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Attentive to political tension, collective consciousness and the influence of advanced capitalism I try to encompass some of what seems ungraspable, fascinating and scary. My work consists of a large visual material curated and presented differently for each exhibition and publication of it. Urbanity is key to the work – the photographic pictures examining the beauty, ambiguity and absurdities of the urban space as center for capital and revolutionary politics. I make pictures in a future military training area in Altmark, Germany called Schnöggersburg – the artificial city consisting of 520 buildings will make up an uninhabitable metropolis with space for half a million people. I present the pictures in context of other photographs from European and American cities. I believe that complex questions should not be discussed as isolated issues, but instead must be considered in relation to the surrounding world that both leads to these challenges but also unavoidably will be affected by the decisions to come. Education: 2013 - 2016 BA (Hons.), first class, Fine Art Photography, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow 2010 - 2011 Documentary Photography and Photojournalism, ICP, New York 2009 Fatamorgana, Copenhagen Awards: MACK First Book Award 2017 (shortlisted), London RSA Adam Bruce Thomson Award 2017, Edinburgh Art in Healthcare Purchase Prize 2017, Edinburgh Jill Todd Photographic Award 2016, Edinburgh Selected Artist for Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries 2017, Edinburgh Danish Embassy Art Prize 2016, London |
Exhibitions: 2017 I look at War, Banja Rathnov Gallery, Copenhagen (DK) 2017 New Contemporaries 2017, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (UK) 2017 Jill Todd Award Show, Nerve Centre, Derry-Londonderry (UK) 2017 Ung Dansk Fotografi ‘16, Four Boxes, Skive (DK) 2016 About Common Ground, The Royal Danish Embassy, London (UK) 2016 The Project About Common Ground, White Space, Glasgow School of Art (UK) 2016 Jill Todd Award Show, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh (UK) 2016 Ung Dansk Fotografi ‘16, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen (DK) 2016 Opposite Tendencies, 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow (UK) 2016 Futureproof 2016, Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie (UK) 2016 About Common Ground, degree show, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (UK) 2015 100 Editions, Galleri Naboløs, Copenhagen (DK) 2015 Hoamat Moi Zwoa, Haus zur Wildnis, Bavaria (DE) 2015 Alien’s Passport, The Art School, Glasgow (UK) 2014 Århus Independent Pixels, Århus (DK) 2014 100 Editions, Galleri Naboløs, Copenhagen (DK) 2014 Metro trains, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen (DK) 2014 Book show, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (UK) 2014 Eksil, I DO ART, Århus (DK) 2014 ENTROPY, Clark and Fyfe gallery, Glasgow (UK) 2013 MAX A5, Kontors galleri, Copenhagen (DK) 2011 Graduation show, International Center of Photography, New York (US) 2010 Graduation show, Fatamorgana, Gallopperiet, Copenhagen (DK) phone +45 6179 5940 mads@madsholm.com for sales inquiries please contact Sam De Santis |