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Danish photographer Trine Søndergaard is up to date with an exhibition at the Gothenburg Museum of Art. Press photo.
Photo: Trine Søndergaard / Martin Asbæk Gallery
“Hats # 2”. Press photo.
Photo: Trine Søndergaard / Martin Asbæk Gallery
“Untitled Lace 14.” Press photo.
Photo: Trine Søndergaard / Martin Asbæk Gallery
“Inside”. Press photo.
Photo: Trine Søndergaard / Martin Asbæk Gallery
“Strude”. Press photo.
While many museums remain closed and postpone their activities in the future due to the coronavirus, the Gothenburg Museum of Art opens a major exhibition with Danish photographer Trine Søndergaard.
“The circumstances are sad and it has been challenging, but I really look forward to the exhibition and I’m glad it opens,” says Trine Søndergaard.
In recent weeks, he has traveled back and forth between Copenhagen’s hometown and Gothenburg to organize his photo exhibition at the Gothenburg Museum of Art.
The opening ceremony is scheduled, but the exhibition itself opens as scheduled on April 18, albeit with a limited capacity for visitors. Trine Søndergaard thinks it is a good decision. She compares museums to churches.
– There are places for contemplation and it is good that they remain open, she says.
“A strange time”
In Copenhagen, all museums are closed. On the streets where Trine Søndergaard moves, people and cars are scarce. The sounds of the city have been silenced.
“It is a strange moment,” she says. It is as if people hold their breath. I have been able to continue working, but around me the city and its images have changed.
Inner and outer worlds
In recent decades, Trine Søndergaard has established himself as one of Denmark’s foremost photographers, with several major exhibitions both in the home country and on the international art scene. The exhibition at the Gothenburg Museum of Art, “148 Works”, is his first solo exhibition in Sweden and the largest so far. On the walls are photographs of an important part of the race, taken between 2005 and 2020: women with masks, empty corridors, plants.
Although the photographs in the exhibition are taken from different phases of his life, Trine Søndergaard believes that they summarize his art, his changes, but also the threads that run through it.
– A common denominator is that I photograph the outside world to understand what is happening in the inside world, says Trine Søndergaard. Photography has always been a way of approaching thoughts and aspects of my life that I could not express in other ways.
At the beginning of his career, Trine Søndergaard worked mainly with painting. Discovering the photo was “a revelation,” she says.
– The possibilities of photography are many. It is not just art. I can move around the world, talk to people, organize reality.
Photo as revelation
Over the years, Trine Søndergaard’s photographs have moved from documentary to what she describes as freer handling of the outside world. At the same time, it is inspired by the history of art. Here are portraits of women echoing Vermeer, here are still-life bad apples.
– I have always been interested in connecting our time with other times, she says.
Something that marks our time compared to others is the abundance of images, on social networks, on the subway. It is a flow in which Trine Søndergaard avoids being dragged, since, as she says, he only photographs “what really feels important”.
– There must be a purpose. That is a rule that I have.
Data
Facts: Trine Søndergaard
Born: in Denmark 1972.
Lives: in Copenhagen.
Background: Considered one of the most important photographers in Denmark. He has been active since the early 1990s and has had solo exhibitions in New York, Paris, and Istanbul.
Current: With his first solo exhibition in Sweden, “148 Works”, which is on display at the Gothenburg Museum of Art from April 18 to September 20 and later at Dunkers Kulturhus in Helsingborg.
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