
FOR NOW
Keith Farquhar & Torben Ribe
27. juni - 5. august, 2026
Foto: Malle Madsen
(english below)
FOR NOW er en duo-udstilling med Keith Farquhar og Torben Ribe.
Farquhar præsenterer en ny serie værker, hvor hverdagsbilleder, hentet direkte fra hans telefon, overføres til polyesterpels ved hjælp af sublimationstryk. Processen skaber en mærkelig overflade, hvor store dele af billedet presses fladt, mens pelsen breder sig ud langs kanterne af blindrammen. Overfladen føles stadig levende, men det bliver vanskeligt at afgøre, hvis liv den egentlig rummer. Udstillingen omfatter også fire korte videoer med samme banale motivkreds. De er sammensat af utilsigtede optagelser og tilfældige videoklip fundet blandt billedmaterialet til pelsværkerne og tager udgangspunkt i det, Farquhar beskriver som videoens svar på et lommeopkald.
Ribe præsenterer et udvalg af værker, der bevæger sig mellem skulptur, maleri og viceværtens gøremål. Hans abstrakte tv-fødder, fremstillet med billedhuggeren Robert Jacobsens svejseapparat og dekoreret med billeder af hans far, fungerer som displays for Farquhars videoer. Nye malerier på savsmuldstapet vises side om side med en lille bod med håndlavede genstande fremstillet af hans børn. Flere sprungne pærer i ORTHUNGAs centrale lysekrone er blevet erstattet af forskellige festlige alternativer, der nu engang var tilgængelige online.
Keith Farquhar (f. 1969) bor og arbejder i Edinburgh, Skotland.
Farquhars arbejde tager afsæt i de ofte oversete elementer, der udgør baggrundsstemningen i det moderne liv. Gennem hverdagsbilleder, materialer og teknologiske processer transformeres og omfortolkes velkendte motiver, som giver spor af aktiviteter, der er blevet udført eller iagttaget på nært hold. Farquhar interesserer sig for, hvordan handling, arbejde og levede erfaringer aflejres i materiel form, og for hvordan etablerede tegn på autenticitet kan blive ustabile eller klichéagtige, når de gentages og tages som bevis på værdi.
Tidligere udstillinger omfatter bl.a. Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux; Kunsthalle Fribourg; Office Baroque, Antwerp; High Art, Paris; Cabinet, London og Neue Essener Kunstverein, Essen.
Torben Ribe (f. 1978) bor og arbejder i Vordingborg.
Ribes arbejde undersøger ofte samspillet mellem hverdagens æstetik og praktiske funktioner på den ene side, og det autonome kunstværk på den anden. Med den formelle kunst, som en tilbagevendende genstand for sin vedvarende undersøgelse interesserer Ribe sig for, hvordan malede, kommercielle og private billeder påvirkes af deres indbyrdes relationer, og hvordan den sociopolitiske virkelighed ofte clasher med den maleriske proces.
Tidligere udstillinger omfatter bl.a. Overgaden. Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; NRW-Forum Düsseldorf; AROS, Århus; Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto; Grand Century, New York, Galerie Hussenot, Paris og KUMU Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn.
Udstillingen er støttet af Statens Kunstfond og Vordingborg Kommune.
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FOR NOW
Keith Farquhar & Torben Ribe
June 27 - September 5, 2026
Photo: Malle Madsen
FOR NOW is a two-person exhibition by Keith Farquhar and Torben Ribe.
Farquhar presents a new series of works in which diaristic images, drawn directly from his phone, are transferred through dye sublimation onto polyester fur. The process produces a strange surface where much of the image is pressed flat while the pile splays out at the edges of the stretcher. The surface still feels alive, but it becomes difficult to locate whose life it contains. Four short videos sharing the same banal subject matter also feature. Assembled from accidental recordings and unintended clips found amongst the source images for the fur works, they draw on what Farquhar describes as the video equivalent of a pocket call.
Ribe presents a selection of works that move between sculpture, painting and the duties of caretaking. His abstract TV stands, made using the welding machine of sculptor Robert Jacobsen and decorated with images of his father, serve as displays for Farquhar’s videos. New paintings on woodchip wallpaper are shown alongside a small stall of handmade objects produced by his children. Several blown bulbs in ORTHUNGA’s central chandelier have been replaced with whatever festive alternatives happened to be available online.
Keith Farquhar (b. 1969) lives and works in Edinburgh.
Farquhar’s work draws on the often-overlooked elements that form the background ambience of contemporary life. Through everyday images, materials and technological processes, familiar subjects are transformed and reframed, providing clues to activities undertaken or observed first-hand. Farquhar is interested in how activity, labour and lived experience become registered in material form, and in how accepted signs of authenticity can become unstable or clichéd when repeated and taken as evidence of value.
Previous exhibitions include Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux; Kunsthalle Fribourg; Office Baroque, Antwerp; High Art, Paris; Cabinet, London and Neue Essener Kunstverein, Essen.
Torben Ribe (b. 1978) lives and works in Vordingborg.
Ribe’s work often examines the interrelationship of everyday-life aesthetics and practicality with the autonomous artwork. With formal art as his recurrent subject of endless scrutiny, Ribe is interested in how painted, commercial, and private pictures are influenced by the mutual relationship between them and how the socio-political reality often clashes with the painterly process.
Previous exhibitions include Overgaden. Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; NRW-Forum Düsseldorf; AROS, Århus; Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto; Grand Century, New York; Galerie Hussenot, Paris and KUMU Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn.
The exhibition is supported by the Danish Art Foundation and Vordingborg Kommune.

Keith Farquhar & Torben Ribe, FOR NOW, 2026

Keith Farquhar, Untitled (board room carpet), 2026

Keith Farquhar & Torben Ribe, FOR NOW, 2026

Keith Farquhar & Torben Ribe, FOR NOW, 2026

Keith Farquhar & Torben Ribe, FOR NOW, 2026

Torben Ribe, Komposition II (Far / VESA 300x300mm), 2024

Keith Farquhar, Untitled (stubble), 2026

Keith Farquhar & Torben Ribe, FOR NOW, 2026

Keith Farquhar & Torben Ribe, FOR NOW, 2026

Keith Farquhar, Untitled (the underside of my table as seen from the floor), 2026

Keith Farquhar, Untitled (road surface, night), 2026

Keith Farquhar, Untitled (drinking & smoking), 2026

Keith Farquhar & Torben Ribe, FOR NOW, 2026

Keith Farquhar, Untitled (hob with spray cleaner), 2026

Keith Farquhar, Untitled (90s), 2026

Keith Farquhar, Untitled (lens finger, Ultraboost), 2026

Keith Farquhar, Untitled (poolside - away from my phone), 2026

Keith Farquhar, Untitled (pink fleece), 2026

Keith Farquhar, Untitled (egg frying), 2026

Keith Farquhar & Torben Ribe, FOR NOW, 2026

Keith Farquhar, Untitled (filthy corner), 2026

Keith Farquhar & Torben Ribe, FOR NOW, 2026

Torben Ribe, Landskab med stokroser, 2026

Torben Ribe, Landskab med stokroser (detalje), 2026

Torben Ribe, Landskab med stokroser (detalje), 2026

Keith Farquhar & Torben Ribe, FOR NOW, 2026

Keith Farquhar & Torben Ribe, FOR NOW, 2026

Torben Ribe, Uden titel (ALT 20 kr/stk), 2026

Torben Ribe, Uden titel (ALT 20 kr/stk), 2026

Torben Ribe, Uden titel (ALT 20 kr/stk), 2026

Keith Farquhar, Untitled (microdosing notes), 2026

Keith Farquhar, Untitled (microdosing notes), 2026