Art Residency
1 1/2 month work periode at the Art Ark in San Jose, California
Frygt (Fear)
Kunstbiblioteket, Cph, Denmark 2022
“Do not worryHave no fearJust enjoy those shadows dancingKnowing it’s all emptyin here”
Mothers
Of famous historical men.
Hygum art museum, Denmark 2021
“A mother can transfer to her son the ambition she has been obliged to suppress in her self” – Sigmund Freud.
Since the summer of 2016 I have been living, working and traveling around the middle east, doing project of various kinds. The various wallpaintings in the Syrian refugee camps in Akkar, Northern Lebanon as well as elsewhere is attempts to share and create together with the people that are there, whoever they are, wherever they come from and whatever their situation might be.
From 2016 – 2021 I was living, working and traveling around the middle east, doing project of various kinds. The following is some examples og that
Homeland / I found my truth
Mural in A’Ramallah, Ramallah, Westbank, Palestine 2019
Work in progress, school in Al Zaim, Jerusalem 2020
On hold due to the Corona virus
All fruit tree
Veggieshop, Ramallah 2020
Houses
Wallpaintings, Syrian Refugeecamps, Akkar, North Lebanon, 2017 / 2018
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Houses, Wallpaintings, Syrian Refugeecamps, Akkar, North Lebanon, 2017 / 2018
The people, mainly kids, where asked to each paint a house of own choice. As the number of houses developed the many individual houses turned into a city making the individual house/painting becoming a part of a bigger collective city/painting. The individual effort becoming a part of a bigger picture so to say.
Father and sons
Wallpaintings, Syrian Refugeecamps, Akkar, North Lebanon, 2017 / 2018
The father ( portrait on the left ) asked me to paint him and his sons on the wall of their place and so I did.
Three portraits. Syrian refugee Camp, Akkar, North Lebanon 2017/2018
City of Aleppo
Wallpaintings, Syrian Refugee camps, Akkar, North Lebanon, 2017 / 2018
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Aleppo. Wallpaintings, Syrian Refugeecamps, Akkar, North Lebanon, 2017 / 2018
On my first visit to this camp me and my friend Roger was invited to tea by one of the famely’s. They where from the City of Aleppo and did’nt speak of anything else. Listening and sensing their longing I decided too paint their city too them.
City of Homs
Wallpaintings, Syrian Refugeecamps, Akkar, North Lebanon, 2017 / 2018
Homs. Wallpainting, Syrian refugee camp, Akkar, North Lebanon
After painting the ciy of Aleppo in this Camp it showed that most of the inhabitans here was from the city of Homs..(!) After quite a few requests I decided to also paint their City. I asked one of them, an Calligrapher ( and hairdresser ) from Homs, to do a Calligraphy on the painting. It says “Homs, City of peace.
Sun
Wallpaintings, Syrian Refugeecamps, Akkar, North Lebanon, 2017 / 2018
Sun. Wallpaintings, Syrian Refugeecamps, Akkar, North Lebanon, 2017 / 2018
In this camp the kids would once in a while stands in a circle, singing Arabic children songs. One of them Woud be about the sun, witch is the inspiration for this mural.
Boy and globe
Wallpaintings, Syrian Refugeecamps, Akkar, North Lebanon, 2017 / 2018
Boy and globe. Syrian refugee Camp, Akkar, North Lebanon 2017/2018
Bear and butterfly
Wallpaintings, Syrian Refugeecamps, Akkar, North Lebanon, 2017 / 2018
Bear and butterfly. Syrian refugee Camp, Akkar, North Lebanon 2017/2018
Woman and cat
Wallpaintings, Syrian Refugeecamps, Akkar, North Lebanon, 2017 / 2018
Painting based out of elements from the drawings the kids where doing
Woman, girl and cat. School for Syrian refugees, Akkar, North Lebanon 2017/2018
In this wall piece I incorporated different elements from the kids drawings so their drawings in a sense would become a part of the fairytale or story of the painting itself.
Wall painting
Lindholm, Part of “lindholm indefra” A project about bringing art into the social housing area Lindholm, Nykobing F.
Houses
Silwan, East Jerusalem, 2019. Workshop with the Palestinian kids from the area.
Art residency and exhibition. Art Ark San Jose, California 2023
Frygt (Fear). Kunstbiblioteket Copenhagen 2022
Mothers of famous historical men. Hygum kunst museum, Denmark, 2021
Homeland / I found my truth. Murals in resturant, Ramallah, Palestine 2019
