Ebbe Stub Wittrup
Ebbe Stub Wittrup (born January 12th 1973 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a Danish visual artist. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 1999. Wittrup taught media art at the Jutland Art Academy from 2013-2019.
Ebbe Stub Wittrup is a member of the artists’ association at Den Frie from 2016 and of Kunstnersamfundet (the Artist Community) from 2009. He is a member of the board at the Charlottenborg Foundation/the Spring Exhibition 2009-2013 as well as a board member at Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art.
Key works and exhibitions
Botanical Drift
At the exhibition Botanical Drift (Copenhagen Contemporary, June 25th to July 19th 2020), Ebbe Stub Wittrup presented a number of botanical objects, whose meaning and value have been renegotiated by the forces of colonisation and globalisation of the 18th century.[1] Through these objects, the exhibition questions the rewriting of indigenous cultures that has taken place in this period of time. Botanical Drift took its starting point with the story of Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich (1786-1854), one of the leading botanists of his time.[2]
The exhibition consisted of four site-specific and independent installations, which each gave form to shifting political and economic powers, cultures and modes of understanding, such as pressed plants, collected and named by Wallich, which had been displayed in boxes of a particular type of ash wood, also named by Wallich. In this case, language plays a central role, as the process of naming becomes a showing of power. The western economic and scientific logic is placed above local knowledge and experience, when the indigenous population’s vegetal names are overwritten with Latin terms by a Danish botanist.
But language can also function as a form of resilience as in 24 Characters, where Wittrup has cast hand signs (called mudrās) as large-scale bronze sculptures that are painted black. Mudrā is a form of communication based on hand signs, which is used in, for example, yoga practice today, but back then could not be immediately translated or understood by the colonial power.
Devil's Bridges
Ebbe Stub Wittrup’s series Devil’s Bridges (2006-2010) explores the mystical so-called devil’s bridges, primarily found in the south of Europe. The series consists of black and white photographs of the bridges, which were built in medieval times in areas with mountains, where it would seem impossible to build anything at all. The legend therefore tells that the bridges were built in covenant with the devil, and in return the devil would receive the first soul that crossed the bridge. It is not the first time in the history of art that the mystical and mythical devil’s bridges have been depicted. For instance, J. M. W. Turner painted the devil’s bridge at St. Gotthard Pass in Switzerland, which is also among Wittrup’s motifs.[3]
After Matyushin's Guide to Color
The series After Matyushin’s Guide to Colour (2014) consists of 42 unique photograms. The series is based on Matyushin’s colour theory from the 1930s, where the notion of a fourth dimension is presented, but also on mysterious tales from the Isle of Harris in Scotland that Wittrup himself visited. According to numerous records, multiple people have vanished from Harris in past centuries, only to reappear unaged decades later. On his journey, Wittrup brings along a negative, which is never used. However, when the negative is developed, a square appears. The photograms become a thought experiment and the depiction of both the place that the people of the Isle of Harris disappear to and of Matyushin’s fourth dimension.[4]
Figures of Perception
In Figures of Perception (2016), Ebbe Stub Wittrup explores the human perceptive ability and experiments with turning illusion into reality. The series is based on the Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin and his well-known illustration “Rubin’s Vase”, which alongside similar drawings exemplified how people with their sense of sight distinguishes between foreground and background. “Rubin’s Vase” can therefore both be interpreted as a vase and as two faces seen in profile. Wittrup's series is based on Rubin’s drawings, which he casts into physical objects. The sculptures are afterwards photographed and the figures are transformed from something illusive to something concrete, which can be captured by the lens.
Selected exhibitions
Copenhagen Contemporary: Botanical Drift (solo exhibition) (2020)[5]
Gl. Holtegaard: Photographs (solo exhibition) (2020)[6]
Albright-Knox Art Gallery: We the People: New Art from the Collection (2018)[7]
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum: Cool, Calm and Collected (2017-18)[8]
Martin Asbæk Gallery: Figures of Perception (solo exhibition) (2016)
Braunschweig Kunstverein: Ebbe Stub Wittrup (solo exhibition) (2016)[9]
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum: The Third Room (solo exhibition) (2014)[10]
Sorø Kunstmuseum: IM-MATERIALITET NO. 3 (BEVIDSTHED) (solo exhibition) (2014)
Kirchner Museum Davos: Presumed Reality (solo exhibition) (2013)[11]
OVERGADEN Institut for samtidskunst: The Voice of Things (solo exhibition) (2012)[12]
Nusser & Baumgart: Presumed Reality (solo exhibition) (2011)[13]
Martin Asbæk Gallery: Burning in Water Drowning in Flames (solo exhibition) (2010)
ARKEN – Museum for Moderne Kunst: NORDISKE STEMNINGER – Vor tids landskabsfotografi (2008)
Third Lianzhou International Photography Festival (2007)
The Black Diamond - The National Collection of Photography: Achtung – Kunst! (2007)
Kunsthal Charlottenborg: Efterårsudstillingen (2005)
Publications
Hvedekorn nr. 2+3. Rosinante & Co., København, 2017. ISBN 9788763851442 Search this book on 
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Perception Objects. Corner Kiosk, København, 2015. ISBN 9788799763023 Search this book on .
The Third Room. Catalogue text by Graham Arman.[14] ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum & Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2014. ISBN 9783957631046 Search this book on .
Eight Coloured Cards. Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2013.
The Voice of Things. Space Poetry, København, 2013. ISBN 9788776031374 Search this book on .
Hvedekorn nr. 2. Rosinante & Co., København, 2012. ISBN 9788763823975 Search this book on .
Op lysning. Space Poetry, København, 2011. ISBN 9788776031152 Search this book on .
Presumed Reality. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin, 2011. ISBN 9783775732161 Search this book on .
Leporello#15. Arena, København, 2010. ISBN 9788774052272 Search this book on .
OUTFROMUNDER. Space Poetry, København, 2007. ISBN 8776030741 Search this book on .
MEANWHILE NOW. Space Poetry, København, 2007. ISBN 9788776030285 Search this book on .
Asterisk nr. 29. Forlaget * [asterisk], København, 2005.
Places to go, People to see. Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, 2001. ISBN 9783931126520 Search this book on .
Exciting Comfort. Space Poetry, København, 2000. ISBN 9788789783635 Search this book on .
Katalog, Picture Book. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, København, 1995.
References
- ↑ LaTourelle, Rodney (September 18, 2020). "Ebbe Stub Wittrup - Botanical Drift". ArtReview Asia. Autumn 2020: 89.
- ↑ "Ebbe Stub Wittrup | Copenhagen Contemporary". copenhagencontemporary.org. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
- ↑ "Devil's Bridges". Martin Asbæk Gallery. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
- ↑ "Ebbe Stub Wittrub: After Matyushin's Guide to Colour - Kunstverein Braunschweig". kunstvereinbraunschweig.de. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
- ↑ "Ebbe Stub Wittrup | Copenhagen Contemporary". copenhagencontemporary.org. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ↑ Holtegaard, Gl. "Gl. Holtegaard". Gl. Holtegaard. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ↑ "Ebbe Stub Wittrup | Albright-Knox". www.albrightknox.org. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ↑ Blegvad, Maria Kappel. "Cool, Calm and Collected: #16 Troels Sandegård (sammen med Ebbe Stub Wittrup og en clairvoyant) og Tue Greenfort" (in dansk). Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ↑ "Ebbe Stub Wittrup at Kunstverein Braunschweig – Art Viewer". Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ↑ "Ebbe Stub Wittrup - The Third Room". ARoS (in dansk). Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ↑ piguetweb.ch. "Ebbe Stub Wittrup. Presumed Reality". www.kirchnermuseum.ch. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ↑ "» The Voice of Things". Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ↑ "Ebbe Stub Wittrup at Nusser & Baumgart Munich - Artmap.com". artmap.com. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ↑ Wittrup, Ebbe Stub. "The Third Room". Ebbe Stub Wittrup. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
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