Uffe Isolotto and Jacob Lillemose about the Danish Pavilion in Venice

One of the world’s most prestigious art exhibitions is the Venice Biennale, which this year officially opened on April 23 with more than 80 participating countries. Each country presents a national pavilion, which represents them at this great international art event. To represent Denmark, The Danish Art Foundation this year has appointed artist Uffe Isolotto and curator Jacob Lillemose with the installation We Walked the Earth.

On May 25, we welcome you to join us with Uffe Isolotto and Jacob Lillemose for a conversation about the work with the biennial and about We Walked the Earth, which is described as a post-apocalyptic total installation that combines mythological references, social realistic drama, farm idyll and future visions.

The conversation is moderated by Iben Bach Elmstrøm, who is a curator at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning.

She has previously curated the exhibition The Object is To Change The Soul at the Heartland Festival in 2018, Ars Memoria with Helene Nymann in Rundetårn in 2017, and been leader of SixtyEight Art Institute from 2011 to 2018. Most recently, she has worked for CHART design – a commercial platform for art and design and is the curator behind Det Æstetiske Øre – a sound-based and performative project at Rønnebæksholm kunsthal.

Read more about Uffe Isolotto and the project in Kunstkritikk’s interview here: https://kunstkritikk.com/cottagecore-centaurs/

More information and background for the selection can also be read at the Statens Kunstfond: https://www.kunst.dk/…/art…/visual-arts/danish-pavilion

The conversation will be in Danish. It is free to praticipate and no registration is needed.

Uffe Isolotto (b. 1976) is educated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Uffe Isolotto has had solo exhibitions at Tranen, O – Overgaden, and in 2020 he participated in the 14th Media Arts Biennial in Santiago, Chile. In recent years, he has curated exhibitions and produced works in the collaborative project Age of Aquarius, which is located on a roof garden in Copenhagen. Uffe Isolotto is also a co-founder and former member of the art organization TOVES, which in the period 2010-2017 produced exhibitions and works both in Denmark and abroad.

Uffe Isolotto has prepared his proposal in collaboration with Jacob Lillemose, who has also been appointed curator of the exhibition in the Danish pavilion.

Jacob Lillemose (b. 1974) is a curator, researcher and author.

Jacob Lillemose works as a curator at Medical Museion. He has previously run the project room X AND BEYOND, during the interdisciplinary research project Changing Disasters at the University of Copenhagen. Lillemose just published his first novel Architecture Zero, which has just been published in 2022 on A Mock Book.