Villiam Miklos Andersen

Opening: 22 Nov 2024, 17:00
23 Nov 2024 – 26 Jan 2025

O—Overgaden
Overgaden Neden Vandet 17
1414 Copenhagen, Denmark

Queering familiar logistics—from transport industries to public toilets or pawnshop business—is core to Villiam Miklos Andersen’s sculptural and relational artistic work. For O—Overgaden, Andersen mounts the grand new project Caffè Crema. Trailing his own experience as a truck driver by borrowing the exhibition title from the cheap coffee one can choose at almost any freeway stop through central Europe, the project employs a multitude of objects—including an actual, ready-made coffee machine, hand-carved oak urinals, flower decorations, a room-sized freezer, and slot machines made from cedarwood—to create a colorful grand-scale installation alluding to wholesale markets or free trade zones. Meanwhile Andersen’s sculptural jest of tweaking the different objects upends how consumer goods, or even zones of trade, reek of both male-dominated freight trains and uniformity of powerful infrastructures. Altering typical normative visual standards of commodities, Andersen thus exposes a systemic logistical regulation of mundane actions, purchases, and movement patterns often hidden in plain sight.

Villiam Miklos Andersen (b. 1995, DK) is a graduate of the Städelschule in Frankfurt (2021) and the Jutland Art Academy (2020), living and working between Frankfurt and Copenhagen. Andersen has recently exhibited at venues including 1Shanthiroad, Bangalore (2023), Simulacra, Beijing (2023), Documenta 15, Kassel (2022), Frankfurter Kunstverein (2022), Spoiler Zone, Berlin (2021), and Kunsthal Aarhus (2020). He was awarded the G+G Art Award Nord in 2023; the Aros Art Prize in 2020; and was shortlisted for the Ars Viva Art Prize in 2022. The exhibition Caffè Crema marks the culmination of Andersen’s participation in O—Overgaden’s one-year postgraduate program, INTRO, supported generously by the Louis-Hansen Foundation.