Ida Sønder Thorhauge
Born 1990, Denmark
Ida Sønder Thorhauge creates artworks where monumental horses and bodies in flower meadows and starry landscapes vibrate in expressive brushstrokes, and stories flow freely from the canvas and the paper.
In her work, no one has a patent on gender, expression, or behavior, when Thorhauge examines the many positions and transformations that humans and other creatures move through in a life lived. Her works reflect the great fauvist masters and modernism's depictions of monumental female figures, and they evoke a confrontation and cultural liberation of figures, human and non-human, throughout art history.
Ida Sønder Thorhauge is MA from The Jutland Art Academy in 2016. She has exhibited at art institutions and museums all over Denmark, such as Overgaden - Institut for Samtidskunst, Kunsthal Aarhus, Kunsthal Nord, and at Roskilde Festival and OK Corral. In 2020 she was awarded a spot in The Danish Arts Foundation's career program The Young Artistic Elite and her work was acquired by The Danish Arts Foundation and Rådet for Visuel Kunst.
CV
2011 - 2016 Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, DK.
2014 - 2015 Akademie der Bildende Künste, Vienna, AUT.
2016 - 2018 Co-founder and member of the artist group Piscine www.piscine.dk.
Grants
2023 The Danish Arts Foundation’s work grant.
2022 Martha and Paul René Gauguin Foundation’s honor grant.
2021 - 2022 The Young Artistic Elite, The Danish Arts Foundation’s 2-year career development grant.
2021 The Danish Arts Foundation’s special work grant.
2019 The Danish Arts Foundation’s work grant.
2019 Georg Harm’s Foundation in memory of the artistic works of the French painter Georges Bouisset’s grant.
2018 The Bikuben Foundation’s studio grant for young artists, Cph, DK.
2017 The Danish Arts Foundation’s work grant.
Collections
2023 Museet for Religiøs Kunst, 5 paintings.
2023 Ny Carlsberg Foundation, 5 paintings.
2022 Ny Carlsberg Foundation, 2 paintings.
2020 Raadet for Visuel Kunst (Copenhagen Municipality’s art committee), 1 painting.
2019 The Danish Arts Foundation, 3 paintings.
2019 Raadet for Visuel Kunst (Copenhagen Municipality’s art committee), 1 painting.
Upcoming shows and activities
2024 Spring show, group show at Wilson Saplana Gallery, Cph, DK.
2024 Pausing yet still moving, group show, gallery Hweg, Cornwall, UK.
2024 Gudinder, Solo exhibition at Museet for Religiøs Kunst, Lemvig, DK.
2024 HEST, Group exhibition at Rønnebæksholm, DK.
2025 Solo exhibition at Wilson Saplana Gallery, Cph, DK.
2025 Koloristerne, group show, Den Frie, Cph, DK.
2025 Gruppe udstilling, Tjörnedala Konsthall, Skåne, SE.
Solo exhibitions
2022 Floating Motions, solo exhibition, Gas 9 Gallery, Cph, DK.
2021 Between Eternity and Time, solo exhibition at O - Overgaden, Cph, DK.
2021 Fluttering on Every Side, frieze, Sydhavn Station, Cph, DK.
2020 Agnete Bjerre & Ida Sønder Thorhauge, Art Building Vrå, DK.
2019 Building A Path Within This Frame, solo exhibition, OK Corral, Frederiksberg, DK.
Selected duo and group exhibitions
2023 Enter Art Fair with Gas 9 Gallery.
2022 Københavnerstykker, gruppeudstilling, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Cph, DK.
2022 Kassandra’s Sisters, group exhibition, Rundetårn, Cph, DK.
2022 Enter Art Fair, DK.
2021 Scrolling into a gentle fall, duo exhibition with Julie Stavad, Ta·da, Cph, DK.
2021 What’s Figurative? Bricks Gallery, Cph, DK.
2021 Julesalon, Alice Folker Gallery, Cph, DK.
2021 Á mon avis, Kødbyen, Cph, DK.
2020 Paradis, Sydhavn Station, Cph, DK.
2020 Paulo, PADA Gallery, Lisbon, POR.
2019 Solidarity, Artzone Roskilde Festival, collaboration with Bikubenfonden, Roskilde, DK.
2019 Open studio, Fondenes Hus, Cph, DK.
2019 Urbilleder, Koldinggade 12, Cph, DK.
2018 Last Xmas at the Harbour, Sydhavnen, DK.
2018 Is thinking decoration?, Carlsbergbyens Galleri & Kunstsalon, Cphh, DK.
2017 Women in Nature, duo exhibition with Johanne Lykke Poulsen, Se!, Aarhus, DK.
2017 Stronger Than Dirt, duo exhibition with Duda Bebek, den nordiske ambassade, Cph, DK.
2017 De Femten Kunsthaller (KN 1-15), Kunsthal NORD, Aalborg, DK
2017 A Step Outside, KH7artspace, Aarhus, DK.
2016 Afgang 16, Det Jyske Kunstakademi, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, DK.
Exhibitions made with the artist group Piscine
2019 Rencontres Internationales with Piscine, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE.
2019 Rencontres Internationales with Piscine, Louvre, Forum des images, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR.
2018 Be A Pattern for the World, Piscine + Bergman & Salinas, INCA Insitute for New Connotative Action, Portland, Oregon, US.
2018 Be A Pattern for the World, Piscine + Bergman & Salinas, The Poor Farm, Wisconsin, US.
2018 A Sweet Taste of Conspiracy, Piscine + Bergman & Salinas, Fuego, Mexico City, MEX.
2018 Over-Existing, Piscine + Bergman & Salinas, Alt_Cph18, FABRIKKEN, DK.
2017 Imagineering, solo exhibition by Piscine, Adult, Cph, DK.
2016 The Weather is Too Predictable, solo exhibition by Piscine, Piscine, Aarhus, DK.
Residencies
2021 The Danish Art Workshops, 2 months residency at Turboladen, Cph, DK 2020 The Danish Institute in Rome, 1 month residency with Coline Marotta, IT 2020 PADA, 1 month residency, Lisbon, POR 2017 ARoS Studio, 3 months residency, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, DK 2016 The Danish Institute in Athens, 1 month residency, GR
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