Morten Sørensen Portfolio Selected works 2005 - 2008
Infla
The Cloud San Francisco USA
atable Structures Collaboration with Jac studios 2006. Part of a collection of, sight specific, inflatable objects made on a road trip through North America and Mexico.
Mexico “Blow Up Mexico” Collaboration with Jac Studios 2006. Part of a collection of, sight specific, inflatable objects made on a road trip through North America and Mexico.
Santa Barbara “Celebration” Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. Supported by the Danish Art Council Collaboration with Jac studios 2008
Chicago “Breathing Grapes” Act Natural/32 nd and Urban gallery, 2008 Collaboration with Jac Studios
Celebration was staged on the terrace in front of the CAF entrance, discussing the romantic, the look a like and the seductive life of S.B. The event was one night only and consisted of an inflatable centrepiece inspired by the decorative architecture of
S.B,a movie on the building regulations of S.B, 100 white balloons and the Macarena mass dance involving visitors.
“Artists and designers living and working in locations around the world including Pittsburgh, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Istanbul, Atlanta and Chicago showing work centered on the theme of how our objects relate to the natural world. By meditat-
ing on form, system, or material and using parody, representation or analysis, these artists will create work that together makes a ‘landscape’ in the gallery, meant to invoke a sense of wonder, and remind us of our connectedness.” Curator: Bridget Buckley
Que
Crocodile Eagle
eer Festival 2006 ”How queer everything is today” Råhuset 2006 Exhibition. Collaboration with art historian Thomas Bostrøm and artist Ole Vesterlund. An exhibition on sexuality, politics, gender, and identity.
”How queer everything is today” Råhuset 2006 Exhibition Collaboration with art historian Thomas Bostrøm and artist Ole Vesterlund. An exhibition on sexuality, politics, gender, and identity. The contributors featured relatively inexperienced and autodidactic participants as well as more prominent international artist like Henrik Olesen, Wolfgang Tilmans and Michael Elmgreen and ingar Dragseth. Alice In Wonderland became our detective – the icon of the exhibition – exploring an underworld of absent logic and naughty fantasizing in the endeavour to make sense of her own reality and raving surroundings ; An imaginary universe of yore turning out to have very much in common with queered self-perceptions and heteronormative generality alike. The exhibition demonstrated a supreme world of absolute freedom in which anything goes. -Thomas Bostrøm
Queer map Collaboration with artist Scot Surdez Visitors participated in the mapping of queer places In Copenhagen over the period of a week. Everything from cruising areas and bars to personal experiences, peoples home address and places that where ”conquered” during the festival
Top: Lene Leth. Bottom: Niels Vigga
Double animal paintings Each painting consists of a silhouette of a double animals flamingo/ deer, eagle / crocodile etc. Fine lines of holes made with a 5 mm drill covers the surfaces leaving only the silhouette of the animal untouched.
Coral Sands Los Angeles USA
Que
RACA / eer Festival 2007 All this and more discovered and documented during a road trip through the US.
L.A. based motel Coral Sands a gay historic place and cruising area.
Las Vegas, city of sin.
Provincetown a small fisherman town and gay holiday destination with an 80 % homosexual population.
Release party, RACA Copenhagen.
Cardboard Overgaden Copenhagen
15/1 Overgaden 2005. Curated by Denise Hawrysio Group installation at gallery Overgaden, Christianshavn, currated by Denise Hawrysio.
15/1 15 artists each had 2 days to work on the installation. I was 13/1 and therefore the space had already been filled with work and left over material was scattered around the room, including a huge pile of cardboard. I organized the cardboard cutting it up and putting it into piles of different shapes and displayed it like a 99 cent store. It became a “behind-the-scene-of-an-artshow-shop” of abstract shapes”
The Cloud San Francisco USA
Butik CMYK Collaboration with illustrator Maya Langeland. A concept for communicating visual art. 2005-2008
Print-factory The first period of the shops existence was a project named “The Print Factory”. With this Project we question what it is to shop and interchange goods and what it is to produce something that on one hand is unique and on the other mass-produced. In the modest surroundings that is CMYK we established a factory, where the costumer is offered art and illustration in the standard A4 size, printed on paper. The customer chooses an art piece and is responsible for moving from station to station, from the computer to the printer to the finished project and in that way becomes a “co-producer” to the art and the production. The room is held in factory grey but you also meet a room that is decorated full of ideas and with an unusual accumulation of objects and recycled materials.
The Library Zines, cartoons, art books, art catalogue with a focus on visual art from independent publishers or artists.
The Mall �The Mall� consists of 30 micro shops (115x272x345 mm). Each shop is owned by an artist or designer and they follow the two ground rules for the mall. 1.You have to sell something. 2.The shape and exterior of the shop cannot be changed. Each shop-owner is responsible for creating an environment and shopping experience that reflect what they sell.
The Cloud San Francisco USA
Pins Installation at RACA. 2004
Pins Installation at RACA. 2004 The installation was made for gallery RACA a former shoeshop that at the time was very damp from years of neglect. “Pins�consists of 30000 coloured needles pinned into the walls, ceiling, window and floor over a period of a week, displaying a map of the condition of the damp walls.
C.V. Morten Sørensen b. 311074 Morten Sørensen works as an artist, with painting and installation as his two main medias. In 2005 he founded CMYK in collaboration with illustrator Maya Langeland. CMYK works as an exhibition space, showing Danish and international artists primarily within the printed media. Exhibitions / Galleries: - Act natural,32nd urban gallery, Chicago - Celebration, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum - 3 reports on Queer space, Gallery RACA, - Overgaden,Christianshavn.(15/1,kurated by Denise Hawrysio) - Nanna Ask Gallery,Frederiksberg.(“Animal”) - Gallery Ravn,Valby. - RACA,Frederiksberg(“Spor”) - Galloperiet,Christiania. - Artcompaz,Frederiksberg. - Galleri Projekt,Vesterbro. - Starving Artist,Nørrebro. - Råhuset,Vesterbro Exhibitions / Art Associations: - Wilke Marketing,Odense - Bakkegården,Højby. - OPS,Odense. - Ingenørernes Kunstforening,Roskilde. - PKA,København. - Roskilde Sygehus,Roskilde. - Ambios,KøbenhavnV. - Berlingske Tidende,København. - SAP,København. - GADS Research and Reflections,København, - EVU,Valby. - City Call Center,København. - Andersen Hubertz og Kirkoff,København. - ASA film;København.
Teaching: - Ölands Folkhögskola Skogsby, Art and design - Workshop for Vestsjællands artmuseum,Sorø. - Talk at Santa Barbara University,”Social Art and the education of artist i Scandinavia” Other: - Curator for the Copenhagen Queerfestival Art Exhibition 2006 (Danish Art Council.) - Artwork for Sergant Petter “Monkey Tonk Matters” released on New Records 2004,Norway. - Costume design for Benny Schumann Education: Design Skolen i Kolding, fashion design, 1997- 2000. Employment: 2007 Statens Museeum for Kunst, Sølvgade, Copenhagen, art handler 2007 Danish Designers, Light Lab, exhibition work 2007 ISSUU, marketing of web page. 2006 Munthe + Simonsen, exhibition work, fall fashion show 2005 Honey I’m Home, Dansk Design Centre, exhibition building, maintenance 2002-04 Bispebjerg hospital, art classes at psychiatric youth Hospital 2002 Electrohype 2002, Malmö Konsthall, exhibition building 2003 Geocenter Møns Klint, model building 2001 NIC2001, exhibition building