Tue Greenfort

Tue Greenfort participates in the exhibition WANÅS 2009: Footprints. He shows interest in questions regarding agriculture and cultivated nature. At Wanås he has created two new works with milk production as their starting points. Fresh milk has a temperature of 38°C and is cooled down to 4°C before being transported to the dairy. The excess heat is at Wanås used for heating the floor and the water of the cow stable through a heat exchanger. Greenfort observes this phenomenon in Milk Heat that gives the visitors the possibility to experience the heat of the fresh milk via a radiator placed outside the cow stable. In the Konsthall Greenfort presents What About Milk, an installation including the same amount of milk that the average Swede consumes annually. Through his projects he attempts to bring attention to the environmental efftects of industrialized animal farming – be it organic or not. He questions if dairy products can be considered ecologically sustainable food sources since cows’ methane emissions have a negative impact on the climate.

Tue Greenfort was born in 1973 in Holbæk, Denmark. He is based in Denmark, Germany, and USA. Greenfort studied at the The Funen Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark and the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Städelschule) in Frankfurt am Main. He has had solo exhibitions at for example Witte de With in Rotterdam (2006), Secession in Vienna (2007), and Braunschweig Kunstverein (2008). Greenfort has also participated in group shows such as the Sharjah Biennial (2007), Greenwashing at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin (2008), and Green Platform at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence (2009). In the fall of 2009 he is participating in the group exhibition Life Forms at Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm.