Exhibitions

Lars Schwander (*1957) is maybe best know for his curatorial work. As the founder of The Photographic Center in Denmark, as well as curator for some years at the Louisiana MoMA and in the group of artistic advicers for the Hasselblad Center in Sweden. He has co-produced shows at Hôtel du Sully in Paris and with Galerie Vu at the festival in Arles. And as collector Lars Schwander has unique collection of app. 4.000 photographs – from Cindy Sherman and Sally Mann to Olga Tobreluts, Evgeny Mokhorev and Margo Ovcharenko.

However Lars Schwander is a part of an old defined tradition, that photographic curators also can be active artistically. His work is often centered about the portrait. Lars Schwander loves the portrait tradition and is instinctively connected to this genre. And he has, since the 70’s documented especially artists. Mostly in isolated rooms with white, gray or black background, but sometimes also people in the studios within their own belongings.

For many years the black and white photographs was the common language for him but during the last five years – or so – there are many pictures in colour. Today he uses both types of photographs.

Among these:

Björk (1985), Manuel A. Bravo (1999), Robert Frank (1997), Alberto Garcia-Alix (2009), Peter Greenaway (2000), Martin Kippenberger (1996), Annie Leibovitz (2000), Evgeny Mokhorev (2009), Helmut Newton (1997), Yoko Ono (1997), Cindy Sherman (1995), Jeffrey Silverthorne (2008), Gintautas Trimakas (1996), etc.

The exhibition organized together with Det Danske Kultur institut.

LARS SCHWANDER - CURRICULUM VITAE

M.A. in Nordic Philology & Film Science at University of Copenhagen

Founder & director of Fotografisk Center (Photographic Centre), Copenhagen

Member of AICA, Association Internationale des critiques d'Art

Member of The Finnish Cultural Institute, Copenhagen

Former artistic advisor, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden

Former curator of photography at Louisiana MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek

Photographer, included in the encyclopia Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon (Who’s Who in Danish Art)

Art Collector (photography)

Biography

*1957

Director of Fotografisk Center (Photographic Center), Copenhagen

Former photographic curator, Louisiana, Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek

M.A. in Nordic Languages and Film Science

In. Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon (Who's Who in Danish Art)

Awards

2008  Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres

(The French Ministry of Culture)

The Danish Book Design Award

Representation

Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris)

Det kongelige Bibliotek (Copenhagen)

Musée de la Photographie (Charleroi, Belgium)

Museet for Fotokunst (Odense)

Thomas Olbricht Collection (Germany)

Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris)

Lenono Photo Archive (New York)

Diverse private collctions:

Galerie Mikael Andersen, John Hunov, etc

Official Assignments

2002        Hospital Dept. w./ C.F. Møllers Tegnestue (Kolding, Denmark)

1995            Hôtel Dorinth, Expérience d'integration de la photographie

dans un espace public (Brussels)

Talks, Performances, etc. [Selected]

2004        Dialogue Meeting, performance w/Yoko Ono (Gran Teatret, Aarhus)

2001        Dialogue Meeting, performance w/Yoko Ono (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)

Magnum, Verden Nu (Louisiana, Humlebaek)

2000            Stardust - Annie Leibovitz 1970-1999 (Louisiana, Humlebaek)

1999            Europeans (Louisiana, Humlebaek)

1998            What is photography? (Krogerup Höjskole)

1994            The Memory of Images. Danish Photography Today,

(Baltic Photographic Festival, Gdansk)

The Imaginary Image (American Studies Seminar, Rödovre)

One-man Shows [Selected]

2003            Michael Strunge 1981-1985 (Gladsaxe)

2001            Portraits of Artists (Galerie Mikael Andersen)

Portraits d'Artistes (Galerie Veneuille St.-Péres, Paris)

1995            Photographs (Gladsaxe)

1993            Oui Paris (Institut Français, Copenhagen)

Egypt (w/Tove Kurtzweil, Krasnapolsky. Copenhagen, arr. Olafur Eliasson)

1991 - 92       Oui Paris (Galleri Image, Aarhus)

1989            One Way, Pictures from New York

(w/Tove Kurtzweil, Ringsted Gallery, Ringsted)

1985            Portraits (w/Tove Kurtzweil, The Booktrader, Copenhagen)