Anthumous selected history

  • Painting exhibition with Michael Petersen.

  • Painting exhibition with Michael Petersen

  • Censored group show. Copenhagen, Fall 1987.

1987

  • Group show curated by Bodil Kaalund including works by Jakob Amátangneq, Sivert Augustesen, Aron Bertelsen, Thue Christiansen, Ludvig Falksen, Thomas Frederiksen, Ejnar Heilmann, Anne-Birthe Hove, Aka Høegh, Arnannquaq Høegh, Aros Kleist, Lunde Koko, Jessie Kristensen (Kleemann), Gert Kreutzman, Ole Kreutzman, Dorthe Kristoffersen, Karl Kristoffersen, Kristoffer Kristoffersen, Sara Kristoffersen, Simon Kristoffersen, William Kuitse, Jens Leibhardt, Kistat Lund, Viggo Lyberth, Hans Lynge, Odin Maratse, Kristian Olsen Aaju, Benjamin Petersen, Knud Petrusen, Adam Pivat, Egon Poulsen, Georg Poulsen, Nuka Poulsen, Emil Rosing, Ina Rosing, Jens Rosing, Kâle Rosing, Efraim Singertât, Kornelius Thomassen, Otto Thomassen, Andreas Thorsen, as well as artworks by anonymous artists. Arke is listed as “Pia Ârqé.”

1988

  • Participates in a group show in Amersfoort Museum, Holland 1989.

  • Group show with Karl-Peter Andersen, Anne-Birthe Hove, Aka Høegh, Alibak Johansen, Jens Rosing, and others.

    The Greenlandic House, Aarhus; The Greenlandic House, Odense; The Greenlandic House, Aalborg; The Greenland Representation, Copenhagen; Vojens City Hall, Vojens; et al., 1989.

  • Arke’s first solo show, exhibits The Daily Actions (1989) at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, June 7 – 21, 1989.

1989

  • Inauguration of her Camera Obscura at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, on May 29, 1990

  • Ships camera obscura to Nuugaarsuk Point, Narsaq, to photograph the Point.

1990

  • Group show with fellow graduate students from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Karen Bjerresgård, Mads Gamdrup, Gritt Gjellerod, Camilla Hvidtfeldt, Erling Lykke Jeppesen, Pia Johansen, Jacob Tue Larsen, Nikolaj Meedom, Kathrine Schrøder, and Ricard Silwärn.

    Exhibition catalogue: Legitimationskort, Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 1992.

  • Ships her pinhole camera to Nuugaarsuk Point, Narsaq, to photograph the Point.

  • November 29, 1992) and Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark (March 9 – April 18, 1993). Group show with Ellen Auken, Grete Dalum, Mads Gamdrup, Signe Guttormsen, Søren Janns, Johnny Jensen, Erling Lykke Jeppesen, Lene Klit, Niels Larsen, Lisa Rosenmeier, Ane Mette Ruge, Erik Steffensen, and Agneta Werner. Possibly exhibits the series Imaginary Homelands (1992) without annotated frames as in the later version of the work. Exhibition catalogue: Tendenser – Ny dansk fotografi, Copenhagen: Fotografisk Galleri, 1992, featuring an untitled text by Erik Gant.

  • Gains permission in either 1992 or 1994 from the Institution of Herstedvester, a closed prison for long-term convicted felons and preventive detainees located in Albertslund, Denmark, to do weekend art workshops with the Greenlandic inmates.

1992

  • Studies under Associate Professor Carsten Juhl. Acquires an MFA degree in 1995 with her thesis Ethno-Aesthetics.

  • Produces an untitled artistic contribution to the Danish journal Katalog. Quarterly Magazine for Photography, vol. 6, no. 2, December 1993, on the theme “The Nordic Edge.”

  • Den flyvende kajak – Nutidskunst fra Grønland / The Flying Kayak: Contemporary Art from Greenland / Qajaq silaannakkoortoq – Kalaallit Nunaannu nalitsinni eqqumiitsuliat, organized by the Nordic Art Centre, Helsinki and traveling to Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark (December 4, 1993 – February 13, 1994); The Nordic Art Centre, Helsinki (March 26 – June 5, 1994); Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi (October 14 – November 27, 1994); and Millesgården, Stockholm/Lidingö (January 21 – March 5, 1995). Group show curated by Bodil Kaalund including works by Lise Hessner, Anne-Birthe Hove, Aka Høegh, Arnannguaq Høegh, Miki Jacobsen, Ina Rosing, et al.. Exhibits an installation produced specifically for the show, whose title and dimensions are unknown.

    Exhibition catalogue: Staffan Carlen (ed.), Den Flyvende Kajak – Nutidskunst fra Grønland, Helsinki: The Nordic Art Centre, 1995.

    Selected press: Kim Skotte, “Tupilakkens forbandelse,” in Det fri aktuelt, February 24, 1994

    Pia Arke, “‘Lad os lytte omsorgsfuldt’ / ‘Naalarnilluarniarta’,” in Sermitsiaq, no. 5, 1994.

1993

1994

  • Group show with Fie Johansen. Exhibits Camera Obscura (1990), 4 x Nuugaarsuk prints (1990), and a photostat (title, year, and dimensions unknown).

  • Produces an untitled artistic contribution to the Danish journal Litteraturmagasinet Standart, vol. 8, no. 3, August – October 1994, consisting of an excerpt of a letter from an American stationed at Thule Air Base, who bought one of Arke’s paintings.

  • Participates in a seminar at Sostrup Castle, Djursland, Denmark, with among others, Marianne Ping Huang, Stefan Jonsson, and Mette Jørgensen. Exhibits Nature Morte (1994).

  • Den flyvende kajak – Nutidskunst fra Grønland / The Flying Kayak: Contemporary Art from Greenland / Qajaq silaannakkoortoq – Kalaallit Nunaannu nalitsinni eqqumiitsuliat, organized by the Nordic Art Centre, Helsinki and traveling to Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark (December 4, 1993 – February 13, 1994); The Nordic Art Centre, Helsinki (March 26 – June 5, 1994); Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi (October 14 – November 27, 1994); and Millesgården, Stockholm/Lidingö (January 21 – March 5, 1995). Group show curated by Bodil Kaalund including works by Lise Hessner, Anne-Birthe Hove, Aka Høegh, Arnannguaq Høegh, Miki Jacobsen, Ina Rosing, et al.. Exhibits an installation produced specifically for the show, whose title and dimensions are unknown.

    Exhibition catalogue: Staffan Carlen (ed.), Den Flyvende Kajak – Nutidskunst fra Grønland, Helsinki: The Nordic Art Centre, 1995.

    Selected press: Kim Skotte, “Tupilakkens forbandelse,” in Det fri aktuelt, February 24, 1994

    Pia Arke, “‘Lad os lytte omsorgsfuldt’ / ‘Naalarnilluarniarta’,” in Sermitsiaq, no. 5, 1994.

  • Provides images and an interview for Stefan Jonsson’s article series “Kulturer emellan” [Between Cultures] published in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter during the period of January 15 – March 18, 1995.

  • Involved in organizing the Greenlandic stand at the NGO Forum ’95 held during the UN World Summit for Social Development, Holmen, Copenhagen, March 6 –12, 1995.

  • Travels to New York in spring 1995. Research at the Explorers’ Club and the American Museum of Natural History into archival material on the disorder ‘Arctic hysteria’.

  • Solo show, exhibits Nature Morte/Perlustrationer (1994).

  • Selected press: The local newspaper Göteborgs-posten writes on November 10, 1995: “En grönlandsk stövel. Hon satte en guldlockig peruk på huvudet och sa att så ser hon sig, bytte peruken mot en exotisk grönländsk stövel och: – Så här ser ni mig.” [A Greenlandic Boot. She placed a blond wig on her head and said that this is how she sees herself, replaced the wig with an exotic Greenlandic boot and: – This is how you see me].

  • Gallery Langas, Vilnius (May 20 – June 2, 1996); Rotuses Gallery, Kèdainai, Lithuania (1996); and Brandts Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark (January 11 – February 23, 1997).

    Group show curated by Finn Thrane including works by Tove Kurtzweil, Lotte Tauber Lassen, and Lis Steincke. Exhibits Nature Morte (1994) (pp. 168-172, 257). Selected press: Finn Thrane, “‘VACUUM’ (Four Female Danish Photographers),” in Mesiac Fotografie/Month of Photography, November 1995 and Finn Thrane, “VACUUM – Tove Kurtzweil, Lis Steincke, Pia Arke and Lotte Tauber Lassen,” in Katalog. Quarterly Magazine for Photography, vol. 9, no. 2, Winter 1996-97.

1995

  • Solo show, exhibits Nature Morte (1994). On January 18, Arke delivers a lecture at the museum titled “Drömt hemland – verk av verkligheten” [Dreamt Homeland – Works of Reality]. Selected press: Stefan Eklund, “Bilder mot entydigheten,” in Borås Tidning, January 18, 1996.

  • Solo show, exhibits Telegraphy (1996). Exhibition folder: Telegrafi, Copenhagen: Gentofte Kunst- bibliotek, 1996, featuring a text by Erik Gant titled “Værk og virkelighed.” Selected press: “Ud og hjem,” in Villabyerne, February 28, 1996 and Mette Sandbye, “Maleriet er et fossil,” in Weekendavisen, March 1-7, 1996.

  • Records the video Arctic Hysteria on March 25, 1996 in her apartment in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen.

  • Solo show, exhibits a lost panoramic b/w photo series of Mount Dundas, Thule (c. 1992), Imaginary Homelands (1992) without annotated frames as in the later version of the work, Playground (1993), Untitled (Thule Air Base) (1992-93) without annotated frame as in the later version of the work, Nature Morte (1994), and 4 x Nuugaarsuk prints (1990), and The Three Graces (1993). Selected press: Dan Backmann, “On display: Realpolitik, försvarspolitik och skön konst,” in Svenska Dagbladet, April 12, 1996.

  • Die Wiederkehr des Vergangenen – Ende der Utopien? 1. Ars Baltica Triennale der Photokunst / The Return of the Past – The End of Utopias? 1st Ars Baltica Triennal of Photographic Art, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (April 14 – June 2, 1996); Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (August 24 – September 29, 1996); State Museum of Prehistory, Dresden (January 1 – February 23, 1997); Helsingin Taidehalli, Helsinki (March 23 – May 4, 1997); Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn (May 17 – June 8, 1997); Brandts Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark (June 28 – August

    24, 1997); Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (September 13 – November 2, 1997); Galeria Miejska Arsena, Poznan, Poland (November 18 – December 27, 1997); and Maison du Danemark, Paris (February 5 – March 27, 1998). Group show curated by Enno Kaufhold including works by Klaus Elle, Bengt Olof Johansson, Kapa, Winser Klüglein, Wladimir Kuprijanow, Peeter Maria Laurits, Matthias Leupold, Esko Männikkö, Wojciech Prazmowski, Antanas Sutkus, Line Wælgaard, and Martin Zelmenis.

    Exhibits Telegraphy (1996), Nature Morte (1994), and a pinhole camera photostat with dots (year, title, and dimensions unknown, lost). Exhibition catalogue: Enno Kaufhold (ed.), Die Wiederkehr des Vergangenen – Ende der Utopien? 1. Ars Baltica Triennale der Photokunst / The Return of the Past – The End of Utopias? 1st Ars Baltica Triennal of Photographic Art, Schleswig & Berlin: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf & Haus am Waldsee, 1996, featuring a text by Erik Gant titled “Werk und Wirklichkeit / Work and Reality.” Selected press: “Balternes billeder,” in Aalborg Stiftstidende, June 27, 1997.

  • Odense, Denmark, April 19 – June 2, 1996. Group show curated by Finn Thrane including works by Jeff Guess and Sandra Moss. Exhibits Black & White Ornament (1996). Selected press: Rune Gade, “Nøglehulsbilleder,” in Information, May 24, 1996.

  • Conducts the workshop Einblick/Ausblick [Insight/Outloook] at Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel, Germany, July 8 – 14, 1996. In addition to the workshop, Arke delivers a public lecture on her work and exhibits her Camera Obscura (1990) surrounded by whale blubber in the academy’s neighboring park. Selected press: “Mit Walspeck auf Beutefang,” in Kieler Nachrichten, July 11, 1996.

  • Group show with Jørgen Borg, Nanna Bisp Büchert, Ole Christiansen, Tom Christoffersen, Krass Clement, Torben Eskerod, Joakim Eskildsen, Mads Gamdrup, Johnny Jensen, Fie Johansen, Kirsten Klein, Tove Kurtzweil, Finn Larsen, Tue Lütken, Stuart McIntyre, Frank Mundt, Barry Pringle, Strange Ross, Henrik Saxgren, Tina Schwartz, Saul Shapiro, Stig Stasig, Erik Steffensen, and Poul Erik Veigaard. Exhibits one print from the Nuugaarsuk series. Exhibition catalogue: Lars Schwander (ed.), Det danske Landskab / The Danish Landscape, Copenhagen: Fotografisk Center, 1996.

  • Photograph the ocean view. The process is documented in Galleri 11 [Gallery 11], a 28:29 min. television feature produced by Stig Krabbe Barfoed for DR – Danish Broadcasting Corporation, broadcast on DR October 24, 1996.

1996

  • Conducts a workshop titled Democracy with a group of Greenlandic inmates in the Danish closed prison, Institution of Herstedvester, Albertslund, Denmark.

  • Group show curated by Amnon Barzel including works by Mohammed el Baz, Dennis del Favero & Scenario Urbano, Fariba Hajamadi, Henrietta Lethonen, Feng Mengbo, Marjatta Oja, Tamar Schori, Raymundo Sesma, and Peter Weibel.

    Exhibits, among other works, The Three Graces (1993), Playground (1993), a lost panoramic b/w photo series of Mount Dundas, Thule (c. 1992), Imaginary Homelands (1992) without annotated frames as in the later version of the work.

    Exhibition catalogue: Remote Connections – Mediekunsten og Det Fjernes forsvinden, Copenhagen: Nikolaj, Københavns Kommunes Udstillingsbygning, 1997, featuring a text collage by Pia Arke & Erik Gant.

    Selected press: Kristine Kern, “Billeder af samtiden,” in Det fri aktuelt, March 11, 1997.

  • Contributes to the conference “Kunst og sted” [Art and Place], University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, April 25 – 26, 1997, with a lecture on the lost work Arctic Hysteria III.

  • Group show based on concept by Christian Gether including 192 works representing the collections of 26 Danish art museums:

    Gerda Thune Andersen, Merete Barker, Poul Anker Bech, Peter Bonde, Peter Bonnén, Stig Brøgger, Claus Carstensen, Jesper Christiansen, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Frede Christoffersen, Viera Collaro, Sven Dalsgaard, Svend Danelund, Svend Engelund, Erik A. Frandsen, Wilhelm Freddie, Paul Gadegaard, Paul Gernes, Svend Wiig Hansen, Hein Heinsen, Preben Hornung, Oluf Høst, Karl Isakson, Georg Jacobsen, Henrik Plenge Jacobsen, Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Robert Jacobsen, Claus Jensen, Asger Jorn, Claus Rohland Jørgensen, Per Kirkeby, Anders Kirkegaard, Arthur Köpcke, Michael Kvium, Peter Louis-Jensen, Mats Letén, Jens Lund, Vilhelm Lundstrøm, Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Albert Mertz, Finn Mickelborg, Richard Mortensen, Mogens Møller, Niels Nedergård, Palle Nielsen, Bjørn Nørgaard, Lars Nørgård, Yoko Ono, Kirsten Ortwed, Olaf Rude, Hans Christian Rylander, William Scharff, Ole Schwalbe, Morten Stræde, Edvard Weie, J.F. Willumsen, Poul Winther, and Willy Ørskov.

    Exhibits 4 x Nuugaarsuk prints.

    Exhibition catalogue: Dorthe Aagesen et

    al. (eds.), Museum Danmark, Ishøj: Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, 1997.

  • Group show with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Maria Lindberg, Karl-Johan Stigmark, and Vibeke Tandberg. Exhibits the video Arctic Hysteria (1996), and the photo montage Arctic Hysteria (1997).

  • Travels to Scoresbysund/Ittoqqortoormiit in the summer for the first time in 35 years after having moved away from the town at the age of four. Conducts research for the book work Stories from Scoresbysund: Photographs, Colonisation and Mapping (Copenhagen: Borgen Publishers, 2003).

    Earlier working titles for the book: Rejsen til Israel – et billedkunstnerisk og dokumentarisk projekt om Nordøstgrønland [The Journey to Israel – An Artistic and Documentary Project on North East Greenland] and Scoresbysund historier – et billedhistorisk projekt [Scoresbysund Stories – An Image History Project].

    In addition, Arke lectures at the local school.

  • Acts as one of five judges selecting artworks for Galleri 12 [Gallery 12], a censored TV art exhibition organized by Stig Krabbe Barfoed and broadcast DR – Danish Broadcasting Corporation on August 29-30, 1997.

  • Group show with Niran Baibulat and Maj-Lis Skaltje. Exhibits the photo montages Arctic Hysteria alias Artic Hysteria IV (1997), Krabbe/Jensen I (1997), and Krabbe/ Jensen II (1997).

    Selected press: Lauri Antilla, “Matkoilla,” in Valokuva – Finnish Photography, no. 5-6, 1997; Minna Heikitaho, “Taiteilijat Pia Arke, Niran Baibulat ja Maj-Lis Skaltje. Kolmisin,” in Valokuva – Finnish Photography, no. 5-6, 1997; and Carsen Juhl, “Täydennystä globaaliin kulttuurikeitokseen,” in Valokuva – Finnish Photography, no. 5-6, 1997.

  • Group show with Vibeke Juel, Anders Kjærgaard, and Linda Orloff.

    Exhibits a series of 3 x Nature Morte/Perlustrationer now titled ‘The Mariner’s Library’, Copenhagen 1994, 1-3 (1994) and 6 x images from what Pia referred to as her Territory project: 1) Norwegian, Danish and other countries’ hunting houses in North East Greenland, 2) Three houses from North East Greenland, 3) Camera house, 4) The Sea (p. 385), 5) Ferienhäuser, and 6) Postcard.

  • Landscape ’97, Jyväskylä Fair, Jyväskylä, Finland (November 21 – December 14, 1997) and Photographic Center Peri, Turku, Finland (July, 1998). Group show curated by Martti Kapanen and Kimmo Lehtonen including works by Jim Bengston, Rebecca Burkhalter, Magnus Bärtås, Mads Gamdrup, Maija Holma, Una Hunderi, Japo Knuutila, Karin Kristoffersson, Tuija Lindström, Mikael Olsson, Linda Orloff, Bryndís Snæbjørnsdóttir, Kari Soinio, Michael Staggemeier, Arne Kjell Vikhagen, and Sven Westerlund. Exhibits the photo montages Arctic Hysteria (1997), Krabbe/Jensen I (1997), and Krabbe/ Jensen II (1997).

  • an Internet book project curated by Sanne Kofod Olsen, Susan Hinnum, and Malene Landgreen presenting the work of 67 female artists active on the Danish art scene on the http://www.artnode.org/projekt/inserts/index.html (launched December 12,1997).

1997

  • Skandinavisk Panorama [Scandinavian Panorama], panoramic series of 5 x b/w photographs of a suburb in Gothenburg, Sweden, published on the five front pages of the Danish journal Litteraturmagasinet Standart during the year 1998 (vol. 12, nos. 1-5).

  • Overgaden – Kulturministeriets Udstillingshus for Nutidig Kunst, Copenhagen, May 1 – 24, 1998. Exhibits The Blubber Ladder, Emil,

    Ole and Asger (1998) , Soil for Scoresbysund (1998), Gone with the Wind (1997), and Krabbe’s Book

    (c. 1998). Exhibition catalogue: Piteraq: En fælles udstilling af Pia Arke og Eva Mertz, Copenhagen: Overgaden – Kulturministeriets Udstillingshus for Nutidig Kunst, 1998, featuring an essay by Bo Wagner Sørensen titled “‘Hjemmehørende’ kunst?”

    Selected press: Hanne Stine Hansen, “Månedens kunstner: Pia Arke,” in Kunstavisen no. 5, 1998.

  • Travels to Ittoqqortoormiit/Scoresbysund in June for a month to conduct research for the book work Stories from Scoresbysund: Photographs, Colonisation and Mapping (Copenhagen: Borgen Publishers, 2003).

    Is joined by co-author Stefan Jonsson, who refers to his travel in the article “Ett samhälle som ingenting minns,” in Dagens Nyheter, July 19, 1998.

    In addition, Arke lectures at the local school.

1998

  • Group show with Sophia Kalkau, Nynne Livbjerg, and Veronica Raaen. Exhibits the installation Tupilakosaurus – an installation that has to do with histories produced specifically for the show (pp. 52, 64-70, 234-237, 273, 274, accompanying DVD). Exhibition feature: Museet for Samtidskunst,

    Roskilde, no. 4, 1998. Selected press: Mai Misfeldt, “Kunsthistorier,” in Berlingske Tidende, March 11, 1999 and Simon Sheikh, “Kunstneren som etnograf,” in Information, January 20, 1999.

  • “Spæk og videnskab” [Blubber and Science], artistic contribution to the Danish journal PASSAGE: Tidsskrift for litteratur og kritik, no. 31/32, 1999

  • Group show curated by Johan Swinnen including works by Faisal Abdu’Allah, Nobuyoshi Araki, Amy Arbus, Shimon Attie, Jean Baudrillard, Charif Benhelima, Jo Brunenberg, Theo Derksen, Joan Fontcuberta, Ben Hansen, Steve Hart, Duane Michals, Bart Michielsen, Ryuji Miyamoto, Andreas Müller-Pohle, Hans Neleman, Sakiko Nomura, Pentti Sammallahti, Toshio Shibata, Sterck & Rozo, and Masao Yamamoto.

    Exhibits the photo montage Arctic Hysteria (1997), the video Tupilakosaurus: An Interesting Study about the Triassic Myth of Kap Stosch (1999) , accompanying DVD), and the following three publications in a display case: Mette Jørgensen, “Islands: Literally and in Literature,” in Kunapipi – Journal of Post-Colonial Writing, Dangaroo Press, vol. XIX, no. 2, 1997; Lars Morell, “Naturfolk og nature morte,” in Magasin fra Det Kongelige Bibliotek, vol. 10, no. 1, June 1995; and Eigil Nielsen, Tupilakosaurus Heilmani n.g. et n.sp.: An Interesting Batrachomorph from the Triassic of East Greenland, Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel Publisher, Copenhagen, 1954 (Meddelelser om Grønland / Monographs on Greenland, vol. 8, no. 72).

    Exhibition catalogue: Johan Swinnen (ed.), ATTACK! Fotografie op het scherpst van de snede, Antwerpen & Baarm: Houetekiet & De Prom, 1999, featuring a catalogue contribution by Arke and text by Carsten Juhl titled “Eskimovrouwen en ontdekkingsreizigers.”.

  • Censored group show with Andriette Ahrenkiel, Juan Alfaro, Helle Bjerrum, Jørgen Fog, Mette Graae, Gillion Grantsaan, Marianne Therese Grønnow, Stine Gøtrik, Kristine Jensen, Bertil Skov Jørgensen, Ole Krabbe-Poulsen, Toni Larsen, Karin Lorentzen, Annika Lundgren, Truls Melin, Jørgen Michaelsen, Karina Mosegård, N55, Stine Barr Prebensen, Christina Prip, Paw Rytter, Morten Schelde, Renè Schmidt, Jeanette Schou, Jasper Sebastian Stürup, Jens Thegler, Transform, Ivar Tønsberg, Charlotte Vejlø, Johanne Visby, and Maria Wandel.

    Exhibits Legend I-V (1999), and receives an award for the series from the Danish Arts Foundation.

    Exhibition catalogue: Efterårsudstillingen 1999, Copenhagen: Charlottenborg, 1999.

  • Brandts Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark (June 23 – August 13, 2000); The Nordic House, Reykjavík, Iceland (February, 2001); Bratislava Art Society, Bratislava (November 1 – 25, 2001); Trane Exhibition, Gentofte Public Library, Copenhagen (June 16 – July 21, 2001), and The Danish Cultural Institute, Kecskemèt, Hungary (April – May 2004). Group show curated by Finn Thrane including works by Kristján Maack, Eva Merz, Fin Serck-Hanssen, Lars Tunbjörk, and Pekka Turunen.

    Exhibits 4 x Nuugaarsuk prints (1990), Wonderland (1996) (p. 173), and The Three Graces, nos. 1-3 (1993).

    Exhibition catalogue: Finn Thrane (ed.), Sehnsucht nach der Sehnsucht – Sechs fotografen im Norden / Longing for Longing – Six Nordic Photographers, Berlin: The Pan Nordic Building of the Nordic Embassies, 2000.

    Selected press: Flemming Andersen, “Nordisk længsel,” in Aktuelt, June 2000 and Bjarne Mouridsen, “Den nordiske længsel,” in Kristeligt Dagblad, June 29, 2000.

1999

  • With Erik Gant and Anders Jørgensen.

2000

  • Conducts research for the book work ‘Stories from Scoresbysund: Photographs, Colonisation and Mapping’ (Copenhagen: Borgen Publishers, 2003).

    With the help of different town members, Pia Identifies people and events in archival and private historical photographs.

    The result is exhibited at Ittoqqortoormiit Kalersungaasiviat [Ittoqqortoormiit Local Museum].

  • Working residency at the Danish Art Workshops, Copenhagen, in connection with her book work ‘Stories from Scoresbysund: Photographs, Colonisation and Mapping’ (Copenhagen: Borgen Publishers, 2003) from January 15 – March 15 and July 16 – 25, 2001.

  • Item description

  • Group show within the biennial curated by Jan-Erik Lundström including works by Oladélé Bangboyé, Carlos Capelán, FA+ (Ingrid Falk/Gustavo Aguerre), Jamelie Hassan, Année Olofsson, Sanna Sarva, Lena Stenberg, and Barthélémy Toguo. Exhibits Legend I-V (1999).

    Exhibition catalogue: Michele Robecchi (ed.), Tirana Biennale 1, Milan: Giancarlo Politi Editore & Flash Art, 2001, featuring a curatorial statement by Jan-Erik Lundström.

  • Group show curated by Jan-Erik Lundström including works by Oladélé Bamgboyé, Carlos Capelán, FA+ (Ingrid Falk/Gustavo Aguerre), Jårg Geismar, Simryn Gill, Jamelie Hassan, Anneè Olofsson, Adrian Paci, Sanna Sarva, Fazal Sheikh, Lena Stenberg, and Barthélémy Toguo.

    Exhibits Legend I-V (1999)

  • Group show curated by Ingrid Fischer Jonge including historical archival photographs of Greenland from the 1860s onwards and contemporary works by Per Folkver, Joachim Koester, Finn Larsen, Eva Mertz, Jacob Aue Sobol, Erik Steffensen, and Mette Tronvoll.

    Exhibits Krabbe/Jensen (1997), Scoresbysund Panorama – sketch for a history interpretation (2001), and Towards a historical narrative of the people “where the big houses are” / Ittooqqortoormiit (2001).

    Selected press: Annette Brodersen, “Den grønlandske myte,” in Politiken, November 2, 2001;

    Charlotte Christensen, “Hvor vilde er grønlænderne?,” in Information, November 6, 2001;

    Karen M. Jeppesen, “Grønland set med andre øjne,” in Kristeligt Dagblad, November 5, 2001; I

    ngrid Fischer Jonge, “Grønland som billede,” in Tidsskriftet Grønland, no. 8, 2001;

    Mette Sandbye, “Grønland – med danske øjne,” in Weekendavisen, November 16-22, 2001.

2001

  • Selected press: Hanne Fokdal Barnekow (producer), “Scoresbysundhistorier,” radio feature broadcast on Silikone, P1, DR – Danish Broadcasting Corporation, May 5, 2003;

    Anne Knudsen, “En Fodsbred til Danmarks Jord,” in Weekendavisen, May 2, 2003;

    Torben Lodberg, “Danmarkip Tunu ilungersuutigimmagu Amma- ssalimmiut isiginnaartuuinnarmata / Da ammassalikkerne var statister i Danmarks krav på Østgrønland,” in Sermitsiaq, no. 20, 2003;

    Mai Misfeldt, “Det er også din historie,” in Berlingske Tidende, August 21, 2003;

    Mette Sandbye, “Kunstneren som kulturhistoriker,” in Litteraturmagasinet Standart, no. 3, September 2003;

    Leif Kiil Sørensen, “Den forsvundne familie,” in Kristeligt Dagblad, May 13, 2003 (see also Bibliography).

  • Solo show, exhibits Dummy (1997-2003), Walrus Bay 1944 and 2001, 1-10 (2001-03), Soil for Scoresbysund (1998), Telegraphy (1996), Nature Morte (1994), Legende III (1999), and more. Selected press: Mette Sandbye, “Grønland som billede,” in Weekendavisen, May 9, 2003.

  • curated by Tamara Malmeström and Elisabet Haglund with participating artists from India, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, and the U.S in Dakshina Chitra Museum and various private homes in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, January 19 – 27, 2003.

    A joint venture between DakshinaChitra Center of the Madras Craft Foundation, Chennai, and Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden. Exhibits a photo installation titled Imaginary Homelands consisting of various prints of her works (2003) in the “Weaver’s house”.

  • International Contemporary Art, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden, September 6 – November 16, 2003. Group show curated by Tamara Malmeström and Elisabet Haglund including works by Ghada Amer, Shanta Bai, Ganga Behn, Jaumi Behn, Rani Behn, Swarna Chitrakar, Francesco Clemente, Chanda Devi, Chanu Devi, Lalitha Devi, Rudhan Devi, C. Douglas, Putli Ganju, Gauribai, Sheela Gowda, Archana Hande, Tamara Malmeström, Ram Roop Paswan, Hans Hamid Rasmussen, Surekha, Ram Singh Urveti, and Anna Tegeström Wolgers.

    Exhibition catalogue: Elisabet Haglund & Tamara Malmeström (eds.),

    Sites of Recurrence – II – Out of India – International Contemporary Art, Chennai & Borås: DakshinaChitra Center of the Madras Craft Foundation & Borås Konstmuseum, 2003.

  • Group show curated by Finn Reinbothe, Per Bak Jensen, and Karen Juul including works by Martin Erik Andersen, Kerstin Bergendal, Niels Bonde, Peter Bonde, Kaspar Bonnén, Yvette Brackman, Jens Brink, Stig Brøgger, Torben Christensen, Krass Clement, Colonel, Olafur Eliasson, Maria Finn, Erik A. Frandsen, Anja Franke, Mads Gamdrup, Jens Haaning, Lone Høyer Hansen, Peter Holst Henckel, Thyra Hilden, Jytte Høj, Frans Jacobi, Johnny Jensen, Per Bak Jensen, Søren Jensen, Kirsten Justesen, Tine Maria Koefoed, Joachim Koester, Jacob Tue Larsen, Karin Lind, Ann Kristine Lislegaard, Søren Lose, Søren Martinsen, Jesper Rasmussen, Sten Møller Rasmussen, Finn Naur Petersen, Lars Bent Petersen, Stine Barr Prebensen, Finn Reinbothe, Lisa Rosenmeier, Ane Mette Ruge, Katya Sander, Erik Steffensen, Trine Søndergaard, Gitte Villesen, and Agneta Werner. Selected press: Rune Gade, “Pluralismens triumf,” in Information, November 19, 2003.

2003

  • Solo show, exhibits Dummy (1997-2003). Selected press: “Historier fra Grønland,” in Århus Stiftstidende, March 3, 2004.

  • A fully conceptualized but unrealized group show with Thomas Wolsing scheduled to take place in Katuaq – Cultural Centre of Greenland, Nuuk, in May 2004.

    Arke had planned to show the same works as in the show Scoresbysundhistorier – retrospektivt [Stories from Scoresbysund – In Retro- spective]. The day before the works were to be shipped she had to cancel the exhibition because her cancer had worsened.

2004

  • Den røde snescooter: en udstilling med værker af 13 samtidskunstnere, alle med relationer til Grønland og Danmark / Snescooteri Aappalaartoq / The Red Snowmobile: An exhibition with works by 13 contemporary artists, all related to Greenland and Denmark,

    The North Atlantic House, Copenhagen (September 23 – December 31, 2005) and Katuaq – Cultural Centre of Greenland, Nuuk, (April 7 – 30, 2006).

    Group show curated by Charlotte Almsig, Annette Dyrhøj Møller, and John Rosing including works by Julie Edel Hardenberg, Anne-Birthe Hove, Arnannguaq Høegh, Inuk Silis Høegh, Miki Jacobsen, Jessie Kleemann, Gukki Møller, Lars Møller, Camilla Nielsen, Linda Riber, Bolatta Silis- Høegh, and Arnajaraq Støvlbæk. Exhibits Countryside – An installation about flowers and land (2005).

    Exhibition catalogue: Charlotte Almsig, Annette Dyrhøj Møller & John Rosing (eds.), Den røde snescooter: en udstilling med værker af 13 samtidskunstnere, alle med relationer til Grønland og Danmark, Copenhagen: Nordatlantens Brygge, 2005)

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2005

  • Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts, a transnational and transdisciplinary exhibition project curated by Kuratorisk Aktion for NIFCA, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, unfolding in:

    Reykjavík, Iceland (March 24 – April 16, 2006);

    Nuuk, Greenland (April 21 – May 4, 2006);

    Tórshavn, The Faroe Islands (May 12 – June 4, 2006);

    and Rovaniemi, Finnish Sápmi (June 16 – July 9, 2006)

    With a concluding documentation website/DVD launch in the Scandinavian metropoles November 25, 2006. Contributes to Act 3: Living (in) the Postcolonial, The Faroe Islands Art Museum, Tórshavn, May 12 – June 4, 2006, which also includes works by Nadiah Bamadhaj, Godfried Donkor, Jane Jin Kaisen & Tobias Hübinette, Rannvá Holm Mortensen, and Ruangrupa, with Dummy (1997-2003) and to Act 5’s documentation website/DVD with an English translation of Ethno-Aesthethics (1995).

    Publication material: Kuratorisk Aktion (ed.), Rethinking Nordic Colonialism Documentation DVD, Helsinki: NIFCA, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, 1st edition 2006, 2nd edition 2007. Online version at www.rethinking-nordic- colonialism.org. Selected press: Erik Gant, “Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: Et Post- kolonialt udstillingsprojekt i fem akter,” in Øjeblikket, no. 48, vol. 14, Summer 2007 and Sigga Vang & Ivan Niclasen (producers), “Living in the Postcolonial,” TV feature broadcast on Mentanartíðindi, Kringvarp Føroya – Faroese Broadcasting Company, May 10, 2006.

  • Group show curated by Birna Marianne Kleivan including works by Christian Rud Andersen, Dieter Appelt, Richard Avedon, Letizia Battaglia, Nygårds Karin Bengtsson, Harry Borden, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Ole Christiansen, Luc Delahaye, J.H. Engström, Elliott Erwitt, Torben Eskerod, Joakim Eskildsen, Liu Xiao Fang, Maria Friberg, Hermann Fösterling, Andrew Z. Glickman, Markus Jokela, Milla Jung, Jan Kaila, Marjaana Kella, Kent Klich, Nina Korhonen, Marketa Luskacova, Mary Ellen Mark, Mario Cravo Neto, Irving Penn, Anders Petersen, Ivan Pinkava, Henrik Saxgren, Walter Schels, Rudolf Schäfer, Jacob Aue Sobol, Stig Stasig, Christer Strömholm, Antanas Sutkus, Trine Søndergaard, Boaz Tal, Bert Teunissen, Lars Tunbjörk, and Tom Wood.

    Exhibits Nature Morte 4 (1994). Selected press: Birna Marianne Kleivan, “Closed Eyes,” in Katalog. Quarterly Magazine for Photography, vol. 18, no. 2, 2006.

    This was Arke’s last show.

  • Travels to Scoresbysund/Ittoqqortoormiit in the fall. Does video recordings for the never realized work Sumaar Kiosk (working title).

2006