Katrine Skovsgaard

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Studio:
Raadvad 40
DK - 2800 Lyngby
DENMARK
+44 (0)7 30 81 61 981
kat@katrineskovsgaard.net

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Hi, I'm Katrine!

Who are you?

I am an artist, co-creator, workshop facilitator and collaborator.
I'm interested in the spaces between us, how we share or, more often, do not. My art practice investigates ways to reveal subjective sensory experience, especially those personal experiences we do not talk about and those we do not notice. My research is located at the crossroads of shame, chronic pain, sharing and mutual radical care.
I often work with other people to find new languages for experiences that we find hard to share. In this piece of writing, I invite you to reflect on a few questions from my practice.

For years, I hesitated to share my story.
What do you share with others, and how?
What would you hesitate to share?

The initial reluctance I felt about sharing, when faced head-on, became a catalyser for not only my own, but for many other people's sharing stories of vulnerability. This enquiry started with a willingness to ask questions I didn't know the answers to. The work instigated conversations I'd never had before. Through my art, I now intend to spark more of these conversations, intimate moments, sharing, and most importantly, the feeling of being safe to do so.

When and where do you feel safe?
What do you imagine the tactile surface of safety feels like in your hands?
Memory reveals what touch already knows.

I currently explore notions of intimacy through touch-based art and radical sharing narratives in text and sound. For example, in my piece, Touch, a tapestry installed as a semi-circle creates a room-within-a-room, a calm environment to listen to an audio component with a choir of stories sharing emotional or challenging experiences with hands. Maybe these stories bring up experiences of your own?

Would you share these stories with a stranger? Or a friend?
It can be hard to collectivise and confront the loneliness that some experiences give us.
How do you ask for help in your life? Who are your allies?

I examine how we can provide embodied safety for each other and how that might 'materialise', emotionally as well as physically. Dealing collectively with the challenging aspects of being human is an important and revolutionary practice that current, interpersonal and social systems and structures do not support. I want to bring about the world that emerges when we come together around the inherently tough and awkward experiences of being human.

How can WE start to think about doing this?

CV

Education

2019–21

2010–16

Internships, residencies, summer schools, etc.

2018-19

2017

2016

2015

2013-15

2012

2009–10

2008–09

Prizes and awards

2017

2016

2009

Censored exhibitions

2017

2016

2015

2013

  • Nordjysk Censureret 2013, Dronninglund Art Centre, DK

2011

  • Nordjysk Censureret 2011, Dronninglund Art Centre, DK

2009

  • Nordjysk Censureret 2009, Dronninglund Art Centre, DK
  • Student Exhibition, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, AU
  • Pinhole Photography, 6Sixty9Nine Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne, AU

Solo and duo exhibitions

2018

2017

2014

Other exhibitions

2019

2017

2016

2015

2014

  • Art Cinema 3, Habitat, Lahnsgade 48, Odense, DK
  • Habitat Art Café 4 (performance), Habitat, Lahnsgade 48, Odense, DK
  • Habitat Art Café 3 (exhibition), Habitat, Lahnsgade 48, Odense, DK
  • Art Cinema 1, Habitat, Lahnsgade 48, Odense, DK
  • Habitat Art Café 2 (poetry), Habitat, Lahnsgade 48, Odense, DK

2013

2012

  • Fototrienale.dk - The Good Life, Your Way Travels, Brandts, Odense, DK
  • School Show 2nd edition, Pantheonsgade 2-4, Odense, DK
  • 1 Minute – A Matter of Time, FAA Project Room, Funen Art Academy, DK

2011

  • The Concerned Photographer, Day of Photography, the Museum of Photographic Art, Brandts, DK
  • 1st Annual School Show 2011, Pantheonsgade 2-4, Odense, DK

Publications

2019

2018

The Year, May, a photographic portrait series of Copenhagen published by Blankt Papir

2016

2015

  • Camera Obscura Workshop Latvia ISSP 1-10th Aug 2015, published by Takashi Homma, Japan
  • More Than Enough, self-published zine in collaboration with Zoe Kreye, Catherine Grau, Cimmaron Knight, Bogdan Cheta og Luke Parnell, Canada
  • Production><Publication, unique publication, Habitat, ISBN 978-87-998123-0-1, DK

2014

Board and other positions

2015–16

2015

  • Co-founder of the publishing house Habitat

2013

Grants

2019

2017

2016–17

2016

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