About

My writing maps new perspectives and explore a new land of the future, in which diversity, the history of gender and gender fluidity are a matter of course. My aim is to shed light on issues that have been hidden away in history, and outline gender issues in art history using cases from exhibitions, new foundations, films, libraries and publications. I also discuss the political backbone and virtues of our times in relation to the political and institutional practices of contemporary art and, in a broader context, anything that makes my heart miss a beat.

I am a visual artist and a passionate writer on the politics, ethics and theory of art. My writing has been published in Politiken, Weekendavisen, Jyllands-Posten, Kunsten.nu, Magasinet Kunst, Chart Publication, Kulturmonitor, Børsen Pleasure.

@womenpainters is a non-profit, education-oriented instagram profile that I sat up in 2018. Its aim is to increase awareness among art industry professionals of the high quality artwork that women artists create.

I have a monthly column at Kunsten.nu

Background:
My commitment to diversity and equality reflects my profound interest in history and my constant reflections on humanity's moral compass. Since my childhood I had a strong desire to put an end to art history and theory being understood only in a patriarchic perspective and machinery. Ultimately to stop discrimination based on gender and to expand the field of art history and theory. This interest was further fuelled by my excellent education at Goldsmiths in London and their specialist library: The Women's Art Library
It is crucial to talk about women artists - they have been forgotten, they have not been heard, their works have not been shown or they have simply been erased from history.
Right now, art history remains a monolith. A structural power and way of thinking, which the museum world never even questioned until about a decade ago. Most people regard Scandinavia as a haven for equality, but museum history and practice is a deeply misogynistic culture – also in Denmark.

Chronology:
In 2019 I came up with the idea of an issue of Magasinet Kunst devoted to women artists and gender issues. I was co-editor on this special women in the arts-edition in 2021.
In 2020, prompted by the lack of equality in the Danish art scene, I initiated a regular series of conversations with key people – people who are working to create real change vis-à-vis gender equality among artists.
In 2020 I interviewed the art collector and patron Valeria Napoleone, and the interview was published in Magasinet Kunst, CHART Publication and Børsen. In 2021 I interviewed Camille Morineau, an acclaimed curator and art historian, on the subject of gender equality in the world of art. In 2009-2011, Camille Morineau devised and curated the pioneering exhibition Elles@centrepompidou at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. She is also the co-founder and director of AWARE, a non-profit organisation, research centre and archiving platform that promotes work by women artists. The interview was published in the WOMEN in ART-edition of Magasinet Kunst in 2021. In 2022 I interviewed the Minister of Culture in Denmark on diversity in the world of visual arts in Denmark.

LINKS:

DATA

https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/feminist-emergency/data-on-the-representation-of-women-artists-in-danish-and-nordic-art-institutions/

https://www.smk.dk/article/kvindelige-kunstnere-i-den-kongelige-kobberstiksamling/

https://www.artagencypartners.com/women-study-museums/

https://www.dkmuseer.dk/nyhed/fakta-repræsentation-af-kvindelige-kunstnere-i-museers-udstillinger-og-indkøb

https://news.artnet.com/womens-place-in-the-art-world/female-artists-represent-just-2-percent-market-heres-can-change-1654954

https://news.artnet.com/womens-place-in-the-art-world/visualizing-the-numbers-see-infographics-1654084

SPECIALISED ARCHIVES & LIBRARIES

Archives du Féminisme
www.archivesdufeminisme.fr

Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand
equipement.paris.fr

Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir
www.centre-simone-de-beauvoir.com

International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA)
spec.lib.vt.edu

Re:tracing, the feminist art program
www.encore.at

The Women’s Art Library
www.gold.ac.uk

The Women Artists Archives National Directory (WAAND)
waand.rutgers.edu

Women’s Art Register
www.womensartregister.org

ART COLLECTORS & PATRONS

Art Dealers Elli and Millie Jason Foster
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/what-i-buy-and-why-elli-millie-jason-foster-1951370

Valeria Napoleone
https://www.augustaatla.com/2020/10/15/interview-with-valeria-napoleone-by-augusta-atla-in-boersen-pleasure-oct-2020/

Chanel Fondation supports organisations
http://www.fondationchanel.org/en/projet/aware-2/

CURATORS

Feminist Curators United
www.feministcurators.org

Camille Morineau
https://www.centrepompidou.fr/cpv/resource/ccBLAM/r7Gk7od

AWARDS

Sackler Center First Awards
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/video/first-awards

PRIX Aware
https://awarewomenartists.com/en/prix_aware/

Max Mara prize for women
https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/about/prizes-awards/max-mara-art-prize-women/

COLLECTIONS

A.I.R. Gallery
www.airgallery.org

ARC Gallery
www.arcgallery.org

Association Camille
camille.art.expo.free.fr

Biennale Donna
www.biennaledonna.it

Ceres Gallery
www.ceresgallery.org

elles@centrepompidou
fresques.ina.fr

Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
www.brooklynmuseum.org

Espace des femmes
www.espace-des-femmes.fr

International Association of Women’s Museums (IAWM)
iawm.international

La centrale
www.lacentrale.org

Les amis du NMWA
www.lesamisdunmwa.fr

Musea
musea.fr

Museo de Mujeres Artistas Mexicanas (MUMA)
www.museodemujeres.com

National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)
nmwa.org

New Hall Art Collection
www.art.newhall.cam.ac.uk

The Woman’s Building
thewomansbuilding.org

TATE
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/women-art-tate
https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/women-and-power

DATABASE

AWARE
https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artistes_femmes/

Artist Profiles NMWA
nmwa.org

Dictionnaire universel des créatrices
www.dictionnaire-creatrices.com

Feminist Art Base
www.brooklynmuseum.org

Illinois Women Artists Project
iwa.bradley.edu

The Women of Atelier 17
atelier17.christinaweyl.com

Women photograph
www.womenphotograph.com

SOCIETY

Association Nationale des Études Féministes (ANEF )
www.anef.orgAdvancing 

Women Artists Foundation
advancingwomenartists.org

Canadian Women Artists History Initiative
cwahi.concordia.ca

Centre d’Enseignement, de Documentation et de Recherches pour les Études Féministes (CEDREF)
www.cedref.univ-paris7.fr

Committee on Women in the Arts (CWA)
www.collegeart.org

Département d’études de genre 
www.genre.univ-paris8.fr

EFiGiES
efigies-ateliers.hypotheses.org

Fédération de recherche sur le genre RING
www2.univ-paris8.fr

Genre et ville 
www.genre-et-ville.org

Institut du Genre 
institut-du-genre.fr

Institut Emilie du Châtelet
www.institutemilieduchatelet.org

Laboratoire d'études de genre et de sexualité (LEGS)
www.legs.cnrs.fr

Mnémosyne
www.mnemosyne.asso.fr

Société Internationale pour l’Étude des Femmes de l’Ancien Régime (SIEFAR) 
siefar.or

www.arttable.org

Asian American Women Artists Association
aawaa.net

Association of Women in the Arts
awita.london

Faces : gender, technology, art
www.faces-l.net

Frauen Kunst Forum
frauenkunstforum.de

Société Suisse des Femmes Artistes en Arts Visuels (SSFA)
www.sgbk.ch

The Feminist Art Project
feministartproject.rutgers.edu

Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs (VBKÖ)
www.vbkoe.org

Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA)
www.nationalwca.org

WomenArts
www.womenarts.org

UNIVERSITY

https://www.clarkart.edu/research-academic/graduate-program

https://koensforskning.soc.ku.dk/publikationer/forskning/fkl/Koen-I-foskning-NY-print.pdf

https://wgs.fas.harvard.edu

ESTATES & FOUNDATIONS

Niki de Saint Phalle Foundation
http://nikidesaintphalle.org

The Sandra Blow Estate
https://sandrablow.com

PODCASTS

https://awarewomenartists.com/podcasts/

https://awita.london/videos/2020/6/17/navigating-a-new-era-of-social-media-with-katy-hessel

https://www.instagram.com/thegreatwomenartists/

https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/katy-hessel-podcast

https://www.frieze.com/bow-down

https://www.artagencypartners.com/podcast/66-women-study-podcast/

TV, FILM & MEDIA

Hello Sunshine Media
https://hello-sunshine.com/our-story

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Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Aby Warburg 
L’État du Ciel, Georges Didi-Huberman, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR), 2014
Eva Hesse. Lucy Lippard, 1992
Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947–2016. Editors: Paul Schimmel, Jenni Sorkin, 2016
Nikki de Saint Phalle. Christine Weidemann, 2014
Isa Genzken: Retrospective. Sabine Breitwieser, Laura Hoptman, Michael Darling, and Jeffrey Grove, with an essay by Lisa Lee, 2013
Women of Abstract Expressionism. Joan Marter, 1997
Helen Frankenthaler: Paper is Painting. Robert Mattison, 2017
Kropslig kunst. Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen, 2007
Strangeland. Tracey Emin, 2006
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Tracey Emin: Works 2007-2017. Jonathan Jones, 2017
Tracey Emin: My Life in a Column. Tracey Emin, 2011
Corpus, Helena Almeida. Jeu de Paume, 2016
Radical Virtuosity: Ana Mendieta and the Black Atlantic. Genevieve Hyacinthe, 2019
Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile. Jane Blocker, 1999
Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe. Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, 2005
Vivian Suter. Adam Szymczyk, 2019
Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter. Patricia Albers, 2011
Marisa Merz: The Sky Is a Great Space. Connie Butler, 2017
Elizabeth Payton. Matthew Higgs, 2005
Elizabeth Peyton: Dark Incandescence. Kirsty Bell, 2017
Chantal Joffe: Personal Feeling is the Main Thing. Dorothy Price, 2018
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Art and Feminism. Helena Reckitt & Peggy Phelan, 2012
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Perspective as Symbolic Form. E. Panofsky. 1927
Against Interpretation and Other Essays. Susan Sontag. Published in 1966
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Michael Clarke, 2010 
The Story of Art. E. Gombrich. 16th revised edition published in 1995
The Art of Describing. Svetlana Alpers. Published in 1983
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Ways of Seeing. John Berger. First published in 1972 
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Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art. Mary Gabriel. Published in 2017
Vision and Difference - Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art. Griselda Pollock. Published in 2003
The Obstacle Race. Germaine Greer. First edition published in 1979
Gender Trouble. Judith Butler. Published in 1990
Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. Lucy Lippard. Published in 1997
Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. Johanna Burton, 2018
The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. Amelia Jones, 2010
The Artist's Body. Amelia Jones. 2012
Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Arts Histories. Griselda Pollock (London: Routledge, 1999)
Women, Art, and Power (London: Thames and Hudson, 1989). Linda Nochlin 
Take Care of Yourself. Sofie Calle. Published in 2007
Eva Hesse - Longing, Belonging and Displacement. Vanessa Corby. Published in 2010
Eileen Agar: an eye for Collage. Andrew Lambeth, 2008
Eileen Agar : Dreaming Oneself Awake. Michel Remy, 2017