SMK opens outdoor exhibition: three artists respond to a year of COVID-19
Benedikte Bjerre, Eee-O-Eleven, 2021.
COPENHAGEN
.- One year has gone by since Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced the first COVID-19 lockdown of Denmark. The anniversary is marked by a new outdoor exhibition jointly arranged by SMK, Coop, Danish Red Cross and Hjaltelin Stahl. Here, three leading artists present three entirely new works of art created as a response to the pandemic.
A giant laptop. A sentence spelled out in recycled bricks. And a video collage featuring hands, elbow bumps and socially distanced meetings.
In a new outdoor exhibition, the three artists Benedikte Bjerre, Kaspar Bonnén and Sonja Lillebæk Christensen each offer their take on an artistic response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The exhibition opens one year after Denmarks first lockdown due to the coronavirus and the works are displayed in the museum garden in front of SMK National Gallery of Denmark, where all interested parties are free to drop by any time.