Transarts - Sofie Thorsen

SHARDS AND ARROWHEADS

An event organised by: TransArts - Transdisciplinary Art

Sofie Thorsen will introduce her recent exhibitions The Most Beautiful Aquisitions and Shards aswell as some works included in her recent monograph Chalk Lines. She will talk about the methodology of her work, how she works with photographic documents and in particular on the drawing and the line as central elements of her pratice.

Sofie Thorsen born in 1971 in Denmark, lives and works in Vienna. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, she has shown her work internationally in numerous group and solo exhibitions. She is currently an associate professor at Funen Art Academy in Odense, Denmark, and held a teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 2005 to 2009. Her mostly installation-based work is dedicated to questions of perception, space, cultural objects and their documentation. Currently her exhibition “Shards" is on view at Krobath Wien until 2.4.2022.
 
Installation view Shards Krobath Wien Photo:
                                          Rudolf Strobl
Installation view Shards Krobath Wien Photo: Rudolf Strobl
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