Born 1970. Lives and works in Copenhagen, DK
Education: Visual artist. The Royal Academy of Fine Art: 1995-2002, Cph., DK
Elsebeth Jørgensen works in a site related way with photography, video, sound, tekst, drawing and installation. Her artistic practice is based on long term research at public and private archives collecting material parallel to her own visual documentation, sound recordings and writings. In her presentations she explores montage in many ways – both as method, concept, material and as spatial forms. Her works guestions the meaning of site, history and narrative structures. How cultural memory can be complex constructions of fictions and facts. Since 2011 she has been commissioned to develope site specific works to urban public space and landscape. Here installations, audio walks, performances and web publications are presented as long term collaborations with historical archives and art institutions.
From 1998 – 2010 she also collaborated with artists as Sofie Thorsen and Pia Rönicke. In her recent works she involves composers, musicians and sound artists as Rasmus Zwicki, Ask Kæreby, Tim Hinman and writer Martin Glaz Serup in the proces of producing sound.
Since 1998 she has exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Art (Roskilde), Hordaland Art Center, Bergen (Norway), Deveron Arts, Aberdeenshire (Scotland) and Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art (CPH). Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kunsthal Nikolaj (CPH), Jugendstilsenteret, The National Centre of Art Nouveau & Kunstmuseet KUBE, Ålesund (Norway), Malmö Konsthal (Sweden), Pori Art Museum (Finland), Bergen Kunsthal, Bergen (Norway), Participants Inc. & Anthology Film Archives, New York (United States), Tallinn Kunsthal (Estonia), Künstlerhaus Wien (Austria), Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (UK), Heidelberg Kunstverein (Germany), Center d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona (Spain), Athens Biennale (Greece). Recent years she has been invited for commission works by Tate Modern, London (UK), Kunstruten Bjergby/Mygdal, (DK), Hordaland Art Center, Bergen (Norway), Jugendstilsenteret, The National Centre of Art Nouveau & Kunstmuseet KUBE, Ålesund (Norway), Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Cph., (DK).
She has received several grants from The Danish Arts Foundation, The Academy Council, (Cph) and Hordaland Art Center, Norway. In 2013 she received the anual Åge & Yelva Nimb’s Honorary Grant.
Since 2005 she has been teaching at art academies in Europe. 2014 – 2018 she was associate professor in visual art, The Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, DK.
www.vimeo.com/elsebeth ( Selected videos )
www.lyttehaven.dk ( Webbased soundwork. Commission. )
www.langsstien.dk ( Audio walk in public space. Commission. )
www.mappingmemory.net ( Projects before 2003 )
DANSK BIO:
Født: 1970. Ringkøbing. Bor og arbejder i København.
Uddannelse: Billedkunstner, Det Kgl. Kunstakademi, Kbh.: 1995-2002
Elsebeth Jørgensen arbejder stedsspecifikt og arkivbaseret med fotografi, lyd, video, tekst og installation i forskellige montageformer. Montage er en kunstnerisk optik, et udtryk og metodisk forhold, hvor hun kan arbejde med både det billedlige, det sproglige, det tidslige og det rumlige. Hendes værker bygger på lang tids indsamling af materialer i historiske arkiver og egne fotografiske registreringer, lydoptagelser og tekstskrivning. Værkerne er rumlige og digitale montager af kunstnerisk dokumentation sammenstillet med bearbejdet arkivstof og fiktionsfortællinger. De præsenteres i kunstinstitutioner, offentlige byrum og landskaber hvor der ofte også indgår bøger, lydperformances, lydvandringer og webprojekter.
Hun har udstillet på en række museer og udstillingssteder i både ind- og udland: Museet for Samtidskunst (Roskilde), Overgaden – Institut for Samtidskunst, Kunsthal Nikolaj, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Kunsthallen Charlottenborg (KBH), Malmö Konsthal (Sverige), Pori Kunstmuseum (Finland), Bergen Kunsthal, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen (Norge) Participants Inc. & Anthology Film Archives, New York (USA), Tallinn Kunsthal (Estland), Deveron Arts, Huntly (Skotland), Heidelberg Kunstverein (Tyskland), Center d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona (Spanien), Jugendstilsenteret, The National Centre of Art Nouveau & Kunstmuseet KUBE, Ålesund (Norge), Künstlerhaus Wien (Østrig), Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (UK), og Athen Biennalen (Grækenland).
Siden 2005 har hun udført kommissionsværker til Tate Modern, London (UK), Kunstruten Bjergby/Mygdal, (DK), Hordaland Kunstcenter, Bergen (Norge), Jugendstilsenteret, The National Centre of Art Nouveau & Kunstmuseet KUBE, Ålesund (Norge) og Bispebjerg og Frederiksberg Hospital, Kbh., (DK).
Hun har modtaget Statens Kunstfonds Arbejdslegater, Kunstrådets Legat v. Talentudviklingspuljen for Unge Kunstnere, Akademirådets årlige hæderslegat samt BKH-støtte i.f.b. med Hordaland Kunstsenters 35 jubilæumsår i 2011, Bergen, Norge.
Siden 2003 har hun desuden undervist på kunstakademier, forskoler, kunsthøjskoler i Europa. I 2014-2018 var hun lektor i billedkunstnerisk praksis på Det Jyske Kunstakademi, Århus.
www.vimeo.com/elsebeth ( Udvalgte videoer )
www.lyttehaven.dk ( Webbaseret montageværk. Kommission. )
www.langsstien.dk ( Webbaseret lydvandring. Kommission. )
www.mappingmemory.net ( Projekter før 2003 )
Elsebeth Jørgensen 