Exhibition : EVERHOLLOW
Join us for the return of the award-winning 2010s gallery VESS, as we give space for a festive opening of the photo exhibition EVERHOLLOW by filmmaker, photographer, and artist Kristoffer Kirketerp.
Moderator, gallerist, and co-founder of All All All, Sif Lindblad, will kick off the evening with a conversation between curator and art collector Jens-Peter Brask, artist and author Zahna Siham Benamor, and Kristoffer Kirketerp — based on the themes of the exhibition.
The evening will feature DJ sets, vegetarian hotdogs, and a bar where early guests can enjoy free beers from To Øl.It's time for an artistic comeback as the award-winning 2010s gallery VESS returns after a 5-year hiatus with an opening and photo exhibition by Kristoffer Kirketerp at maker.
Program
Date: Friday, April 25, 2025.
Doors open at 16:00
Location: Vasbygade 10a, 2450 Copenhagen
The exhibition is open to the public until May 9th, 2025.
Open hours between 10-16 monday-friday.
Entrance is free.
About the exhibition
EVERHOLLOW presents fifteen oversized photographic works by Kristoffer Kirketerp. Through tight composition, he creates a universe of emptiness where the psychological, physical, and existential blend together. The exhibition explores both the outer and inner state of emptiness — and what emerges in its absence.
About the artist
On a more personal level, the creation of these “empty” photographs is rooted in Kristoffer’s experiences living with ADHD.
"People usually associate someone like me with being hyperactive, hyper-assertive, and for some — hyper-annoying. But I don’t think many people know the not-so-hyperactive side of an ADHD diagnosis — the isolation, the dissociation, the emptiness, and so on. These works are the closest I’ve come to expressing that feeling, and looking back, that’s why I started photographing empty places and ugly things that, to me, were beautiful.
Whether I’m trying to be funny, playful, dealing with climate anxiety, or grieving, I always know what I see. Out of my two eyes.
But with EVERHOLLOW, I’m more interested in the emptiness itself than in telling a story about myself or asserting something specific. A void isn’t a void if you fill it, so that conversation should instead take place between the images and the people standing in front of them. I love the idea that that conversation might continue in someone’s home. Without me being there.”
About VESS
The artist collective VESS entered the Danish art scene in 2011. At the time, the mission was to act as a catalyst for untested talent in art and culture — as an alternative to the established art world. Up until 2019, when VESS decided to pause the project, the small gallery had curated well over 100 exhibitions, won AOK's “Best Art Experience” twice in a row (2015 and 2016), and repeatedly attracted attention from the cultural media.
As nomads, the VESS members are currently aiming to bring EVERHOLLOW to Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Aalborg, and Oslo.
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