Christian Falsnaes began his artistic practice in the mid-2000s with a series of central projects at Stalke Galleri and Stalke Out of Space.
His collaboration with Bella Angora started with dePlaced(2006) at Stalke Galleri/Kirke Sonnerup, a multimedia project combining video, performance, and installation that explored ideas of displacement, deconstruction, and the individual’s position within social and cultural structures. Later the same year they presented Fake Fuck at the Copenhagen Alternative Art Fair, a provocative video installation examining the tension between authenticity and performance, documented in a dedicated catalogue published by Stalke.
In 2007, their collaboration culminated in Bella Angora vs. Christian Falsnaes, staged as Stalke Out of Space #36 at North Gallery in Copenhagen, where the two artists confronted and mirrored each other’s strategies in a direct performative dialogue.
Together, these exhibitions addressed themes of authority, obedience, and resistance while experimenting with the intersections of video, installation, and live performance. They stand as a significant chapter in both Falsnaes’s early artistic development and Stalke’s exhibition history.
Falsnaes later returned to Stalke in On Paper(2010) and contributed to the Artstamp project with the edition Threshold(2010), underlining the gallery’s role as a crucial framework for his beginnings on the contemporary art scene.
Christian Falsnaes, Threshold, Artstamp edition, 2010.