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Life and career
Young Danish artist Alexander Tovborg (b. 1983) has studied at Staatliche Akademie der Bilden Künste in Karlsruhe and he graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in May 2010. Tovborg explores different genres of art including painting, drawing, sculpture, and performance. He creates compelling figurative and metaphysical imagery that seems to be drawn from his own internal imaginations as well as combined with elements from Western visuality and foreign cultures and religions. Tovborg seems to find a sincere and genuine expression in religious and spiritual art that he transforms into paintings and sculptures - creating his own myths in the process. His work presents a series of figures that act almost as arch types summoned from the interplay between collective unconscious and individual imagination. Religion or perhaps more precise spirituality plays an important role in the imagining of his works and it is obvious that the search for inner enlightenment is pivotal for Tovborg. Not afraid of depicting the humble or the elevated, Tovborg examines man's eternal relation to both the mundane and the spiritual. In his most recent works he has also begun to incorporate different elements of popular culture in particular music. Through split perspectives and by multiplying the motif into a myriad of facets, Tovborg creates a panoptic view over actual and virtual spaces. A lyrical, yearning world that appears either glowing with colours or shrouded by thin layers of pigment. Alexander Tovborg is represented by gallery Nicolai Wallner in Copenhagen.

Education
Toveborg studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art between 2004 and 2010 and at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe,Germany (while registered as an associate student of the Danish Academy) between 2004 and 2010.

Solo exhibitions (selected)
2011            -           3, Museet for Religiøs Kunst, Lemvig, Denmark

2010	   -               New Eternity, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009	     -    Harens Klan, Hostrup-Pedersen & Johansens Litografiske Atelier, Copenhagen,Denmark

2007	    -            Death of a Pioneer, Minoutte Show, Grandteatret, Copenhagen, Denmark

2006	 -                I Tell You Weird Tales, Bendixen Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

Groupshows (selected)
2011   Folklore - Old New Forms, Kunsthallen 44 Møen, Askeby, Denmark

The Magic of Clay - Ceramics in Contemporary Art, Gl. Holtegaard, Gl. Holte, Denmark

2010

Landskapets Anatomi, Grafikens Hus, Mariefred, Sweden

Etwas viele, bisschen langweilige, ganz kleine Radierungen, Galerie Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin, Germany

Jubilæeumsudstillingerne, Janusbygningen, Tistrup, Denmark

Afgang 2010. Det Kgl. Danske Kunstakademi/Billedskolerne, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

Best of Wonderland, Wonderland Art Space, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009

Kurs:Havnen, Kunstmuseet Køge Skitsesamling, Køge, Denmark

Kurs:Højen, Odsherred Kunstmuseum, Asnæs, Denmark

Copenhagen Spirit, Clausens Kunsthandel, Copenhagen, Denmark

GBB, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark

Klaatu Barada Nikto, BKS Garage, Copenhagen, Denmark

Fantastisch, Pforzheim Galerie,Pforzheim, Germany

Angili-Heart, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark

It's raining men! Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark

Til Vægs, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

2008

Overkill, Wonderland Art Space, Copenhagen, Denmark

A View at the Strange, Bendixen Contemporary Art, Copenhagen Denmark

2007

Magtdemonstrationer, Kronborg Slot, Helsingør, Denmark

No Resistance, Galleri Veggerby, Copenhagen, Denmark

Eyes on the Prize, Bendixen Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

2006

Ordsprog, Portalen, Hundige Kunsthal, Hundige, Denmark

Charlottenborgs Forårsudstilling, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

Camp Eden, Kong Christian, Copenhagen, Denmark

Ten on Fourth, Bendixen Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

2005

Pro-Art, Randers Kunstmusem, Randers, Denmark

Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark

Der var engang på Marienlyst Slot, Marienlyst Slot, Helsingør, Denmark

Charlottenborgs Forårsudstilling, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

Publications
Harens Klan og Dens Søstre (2009)

Articles/Reviews
Interview kopenhagen 2011

Interview with Alexander Tovborg and Karen Harsbo, Mads Damsbo in kopenhagen 2011