Published by Hatje Cantz. Edited by Nikola Dietrich, Jacob Fabricius. Text by Frank O'Hara.
Henrik Olesen (born 1967) is one of Denmark's most important contemporary artists. This publication features a selection of his works from the past 15 years. Through his collages, demontages and three-dimensional interventions, and drawing on materials from architecture, law, economics, the natural sciences and art history, Olesen examines the history of homophobia and the persecution of homosexuals.
Published by JRP|Ringier. Edited by Heike Munder. Text by Henrik Olesen.
Since the mid-1990s, Berlin-based Danish artist Henrik Olesen has used collage, sculpture and Minimalistic spatial intervention to investigate the social construction of identity and its historiography. Through the appropriation of source images and contextual shifts, Olesen probes the associations between homosexuality and its past and present criminalization.
Henrik Olesen: Some Faggy Gestures