My monograph has arrived! Selected works of mine from 2013-2023. What a ride. I am happy and exhausted.
Join us for the book releases and get one:
Thursday August 15, 5pm at @avlskarlgallery in Cph. I will be in conversation with @mathiasdanbolt !
Or come on Friday August 16, 6pm for book release in Malmö at @fuxia.2 . I will be in conversation with @albinalbinalbinalbinalbin 💙
It has been such a pleasure and hard work to do this project during the last eight month in collaboration with fantastic people. We have all worked very much on a very small budget. I am overwhelmed with the result! Grateful for the beautiful and thorough graphic work by @anni.vestergaard , highly dedicated text editing by @alison_k_hines , new fantastic and engaged text contributions by @mathiasdanbolt and @jenny_graser and a wonderful written conversation with @lexmorglan that pushed me to put more words to what I do.
A huge thanks to all fundings who supported!! @statenskunstfond #grossererlffoghtsfond and @nycarlsbergfondet
Huge thanks to Ilaria and all staff at @moussemagazine and many thanks to Heike and all the great staff at @narayanapress !
Thanks to everyone who in other ways helped me in this project or gave feedback along the way 💙💙💙 @bogg.johanna@barbarawien , Isabel Podeschwa, @line_verktoj@line_river_skywalker@milena_hoegsberg@mettewinckelmann@sophiabaaderbaader
#esterfleckner #queerabstraction #artistmonograph #woodcutprinting #transabstraction #inavigateincollisionsmonograph2024
“Ester Fleckner: I navigate in collisions” is a monograph presenting selected works from the first ten years of the Fleckner’s career, 2013 to 2023.
The artist employs abstraction to challenge the recognizable, the finished, and the categorized. Integrating queer and trans perspectives, their work addresses language, desire, and spheres of relation in open-ended and poetic ways. Fleckner’s practice centers on woodcut printing—a simple, slow, physical technique that allows for differences, errors, and a loss of control—but also extends to cast concrete sculptures, text works, and drawings.
This publication includes new text contributions by the art historian Mathias Danbolt (@mathiasdanbolt ) and the curator and art historian Jenny Graser (@jenny_graser ), and a conversation between Fleckner and the scholar and curator Lex Morgan Lancaster (@lexmorglan ).
Graphic design: Anni Vestergaard (@anni.vestergaard )
After months of renovating my future studio, a long weekend in Berlin has been such a pleasant break reloading batteries
1-3 Shimabuku’s work: Passing through the Rubber Band, me trying.. at @barbarawien
4-5 Petrit Halilaj: An Opera Out of Time at @hamburger_bahnhof
6-9 @jessedarling at @galeriemolitor . Featuring @line_skywalker inspecting (8) 🩶
10 Han Bing and Kashmiri Cabbage Walker, Walking the Cabbage in Berlin, @berlinbiennale , @kwinstitutefcontemporaryart
11-13 @vaginaldavis_official , Fabulous Product, Martin Gropius Bau
14 Conversation between Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Birgit Bogold at @scherben.scherben in relation to the exhibition Archive Affections with Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Millie Wilson
15 Solidarity Fundraising for Gaza Biennale, the Berlin Pavillion 🇵🇸
16 BAD DAD 🏳️🌈
I have made five special woodcut prints in edition for #griffelkunst members. Thanks for a very nice collaboration Dirk Dobke, Brigitte Bedei, Götz Welge and the rest of the team and not least the fantastic printers Lars Dahms and Daniel Vogler from Atelier für Druckgrafik in Wedel who printed my matrices in two print runs. Such a pleasure to work with you all!
Works:
Bad Nature (Soft Pink Deer) 1-3, 2025
Bad Nature (Silver Moose) 1-2, 2025
#badnature #queerecologies #queernature #woodcutprinting #queerabstraction #slowtools
Transformation of our old barn into my future studio on Møn. A lot is happening on the renovation this year. Currently fixing the foundation, soon ready to build up a new floor. It is hard and fun work and I am so pleased to get help from our family members not least my dad with his creative skills and endless energy! 💙🔨
#studioesterfleckner #renovatingoldhouse
Last week to see my solo exhibition “From one to many, many to many, and between two” at @avlskarlgallery
Wednesday to Friday 12-17 pm
Saturday 12-15 pm
#woodcutprinting #largescalewoodcuts #slowwork #queerabstraction #queerecologies #badnature
Det er med kæmpe stor glæde og taknemmelighed at jeg har modtaget et 3-årigt arbejdslegat fra @statenskunstfond ! Det skal lige synke ind. Nu skal jeg fordybe mig i min praksis på fuld tid en lang periode. Tusind tak!!!
I am deeply grateful and thrilled for having received a three-year work grant from the Danish Arts Foundation!
I can now immerse myself full time in my artistic practise for a long period of time. Thank you so much!!!
💙💙💙
Portrait by @sophiabaaderbaader
#statenskunstfond #thedanishartsfoundation
Bad Nature (Rose Pink Deer), 2025
Bad Nature (Rose Pink Moose), 2025
Woodcut on paper and pencil
My solo exhibition at @avlskarlgallery is up until May 17th in Copenhagen
#badnature #queerecologies #woodcutprinting #queerabstraction
Dear friends and colleagues, join to the opening of my solo exhibition “From one to many, many to many, and between two”, this Saturday March 29th at Avlskarl Gallery, in Copenhagen, from 12-3 pm.
I will show seven very large woodcuts that took the whole year of 2023 to make, together with works on the topic of queer nature that I am currently dedicated to.
My best,
E
#queerabstraction #badnature #woodbedsbrimming #queernature #slowtools #woodcutprinting #avlskarlgallery
Short research trip to Hamburg visiting Hamburger Kunsthalle and working with the fantastic printers Lars Dahms and Daniel Vogler for a day. Testing colors and wooden matrices. More on this project next year!
1. self-portrait with Tom Burr’s Floor, Hamburger Kunsthalle
2. Henrik Olesen, Hamburger Kunsthalle
3. Wolfgang Tillmans, Hamburger Kunsthalle
4-6. Atelier von Druckgrafik, Wedel, Hamburg
