ABOUT

Helle Kongstad Holm Petersen (1994, she/her)

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Lives and works in Aarhus, Denmark. Through a (soft)sci-fi and speculative fiction narrative, absorbing from areas such as zoo-logy, botany, ufology, and (space)+(science)research; she works with, and in the intersection of, ‘human >< non-human’ relationships, ‘non-human otherness’, communication, i.e., tele-, insects, terrain, vegetation, the moon, compost, habitat(s), gravity, thermo, and robots. In her work she integrates others speculative thoughts and theories, in a fluid togetherness; about forms of communication, about keeping areas open for ‘ongoingness’ and about a kind of longing for that which is not earthbound, and to maybe give a feeling of being inside a vocal sac, and antenna(e)s. 

Education 

2021-2022; Det Jyske Kunstakademi/Jutland Art Academy, MFA, Aarhus, Denmark

2017-2020; Det Jyske Kunstakademi/Jutland Art Academy, BFA, Aarhus, Denmark

Selected exhibitions 

2023; Ååh det bio-arkiv, Kunstkiosk 44, Samsø, Denmark

2022; Afgang 22, MFA graduate show, Jutland Art Academy, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

2022; RUNDGANG 2022, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark

2021; RUNDGANG 2021, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark

2020; *Letter*, Art Weekend Aarhus, Splab, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark

2020; in the absence of dear friends, BFA show, Splab, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark

2020; RUNDGANG 2020, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark

2019; Sten og Birk, Rum46, Aarhus, Denmark

2018; 2. Års Udstilling, Splab, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark

2017; Frisk Forlæns, Splab, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark 

Text/contributions

2023; untitled, self-published booklet, I version, II circulation, seven numbered copies

2022; untitled, self-published booklet, I version, I circulation, seven numbered copies

2018; Hvedekorn #2, magazine for poetry and art 

Other

2021; PRAKSIS I PRAKSIS, podcast, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark

2020-2022; Bedre internet på djk, campaign, Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark

Member of

Billedkunstnernes Forbund/The Visual Artists Association (BKF)

Foreningen for Samtidskunst (FSK)

Board work

2022-; Deputy chairperson in Foreningen for Samtidskunst (FSK)

2019-2021; Board member in Aarhus Billedkunstcenter (AaBKC)