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Ditte Ejlerskov (born 1982) is a Danish contemporary artist. She was born in Frederikshavn, Denmark, and lives and works in Denmark. In 2017, her official portrait of Helle Thorning-Schmidt at Christiansborg was positively received by local critics.[1][2][3]

Parts of Ejlerskovs artistic process consist of interaction with the Internet. Everything from written correspondence with email-scammers, paparazzi photographs downloaded from Google and contemporary music videos are brought into Ejlerskovs universe. With simultaneous disdain and fascination, Ejlerskov started to use Rihanna as a motif in her work. A few years ago, Ejlerskov was drawn to Barbados, Rihanna’s home country, after an email correspondence with an Internet scammer. The scammer and Ejlerskov exchanged a series of emails, all of which was turned into a book and a film before she again started to focus on the painting. Ejlerskov's work investigate thematic and perceptual experiences pertaining to her generation, but also with references to post-colonial and post-feminist ideas. A large part of her work deals with contemporary pop-culture, where the purpose is to draw attention to what is happening in the intermediate positions, between the private and public space.[4]

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.[5][6][7][8]

Most of Ejlerskov's work has a feminist angle [9][10][11] 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 highlights Taschen Basic Art - a book series that consists of 95 books of artists's biographies, 5 of which are of women artists.[12][13][14][15][16]

Exhibitions

Ejlerskov has mainly exhibited at institutions in Sweden. For example at Malmö Konsthall[8] in Malmö, at Malmö Art Museum[17] in Malmö, at Skissernas Museum in Lund,[18] Uppsala Konstmuseum[19] in Uppsala and at Konstakademin[20] in Stockholm. She has also exhibited in Norway at Kristiansand Kunsthall in Kristiansand [21] and at Stenersenmuseet in Oslo,[22][23] at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning and Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, Denmark, at CCA Andratx[24] in Andratx, Spain, at Bonn Art Museum[25] in Bonn, Germany, at Amos Anderson Art Museum[26] in Helsinki, Finland and at Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston, Texas, US. Ejlerskov was nominated for Carnegie Art Award 2012.[27]

Reviews

References

  1. ^ "Michael Jeppesen anmelder Thorning-portræt: Swiper til højre".
  2. ^ "Sådan har du aldrig set Helle Thorning før". 21 April 2017.
  3. ^ "Statsministerportrættet af Helle Thorning-Schmidt viser et kvindeikon i mandeklubben". 27 April 2017.
  4. ^ http://www.http Archived 2011-05-19 at the Wayback Machine://www.kristiansandkunsthall.no/utstillinger
  5. ^ "Ditte Ejlerskov – Carnegie Art Award". www.carnegie.se. Archived from the original on 2014-05-08.
  6. ^ "LARMgalleri". Archived from the original on 2015-10-24. Retrieved 2012-10-29.
  7. ^ "Ditte Ejlerskov - Kunstdk.dk". Archived from the original on 2014-07-24. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
  8. ^ a b "Malmö Konsthall". Archived from the original on 2014-05-08. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
  9. ^ "Féminisme : La fesse n'est pas dite".
  10. ^ "Ditte Ejlerskov, un bon coup de Minaj".
  11. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2015-08-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. ^ info@konsthall.malmo.se. "Malmö Konsthall". Konsthall.malmo.se. Archived from the original on 2014-05-08. Retrieved 2014-05-17.
  13. ^ NODE, André Pahl (25 April 2014). "Kunstkritikk — Taschen under Fire". Kunstkritikk.com. Retrieved 2014-05-17.
  14. ^ "About: Blank Pages – feminist history in the making at Malmö Konsthall". Culturenordic.com. 2014-05-05. Retrieved 2014-05-17.
  15. ^ "Arkiv - Malmö stad". Archived from the original on 2014-05-08. Retrieved 2012-10-29.
  16. ^ "Taschen under Fire". 25 April 2014.
  17. ^ "Om konstmuseet - Malmö stad". Archived from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 2012-10-30.
  18. ^ "Skissernas museum - Arkiv för dekorativ konst". Archived from the original on 2012-12-03. Retrieved 2012-10-29.
  19. ^ "Uppsala kommun - the Collector". www.uppsala.se. Archived from the original on 26 February 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  20. ^ http://www.konstakademien.se/ Konstakademin
  21. ^ "The Muse".
  22. ^ Stenersenmuseet[circular reference]
  23. ^ "Ditte Ejlerskov – Carnegie Art Award". www.carnegie.se. Archived from the original on 2014-05-08.
  24. ^ http://www.ccandratx.com/en/p306/agenda_12/in-search-of-eden-by-johan-furaker-ditte-ejlerskov.html CCA Andratx
  25. ^ "Home". kunstmuseum-bonn.de.
  26. ^ "Amos Rex".
  27. ^ Carnegie Art Award
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