kerstinbergendal I am Kerstin Bergendal, visual artist, born 1957 in Sweden, but based in Copenhagen since 1984. I use drawing, photo, video and methods of pure play on the one hand, and durational strategies for critical intervention and participation on the other. My work intervenes with the logic of a place. This also means, that the […]

/ Four Gardens for Greville Dementia Care Home In 2016, on behalf of Bristol City Council, Willis Newson Art Agency in Bristol (UK) commissioned me to collaborate with architects Penoyre & Prasad and Steve Frazer of Landscape Architects Enzygo, on the development of a landscape design for a new 69 bed dementia care home, produced […]

  Man lånte jo ikke nåle i Herning / And one did not borrow needles in Herning  This two-sided work responds to an invitation from the New Carlsberg Foundation concerning a public artwork for the city of Ikast Brande, in Denmark. Context The invitation was extended in 2017 to three artists – Cai Ulrich von […]

The PARK LEK project was a durational multidimensional participatory art project I realized from 2010 – 2014. It contested and ultimately transformed the planning procedure of two urban areas of the city of Sundbyberg, just outside of Stockholm in Sweden. From April to September 2019, it was included in a group exhibition DET ANDET STED/ […]

In 2018, I participated in a series of urban interventions entitled Artwork Ongoing, commissioned by Art Inside Out in Halland, Sweden. The project was initiated through an invitation to 20 professionals,  each with their role in and relation to a redevelopment of a central square in Halmstad – Österskans. I invited them to meet and […]

              Huda 30, Tyve Dage i Viborg – En Rejse, Viborg Kunsthal, 2013     Twenty Days in Viborg – A Journey This project responded to an invitation from Viborg Kunsthal in 2009, and was performed in collaboration with Rikke Johansen Smith, from Viborg Museum, from 2010 – 2013. The emblematic […]

  PARK LEK was an utopian art project as well as a concrete intervention into an urban planning process, performed between 2010 – 2014 and responding to an invitation from Marabouparken Konsthall in Sundbyberg,  to create a project with park /  park play as its inspiration and point of departure. Through the use of durational strategies […]