Silence of The Raconteur
16/01, 2026 - 14/02, 2026
A solo exhibition by Katrine Bobek
“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, Fragments of Sappho
(Translated by Anne Carson in If Not, Winter)
A skilled storyteller finds a quieter existence in the circumstances of halting one
fleeting narrative just enough, so as it meets the next. Gathering ten works on paper,
oil painting and a wooden wall-sculpture, the exhibition introduces us to the parts of
Katrine Bobek’s practice that speaks to stories, myths, folklore and fables.
Blending narrative with abstraction, Bobek’s works unfold as brief impromptu
moments swaying like a pendulum between pause and plot, dark and light, the
fantastical and the real. Although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation
is infinitely blurred. Appreciating the opaque, vibrant, and versatile qualities of coal, oil, chalk, pencil and gouache Bobek articulates and absolves all these things that speak in symbols.
Featuring landscapes, otherworldly universes and enigmatic human and chimeric
figures; half feline, half bird, the colourful or stark black images combust. As if the
figures themselves tell tales of sweet undiluted irony and an escape without
confinement or end. An undrawn breath, the repause, the unsung unfold in upbeat
and tragic manners. Like a thousand love notes to the raw poetry of imagination.
Exhibition text by Karen Vestergaard Andersen
Photo: Kevin Josias