I am architect living and working in Copenhagen, currently running my own architecture studio alongside teaching at The Royal Academy of Art, School of Architecture. Before founding my own practice I worked at Lundgaard and Tranberg Arkitekter.
The driving force in my work is the search for ideas that can act as the foundation of each project – one clear idea for every project that holds the promise of unfolding a world unique to the task at hand.
Depending on the requirements of the individual project I engage in collaborative work with various professionals from the fields of art, science and engineering in order to give client and project the highest level of professional advice.
I am currently engaged with the artistic research project MINIATURA together with Christian Vennerstrøm (bahraini – danish), a small vacation home in Denmark and the exhibition project “Jävla Kritiker” in Oslo, Norway. In addition my fingers are crossed for the funding of the project “MIND” done in collaboration with Claus Pryds Architects.
In the spring 2016 I won the competition for a Pavilion at the art museum Gl. Holtegaard that is now built in their baroque garden. Concurrently I received a working grant from the Danish Arts Council. In the fall 2016 I was awarded for my competition entry “Memorial for the Perished War Sailors 1940–45” and collaborated with director Michael Madsen on the project “Odyssey”, where I have done conceptual spaceship design for a multi-generational journey through interstellar space. My imaginary project “Island of the Dead” was shown in the Danish Pavilion at the 2016 Biennale in Venice.
Since receiving my Masters Diploma in Architecture from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 2014 I worked at Lundgaard and Tranberg, Architects where I was design architect on the winning competition for a “Museum for the Danish Resistance 1940–45” that is currently being built in the historic centre of Copenhagen. You can se that HERE. I also took part in the development of schematic design for the new “Museum of Natural History” that is under construction within the Botanical Gardens in Copenhagen. You can see that HERE.
Exhibitions:
2020
Jävla Kritiker, ROM for kunst og arkitektur, Oslo, Norway
2018
The Spring Exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark The Moon, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
2017
VESSELS, Leth og Gori, solo show, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fall Exhibition, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016
The Art of Many, La Biennale di Venezia, The Danish Pavilion
2015
EVA, Kunstakademien, Stockholm, Group Exhibtion, w. Mikael Stenstrøm
Fall Exhibition, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark
One to One, The Royal Academy of Art, School of Architecture, Copenhagen
2014
End of the Year Show, The Royal Academy of Art, School of Architecture
2013
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London
Architecture competitions:
2020
“The Edge/Kanten”, While we Wait for the Water/Mens vi venter på vandet, 2nd prize in open competition in collaboration with Jonas Johansen
2016
“Memorial for the Perished War Sailors 1940–45”, 2nd prize (Shared) in open competition
“Moth House – A menagerie for Gl. Holtegaard”, 1st prize in open competition
2014
“The Abandoned Street”, 1st prize in open competition, collaboration with Mikael Stenstrom
Education:
2012–2014
Cand. Arch., The Royal Academy of Art, School of Architecture, Thesis advisor: Anders Abraham
2011
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union, New York
2007–2010
B. Arch., The Royal Academy of Art, School of Architecture
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Exhibition Design in underground tunnelsystem, Middelfart Museum of Psychiatric History, Denmark, 2018 - Ongoing
Made in collaboration with Claus Pryds, Michael Madsen and Anna Berit Asp Christensen
I et oplyst land med 5,7 millioner indbyggere er mange stadig uvidende om den menneskelige psykes veje og vildveje. Psykisk sygdom opleves ofte som en lukket verden, der er uforståelig, ubegribelig og tabuiseret. MINDWALK søger med kunsten som budbringer at åbne denne verden i en nyskabende udstilling, der etableres i et underjordisk gangsystem på det forhenværende sindssygehospital i Middelfart.
MINDWALK etableres i en 750 meter lang underjordisk gang under det tidligere sindssygehospital i Middelfart. Projektet tager afsæt i stedets historiske ramme og fortællingen om udvalgte psykiske lidelser og symptomer. Som en kontrast til det klassiske museums formidling af det historiske stof, søger MINDWALK at gøre oplevelser af psykisk sygdom forståelig gennem direkte erfaring med kunsten, der i denne sammenhæng skal tale til sanserne og ikke intellektet.
MINDWALK er en del af det nye museum MIND, der åbner i en patientbygning på det tidligere sindssygehospital i Middelfart, der var i drift fra 1888 til 1999. Udstillingerne i MIND vil formidle psykisk sygdom og psykisk sundhed på en objektiv og videnskabelig måde, mens MINDWALK bliver subjektiv og oplevelsesbaseret. Kontrasten mellem de to udstillinger medvirker til at give et spændingsfelt, hvor det videnskabelige og tekniske møder det personlige, kunstneriske og sanselige.
I MINDWALK skaber vandringen i det underjordiske gangsystem en dramaturgisk oplevelse gennem en serie af rum, der i samspil mellem lys, projektioner og lyd fortæller en anderledes historie om psykiske lidelser. Med en billedkunstnerisk fortolkning af udvalgte psykiske tilstande, er det tanken at skabe et personligt møde med sindssygen, der kan hjælpe til en af-stigmatisering af de psykiske lidelser. MINDWALK åbner den ”normale” hjerne og gør den midlertidigt sindssyg. Vandringen gennem tunnelen fungerer hermed både som et spejl og et forstørrelsesglas, der langsomt forvandler det genkendelige til det ugenkendelige og den normale til den unormale og tilbage igen. MINDWALK kan forstås som en slags fysisk film eller levende scenografi, hvor vandringens dramaturgi udgøres af et partitur af fysiske, lydlige og visuelle elementer, koreograferet af en klassisk 3-akts struktur.