Installation view at the Kunstmuseum Basel (2011). Courtesy Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne.
Henrik Olesen – opening 29 November 2017
Opening Wednesday 29 November 2017 6.00 – 8.00pm
Drinks, food and music following the opening at
Casa Madeira, Albert Embankment, Lambeth, London SE1 7TL
Exhibition continues 30 November – 27 January 2017 Thursday – Saturday, 12.00 – 6.00pm
C A B I N E T, 132 Tyers Street Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens London SE11 5HS
www.cabinet.uk.com
About The Artist
Henrik Olesen (b. 1967) is a Danish artist working in Berlin. He has been featured in exhibitions in New York City, Sweden, and Austria. Olesen was born in Esbjerg. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen from 1995 to 2007. Project 94 at the Museum of Modern Art in early 2011 was Olesen’s first U.S. solo museum show, in which, according to Valery Oisteanu in The Brooklyn Rail,
“Olesen probes homosexuality’s criminalization, past and present, through the appropriation of source materials and contextual shifts.”