Biografi/ Biography

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Lasse Lau (født 1974 Sønderborg) er billedkunstner, samt queer og social aktivist, bosiddende i København og Bruxelles. Han har studeret ved Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program i New York, samt det Fynske Kunstakademi i Danmark.

“Agentur for Offentlige Ressourcer” (APR) er det imaginære rum for samtlige af Lau’s interdisciplinære kunst aktiviteter. Det er et agentur der gennem kunst akkumulerer viden fra sted specifikke projekter, gennem dialog forsøger at facilitere en bredere forståelse af rum og demokrati.

Hans arbejde fokuserer på den disharmoni og amnesi der er i den globale økonomi, og de afstedkommende parallelle sociale forskydninger, som finder sted i en rumlig dimension. Lau ofte insistere på den sociale deltagelse af beskueren selv i den æstetiske produktion. He fastholder at sådan deltagelse, kan åbne kunstens muligheder for at resonere i en mere kritisk relation til dets eget indhold. Han søger en æstetik der skabe rammen for en dialog der åbner op for muligheden for forandring.

Lau har udstillet på Hamburger Bahnhof og Wolfsburg Kunstverein i Tyskland, Aarhus Kunst Museum og Brandts Klædefabrik i Denmark, The Museum of Contemporary Art i Kroatien, The Turin Biennial of Contemporary Art i Italien, the Contemporary Museum i Maryland, Smack Mellon Gallery og PS1 Contemporary Art Center i New York.

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Lasse Lau (born 1974 Denmark) is a queer and social activist, visual artist and filmmaker based in Brussels and Copenhagen. He studied at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York and at the Funen Academy of Fine Art in Denmark.

“Agency of Public Resources” (APR) is the imaginary common subject matter from which most of Lau’s recent interdisciplinary art projects originate. It is an agency that through the means of art and collectiveness accumulates on site knowledge, and through dialogue facilitates re-negotiations of space and democracy.

His work continues to expose the amnesia of today’s crises in the global economy, and the parallel social displacement of people in spatial terms. Lau often insists on the participation of the viewer in the aesthetic production. He believes that this will opens up the possibility for art to resonate in a different and more critical relation to the subject matter. He seeks to utilize aesthetics as a framework that can open dialogical paths for social change.

Lau has exhibited in Hamburger Bahnhof and Wolfsburg Kunstverein in Germany, Aarhus Art Museum and Brandts Klaedefabrik in Denmark, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Croatia, The Turin Biennial of Contemporary Art in Italy, the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Smack Mellon Gallery and PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York.