https://madslynnerup.com/work daily 1.0 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570216775078-9VECW6RDGZDNXBGQS126/If+you+See+Anything..2+%C2%A92007.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art - If YOU see anything…, 2007 Silk-screen print on paper (18x24 inches) A series of posters appropriating the anti-terrorist slogan used in the New York City Subway in which the word "Suspicious" has been switched out with "Interesting’ making the phrase all of a sudden point more at the situation and state that we are living in at this moment. This image also includes documentation of Mads hanging the poster during the opening of Venice Biennial 2007 and at the Muenster Sculpture Project, 2007 in Muenster, Germany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570217008338-N5GBXTGFHGB09C348Y4Q/Mads_Lynnerup_Gallery_Counter.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art - gallery counter, 2006 Sculpture - (wood, doll head, wig, gallery information copies, flowers, chair and Swiffer). Dimensions variable. Gallery Counter is a sculpture and parody on the stereotypical gallery counter often seen in galleries in Chelsea, New York. Finding it amusing to only see the top of someone's head behind the counter motivated me to make a replica of one of these counters, while replacing the person behind the counter with a dummy head and wig. This image shows Gallery Counter installed in a solo exhibition at Lora Reynolds Gallery in Austin, Texas (January 26 - March 1, 2008). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570217137593-YY8ZYKZANGF3WBJAO0Q8/Socrates-Fix-It-web.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art - FIx it, 2009 Installation, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, Queens, New York, September 13- March 7, 2010 Situated in the park fix It appears at first to be a typical New York construction site with its iconic blue-painted plywood fence, cut out peepholes, and "post no bills" signs. But as you get closer, and look through the fence one is met with a number of videos, playing on different TV-monitors scattered throughout the construction site area. The videos activate the usual passive and in-between state of the ordinary construction site and are all recordings of people whose labors are in the neighborhood around the Socrates Sculpture Park (Queens), performing various kinds of repairs. Their work is making use of what already exists, instead of throwing it away for something new. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1571053988729-745ROGEPIT79K9J675L3/JewishFolkt_ElijahsGoldenFinger-Mads-Lynnerup.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art - VIDEO MOBILE The video mobile structure with the two video screens was used in order to break up the common way of viewing video and understanding a certain storyline. In this installation, the screens would rotate independently and the viewer would have to move around with the video screens. Sometimes making the audience have to choose, which screen to follow, which would change the experience and narrative. In addition, viewing the two screens simultaneously also created a different kind of immersive viewing experience as the audience would walk in between and around the screens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570217533251-0UV9GDG9V3FQ2DT65HSO/JewishFolktales_InstallationShot-Mads-Lynnerup-web.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art - Jewish Folktales retold - Mobile Elijah’s Golden Finger Mountain Violin, 2017-2018 Video installation commissioned by the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco for the exhibition "Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid" Materials: Aluminum mobile with 2 screens For the exhibition Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid, Mads was commissioned to respond to a selection of Jewish folktales edited and included in Howard Schwartz's anthology Leaves from the Garden of Eden: One Hundred Classic Jewish Tales (2009), which compiles stories from a vast array of countries and centuries, and from both oral and written traditions. When reading the folktales Mads was noticing how most of them had the most elaborate, unusual, and magical moments that would transform the stories in very unexpected ways. Acting as modern maggid—storyteller, Mads chose different uncanny moments from three of the folktales and weaved them together into a new story. A more fantastical and condensed story bringing light to the turning points and transitional moments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1571655542957-Q9JTYA2JYW063ZMXZLD1/Mads_Lynnerup-Plastc-Gymnastic-web-performancespsd.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art Active Presence, 2012 LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial, Gijon, Spain - Performers. Exercise Grill, 2015 - Steel Sculpture and performer. Part of “Body Talk” exhibition at di Rosa in Napa Valleey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570217796893-ABHDXSE9NQV7KYLZ9JPM/Mads_Lynnerup_Plastic_Gymnastic-web-1.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art - Plastic gymnastcs, 2012 MARCO Museum in Vigo, Spain Mads Lynnerup highlights the antithetical landscapes of contemporary art and that of fitness. In the words of the artist "I think the two worlds have a lot in common: They are both obsessive and become fanatic in their own way and I like the idea that as an artist in my studio I am working out something.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570218008956-OC1ZV1D1KWEVIYVODSSE/15_MadsLynnerup_TV-Kebab.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art - TV Tower Kebab, 2004 Video and photograph documentation of performance During a 3 months residency in Berlin in 2004,1 discovered how dominant the TV-tower on Alexander Platz is in Berlin's cityscape. With its presence anywhere you go, it becomes a navigation point when traveling around in the city. While living in Berlin, I also became aware of the "Döner Kebab's" popularity {Turkish-style meat on a stick). For a one-time event, I asked the employees at "Grill und Schlemmer Buffet," a Döner kebab restaurant in Mitte, Berlin to carve the "kebab" meat in the shape of the TV-tower. which they could see looking out of the window of the restaurant. The images on this page show the carving in progress as well as the final result 13 hours later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570218168402-F33N1LV55UQSLR4GFUC5/clock-installation-Mads-Lynnerup-web.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art - Clock performance, 2008 24-hour HD-video, (recorded in one-take) Clock is a 24-hour long video, which was made in response to the common notion that art is invalid in our society since it often doesn't perform a function. When this video is played on a loop it functions as a clock. This image shows Clock exhibited at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions in San Francisco, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570468043619-KU21ORBA5OMH112Z3YS0/Clock-Mads-Lynnerup.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art - CLOCK PERFORMANCE, 2008 Mads Lynnerup performing his timekeeping skills, live at Karriere Bar in Copenhagen, where he stood during the opening hours (7 am -Midnight) on August 12, 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570218257137-9HETZBTUYIPOOVRUZQ3J/MadsLynnerup_Flip+Flop+floor.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art - Flip flop floor, 2003 Installation - Dimensions variable Inspired from walking around the city of San Francisco, I noticed that I would often come across more editing things when taking a walk, than when I would go to see exhibitions in galleries or museums. This made me install a floor made out of one-inch (2.54 cm) thick cardboard, in which I cut out up to 150 pairs of "flip flops" in Afferent sizes with nylon straps inserted. For the two months that the exhibition was open, the visitors to the gallery were invited to pick out a pair of flip-flops from the floor and go for a walk, while still wearing the "gallery floor." This image shows the entire installation as well as detail photographs of people choosing their flip-flops. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1571396964627-68JGOWAM4D3JEDJWD0XD/Book_Burning_flames.gif MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art - EVERYTHING HAS BEEN DONE - BOOK ON FIRE In this video a book lights on fire, as it gets opened. The book was published by Colpa Press in San Francisco and is in a limited edition of 50 in which 10 out of the 50 books has the potential of lighting on fire, when opening the book. Every book comes in a sealed bag, so there’s no way to tell what books will light on fire or not. To purchase one of the books. Click below: https://www.colpapress.com/products/everything-has-been-done#.XabCqJNKiL8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570218629947-FV565AFQ58G01B32JQQQ/Mads-Lynnerup-888-steps-web.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art - 888 fEET on 1000 fEET When Mads moved to the United States, he was fascinated with the heavy aluminum foil as a material to make art with and how it's capable of maintaining a shape. In this performance, Mads rolled down 1000 feet of aluminum foil down a hill and walked on it. After he was done walking down the hill he rolled the foil into a large ball. The ball became a recording of his footprints, still visible in the ball and the images documenting the process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570219465400-WRJK2WJIBBGCF63XNE92/Mads-Lynnerup-888-steps.web-2.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570219724270-JFDN6PC8A4B79JIY868E/Rotating-Screen-Mads-Lynnerup-web.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art - rotating screen installation For a mini-retrospective of Mads’ video work at Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen, Denmark in conjunction with the “FOKUS” Video Festival, Mads proposed to have four videos projected from each corner of the room. Depending on how the audience decided to turn the rotating screen in the center of the room, the viewer would be able to select and watch the video of their desire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1615656201607-66W2ML0Q3UJRJJGTNH85/Promise-the-Moon-Mads-Lynnerup.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art - Promise THE Moon Promise the Moon is a series of 24 limited edition silkscreen prints produced by artist Mads Lynnerup and commissioned by Playtype. The prints are inspired by store signs, seen by Lynnerup in his neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Mads Lynnerup had created his own collection of signs, using type fonts produced by Playtype. Although the print series comments on the influence of advertisements in our lives the collection of signs are just as much a result of Lynnerup's facination with the use of text and typeface in his artwork. You can buy the silkscreen prints online at www.organicliving.dk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/765e764a-f6d3-4f27-ad4d-d38eb7c51435/Badge-3sm.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art - WORK MORE - MORE WORK At the Arcadia Festival Mads Lynnerup will be performing a text-based project, pushing a big wheel constructed out of plywood through the city of Ebersberg. The big wheel has two words “Work and More” written on the side of the wheel and depending on which side is up, it will either read “WORK MORE” or MORE WORK.” The theme of the third Arcadia Festival is Brave New World, a nod to Aldous Huxley's novel of the same name, which depicts a dystopian future "as some see it as becoming more and more a reality," according to Kees. The war in Ukraine and its consequences, the development of totalitarian structures, newly emerging nationalism, rapidly growing capitalism, climate change, digitization, the polarisation of society: all of this has to be negotiated, explains the curator. The festival wants to offer an artistic forum for this. Arcadia #3: "Beautiful New World", Part I: May 19th to June 12th in Ebersberg, Berlin, and Gdansk, Part II: June 12th to 30th in Rijeka. 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570217761466-AHX2WXHCWAN8ZG3FLM2S/Mads_Lynnerup_Plastic_Gymnastic-web-1.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570217103763-5WZ37ECDS5YAEW08G2LP/Socrates-Fix-It-web.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570217506323-5YO3NOCNJC3VDYAD9F7K/JewishFolktales_InstallationShot-Mads-Lynnerup-web.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570216980800-RXOX4IV3MTUT6NIMN6FB/Gallery-counter-web.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570217973827-6ALF0L3PJKJJGCITTI38/TV-Tower_Kebab_Mads_Lynnerup-web.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570218492132-7AUSXU0WQQ3OQJVQLI4F/Mads-Lynnerup-888-steps-web.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570218351863-PV0RA3APRT8867USIQ21/Everything-has-been-done-burning-book-web.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570219684818-ESSUH7GO4XY5F9JSLC1N/Rotating-Screen-Mads-Lynnerup-web.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570219813400-805MNV45W9TFLTF6H3MW/01Lynnerup_Flip_Flop_Floor.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570645227812-K4UQN4KDAEP1VPJSTUD1/Mads-Lynnerup_If-you-see-anything....jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1570223532982-BSM07OGARQLFPVG9MWMS/Clock.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1615655498613-BL2NOTLK5JVQJYYU4UHC/MadsLynnerup__Promise-the-Moon.jpg MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1683719439360-829CJBUM5NC05LQVZI65/WORK+MORE+-+MORE+WORK.gif MADS LYNNERUP, artist, visual art https://madslynnerup.com/videos daily 0.75 2023-07-25 https://madslynnerup.com/madslynnerup/cv daily 0.75 2020-06-09 https://madslynnerup.com/archive daily 0.75 2019-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1571396349761-QPH4J01M4IYZFYPQ9GSM/Mads-gl.-website-_4_128-0-dith.gif ARCHIVE https://madslynnerup.com/contact daily 0.75 2019-10-18 https://madslynnerup.com/about daily 0.75 2019-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d962b2d0de07b136aa05ae2/1571394015878-AGL25Q864JMSLRO9G7UH/Mads-Lynnerup-web-3-bw.jpg About - ABOUT Mads Lynnerup’s practice incorporates video, performance, sculpture, and installation. Lynnerup’s work is influenced by societal and economic issues and is a commentary on its own playful manner on everyday experiences as well as tendencies and trends within the art world. Lynnerup received an MFA from Columbia University in New York City and a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute. Lynnerup has an extensive national and international exhibition record including commissions and exhibitions at Creative Time, PS.1, MTV, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; The Mori Art Museum; Tokyo; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany to mention a few. He is a Eureka Fellowship recipient as well as an Artadia, and Toby Devan Lewis Award winner. In addition, he is currently the chair of the New Genres program and an assistant professor at the San Francisco Art Institute.