KITTY
Andreas Schulenburg (DE/DK)
15 August - 21 September 2024
Preview opening 15 August at 16.00 - 19.00
Exhibition opening by writer and poet Thomas Krogsbøl, at 17.00.
Kitty has moved into Peach Corner with a raucous bunch of cats of all stripes. Here, they live with the Crazy Cat Lady but, fortunately, in a tastefully appointed home where Danish Modern furniture classics shape the setting of their everyday life.
The occupants of Kitty’s home is a diverse lot, including designer cats who can slip off their fur, celebrity cats, like Garfield and Black Pete from the card game of the same name, the product cat KitKat and many wild, anonymous individuals, sweet and cute, mysterious and magical. A couple of dogs even made their way in. All the animals are the result of millennia of breeding, and they are ready to mirror and meet any owner’s needs.
In the exhibition Kitty, Andreas Schulenburg borrows and mixes widely different aesthetic expressions. Visual elements and themes from Instagram cat videos, souvenir shops, magical urban legends, cartoons, commercials and many other sources come together in a tumultuous and colourful ceramic installation. With highly entertaining imagery, Schulenburg curiously explores humanity’s absurd relationship with nature while also directing harsh social criticism at our insatiable consumption of other living beings.
Andreas Schulenburg is a visual artist who expresses himself in a wide range of different media, from felted sculptures, felted images and watercolours to ceramics, animation video and painting. Schulenburg addresses serious issues in a playful visual expression with a fascination of the absurd. In Kitty, Schulenburg uses ceramics in a storytelling expression that draws on the material’s associations with bric-a-brac, pop culture and hobby pursuits.
