The Salon of the Refused
Language: English
Session: The exhibition interlaces Brackman’s own artworks and texts about her family and Jewish history and identity with works from the museum’s collection and texts by the museum’s curators. Utilizing her own history as a lens, Brackman delves into the Museum’s extensive collection, spanning 700 years of visual art, to unearth new stories, highlighting accounts of escape, women’s art history, belonging, transnational artistic culture, and cultural assimilation by European Jewish artists.
Bio: Yvette Brackman (b. 1967) holds an MA in art history, an MA in fine art, and a certificate in gender studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was born in New York City, and has lived in Denmark since 1999. From 2020-24, Brackman was a Mads Øvlisen Postdoctoral Fellow at The National Gallery of Denmark.
Brackman’s artistic practice has been recognized both in Denmark and internationally. Her works have been exhibited at venues such as O—Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Nikolaj Kunsthal, and the Liverpool Biennial. Her influence extends beyond her exhibitions, as she has been a professor and head of the School for Walls and Space at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and a visiting professor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
In 2016, SMK acquired a collection of her AGIT MEM works, part of a series that draws on references to the Russian historical avant-garde and her family’s history as immigrants. In 2022, the Danish Arts Foundation awarded Yvette Brackman the Lifelong Artistic Achievement Honorarium.