You Gaze On Me – As I Gaze Upon You

Where: Dansistovan, Skálin

The exhibition opens on Saturday, June 21, at 3 PM. Everyone is welcome.

The Greenlandic contemporary artist Ivínguak Stork Høegh engages in dialogue with older works by Christine Deichmann, Oda Isbrand, Ellen Locher Thalbitzer, and Jette Bang, who visited Greenland before 1940.

In a series of works titled Arctic Exotic, Ivínguak Stork Høegh plays with stereotypical ideas of the Arctic while creating new narratives.

Christine Deichmann (1869–1945), Oda Isbrand (1904–1987), Ellen Locher Thalbitzer (1883–1956), and Jette Bang (1914–1964) have been written out of Danish art history as female artists. Unlike their male colleagues, they did not depict grand landscapes or Inuit in national costumes, but chose subjects such as women and children, women and children who are not just observed, but who also meet and return the gaze.

In a dialogue between contemporary art and historical works, the exhibition explores the colonial gaze on Greenland and what happens when that gaze is confronted, mirrored, and renegotiated.

The exhibition is curated by Laila Lund Altinbas and Stine Lundberg Hansen.

About Ivínguak Stork Høegh
Ivínguak Stork Høegh (b. 1982) was born and lives in Greenland. She was educated at the Greenland School of Art, the Aarhus Art Academy, and as a media graphic designer at Copenhagen Technical School. The exhibition mainly presents a selection of her digital photo collages, but she also works with media such as painting, printmaking, ceramics, and mixed media.

She has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Greenland, Denmark, Canada, and the USA. In addition, she has served as chairperson of Greenland’s artist association KIMIK, and since 2021, she has been the head of the Greenland School of Art.