METTE PERREGAARD  KKArtist

CONTACT: Mette Perregaard visual artist and writer metteperregaardbilledkunstnerogforfatter@metteperregaard.dk

born in 1963 in Holstebro. 

Education:

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts: Visual Arts School 1985-90, School of Art Theory and Communication 1991-1993

1999: Master of photography

Lives and worksin Copenhagen. Longer stays in Italy, Spain, the Middle East and Greece.

Media: collage, drawing, photography, praphics, video and litterature.

Exhibitions, catalogs and books are given two tracks: literary fiction and visual art.

Thematic: travelling

From 2006-2012 curating Nordic art in Italy.

Since 2018 writing and illustrating graphic books.

Collaboration-partners: composer Jesús Rueda

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Audiovisuals:

Instructor and photographer on short fiction "In the Labyrinth" in collaboration with composer Jesús Rueda and film editor Rikke Malene Nielsen. Film Workshop DFI.

The video was shown in live version with classic trio and projection (version1), as well as musical short fiction (version 2).

2007 Spaziaperti, Rom IT (2)

2006 premiere at Sneakbar, DK (2)

2003 Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, ES (1)

2003 CCCB, Barcelona, ES (1)

2003 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Vigo, ES (1)

Shows:

2021 Grafik Galleriet Holmegård Værk

2005 Antikmuseet, Århus (solo), "Sun Pictures – a photographic journey from Rome to Constantinople"

2005 The Danish Institute in Rome (solo), "Sun Pictures"

2006 The Danish Institute in Athens (solo), "Sun Pictures"

2000 Casa Velazquez, Madrid (with Esther Pizarro.)

1998, The Ministry of Culture's Exhibition House for Contemporary Art (with Eva Koch and Fernando Baena.)

1998 Gallery K.A.U.S. Copenhagen (with Mikkel Olaf Eskildsen.)

1998 Fuori Luogo, Campobasso, IT (group)

1996 Circolo Scandinavo, Rome (group)

1996 The Danish Institute, Rome (solo)

1996 Galleria dei Serpenti, Rome (group)

1993 Departure: Rådskælderen, Kbh. (group)

1992 Still life, Rådskælderen, Kbh. (group)

Selected events and shows curated by Mette Perregaard (on behalf of Circolo Scandinavo)

2009 Nordic photography and video art, "Who we are", FotoGrafia. Festival Internazionale di Roma - VIII edizione

2007 On Air, from North to South, video screening in collaboration with Lorella Scacco, Rome. Florence, Capri

2006 Nordic Literature Festival, Rome

Books: 2005 "Sun Pictures - Photographic Journey from Rome to Constantinople / by Mette Perregaard in

collaboration with Thomas Boberg ISBN8789632346 (with contributions by Thomas Boberg, Lars Kiel Bertelsen and H.C. Andersen)

link about book: http://forlagetorbis.dk/en/redshop/forlaget-orbis-boger/33/463/boger-forlaget-orbis/P-

In the anthology ΆΠΟΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΥΜΑΤΑ ISBN978877184 2869 Århus Universitetsforlag https://unipress.dk/udgivelser/a/i-anledningen-af/

The Steady Palm Tree was a reconstruction of a diary from a stay in Athens in 2005 while working on the book "Sun Pictures." Poetic reflections on the artistic process. 13 pages of text and 3 photographs. 25 contributors told in the book ΆΠΟΜΝΗΜΟΝΕϒΜΑΤΑ their impressions from Athens and Greece.