Christian Danielewitz

Christian Danielewitz (b.1978) is a Danish artist and writer whose work revolves around the evolutionary material relations between minerals, the geologic time scale, and contemporary technology. An offbeat traveller of sorts, Danielewitz uses his status as an artist to venture into contested territory, bringing back images, objects and substances. Working through a manifold of representations, all interconnected and often loaded with political punch, he exposes the flipside of human activity: explosion, excavation, exclusion, exhaustion and finally extinction. He is particularly interested in hidden sites of contamination and invisible forms of exposure, such as the uncanny nature of radiation.

Danielewitz holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and was an artist in residence at CCA Research Program in Kitakyushu, Japan (2009-2010). He has recently had solo exhibitions at 3331 Arts Chiyoda in Tokyo, at Black Sesame Space in Beijing, and at Fotogalleriet [format]in Malmö (in collaboration w. Anu Ramdas). He has participated in group shows at Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Fotografisk Center, and Tranen Contemporary Art Center a.o. His most recent piece of writing "Documenting the Invisible" (written in collaboration with the curator Peter Ole Pedersen), was nominated as best article of the year by the Norwegian University Press.