Roee Rosen

It is with great pleasure that Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you to the opening of our new exhibition with Roee Rosen: The Mosquito-Mouse and Other Hybrids. We celebrate this with a talk and an opening reception taking place on:

Wednesday 30 October 5-8pm

Programme
5-6pm Talk: Roee Rosen in conversation with Mathias Kryger
6-8pm Opening reception: Roee Rosen The Mosquito-Mouse and Other Hybrids

Admission is free and everyone is welcome!

Roee Rosen: The Mosquito-Mouse and Other Hybrids
The first-ever solo exhibition in Denmark featuring artist, writer and director Roee Rosen (b. 1963 in Rehovot) includes his series Vladimir’s Night. Comprising 39 gouaches, the work relates a hybrid tale – part children’s book, part martyr story, part twisted political narrative – in which the protagonist, Vladimir, is surrounded by absurd scenarios. It starts out as a cheerful picture fable, slipping into a violent and grotesque tale of power and torture that touches upon similar situations in present-day society.

The exhibition also presents the film The Dust Channel – an operetta about the many kinds of cleansing taking place in a family whose fears of dirt, dust and any kinds of foreign matter give rise to an almost perverted devotion to home appliances. The film has garnered much recognition for its absurd and politically poignant fiction, creating a polemic space for addressing current political issues.

Roee Rosen has created an artistic universe that undermines normative ideas through fiction and satire while merging Israeli and global politics with myths and historical references. Using a variety of fictional characters and iconographic motifs, Rosen draws on – and transforms – a range of materials ranging from the historical avant-garde to popular media, political propaganda and classic fairy tales for children. To emphasise his focus on artistic expression during exile and oppression, he often works under pseudonyms. This is also the case at Kunsthal Charlottenborg: all works are presented as having been created by the Russian author and artist Maxim Komar-Myshkin, who, having escaped from Russia to Israel, struggled with his own paranoia and with the restrictions imposed by his surroundings.

Further info about the exhibition here.

The exhibition is accompanied by a small publication featuring texts by Paul B. Preciado. The publication will be launched this autumn.

The exhibition is curated by Anne Mikél Jensen, and supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, Grosserer L. F. Foght’s Foundation, Knud Højgaard’s Foundation, Obel Family Foundation.