Sofie Holten (1983, Denmark) lives in Copenhagen and has an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 2013.
2013:
"Naturkraft", Poul la Cour Museet, Askov, Denmark
"24 spaces", Malmø Kunsthal
"Afgangsudstillingen", Kunsthal Charlottenborg
2012:
"Det foldede", Gallery Q
"Resurrecting the Obsolete", selected workshop participant, Spode Factory, Stoke‐on‐Trent
"Ich wittre Morgenluft", Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf
2011:
"Anstrøg 2", Gallery Christina Wilson, Copenhagen
"Gallery Skulpturi", Copenhagen
2010:
"Anstrøg", Gallery Christina Wilson, Copenhagen
"Transitstation Performancefestival", The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
2009:
"Trampolinhuset"- a test site created by artists and asylum seekers in collaboration, Gallery Q and The Royal Theater, Copenhagen
"Various Futures", BKS Garage, Copenhagen
2008:
"Eksotisk Dagligstue", Gallery Q, København
2007:
"Shift", group exhibition at the International Center of Photography, New York
I work in my practice with buildings and architecture as surfaces and images. The way we build our houses is a mirror of a society's ideals, dreams and self-understanding.
Through ceramic installations often in combination with photography, I try to delve into the stories we tell about ourselves through our buildings. I'm interested in the haptic materiality of clay, its possibilities and limitations as a building material that insists on a distinctive temporality and a bodily presence, and as such gives the photograph an interesting opponent, and unfolds an unexplored terrain between spatiality and image.
www.texted-archive.com (issue #1)
