Contributing Writers

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© James Langdon Andrea Alvarez is Curatorial Assistant at Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. Alvarez supports the curatorial department while also curating exhibitions and conducting permanent collection research. Her forthcoming exhibition on immigration from the Latinx perspective will open in Spring 2021. Alvarez is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at VCUarts.

Francesca Astesani is an independent curator and writer based in Copenhagen. She is one of the directors and funders of curatorial agency South into North, which specialises in art commissions. She holds an MA in Philosophy from the University of Milan and one in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths College in London.

Augusta Atla is a Danish visual artist and art critic and has been exhibiting extensively in Europe since 2006. Her work is featured both in Danish national museum collections and in major private collections. Having lived abroad for 13 years, Augusta is well tuned into the state of the current European art scene.

Vanessa Boni is an independent curator and art historian. With Kyla McDonald, she initiated a project dedicated to feminist exhibition-making and artist research (launching 2020). As Curator at Spike Island, Bristol she curated solo exhibitions with Nina Beier and Mai-Thu Perret and led the 2018 Freelands Award with Veronica Ryan. Prior to this, Boni held curatorial positions at Eastside Projects and Liverpool Biennial.

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© Anna Hyttel Helle Brøns Helle Brøns is a Curator at Sorø Art Museum, Denmark. Her PhD thesis “Masculine Steadfastness — Gender, matter and popular culture in Asger Jorn’s art practice” dealt with the gender debate between artists Elsa Gress and Asger Jorn. Brøns is also planning a release about Gress and Jorn at Gallery Tom Christoffersen’s publishing house in 2020.

Victoria Duffee is an American artist and writer living in Oslo. Working through the prism of intersectionality and ecofeminism, she subverts the gendered hierarchies of art history by playing with the feminine attributes of textile, jewellery, handicrafts, and home decor. In 2016 she co-founded an art criticism magazine, Vi Ser På Kunst, together with Andreas Breivik.

Nanna Friis holds an MA in Art History from University of Copenhagen and Barnard College, New York. She is working on different things: an exhibition at SMK National Gallery of Denmark autumn 2020, small writing gigs on art and literature, translating Chris Kraus, a collaborative exhibition residency in Kyiv. In other words: trying to freelance like all the rest.

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© Petra Kleis Rebecca Geldard is a writer, editor and curator based in Powys, Wales. She has contributed regularly to a variety of press and art publications, while her essays and short fiction feature in many books and catalogues. She is Associate Director at Coleman Project Space in London, and has recently launched the online art platform appleandhat.com.

Jennifer Higgie is frieze Editor-at-Large and the presenter of the Bow Down podcast. She is the editor of The Artist’s Joke and author of the novel Bedlam. Her new book The Mirror & The Palette, on historic women’s portraits, will be published in 2021. She is on the judging panel of the John Moore’s Painting Prize 2020.

Anne Kielgast is Chief Curator at Kunstforeningen GL STRAND in Copenhagen and has an MA in Art History. She has worked in different art museums and non-profit art institutions curating exhibitions on modern and contemporary art throughout the years. Solo exhibition include David Lynch, Kara Walker, Yang Fudong, Eija-Liisa Ahtila and Yinka Shonibare MBE.

Julie Lænkholm is an artist whose practice is centred around the idea of collective learning. Exploring techniques which have been passed down orally through generations, Lænkholm activates a predominantly female history which has been forgotten or ignored, bringing these narratives back into focus and placing them within a contemporary discourse. Lænkholm is educated at MFA Parsons, the New School for Design.

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© Tommy Ton Marie Lund is a sculptor living and working in Copenhagen. Recent solo exhibitions include: The Thirst, Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen; Face to Back, Croy Nielsen, Vienna; Grip, joségarcía ,mx, Mexico City; Legumes, Holstebro Kunstmuseum; Scout, joségarcía ,mx, Merida; Flush, Badischer Kunstverein; Drums, Museo Marino Marini, Florence.

Julie Moestrup is a Danish editor and journalist. From 1993- 1995, she studied at the Danish Writers School (Forfatterskolen). Since then, she has been employed at the newspapers such as Politiken and Weekendavisen, as editor at magazines including Eurowoman and Cover, the television talk show Den 11. time at DR2 and Kulturen på News at TV2. She is currently working freelance.

William Pym is a writer, teacher and art gallery person. His first essay collection, That Way, was published by At Last Books, Copenhagen, in 2018. TRUE LIFE, an encyclopedic monograph about Alex Da Corte and Eminem conceived by Da Corte, Pym and Studio Claus Due, Copenhagen, will be published by Verlag der buchhandlung Franz und Walther König in September 2020.

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© Katinka Klinge David Risley is an artist. He ran David Risley Gallery, in London (2002-2010) and Copenhagen (2010-2018). He was found- ing Co-curator of Bloomberg Space, London (2002-2005), Co-founder of Zoo Art Fair, London (2004), and Co-founder and Co-owner of CHART. He continues to write, curate, and develop projects with art- ists. He is developing a sustainability project for public-facing institutions.

Ophelia Rolf is a Stockholm-based gallery girl and freelance writer. She studied Art History and His- tory of Ideas at Stockholm University and is currently gallery manager at Gallery Steinsland Berliner.

Frederik Rørmann is a Danish art historian liv- ing in Copenhagen. He is currently finishing his studies at the University of Copen- hagen. He has previously been project coordinator of Alt_Cph 2018 and was part of the curat- ing team of +1 Artist Talks for two years. In 2018 he participated in The Cura- torical Thing organised by SixtyEight Art Institute.

Vivian Rycroft is a writer based in Copenhagen. They have written for the 58th Venice Bien- nale; the New Museum, New York; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York; and Tate Britain, among others. Their first erotic novel will be published in 2022.

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© James Gifford-Meade Kenny Schachter is an artist, curator, writ- er and professor. He has lectured internationally and contributed to books on Paul Thek, Zaha Had- id, Vito Acconci and Sig- mar Polke/Gerhard Richter. Schachter is writing for international publications including Artnet.com, New York Mag- azine and The Times Magazine.

Christian Viveros-Fauné has worked as a gallerist, art fair director, art critic and curator since 1994. He presently serves as Curator-at-Large at the University of South Flor- ida Contemporary Art Museum. His most recent book, Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art, was published by David Zwirner Books.

Zoé Whitley is Director of London’s Chisenhale Gallery, prior to which she was Senior Curator at the Hayward Gallery in London and Curator of International Art at Tate Modern. Exhibitions to her credit include curating the British Pa- vilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019 and co-curating the acclaimed Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power at Tate Modern, London.