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Kathrine Ærtebjerg graduated from the The Royal Danish Art Academy in 2002 and since then has received much national recognition in her home country of Denmark. More often than not a female protagonist is present within a fantastical landscape which can include oversized animals, morphed nonhuman silhouettes and unrecognisable flowers and foliage. These scenes strike the viewer as being similar to a dream sequences which is heightened by the scale distortions and inclusion of abstract, geometric forms. But also by the artist’s application of paint, often applied by hand or with cloths and rags, the artist achieves sensual marks which sit alongside fine, delicate brush work. In the same breath the artist denies any definate narrative resulting in paintings which though formally complex and deftly painted seem to represent a childlike mentality to organising life and comprehending reality, as well as offering a wonderful means of escapism.

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  Biography
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Education:
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art


Solo Exhibitions:
On the Playground, Rokeby, London
Among the living, the dead and the unborn, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin
Kathrine Ærtebjerg, The Skovgaard Museum, Viborg, Denmark
See how big my flowers are, she said, GL Strand, Copenhagen
Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen
Rokeby Gallery, London
SHE, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
Ringstedgalleriet w. Kristian Devantier, Ringsted, Denmark
Ape-Mother in the ocean, Vestsjaellands Artmuseum, Soroe, Denmark
The world upside down, City Hall and North Sea Centre, Hirtshals, Denmark
Temporary Spaces, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
The girl that wanted the impossible, Traneudstillingen, Gentofte Library, Copenhagen
Echo of the eye, w. Lise Blomberg Andersen and Sabina Mlejnek, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
Superheroes and monkeywomen, w. Kristian Devantier, Copenhagen Project Room
Sweet Schwammerl, w. Lise B. Andersen and Sabina Mlejnek, Kunstakademiets Udstillingssted, Copenhagen
The black stains change in a good way, Teologisk Kaelderkafè, Copenhagen
Light/grass, Kunstakademiets Udstillingssted, Copenhagen
Heart forest, Studie 1-2, Herning, Denmark
Circle, w. Jannie Weimar, Kunstakademiets Udstillingssted, Copenhagen
I am a girl, I am a woman, I am a clown, posterproject, Copenhagen

Group Exhibitions:
Wonderland, KadE Amersfoort, Holland
Danskjävlar – A Swedish Declaration of Love, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Nordic Series, Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Norway
Match Race, Nordjyllandskunstmuseum
Fora - Other stories from the unknown, Randers Kunstmuseum
Wake up, Rauma Biennale Balticum, Finland
Sophienholm
RF- the real and the fantastic, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning
Girl Power and Boyhood, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh and Kunsthallen Brandt
Reflecting Identities, European Patent Office, Munich
Grønningen, Charlottenborg, Denmark
Gallery Tom Christoffersen, Denmark
Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
Carnegie Art Award 2006
Fairy Tales Forever, Aros AArhus Artmuseum, AArhus, Denmark, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Modern figurative painting, Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum, Hjoerring, Denmark
Her story is her story is her story, Moestings Hus, Copenhagen
Danish summer 90x90, Galleri Christoffersen, Copenhagen
Profiles – in time, Pakhuset, Nykoebing Sjaelland, Denmark
We call the drawings back home, Copenhagen Project Room
EXIT, Kunstforeningen, Gammel Strand, Copenhagen
The landscape behind the door, Albertslund Raadhus, Albertslund, Denmark
Everybody vs. everybody, Franz Pedersens Kunsthandel, Horsens, Denmark
go-go, Spekta, Copenhagen
 
  Kathrine Ærtebjerg is represented by Rokeby
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  Kathrine Ærtebjerg
This is not a pen
This is Not a Pen is an ongoing series of float pen commissions.

The first float pen was produced in the early 1950s and continue to be manufactured by Eskesen, a company located outside Copenhagen, Kathrine Ærtebjerg's home town.

Kathrine Ærtebjerg was invited to design one of the first three pens that have been created. These pens, each in a Special Launch Edition box, were presented for the first time during the Frieze Art Fair.
£15.00 (excl. VAT)