Line Ellegaard

Line Ellegaard

Postdoc

I am a postdoc at the New Carlsberg research center Art as Forum. I am interested in the social, political, and aesthetic dynamics afforded by making art public (through exhibitions, events, etc.), the infrastructure of art, and examining and historicising alternative systems of circulation and operation in art.

My current research examines the collective practice of art librarians in 1970s Denmark; their transnational network, exhibition organisation and infrastrucural activism. My PhD dissertation from 2023 considers how artists, cultural workers, and curators in the past have used art’s infrastructure to organise, exhibit, or curate in solidarity with a cause or in relation to a specific concern. The thesis is structured around analyses of the following exhibitions, ‘Kvindeudstillingen’ (1975), ‘Art contre/against Apartheid’ (1983–1984), and ‘Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts’ (2006).

 

Teaching and supervision areas:

– exhibition histories, exhibition studies, and contemporary art

– activist imaginaries and practices of solidarity

– feminist intersectional curatorial practice, mediation and pedagogy

– feminist art history and theory

– collective practice and criteria of judgment

– infrastructure, cultural politics, and questions of agency, affect and access

  archival research and archival methodology

 

Courses:

Spring 2020: Contemporary Art/Samtidskunst, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen [ENG]. BA-level

Spring 2019: Curating with Malene Vest Hansen, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen [DK]. MA-level

Fall 2018: Contemporary Art and Introduction to Art Historical Praxis. Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen [ENG]. BA-level.

Spring 2018: Curating/Exhibition Aesthetics. Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen [DK]. MA-level

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