ESKE KATH

Eske Kath (b. 1975) graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2003. He has been member of the Danish Artist Cooperative Grønningen since 2005.

He lives and works in Søborg, Denmark.

Eske Kath is well known for his installations, sculptures and captivating paintings: He sets a new agenda for the genre of landscape painting, where he processes the fundamental uncertainty of life in his dystopic, yet hopeful works.

Art has the power to make the viewer process the greater questions in life – and that is especially poignant in Kath’s body of work: Our modern-day world is complex, chaotic and filled with unanswerable questions. Kath’s abstract reflections offer a space for reflection.

Within Kath’s work the law of gravity is often suspend and the horizon twists around powerful suns. Night and day and what we believe to be up and down become intertwined in an organic but accurately composed universe of color.

The landscapes combine the contrasts between the static, colorful, and meticulously composed painting with the severe physical changes of the world and how we perceive it. This visualization of an abstract universe is instinctively still perceived as a landscape by humanity.

Kath has exhibited solo shows at Trapholt Museum of Modern Art (DK), Skagen Art Museum (DK), J. F. Willumsen’s Museum (DK), Viborg Kunsthal (DK), Nikolaj Kunsthal (DK) and at selected galleries in New York (US).

Works by Eske Kath are part of the collections at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, HEART Museum, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Trapholt Museum of Modern Art, Sammlung Essl, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wien, The New Carlsberg Foundation and in the Danish Art Foundation.

 

Permanent installations of Eske Kath’s work include his 2010 celling panting at Frederik VIII’s Palace at Amalienborg as well as wall paintings for Nørrebro Bibliotek among others.

Installation view of Landscape – a solo exhibition by Eske Kath (2019)