Christian Vindelev is a visual artist and curator, educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and co-founder of the artist-run exhibition space Simian.
Through a two-part practice as both a visual artist and co-director and curator at Simian, he is interested in how we as humans understand ourselves in relation to our surroundings and our contemporaries. Through Simian's program, which shows new as well as established artists from different artistic positions, he wants to create complex and many-faceted exhibitions that cannot be read unambiguously.
Christian has experience with a wide range of aspects of work and exhibition production, curation, self-organization and artistic sparring.
Emil Elg (b. 1991) is an art historian, musician and artist. He is currently completing an art history PhD thesis (University of Copenhagen), which is about representations of black subjects in older Danish art and about the contact zone between Danish art history and colonial history.
Over the past few years, Elg has published a large number of articles, essays and interviews that shed light on blackness in Danish art and literary history from different angles. In addition, he published the book in 2016 About racism.
Elg is part of the music group Sin & Shame and the performance group Lol Decision.
Photo: Josefine Seifert
Hartmut Stockter (b. 1973, Wilhelmshaven, Germany) lives and works in the Port of Copenhagen, where he stores his material collection in a 40-foot container.
His artistic starting point is portable tools to experience the landscape with, the so-called excursion tools. Although they tell of a usefulness, they must be described as experiments in that respect - often they display a subtle sense of humour. They are handmade, apparently assembled in an inventive craftsman's workshop from metal, wood and plastic. From there, his practice has developed in different directions, from drawing to larger decorative tasks, although usually with landscape and our relationship with animals and plants as subject matter, and preferably with a certain real or pretended usability or interactivity.
He has improvised through decorations (inside and outside), various house artist projects and exhibits at home and abroad.
I work hybridly as an artist in a crossroads between classic art forms and new technologies. In my practice I explore and develop new forms of artistic expression through virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI). My passion lies in creating art that not only communicates visually, but also engages and challenges the audience's perceptions and understanding of art in the digital age.
Through creation and conversation, I invite an open and equal exchange of ideas and experiences. With a classical background from Central Saint Martins and Edinburgh College of Art and my involvement in the artist-driven projects such as Radar Contemporary and MoNDA, as well as my many years of experience in the art world, I look forward to supporting and inspiring other artists in their creative journey. Let's explore the new potentials of art together.
Visit me at www.idakvetny.com / @idakvetny to learn more.
Ivan Andersen (b. 1968) is a trained visual artist from Det Kgl. Danish Academy of Arts (1999-2005) and works primarily with painting and collage.
His works are typically based on the figurative, and are about the translation and breakdown of the image information that makes the subject recognisable. He deals with the materiality of materials and clashes between different material types and their inherent references. For example wood, textile, cardboard, paper, plastic, putty and concrete.
Ivan Andersen has a DIY approach to his work, and is interested in what limitations you yourself set for your art, and in the unexpected that occurs when something in the work process does not go according to plan.
Ivan Andersen has exhibition experience both nationally and internationally and is represented in several Danish museums.
www.ivanandersen.dk
My name is Jari, I was born in Montevideo (Uruguay) and I am based in Malmö. I work predominantly as a curator and writer, taking inspiration from friends, YouTube videos and dark dancefloors. When I lived in Barcelona I was deeply engaged in the hardcore punk scene, and its collective and anti-authoritarian ethos still informs my practice.
I graduated from the Independent Studies Program that MACBA (Barcelona) and CuratorLab at Konstfack (Stockholm). After a 10-month research residency in Athens hosted by documents14, I moved to Sweden, where I have worked within and beyond institutions, collaborating with museums, artist-run spaces, independent cinemas and radios. In 2021 I co-founded Fuchsia 2, a collective project anchored in Malmö, seeking to bridge the local scene with artistic processes from Latin America and the South(s) of Europe.
I am currently working as artistic director at Fellow worker, an exhibition space located in Copenhagen with a focus on co-curation.
I have a PhD in art history, living in Copenhagen. With my current employment as museum inspector at Museum Sønderjylland, external lecturer at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, and former researcher at Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, I have gained many years of experience with:
I have worked closely with visual artist Claus Carstensen in a 3-year post.doc project at the University of Copenhagen, carried out in collaboration between Den Frie and the Museum of Religious Art in Lemvig. In addition, I have worked with and written about artists and artist groups such as Artnode, Thomas Bang, Søren Behncke (Papfar), Karen Bennicke, Yvette Brackman, Corner, Viera Collaro, Kristian Devantier, Signe Jais, Ferdinand Ahm Krag, Ted Larsen, Frederik Næblerød , Bjørn Nørgaard, Lars Ravn, Torben Ulrich, Christian Vind, Mette Winckelmann and Troels Aagaard and others.
Kathrine is trained as an art historian from Aarhus University, and has a Ph.D. from the Department of Cultural Sciences at the University of Southern Denmark. Since 2019, she has worked as day-to-day manager and curator in Astrid Noack's Atelier and is currently postdoc in PASS – Center for Practice-based Art Studies in a collaboration between PASS and ANA.
In her work, she has, among other things, focus on how art relates to societal issues and opens paths towards other ideas and models of action. She has, from her employments such as curator at Astrid Noack's Atelier and at Overgaden, an in-depth knowledge of all aspects of art institutional work – from curation, dissemination, research and fundraising – and is used to experimenting with strategies, formats and methods.
Khaled Ramadan works as a lens-based artist, teacher, curator and art critic. He is a member of AICA and the Danish Artists Association.
Ramadan has a decade-long commitment to exploring art research, theory and practice. His work focuses on aesthetic journalism, constructed media and the historical context of informational art. His work represents an unexpected intertwining of visuality and geographic cartography, driven by a steadfast dedication to promoting social equity, representation and preservation of collective memory within the broader context of human history.
Languages: English, Danish, Arabic and French.
Louise Lassen Iversen has a combined master's degree in Art History from the University of Copenhagen and Performance Design from Roskilde University.
She is the curator and day-to-day manager of Til Vægs – a platform for art in the public space and social urban space solutions. In addition to being a guest curator at various established institutions and a producer for artist Jessie Kleemann, she has primarily moved within the self-organized art scene, where she e.g. has established the research-based exhibition platform meter, which is shaped by activist curation, intersectional theory and decolonial strategies.
Iversen has in-depth knowledge of curation, project management, fundraising, communication and organizational development from an intersectional perspective. She has worked extensively with artists regarding the development and production of works as well as concept and strategy development.
Photo: I DO ART Agency
Luna Scales (b. 1992) is a trained visual artist from Det Fynske - and Det kgl. Danish Academy of Arts.
Her artistic practice is primarily based on video, through which she works with the medical language, as well as narratives, experiences and conditions associated with bodies that live with a functional impairment.
She explores both the poetic dimension of diagnostics and the concrete encounter, as well as the relationship between doctor and patient to create a language that reaches beyond the objective science of the medical field.
On a daily basis, she works from her studio in Fabrikken for Kunst og Design.
www.lunascales.com
Photo: Anders Clausen
Nanna Lysholt Hansen (b. 1980) is a visual and performance artist. She graduated from Kingston University in London and from the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen. She has taught at the Vilnius Academy of Fine Art, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Jutland Academy of Fine Arts. In addition, she has held numerous lectures and workshops in performance art and photography. She has exhibited her works internationally since 2000. In 2006, she founded NLHspace, the former artist-run project space in Copenhagen.
My art practice is based on the body's relationship to language, architecture and history. My works can be experienced as live performance and mediated performance (sculpture, video, photo, text). I investigate how the body is a technological and biological inter-generational medium for knowledge and memory, as well as how the voice can function as both a constitutive and destabilizing element in the experience of the body.
www.nannalysholthansen.com
I am an art historian with a focus on the black diaspora in Denmark - a subject I am investigating as a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen. My work is based on perspectives from black feminism, queer of color critique, black studies and critical race theory.
I make up one half of the curatorial duo (G)HOSTING together with Mai Takawira. In addition, I am a member of the permanent editorial board of the journal Periskop - forum for art historical debate.
Nina Wöhlk Sadeghnia is a candidate in Urban Studies v. Modern Culture and Cultural Communication from the University of Copenhagen and a bachelor in Art History from Aarhus University. She has been employed at Overgaden - Department of Contemporary Art, as well as being a permanent external curator for Kunsthal NORD. From 2015 she has been an independent curator and since 2019 has run the exhibition platform ARIEL – Feminisms in Aesthetics. In 2023, she completed further training as a facilitator from the Applied Depth Institute.
Nina works professionally with all parts of institutional and curatorial work, including developing vision and strategy for new formats and programs. She assists with professional sparring regarding process, development, research, communication, organisation, production, fundraising as well as the establishment and facilitation of long-term collaborations and public programmes. Nina works ethically and value-based with a special interest in building feminist and regenerative infrastructures, work culture and leadership in the self-organized working life.
Pauline Koffi Vandet (b. 1994, DK/CI, she/her) has a Master's degree. in visual culture. She has a committed and curious curatorial practice. By applying a critical, dialogue-oriented and experimental approach to art and exhibition production, she has a desire to delve into, challenge and reflect on the role of art and art institutions today. Her work reflects a desire and commitment to create meaningful art experiences and continuously challenge established norms in the art world.
She both works and has worked with a number of national and international artists in her work as director of a temporary maternity unit at the art gallery Fotografisk Center, as a project and research assistant for artist and professor Jane Jin Kaisen as well as project manager for the monument project "I Am Queen Mary" by Jeannette Ehlers and La Vaughn Belle et al. In addition, Koffi Vandet is curator in the curator duo, Koffi & Højgaard, together with curator and art consultant Ida Højgaard Thjømøe.
With special skills in curation, exhibition production, dialogic processes and time-based media such as photography, video and sound, she can offer relevant sparring to artists within several artistic disciplines.
www.koffihojgaard.com
Image credit: Ida Højgaard Thjømøe
Peter Brandt (b. 1966) is a Danish visual artist educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. In his practice, he makes use of feminist strategies, trauma theory, his own body and often refers to other artists. In 2020, he published the book No Safe Place on the publishing house Really Simple Syndication Press and received the Statens Kunstfond's 3-year work grant in the same year. He lives and works in Copenhagen.
www.peter-brandt.com
I graduated from Det Kgl. Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and has lived in Berlin/Cologne for many years. In addition to Danish, I speak fluent German and have knowledge of the Turkish language.
In my practice, context plays a strong role. The context can be a place, a situation, a discourse or a material - all of which I use as 'found matter' that sets works in motion. My working method is analytical, process-oriented and often has an archaeological character. I work in and across different media – from photography, installation to integrated art in public space.
www.signeguttormsen.dk
Photo: Klaus Holsting
My practice is based on artistic investigations of biological phenomena, as well as the man-made constructions and technologies that characterize our time both through hopeful initiatives and deep crises. Car parts, sugar, frying oil, haze and mold are examples of materials and entities whose physical properties, cultural significance and ecocritical potentials help determine the form and content of my works. At the same time, I use drawing as a form of expression and tool to establish visual connections between thoughts, ideas and sculptural works.
www.silasinoue.com
Tijana Mišković (b. 1982, the former Yugoslavia) has lived in Denmark since 1992.
She has an MA in art and theory from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and a Ph.D. in curation from the University of Copenhagen.
Most recently, she has been associated with SMK - Statens Museum for Art, where she curated the exhibition Connections - Danish artists from the former Yugoslavia, which was also the focal point of her PhD thesis.
Both as curator and researcher, she is particularly interested in transcultural aspects of art, which are often articulated in the form of dynamic interweaving of memory across cultures and generations as well as cultural translations and negotiations that challenge the concept of the nation state.
As an independent curator, Mišković works both in Denmark and internationally.
More information about her activities can be found on the website www.tijanamiskovic.com
Tina Enghoff is educated at the International Center of Photography, New York.
In my artistic practice, I work with camera-based media with a focus on long-term social political projects. I am engaged in research that deals with institutional violence and the archive's power structures based on the Nordic colonial structures. A common thread is the role of investigator of circumstantial evidence, which is part of a reconstruction of the incidents at a crime scene.
In parallel, I work with community involvement and site-specific art activism. Over the past approx. 15 years working with artistic collaborative processes in social housing areas in Denmark, Cities and settlements in Greenland, prisons in Norway and Denmark and now most recently in Sápmi in Norway. Furthermore, I have experience involving socially disadvantaged children, young people and adults by making them part of his own storytelling.
I can provide sparring in relation to involving collaborative processes, ethics, and research-based artistic practice. I have worked with exhibitions under many different conditions and have designed art books since the beginning of my artistic practice in the early 80s.
www.tinaenghoff.com
Performancekunstner og digter, har en bachelor fra Københavns Universitet i Fransk Litteratur og Sprog, og en kandidat fra Roskilde Universitet i Socialvidenskab og Kultur- og Sprogmødestudier.
Jeg beskæftiger mig med hybriditet og rodløshed i et kunstnerisk, tværdisciplinært spændingsfelt, der blandt andet inkluderer lyd, poesi og performance og anvender fremmedgørelse og diktering til at understrege et nutidigt kritisk billede af magtstrukturer, kolonialisme og dens efterslæb.
Min praksis er derfor i høj grad defineret af en sammenfletning af forskellige sprog, stemmer og erfaringer. Jeg hopper mellem det selverfarede, minder om barndom, seksualitet og sorg, og politiske ideer funderet i afrofuturisme og klimakritik for at få genoprettet en retfærdighed for de undertrykte, til en utopi om et postkapitalistisk verden.
Foto: Mathilde Schmidt
Bjørn Poulsen (b. 1959) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (1981-88).
As a sculptor, since 1979 he has worked with sculpture, installations, reliefs, jars, grids, drawings plus written a memoir: "Call from the Milky Way," but the sculpture has been the central focal point. He has used a wide range of different materials, both classical ones such as plaster, stone and bronze and "everyday materials" such as plastic, concrete, wood, iron, etc. What these diverse sculptures have in common is that they are a kind of spatial collages. Bodies pieced together from fragments.
Bjørn Poulsen has many years of exhibition experience and has created projects both for exhibition spaces and public places.
www.bjornpoulsen.dk
Christian Skovbjerg Jensen is director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde. Previously, he worked as head of the Inter Arts Center (IAC) – an interdisciplinary platform for artistic research and development in Malmö affiliated with Lund University. He has many years of experience as a freelance curator, particularly with site-specific projects in public spaces, among other things Sit down! (2006) tumult (2010) Momentum Biennale 6 (2011) and Struer Tracks #2 (2019)
Christina Maj Lundqvist (b. 1972) works with video, sound, painting, photography, light sculptures. She conveys moods, atmospheres and invites you to reflect and connect with a world below the surface. Board member in KKS 2023-2025.
For the purposes of the exhibition, she works with the inclusion of space by focusing on atmosphere. https://www.christinalundqvist.com/cv/2022-reflect
In the painting is the work with the completely liquid modern drawing ink, both on canvas and paper (like watercolor). Focus on colours, composition and transparency.
Course instructor for BKF Nordsjælland in Instagram/Photoshop.
Experience filming underwater, manipulating and editing videos/photos in PremierePro and Photoshop. Many years of experience as a graphic designer - setting up various graphic elements and help with Adobe programs is obvious.
Cand. Mag. in visual culture, art history, University of Copenhagen (2001-2008).
Continuing Education: Critical Exhibitions Studies. Gothenburg University (2015).
Kit has a long series of exhibition productions behind him. She deals professionally with all aspects of exhibition practice and has produced, curated, co-curated a large number of exhibitions with both Danish and international artists and has been particularly involved in commissioned works and new productions from the very large solo and group exhibitions to large-scale works by individual artists. As a curator and producer in Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, KØS – Museum for Art in the Public Space and Gl. Holtegaard, she has worked daily with production, curation, project management, fundraising, strategic development work, planning and execution of exhibitions, as well as writing texts for exhibition catalogs and press use.
Today, Kit is employed as acting artistic director and curator at Gl. Holtegaard. In parallel, she works with freelance projects, both in the public space and within the intentional framework.
Marie Louise Helveg Bøgh (b. 1971) has a MA. in art history from the University of Copenhagen and has been director of Sorø Art Museum since 2023. Before that, she was director of the association Art at Work (2020-2023) and the Factory for Art and Design (2014-2020) as well as museum inspector at ARKEN and Øregaard Museum.
Marie Louise Helveg Bøgh deals professionally with all aspects of museum work, including strategy, curation, collection management, events, dissemination, teaching and fundraising. She has broad experience from both the mediating institutions of the art scene (museums, etc.) and from the production side, and has special skills in the management and development of art institutions, advocacy, communication and artistic development.
www.sorokunstmuseum.dk
Photo: Suste Bonnén
Focusing on ceramic firings and studies of traces of fire and smoke, I strive to create a stylized primitive idiom. I always work towards developing new techniques and improvise completely along the way, because I value the process as much as the final result.
I live and work in Lejre. Is associated with the local art school, and co-founded the cosmic cultural association, where we do local community-promoting events at every full moon. www.kosmiskkulturselskab.dk
I trained as a theater painter at the Royal Theatre, so I can offer sparring and professionalism in the work process, new angles and techniques.
As an artist, I work with views of nature, landscape and architecture, often in collaboration with other artists or scientists.
I have taught at universities and art academies and for many years at the Academy of Arts in Holbæk. I give constructive feedback that you can use for something based on your project and in a light and welcoming tone.
I also have extensive experience with organisation, strategy and politics. With a Master's in public management from CBS as theoretical ballast and experience with management of boards and business development. So feel free to use me as a conversation partner if you need to develop your project or business or if you are facing an organizational challenge.
In my artistic practice, I work with site-specific integrated art in public space. I investigate, among other things, people's belonging to the special places, contexts and relationships that relate to the place or the building. I often use a user-involving approach in my process of developing the work, where I hold workshops with future users of the place from which the art will grow. I do this to create an anchoring of the work in the local environment and a greater sense of ownership and meaningfulness for the future users of the place or building where the integrated art is anchored. I work primarily with painting, sculpture, installation and ceramic works.
I have extensive experience in starting up and running artist-run exhibition venues and was Co-Founder of New Shelter Plan at Carlsberg and Kiosk at Frederiksberg Hospital. I sit on Riise's Council, a cultural panel that is developing a new cultural meeting place in Frederiksberg. In addition, I have taken the initiative for a project Art & education for better well-being, which targets artistic courses for secondary schools, a project supported by the Statens Kunstfond.
You can, among other things, contact me if you want to work with art in public spaces, artist-run exhibition spaces or house artist projects. I have solid experience in project management and the artistic sparring with the development of new site-specific works.
Christina Rauh Oxbøll (f. 1974), er uddannet mag.art. i kunsthistorie fra Aarhus Universitet i 2002 og har siden 2016 været ansat som museumsinspektør med ansvar for udstillinger på CLAY Keramikmuseum i Middelfart. Her har hun kurateret en lang stribe af udstillinger i tæt samarbejde med kunstnerne.
Hun er medlem af Middelfart Kommunes billedkunstråd, hvor hun rådgiver omkring kunstnerisk udsmykning i det offentlige rum og indkøb af kunst. Oxbøll har erfaring fra Vejen Kunstmuseum, Museum Jorn og Randers Kunstmuseum og har desuden arbejdet med tværæstetiske udviklingsprojekter for børn og unge for Kulturprinsen i Viborg.
Hun arbejder med alle aspekter af udstillingsplanlægning – fra konceptualisering, organisering og fundraising til installering og formidling af både små og store udstillinger, herunder tilrettelægning og redigering af bøger og udstillingskataloger.
Hun har generelt stort fokus på formidling og samarbejde, at skabe mening og få det kunstneriske budskab ud over rampen til rette modtager – om det er fondene, der skal støtte realiseringen af et kunstprojekt, eller om det er det brede publikum.
I graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2014 - and have since worked as a performing artist.
I work spatially and sculpturally in the materials glass, stone, paper and metal and I appreciate working with scale jumps and in different contexts. From the smaller exhibition venue – to the lasting and monumental in public decorations. From the smallest details to the very large lines.
From 2016-2019 I also ran the exhibition site The Nordic Embassy in Kbh NV together with visual artist Nils Elvebakk Skalgård.
Based on my own experience, I will be able to provide collegial sparring in both the workshop - in the middle of the process, in the finished exhibition or in connection with larger decoration projects (total contracts).
I live in Svendborg on South Funen. But since I often travel to both Aarhus and Copenhagen in connection with projects - I will be able to offer interviews there as well.
I generally work with art, where a system is chosen which is filled with more or less random elements. A collection of therapy books with varying titles, a clock that writes short sentences, cardboard boxes with a letter on each side, which are thus all a 6-letter rebus, or 99 sounds, which become a game of creating associations.
The basic idea is that no conclusion is given from the start, but that the viewer is given the opportunity to fill in the gaps and connect the dots in their own way. My art is often expressed through drawings accompanied by words.
I am most active in the group Qwerty, which makes performative installations, most recently a casino where my contribution is a roulette where you play on words. See http://tifinger.dk
Over the years I have been very active as an initiator and organizer of various exhibition projects, most recently with M100 in Odense.
www.mikkellarris.dk
Qwerty: tifinger.dk
Photographed by Kirstine Mengel http://kirstinemengel.dk
Naila Hekmat (b. 1985) and graduated from the Funen Art Academy in 2022. Being from Syria, I have a classical background in drawing and painting. In my practice, I deal with painting and graphics, where I deal with themes that are based on my own life conditions and identity. In my works I challenge symbols and everyday objects such as when clothes are a reminder of missing people, and bear witness to the void that arises in the wake of war. In my pictures, children's toys represent a shared memory. Objects that carry memories and stories from childhood and that create connections between people across cultural backgrounds or experiences. What I can offer is sparring about composition and symbols in art, as well as classical techniques.
In 2023, I was awarded a large work grant from the Statens Kunstfond.
https://www.instagram.com/naila.hekmat?igsh=MWM2cHJrd256dno4cw==
My name is Svend-Allan Sørensen, I graduated from the Funen Art Academy 1997-2002 and became a member of BKF very shortly after graduating. I am also a member of the Artists Association.
I have been teaching for many years alongside my own artistic work. In the years 2006-09 I was the head of BGK-Nord and since 2012 I have taught at Aarhus Art Academy's 4-year course. This has of course given rise to a lot of guidance and dialogue, which has been, and still is, fruitful for both parties.
In addition to teaching, I have curated several institutional exhibitions. Most recently the graphic exhibition Painting Is Dead together with Lene Desmentik at Kunstpakhuset in Ikast.
I believe in the rye bread as a model for the work. No rye bread form without rye bread dough and no rye bread dough without rye bread form. And thus no finished work without finished rye bread.
A significant part of my own work production is of a textual and graphic nature.
Claire Mary Anne Gould (b. 1973) is currently studying an MA in curation from Aarhus University (and will graduate in August 2024). She is curator at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, but her previous experience includes freelance projects as well as other positions as curator at HAM Helsinki Art Museum (2005-2019) and Hamburger Bahnhof Museum der Gegenwart (2005). Claire has extensive experience in curating exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, budget management and fundraising as well as copywriting. Her native language is English and her previous education includes an MA in Art Management from the Sibelius Academy, Finland, and a BA in Art and Art History from Newcastle University, England.
My artistic work often unfolds in non-classical art media (e.g. sticks, pressed twine, waste sheets and discarded textiles).
I work with different materials and scales site-specific installations, decorations, book works and as a magazine editor.
I can offer on-site sparring on:
– Exhibition layout and structure in relation to room and place.
– Craftsmanship qualities, color and material awareness.
– Decoration tasks
– Book organization, graphic organization and photography
Lars Waldemar (b. 1964) usually takes his art as a point of departure in the field of natural science. In many of his works, he examines our relationship with nature by working in the space between nature and the artificial. He works with sculpture, graphics, landscape, installation etc
He has extensive experience with exhibitions at home and abroad, curation, project development, project management, etc. In addition, he participates in various boards and municipal arts councils.
Lars Waldemar is a member of the artist associations Den Fynske Spring Exhibition, West Jutland Exhibition and Riimfaxe.
https://www.instagram.com/larswaldemar/
Photo: Sven Jaax
Morten Lykke (b. 1967) is educated at the University of Southeastern Norway with a master's degree in design in 2019. In addition to his artistic work, he works as a teacher - and the teacher education program with 25 years of experience in teaching.
Both bronze sculptures and acrylic installations are characterized by Morten Lykke's frictionless approach to artistic work in the best sense of the word: an idea arises, the practical challenges are solved, and the project is carried out with the variables and moments of uncertainty that may arise along the way. Sometimes the work turns out as it was intended, other times it turns into something completely different, but each time it happens on the conditions of the material and the process. Morten Lykke forces neither material nor process, he supports – frictionless.
Artistic focus areas: Sculpture, installation, field studies, phenomenological approach to the creative work, the relationship between the artist and the place, reuse of materials in artistic work, aesthetic communication
www.mortenlykke.dk
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https://www.instagram.com/lykke.morten
Sall Lam Toro (they/them) (1990, PT) is an antidisciplinary multimedia performance artist based in Copenhagen. Their work evokes inter-relational decolonial, ecoerotic, cosmic and embodied manifestos that confront what they call "the hijacked body". The hijacked body arises from the illusion of separability, and Toro often works with strategies to devise artistic interventions to unwrite and disrupt this body collectively. Through ritual, glitches, failure, dialogues with ecoerotic companions, text, resonance and e-motion, Toro develops poetic multitudes of body and radical imagination within anticapitalist, anarchist, and collective liberation modes.
As for their practice of artistic caretaking, they focus specifically on providing support to artists that have a visual performance art-based practice/project in which questions of framing material, dramaturgy, audience, workshopping ideas, politics of the work and its resonance, and points of conflict circulate. Furthermore, looking critically at the productivity and care aspect of the work in terms of its needs and the artist, what needs to shift in the process and future, etc.
Sara Duborg Døssing is an MSc. in art history and since 2021 has been a museum inspector at HEART – Herning Museum of Contemporary Art.
In the period 2024-2027, she is doing the PhD project Into everyday life: The hidden potential of materials, which is an interdisciplinary (art history and conservation) material-oriented study based on England-Avantgarden (the artistic situation in and around the shirt factory England in Herning in the period 1950-1970).
Sara deals with both group exhibitions and special exhibitions with a focus on the period 1950 to the present day. She has experience with all aspects of museum work from concept development, curation, fundraising, dissemination and project management of exhibitions. She is responsible for research at HEART and in this connection deals particularly with materiality studies.
Look more at linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-duborg-d%C3%B8ssing-263339172/
Seolhui Lee (b. 1987, lives and works in Denmark) is a curator at Kunsthal Aarhus in Denmark (2023–present), and the artistic directors with Jacob Fabricius of the Korean Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, where they present a project ODORAMA CITIES with KOO Jeong A. She previously served as the head of the exhibition team for the Busan Biennale 2020, was a curator at the Seoul Museum of Art (2018–2019) and worked for the Korea Artist Prize 2012 at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea (2012–2013). In addition, Lee has served as an adjunct professor at the Korea National University of Arts (2019–2022) and the Kaywon University of Art & Design, South Korea (2022–2023). In conjunction with her studies, Lee's essays have been published in Korean Contemporary Art Since 1990 (2017) and Reading Korean Contemporary Art with Keywords (2019). She is also a contributor for various art publications, including the contemporary Korean art magazine Art In Culture since 2020. Currently, Lee researches media theory and the process of how content from different specialties is translated and interpreted through visual arts. Her curatorial practice focuses on making a narrative based on materiality and human beings – beyond time and space – that can connect to history and the future of society.
Portrait Credit
Courtesy of Seolhui Lee. Photo by Chae Dae Han.
Hanne Mailand (b. 1940) is educated at Det Kgl. Art Academy in Copenhagen (1964-71) at the painting school and with an MFA in art theory and communication. Member of the Artists Association. Has taught visual arts at Bornholms Gymnasium (1972-2005). Former member of Bornholm's Arts Council and for two periods on BKF's admissions committee. Many group and solo exhibitions in Denmark and the Nordics. Solo exhibition "Nature Sensation and Color Song" at Bornholm's Art Museum (2015). Studio talks can take place in Hanne's studio in Allinge.
www.hannemailand.dk
Sofie Amalie Andersen (b. 1989) is a trained visual artist from the Art Academies in Malmö, Oslo and Maumau ISP in Lisbon.
Her artistic work takes place in an expanded sculptural field, where traditional sculpting meets text, drawing, film and found objects. Central to her practice is a critical approach to the Western world's history of art and ideas and, not least, its alienating modern consumer culture. Alongside her own artistic practice, she regularly curates exhibitions, writes texts and edits publications in close collaboration with colleagues. She also has experience with publishing, fundraising, project management and major artistic productions in the public space.
Since 2018, Sofie Amalie Andersen has lived in Nexø on Bornholm, from where she also runs the exhibition site SOL.
Can either be found on Bornholm or in the capital area.