Chart Art Fair. Sara Sjölin, Mathias Toubro. August 29 - September 1, 2024

For Chart 2024 Lagune Ouest presents new works by Sara Sjölin and Mathias Toubro. In their practises both artists touch upon subjects and artifices like realism, storytelling, a certain roughness, conceptual nostalgia, installation and performativity. Sjölin exhibits two video works and Toubro a series of painting.

Sara Sjölin’s practice revolves around film, speech, performance and installation. In her work, she explores comedy rooted in tragedy, where feelings of anxiety or discomfort can through art be transformed into moments of affection and laughter.
For Chart, Sjölin shows two video works dealing with big questions such as; what is the value in art and what is the force behind it? These thoughts are addressed first through the artist's cat Aljosha, then Sjölin's mother and finally Sjölin herself. Sjölin's physical journey starts in her apartment in Copenhagen, followed by a walk in the neighborhood, off to an art fair in Basel, then to Goetheanum (the spiritual home of Rudolf Steiner), and finally back again. All along she is doing purposeless or maybe very meaningful exercises both mentally and physically - always with her cat’s and mother’s presence in the back of her head.

Sara Sjölin holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2018). Past and upcoming exhibitions include: SALTS (Basel), Copenhagen Contemporary (Copenhagen), Uniondocs (New York), New Jörg (Vienna), Lagune Ouest (Copenhagen), Konstnärshuset (Stockholm), THORAVEJ29 (Copenhagen), Kunsthaus Zürich (Zürich), Bikubenfonden (Copenhagen), Loggia (Munich), Galleri Susanne Ottesen (Copenhagen), Hamlet (Zürich), Celsius Projects (Malmö), Lille Vega (Copenhagen), CPH:DOX film festival (Copenhagen), Sydhavnsambassaden no. 5 & 6 (Copenhagen), Skjold Contemporary (Copenhagen), Kunsthal Aarhus (Aarhus). Sjölin is the recipient of Niels Wessel Bagges Art Foundation prize (2022) and the Anne Marie Carl Nielsen’s talent prize (2024). 

Mathias Toubro engages with environments, both through staged social performative events and in his visual work, primarily using video and painting. For this year’s edition of Chart, Toubro introduces a new series of paintings titled the Work and Lunch Suite. This series is inspired by moments in art history which utilise ‘labor as art education’ and notable incidents involving lunch, continuing his exploration of spaces that are pivotal to artistic development. Toubro draws both visual and textual references from historically significant movements in the creative world like minimalism, neorealism, Victorian writings about class and art as well as alternative societies like Black Mountain College. His work reflects on personal experiences and seeks to explore and reveal the less discussed processes in creating art. 

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: Gammel Strand (Copenhagen), Etablissement d’en Face (Brussels), Damian & the Love Guru (Brussels/Zürich), 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). His work is represented both in private and public collections such as The Danish National Gallery (SMK).

Sara Sjölin’s practice revolves around film, speech, performance and installation. In her work, she explores comedy rooted in tragedy, where feelings of anxiety or discomfort can through art be transformed into moments of affection and laughter.
For Chart, Sjölin shows two video works dealing with big questions such as; what is the value in art and what is the force behind it? These thoughts are addressed first through the artist's cat Aljosha, then Sjölin's mother and finally Sjölin herself. Sjölin's physical journey starts in her apartment in Copenhagen, followed by a walk in the neighborhood, off to an art fair in Basel, then to Goetheanum (the spiritual home of Rudolf Steiner), and finally back again. All along she is doing purposeless or maybe very meaningful exercises both mentally and physically - always with her cat’s and mother’s presence in the back of her head.

Sara Sjölin holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2018). Past and upcoming exhibitions include: SALTS (Basel), Copenhagen Contemporary (Copenhagen), Uniondocs (New York), New Jörg (Vienna), Lagune Ouest (Copenhagen), Konstnärshuset (Stockholm), THORAVEJ29 (Copenhagen), Kunsthaus Zürich (Zürich), Bikubenfonden (Copenhagen), Loggia (Munich), Galleri Susanne Ottesen (Copenhagen), Hamlet (Zürich), Celsius Projects (Malmö), Lille Vega (Copenhagen), CPH:DOX film festival (Copenhagen), Sydhavnsambassaden no. 5 & 6 (Copenhagen), Skjold Contemporary (Copenhagen), Kunsthal Aarhus (Aarhus). Sjölin is the recipient of Niels Wessel Bagges Art Foundation prize (2022) and the Anne Marie Carl Nielsen’s talent prize (2024). 

Mathias Toubro engages with environments, both through staged social performative events and in his visual work, primarily using video and painting. For this year’s edition of Chart, Toubro introduces a new series of paintings titled the Work and Lunch Suite. This series is inspired by moments in art history which utilise ‘labor as art education’ and notable incidents involving lunch, continuing his exploration of spaces that are pivotal to artistic development. Toubro draws both visual and textual references from historically significant movements in the creative world like minimalism, neorealism, Victorian writings about class and art as well as alternative societies like Black Mountain College. His work reflects on personal experiences and seeks to explore and reveal the less discussed processes in creating art. 

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: Gammel Strand (Copenhagen), Etablissement d’en Face (Brussels), Damian & the Love Guru (Brussels/Zürich), 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). His work is represented both in private and public collections such as The Danish National Gallery (SMK).