100th birthday is equal to closing

In collaboration with Aarhus exhibition places the society Hidden Places creates attention on a series of events in Randers that celebrates the randrusianske artist Sven Dalsgaard on the occasion of his 100th birthday

In 1979 the artist Sven Dalsgaard closed Galerie Asbæk for ten days. It happened in connection with the exhibition 'Sven Dalsgaard closes Galerie Asbæk'.

He did so as a reaction. Sven Dalsgaard responded simply by his own admission a little Jutlandic to the Copenhagen art scene, which he thought was more interested in expensive furs and being seen at receptions, rather than art itself. He therefore proposed gallery owner Jacob Asbæk to close the gallery down instead of exhibit there, which he immediately agreed to. The only problem on this 'exhibition' was that the audience had expected - from the title – that the artist would commit suicide!

This year Dalsgaard would have turned 100 years. On this occasion Hidden Places closes - in Sven Dalsgaard name - symbolically a number of exhibition spaces in Aarhus.

About Hidden Places
Hidden Places is about to deconstruct, equip and transform urban spaces with hidden potentials in new and unpredictable ways. For example, by using the city's underground shelters for electronic concerts or by taking advantage of the city's "extra space" to include to establish plantations, which collects and balances pollution while the rooms serves as space for social and cultural meetings.