Vanguardium

We kindly invite you to the opening of Vanguardium – Friday September 5, 4 PM

Jennifee-See Alternate presents a duo exhibition by Anna Schachinger and Erik Hällman as part of this year’s Appendix program.

Vanguardium presents new paintings by Anna Schachinger and Erik Hällman that proceed mid-material: cashmere pullovers, textile prints, and found objects. Fabrics come before paint, motifs before composition, all stapled to stretcher bars, cardboard, or both. Here, working with a surface ecology is not a moral posture but simply what is left; second-hand is second nature.

Inside the gallery large canvases face each other, while outside, in a pavilion built from train tracks on the old DSB grounds, smaller, sturdier works are read against the landscape. Vanguardium is a slow, almost spiteful reordering of familiar materials, letting surfaces carry compositions for a number of years.

Opening: Friday, September 5, 4 PM
Exhibition: September 6 – October 12
Opening hours: Saturdays, 12 – 5 PM, or by appointment

Anna Schachinger studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the independent study program maumaus in Lisbon, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited her work at Belvedere 21 in Vienna, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and SOPHIE TAPPEINER in Vienna. In September 2025, she will take up a one-year professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

Erik Hällman holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and has studied theoretical philosophy at Stockholm University. His work has been exhibited at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Den Frie, Copenhagen; Kunsthal Augustiana, Augustenborg; and Konstepidemin, Gothenburg.

The exhibition is supported by ​​Phileas – The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art with the generous support of legero united | con-tempus.eu, Statens Kunstfond, BMWKMS, Knud Højgaards Fond, Vesterbro Lokaludvalg and Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond.