Trine Struwe (b. 1988) is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Copenhagen (DK) and London (UK). Through working with materials as imbued carriers of histories, her work explores the tension between language and material and the potential it holds.

EDUCATION

2018-2020     Royal College of Art, London, UK (MA Painting)
2015                 The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, US (Fine Art)
2013-2016      Malmö Art Academy, Malmö, SE (BA Fine Art)  

SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS

2023
(upcoming) Bladr (Copenhagen, DK) solo show 
(upcoming) C4 Projects curated by SKAL Contemporary (Copenhagen, DK) duo show 
Thresholds, Obra (Lund, SE) duo show 

2022 
I, I, I, ), )), ))), Kunsthal Kongegaarden KGX (Korsør, DK) solo show

2021
I miss you very much, Ergo Collective (Athens, GR) duo show
A mouth full, Riberdyb 10 (Kolding, DK) duo show

2020
Alas, Sirin Gallery (Copenhagen, DK) duo show 

2019
Soft, Strong, Slow, Dyson Gallery (London, UK) solo show

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 
(upcoming) Roskilde Festival in collaboration with Art Hub Copenhagen (Copenhagen, DK)
(upcoming) Largely (not wholly), FABRIKKEN For Kunst og Design (Copenhagen, DK) 
(upcoming) Office Overload 3, Bikubefonden kurateret af Pro Temp (Copenhagen, DK)
Open Studio, Sorø Kunstmuseum (Sorø, DK)
Dreamworks, IKO/Picalilli Gallery (London, UK) 

2022    
Young Danish Contemporary Art ’22, Kunstbygningen i Vrå (Vrå, DK)
RCA2020, Bargehouse/OXO Tower (London, UK)  
Office Overload 1, Bikubefonden kurateret af Pro Temp (Copenhagen, DK)

2021
Small Sculptures, Sharp Projects (Copenhagen, DK) 
Dog Days, Galeria PADA (Lisbon, PT) 

2020
London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery (London, UK)
50/50, Fold Gallery (London, UK)
14.8x21, Gallery Tom Christoffersen (Copenhagen, DK)
RCA, Kristin Hellegjerde Gallery (London, UK)
Spring Exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen, DK)
Chapter 6, Solo show (London/online, UK)
/’st^te(r)/, BAKIIBAK (Hastings, UK)

2019               
Close Call, Kunstscenen (Copenhagen, DK)
Final Exhibition, Axel Towers (Copenhagen, DK)
HQ, Udstillingstedet Sydhavn Station (Copenhagen, DK)
Snapshot, Hockney Gallery (London UK)

2018             
Strata, Obra (Malmö, SE)
WIP show, Royal College of Art (London, UK) 
Vi tager intet ansvar, Warehouse 9 (Copenhagen, DK)

2017 
Contemporary Grazing, H/F Enghaven (Odense, DK)
Tendency, Rendevouz Artspace (Copenhagen, DK)
I am thinking that I might be an object, René Holms Atelier (Esbjerg, DK)

2016               
Artists’ books, Lunds Konsthall (Lund, SE) 
New Swedish Photography, Center of Photography (Stockholm, SE)
October, Obra (Malmö, SE)

2015
Art of the book, Cooper Union School of Art (New York, US)
Sweden’s Emerging Art, No Picnic (Stockholm, SE)
Slowly moving body of light, Wadström Tönnheim Gallery (Skanör, SE) solo show 

RESIDENCIES

2023 
(upcoming) Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale (Dale, NO)
(upcoming) Residency, Danish Art Workshops (Copenhagen, DK)
(ongoing) FABRIKKEN atelierprogram (2022-2024)

2022 
Residency, Art Hub To Go (tidl. Bikubefondens atelierprogram), 2022-2023 (Copenhagen, DK)
Residency, Klitgaarden (Skagen, DK)
Residency, Kunsthal Kongegaarden (Korsør, DK)

2021
Residency, the Danish Institute at Athens (Athens, GR)
Residency, Danish Art Workshops (Copenhagen, DK)
Residency, PADA (Lisbon, PT) 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2023
The Danish Arts Foundation

2022
Bikubefonden 
Poul Johansen Fonden
Blixfonden
Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond

2021  
The Danish Arts Foundation
The Agency for Culture in Denmark           
Digteren cand.jur. Aage Krarup Linds Legat
Glashandler Johan Franz Ronges Fond

2020               
Distinction award, MFA thesis, Royal College of Art (London, UK) 
Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse

2019 - 2017               
Royal College of Art (MFA), Grants from Soransk Samfund, Henry Shaws Legat, Vohlerts Legatfond, Dansk Tennis Fond, Overretssagfører Sigurd Jacobsens Mindelegat, Oticon Fonden, Direktør Ib Henriksens Fond, Augustinus Fonden, Glashofs legat, Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond   

PUBLICATIONS

2022
Spiral Walking: A conversation with Francesca Mollett, published by BAERT Gallery (Los Angeles, US)

2021               
Thomas Millroth: Artists’ Books from a Swedish point of view, published by Ellerströms/Tragus (2021) - Link via Konst/Ig (Stockholm, SE)
Lux, published by Aber Press (2021) - Link via Canopy (Malmö, SE)
Sea writing (the waves), artist book, self published with Mads Juel (edition of 10)

2020               
Chapter 6, online publication, Solo show (London, UK)

2019  
White Ink, MFA thesis, Royal College of Art (London, UK)
Untitled (Thames drawings), artist book, self published  

2016 - 2015                     
Untitled (Blå tid, blåt sted) II, artist book, self published
Everything is falling, BFA thesis in Malmö Art Academy Year Book (Malmö, SE)      
Untitled (Blå tid, blåt sted) I, artist book, self published

OTHER

2022
The Curatorial Thing, SixtyEight Art Institute (Copenhagen, DK)

2021
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, member of the Society of Artists (DK) 

2020                 
Salzburg Summer Academy (Art Writing)
Artist talk and guest teaching at Cardiff School of Art & Design / Ysgol Gelf a Dylunio Caerdydd (Cardiff, Wales, UK)

2019        
Co-curator of a solo show w. artist Marianne Skaarup Jakobsen at SixtyEight Art Institute (Copenhagen, DK)
Weather Writing, SixtyEight Art Institute w. curator Miriam Wistreich and writer Ida Marie Hede

2018               
Co-founder of Tacet, a small press focusing on artist books, exhibited at CHART 2021 (Copenhagen, DK) Wiels Art Book Fair (Bruxelles, BE) and SixtyEight Art Institute (Copenhagen, DK) in 2019.

2016   
Artisttalk, Malmö Kunsthall (Malmö, SE)
Københavns Kunstskole (Art Writing)