Education
2009 - 2011
MFA Visual Art & Art Theory, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Art, Copenhagen, DK
2006 - 2009
BA (hons) Fine Art & History of Art, Goldsmiths College, London University, London, UK
2005 - 2006
Contemporary Art Practice, Metáfora Centro d'Art Contemporany, Barcelona, ES
2002 - 2003
Titulació del grau en disseny de moda (1st year), ESDI, Escola Superior de Disseny, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, ES
Selected exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2023
person, Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg, DK
2023
person – i bevægelse, intervention, Copenhagen Contemporary, DK
2022
person – i bevægelse, intervention, Rønnebæksholm Kunsthal, Næstved, DK
2022
person, Vandrehallen Kunsthal, Hillerød, DK
2022
in relation to Gestionar desde la Geografía Nuevos Desplazamientos, Tarapacá, Chile, postponed du to COVID19
2019
Promises of a Distant Now, URBANEK, London
Resistant Voices, Milestone Institute, Budapest
2017
re, c4 projects, Copenhagen, DK
2015
Stemmen, bull mengers, Laven - Silkeborg, DK
Handlingens resonans (duo exhibition), Viborg Kunsthal, DK
2013
frivillig handling, The Demo Room, Galleri Image, Aarhus, DK
No, and other possibilities, Holodeck, Oslo, NO
2006
Marie Thams, Club Escandinavo, Barcelona, ES
Group exhibitions
2022
Friisland Live #6, Friisland Center for Performance Art, Copenhagen
2022
Skitse til en drøm, MUUSMANN, Copenhagen
2022
Atmospheres: Den Frie Udstilling, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
2021
Work it Out, Kunsten Museum of Moder Art Aalborg, DK
Danish Art Now: new works in the collection, National Gallery of Denmark (SMK), Copenhagen
20 x testimony, Vejle Kunsthal, DK
2020
Episode X-XIII: aurora borealis, performance event, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, DE
Articulate, Lobo Del Mar, online
2019
Samfundsprognoser: Ung dansk kunst, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, DK
Spoken, festival, Odense, DK
2018
The Object is to Change the Soul, Heartland Festival, Egeskov Slotspark, DK
Specta Surplus Store, Specta Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
2017
Om Arbejde, Danske Grafikeres Hus, Copenhagen, DK -
I would prefer not to, meter, Copenhagen, DK
Carne Curada, Klink Studios, Barcelona, ES
FEMINISME-FRIHED-FEST, Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke, Copenhagen, DK
2016
Fantom Cinema (launch), curated by Hour Projects, Glasgow International, UK
STEMMER #10, NLH Space, Copenhagen, DK
2015
unFOLD, fourFOLD, London, UK
bygninger, Contemporary Address at HCØ Hus, Copenhagen, DK
Morphing, 700IS Reindeerland 10 year anniversary show, The Nordic House, Reykjavík, IS
2014
REVISIT, Overgaden - Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
700IS Reindeerland 2014, Egilsstaðir, Fljótsdalshérað, IS
Family Man, ODRADEK, Copenhagen, DK
Art & Merch, DasKunstbüro, Aarhus, DK
2013
Jonas' Julekort, Atelier September, Copenhagen, DK
2012
Screen Festival, Círculo de Lectores, Barcelona, ES
2011
Oh my God!, Silkeborg Church, Silkeborg, DK. Curator: Line Sandvad Mengers
EXIT 2011, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, DK
2010
Trådløs, Q, Copenhagen, DK
HARBOUR/HORIZON, BKS-Garage, Copenhagen, DK
Manufacturing Today, Trondheim Art Biennial, NO. Curator: Cristina Ricupero
Spring Exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2009
Heart of Dixie UK, X in Romford, London, UK
Goodbye, Cruel World, Hold & Freight Gallery, London, UK. Curator: Amal Khalaf
2008
Until the Scene Becomes Improbable, North & South Gallery, Oakland, CA
Circuit-Wisely, Shoreditch Town Hall Basement, London, UK. Curator: Natascha Nanji
Curiosophy, Red Gate Gallery, London, UK
2007
Still Place, Nolias Gallery, London, UK
Collection
SMK, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
Art publications
Episode X & XI, 2020, tape with sound composition and recording of performance, curated and published by Julia Katharina Thiemann in relation to Episode performance series, Ludwigshafen, DE
8 hours? 0,- desire, 2016, sound work/publication, produced for the serie Not not work, published by Hour Editions, Copenhagen
Work Book, 2015, text and image contribution. Edited by Kristina Bengtsson and Kevin Malcolm. Published by Hours Editions, Copenhagen
Stage_Space_Eternity, 2010, published by The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Grants and awards
2015-2021
Working grants, Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse and The Danish Arts Foundation
2019
Honorary award, Aage og Yelva Nimbs Fond
Texts
"Key in Hand: The Artist-Run as Professional Gesture and Urgent Necessity" in Death to the Curator - Artist-run culture in the Nordic region, Kunsthall Oslo, 2021
Progression - produktion - acceleration, essay published by M100, Odense in relation to Hannah Toticki Anbert's exhibition in August 2020.
Mellem indlevelse og overlevelse – kunsten og verdenskontakten, essay published in April, 2020 on IDOART.DK.
Kritisk masse i flydende form?, essay published October 18, 2018 on IDOART.DK, and in Billedkunstneren (BKFs magazine) in December 2018.
Kunstens lønvilkårV: Ideer til en bedre fremtid, contributed to visions for better working conditions for artists, IDOART.DK, October 2018.
So close, yet so far away, text for Line Sanvad Mengers' solo exhibition SO CLOSE at rum46, Aarhus, DK, May - June 2015
RUGBRØD OG INVESTERING. UKK rapporterer fra Kulturmødet, Mors d. 22. - 24. august 2013 (RYE BREAD AND INVESTMENT. UKK report from the Culture Meeting, Mors August 22-24, 2013). Published on KUNSTEN.NU September 4, 2013
UKK Survey 2012, a publication reflecting on a survey among UKK (Unge Kunstnere og Kunstformidlere) members made in the spring of 2012 and published in relation to UKKs 10 years anniversary (co-coordinator)
”Letter to Mr. Bartleby” in the exhibition catalogue Exit11. Published by The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Scools of Visual Art, Copenhagen, 2011
Tracing the borders: A collective reaction from emerging European artists to their contemporary cultural environment – European text exchange produced in relation to Trondheim bi-annual, Manufacturing Today, 2010. Ed. Sara Walters
Potential line of thought: A reaction to a seemingly wide open door, text produced for the exhibition: “X” PRESENTS… HEART OF DIXIE UK, London, 2009
“Response to Letters to a Young Poet” in the exhibition catalogue Goldsmiths Fine Art & History of Art BA 2009. Published by Goldsmiths College, London, 2009
Residencies and commisions
2016
Decoration of Strøbyskolen, primary school, DK
2014/2015
Artist in residency, 700IS Reindeerland, Egilsstaðir/Reykjavík, Iceland
Teaching
2022
Guest teacher, VERA School of Art and Design, Copenhagen
2022
Workshop with HF-students together with gender and education sociologist Cecilie Nørgaard.Info here., Hillerød Library, DK.
2021
Co-facilitator of focus day Sounding Public on sound art in pulic spaces, Sound Art Lab, Struer, DK
2021
Guest teacher, The Funen Art Academy, DK
2021
External tutor and curator, Graduation, The Funen Art Academy, DK
2020
Guest teacher, The Funen Art Academy, DK
2019 & 2020
Guest teacher (BFA school), The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Art, Copenhagen, DK
2019
Guest teacher, Bergen Art Academy, (BFA and MFA), NO
2019
Workshop, Milestone Institute, Budapest, HU
2016
Guest teacher, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Art, Copenhagen, DK on the course ”Organizing, Navigation and Operational Space” held in Tallinn, EST
2015
Guest teacher, Malmö Art Academy, SE, Critical & Pedagogical Studies (MFA)
2015
Talk, given at BFA programme, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Art, Copenhagen, DK
Editing
Trust, a Core Condition: Malmö Art Academy 25 Years. Edited together with Maj Hasager and Matts Leiderstam. Published by Malmö Art Academy and Lund University, 2020
The publication is a manifestation of the artistic education and research that has and continues to happen at Malmö Art Academy during it's first 25 years and contains 25 contributions by Julie Ault, Ute Meta Bauer, Ola Billgren, Jürgen Bock, Sebastião Borges, Lynne Cooke, Kajsa Dahlberg, Övül Ö. Durmusoglu, Okwui Enwezor, Andrea Geyer, Karin Hald
, Maj Hasager, Leif Holmstrand, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Mary Kelly, Mark Kremer, Anders Kreuger, Ellinor Lager, Matts Leiderstam, Sarat Maharaj, Stephan Møller, Åsa Nacking, Lars Nilsson, Max Ockborn, Joana Pereira, Michael Portnoy, Silja Rantanen, Hans Hamid Rasmussen and Joakim Sandqvist.
Editor of Malmö Art Academy's Yearbook, 2013 – 2019 and 2021
MAKING ROOM. Nordic Artists, Institutions and Artist Institutions in the Modern Breakthrough and Today. Edited by Marie Thams and Hannah Heilmann. Published by Den Frie, Copenhagen, 2014.
Contributions by: Michael Bank Christoffersen, Jan Cox, Honza Hoeck, Hugo Hopping, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Kitty Corbet Milward, Kristín Scheving, Sydhavn Station, Mikkel Thelle, and from the partner institutions Anna Scram Vejlby (The Hirschsprung Collection), David Jackson (University of Leeds) and Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg (Den Frie), introduction and interviews af Hannah Heilmann and Marie Thams. Acquired by the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection (Chicago), V&A Museum’s National Art Library (London), the Oslo National Academy of the Arts Library and the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA, New York)
Editor of Kaffebord 2010 and Kaffebord 2011, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
Curatorial and organisational experience
2022 - 2023
Initiatior and developer of the travelling project person – i bevægelse, together with curator Rebekka Elisabeth Anker-Møller, unfolding across Denmark at Rønnebæksholm Kunsthal, Copenhagen Contemporary, Kunsthal Nord and Kunsthal Aarhus, October 2022 to June 2023. More information here.
2015
Curator of The Copenhagen Declaration, Jens Haaning / Santiago Sierra. At The Foundry (a/political), Maubourguet, France, from June 13 - October 1, 2015. See images and more here
Assistant curator of We will push the ship from shore and let it drift toward the darkest of oceans: Malmö Art Academy visits Malmö Art Museum in collaboration with Joachim Koester, Emily Wardill, Malmö Art Academy and Malmö Art Museum.
Exhibition at Malmö Art Museum, June 5 - August 30, 2015
Guest curator, Morphing, 700IS 10 year anniversary show. The Nordic House, Reykjavík, IS
2014 - 2015
Initiator and curator of The Copenhagen Declaration, Jens Haaning / Santiago Sierra. Co-curator Kim Kilde, realised in collaboration with Faurschou Foundation. October 30, 2014 - February 6, 2015 at Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen. See images and information here
2013 - 2014
Project organiser of MAKING ROOM: Nordic Artists, Institutions and Artist Institutions of the Modern Breakthrough and Today. Symposium held at Den Frie, Copenhagen, October 31 - November 1, 2013, and related publication published by Den Frie, 2014. Collaboration with Hannah Heilmann and partner institutions Den Frie, The University of Leeds and The Hirschsprung Collection.
2010 - 2013
Event coordinator, curator and editor at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
2012
UKK 10 years anniversary, Overgaden - Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen. Co-organised by all board members of UKK
2011
Curator of MERGING GROUNDS Performance Festival, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen. Co-curators Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg and Malene Ratcliff
2006
Assistant and secretary at the art school Metáfora Centro d'Art Contemporany, Barcelona
2002 - 2006
Designer and owner, FraThams clothing label, Barcelona and Madrid
Positions of trust
2022 – present
Chairperson, Danish Visual Artists (Billedkunstnernes Forbund, BKF), part time position
2021 – 2022
Vice chairperson, Danish Visual Artists (Billedkunstnernes Forbund, BKF)
2017 - 2020
Member, Board of Representatives at Danish Arts Foundation (Statens Kunstfonds Repræsentantskab)
2013 - present
External board member, Henrik og Dagmar Starckes Legatbolig
2012 - 2015
Chair person for UKK (Young Art Workers)'s board. Voluntary work. Non-profit organisation working to improve young artists and artworkers' working conditions in Denmark (ukk.dk)
2012 - 2013
UKK representative in Dansk Kunstnerråd. An interdisciplinary organisation for the professional artists' organisations in Denmark
2011 - 2012
Vice chair person for UKK (Young Art Workers)'s board. Voluntary work