26 Nov 2021 –
29 Jan 2022
Group Show
NO PLAN AT ALL
Group Show
NO PLAN AT ALL
In celebration of the book publication No Plan at All: How the Danish Printshop of Niels Borch Jensen Redefined Artists’ Prints for the Contemporary World, BORCH Gallery, Berlin, presents prints from the printmaking studio’s extensive history since 1979.
Working with artists as varied as Georg Baselitz, Huma Bhabha, Tacita Dean, Olafur Eliasson, Per Kirkeby, and Julie Mehretu, the Copenhagen-based print studio has produced prints that enhance and disrupt the traditional understanding of printed images, photography, and film—prints whose existence depends on the printers’ virtuosic technical expertise and on their willingness to try anything.
No Plan at All, published by Hatje Cantz, offers insight into how artists think, how artworks are made, and why they matter to audiences. Niels Borch Jensen’s personal recollections are put into context by art historian and co-author Susan Tallman. Interviews with artists further illuminate the often-opaque processes, decisions and play that lie behind major works of art.
The relating presentation at BORCH Gallery comprises a broad overview of selected prints and outlines the multitude of printmaking techniques. Besides an etching by A.R. Penck from the mid 1980s and prints by Al Taylor and Lewis Baltz—representing some of the first photogravures done at the studio in the mid 1990s—the exhibition will mostly focus on a wide variety of prints from the past ten to fifteen years.
View into BORCH Editions’ printmaking studio in Copenhagen
The exhibition presents prints by: Marina Adams, Mamma Andersson, Lewis Baltz, Georg Baselitz, Huma Bhabha, Iñaki Bonillas, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Elmgreen & Dragset, Kirsten Everberg, Arturo Herrera, Carsten Höller, Asger Jorn, Clay Ketter, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Ragnar Kjartansson, Eva Löfdahl, Robert McNally, Wardell Milan, Virginia Overton, Tal R, Matt Saunders, Thomas Scheibitz, Jan Svenungsson, Trine Søndergaard, Fiona Tan, Al Taylor, Rosemarie Trockel, Sandra Vasquez de la Horra, Danh Vo, Stanley Whitney, Troels Wörsel, Thomas Zipp, and John Zurier.
Book launch with a conversation between Niels Borch Jensen and Susan Tallman, in collaboration with Hatje Cantz, at 6:30pm on 26 November.
Forty years of ephemera line the entrance hallway of BORCH Editions’ printmaking studio in Copenhagen.
