Chart Art Fair. Asta Lynge, Jakob Ohrt, Mathias Toubro. August 24 - August 27, 2023

Throughout 2023 Jakob Ohrt, Asta Lynge and Mathias Toubro have been collaborating in various constellations at different art venues as individual artists. Despite obvious differences in their art practices they share a common interest in the presence of the hand or the lack thereof - whether it relates to spatial, social or material conditions. For Chart each presented work somehow echoed this negotiation across concept, material and process, always in a context of binary image production. 

Asta Lynge works associatively across materials and processes. She is interested in the notion of progress and its inherent affiliation with technology. For Chart she will present a series sculptures that examine the contradictory allure of safety and security through surveillance. Titled 'Trap’ the protruding works are made from a wooden frame clad with smoke coloured acrylic and a safety mirror with a 180c view at the front. Each one is perforated with a pattern of laser cut holes taken from ventilation units, negotiating opacity as well as access to the space behind and in front of them.

Asta Lynge (DK, 1988) holds a BFA from Central Saints Martins (2012) and was part of the first iteration of the CSM Associate Studio Programme (2013-16). Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Fuglsang Kunstmuseum (Fuglsang), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), HEART Museum of Contemporary Art (Herning), Francis Irv (New York), Astrid Noacks Atelier (Copenhagen), June (Basel), Stockholm School of Economics in assoc. with Coyote (Stockholm), Le Bourgeois (London), Vermland Basement (Copenhagen), Cittipunkt (Berlin), Lagune Ouest, (Copenhagen), Cucina (Copenhagen), BIZARRO (Copenhagen), and dépendance (Brussels). Lynge is the recipient of Anne Marie Carl Nielsen’s talent prize (2022).

Mathias Toubro works with environments, both as staged social performative events and in his image production. In his recent series, Toubro portrays the artist bar as a significant site for the artist to nurture their network and get inspiration. He draws information from historically important places such as Antico Caffè Greco in Rome, Andy’s Bar in Copenhagen and Les Deux Magots in Paris. By incorporating personal experience and actual material from the restaurant business in his artistic practice, Toubro’s environments become equally realistic and illusory. 

Mathias Toubro (DK, 1986) holds a MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2016) and Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing (2012). Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: June (Basel), Damian & the Love Guru (Brussels), Lagune Ouest (Copenhagen), Cucina (Copenhagen), Kunstverein Hamburg (Hamburg), Éclair (Berlin), and Salon 75 (Frederiksberg). As Mathias & Mathias he exhibited at Holstebro Kunstmuseum (Holstebro), Overgaden (Copenhagen), Heart Museum of Contemporary Art (Herning), Tranen (Gentofte) and Last Resort Gallery (Copenhagen). Toubro is the recipient of Anne Marie Carl Nielsen’s talent prize (2020), the Niels Wessel Bagge’s prize (2018) and the Sven Dalsgaard reward (2018). 

Jakob Ohrt’s practice oscillates between image and object. This often comes into play through imagining alternative futures and pasts alike and by exploring notions of materiality in an increasingly digitised world. Central to the work is the nature of image-making and the affective relationships we have with images, objects and stories. An important aspect of Jakob's practice is exhibitions, screenings and collaborations that are particularly grounded in specific social situations. Jakob is a member of Terrassen, a roving cinema in Copenhagen that engages with the social life of film.

Jakob Ohrt (DK, 1986) has studied at Chelsea College of Art (2011), The New School (2012) and Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains (2020). Recent and upcoming exhibitions: Astrid Noacks Atelier (Copenhagen), June (Basel), Cucina (Copenhagen), Malmö Kunsthal & FilmForm (Malmö/Stockholm), Stockholm School of Economics in assoc. with Coyote (Stockholm), Cittipunkt (Berlin), Vermland Basement (Copenhagen), and Hotel Hilton in assoc. with Coyote (Stockholm).

Asta Lynge works associatively across materials and processes. She is interested in the notion of progress and its inherent affiliation with technology. For Chart she will present a series sculptures that examine the contradictory allure of safety and security through surveillance. Titled 'Trap’ the protruding works are made from a wooden frame clad with smoke coloured acrylic and a safety mirror with a 180c view at the front. Each one is perforated with a pattern of laser cut holes taken from ventilation units, negotiating opacity as well as access to the space behind and in front of them.

Asta Lynge (DK, 1988) holds a BFA from Central Saints Martins (2012) and was part of the first iteration of the CSM Associate Studio Programme (2013-16). Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Fuglsang Kunstmuseum (Fuglsang), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), HEART Museum of Contemporary Art (Herning), Francis Irv (New York), Astrid Noacks Atelier (Copenhagen), June (Basel), Stockholm School of Economics in assoc. with Coyote (Stockholm), Le Bourgeois (London), Vermland Basement (Copenhagen), Cittipunkt (Berlin), Lagune Ouest, (Copenhagen), Cucina (Copenhagen), BIZARRO (Copenhagen), and dépendance (Brussels). Lynge is the recipient of Anne Marie Carl Nielsen’s talent prize (2022).

Mathias Toubro works with environments, both as staged social performative events and in his image production. In his recent series, Toubro portrays the artist bar as a significant site for the artist to nurture their network and get inspiration. He draws information from historically important places such as Antico Caffè Greco in Rome, Andy’s Bar in Copenhagen and Les Deux Magots in Paris. By incorporating personal experience and actual material from the restaurant business in his artistic practice, Toubro’s environments become equally realistic and illusory.

Mathias Toubro (DK, 1986) holds a MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2016) and Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing (2012). Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: June (Basel), Damian & the Love Guru (Brussels), Lagune Ouest (Copenhagen), Cucina (Copenhagen), Kunstverein Hamburg (Hamburg), Éclair (Berlin), and Salon 75 (Frederiksberg). As Mathias & Mathias he exhibited at Holstebro Kunstmuseum (Holstebro), Overgaden (Copenhagen), Heart Museum of Contemporary Art (Herning), Tranen (Gentofte) and Last Resort Gallery (Copenhagen). Toubro is the recipient of Anne Marie Carl Nielsen’s talent prize (2020), the Niels Wessel Bagge’s prize (2018) and the Sven Dalsgaard reward (2018).

Jakob Ohrt’s practice oscillates between image and object. This often comes into play through imagining alternative futures and pasts alike and by exploring notions of materiality in an increasingly digitised world. Central to the work is the nature of image-making and the affective relationships we have with images, objects and stories. An important aspect of Jakob's practice is exhibitions, screenings and collaborations that are particularly grounded in specific social situations. Jakob is a member of Terrassen, a roving cinema in Copenhagen that engages with the social life of film.

Jakob Ohrt (DK, 1986) has studied at Chelsea College of Art (2011), The New School (2012) and Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains (2020). Recent and upcoming exhibitions: Astrid Noacks Atelier (Copenhagen), June (Basel), Cucina (Copenhagen), Malmö Kunsthal & FilmForm (Malmö/Stockholm), Stockholm School of Economics in assoc. with Coyote (Stockholm), Cittipunkt (Berlin), Vermland Basement (Copenhagen), and Hotel Hilton in assoc. with Coyote (Stockholm).