About
Elisabeth Toubro made her breakthrough in the 1980s and has since established herself as a key figure in contemporary Danish sculptural art. Her work is characterized by highly processed surfaces and quite frequently display a certain degree of inaccessibility. Toubro works with the idea of sculpture as essentially surface and her work discusses the core aspects and fundamentals associated with traditional sculpture. This is seen primarily in her choice of transparent materials and her straightforward way of riveting together the planes of the materials. Toubro’s sculptures have a strong poetic and narrative element with their many contra- and juxtaposition. Elisabeth Toubro gradutated from Professor Hein Heinsen’s department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 1986. Toubro received the Eckersberg Medal i 1999 and the Thorvaldsen Medal in 2010.
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Born 1956 in Nuuk, Greenland. Lives and works in Copenhagen.
Education:
1979-1986: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Exhibitions in the gallery:
GMA XXX AAR (group show), 13.06 – 17.08, 2019
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
Konfrontationsstykker / Confrontation Pieces, 15.09 – 14.10, 2017
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
Blumen / Flowers / Blomster (group show), 24.05 – 31.06, 2013
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin
The Wandering Woman’s Momentum, 03.11 – 08.12, 2012
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
Blumen / Flowers / Blomster (group show), 23.06 – 04.08, 2012
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
Body of Memory – A Tribute to Louise Bourgeois (group show), 17.06 – 06.08, 2011
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
Inside Out (group show), 01.11 – 19.12, 2008
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin
Accessories (group show), 14.12, 2007 – 02.02, 2008
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
The Paradise Observatory, 21.04 – 20.05, 2006
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
3 On View (w. Jesper Rasmussen and Leonard Forslund), 24.04 – 30.05, 2004
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
S, M, L (group show), 09.11 – 15.12, 2002
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
The Millennium Show (group show), 04.08, 1999 – 08.01, 2000
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
Hair Arabesque, 23.10 – 23.11, 1998
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen