Kristian Von Hornsleth - Artist Info

About Kristian Von Hornsleth

  • Biography

    Kristian Hornsleth (born 1963) is a Danish conceptual artist, who has exhibited in the Stalke Galleri. He is the postmodern artist behind the controversial Hornsleth Village Project, wherein 340 Ugandan villagers were paid in livestock to legally change their names to Hornsleth. He is currently working on the Deep Storage Project.

    In September 2009 the largest Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten revealed that Hornsleth on several occasions has used photographs taken by the photographer Platon Antoniou without permission. Reproductions of his paintings were sold in several Danish ILVA shops but was withdrawn after it was clear that Hornsleth violated Platon's rights.

    Hornsleth also withdrew all his pa...

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