Fritjof Krabbe Nørretranders

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selected exhibitions:

Facts, effects

2024, graduation show, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien

System (the outside)
mixed media

System (the problem, the party)
detail, mixed media

install shot
diploma show, 'Facts, Effects'

System (the problem, the party), 2024
detail, mixed media

Cartoon Physics, 2024
comic books

Cartoon Physics, 2024 & System (the outside)
detail, comic books & mixed media

Facts, eﬀects

At the Siemens headquarters in Munich, they are working on something new. Rather than strenuously maintaining an overview of tangled conveyor belts on the factory floor, you just attach microphones around the space, and listen for the resonances of the metal frames holding everything in place. With accurate measurements and deep knowledge of metals, you then simply simulate everything, to know how it should sound when all is going as intended. If the hum is oﬀ, something is out of whack. You build an operative image, and then measure reality against it. This is nothing new, this is how buildings are erected, how the soccer ball stays within the field, and this is how people know where to go in the morning.

This will not work. I’ve seen how things flattened to the thickness of a pancake will jump back into their form, how coyotes only fall down once they notice there is nothing underfoot. I know it to be true that you make a hole shaped like yourself when you run through a wall. You cannot measure reality against an image because the image isn’t stable, it’s bendy and gooey, it changes when you put it next to something new.

Still, an operative image can carve a hole in the ground, it can destabilise the global economy. This may be important because the image, the narrative, is not arbitrary. Narratives seem to follow recurring forms, stories retold will start to find a common rhythm. They sort the world, they make sense of it. Cartoons follow the laws of physics unless it’s funnier otherwise. I find it very diﬃcult to meet the world without an image already in my head. I know the colours of the real, dusty whites and streaks of bright orange. A blur between frames may mix in deep greens. Any trembling of the hand of the videographer is an expression of emotion, a disclosure of themselves.

The reporter on site (who happens to also be named Donald, but bears no relation) grabs the microphone. He is determined to report the events coolly, without imparting them with sentiment. He strings words together, and at once the audience feel the quality of the light, and the roughness of the air where he is. With each pause, with each Aa or O stating nothing but first- hand truths, he creates a surplus. The bright glare from behind his teeth is tripled in the camera lens. It pans away.

Center-out establishing shot, 2024
video loop 1m59s
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Blowin O's

2025, duo with Tea Eklund Berglöw, AGA Copenhagen

install shot
'Blowin O’s', AGA

Thinking things, 2025
photo print

Language, 2025
detail, mdf

install shot
'Blowin O's', AGA

Winner, 2025
detail, uv lamp, fixture, color gel

The view, 2025
laser print on paper

News, 2025
mdf, chalk

Language (Empire), 2025
mdf

Non-abstract Collage

2025, group exhibition, Frappant Galerie Hamburg

Territory, 2025
c-print, coloured chalk

The yellow mind, 2025
c-print, coloured chalk

Narrative, 2025
cardboard, mirror

Non-abstract Collage

This right here is not weathered by time, it’s still sleek and chromelike. It’s held many different meanings to different people. If a plasma screen shows the same image for long enough, it burns in, it stays there, a VH1 logo in the corner-mounted tv at a grill joint. Here there is no such memory, things don’t stay around or leave marks, they just pass. Discourse relies on a shared frame of reference, you’d never speak anything in full, most things are already known. Even when I string vowels to form -honestly- fully original words, people relate them to the fall of some political figure, or the scene at this and that café in some central-european metropolis. Why would I be talking about that? I want to talk from where we are here now, I’ll shape a dog’s mouth with my thumb and pointer, illustrate new ideas with old imagery. Ownership is transferred at the point of sale, lineage is traced through narrow streets and carved in vaulted church ceilings. What we both know might come from something untrue. That is, it’s easier to remember a story if it’s funny, and the world is big and boring.

Abstract Labour, 2025
c-print, coloured chalk

Makeshift backstory

2024, duo with Tobias Just, YWV Wien

install shot
'Makeshift backstory', YWV Wien

Promises, 2024
glass, fluorescent bulbs

Acts of knowledge and empathy, 2024
inkjet print on paper

Promises, 2024
glass, spotlight

Untitled, Tobias Just, 2024, and Narrator, 2024
acrylic, pencil, paper on canvas & inkjet print on photo paper

Acts of knowledge and empathy, 2024
laser print on paper

Narrator, 2024
inkjet print on photo paper

install shot
'Makeshift backstory', YWV Wien

School shows

Rundgang '23 & '24, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien

Facts effects, 2023
still, light fixture, epoxy, video loop
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Facts effects, 2023
light fixture, epoxy, video loop
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世暘’s Pantograph, 2024
eurobox, video loop
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a letter

2022, Hasnerstraße

Valley Stream (assemble)
Oh heavens, would you look at the mail!
SLIME ORACLE
all 2022
inkjet print on paper, metal spring, wooden sword

Valley Stream (assemble)
inkjet print on paper, metal spring

SLIME ORACLE
inkjet print on paper, wooden sword

Afgang 2022

2022, Jutland Art Academy graduation show, Kunsthal Aarhus

No matter (Stack! event shuffle), 2022
compressed cardboard, euro pallet, Hazard Cards playing cards

install shot
graduation show, 'No matter'

No matter (hazard card), 2022
inkjet print, paint marker, brick

No matter (Stack! L Ron Hubbard Counter-momentum), 2022, No matter (AO), 2022
compressed cardboard, plastic sheet, euro pallet & AO-fence, iron wire

No matter (no matter), 2022
video loop, laser projection
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