Jury 2020

Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg is director of malmö Art Museum. In recent years she has worked at the global NGO ART 2030, as Artistic Director in the Free Exhibition Building and as manager at Gävle Konstcentrum, Sweden. Previously she has worked at Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Center for Danish Visual Arts, Gallery Nicolai Wallner and Tate Gallery, London. Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg has written a wide range of texts on contemporary art, given lectures on contemporary art, organized seminars and events, and curated/co-curated themed exhibitions and solo exhibitions with Danish and international artists.

Morten Løbner Espersen graduated from the Danish School of Design and the École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués, Duperré, Paris. From 2014-2017 he was a member of the Danish Arts Foundation's project support committee for handicrafts and design and from 2005-2011 professor at Högskolan for Design och Kunsthantverk, Gothenburg. His latest solo exhibition "Terra Incognita" (2019) was shown at Morten Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen. His works are represented in collections such as the V&A Museum, London, Beumans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands and the MAD Museum, New York, USA.

Tina Maria Nielsen graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts In 1997. She works in her practice with the cast and imprint of the world, which she has translated into works in everything from paraffin, wax, concrete, plaster, rubber, polyester, aluminum and black or glossy bronze. The material translation fundamentally leads to moving things out of everyday unconscious handling and understanding and into a more fluid exchange between image, process and language. She has exhibited at home and abroad and is represented at, among others, Horsens Art Museum and Esbjerg Art Museum. She received the Danish Arts Foundation for a 3-year-old work grant in 2007 and Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen's large honorary grant in 2018.

Trine Søndergaard is a Danish photography-based visual artist who lives and works in Copenhagen. Her work is characterized by a precision and sensibility that coexist with a study of photography as a medium and its limits. She is internationally recognized for her powerful imagery and has received, among other things, the German Albert Renger-Patzsch Prize and the Danish Art Foundation's 3-year work grant. Trine Søndergaard has exhibited solo and group exhibitions around the world and is represented in a wide range of international museum collections. She is represented by Martin Asbæk Gallery in Copenhagen and Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York.

Trude Mardal was born in Bergen, Norway, and lives and works in Copenhagen. She has graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KADK), where she has since also taught. She is an architect and partner at the entasis studio. Since 2007, she has co-created projects and collaborations spanning architectural transformations and art installations in the public space.