Mette vangsgaard
Mette Vangsgaard currently lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. She graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1996. In 2011 she was awarded the 3-Year Working Grant from The Danish Arts Council.
Mette Vangsgaard develops collages and sculptures related to nature and man. She investigate human condition, dreams and memory in motifs from everyday life with traits from non-everyday movements such as symbolism, expressionism and naïve art – but spiced up with a contemporary awareness about the picture’s character of being a sign.Her works bear witness to an interest of social classes and social structure and the works achieve an expression which stretches from the refined and a colourist sensitivity to the trashy and raw.
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METTE VANGSGAARD
Lives and works in Copenhagen DK, born 1968
EDUCATION
1989-96 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Fearless (in a dream), Marie Kirkegaard Gallery, 2020
Nature Boy So Civilized, Marie kirkegaard Gallery,2018
Liquid Sunshine, YOD Gallery, Osaka, Japan, 2017
Mette Vangsgaard, Huset i Asnæs
Lemon Moon, Marie Kirkegaard Gallery,2016
My head is on Fire, my fur is Itching, Marie Kirkegaard Gallery,2014
Restless, Rich and Bored, Beaver Projects,2009
Sølvvand, Beaver Projects,2006
Fra mandag til fredag, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art,2004
Bilerne på gaden, træerne i haven, Traneudstillingen,2002
Lotion, Leger 2, Gallery Leger, Sweden,1996
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Pinball, Halmstad Konsthall, Sweden
2019
Interactivity Playful Imagination, NAC, China
Noise, Charlotte Fogh Gallery
Hverdag,forbandede hverdag, Ny Carlsberg byens gallery
Babylon, Marie Kirkegaard Gallery
2018
SPECTA Surplus Store - Så længe lager haves!
2017
Luther, Vejle Kunstmuseum
Clausen for altid, Clausens Kunsthandel
Forsvindingspunkt, Udstillingstedet Sydhavnen st.
Billboard, udstillingsstedet Sydhavnen St.
Material Matters, Marie Kirkegaard Gallery
2016
En anden virkelighed, Vestjyllands Kunst Pavillon
Reconnecting Ordos Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Hall, China
Paperworks, Lanlan Gallery, China
2015
Alt dette er dit!, Vejle Kunstmuseum
Artificial Spaces, X bunker
Artist Choise Marie Kirkegaard Gallery
2014
X , Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China
Staging the spaces Marie Kirkegaard Gallery
Kunsten visit Brandts, Brandts
2013
Merry Melancholy, Eskilstuna Art Museum, Sweden
Growth, Charlotte Fogh Contemporary
Vejen ind er vejen ud, Kunsthal Nord /
Skovsnogen Artspace
Kast et blik, Kunstpakhuset Ikast
2012
Market Art Faire, Beaver Projects, Sweden
The Armory Show N.Y.Beaver Projects
Freestyle Galleri North
2011
Market Art Faire, Beaver Projects, Stockholm
Personal Matters, Charlotte Fogh Contemporary
Blik på kunsten nu, Den Frie Centre Of Contemporary Art
2010
1:1 Galleri Profilen, Århus
Market Art Faire, Beaver Projects, Stockholm
Grænselandsudstillingen Haderslev
The Second Party, Beaver Projects, Copenhagen
Big Bang, Galleri Kant, Esbjerg / P10, Janus-bygningen, Tistrup
2009
Enter, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense
Artists Go Bananas, Jens Nielsen og Olivia Holm-Møller Museum
From Cph to Jameln, Beaver Projects, Germany
2008
Real Wrong Life, Galleri Estrany de La Moto, Barcelona
Between Darkness And The City, Beaver Projects
Art Preview, Berlin
“Group Show”, Beaver Projects,
Tilsynekomster, Fanø
2007
Contemporary Ceramics Bendixen Contemporary
Match Race- modernistisk remix mellem nu og da Kunsten Museum of Modern Art
Snowfall, Vejen Kunst Museum
Housewarming, Amagerfælledvej 47, København
2006
The Opening Beaver Projects
Krydsfelt. Natur-ligt, Trapholt Museum
3D Wonders 2, Dunk, København
Anstændighed – måske! Roarsvej
2005
Imaginary Realities, Galleri Mikael Andersen
Bad Ceramics, Kunsthal Brænderigården, Viborg
Group Show, Clausens Kunsthandel
Popop, Fabrikken for Kunst og Design
Tapko Kunsten Museum of Modern Art
2004
Aflejre,duo udstilling Esbjerg Kunstmuseum
Consulta,Centre de art Santa Monica, Barcelona,Spain
Keramiske værker af danske malere og billedhuggere
Ceramics by danish artists Gallery Nørby
KERAMIK 2004, Kopenhagen Showroom Seven up + 13 til bords-en installation, Sophienholm
“De 5 ” Galleri Møllerwitt. '
2002
Bilerne på gaden, træerne i haven, Traneudstillingen
Snowfall, Vejen Kunst Museum
Housewarming, Amagerfælledvej 47, København
1996
Lotion, Leger 2, Gallery Leger, Sweden
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
Rosborg Gymnasium, Vejle 2017
COLLECTIONS
New Carlsberg Foundation
Vejle Art Museum
Kunsten Museum of Modern Art
Clay Museum of International Ceramic Art
Statens Kunstfond
Vejen Kunstmuseum
Københavns Kulturfond
GRANTS
Direktør Michael Hermann Nielsens mindelegat 2020
Honery Award Ib & Birthe Geertsens Fond 2020
Honorary Award Brødrene Kunstmaler August Loranges og Vingrosserer Georg Loranges Mindefond 2019
Honorary Award Association of Danish Art 2018
Honorary Award Billedhuggeren, professor Gottfred Eickhoff og hustrus, maleren Gerda trickhoffs Fond 2018
The Danish Arts Council Working Grant 2018
The Danish Arts Council Working Grant 2016
3-Year Working Grant The Danish Arts Council 2011
Henry Heerups Legat 2009
Beckett Fonden 2009
Kunstmaler H.C. Koefoed og Søster Caroline Koefoeds Legat 2008
The Danish Arts Council working grant 2007
The Danish Arts Council working grant 2006
The Danish Arts Council working grant 2005
The Danish Arts Council working grant 2004
The Danish Arts Council working grant 2003
Akademiraadets Travel Grant 2004
The Danish Arts Council Travel Grant1999
Marie Månsons Travel Grant1995 /
Kammeraternes Venner 1993.