Selected exhibitions
| Title | Projects |
|---|---|
| HavObservatoriet | Vejle harbour, Denmark (2023) |
| Narsaq International Research Station (NIRS) | Ongoing since 2019 |
| Kuannersuit / Kvanefjeld | European Commission Joint Research Centre (2022) Curating Matters of Care in the Arctic (2022) Perpetual Uncertainty/Contemporary Art in the Nuclear Anthropocene Bildmuseet Sweden (2016/17) Z33 House for Contemporary Art Belgium (2017) Malmo Kunstmuseum Sweden (2018) Critical Zones Observatories for Earthly Politics exhibition ZKM Karlsruhe (2020-2021) Splitting the Atom Centre for Contemporary Art and The Energy & Technology Museum Vilnius Lithuania (2020) Conflict Mining The Arts Catalyst London (2017) Nuclear Art and Archives Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) April 2017 Mining to Waste: Micro-global traces of Uranium Galerie Ravenstein Brussels Slow Violence Kunsthal Charlottenborg (2017) A window on.. Rare Earths - Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA in Manchester UK) 2017 This Rare Earth – Stories From Below Artefact Festival/STUK Belgium (2017) The International Uranium Film Festival: Berlin Germany and Navajo Nation Museum at Window Rock New Mexico and The Native American Cultural Center Northern Arizona University Rivers of Emotion - Bodies of Ore Winner of the Art Critics Prize in Norway 2019. Kunsthall Trondheim (2018-19) Liquid Crystal Display - Site Gallery Sheffield UK (2018-19) and MIMA 2019 COP24 Climate Summit Museum Slazkie Katowize Poland (2019) Polarities - Psychology and Politics of Being Ecological MU Eindhoven (2019 - 2020) Pia Arke – Silences and Stories John Hansard Gallery (2024) |
| Weather Forecast by Numerical Method | European Commission Joint Research Centre (2020) Datami BOZAR Brussels (1990-2020) ECMWF EGU 2020 Wuhan Biennial China (2022-23) |
| Growing Cities Like Plants | NWCD Sainsbury Plant Laboratory UK Cambridge University Contemporary Art Society In-site Arts (2016) |
| Black Shoals; Dark Matter | Tate Britain (2000-01) Big Bang Data Somerset House (2015-16) ArtScience Museum Singapore (2015-16) Nikolaj Copenhagen |
| Untitled (superorganism) I + II | Regelbau 411 Denmark (2021) ZKM Germany (2015-16) Les Abattoirs Museum Toulouse (2014-15) |
| The Thor Heyerdahl Globe | Media Architecture Biennale Vienna (2010) |
| Foghorn Requiem | Souter Lighthouse, North Sea (2011) |
| Most Blue Skies II | RETHINK CLIMATE Copenhagen (2009) Tensta Kunsthalle Stockholm (2010) Data Landscapes London (2011) Domaine de Chamarande Paris (2012) |
| Christiania Researcher in Residence Programme | Ongoing since 2004 |
| Por-tables | Dialogborde Group Show Brænderigården Denmark |
| Spine II | Ebeltoft Glasmuseum Denmark |
| Collective Dreaming and the Practice of Creative Disruption | Published as part of “BCN_LON 2012” by Demos and Fundació Ramon Trias Fargas |
| Gustav Metzger – Breath ing Culture | Exhibited at the Gustav Metzger Retrospective at the Generali Foundation Austria 2005 |
| Re:Search Berlin/Copenhagen | Organized by Akademie der Künste and Universität de Künste in Berlin. Funded by Arts Council of Denmark |
| The Danish Concept of Hygge | Whitechapel Art Gallery UK, curated by Ella Gibbs |
| The Sound Mirrors Project/ Les Miroirs Sonores | Supported by various cultural, educational, and government bodies |
| Membranes | Architecture School University Of East London |
| The Sound of Light | East London School of Architecture (1995) |
| Expo '89 | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| PING | Barbican Gallery for the ‘GAME ON’ show (2002) |
| As far as the eye can see | Shepway District Council and South East Arts/Year of The Artist |
| Clearly Brilliant | Tacoma Art Museum US (2000) |
| Aktuel Dansk Glaskunst | Museumbygningen, Copenhagen, DK (1999) |
| Glass Light and Space: Innovative Use of Glass in Architecture | Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Museum of Science and Industry Manchester, Crafts Council Gallery London, Kozjanski Park Podsreda Castle Slovenia, Bayerische Kunstgewerbe Verein Munich |
| The Jerwood Prize For Applied Arts 1998: Glass | The Crafts Council UK, The National Glass Centre Sunderland, Ebeltoft Glass Museum Denmark |
| Birmingham Town Hall Millennium Project | Public Art Commissions Agency: Developing overall vision for the building |
| Skulpturelt Glas ’96 | Helligåndskirken, Copenhagen and Ebeltoft Glasmuseum |
| Dansk Glas | Group show at Ebeltoft Glasmuseum Denmark and The Danish Design School |
| Glasmuseum Frauenau | Group show, Frauenau, Germany |
| Jydsk Kunsthåndværk | Group show, Randers Kunstmuseum, Denmark |
| Relikvier | Århus Musikhus, Denmark (1992) |
| Jyllands Posten Newspaper | Århus, Denmark |
| Pilchuck Glass Gallery | Group Show, Stanwood (WA), USA |
| William Traver Gallery | Group Show, Seattle (WA), USA |
| Expo '89 | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
awards / prizes
| Year | Award Name |
|---|---|
| 1998 | Nominated for The Jerwood prize for applied arts: Glass |
| 1998 | New Media Fund Arts Council of England London Arts Board - Year of the Artist award |
| 1999 | New Media Fund Arts Council of England - Combined Arts Production Fund |
| 2000 | Royal Society of Arts Art for Architecture Award (Sound Mirrors) |
| 2001 | Nominated for the Alternative Turner Prize (Black Shoals) |
| 2003 | The Danish Arts Foundation/The Old Possum’s Practical Trust Honorary Prize (Glass) |
| 2004 | Honorary Award from The Arts Council of Denmark |
| 2004 | UK Media Program of the European Union |
| 2004 | Four Year NESTA Fellow National Endowment of Science Technology and the Arts |
| 2013 | Blue Peter Award (Foghorn Requiem) |
| 2013 | The Arts Council of England/Journal Culture Award (Foghorn Requiem) |
| 2016 | National Academies of Sciences Keck Futures Award National Academies of Sciences US |
| 2018 | The International Art and Ecology Prize COAL nominee for Kuannersuit; Kvanefjeld |
| 2018 | Awarded Guinness World of Records for Foghorn Requiem (the musical performance in the world with most ships horns) |
Fellowships & Residencies
| Dates | Description |
|---|---|
| 1991 | Pilchuck, Washington State, USA EAR |
| 1997-99 | Banff Residency Canada Joshua Portway |
| 2003 onwards | Arts Foundation Fellow |
| 2004 | Cite des Arts, Paris, hosted by The Arts Council of Denmark |
| 2004 and 2009 | San Cataldo, Italy, Arene Meyers Foundation |
| 2004-7 | The National Endowment of Science, Technology and The Arts UK (NESTA) Fellowship |
| 2007-9 | Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London |
| 2009 | The Danish Art Workshops |
| 2015 | Cambridge University – North-West Cambridge Development and the Sainsbury Plant Laboratory, Commissioned by the Contemporary Art Society and InSite Arts |
| 2018 / 2020 | The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre |
Trustee / Advisory / Consultancy
| Description |
|---|
| Advisory Board Member for the Swiss Polar Institute’s four-year flagship programme: Greenlandic Fjord ecosystems in a changing climate: socio-cultural and environmental interactions (GreenFjord): Southern Greenland is one of the regions most exposed to climate change yet much remains to be learned about how its ecosystems will react to this exposure. |
| Co-Founder and Board Director Hermitage Community Moorings Cooperative harbour on the Thames (2020-ongoing + 2013-2015 2022-23) |
| Founder/ Board Member of the Christiania Researcher in Residence Programme (CRIR) CRIR a community funded project space that provides residency and research support for international artists and academic researchers with a specific interest in the social experiment Christiania in Copenhagen (on-going since in 2004) |
| Trustee - SPACE London (2020-2023). Operating since 1968 SPACE runs 20 artist studio buildings in London with more than 800 artists supports further 700 artists a year with professional development and engages 22000 people a year through public programmes. |
| Adviser for Aarhus Kunsthal Denmark Leadership programme (from 2019-) |
| "The Place & Importance of Artists & Cultural Organisations in a Changing Europe" Seminar organised by the Embassy of Denmark and British Council 2017 |
| Member of The Nuclear Culture Group (since 2016) |
| Consultant on ways of integrating Learning into the new Tate Modern Building (2007) |
| Reviewer - The Design Magazine (since 2014) |
| The National Science Foundation Washington DC (2012) external adviser |
| Advisor on the development of Kraft an environmental experience leisure park enabling learning to take place through the powers of nature Ringkøbing Denmark (2012) |
| Advisory Board for The Arts Catalyst Art Science Agency Programme in London (2008-2010) |
| Tipping Point at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels organised by the British Council European Commission European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) |
| Trustee for the Artists Placement Group (APG)/ O & I (2007-9) |
| Adviser on the development of Godsbanegården /The Freight Yard Project for the Danish Municipality of Aarhus (turning an old freight yard into a Production Center for the arts involving the urban renewal of adjoining city areas (2008)) |
| Consultant on a UK Think Tank Demos and The Creative and Cultural Sector Skills Council publication: “So What Do You Do? A New Question for Policy in the Creative Age” (2007-8) |
| Consultant on ways of integrating Learning into the new Tate Modern Building (2007) |
| Advisor on the Fermynwoods Art and Science Project (2007) |
| Advisory Task Group for Arts Council of England’s Central Office Interdisciplinary Arts (2004-07) |
| Advisory board for Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art Denmark 2004-6 |
| Advisor on ‘The Creative Commons Focus group’. Arts Council England Oxford University and London School of Economics 2004 |
| Advisor on the Arts Council England/ Royal Society of Arts Art and Ecology programme |
| Trustee for The Danish Institute for Art and Architecture (1999-2005) |
| NESTA Future Lab Science Simulation Lab (2004) thinking science education ten years ahead through the use of interactive simulations and immersive spaces with The National History Museum Pearson Broadband BT Exact Science Museum Alcatel DfES RM Learning BBC IBM Electronic Arts and Sony. |
| In 2002 - think tank on aesthetics and teaching environments hosted by The Danish Centre for Educational Environments. |
| Think tank “The Creative Alliance” organised by The Danish Ministry of Culture and the the Danish Ministry for Business and Growth which explored the potential and critical issues arising from collaborations between the arts and business sectors in Denmark. |
| Trustee for The Danish Institute for Art and Architecture (1999-2005) |