THE SCULPTOR JØRGEN HAUGEN SØRENSEN www.haugensorensen.com

Biographical Overviews Solo Exhibitions 1957 Falk Jensen, Athenæum, 1960 Galerie Birch, Copenhagen 1961 Galleria del Naviglio, Milan, Italy 1963 Galerie Ariel, Paris, France 1964 Louisiana, Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk with Tajiri, Ghermandi and Willy Ørskov, 1966 Gallerie Focus, Paris, France, with Arne Haugen Sørensen 1967 Galleria Ferrari, Verona, Italy 1968 Souvenir, Aarhus Museum of Art with Per Arnoldi 1974 i.e. Grafik, Copenhagen, with Giovanni Meloni and Peter Lautrop 1975 Louisiana, Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, with painter Giovanni Meloni Retrospective, Gl. Strand, Copenhagen with Arne Haugen Sørensen, 1976 Retrospective, Nordjyllands Museum of Art, Ålborg with Arne Haugen Sørensen Retrospective, Sonja Henies og Niels Onstads Stiftelser, Høvikodden, Norway Galerie Nord, Randers 1979 Randers Museum of Art 1980 Jørgen Haugen Sørensen at the Glyptotek, , Copenhagen 1981 Attitudes, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England with Walter Dusenberry, Lee Gran Jean and Glynn Williams 1982 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York 1983 San José Museum of Art, California, USA Centro Storico, Prato, Italy 1989 Kunsthallen, Copenhagen 1991 Halkbank Sanart Galerisi, Ankara, Turkey Dolmebache Palace, Istanbul, Turkey The Cyclops, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek with Christian Lemmeraz 1992 Galleri Movitz, Stockholm, Sweden, with Rikard Larsson 1993 Retrospective, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England

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Retrospective, Charlottenborg, with Carl Henning Petersen, Copenhagen Brøndum Grafik, with Gregers Nielsen 1995 Clay Sculptures, Bornholm’s Museum of Art 1996 Stone and Clay, Frederiks Bastion, Copenhagen The Museum of Sketches in Lund, Sweden, with Steffan Nielén Can Altimira, Barcelona, Spain Galerie Anne Marie, Copenhagen, with painter Giovanni Meloni 1997 Franz Pedersens Kunsthandel, Horsens, with Troels Wörsel Hillerød Municipality 1998 Retrospective, Esbjerg Museum of Art Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen 1999 I Think I See, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen Silent Witness, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca; Museo de Xalapa, Mexico 2000 I Think I See, Retrospective, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad I Think I See, Sophienholm, Copenhagen 2001 Time, Cause and the Undecidable, 2001, Mae d´Aguas das Amoreiras, Lisbon, Portugal; Gaio, Porto, Portugal; Castelo de Vide, Portugal 2002 Jørgen Haugen Sørensen, Vigeland Museum, Oslo, Norway 2004 Jørgen Haugen Sørensen and Eli Benveniste, Brøndsalen, Copenhagen That’s Why They Call Them Dogs, Bornholm’s Museum of Art That’s Why They Call Them Dogs, Felleshuset der Nordischen Botschaften Berlin A New Agreement, Galleri Veggerby 2005 Before and Soon after, Edison, Frederiksberg, with Peter Lautrop 2007 While We Wait, Sculpture Street, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen 2007 Drawings and poems, Gallery Claus Christensen, Copenhagen with Merete Pryds Helle 2008 The Alphabet of Time, Gallery Profilen, Århus with Eli Benveniste 2008 Jorgen Haugen Sorensen, Exposition Centro Fotográfico, Oaxaca Mexico The witnesses - The Others, Det Ny Kastet, Thisted 2010 Pastryplatters for a Nation in War, Svanekegaarden, Bornholm Horsemongers, Gallery Claus Christensen, Copenhagen with Thomas Boberg 2011 Jørgen Haugen Sørensen in ””; Cisternerne, Copenhagen In Dialogue, with Norbert Tadeusz, Bornholm’s Kunstmuseum. 2013 ”Jørgen Haugen Sørensen and Eli Benveniste in Oaxaca”, Espacio Escultórico,

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La Telaraña, Mexico “The Black Songbook”, Drawings Brøndums Forlag “The Black Songbook”, Bronce sculptures, Gallery Profilen, Århus “They know, what they do!”, Skovgaardmuseet, Viborg “Jørgen Haugen Sørensen”, Gustavsberg Porslinsmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 2014 “Justitio og vidnerne”, Thorvaldsen museum, Copenhagen “Dommen eller noget jeg har læst”, Hans Alf Gallery 2015 "Domino Effects: Drawings 2015” 2016 ”A Dark Story in White” Hans Alf Gallery ”A Dark Story in White” Paola Raffo Arte Contemporanea 2017 ”JHS and Pietrasanta”

Selected group exhibitions The artists’ society Decembristerne, 1956-1976 The artists’ society Grønningen, 1979-1989 and from 1997-2015 Veksølund, exhibition venue for sculpture, since 1978-2010

1953 Charlottenborg’s Spring Exhibition, Copenhagen 1954 Artists’ Autumn Exhibition, Copenhagen Kunst 1954, Børge Birch, Charlottenborg Copenhagen 1 Sculptor and 3 Painters, Galerie Athenæum, Copenhagen 1956 Summer Exhibition 1956, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen 1957 Modern Danish Art, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen Modern Danish Art, Gentofte Town Hall The Permanent, Aarhus Modern Danish Art, travelling exhibition in Sweden Danish Art, travelling exhibition in Holland 1958 The Horticultural Society’s garden, Frederiksberg Biennale in Venice, Italy with Palle Nielsen, Poul Christensen and Sigurd Vasegaard Seven Young Talents in Danish Art, Kunstforeningen, Oslo, Norge 3 Sculpteurs et 7 Peintres-Graveurs, Maison du Danemark, Paris, France 1959 Youth Biennale in Paris 1959 and 1963; wins critics’ prize 1963, 1965 Travelling exhibitions in Holland, Austria, Sweden and Norway 1961 The Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

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IV, V VI Concorso Internazionale del Bronzetto, Padua, Italy, 1963 and 1965 1964 Danish Abstract Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas; Florida Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; Robertson Memorial Art Center, Binghampton, New York; The Art Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Inst., Washington D.C. 1965 Travelling exhibition in Germany, Holland and Poland 1966 The Twelve, Internasjonal Billedkunst, Bergen, Stavanger, Norway; Galerie Birch, Copenhagen Jeune Sculpture, Musée Rodin, Paris, France, 1966, 1969, catalogue 1967 Pittsburgh International Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Young Danish Art 1942-1967, Den Frie, Charlottenborg, Louisiana, Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk Young Danish Art, Fond. Pagani, Milan, Italy 1969 Jysk Kunstgalleri/ Sven Hansen, Copenhagen 1971 Cuardernos del Taller, Clot, Bramsen et Georges, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico 1973 Art Danoise, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France 1974 The Free Artists, Den Frie, Galerie Birch, Copenhagen, and Northern Jutland Museum of Art 1975 III International Biennale for small sculptures, Budapest, Hungary Forma Viva, International Symposium of Sculptors 73/76, Maribor, Yugoslavia Cole and Steiness Art Gallery, Beverly Hills, California, U.S.A. 1976 V 1976: VII 1980; IX 1984; XI 1988 International Drawing Biennale, Moderna Galerija, Rijeca,Yugoslavia A Selection of Danish Artists after 1945, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen 1977 Art Is Better Than Gold, Galerie Birch, København 4 artisti Danesi, with Arne Haugen Sørensen, Robert Jacobsen, Egill Jacobsen, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy Forme Nel Verde, S. Quirico D’Orcia; Abbadia S. Salvatore, Italy 1978 70 Scultori Contemporanei, Sommacampagna, Verona, Italy 1979 15 Biennale, Middelheim Sculpture Park, Antwerp, Belgium 1980 XI International Sculpture Conference, Washington DC, USA 1981 Paris - Copenhagen, Galerie Birch in Den Frie exhibition hall, Copenhagen Scultori e artigiani in un centro storico, Pietrasanta, Italy 1983 Il Passato E La Presenza, Cittá di Pietrasanta, Italy 1984 The Danes, Liljevalchs Kulturhus, Stockholm, Sweden Night of Lead and Ashes, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen

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Scultura Disegnata, Enrico Crispolti, , Italy 1986 The Danish Show, Sculpture, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England Scultura di Passaggio, Montignoso, Italy 1988 Sculpture, Carvings from Carrara, Massa and Pietrasanta, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England Represents in the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seoul, Korea, with Robert Jacobsen 1989 Idiomi Della Sculpture Contemporanea, 3a rassegna internazionale di scultura, Verona, Italy BIO 2. Bienal Internacional de Escultura Contemporánea de Ópidos, Portugal Drawings and Sculptures, Bikuben Foundation, travelling exhibition, Denmark 1994 Art Exchange Madras Scandinavia Tamil Nadu, India 1995 Human Touch, Trondheims Kunstforening 150 Years, Norway Border District Exhibition 1970-1995, Denmark 1996 Mostra Internazionale di Scultura, All´aperto, Gambarogno, Lago Maggiore, Schweiz of 125 Years, Denmark 1997 Images of Denmark, National Theatre in Accra, Ghana Tide, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen 1998 IX Biennale Internazionale di scultura Cittá di Carrara, Italy 1999 Premio Internazionale di Scultura Constantino Nivola, The Danish Academy in Rome, Italy 2002 Gallery Profilen, Århus 2004 Gallery Profilen, Århus, with Erik A. Frandsen, John Olsen and Jens Birkemose 2006 Gallery Profilen, Århus 2008 10° Festival Internacional de Puebla, Mexico. Cosa guardi?, Grafiche Aurora, Verona Italien. 2010 Across, Valby, Copenhagen. The patriarchs, Museum of religious art, Lemvig; Stiftung Christliche Kunst Wittenberg, Tyskland with Bjørn Nørgaard, Bodil Kaalund og Ingvar Cronhammar. 2011 Festival of ceramics, Brandpunkt Terra, Oude Kerk, Delft Holland. 2013 Forum Artfair, Gallery Hans Alf, Copenhagen 2014 Scope New York, Scope Basel, Hans Alf Gallery, Art Herning, Art Copenhagen 2015 Kölner Liste, Scope Basel, Art Copenhagen, Hans Alf Gallery 2016 Art Herning, Hans Alf Gallery, Code Hans Alf Gallery

Films 1965 JHS, with photographer Gregers Nielsen; subsidised by the Danish Film Institute 1969 Portrait of Ole, with photographer Gregers Nielsen

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1971 Ferdinand Cheval, the Country Postman, with photographer Gregers Nielsen, Jette Mühlendorph and Kaj Linnemann; subsidized by the Danish Film Institute 1970 Barcelona, with photographer Gregers Nielsen, Jette Mühlendorph and Peter Lautrop; subsidized by the Danish Film Institute 1993 An Experience Less, directed and produced by Eli Benveniste, Lars Beyer, Dino Raymond Hansen and Prami Larsen; subsidised by the Danish Film Workshop, TV2/Denmark, Mediekontoret and Harboe’s Foundation 2007 I Think I See. New portrait film by Malene Ravn. A portrait of Jørgen Haugen Sørensen’s work in clay over the last ten years; subsidised by the Danish Film Institute, L.F. Foght’s Foundation, Beckett Foundation and Danish Radio 2014 Art sees through society, Louisiana Channel 2016 Filmportrait of Jørgen Haugen Sørensen, TV2 Bornholm

Prizes and scolarships 1956 Bielke 1958 The Academy 1956 1958 The French State Grant 1959 Kai Nielsen 1959 Carlson’s Prize 1960 New Carlsberg Foundation’s Rome stipend 1965 The Danish Arts Foundation’s 3-year stipend 1965 The Critics’ Prize at the Youth Biennale, Paris 1970 Victor Freund 1970 Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen 1977 Premio Europeo Umberto Biancamano 1984 The Danish Arts Foundation’s lifelong grant 1994 Anne Marie Carl Nielsen 1998 Haslunds Kunstnerfond 2016 Premio Fratelli Roselli – ”Pietrasanta e la Versilia nel mondo”

Awarded 1969 The Eckersberg Medal 1979 Thorvaldsen’s Medal 1979

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Sculptures standing in public Denmark 1964 The Memory Plunger, Århus Senior High School 1969 Sculpture Group for Herning College of Business 1973 Sculpture Group for the Danish School of Journalism, Århus 1977 The Blue One That Crawls over the Red One, Kastrupgård, Tårnby 1979 The Sønderborg Sculpture, Sønderborg pedestrian street 1979 Sculpture Group for the University of Copenhagen, Amager 1980 They Move, Get Heavy and Die, Sønderborg 1981 Those That Carry Each Other, Herning Technical College 1983 The Angular Ones Carry and The Smooth Ones Slide, Nørrebrogade, Copenhagen 1986 Those That Carry and Push, Skandinavisk Tobakskompagni A/S, Søborg 1986 The Locked, Art Museum, Køge Skitsesamling 1987 Those That Look Like Each Other, Horsens Kunstmuseum 1988 Stone on Stone, Jyske Bank, Silkeborg 1988 The Herning Stone, Herning 1988 Stone on Stone, KTAS, Copenhagen 1989 Lump with Strong Supports, RUC-Roskilde University Centre 1990 The Ikast Stone, Frisenborgparken, Ikast 1990 The Bound, Studiegården, Copenhagen 1991 Vulgar Accumulation, Karup Lufthavn, Karup 1993 Construction for the Dead, Himmelev Senior High School, Roskilde 1992 The One That Apparently Supports, Ikast 1993 The House That Rains, Sankt Hans Torv, Copenhagen 1994 Shadows of Yesterday, Katrine Mindes Teglværk, Broager 1995 Two That Carry a Cute One, Posen, Fisketorvet, Hillerød Stupidity’s Big Foot, Ribe 2001 A Rest and Two that Carry a Cute One, Klampenborgvej, Lyngby 2002 The Lowest of Heavens or Like Holding Back the Sea with a Broomstick a gift from Teacher Stan Its Brandforsikring to the National Gallery of Art. 2004 That’s Why They Call Them Dogs, the Panum Institute, Copenhagen 2005 That’s Why They Call Them Dogs, a big group of dogs in clay, the National Gallery of Art. 2006 The Solrød Stone, Solrød 2008 While we Wait, Finn Poulsen, Herning. 2010 Lump with Support, Danish National Bank, Copenhagen 2010 Pastry platters for a nation in war, The New Carlsberg Foundation.

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2011 The Colossus of Amager, The New Carlsberg Foundation to Tårnby Municipality. 2011 5 ceramic reliefs To The City Court, Courthouse, Copenhagen. 2011 The Brothers. Guilt and Sorrow , Bornholms Kuntmuseum. 2012 A self-appointed Miracle Awaits a New One, Bornholms Kunstmuseum. 2014 2 travertine sculptures the Copenhagen City Court, courthouse.

Sculptures standing in public outside Denmark 81-81 The House Sunbathing, The Danish Academy, Rome, Italy 1981 Municipal Sculpture, Prato, Italy 1988 Industrial Erection, The Olympic Park, Seoul, Korea 1990 Grief, The French University in Istanbul, Turkey 1992 Tashankara, Sakarya Cad. Ankara, Turkey 1994 The Ship, The Weight, The Walls, LTH, University of Lund, Sweden 2001 The Alentejo Stone, Castelo de Vide, Portugal 2012 Supplement to the title's elimination, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Represented at the following museums in Denmark ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum Bornholms Kunstmuseum Esbjerg Kunstmuseum Fyns Kunstmuseum, Odense Herning Kunstmuseum Horsens Kunstmuseum Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Ålborg Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen Kastrupgårdsamlingen, Kastrup Kunstmuseet Trapholt, Kolding KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad Kunstmuseet Køge Skitsesamling Louisiana, Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk Randers Kunstmuseum Silkeborg Kunstmuseum Skive Kunstmuseum Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

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Storstrøms Kunstmuseum, Maribo Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum, Tønder Vejle Kunstmuseum Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø

Represented at the following museums outside Denmark Helsingborg Museum, Sweden Jönköping Museum, Sweden Lunds Arkivmuseum, Lund, Sweden Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, Norway Sonja Henies og Niels Onstads Stiftelser, Høvikodden, Norway Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A. The French University in Istanbul, Turkey Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England Portofino Sculpture Park, Portofino, Portugal The Museum Beelden aan Zee

Selected Literature CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED

André: En guldmedalje ville brænde mig i hånden, in Århus Stiftstidende 16.1.1957. BL: Billedhuggeren i slagtehuset, in Information 26.11.1958. Gunnar Jespersen: Hvorfor er I så bange?, in B.T. 3.12.1959. Gunnar Jespersen: Kunstens sputnik, in B.T 31.10.1960. Pierre Lübecker: Kunst er ikke et embede, in Politiken 6.11.1960. Virtus Schade: Dansk kunst er 50 år bagefter, in Berlingske Aftenavis 30.9.1963. Gunnar Jespersen: I Danmark går man bare og venter, in B.T. 4.11.1963. Maria Marcus: Fordi man vinder sin frihed, in Ekstra Bladet 22.11.1963. Gunnar Jespersen: Kan man nu forstå ham?, in Berlingske Tidende 8.12.1968. Øystein Hjort: Samtale omkring Bunke med tilskuere, in Information 11.5.1971. Chr. Dotremont et al., in Jørgen Haugen Sørensen. 1953- 1976. Galerie Birch, Copenhagen 1976. Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen: Kunstinformation, in Information 8.6.1976. Minna Heimbürger Ravalli: 4 artisti danesi. Palazzo Reale, Milan 1977. Birgitta Trotzig: Jørgen Haugen Sørensen. Profiler i dansk kunst, Copenhagen 1978.

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H.E. Nørregård-Nielsen, Per Hovdenakk and Helmer Jørgensen, in Jørgen Haugen Sørensen, Glyptoteket 1980. Jette Mühlendorph, in Skulptur Veksølund 1978-79, 1981. Robert Dahlmann Olsen, in Veksølund besøger Nikolaj, 1981. Preben Hygum: Når kunsten bliver kommunal, in Information 9.6.1981. Andrea B. Del Quercio et al., in Skulptur Veksølund, 1982. Gunnar Jespersen: Følsom landsknægt i hurtig offensiv, in Politiken 10.11.1983. Ninka: Manden og stenen, in Politiken 13.11.1988. Leila Krogh: Kunst i rummet, 1989. Peter Murray: Jørgen Haugen Sørensen, Ankara 1991. Ninka: Jeg har altid været ræd, in Politiken 11.8.1991. Ankara. En kunstner og en by. Samtaler med Henrik Nordbrandt, 1992. Jørgen Gustava Brandt, Peter Murray et al., in Souvenir. Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Charlottenborg. 1993. Henrik Steen Møller: En gave i granit, in Politiken 20.1.1993. Peter Michael Hornung: Et liv med stenen, in Politiken 30.4.1993. Henrik Steen Møller: Tillykke med torvet, in Politiken 9.7.1993. Marina Vaizey: Jørgen Haugen Sørensen, Dansk Nutidskunst 1994. Weilbach: Dansk Kunstnerleksikon, Copenhagen 1995. Jørgen Haugen Sørensen: Lerskulpturer. Bornholm’s Museum of Art 1995. Peter Murray et al.: Jørgen Haugen Sørensen. Sten og ler, Copenhagen 1996. Dansk skulptur i 125 år. Statens Museum for Kunst at Charlottenborg 1996. Mikkel Bogh et al.: Dansk Skulptur i 125 år, Copenhagen 1996. Peter Michael Hornung et al.: Ny dansk kunsthistorie, Copenhagen 1996. Henrik Steen Møller: Der mangler vidner til vor tid, in Politiken 28.12.1998. Synne Rifbjerg: Fra kælderens mørke, in Weekendavisen 26.2.1999. Per Hovdenakk: Jørgen Haugen Sørensen. Jeg mener jeg ser, Kunstcentret Silkeborg Bad and Sophienholm, 2000. Henrik Wivel: Den glatte glider, in Weekendavisen 16.6.2000. Lisbeth Bonde: Kunst der bider, in Information 23.9.2000. Henning Thøgersen: Jeg er stemplet som vanskelig, in Ekstra Bladet 1.10.2000. Paris: Capital of the Arts 1900-1968, London 2002. Per Hovdenakk: Jørgen Haugen Sørensen i Vigeland-Museet, Oslo 2002. Lisbeth Bonde: Kunstnere på tale, Copenhagen 2002. Per Hovdenakk et al.: Kunstrejse, Herning Kunstmuseum 2003. Nils Thorsen: Verden er fuld af løgn. Om at blive og være til, in Politiken 8.11.2003.

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Lars Kjærulf Møller: Som at holde havet tilbage med en kost eller That’s why they call them dogs. Bornholm’s Museum of Art 2004. Før og lidt efter. Special Section in Politiken, 2.4.2005. ”The Black Songbook”, Brøndums publishing house 2013 ” Vi must go on” Double diary with Peter Poulsen 2016

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