Short bio
Contemporary danish artist, working with embroidery, gouache and watercolor on paper. Inspired and informed by sci-fi, spiritual rituals and longings for other worlds.
My works are equal parts embroidery/textile objects and painting with watercolor/gouache on paper or cotton. I am focused on formal investigations, based on spiritual experiences and cultivate a growing interest in art's potential to create new insights and deep sensory experiences.
Alongside my practice, I have acted as a in-house artist, teacher and artistic consultant in many different contexts and I have run an international residency in Berlin, together with a group of other artists.
I have continuously exhibited at home and abroad. I build community and share about my process, methods and materials and sell my works to interested parties on Instagram.
Education
Funen art academy, 2002-2008
Arts and Crafts teachers education, 1998-2001
Exhibitions
selected from 2003 - upcoming
2024
Up coming
Invited as guest to Den Fynske Forårsudstilling, SAK, Svendborg 20.04 - 09.05. 2024
Needle and thread - needlework in art, Kunstmuseum Brandts 05.10. 2024 - 23.02.2025
Opening af the installation of two works at the Institute for Molecular biology and Genetics, University of Aarhus. Acquired by the Danish Art Foundation.
2023
Presentation of works and proces on Instagram
2021
SUMMER 21, Galleri Sandberg, Vestergade 102, Odense C
DE TRÅDE, DER BINDER OS SAMMEN, Bakkehuset, Frederiksbergmuseerne, Frederiksberg.
2020
Uden titel, Helmer Design og Antik, Pantheonsgade, Odense C.
Processen Co-kurator, Skitsehandlen, Faaborg, DK
Solo
2019
de Jong/Skovgaard, Skitsehandlen, Faaborg, DK
Masker - i relation til Bauhaus, Danish architecture festival/Odense, DK
2011
Fuglesilhuetter version II, Bull Mengers, Laven, DK
Fruits Sculpture Workshop, Open Engagement Conference, Portland, Oregon, US
2009
Recording documentation, Gudruns Salon, Kbh., DK
2007
Far og Børn Band Jam, Kooh i Noor, Kbh., DK
Group
2018
Hotel existence, vær. 3, Videbæk Hotel, Videbæk, DK
Finale, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillion, Videbæk, DK
2013
24 Spaces, a Cacophony, Malmø Kunsthal, Malmø, Sverige, SE
2011
Promised Land - Identity, belonging, and the desire to escape to a new world, Neukölln, Berlin, DE
2008
In Case We Die - afgangsudstilling, det FynskeKunstakademi, Brandts, Odense, DK
Urban pedestals, Surburban pedestals, Helsinki, FI
Myth Tomorrow, FAA Project Room, Det Fynske Kunstakademi, Odense, DK
2007
Performing Identity, Art after aesthetic Distance, Regina, CA
Deadpan exchange II, Superbien, Berlin, DE
drinking, sleeping, dinning...., Olivia Holm Møllerog Jens Nielsen Museet, Holstebro, DK
Free Space, Sønderboulevard, Kbh., DK
2006
Art Grand Prix, del af: Days of Art and Love, Odense, DK
2005
Skifter, Trapholt, Kolding, DK
2004
Opgang 37, Sjællandsgade, Kbh. N, DK
Censored exhibitions
2004
Spring04, Århus Kunstbygning, Århus, DK
2003
Kunstnernes Paaskeudstilling, ÅrhusKunstbygning, Århus, DK
Curator
2020
Processen, Skitsehandlen, Faaborg, DK. (kurator på udstillingsrække)
Work
- Self-employed art consultant in Cecilia de Jong SPACE from 2020- now
- Member of the Middelfart Art Council and freelance art advisor
- Workshop facilitator "Vulva embroidery" i.a. at Kunstmuseum Brandts, Femi Festival and Nyborg Gymnasium 2023
- Lecturer at Ærø Art College, summer course 2023
- Project manager and cultural consultant, Cultural Region Funen from 2015 - 2020
- In house artist of several occasions, i.a. at daycare and at the youth psychiatric department.
- Teacher and tour guide at Brandts from 2012-2014
- Co-founder and financially responsible for the international artist-run research and residency initiative "The Berlin Office" in the period 2006-2010
Grants and bibliography
Selected 2004 - current
2022
Work Grant, The Danish Art Foundation
Two works acquired by The Danish Art Foundation
2021
Work Grant, The Danish Art Foundation
Funding for school project with students, The Danish Art Foundation
2012
Travel grant from The Danish Art Foundation, research travel to Beirut, Libanon.
2011
Participation in the International conference “Open-engagement” in Portland, Oregon, USA with funding from The Danish Art Foundation
2008
Participation in the international conference “Art after aesthetic distance” in Regina, Canada, with funding from The Danish Art Foundation
2004
Travel grant from New Carlsberg Foundation, research trip to San Francisco, USA
Bibliography
2018
3 - om udstillingen på værelse 3, på Westergårds hotel, Line Mengers kurator på VK
2012
Find historien I naturen og leg et kunstværk – inspirationshæfte til daginstitutioner og børnefamilier udgivet af Rødovre Kommune
2010
Ud med kunsten, udstillingskatalog udgivet af Kulturregion Fyn
2009
Gift (part of the project Obviously, It´s Not Obvious), Lotte Juul Pedersen, udgivet af Zavod P.A.R.A.Z.I.T.E, Ljubljana
2008
In Case we die, udstillingskatalogudgivet af Det Fynske Kunstakademis forlag, ISBN978-87-990132-3-4
2005
PRO-ART. 2005, Dokumentarbog, udgivet af moldeQ train, ISBN 87-991291-0-8
Broderi m. sytråd og broderigarn. Indrammet med UV glas i håndmalet ramme. Titel: Amulet (peach), ca. 5x20 cm eksl. ramme/ 20 x 50 cm. inkl ramme.
Gouache og akvarel på GOTS certificeret bomuld.
Titel: KALI (unapologetic goddess), 100x120 cm. 2021.
Gouache og akvarel på GOTS certificeret bomuld.
80 x 100 cm. 2021
Masker - i relation til Bauhaus, Danish architecture festival/Odense, hos Helmer design og antik, kurateret af Lea Kirstine Møller, DK, 2019
Masker på gruppeudstillingen Finale Videbæk Kunstpavillon, Videbæk, kurateret af Line Sandvad Mengers, DK, 2018
Dolls på 24 Spaces, en kakofoni, Koh-i-noor på Malmø Kunsthal, Malmø, 2013