Emilie Tarp Østensgård (b. 1993) Lives and works in Copenhagen. She holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts. With a background in sculpture Østensgård works cross-media with both objects, text, installation and drawing. Central to her work is the believe that we need to pay great attention to the more-than-human world dominated by the creed of her own species. Exploring the relationship between the sign and the signinfied, she casts a critical look at how we relate to the world around us through the power of language and signs. Her work orbits the experience of being born in a nonverbal, sentient body but living most of life in a linguistic representation of the world. Through her images she wishes to challenge these narratives, their existing form and inherent logics as a way to make space for other (forgotten) ways of being and relating.
Education
2021: Master of Fine Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts
2021: Minor of Art, Writing & Research, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts
2018: Bachelor of Fine Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts
2015: Kunsthøjskolen på Ærø
Selected exhibitions
2023: MURMUR, solo show at Bladr, Copenhagen, DK
2023-2024: Office Overload, Exhibition/Commission for Bikubenfonden, Curated by pro tempore.art, Copenhagen, DK
2022: A Gesture for Listening, Odinsgade & Assistens Cemetery, Copenhagen, DK
2021: A Garden Exhibition, Haveselskabets Have, Frederiksberg, DK
2021: Med Billedet som Bro, Dronninglund Kunstcenter, Dronninglund, DK
2021: Afgang 2021, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2021: Do It (Home), Kunsthal Charlottenborg Online Exhibition
2020: Opgør, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2019: Volymer, Delfi, Malmö, SE
2019: First annual open air art show in KIKshh, Sankt Hans Have, Roskilde, DK
2019: Plaster of Paris, The Royal Cast Collection, Copenhagen, DK
2019: Start’19, The Sculpture Workshop (The Danish National Museum), Brede, DK
2018: BFA show, NOTA Library for the blind, visually impaired and dyslexic, Copenhagen, DK
2018: Exhibition at Library at the Dock, Melbourne, Australia, AU
2017: Group show, Shiro Oni Studio, Onishi, JP
2017: Langs Kyster, Solo show, Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
2017: Lersøer, Lundehus Church, Copenhagen, DK
2017: Pulsar, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, DK
2016: Pulsar, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2016: Metrovention, Professionshøjskolen Metropol, Copenhagen, DK
2016: Miami Marked, Galleri Q, Copenhagen, DK
2015: Platform, Søby, Ærø, DK
Other
2022: Workshop host, Glyptoteket’s clay workshop
2021: Workshop on dissolving language (UN International day of Peace), Ungdomsøen, Copenhagen
2017: Shiro Oni Studio, Residency program 2017, Onishi, Japan
2012: Assistant work, Cai Guo-Qiang ”A Clan of Boats”, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen
2009: Internship, photographer Michael Langhoff (Sabotage)
2007: Internship, photographer Leif Schiller (Schillerhuset)
Publications
2022: Anthology for Listening vol. 1
2021: MFA-essay, Afgang 2021, Kunsthal Charlottenborg
2017: Istidende, Det københavnske forlag Cris og Guldmann
2017: Anvendt teori – 16 tekster, Kunstakademiets forlag