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