BJØRN NØRGAARDTAKE A CUP OF COFFEE22 - 27.08.1975

BJØRN NØRGAARD

“Take a Cup of Coffee (Kritik der praktischen Vernunft)”
Galerie S:t Petri, Lund — 22–27 August 1975

Bjørn Nørgaard from Copenhagen exhibits at Galerie S:t Petri, Lund, from August 22 to 27, 1975.
This culturally multifaceted artist has for several years worked with film, actions/performances, as well as more “conventional” exhibition activities.

At the beginning of the 1960s, he created sculptures.
Since 1965 he has been involved with the Experimental Art School in Copenhagen.
Together with several friends — Joseph Beuys, Henning Christiansen, Lene Adler Petersen, Per Kirkeby, among others — he began to carry out actions in Denmark, Germany, Norway, and Sweden.

The aim of these performances was to explore the relationships between different materials.
Just as stone, plaster, and clay, each in themselves inert, can together form new compositions, so too religion, politics, and poetry can combine into a cultural manifestation and give rise to something meaningful.

In the late 1960s, Bjørn Nørgaard began making films.
His first two were purchased by the Danish State Film Board.
One television film about the cultural situation in his homeland was censored, despite having been commissioned by Danish Television.
Together with Lene Adler Petersen, Nørgaard has made around ten 8 mm films.

The exhibition at Galerie S:t Petri is titled “Take a Cup of Coffee” (Tag en kopp kaffe).
Bjørn Nørgaard writes:

“At this exhibition I shall eat one of the thousands of meals I have eaten and will eat throughout my life;
take a book that lies on the table, read one page, put it down again;
take a pencil and write something or nothing;
carry out a limited number of the indifferent actions that make up my life.

I also wish to affirm order in coincidence and the principle of indifference.”

On Friday, August 22, Bjørn Nørgaard will be present at the gallery.

The exhibition is open weekdays from 3–8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays 12–5 p.m.