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Viktoria Wendel Skousen

lives and works in Copenhagen

Education
2009-2015 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts, Professor Gerard Byrne, Copenhagen, DK
2012-2013 Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Professor Martin Guttmann, Vienna, AT

Exhibitions
2024
KOLOSSAL, Museum Kastrupgårdsamlingen, feb-sept. DK
2023
Performance ‘Open Call’, Art, Risk and Courage arranged by Talent Norway, Art Hub CPH and The Danish Art Foundation, Copenhagen, DK
Painting is Dead, Kunstpakhuset, Ikast, DK
2022
Viktoria Wendel Skousen & Matthieu Palud, duo, BPA Raum, Berlin Program for Artists, Berlin, DE
The Patriot, O’Flaherthy’s, New York, NY, USA
Eight Lives (Troubadouring Summerworks), The Elizabeth Foundation, New York, NY, USA
Københavnerstykker, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK
La Chambre, Düsseldorf Photo+ Biennale for Visual and Sonic Media, Düsseldorf, DE
Gærde, Hillerødgade 22, Copenhagen, DK
Perennial, solo, Danske Grafikere, Copenhagen, DK
2021
Downtown Low-Rise, Vermillion Sands, Copenhagen, DK
Transition, with the group Interim Report, The Old Transformer, Copenhagen, DK
Obstruktioner og Forbindelser, Kunstbygningen i Vrå, DK
2020
This is Not a Project(working title), Ørnevej 60, Copenhagen, DK
COVID19 Group Exhibition May 2020, Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
2019
Terrain, duo with Katja Bjørn, C4 Projects, Copenhagen, DK
Colleagues, solo, Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
In trio - a one day exhibition in Herlev, Copenhagen, DK
2018
Open, Bikuben Foundation, Copenhagen, DK
Artzone Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, DK
Is Thinking Decoration?, Carlsbergbyens Galleri & Kunstsalon, Copenhagen, DK
2017
Holy Matter, Literaturhaus, Copenhagen, DK
See, seen. Eyes on a golden plate, Jesper Brochmannsgade 6, Copenhagen, DK
2016
The Conference, Piscine, Aarhus Kunsthal, Aarhus, DK
Ill Seen Ill Said, SØ, Copenhagen, DK
texted no. 31, www.texted-archive.com/p31.html, internet exhibition
2015
Jonas Lund's Contemporary Gallery, New Shelter Plan, Copenhagen DK
Afgangsudstillingen 2015, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2014
The Open Source Way - Udstillingsstedet Q, Copenhagen, DK
2013
Jonas' Julekort - Atelier September, Copenhagen, DK
Parallel Campaign - ReMap - Athens, Greece
Kunsten i Centret, Centret i Kunsten - Ballerup Centret, DK
Rundgang - Akademie der Bildenden Künste Vienna, Austria
2012
Papermatch - Halmlageret, Carlsberg,  Copenhagen, DK
International Printmaking Exhibition - BKS Garage, Copenhagen, DK
2011
findXfejl - Galleri Olsen, Copenhagen, DK
fra noget til noget andet - Baghold, Copenhagen, DK
Goldener Kentaur Preis - München Künstlerhaus, Munich, Germany
Park la crib - Palæ Garagen,  Copenhagen, DK

Grants and Nominations
Winner of The Martha & Paul René Gauguins Prize, 2024
Working Grant, Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansen Fonden, 2024
Residency, Statens Værksteder for Kunst, Copenhagen, july 2024
Læsø Artist in Residency, Per Kirkeby´s Former Studio ‘Haabet’ Læsø, Denmark, 2024
Traveling Grant, granted by Direktør J. P. Lund og hustru Vilhelmine Bugges Legat, 2022
Foreign Residencies Grant, The Danish Arts Foundation, 2022
Residency ‘Summerworks’, granted by The Elizabeth Foundation & Bikuben Foundation, New York, NY, 2022
Poul Johansen Fonden af 1992, 2022
Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond, 2022
Working Grant, Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse, 2021
Residency granted by Hjørring Grafiske Værksted, 2021
Working Grant, The Danish Arts Foundation, 2019
Working Grant, The Danish Arts Foundation, 2018
Nomination for Queen Sonja Print Award 2018, 2018
The Bikuben Foundation’s Studio Program 2017-2018, The Bikuben Foundation, 2017
Nomination for Goldener Kentaur Preis, 2011

Public Collections
The Danish Arts Foundation
Københavns Kommunes Kunstsamling (The Municipality of Copenhagen’s Art Collection)
Museum Kastrupgårdsamlingen


Member of the Society of Artists, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 2022-2034