Signe Ralkov (@signeralkov)
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A study (linseed oil) 2025 gelatin silver print, unframed, behind glass 30,5 x 40,6 cm
Flash and Flicker & Coronation Day, POV My work is on view at @kunsthalcharlottenborg through August 10th, as part of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ MFA Degree Show 2025 curated by Mariam Elnozahy. Images by @david_stjernholm
A document of the studio as I was finishing my graduation work. Photographed by dear @johannahvidtved and in conversation with @ditlevfejerskov about this chapter, my process and everything in between - for the May issue of @elledanmark out in print now
Final days to visit Signe Ralkov’s solo exhibition ‘Pod’ before it closes this weekend! The gallery is open today until 6PM and Saturday from 12-4PM “Signe recognizes herself in the drain’s polished steel grate. Its slim, circular form warps the image of her face. She paints so that the world can look at itself, she paints because she is in this world as well. She paints what she really sees and what she wants. Our symbolic society, in which you extract to consume and consume to enter. A drain looks like a possible escape, but like most of the holes in our society, it just leads to a natural resource commodified. I mean it leads to a stream somewhere, a speculation about the unknown, the shapeless, the yet to be measured. In this world death is not the final word, it’s a rapturing of time for more of the same to continue. Signe paints how she transposes her system. It wires meaning through circuits in the pharmaceutical supply chain. The consumed pill is absorbed in this. She is the beholder of and possessed by narcissistic love. An ice cube from her drink melts in her hand just before she can lick it. We know now that a painting collapses in a stream of images and maybe the ongoing flow in which Signe has entered is what she tries to clog.” [Exhibition text by @christinedahlerup]
Signe Ralkov Drain, 2024 Oil on canvas 100 x 120 cm / 39.4 x 47.3 inches
OPENING TONIGHT: @signeralkov Join us at OTP Rantzausgade 9 this evening from 5-8PM to celebrate the opening of ‘Pod’ by Signe Ralkov, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. “Imagine liquid with high viscosity. Like Spit. Then think of the inside of an oil tank: A glossy black liquid shaped cylinder. The cylinder lying horizontally like if it’s being transported. It’s a pearl with no image in it, just reflecting light. I like to think about containing. An eye contains vision, vision is determined by aperture, the eye is filled by light when it sees. Your eyes. I contain myself everyday, I maintain myself. When I wake up in the middle of the night, I see things that aren’t there, I make them up.” [Extract from exhibition text by @christinedahlerup]
Signe Ralkov’s solo exhibition ‘Pod’ opens at OTP Rantzausgade 9 tomorrow from 5–8PM, please join us to celebrate this new body of work and the artist’s debut exhibition with the gallery! @signeralkov Eye 2, 2024 Oil on canvas 40 x 59 cm / 15.8 x 23.3 inches
Signe Ralkov’s solo exhibition ‘Pod’ opens this Friday 08 November 5–8PM at OTP Copenhagen, Rantzausgade 9 📍 Signe Ralkov (b. 1997, Roskilde; DK) is an artist living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is currently completing an MFA at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, scheduled to graduate in spring 2025. Ralkov’s approach to painting is characterized by a particular attention towards visual economies. Reflecting on ideas such as consumption, circulation and desire, her practice probes the limits and boundaries of painting in a contemporary context. Studio portrait by Anastasia Karkazis
UPCOMING — OTP Copenhagen is excited to announce ‘Pod’ a solo exhibition by Danish artist Signe Ralkov @signeralkov (b. 1997, Roskilde; DK) opening at the gallery’s Rantzausgade 9 location on Friday 08 November 5–8PM. Featuring a suite of new paintings that investigate themes of circulation, consumption and desire, the exhibition marks the artist’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery. Signe Ralkov Oil 1, 2024 22 x 45 cm / 8.7 x 17.8 inches Oil on canvas
Damsel in Recess