Leonard Forslund

Artist at Galerie Mikael Andersen - Leonard Forslund

  • Leonard Forslund - Unknown 3
    gult_monument_du!, 2023, acrylic, wax, 140 x 140 cm charcoal and insects on cotton canvas,
  • Leonard Forslund - Unknown 11
    gult_monument_knockout, 2023, acrylic, wax, charcoal and insects on cotton canvas, 140 x 140 cm
  • Leonard Forslund - Unknown 7
    gult_monument_okej!, 2023, acrylic, wax, charcoal and insects on cotton canvas, 140 x 140 cm
  • Leonard Forslund - Drömsplitter nr 85218.14
    Drömsplitter nr 85218.14, 2016
    acrylic on canvas, 140 x 140 cm
  • Leonard Forslund - Drömsplitter nr 27798.16
    Drömsplitter nr 27798.16, 2016
    acrylic on canvas, 100 x 150 cm
  • Leonard Forslund - Drömsplitter nr 231259.18
    Drömsplitter nr 231259.18 , 2014
    acrylic on canvas, 100 x 150 cm
  • Leonard Forslund - Leonard 8
    SKUMRINGSMALERI 08 ; glemt i hukommelsen, 2019,
    acrylic and oil on canvas, 170 x 190 cm
  • Leonard Forslund - Drömsplitter Nr 9493 24 Web
    Drömsplitter nr 9493.24, 2014,
    acrylic on canvas, 70 x 70 cm
  • Leonard Forslund - Lf Gma2785
    Installation view, Leonard Forslund, SKUMRINGSMALERI , Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen, 2019 (photo: Jan Søndergaard)
  • Leonard Forslund - Ds4
    Installation view, Sebastian Dacey & Lucy Teasdale, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen, 2011 (photo: Jan Søndergaard)

About

Leonard Forslund brings together several perspectives – scientific, personal, spatial or historical and political – on a single plane, rendering the painting ambiguous and enabling new connections of meaning to emerge across the given elements. His subject matter frequently includes recognizable objects or photographic material isolated against a monochromatic surface. The images – familiar as well as unfamiliar – that are brought into play in Forslund's paintings typically appear as remediations of pre-existing prototypes from popular culture or art history that are blurred, mirrored or cut up. Leonard Forslund was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in 1988. Forslund is represented in the collections of The National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki and ARoS in Aarhus among others. In 2009 Leonard Forslund received the Eckersberg Medal.


For enquiries regarding available works by the artist, please contact cph@mikaelandersen.com

    • CV
  • Born 1959 in Landskrona, Sweden. Lives and works in Copenhagen.
    • Education:
  • 1982-1988: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Exhibitions in the gallery:
    • GMA XXX AAR (group show), 13.06 - 17.08, 2019
  • Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
    • SKUMRINGSMALERI, 03.05 - 08.06, 2019
  • Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
    • Drömsplitter, 14.05 - 21.06, 2014
  • Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
    • Alles Wasser (group show), 07.07 - 10.08, 2013
  • Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
    • Alles Wasser (group show), 25.05 - 25.08, 2012
  • Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin
    • Wood Nation, 21.06 - 08.09, 2009
  • Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin
    • MEGA (group show), 17.04 - 23.05, 2009
  • Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
    • Wood Nation, 16.01 - 21.02, 2009
  • Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
    • Accessories (group show), 14.12, 2007 - 02.02, 2008
  • Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
    • Void Garden, 22.09 - 29.10, 2005
  • Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
    • 3 On View (w. Jesper Rasmussen and Elisabeth Toubro), 24.04 - 30.05, 2004
  • Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
    • New Paintings by Leonard Forslund & Old Paintings by Mogens Andersen (w. Mogens Andersen), 19.04 - 25.05, 2002
  • Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
    • Something About Drawing (group show), 24.03 - 22.04, 2000
  • Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
    • The Millennium Show (group show), 04.08, 1999 - 08.01, 2000
  • Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
    • Ad Libitum, 29.10 - 28.11, 1999
  • Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
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