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Trine Søndergaard (b. 1972) is a Danish photography-based visual artist. Søndergaard lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1996 she graduated from Fatamorgana, the Danish School of Art Photography.
A central theme in Trine Søndergaard’s oeuvre is vision and the gaze. She utilizes circular visual poetics, in which motifs and phrases from earlier works create meaningful connections. This takes place in a spirit of both playfulness and contemplation, in a balance between the spontaneous and the precise, the planned and the accidental. Her work often revolves around existential questions that are equally personal and universal. Søndergaard’s work explores what it means to be human, and while her work is often initiated by a personal angle, it also contains an overall exploration of more general phenomena related to historical, cultural and gender related questions.
For her series Guldnakke - literally "golden neck," Søndergaard photographed contemporary young women wearing 19th century bonnets, woven of animal thread and pure gold and worn by women in rich peasant families. In Søndergaard's large-scale portraits, the striking contrast between the 21st century clothing of the subjects and their anachronistic head coverings suggests a conflation of time.
In 2000, Trine Søndergaard received the Albert Renger Patzsch Award and has since received numerous grants and fellowships, including a three-year working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation. Søndergaard's work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions around the world and is represented in major public and museum collections, for instance Museum of Fine Arts Houston-USA, MUSAC-Spain, Gothenburg Museum of Art-Sweden, The National Museum of Norway, The Israel Museum, Maison Européenne de la Photographie-France, and AROS-Denmark. Trine Søndergaard is a member of the Danish Artists' Society and the artists' association Grønningen.
Trine Søndergaard (b. 1972) is a Danish photography-based visual artist. Søndergaard lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1996 she graduated from Fatamorgana, the Danish School of Art Photography.
A central theme in Trine Søndergaard’s oeuvre is vision and the gaze. She utilizes circular visual poetics, in which motifs and phrases from earlier works create meaningful connections. This takes place in a spirit of both playfulness and contemplation, in a balance between the spontaneous and the precise, the planned and the accidental. Her work often revolves around existential questions that are equally personal and universal. Søndergaard’s work explores what it means to be human, and while her work is often initiated by a personal angle, it also contains an overall exploration of more general phenomena related to historical, cultural and gender related questions.
For her series Guldnakke - literally "golden neck," Søndergaard photographed contemporary young women wearing 19th century bonnets, woven of animal thread and pure gold and worn by women in rich peasant families. In Søndergaard's large-scale portraits, the striking contrast between the 21st century clothing of the subjects and their anachronistic head coverings suggests a conflation of time.
In 2000, Trine Søndergaard received the Albert Renger Patzsch Award and has since received numerous grants and fellowships, including a three-year working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation. Søndergaard's work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions around the world and is represented in major public and museum collections, for instance Museum of Fine Arts Houston-USA, MUSAC-Spain, Gothenburg Museum of Art-Sweden, The National Museum of Norway, The Israel Museum, Maison Européenne de la Photographie-France, and AROS-Denmark. Trine Søndergaard is a member of the Danish Artists' Society and the artists' association Grønningen.