Kirstine Roepstorff

Kirstine Roepstorff

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Born 1972, Denmark

Resides in Fredericia, Denmark

EDUCATION

1994 - 2001: MFA, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark

2000: MFA, Rutgers University, Mason School of Fine Arts, New Jersey, United States

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025

• Neptune Lab 29°, Vejle Kunstmuseum, Vejle, Denmark

2023

• Earth School Classroom, Gallery 2112, Copenhagen, Denmark

2022

• G(r)ain, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

2019

• Ex Cave, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland

2018

• Renaissance of the Night, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

• Edicius & Lilith, Trapholt Museum for Moderne Kunst, Kolding, Denmark

2017

• Influenza: Theatre of Glowing Darkness, 57th Bienniale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

2016

• Rehearsing Volume, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark

2014

• When You Light a Lantern in the Summer Night Many Strange Things Come Flying, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

• Mother Of Time Showing Her Fruits, The Danish Cultural Institute, Dublin, Ireland

2013

• Ring of Silence, Fredericia Kunstforening, Fredericia, Denmark

• Walking Beside Time, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

2012

• Structures, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, United Kingdom

• When a Drop Unite, Patricia Low Contemporary, Saanen, Switzerland

2011

• Wunderkammer of Formlessness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway

2010

• Dried Dew Drops: Wunderkammer of Formlessness, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland

• Illuminating Shadows, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany

• Illuminating Shadows, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria

• Illuminating Shadows,; Stadtgalerie, name of city, Austria

2009

• Nuit: Sun Forms of Beneath, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark

• The Inner Sound that Kills the Outer, MUSAC, Leon, Spain

• Rainbows, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

• Axel Time -  Tapestry, Grand Palais, France

2024

• When You Lose Control, Glas - Museum of Glass Art, Ebeltoft, Denmark

• Frieze Sculpture, Regent’s Park, London, United Kingdom

• Arts Project, Sankt Hans, Roskilde, Denmark

• Cosmic Connection, Galerie Møller Witt, Copenhagen, Denmark

2023

• First There Is A Mountain, Wadden Tide, Blåvand, Denmark

• Ej Blot til Lyst, Gallery 2112, Copenhagen, Denmark

2022

• New Works, Gallery 2112, Copenhagen, Denmark

2021

• Eye of the Huntress, Banja Rathnov Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark

2019

• Ocean Dwellers, Nordic Embassies, Berlin, Germany

• The King is Dead, Cermak Eisenkraft, Prague, Czech Republic

2017-18

• Samtidskunst på Hospitaler, KØS Museum of Public Art, Køge, Denmark

• Cool, Calm, Collected, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark

• Teser, The Round Tower, Copenhagen, Denmark (travelling exhibition: Ribe Art Museum, Ribe, Denmark; Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Toreby L. Denmark; Stiftung Christliche Kunst Wittenberg, Wittenberg, DE)

2016

• Variation in Scandinavian Abstractions, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway

2015

• Poor Art - Rich Legacy. Arte Povera and Parallel Practices 1968–2015, National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway

• The Essential Bruce Springsteen, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark

• Efterklang / Reverberations, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden

• Moon Skin Lucid Walk, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark

• Grønningen 100th Anniversary Exhibition, Museumsbygningen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2014

• Avantgarde Mecanique, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark

• Coming From, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

• Axel Time -  Tapestry, Koldinghus, Kolding, Denmark

• Horizons and Moons, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• The Galactic Community Park, Aalborg University Campus Park, Aalborg, Denmark

• Bib Au Natura, Nordre Fælled Public Park, Randers, Denmark

• Three Paradoxes–Three Medicine Balls–Three Forces, Citizen Healthcare Centre, Buddinge, Denmark

• Cosmic Dance, Town Square, Fjellhamar, Norway

• Hydra, Kanalbyen Parking House, Fredericia, Denmark

• The Heart of the Whale, Town Hall, Middelfart, Denmark

• Untitled, Lillebælt Hospital, Kolding, Denmark

• Gong, DOKK1 Public Library, Aarhus, Denmark

• Klangfrø, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

• Arken Museum of Modern Art, Denmark

• Danish Arts Foundation, Denmark

• HEART, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark

• MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, United States

• Ny Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark

• Reydan Weiss Collection, Germany

• Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

• The National Museum of Denmark, Denmark

• The National Museum of Norway, Norway

• The Sainsbury Centre, United Kingdom

• The Saatchi Gallery, United Kingdom

• Trapholt Museum of Modern Art, Denmark

• Woods Art Institute, Germany

BOARD WORK

2022 - Member of the board, Jutland Art Academy

2018 - Jan Søndergaard and Wife’s Memorial Foundation

AWARDS

• Art Prize, Ny Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark, 2015

• The Eckersberg Medaillen, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark, 2014

• Ole Haslunds Kunstnerfond, Denmark, 2014

• Sven Hols’ Legat, Akademiraadet, Denmark, 2012

• Zartmanns Legat, The Danish Arts Foundation, Denmark, 2007

MONOGRAPHS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

• The Archive of Dark, In Other Words, London, United Kingdom, 2021

• Common Cold, König Buchverlag, Berlin, Germany, 2017 

• Horizons of the Moving Mind, Kunstverein Göttingen, Argobooks, Berlin, Germany, 2014

• Walking Beside Time, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany, 2014

• Dried Dew Drops: Wunderkammer of Formlessness, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland, 2010

• Illuminating Shadows, Stadtgalerie Schwarz, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2010

• Nuit: Sun Forms of Beneath, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark, 2009

• The Inner Sound that Kills the Outer, Museum of Contemporary Art (MUSAC),  JRP Ringier, Leon, France, 2008 

Kirstine Roepstorff (f. 1972, Danmark) er en tværæstetisk kunstner, hvis praksis udforsker det komplekse forhold mellem mennesket, spiritualitet og naturen. Centralt i hendes arbejde står en kritisk undersøgelse af “mellemrummene” – de steder, hvor personlig forvandling krydser den kollektive bevidsthed. Roepstorff undersøger, hvordan historie, politik og eksistentielle vilkår former vores opfattelse af tid, rum og identitet, og hun vender ofte tilbage til gamle teknikker og tabt viden for at udfordre den moderne afhængighed af ydre systemer.

Havet og kosmologien optræder som tilbagevendende fortællingselementer i hendes værker, der spænder over collager, malerier, skulpturer, gobeliner, glasværker og immersive installationer. Hendes collager er ofte sammensat af materialer som tekstiler, fotokopier, stoffer, folie, messing, træ og papir, mens hendes skulpturelle værker ofte rummer horisontale linjer, som symboliserer bevidsthedens lag. Gennem sin brug af mangfoldige former og materialer retter Roepstorff en kritik mod nutidens sociale strukturer og magtbalancer, og hun inviterer beskueren til at genetablere forbindelsen til sin ’indre teknologi’ – en dybere og mere intuitiv måde at navigere i verden på.

I 2024 lancerede hun Earth School, en platform for løbende workshops og seminarer med fokus på at give konkrete redskaber til personlig forandring og kollektiv fornyelse.

Roepstorff er uddannet MFA fra Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi (1994–2001) og Rutgers University i New Jersey (2000). I 1990’erne var hun aktiv i kunstnerkollektiverne Kvinder på Værtshus og Kørners Kontor. I 2017 repræsenterede hun Danmark på den 57. Internationale Kunstudstilling, La Biennale di Venezia, med udstillingen influenza. theater of glowing darkness. I 2018 blev hun, sammen med tre andre kunstnere, udvalgt til at skabe en af de største udsmykningsopgaver i Danmark i anledning af Koldinghus’ 750-års jubilæum.

Roepstorff har modtaget Eckersberg Medaillen og Ny Carlsbergfondets Kunstpris. Hendes værker har været udstillet internationalt og er repræsenteret i permanente samlinger verden over, herunder MoMA (USA), The Saatchi Gallery (UK), Nasjonalmuseet i Oslo (NO), Woods Art Institute (DE), Statens Museum for Kunst (DK), Arken (DK) og Statens Kunstfond (DK), blandt andre.

Hun har desuden realiseret markante udsmykningsprojekter i det offentlige rum, herunder Horizons and Moons i Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, The Galactic Community Park på Aalborg Universitet, Bib Au Natura i Randers, Three Paradoxes – Three Medicine Balls – Three Forces i Buddinge, Cosmic Dance i Fjellhamar (NO), Hydra i Fredericia, The Heart of the Whale i Middelfart, Untitled på Lillebælt Hospital, Gong på DOKK1 i Aarhus og Klangfrø ved Københavns Universitet