Opening: Ebbe Stub Wittrup - Copenhagen Contemporary

It is with great pleasure we invite you to the opening of Ebbe Stub Wittrup's exhibition Botanical Drift in Hall 5 Wednesday 22 January 2020 at 18-21. This evening from 18 admission to CC's first floor will be free, and we offer a glass of wine when the doors open. Afterwards Vinhanen will be in the bar.

Program

18.00: The exhibition opens 18.20: Welcome speech by CC‘s Director Marie Nipper and opening speech by Ravinder Kaur, Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen in Modern India and South Asia Studies 21.00: Thank you and goodnight The exhibition at CC is presented in collaboration with Gl. Holtegaard. The two art institutions will be showing solo shows by Ebbe Stub Wittrup at the same time. While the exhibition at Gl. Holtegaard is based on Stub Wittrup’s photographic work, Copenhagen Contemporary shows sculptural and installation works. The artist will be present. We look forward to a wonderful evening in your company! Please note that Carsten Höller's exhibition Reproduction and Larissa Sansour's Exhibition Heirloom are closed in the evening, but can be visited before 18 for normal admission fee.

Botanical Drift

Botanical Drift presents four installations by the Danish artist Ebbe Stub Wittrup, recalling Indian colonial history. With the exhibition, Stub Wittrup traces the Danish botanist Nathanial Wallich, who was posted to the Danish colony Serampore in India in 1807. The exhibition tells of a time when Western nations considered it fully justifiable to subjugate and colonialise the rest of the world. In a mutual dialogue, the works disclose various narratives about, for example, overwriting national traditions, plant species finding their way from India to botanical gardens in England, and arch-English brands now owned by Indian enterprises. Learn more about the exhibition here.

Ebbe Stub Wittrup

Ebbe Stub Wittrup (b.1973) lives and works in Copenhagen. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 1999. In his artistic practice, he works with different media, but is especially known for his photographic works. At CC, he shows works in a series of media, including textiles, bronze sculpture, modified ready-mades, and historical documents set in a contemporary context. Ebbe Stub Wittrup has had a number of solo shows in Denmark at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum and Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, for example, and abroad – most recently at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany, Kunsthalle São Paulo, Brazil, and Kirchner Museum, Switzerland. In 2010, Ebbe Stubbe Wittrup was awarded a three-year work grant from the Danish Arts Foundation and, during the period 2013-2019, he was associate professor in media art at the Jutland Art Academy. Botanical Drift is supported by: Statens Kunstfond, 15. Juni Fonden, Beckett Fonden, Kvadrat, Nordic Artbank and Randers Handsker.