About

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Katja Crevar is a deliberately romantic artist with a practice that is as conceptual and analytic as it is poetic and existential. She interprets idea-based art not as an exercise in logic, but as an expression that seeks to go beyond reason, through its rational means.

Katja Crevar is the founder of the Milky Way, New York Gallery. A gallery, an artistic research, platform, and an open-ended series of collaborations aimed at creating alternative opportunities for non-established artists.

Her work can be understood, as a conceptual experiment, or artistic research, that explores structures and methodologies while embracing craft and tradition. This results in works that merge poetic intimacy with institutional reflection. She creates intimate ties between the performative, conceptual, dreamt and visual, often engaging with the quest for the sublime and enacting it in real life – both critically and poetically.

Through the embodiment of institutional roles such as the galerist, the bride, etc., she foregrounds the tension between staged authenticity and genuine experience, using pre-set rituals and borrowed, commodified motifs from the contexts she (in)voluntarily finds herself in. In doing so, she seeks to create spaces where existential investment and theatrical staging collapse into one, distilling emotional truth from generic representation, and romantically hoping to find her current loved one, Art, deeply indebted to the aesthetics of the sublime.

In Search of Serendipity is a broader body of work through which the artist explores the subconscious and the “unexplainable” as legitimate methodologies within artistic practice and research. This exploration culminated in the graduation project You May Kiss the Bride, in which the artist symbolically married the one she truly loves – Art. By reflecting the personal and cultural context she inhabits, the artist deliberately and sincerely honors the ritual of dedication.

By marrying Art itself, the artist asserts both the commitment to her practice and her autonomy, which, among other interpretations, contributes to an ongoing narrative of resistance, redefinition, and reclamation in the history of women in art.

The wedding takes place during the Afgang opening day at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 11th April 2025. 

It begins with a public procession, guided by music specially composed for the work evoking both the melancholy and vulnerability of leaving the familiar behind, while celebrating the unknown future that awaits the artist. The procession moves through the canals and streets of Copenhagen and culminates in a ceremony within the group exhibition space. The wedding ceremony emerges from the charged atmosphere of the occasion, fusing the symbolic and the real, the institutional and the intimate.

After the event, remnants of the happening – its objects, traces, and energies – stay exhibited in the space, at the same time evoking a sense of “coming late to a party” and inviting the viewer on a journey through memories that might have already occurred – or are about to unfold. The installation is shaped with references to the artist’s previous works, de-constructed for this occasion – combined with intimate and Fluxus-inspired art scores (instructions). These elements continuously mirror each other, exploring a surreal, dream-like logic that guides a guest through a space between potential and recollection, fiction and ritual.

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Music specially composed for this piece by Jeppe Zeeberg.

Håkon Guttormsen plays trumpet. 

Calum Builder plays saxophone.

Petter Hängsel plays trombone.

Kristian Tangvik plays tuba.

Ragnhild May on the Megaphone.

Bridesmaids are amazing. 

Seraina Grupp,

Yi Ten Lai Fernández,

Anne Sveberg,

Jana Pressler,

Zita Mihály (also edible parts of a porcelain cake).

The bride is walked down the aisle by her prof. Carla Zaccagnini.

Camera by Jonas Wiinblad.

Camera by Call Mark Video Collective.

Sound by Hrafn Bogdan.

Edited by Katja Crevar & Jeppe Zeeberg.

The entire artwork was created on a very limited personal budget provided by the artist.

 We are sincerely thankful to Nebbiolo Winebar and Gaarden&Gaden for their generous donation, and

FriendShips for their support in making this work possible.