Four artists selected for Summerworks 2025
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This summer AHC will send a strong team of artists working with graphics to New York with the residency program Summerworks. The four artists are C Clement, Henriette Heise, Javier Alvarez Sagredo and Zven Balslev.
The four artists were selected based on an open call by a jury consisting of former Summerworks resident and artist Benjamin Savi, curator and artist Sara Lubich, and Marie Braad Larsen, curator at Art Hub Copenhagen. Together, they have chosen to send C Clement, Henriette Heise, Javier Alvarez Sagredo, and Zven Balslev to New York in July, where they will take part in Summerworks 2025.
Summerworks is a collaboration between Art Hub Copenhagen (AHC), The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA), and Academic Guest House. The four artists will live at Academic Guest House while participating in a program developed and coordinated by EFA and AHC. During their stay, the artists will have access to EFA’s Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and can participate in a number of different courses, workshops, etc.
Read the jury’s statements here:
C CLEMENT
C Clement is particularly interested in the democratic aspect of graphics and in seizing the unforeseen gifts of graphics. In continuation of their education, C Clement specialized in graphics at the Laboratory for Graphics and Painting at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and at Summerworks they want to continue experimenting and combine graphics with materials such as metal, leather and latex. In their work based on the queer body, C Clement finds it natural during their stay in New York to visit, among others, The Lesbian Herstory Archives, The Diana Davies Photography Archive and The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.
HENRIETTE HEISE
For Henriette Heise, graphics have been a permanent part of her practice ever since she began making art. Heise uses graphics as a tool to think across media and materials. Through a playful and conceptual use of the medium, Henriette Heise works with the accessibility and shareability of graphics. At RBPMW, Henriette Heise will work with techniques that are new to her, such as silk screen printing and photolithography, as well as delving into Robert Blackburn’s rich history and culture of community and artistic self-organization.
JAVIER ALVAREZ SAGREDO
Javier Alvarez Sagredo’s work is centered on the contemporary political and philosophical climate.
Through themes such as statelessness, resistance and exile, Sagredo uses the graphic medium to ask questions about social hierarchies, mental health and globalization. Sagredo works with the embedded history of the medium, such as the qualities of silk screen printing as a means of conveying messages about resistance and self-organization. During his residency, Javier Alvarez Sagredo will work with a series of poster and textile works that incorporate text and research on social norms, trauma, subcultures and cultural heritage.
ZVEN BALSLEV
Zven Balslev’s artistic practice is deeply rooted in graphics. His work spans virtually all graphic techniques, from classics such as wood cuts and lithography to digital printing, risograph printing and silk screen printing. In 2010, Balslev founded Cult Pump, a graphic workshop and publishing house, which has since functioned as a collective meeting place and catalyst for graphic DIY and underground culture both at home and abroad. In New York, Zven Balslev will delve into lithography and work to expand his network and seek out collaborations and inspiration for future art publications.
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ABOUT SUMMERWORKS
Summerworks is Art Hub Copenhagen’s residency program in New York, founded in partnership with The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and the Bikuben Foundation NY. Every July a group of visual artists are selected by an external jury to participate in a programme that includes accommodation in the Bikuben Foundation’s Academic Guest House on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and studio space at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts’ printmaking workshop in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
ABOUT THE ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS (EFA)
The EFA is a charitable organisation, dedicated to providing artists working in all disciplines with access to both space and tools, and a collaborative environment that supports the development of their individual practice. Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW), is the oldest and longest-running community print shop in the United States. Not only a co-operative printmaking workspace that provides professional-quality printmaking facilities to artists and printmakers of every skill level, EFA RBPMW is committed to inspiring and fostering its diverse artistic community. Read more here.
ABOUT ACADEMIC GUEST HOUSE, BIKUBENFONDEN
The Academic Guest House is situated in a large townhouse in a quiet side street near Central Park, New York. The house contains fully furnished apartments, all ready to move into. Each resident will have their own apartment, but as you are sharing a house with others, it is important to be considerate of the communal setting. Please note that the Academic Guest House does not provide accommodation for partners, spouses or children. Read more here.
