Helene Høm * Co. Kirkevej 2 * DK 3760 Gudhjem* Tel.+45 26 13 18 83 * besked@helenehoem.dk * CVR 40 425 748
Visual artist Helene Høm (born 1972) experiments between the understandable and abstraction in a working process, where motifs, colors and ornaments are mixed ind order to let subtle impressions and themes emerge - often with elements of mystery. With colouristic sensitivity, she uses nature and the sea around Bornholm to explore basic existential conditions of contemporary humanity.
Helene Høm acquired a physical and performative approach to visual arts at the state academy Norwegian Theatre Academy in 2001-2004 (BA). Methods and expressions from visual art, architecture and installation art were used in her work with performance and theatre. As part of this, she started painting during her studies, with the Swedish artist Hans-Ove Granath as professor and mentor. Her graduation solo project consisted of a series of paintings created from a theatre script.
After almost 20 years of working mainly with visual performing arts, she immersed herself exclusively in painting in the years 2018-2024 and established herself as a visual artist. Today, she works with several medias and forms of expression; object/sculpture, painting, performance, costume, installation, sound, video and text. Improvised choreography is a basic starting point for any artistic process in her studio:
"It's about presence. I have to create from a point that is not mental, but rather intuitive, sensory and investigative."
Helene Høm is the fifth generation in a Bornholm artist family, that goes back to Hjorths Keramik in Rønne and the ”Bornholm Painters”.
CURICCULUM VITAE ( born 1972)
EDUCATION
2001-04: BA in Theatre Art, Norwegian Theatre Academy (NTA): Performance & acting, NO
2011-12: Diploma Degree: Journalist (Culture) DMJX, The Danish Media- og Journalist School, DK
1995-98: Free Youth Education (FUU): Performance & visual Arts at AFUK Copenhagen, DK
Including: Instituttet for Scenkonst 1994, University of Theatre, Italy, 3 months.
1988-91: Student, Bornholms Amts Gymnasium, DK
EXHIBITIONS
2024: THE RED BUTTERFLY, group exhibition, Bornholm Art Museum www.bornholms-kunstmuseum.dk
2023: FROM ONE WORLD TO ANOTHER solo exhibition, Undreværket, Bornholm
BORNHOLM'S CENSORED SPRING EXHIBITION, svanekegaarden, Bornholm
BETWEEN WORLDS Glostrup Art Association, Copenhagen
2022: UNKNOWN LAND solo exhibition, Undreværket,Bornholm
2021: OCEAN & SKY solo exhibition, Undreværket,Bornholm
2020: OUT THERE, paintings and paper works, Undreværket,Bornholm
2019: SUMMER EXHIBITION, paintings, in Undreværket, Bornholm
2016: 365 Drawings, a personal project: one A5 ink drawing a day for a year
2013: 3760 GUDHJEM, group exhibition, Gudhjem Museum
2008: NATÜRLICH, objects and space, based on playwright ”Über Tiere” by E.Jelinek, HIVE, Zürich
2008: VERNISSAGE, solo: objects, paintings, sketches, Atelier Frankengasse, Zürich, CH
2006: Gallerie Arts Du Nord, Sketches in gouache, group exhibition Vence, France
2005: H.C.ANDERSEN curated group exhibition, paintings, Galleri Kaffeslottet, Gudhjem
2004: Bornholms Censurerede Forårsudstilling, paintings, Galleri Kaffeslottet, Gudhjem
SELECTED ART PERFORMANCES
2014-17: LUST a staged exhibition about female sexuality, by Helene Høm / Undreværket. Concept, performer, space, objects & costumes DANISH ARTS COUNCIL
2016: 20 COSTUMES OF WAR - or just 3, Bornholms Art Museum. DANISH ART COUNCIL
2016: "Strip Tease". A methaporic costume performance, by Helene Høm / Undreværket
Idea, performer, space, objects, costume, sound. Bornholm Culture Week. Supported by the DANISH ARTS COUNCIL
2004: CHATROOM. A group performance by Plasma/Lukas Bangerter (CH). HENIE ONSTAND KUNSTSENTER, Norway
(Graduation group project, NTA)
2002: Could this be paradise? An art installation with 6 performers for 10 hours. The Crypt under Oslo Cathedral, NO,
(Independent NTA student work)
ENTREPRENURSHIP
2016 – : UNDREVÆRKET, Bornholm, with Thomas Danielsen. A house for art, performance and artistic processes.
2003-06: GUDHJEM NETWORK SCENE: 4 site specific out door summer performances
2004-05: PASSINGBYTHEATRE 12 visual art performances in public spaces in Copenhagen within one year
OTHER RELEVANT WORK
2023: Catalyst and mentor: Individual sessions for professional artists and art workers
2018: Art teacher (Huskunstner) “COURAGE – Zahrtmann” at Bornholm Art Museum, DANISH ARTS COUNCIL
2016: Professional workshop for African performers: ”What´s Under?” Observatory, Cape Town, DANISH ARTS COUNCIL