MAJOR WORKS
Group show at Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Oslo Plads 1, Copenhagen
Apr 6-June 1

Performance and photography:
Teenagers Eating Ice Cream Cones, Den Frie, 2025

Grand Opening April 25th, performances 5 p.m and 5.45 p.m.

Kasper Akhøj, Kristoffer Akselbo, Henrik B. Andersen, Martin Erik Andersen, Thomas Bang, Nina Beier (guest), Camilla Berner, Peter Bonde (guest), Milena Bonifacini, Yvette Brackman, Mikkel Carl, Svend Danielsen, Torben Ebbesen, Søren Elgaard, Maria Finn, FOS, Tamar Guimarães, Signe Guttormsen, Molly Haslund, Hannah Heilmann, Hein Heinsen, Henriette Heise, Ulrik Heltoft, Peter Holst Henckel, Jytte Høy, Uffe Isolotto, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Søren Jensen, Elle Klarskov Jørgensen, Jane Jin Kaisen, Sophia Kalkau, Leif Kath, Freddie A. Lerche, Ann Lislegaard, Pernille With Madsen, Jørgen Michaelsen, Lene Adler Petersen & Bjørn Nørgaard, Kirsten Ortwed, Lars Bent Petersen, Lea Porsager, Finn Reinbothe, Torben Ribe, Pia Rönicke, Glenn Sorensen, Simon Starling, Morten Stræde, Margrete Sørensen, Danh Vo, Mette Winckelmann, Ebbe Stub Wittrup.

Den Frie Udstilling was founded in 1891 and is Denmark’s oldest artists’ association. Every year, a working committee is elected from among the association’s members, who set the framework for the next exhibition. In 2025, the committee consists of members Kirsten Ortwed, Morten Stræde and Uffe Isolotto.

With the exhibition MAJOR WORKS, the focus will be on one main work from the individual artist’s production. This year, the artists have chosen one Major Work to exhibit – this can of course be understood in different ways: the best work, the most important (as designated by others), the most exhibited, the most widely known, a sketch or a model that led the work on the trail of something that turned out to be crucial. The decision about what an artist’s major work is, is often made by others than the artist – by curators, critics, perhaps even collectors, but in this exhibition the decision is put back in the hands of the artists, to let them give their own answer to what the core of their practice looks like. The concept for this year’s exhibition means that not only new works from the past year will be shown, but that on the contrary, landmark works that are representative of the individual artists’ practices will also be revisited and pointed out. Each work will stand out sharply in its own right and, as always, will be part of a collective artistic context https://denfrie.dk/en/exhibition/den-frie-udstilling-major-works-2/

Thanks to photographer Jenny Sundby and the 19 teenagers for the collaboration.

Photographer Matilde Haaning, documentation of the grand opening.
Photographer Malle Madsen, installation shots.

Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation

Read about Teenagers Eating Ice Cream Cones, National Gallery of Denmark, 2020 https://www.mollyhaslund.com/teenagere-spiser-vaffelis-smk-statens-museum-for-kunst-2020