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EDUCATION

2013-2019

MFA (Cand.Art.Perit)
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, DK
(Erasmus exchange at Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, PT)

BFA
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, DK




INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS


2024

ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark

The Danish Arts Foundation

Sorø Art Museum, Denmark


2021

Vejle Museum of Art, Denmark


2020

Malmö Museum of Art, Sweden





EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS (selected)


2024

Four Boxes Gallery, Skive, Denmark  -   ‘Ecce Homo’ (solo)

KINDL, Berlin, Germany - ‘The New Subject. Mutating Rights and Conditions of Living Bodies, part 4’ (group)

Galleri Maria Friis, Copenhagen, Denmark - ‘Dreams and Desires II - Heavy Breathing’ (group)

Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki, Finland - The New Subject. Mutating Rights and Conditions of Living Bodies, part 3 ́ (group)

CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Denmark (screenings)

Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, South Korea - ‘Double:Binding:World:Tree’ (group)


2023 

GRASP Knowledge and Art Festival w/ the Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark - (solo screening + talk)

Roskilde Festival, Denmark - Art and Activism programme (group)

Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden - ‘The New Subject. Mutating Rights and Conditions of Living Bodies, part 1’ (group) 

Sorø Museum of Art, Denmark - ‘Open Studios’ (group, pop-up exhibition event)


2022

Galleri CC, Malmö, Sweden - ‘Shape/Build/Form’ (duo) 

Lemvig Church, Lemvig, Denmark (solo screening)


2021

Til Vægs Public Exhibition Platform, Copenhagen, Denmark - ‘No.’ (solo)

Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark - ‘Young Danish Photography ‘21’ (group)

OK Corral Experimental Space, Frederiksberg, Denmark - ‘An Empty Container Of ’ (solo)

Malmö Museum of Art, Malmö, Sweden - ‘(in)visible: abstractions and fragments of queerness’ (group) 

Vejle Museum of Art, Vejle, Denmark - ‘KROP (BODY)’ (permanent collection exhibition, group)


2020

Lys.Mur, public screening program, Svendborg, Denmark (solo screening)

Enter Art Fair, Curated Art Program, Copenhagen, Denmark - ‘Thinking Feelings’ (group)


2019

Jir Sandel, ArtViewer.org ad space selfie project

621 Gallery, Tallahassee, Flodrida, USA - ‘>7’ (group)

Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark - ‘AFGANG19’ (MFA Degree Show)


2018 and before

Pass7, Lisbon, Portugal - ‘Build It_Here’ (group)

Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark - ‘Cross-Aesthetic’ (group screening)

Gallery Q, Copenhagen, Denmark - ‘Pollenish’ (duo)

Dansehallerne, Copenhagen, Denmark - ‘Spring Collection’ (group performative program)

Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark - ‘KE15’ (group)

Gallery Q, Copenhagen, Denmark - ‘Mezuzot’ (solo)

Gallery Q, Copenhagen, Denmark - ‘Ca. 256’ (group)

Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom - ‘New A-Gender’ (group)





TEACHING AND ORGANISING (selected) - Incl. critique classes, workshops and studio visits.


2025

Krabbesholm Højskole, DK, art teacher


2024

Funen Art Academy, Odense, DK, external censor, rundgang, BFA


2023

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, DK, external censor, admissions, BFA
 
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, SoVS, DK, guest semester teacher, BFA


2022

Rønnebæksholm Kunsthal Summercamp, Denmark, workshop teacher

Kunsthal 6100 summer school, School of Visual Communiction, Kolding, DK / Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel, Germany, project mentor, BFA+MFA

Jutland Art Academy, Denmark, guest teacher


2020

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, SoVS, DK, substitute for assoc. prof. Hannah Heilmann, BFA

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, SoVA, DK, mentor, post-grad mentorship programme, MFA

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, SoVA, DK, guest teacher, BFA


2019-2021

Subterranean Wednesday Evening Video Art Club, co-founder and organiser, an international independant collective for young video artists; running workshops, lectures, critique class & reading groups


2018

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, SoVA, DK, teaching assistant, for assoc. prof. Luca Frei, BFA


2015-2017

FORUM, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, SoVA, DK, organiser, a student-run educational program




RESIDENCIES, PROGRAMS AND OTHER WORK (selected)


2024-2025

ISCP - International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, NY, USA, 3 month residency


2023

Accademia di Danimarca - The Danish Institute for Science and Art of Rome, Italy, 1,5 month residency

The Danish Institute of Athens, Greece, 1 month residency


2022

Art Hub Copenhagen Residency To Go (fka. Bikuben Studio Program), DK, 6 month residency


2021

Statens Værksteder for Kunst (Danish Arts Workshop), DK, 6 week residency

Institute Funder Bakke, DK, 2 week residency

Ashkal Alwan, Home Workspace Program, Beirut, Libanon, 10 month online study programme


2009-2013

Freelance photographer, clients include XL Recordings, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Hummel International, EMI Music, Soundvenue, Smash!Bang!Pow! Management, Tambourhinoceros Records, i.a.


2011-2012

CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, DK, Programme assistant


2007-2011

Pop Revo Festival, Aarhus, DK, Art director and photographer




TALKS (selected) - Artist talks, readings,  panels and jury work.


2025-2027

15. Juni Foundation Honorary Art Prize, awards jury member


2025

KP25 - Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling, Kunsthal Aarhus, DK, selection and awards commitee member


2024

Bodil Koch Award - Danish Ministry of Culture Equality Award, awards jury member

Art Hub Copenhagen Free Lunch Series, artist talk, Copenhagen, DK

CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, DK, ‘Welcome to the fat body! A Reckoning with society’s fatphobia’


2023

Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden

The Danish Institute of Athens, Greece, ‘Fatness as a Queerness’


2022

Rønnebæksholm Kunsthal, Næstved, DK, ‘Conversations across generosity - privilege, class and location’

Copenhagen Pride, DK, ‘Expectations of the gay body’


2021

Rønnebæksholm Kunsthal, Næstved, DK, ‘Flydende Fiktioner’

Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, DK, ‘FotoForum’


2020

Copenhagen Pride, DK, ‘Fat and queer - solidarity against fatphobia?’

Fahads Forsamlingshus, Copenhagen, DK, ‘Body, Gender and Activism’


2019

MIX Copenhagen LGBTQ+ Film Festival, DK

The Curatorial Thing, SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, DK




PUBLICATIONS (selected) - Incl. contributions as artist and writer, plus mentions and interviews.


2022

‘ORD’, Politikens Forlag

‘An Impromptu Conversation about Works in Progress, in Body, in Refusal, in Hiding’, idoart.dk


2021

‘Bøssernes Danmarkshistorie’ (The Gay History of Denmark), Forlaget 28b

‘Jir Sandel, Art Viewer Ads’, 2nd Cannons Publications


2020

‘Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling 120 år’, I Do Art Books

Profiled by DR Kultur, Danish Broadcasting Corp., Culture section


2019

‘Fatness in culture, art and language’, Konfront & Gordo Zine (spanish translation)

‘Krop i System’ (Body in System), Activistcollective Bøvl

‘Bergen/Copenhagen Papers’, no. 2. Really Simple Syndication Press


2017

‘Hodiernal’, Issue 1


2015 

‘Retfærd’, Issue 38-3


2010 - 2013

Previous photography work published by The Guardian, NME, Soundvenue, The Irish Times, MTV, Fact Magazine, i.a.




GRANTS & AWARDS (selected)


2024 

Danish Arts Foundation work grant


2023

Danish Arts Foundation production grant


2022 

Danish Arts Foundation work grant

Danish Arts Foundation production grant


2021 

Danish Arts Foundation work grant

Danish Arts Foundation production grant


2020

Danish Arts Foundation ‘Career Program - The Young Artistic Elite’ grant


2019

15. Juni Foundation Honorary Art Prize

Poul Erik Bech Foundation Art Prize


2017-2018

Nordea Foundation study grant

Oticon Foundation study grant

Dansk Tennis Foundation study grant

Knud Højgaards Foundation study grant

Augustinus Foundation study grant