Artist Gallery

Education

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, DK (1997-2003)
Department of Walls and Space – Social and Environmental Practices, by Professor Yvette Brackman (2001-2003)
Department of Painting, by Professor Claus Carstensen (1999 - 2001)
Situated Learning, Cape Town, South Africa, (2002)
Psychology, Copenhagen University, DK (1995-1997)
Art School, Holbæk, DK (1994, 1996, 1997 and 2002)

Engagement in Danish Art Politics

· Debate Forum for young artists & critics, by Cultural Minister Brian Mikkelsen (2004)
· Cultural Network for Cultural Politics, by Cultural Politician Mette Frederiksen (2004-)
· Co-founder and boardmember of Young Artworkers (www.ukk.dk) (2002)
· Contact person for Cultural Ministery & The Danish Arts Agency (2002-2004)
· UKK, Chairman (2003-2004).
· Engaged in UKK work-groups:
Artist Organisations worksgroup, Anti-Iraq- War, Workgroup of Education Teaching & Science, Media workgroup, Gender Equality Politics.
· UKK-representative:
Contact Council (Akademirådet, BKf, Kunstnersammenslutningnerne UKK) (2003-2004)
UKK-Contact-Council (representatives of visual artists in Represenational Board of Danish Arts Council, Council of Visual Arts, Council of Danish Art Abroad (2003-2004)
Danish Artists’ Council (2003-2004)
Gender Equality politics Council (Bkf og UKK) (2003-2004)
· Danish Television Board, Theme-day: Covering Visuals Arts on TV (2003)
12 min. video by Adrian Hughes program worker, Danish Television Culture.
Cultural People talk on perspectives for covering visual arts in Danish Television:
Poul Erik Tøjner Dir. Louisiana, Hans Evard-Nørgård chairman New Carlsberg Foundation.
Cai Ulrich Von Platen chairman Bkf, Karoline H. Larsen, chairman UKK
· Lecturer, Panel Discussion, Future Art Academies, the Royal Danish Academy, DK(2003)
· Co-initiator, Easter Letter Demonstration, Cultural Ministry, Copenhagen, DK
· Co-initiator, motivator, gathering demonstrators following invitation to meeting with Cultural Minister Brian Mikkelsen.
· Co-founder of Activist-Group against closing down of 2-Years-Foundations (2001)
· Secretary (1999) Chairman (2000-2001) Students Council, The Royal Danish Academy, CPH, DK

Selected Art Productions

· ‘With Love’, Charlottenborg, Jubilee Exhibition 250 years, Copenhagen, DK (May – June 2004)
3 art productions in collaboration with Charlotte B. Johansen, Christina Hamre, Mille Rude & Maria Werger.
The living group portrait – a representation of feminism today, February 29 2004, Copenhagen
Video installation 120 min 5 x 8 meters wall projection.
Open invitation to those, who consider themselves feminists. Invitation via email and mail to relevant feminist, social, political, artist networks and persons. 220 persons showed up and participated Sunday 29.02.04 during filming. They were invited to participate for however long, by coming into the frame of the camera and taking part in the representation. This project encompasses the inherent dilemma of art history which represents itself as disinterested and neutral. 80 persons chose to give their individuel statement on feminism. The group portrait and the 80 statements are edited to a 120 minute video. The portrait questions categorizations, representation & history writing – and opens for debate on personal relations to the concept of feminism.
Action – Negotiation – Transformation
65 (70 x 100) posters about feminism. Produced during 3 days.
Action - Hommage à Anne Marie-Carl Nielsens Statue of Margrethe I
Laders & Climbing grips. Invitation to climb up, look out, where the statue of Margrethe I should have been raised in New Haven, Copenhagen, DK.
Supported by Danish Arts Council, Illums, Academee Jubilee Foundation, City-Print.
· Candidates 13.12.03 (2003)
DVD, 1 min, 6 Lucia Candidates, x-mas, Calendar, DK www.artnode.org

· Rolestories – 7 Female Professors Stories from Roskilde Universitycenter, DK (2003)
Part I - III Photo & quotation portrait. 47 table-posters 180 x 80. Book-release 2005.
Professors: Lise Drewes Nielsen, Valery E. Forbes, Dorte Olesen, Birgitte Simonsen,
Kirsten Simonsen, Kirsten Weber & Agnete Weis Bentzon.
Rolestories is a portrait of 7 professors´ tellings from Roskilde Universitycenter (RUC).
The protrait sets focus on the long expected broader representation of female professors by the danish universities.
Since the foundation of RUC in 1972 11 women have been employed as professors.
Rolestories are quotations of 7 professors transcribed and edited from 11 hours video interview and montaged on photographs of miniature universes. The ’verbal language’ of the quotations show the co-relations between structurel and interpersonal levels of conscienceness.
Research material:
’Gender in The Academic Organisaton’ 14 work papers by Ass. Professor Lis Højgaard, with more, Institute for Government Studies, and Ass. Professor Charlotte Bloch with more, Institute of Sociology, Copenhagen University. Talks with Karen Sjørup Head of Danish Research Centre on Gender Equality, Inger Jensen Pro-Principal of RUC, Boel Jørgensen former Principal of RUC.
Part I Roskilde Universitycenter cantina, DK (2003).
47 tables covered with Rolestories in 6 weeks. On daily basis 8.800 students use RUC´s cantina.
Part II Art and the New City - Trekroner Art Plan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DK (2003)
Part III Western Autumn Exhibition, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK (2003)
· Space (ship) (station) OLEANNA, Venice Biennale (2003)
Invitation by visual artist Martha Rosler (US) in collaboration with 33 art academy students from Canada, Sweden, Denmark. Producer of 3 months OLEANNA Weekly Newspaper with Mille Rude, Maria Werger, Line Skywalker, Molly Haslund.
CO-construction-manager for 5 x 5 x 5 meter Space(ship)(station).
· MANUAL 57:14:05 (2003)
57:14:05 min video. 3 x 3 split screen. EXIT-exhibition. Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen, DK
Manual is an allegorical telling. Un surface the videotape is an invitational manual to chok, stres and trauma treatment.
9 body terapeutical exercises is showed silmutaneously on a 3 x 3 split screen.
The same woman shows all exercises, 1 exercise pr. screen with descriptive subtitles. Parallel to the instructional level runs a story about taking one´s own room, as invidual independent person. The woman shows reluctance, frustration, depression, grief, anger, joy. The viewer is challenged to do cross-readings between the 9 simultaneous sound- and picture tracks. Stories of the woman´s ’stream of consciousness’ arise. What´s the role of the viewer? Where lies subjectivity?
· HOMMAGE (2003)
100 billboards by 100 female artists, Copenhagen, DK. www.women2003.dk.
Curated by Hanne Lise Thomsen. Billboard colaboration with visual artist Elsebeth Jörgensen.
There are 28 registered memorials of women in Denmark, out of 2500 monuments in DK. www.monument.dk
Of those are 19 memorials for Royalties. Only 9 memorials for female, non-royal personalities.
HOMMAGE is an ’index’ of 21 women who might just as well have been honoured by memorials in public space.
Every woman proposed here lived within the same period as the man, who is honoured by the whole figure statue.
The personalities are selected by readings in The Danish Biography of Women and KVINFO´s Womens references.
www.kvinfo.dk
· The Dinner & The Space/Måltidet & Rummet (2001)
Group performance. Invitation from Hotel- & Restaurant School (HRS) to spacial-decoration, Copenhagen, DK.
22 persons in waiter uniforms acted as ’living walls’ while 5 journalists ate the dinner prepared by students at HRS.
’The room encouraged mental activity – everything does not have to be cosy!....lifted above the cosiness....a help to think clear thoughts. It was an intellectual expanding room. A room for the brain’, quote by one of the food journalists.
· Last Call/Sidste Skrig (2001) group exhibition. Ceramics. Gallery Houvald, Copenhagen, DK.
· Viewpoint/Stille (2001 ) Initiator of exhibition colaboration with Tanja Rau, Lone Bank & Marianne Schrøder,
Q Exhibition space, DK. Scenographic installation of sculptures and wallpaintings from 3 positions/viewpoints.
· Pride and Glamour/Pryd og Pynt (2001 ) Group exhibtion. Ceramics. Gallery Anders Ruhwald, Copenhagen, DK.
· Lying out there/Ligger der ude (2000) Group exhibition. Graphics, painting & sculpture. Eske Kath, Mette Winckelmann, Esben Brandt Möller, Jesper Just, Anna Vro Vodder, Danish Central Librabry, Flensborg, Denmark.
· No more to it/Længere er den ikke (1998) Seperate exhibition. Painting. Gallery Phoenix, Copenhagen, DK.
· Tube (1998) Group exhibition. Painting. Art Academy & Modern Culture Studies CPH University, Nikolai Church, DK
· Spring Exhibition (1998 & 1997 ) Censured group exhibition. Painting. Charlottenborg Exhibition Space, CPH

Workshops

· Unionizing Workshop, Flaxmann Lodge, London, UK (2004)
Research on artist organisations i the 30´es, 70´es. Co-organisor of debate, film screenings, diskussion forum. Video interview with TUC´s international leader of flexible, and precarious workers, 30 min. video. Collaboration with visual artists Anthony Davies(UK), Emma Hedditch (UK) Jakob Jakobsen(DK), Kristina Ask(DK)
· NOT IN OUR NAME, DK (2003)
Anti war banner. Organisor with UKK Anti War. The facade of the Royal Danish Academy of fine art, Copenhagen, DK
· Wild in the Streets, NIFCA,, Suomenlinnna, Finland (2002)
Workshop participant: Aesthetic strategies and tools to be used in activist strategies.
· Potential Workshop, Royal Danish Academy of fine Art, DK (2002)
Initiator with Mille Rude, Maria Werger, Charlotte Bergman Johansen, Christina Hamre.
· 3 New York artists as teachers, Royal Academy of Fine Art, DK (2000-2002)
Initiator & coordinator for 3 workshops of 8 days with visual artist Amy Sillmann, Thomas Nozkowski, David Humphrey. Colaboration with Simon Grimm and Sören T.
· Painting – Marathon, workshop OXIN, Copenhagen, DK (1995-1997)
Initiator & coordinator for monthly teaching-marathons with visual artist Niels Erik Gjerdevik, Kaj Nyborg, Peter Carlsen, Morten Skriver. Colaboration with Marianne Schroder, Mai Enné

Teaching & Development Experience

· Development consultancy, in teaching courses, (2004)
· Teacher in Visual Arts, Gentofte Day- and Evening School (GDA), DK (2002, 2003, 2004)
· Teacher in visual arts, Public Organisation of Informations (FOF) , Copenhagen, DK (2002-2004)
· Sales- & Distribution- & Production assistent, Pork Salad Press, DK (2002-2003)
By curator Jacob Fabricius. www.porksaladpress.org
· Teacher, Standpoint Workshop, Krabbesholm, Skive, DK (2002)
Colaboration with Mille Rude, Nanna Starck, Charlotte Bergman Johansen, Maria Werger.
· Co-teacher with visual artist Ruth Campau, Art School, Holbäk, DK (2002)
· Teaching assistant of visual artist Björn Ignatius Öckenholt, Art School, Holbæk, DK (1996)

Foundations & Grants

· Artist in Residency (AIR), Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA) (2004)
AIR - Nifca Grant, Suomenlinna, Helsinki. Sleipnir Foundation Travel Grant. www.nifca.org
· Production support, Danish Arts Council (2003, 2004)
· Workshop support, Danish International Affaires Council (2004)
· Marie Langhoffs Grant (2002) Augustinus Foundation (2001) Jørgens Buchs Foundation (2001)

Publications ·

catalogs
· With love / Med kærlig hilsen, Charlottenborg Jubilee Exhibition, Copenhagen, DK (2004)
· Survey – Art and the new city / Overblik – Kunsten og den nye by, Trekroner Art Plan, Roskilde, DK (2003)
· UTOPIA station, Venice Biennale, Italy (2003)
· EXIT, Royal Danish Academy of Art Exit-catalogue, (2003)
· Last Call /Sidste Skrig, Gallery Søren Houwald (2001)
publishing
· Rolestories – 7 female professors stories from Roskilde Universitycenter, DK (2005)
· Women shooting photos / Kvinder stiller skarpt, Information Publisher, ed. Dannerhuset, Copenhagen, DK (2004)
· Feminist Practices / Feministiske Praksisformer Information Publisher, editor Women Down The Pub, DK. (2004)
· Jubilee 96 – Negotiating Gender / Jubilæum 96 At forhandle kønnet, ed. Katrine D. Holmfeld, Honey B. Beckerlee, DK (2004)
· Women2003, Information Publisher, editor Hanne Lise Thomsen, DK (2003)
· Black, White, Glow / Sort, Hvid, Glød, poems & graphics collection, Art School, Holbäk, DK (1994)
articles & presentations
· Populisme, Magazine of Danish Artists Organisation/Bkf-magazine, (June 2004)
· What´s going on in cultural politics right now?, Magazine of Danish Artists Organisation/Bkf-magazine (June 2002)

Reviews and Interviews

· Kulturkontakten, Danish Female Artist´s statements on Gender Equality, Ministry of Culture, Charlotte Jul, DK (no 3 / 2004)
· Politiken, En bredside til historien, Michael Hornung (14.05.2004)
· Kvinden & Samfundet, Kvindelige kunstnere er også kunstnere, Signe M. Jørgensen (year 120 no 3 June 2004)
· Berlingske, Nå, men tillykke, Torben Weirup (May 13 2004)
· Universitetsavisen, Feminisme i dag (May 2004)
· Jyllandsposten, Feministisk Manifest, Gruppebillede med feminister, Louise Toftebjerg (March 1 2004)
· KA-magasinet, Når Kunst er Holdning! (no.15, 2003)
· ARTforum, UTOPIA Station, Oleanna Space(ship)(station) (September & October 2003)
· Jyllandsposten, Kunsten af fokusere (May 27 2003)
· Jyllandsposten, Forårsudstillingen (May 1998)

Sales to Foundations, Firms & Collections

Sales to private persons are not listed.
o Murray - Collection o EUMAN-Collection o H.Hoffmann & Sønner o PINGEL o DAKO A/S o MediLab A/S
o Danish Statistics o Chemometec o Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde Denmark

Language skills

Danish, English (fluent), German (conversational), French (basic)

Computer skills

Texts, Numbers & Images
Royal Danish Art Academy Mac Certified: Photo.shop 7 (professional) QuarkXpress 6.0 (professional) In-design 2.0 (basic) Illustrator 10.0.3 (basic) Word (professional) Excel (basic) Concorde (basic)
HK-PC-certified: Adope Acrobat 6.0 Professional (basic) Adope-to-web (basic) Dreamweaver (basic) Flash (basic)

Audio Visual skills

Recordings/Filming Royal Danish Art Academy Certified: Video DVCam, MiniDV (professional) DAT (basic) Digital Photo and E6/36mm Photo (professional)
Editing Royal Danish Art Academy Certified: Final-cut Pro 4 (professional) Imovie (basic) Quick-time Pro (basic) DVD studio-pro 1.5 (basic) Color-Correction Final-cut Pro 4 (basic)

Other Media

acrylics/oil/water color. Painting. Wallpainting. Drawing. Royal Art Academy Certified from Laboratories for Graphic printing, Silk screen printing, Plaster, Plastic, Photo, Wood, Metal, Ceramics & Color.

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