30 Jan – 17 May 2026
Humlebaek, Denmark
louisiana.dk
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Louisiana presents Basquiat – Headstrong, a major exhibition devoted to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s works on paper, with a focused examination of the human head as a recurring motif. Bringing together drawings in oilstick on paper primarily from 1981 to 1983, the exhibition marks the first comprehensive institutional presentation of this body of work and the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Scandinavia. Many of the works were kept private during Basquiat’s lifetime, remaining largely unseen and separate from his better-known painted output.
These drawings move between structure and dissolution, ranging from skull-like forms to stylised faces whose eyes and mouths suggest interior spaces charged with emotional intensity. Largely absent of the text and symbols that define much of Basquiat’s practice, the heads stand as autonomous works rather than studies, revealing a quieter, more introspective dimension of his process.
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