VILLE LAURINKOSKI: Eve
9.-25.5.2025
Vernissage on Thursday 8.5.2025 at 18–21
Live performances on Thursday 8.5.2025 18-19 and Saturday 10.5. 16-17.
CURATORIAL ESSAY PDF Eve continues Ville Laurinkoski’s series of works—Marionette, Trois milliards de pervers, End of The Section, Le Gay Voyage, and Love in Relief—inquiring into the affective excess of gay culture and the social economy behind it. Repurposing author Guy Hocquenghem’s novel Ève (1988), the exhibition yields to the sentimental landscape of the contemporary, seeking reconciliation for the absences produced by past struggles against social injustice and the AIDS epidemic. Comprising mattresses, a book, a sound work, and two live performances (on May 8th and 10th), Eve evokes both the atmosphere of an ending as well as the chance of consolation—or belief.
Ville Laurinkoski (b. 1996) is a visual artist and performer based in Copenhagen. Laurinkoski works with suggestive interiors and chamber pieces composed of mass-produced objects and misfit materials, stained mattresses, and steel partitions—often imbued with voice, sound, or live performance—and infused with worn-out literature, autobiographical writing, and commercial music. His artistic practice is a form of critique that produces an aesthetic exposing and subverting the socio-economic, linguistic, and spatial systems that script our lives. These (un)consumable spaces and stages reveal the broken and unwanted sides of the contemporary, transforming states of loneliness and intimacy into collective scenes.
Alongside studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts, Laurinkoski has attended the University of the Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts, and completed the Maumaus Independent Study Programme in Lisbon in 2021. Laurinkoski has exhibited at Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen (2025); Kuva/Tila (2025, 2024, 2023); the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design (2024); Galleri Elverket, Pro Artibus (2024); Kunsthal Charlottenborg (2023); and Amos Rex (2020). He has performed at O—Overgaden (2024), Art Hub Copenhagen (2024), and Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art (2024, 2023), among others. He is a member of the artist collective Jennifee-See Alternate.