MARTIN ASKHOLM

Danish curator, collector, contemporary painter, printer and graphic artist

Selected Exhibitions

Viewshots from exhibitions

ASOCIAL, Galleri Artpusher, Copenhagen. 09.-20.sept. 2020.

CORNER at Sophienholm, 18. January - 16. February, 2020.

PRESS PRINT, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen. 06.april - 26. may 2019. Photos Anders Sune Berg.

Corner artist association, at Sophienholm, jan-feb 2019.

Solo-exhibition Yōkai Pandemonium sept.-nov. 2018, at Format Artspace, Copenhagen.

Hoved på blokken, JANUS – Vestjyllands Kunstmuseum. 20. januar – 11. Marts 2018.

Group-exhibition BLOKBUSTERS, Galleri Briskeby, Oslo, Norway. Aug-sept 2018.

Nonpareil, Kunstpakhuset Ikast, Jan-feb- 2017. (Guest Bodil Nielsen, left).

Nonpareil, Kunstpakhuset Ikast, Jan-feb- 2017. (Guest Bodil Nielsen, right)

Nonpareille, Kunstpakhuset Ikast, jan-feb, 2017.

Gallery

Selected paintings and works on paper

PILLS -Sveriges Flagga, Watercolor on paper, 36 x 48 cm. 2020.

Kechibi – Fireballs with human faces inside,

Mokumokuren – A swarm of eyes that appear on a paper sliding door in an old building

: Amefurikozō – A little boy spirit who plays in the rain.

Watercolor on 300g paper, 24x32 cm, 2018.

Nuributoke – An animated corpse with blackened flesh and dangling eyeballs (zombie).

Namazu – The giant catfish that causes earthquakes.

Amaburakosagi – a ritual-diciplinary demon from Shikoku.

Akkorokamui – An Ainu monster resembling a fish or giant octopus.

Aobōzu – The blue monk who kidnaps children.

Onihitokuchi –One-eyed oni that kill and eat humans

Umibōzu – A giant monster appearing on the surface of the sea

Hitotsume-kozō, child with one eye in the center of its forehead similar to a cyclops.

Shinigami harvesting sinners– The Japanese Grim Reaper.

About

Martin Askholm (B. 1967) is educated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, in 1998. He lives and work in Copenhagen.

Martin Askholm has for a couple of decades been known for his elegantly hard-edge pop paintings and graphics. With inspiration varying from Japanese macabre folklore to a Disney sweetness. Parallel to his figurative art; Martin Askholm has a just as complex production of abstract art. Varying from kinetic ,geometric abstraction, to minimalism.

In both worlds it is the high technical mastership and the mix between brutality and beauty that carries the universe of Martin Askholms art.

Askholms art has been exhibited in galleries og museums in countries such as: Germany, France, Estonia, Letvia, Hungary, Brazil, China, U.S.A.,Canada, Russia and Japan.

Martin Askholm (f. 1967) er uddannet fra Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi i 1998 og bor og arbejder i København. Kunstnerens værker med tegneserieagtige figurer og symbolske referencer har rødder i 1950-

og -60’ernes pop art, og har et både minimalistisk, humoristisk og kulturantropologisk udtryk. Han arbejder med mange forskellige materialer, og værkerne bærer præg af et højt teknisk niveau. Martin Askholms værker har været vist på gallerier og museer i bl.a. Tyskland, Frankrig, Brasilien, Kina, U.S.A.,Canada Estland, Letland, Ungarn ,Rusland, Japan.

Martin Askholm er medlem af kunstnersammenslutningen CORNER, kunstnersamfundet, tidligere formand formand for Danske Grafikere samt en række tillildshverv i dansk kunstliv.

Full C.V. can be mailed on request

Komplet C.V. kan rekvireres på mail.