Articles of ‘Toke Lykkeberg’

TOKE LYKKEBERG

TOKE LYKKEBERG

Toke Lykkeberg is a Danish curator, critic, consultant and director of the exhibition space Tranen. Currently, he is developing Tranen’s program with a focus on “extemporary art,” i.e. art that is not of its moment, but rather out of time. He has curated, among others, the shows “Welcome Too Late” (2017) at Kunsthal [...]



Post-Commercial: Beyond Fake Opposites*

 Post-Commercial: Beyond Fake Opposites*

By Toke Lykkeberg
“The moment the artist thinks of money, he loses his sense of beauty,”1 wrote Enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot in 1781. And young British artist Damien Hirst reiterated in 2006: “Sometimes, if a piece is worth too much money, you can’t see the art on the wall for the dollar signs.”2 The [...]