I am a Danish visual artist based in Oslo, Norway.
I graduated as a photojournalist from the Danish School of Media and Journalism in 2013. Since then I have worked with photography as an artist, a freelance photographer, a teacher and a photo editor. I have held various positions at the Danish Folk Highschool as an educator of conceptual art photography and documentary photography, e.g. Krabbesholm Højskole and Grundtvigs Højskole and held courses in photography at Kunsthøjskolen Ærø and VIA University among others. From September 2018 to November 2019 I work as photo editor at Morgenbladet, Oslo.
My own photographic practice fall within the category of both art and documentary. I work with sound installations, objects and photography. Thematically, my long-term projects revolve around love and migration.
I have been awarded at The Danish Press Photo of the Year contest several times and in 2017 I was selected a member of the jury.
I have exhibited my work in renowned institutions as well as in more experimental formats; in museums, art centres and at various photo festivals in Denmark and abroad. I have participated in projects at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, had my works presented at Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling, Forårsudstillingen at Charlottenborg, and in Øksnehallen, Copenhagen. I have also been included in the series of exhibitions, ”Young Danish Photography”, at the art gallery Fotografisk Center in 2013 and in the fall of 2017 I held my first major solo exhibition at the art gallery Fotografisk Center with the project The Calling - Sites for Myths.
Selected exhibitions and screenings
2018 Minimum, Palermo, group show at Mo[t]us Operandi curated by Valentina Sestieri, Mo[t]us is a wider collateral event organised by Minimum for MANIFESTA 12 a contemporary art biennial, June 22nd- July 20th and from October 31st it will travel to Comodo64 in Turin as a part of the Nesxt programme.
2018 Vandrehallen, Hillerød, Denmark, solo exhibition, THE CALLING - SITES FOR MYTHS, May 1. - 17. June.
2018 Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition, group exhibition, Interior, Philosophy in the Bedroom, February 1-10 March.
2017 Warehouse 9, Copenhagen, exponentially growing group exhibition ‘Vi tager intet ansvar’, Installation work: The Stone, Religious souvenir from Jerusalem.
2017 Fotografisk Center, solo exhibition, THE CALLING - SITES FOR MYTHS, September 15- 29 October.
2017 Landskrona Fotofestival, Group Exhibition, September 8-17.
2017 Tinghuset, Ebeltoft, Group Exhibition, April 18-16 May.
2017 Hillerød Kunstdage, Group Exhibition, Annaborg, March 24-26.
2016 Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling, KE16, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, November 5.-20.
2016 Human Rights in Action, human rights center, Nyhavn, Copenhagen, October 15.-01. December.
2016 - MENOTRENTUNO 2016, Masedu Museo D'arte Moderna Sassari, 28 October-3.December 2016. & Villanova Monteleone, Sardinia, July 29. - September 4. Exhibiting The Farm in the Centre
2016 - Athens Photo Festival, Greece, BENAKI MUSEUM, 9. June – 31. July, 2016
2016 - The Censored Exhibition, Copenhagen Photo Festival, 2.-12. June
2016 - TRANSIT, Group Exhibition, Pixelart, Østervrå, opening 13. February - 28 March
2015 - Photo Kathmandu 2015, Nepal, outdoor screening, November 3-9
2015 - STATUS:15, Group exhibition, Copenhagen, Museumsbygningen, September 24. - unknown
2015 - LENSCULTURE EMERGING TALENT AWARD 2015, Group exhibition at San Francisco Camerawork, August 28 - September 4, 2015
2015 - LIGENU - EQUALITY HERE AND NOW, Assignment for The Danish Parliament, exhibited in Copenhagen, Allinge, Aarhus, Odense, Aalborg and Esbjerg, Denmark
2014 - Esbjerg-Harwich T/R, Our History, The Scandinavian Route 1874-2014, M/S Museet for Søfart, Helsingør, Denmark
2014 - 2014 FRAMES, ’Young, Danish Photography’, group show, Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2014 - ’Young, Danish Photography’, group show, Four Boxes Gallery, Skive, Denmark
2013 - ’Young, Danish Photography’, group show, Fotografisk Center,Copenhagen, Danmark
2013 - ‘Obscura Festival’, screening, Penang, Malaysia
2013 - ’8x Personal Project’, group show, Øksnehallen, Copenhagen Denmark
2013 - ’NOTES’, solo exhibition, Phototek Esbjerg, Denmark
2013 - ’Afterlife – a portrait of the sensless life’, collaborative art project together with the decumentarist Cæcilie Østerby Sørensen and the sound duo Graf og Nielsen, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
2012 - ’Shades of Women’, group show, Teatro Due Roma, Italy
2012 - 'Copenhagen Photofestival', group show curated by the Danish Press, Carlsbergbyen, Denmark
Awards and honours
2018 - The Calling - Sites for Myths is among the 12 selected for the Photobook Week Aarhus Dummy Award 2018. Design by Per Andersen. The winner will be announced 4-7 October
2018 - Artist Recidency at the stunning San Cataldo, Amalfi, Italy working on the dummy for the book The Calling - Sites for Myths, http://www.sancataldo.dk/
2017 - Jury member at the Danish Press Photo of the Year
2015 - Artist Recidency at Accademia Di Danimarca, Rome, Italy working on documenting the migrant crisis in Italy with the journalist Mads Frese for Dagbladet Information and The Guardian http://www.acdan.it/
2015 - Danish Press Photographer Of The Year, Best Foreign Picture Story, second prize
2015 - LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2015
2014 - Danish Press Photographer Of The Year, Open Class Category, second price
2014 - Journalism scholarship from Médecins Sans Frontières
2012 - Danish Press Photographer Of The Year, first prize, Open Class Category, ‘Philosophy in the Bedroom’
2012 - Participant at the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass, Amsterdam
2011 - Informations Fotopris, 1st prize
2010 - Danish Press Photographer Of The Year, first prize, Domestic Reportage Category