2011   Artists   Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen

NIKOLAJ BENDIX SKYUM LARSEN

TITLE: Promised Land

Born: 1971, Denmark

Lives/Works: London

Next door to Club Onyx, Marine Parade, CT20 1PX
This three-screen film focuses on a number of migrants living in camps near Calais on the last leg of a long and dangerous journey from their home countries – Afghanistan and Iran –
to Britain. The film is screened inside a long-abandoned café on Marine Parade, itself a road that is home to many asylum seekers. On a clear day, Calais can be seen from the beach just
north of Larsen’s cinema. Film 55 mins.

Interview with Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen
Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen Interview by FT2011 Audio

Recent solo exhibitions:

‘Do Not Use’, Revolver Galeria, Lima, Peru (2010)

‘Contes de la périphérie’, Maison du Danemark, Paris, France (2010)

‘Control Wanted’, Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris, France (2008)

‘Rising Floating Falling’, Kunsten – Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark (2004)

Recent group exhibitions:

‘The Spacemakers’, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh (2010)

‘Video XXI – Coleccion Lemaitre’, Centro Fundacion Telefonica, Lima, Peru (2010)

Sharjah Biennial 9, UAE (2009)

‘Distant Relations’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark (2007)

‘About Time’, Kunsten – Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark (2007)

‘Une vision du monde’, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France (2006)

‘The Mind is a Horse’, Bloomberg Space, London (2002)