Ditte Ejlerskov

Ditte Ejlerskov (born 1982) is a Danish contemporary artist. She was born in Frederikshavn, Denmark, and lives and works in Sweden. In 2017 her official portrait of Helle Thorning-Schmidt was released at Christiansborg.

The main tool in Ditte Ejlerskov's practice is media literacy. Most of Ejlerskov's work is founded on interactions with the Internet; written correspondences with email-scammers from exotic parts of the world, translations of trashy paparazzi photos into large scale abstract paintings or detailed medieval-looking copperplate etchings based on imagery from a contemporary music video. Her abstract and representational paintings analyse and explore the potential of painting as medium itself, as well as they are tools for interpreting our contemporary reality.[1][2][3][4]

Most of Ejlerskov's work has a feminist angle [5][6][7] and questions the space between the personal and the public; suggesting an individual experience within a stream of collective consciousness. The work "About: The Blank Pages" is a collaboration with EvaMarie Lindahl and it highlighs Taschen Basic Art - a book series that consists of 95 books of artists's biographies, 5 of which are of women artists.[8][9][10][11][12]


Exhibitions

Ejlerskov has mainly exhibited at institutions in Sweden. For example at Malmö Konsthall[4] in Malmö, at Malmö Art Museum[13] in Malmö, at Skissernas Museum in Lund,[14] Uppsala Konstmuseum[15] in Uppsala and at Konstakademin[16] in Stockholm. She has also exhibited at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning and Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, Denmark, at CCA Andratx[17] in Andratx, Spain, at Bonn Art Museum[18] in Bonn, Germany, at Amos Anderson Art Museum[19] in Helsinki, Finland and at Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston, Texas, US. Ejlerskov was nominated for Carnegie Art Award 2012.[20]

Reviews

References

  1. ↑ http://www.carnegie.se/en/carnegie-art-award/artists-2012/archive/Artists2012/ditte-ejlerskov/
  2. ↑ http://www.larmgalleri.dk/artists/ditte-ejlerskov/
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-07-24. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
  4. 1 2 http://www.konsthall.malmo.se/o.o.i.s/5373/
  5. ↑ http://www.liberation.fr/vous/2015/07/23/feminisme-la-messe-n-est-pas-dite_1352890
  6. ↑ http://www.liberation.fr/culture/2015/06/08/ditte-ejlerskov-un-bon-coup-de-minaj_1325420
  7. ↑ http://kopenhagen.dk/magasin/magazine-single/article/bow-down-bitches-1/
  8. ↑ info@konsthall.malmo.se. "Malmö Konsthall". Konsthall.malmo.se. Retrieved 2014-05-17.
  9. ↑ NODE, André Pahl. "Kunstkritikk — Taschen under Fire". Kunstkritikk.com. Retrieved 2014-05-17.
  10. ↑ "About: Blank Pages – feminist history in the making at Malmö Konsthall". Culturenordic.com. 2014-05-05. Retrieved 2014-05-17.
  11. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-05-08. Retrieved 2012-10-29.
  12. ↑ http://www.kunstkritikk.com/nyheter/taschen-under-fire/
  13. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 2012-10-30.
  14. ↑ http://www.adk.lu.se/se/
  15. ↑ http://www.uppsala.se/sv/Kulturfritid/Kultur/Konst--museer/Uppsala-konstmuseum/Konstutstallningar/Utstallningar-2012/The-Collector/%5B%5D
  16. ↑ http://www.konstakademien.se/ Konstakademin
  17. ↑ http://www.ccandratx.com/en/p306/agenda_12/in-search-of-eden-by-johan-furaker-ditte-ejlerskov.html CCA Andratx
  18. ↑ http://www.kunstmuseum-bonn.de/
  19. ↑ http://www.amosanderson.fi/#page=e131&lang=fi
  20. ↑ Carnegie Art Award
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