Institut Funder Bakke presents works of Aura Rosenberg, Jens Haaning, Chadwick Rantanen, Reba Maybury.
Head Shots (1991-6) by Aura Rosenberg is a series of portraits of regarded men taken at the moment of orgasm.
Romanian Pigeons (2025) by Jens Haaning consists of cardboard boxes used to transport pigeons swapped between Silkeborg and Bucharest.
Bun (2022) by Chadwick Rantanen’s works are voyeuristic digital photographs found online of baking activities then manipulated.
Humiliated Acoustic Guitars (2025) by Reba Maybury is a pencil drawing made under her instruction.
Aura Rosenberg (1949) is an American artist who lives and works in New York and Berlin. In painting, sculpture, photography and film, Aura Rosenberg adapts imagery to question notions of transgression, sexuality and repression, the artist derives newly constructed fantasy narratives that speak to the manner with which we digest such imagery today. Exhibitions have been held at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit ; Kyiv Biennale.
Jens Haaning (1965) is a Danish conceptual artist who lives in Copenhagen. His subject matter includes changing society in the West, power and communication in the global society, migration, displacement, nationalism, and human coexistence. Exhibitions have been held at Documenta 11 and Institut d’Art Contemporain in Villeurbanne.
Chadwick Rantanen (1981) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He appropriates the forms of familiar consumer goods and modifies and re-contextualizes them into sculptural tools and photographic images. Exhibitions have been held at Secession, Vienna and Museo Pietro Canonica, Rome.
Reba Maybury (1990) is a British artist, writer and dominatrix living in Silkeborg, Denmark. Her work explores the tension between her perceived strength as an object of fantasy and how through the reality of sex work she attempts to turn this power into something tangible. Men are her medium. Exhibitions have been held at MACRO, Rome and LUMA Westbau, Zurich.