I am a visual artist, born 1957 in Sweden, based in Copenhagen since 1984.
My work always take departure and intervenes with the logic of a place. This entails that the site and its different constituencies, professionals and institutions, also will intervene with my work.
From this basic condition follows, that my projects often become unpredictable reciprocal and simultaneous ping-pong processes. They often grow into temporary a discursive platforms, opening for to cultivating a shared deeper sense of the local, and maybe even synchronized local actions, critique on, utopic ideas about and hopes for the given site. Thus, a third aspect of my work is the exploration of possible conditions for a hyper local publicness, engaging different publics.
I also engage in short term collaborative events and exhibitions with my artist colleagues. I have co-curated the artist-run research platform TAPKO 1991–2005, LOKALE, an artist run space in Copenhagen from 2020 – . In 1996–2002, I headed a reorganization / restart of one of Europe´s oldest artist run public galleries, OVERGADEN, towards becoming a Institute of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, Denmark.
I have also served as member of the committee for Art in Public Spaces at the Danish National Arts Foundation 2008-2010, member of the Board of Kunsthal Århus 2017-2019 and of Fabrikken, from 2023. Currently I am Senior Lecturer of Fri Konst at HDK Valand, Gothenburg University in Sweden
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