, drawn from his collection of works by other artists. Parts of these shows were shown in an extended dialogue with the permanent collection of Esbjerg Art Museum in 2015. In 2017 Shibboleth, a 552 pp. catalogue documenting all 76 Shibboleth shows, was published by Esbjerg Art Museum.
In 2016 a major site specific commission of five life size bronze figures, Doing Time / Critical Mass, was installed at the high security prison Storstrøm Fængsel, Nørre Alslev.
Carstensen was the curator of the transhistorical show Becoming Animal at Den Frie in Copenhagen (catalogue: Ed. Claus Carstensen, Thea Rydal Jørgensen & Jens Tang Kristensen: Becoming Animal, 288 pp. Hatje Cantz 2018). A show he also contributed to as an artist and a collector.
Besides a large number of artist books and exhibition catalogues he has published 15 collections of poetry, five essay collections and four anthologies.
Claus Carstensen lives and works in Copenhagen.
Hængning, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, 2022
Sieh da! Sieh da, Timotheus, die Kraniche des Ibykus!, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, 2021
Den dag 70'erne døde, Randers Kunstmuseum, 2021
Sieh da! Sieh da, Timotheus, die Kraniche des Ibykus! Galleri Tom Christoffersen, 2021
Malen ist Revolution (Part Two), 2019
Under curatorial violence (somewhere between black and white), Galleri Tom Christoffersen, 2018
Becoming Animal, Den Frie, 2018
Claus Carstensen / Whats Left (is republican paint) - Nine Sisters, ARoS Aarhus Museum of Art, 2015
Borger / Medborger / Citoyen, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, 2014
Defaced Lore, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, 2013
D.R.A.W.I.N.G.S., FUCK UPS & DEFACED POSTERS, Galleri Tom Christoffersen 2011
Pavilion of the Naked, solo exhibition , Galleri Tom Christoffersen 2008
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Den dag 70'erne døde, 2021, installation view. Randers Kunstmuseum. Photo: Randers Kunstmuseum. (3)
Den dag 70'erne døde, 2021, installation view. Randers Kunstmuseum. Photo: Randers Kunstmuseum. (1)
Den dag 70'erne døde, 2021, installation view. Randers Kunstmuseum. Photo: Randers Kunstmuseum. (2)
Becoming Animal, 2018, Installation view. Den Frie (DK). Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
Becoming Animal, 2018 (1), Installation view. Den Frie (DK). Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
What's Left (is Republican Paint) - Nine Sisters, 2015, Solo exhibition, installation view. ARoS Aarhus Art Museum (DK). Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
What's Left (is Republican Paint) - Nine Sisters, 2015 (2), Solo exhibition, installation view. ARoS Aarhus Art Museum (DK). Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
What's Left (is Republican Paint) - Nine Sisters, 2015 (1), Solo exhibition, installation view. ARoS Aarhus Art Museum (DK). Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
What's Left (is Republican Paint) - Nine Sisters, 2015 (3), Solo exhibition, installation view. ARoS Aarhus Art Museum (DK). Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
What's Left (is Republican Paint) - Nine Sisters, 2015 (4), Solo exhibition, installation view. ARoS Aarhus Art Museum (DK). Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
What's Left (is Republican Paint) - Nine Sisters, 2015 (5), Solo exhibition, installation view. ARoS Aarhus Art Museum (DK). Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
What's Left (is Republican Paint) - Nine Sisters, 2015 (6), Solo exhibition, installation view. ARoS Aarhus Art Museum (DK). Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
Defaced RTh 78 Lore, 2018, Scratching and stabbing on oil on canvas, 47 x 35 cm. Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
Chop (2), 2018, Acrylic, posca and spray on canvas, 180 x 150 cm. Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
Baffel’d inta Submission, 2012, Acrylic and molotow on flag textile, 140 x 90 cm. Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
Terror and Territories # 2, 1992, Oil, alkyd, spray, and urine on canvas, 200 x 150 cm. Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
Uden titel (til Buller), 1988, Foam and 40 gram hash (green marok) in plastic bag , 155 x 150 x 20 cm. Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
Doing Time / Critical Mass, 2017, Bronze, approx. 190 x 200 x 400 cm. Commissioned work for the high security prison Storstrøm Fængsel. Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
Untitled (1), 2005, The Faculty of Health Sciences Panum Institute University of Copenhagen, Photo: Anders Sune Berg.