Hostler Burrows and HB381 will be presenting at Independent New York in May 2024. Our presentation will focus on Jasmin Anoschkin (Finnish, b.1980) and Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl (Danish, b.1954), two artists whose work exemplifies the extraordinary ceramic art of the Nordic countries. Jakob Jørgensen's (Danish, b. 1977) totemic steel sculptures will be exhibited on the Spring Studios rooftop.

Anoschkin’s exuberant aesthetic springs from an amalgam of sources, melding the languages of contemporary folk art, pop culture, and the toy industry. Her naïvely animated sculptures of hybrid creatures, often self portraits, are strikingly fresh in their playfulness even as they confront issues around otherness and the ways in which “different” beings live in the world.

Kaldahl’s architectonic works appear as “spatial drawings” - three dimensional iterations of graphic line drawings and doodles. His works emerge through methodical and serial experimentation; the extruded and bisected forms are joined in an intuitive hand built process, offering sinuous, rhythmic cadences and abstract narratives within their boldly graphic forms.

Jørgensen takes a hands-on approach to material investigation, both in his sculptural and industrial design practices. Through his manipulation of forms that are not easily pliable, he explores concepts of resistance, engaging in a deeply personal and all-encompassing process of give and take with the medium to reveal its essence.