ABOUT
JURY 2022
In 2022, the jury consists of the artist duo Hesselholdt and Mejlvang, visual artist David Risley, architect Peter Bertram, textile artist Grethe Wittrock and visual artist Sophie Suaning. This year's jury has been chosen in order to create a versatile basis for the exhibition's censorship, ranging widely from members with a solid, international experience to artists, with a close proximity to the artistic educations.
Grethe Wittrock (GB)
Textile artist
Grethe Wittrock graduated from the Danish Design School and Kyoto Seika University, College of Fine Art in Japan. She is an internationally renowned textile artist who has exhibited solo and in group exhibitions around the world and is represented by browngrotta arts gallery in the USA. Grethe Wittrock is the recipient of the Danish Arts Foundation's 3-year work grant and has been Artist-in Residence in New York and Halcyon Arts Studio in Washington DC.In her sculptural textile works, she often works on the basis of the material that is processed into raw and poetic works with seductive impact.
Hesselholdt & Mejlvang (DK)
Artist duo
Hesselholdt &mejlvang is a Danish Copenhagen-based artist duo who has worked as a collective since 1999. The duo's work focuses on site-specific and grandiose projects that explore concepts such as collective identity and how they play with and influence socio-political structures. Hesselholdt &Mejlvang's work is rooted in extensive research and they often incorporate performance, installations and active use of public space into their projects. Site specificity plays an important role, whether manifested outdoors or in a place like an LED truck, an embassy, a remote forest, a newspaper, as a tattoo or inside an art institution
David Risley (UK)
Artist
David Risley paints, writes, curates, teaches - he was co-founder of chart art fair, ran a gallery for 20 years and did other things too.
Peter Bertram (GB)
Architect
Peter Bertram is an architect, researcher and programme manager of the master's programme Art and Architecture at the Royal Academy. He has exhibited at home and abroad and published several books on the role of art in architecture most recently Problem Invention in 2019. He is the organizer and curator of the Biennale Works+Words which showcases the artistic work of architects in an international context.
Sophie Suaning (UK)
Artist
Sophie Suaning (born 1992) is a visual artist, musician, producer and composer. She mainly writes works for bands, drums and choirs in extreme formats. Her large paintings and very small graphic monotypies are in a tension between the psychotic and the concrete scenic/iconic. She believes that attentive works have inherent experiences and realizations outside of intentionality and rationale. Words must be armed and images transcend.
