Henrik Olesen

{{short description|Danish artist}}

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Henrik Olesen (b. 1967) is a Danish artist working in Berlin.{{cite web|title=Art in America: Henrik Olesen|date=5 February 2010 |url=http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/henrik-olesen/|accessdate=27 April 2011}} He has been featured in exhibitions in New York City,{{cite web|title=Projects 94: Henrik Olesen|url=http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1102/ |accessdate=27 April 2011}}{{cite web|title=New Museum: Henrik Olesen|url=http://archive.newmuseum.org/index.php/Detail/Entity/Show/entity_id/3580/|accessdate=27 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002004802/http://archive.newmuseum.org/index.php/Detail/Entity/Show/entity_id/3580|archive-date=2 October 2012|url-status=dead}} Sweden,{{cite web|title=Malmo Konsthall: Henrik Olesen|url=http://www.konsthall.malmo.se/o.o.i.s/4632/|accessdate=27 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170425232635/http://www.konsthall.malmo.se/o.o.i.s/4632|archive-date=25 April 2017|url-status=dead}} and Austria.{{cite web|title=Secession Building: Henrik Olesen|url=http://www.secession.at/exhibition/henrik-olesen/|accessdate=22 May 2016|archive-date=19 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819150021/https://www.secession.at/exhibition/henrik-olesen/|url-status=dead}}

Olesen was born in Esbjerg. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen from 1989 to 1996.

Project 94 at the Museum of Modern Art in early 2011 was Olesen's first U.S. solo museum show, in which, according to Valery Oisteanu in The Brooklyn Rail, "Olesen probes homosexuality’s criminalization, past and present, through the appropriation of source materials and contextual shifts."{{cite journal|last=Oisteanu|first=Valery|title=Projects 94: Henrik Olesen|journal=The Brooklyn Rail|date=April 2011|url=http://brooklynrail.org/2011/04/artseen/projects-94-henrik-olesen}}

Henrik Olesen is represented by Galerie Buchholz, Cologne,{{Cite web |last=Buchholz |first=Galerie |title=Henrik Olesen — Galerie Buchholz |url=https://www.galeriebuchholz.de/artists/henrik-olesen |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=www.galeriebuchholz.de |language=de}} and galerie dépendance, Brussels.{{Cite web |title=Henrik Olesen |url=https://dependance.be/artists/henrik-olesen |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=dependance.be |language=en}}