Non-abstract Collage at Frappant Galerie / Hamburg

Artist(s): Gustav Hooge, Christine Dahlerup, Andreas Widoff, Fritjof Krabbe
Art space: Frappant Galerie
Address: Zeiseweg 9, 22765 Hamburg, Tyskland
Duration: 17/01/2025 - 27/01/2025
Credits: Christine Dahlerup
Installation view
Christine Dahlerup "Drawing Club", ink marker on paper, 2024
Installation view
Installation view
Fritjof Krabbe "The yellow mind", c-print, coloured chalk, 2024
Christine Dahlerup "Lifespan metrics", vinyl tube. Fritjof Krabbe "Sevens", wood box, mirror. Both 2024
Installation view
Installation view
Gustav Hooge "Four hats for Martin Luther", mixed materials. 2024, Christine Dahlerup "Lifespan metrics", vinyl tube. Both 2024
Installation view
Fritjof Krabbe "Narrative", cardboard box, mirror. Christine Dahlerup "Lifespan metrics", vinyl tube. Both 2024
Gustav Hooge "Four hats for Martin Luther", mixed materials, 2024
Fritjof Krabbe "Territory", c-print, coloured chalk, 2024
Christine Dahlerup "Drawing Club", ink marker on paper, 2024
Gustav Hooge "Four hats for Martin Luther", mixed materials, 2024
Fritjof Krabbe "The yellow mind", c-print, coloured chalk, 2024
Christine Dahlerup "Big open", wood, 2024
Fritjof Krabbe "Sevens", wood, mirror, 2024
Andreas Widoff "Fabric 1", "Fabric 2", oil pastel on mdf. Both 2024
Gustav Hooge "Four hats for Martin Luther", mixed materials, 2024
Andreas Widoff "Fabric 1", oil pastel on mdf. 2024
Christine Dahlerup "Lifespan metrics", vinyl tube. 2024
Fritjof Krabbe "Territory", c-print, coloured chalk, 2024
Andreas Widoff "Fabric 2", oil pastel on mdf. 2024
Christine Dahlerup "Big open", wood, 2024
Fritjof Krabbe "Narrative", cardboard box, mirror. 2024
Gustav Hooge "Four hats for Martin Luther", mixed materials, 2024
Andreas Widoff "Bellows", wood, sheet metal, ceramic shoe block, 2024
Gustav Hooge "Four hats for Martin Luther", mixed materials, 2024
Andreas Widoff "Bellows", wood, sheet metal, ceramic shoe block, 2024

This right here is not weathered by time, it’s still sleek and chromelike. It’s held many different meanings to different people. If a plasma screen shows the same image for long enough, it burn in, it stays there, a VH1 logo in the corner-mounted tv at a grill joint. Here there is no such memory, things don’t stay around or leave marks, they just pass. Discourse relies on a shared frame of reference, you’d never speak anything in full, most things are already known. Even when I string vowels to form -honestly- fully original words, people relate them to the fall of some political figure, or the scene at this and that café in some central-european metropolis. Why would I be talking about that? I want to talk from where we are here now, I’ll shape a dog’s mouth with
my thumb and pointer, illustrate new ideas with old imagery. Ownership is transferred at the point of sale, lineage is traced through narrow streets and carved in vaulted church ceilings. What we both know might come from something untrue. That is, it’s easier to remember a story if it’s funny, and the world is big and boring.

– Fritjof Krabbe Nørretranders