Troels Carlsen

Carlsen lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Carlsen's work has often circled around humanism in conjunction with and opposition to nature - especially by staging apes in human settings. Carlsen's primates have often played the lead, for instance as presidential candidates from distant decades and helpless victims in dark laboratories. With his tongue firmly planted in his cheek, Carlsen breathes idealism into old pictures and forgotten beings while distorting our social, biological and historical heritage. He has exhibited at Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Spielhaus Morrison Galerie, Berlin, and at a number of Danish art spaces. Carlsen presented a solo show at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen in May of this year.