Vivi Christensen is engaged in the field of narrative painting and unfolds stories on large open canvases. On the canvases she portrays her closest family, her mother, daughter, son, close friends and herself in private spaces. The result weaves threads across the dynamics within family life, in a personalized mode of expression achieved through the work with the portraits. Her projects unfolds as a coherent ethereal work, in which the works enter into dialogue with the surrounding space and with the audience. Her works concern close relationships and inner feelings, and relate to the tradition of art history, in which life is perceived as a point of departure for creating art. Vivi Christensen wants to transform personal experiences into general stories about the relationship between people.
Vivi Christensen is born 1962 in Denmark. In 2001 she finished her education from The Fünen Art Academy of Fine Arts. Vivi Christensen has exhibited widely in Denmark and abroad. Her work has been exhibited in museums and institutions, including The Fünen Art Museum, The Free Exhibitionplace in Copenhagen, The Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition, Rønnebæksholm in Næstved, Gallerie Prima Kunst, Kiel, Germany, Moderna Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. She has been awarded grants such as Irgens-Bergh Artist Scholarship; Travel scholarship New Carlsberg Foundation; several grants and supports from the Danish Arts Foundation.
Curriculum Vitae
Artist
Education 1996-2001 The Academy of Visual Art Funen, Denmark
Selected exhibitions
Lillesøster / Little sister Juxtapose Art Fair with M100 Godsvognen Århus DK
Sjæleflager Exhibitionplace Sydhavn Station Copenhagen DK
BLIK / GLANCE Exhibitionplace M100 Odense DK
Once upon a dream Galleri Boulevard156 Copenhagen DK
Kroppen, som ingen ende vil tage / The Body that no end will take Artbuilding Filosoffen Odense DK
GIFT / MARRIED My appartment Odense , DK
Begyndelse – Tilbageblik og Udsyn / Beginning – Looking back and View Exhibitionplace Vandrehallen Kunsthal, Hillerod, DK
Teenager is leaving home Lagerhallen Roersvej 33A Odense, DK
COMEBACK Mageloes 1, Odense, DK
RUMMET IMELLEM OS / THE SPACE BETWEEN US DR MEDIEHUS Århus, DK
Hvis du bare vidste / If you only knew Kunsthuset Palaefloejen Roskilde, DK
Dine bjørne lister ud af din skjorte Fall Exhibition KE 2011 Den Frie – Centre of Contemporary Art – Copenhagen DK
Måske bliver jeg lykkelig / Perhaps I will be happy – De levende ord Rønnebæksholm DK
Jeg er bange for det nye / I am affraid of the new – VITAVRAP Skibssmeden Odense. VITAVRAP Gallery DASK, Copenhagen
Parafrase Agnes Slott-Møllers Dronning Margrete I og Erik af Pommeren. Funen Art Museum, DK
Luder Tuder / Prostitute weeps – SPEAK UP! Den Frie – Centre of Contemporary Art – Copenhagen, DK
A Room of Ones own Time Out Odense, DK
Knallertsange / Mopedsongs Performance moped tour on Funen and Islands/DK with Tine Louise Kortermand. www.knallertsange.dk DK
Kærlighedstrusler / Love treats – Den Sorte Danske Encyklupklupædi withKlubKlub. Toldboden Kerteminde DK
Porcelænsvognen / The porcelain wagon with Camilla Gaugler. Skanderborg Festival, Phono Festival, Kunstparade Kbh, DK
Jeg synger en sang for dig / I sing a song for you The walking streets in Aarhus, Silkeborg, Odense, Svendborg, Koge og Copenhagen DK,
08.03.03. Mellemrummet ved Brandts Klædefabrik Odense DK
Hjemmefra / From home with GODT Spring-exhibition 2003 Charlottenborg Exhibition Building Copenhagen DK
Daddy is it hot in Hell Spring-exhibition 2002 Charlottenborg Exhibition Building. Copenhagen DK
Min mor fortæller om min far / My mother tells about my father Video 13 min. www.flattv.dk
If you want me Brandts, Odense DK
Mother do you love me Arthall Copenhagen DK
2-Best-foto. Exhibitionplace Peblinc Copenhagen DK
Konnektor – Berlin Hall in Christinenenstrasse, Berlin, Germany
Flocking Exhibitionplace North – Kopenhagen DK
Familie / Family Exhibitionplace DFKU Odense DK
Intet klyt under kjolen with the Stine Frederiksen. Rum 46, Århus DK
Hvem er det der har skambidt mine guldkorn Four appartments in Odense DK
Was weiss ein bauer uber agurgensalat Gallerie Prima Kunst, Kiel, Germany
Mark Exhibitionplace DFKU Odense DK
Made in China – 541 km i timen – Randers Artmuseum DK
Co-organizer
M100 Odense DK
SPEAK UP! Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art Copenhagen DK
VITAVRAP Skibssmeden Odense DK
Public Works
Psychiatric Department Odense University Hospital. Awarded by the Art Council.
Public art collections
Membership
Kunstnersamfundet, The Artist Community, http://www.akademiraadet.dk
BKF Danish Visual Artists http://www.bkf.dk
KODA Organisation for mucisians www.koda.dk
Sound and music
The band RU HIMMEL in cooperation with the guitarist Hans Thygesen, 2005 – 2009
Represented in The Nordic sound projekt www.larm-festival.se
Represented in The Ersta Konsthall sound archive, Art is not mute
Awards/grants
The Danish Arts Foundation. Working grant 2022
The Danish Arts Council. Support for the exhibition BLIK, 2019
The Danish Arts Council. Residence Scholarship Germany, 2017
Das Künstlerhaus Lukas. Residence Scholarship via Hollufgaard, 2017
The Danish Arts Council. Support to this website. 2014
Irgens-Bergh Art Grant. Working grant. 2014
The Danish Arts Foundation. Working grant 2013
Hollufgaards Travelgrant to London. 2012
Nordic House www.nordichouse.pl Exchange program Krakow, PL. 2009
Odense Municipal, Culture. Support for the exhibition A room of ones own. 2006
The Danish Arts Foundation. Working grant 2003
The Danish Filminstitute. Support for Mother do you love me and My mother tells me about my father. 2002
New Carlsberg Foundation. Travel scholarship to Japan. 1998
Support for co-organized work
2018 – 2020
The Danish Art Foundation, Starting up New Exhibition Platforms. Det Obelske Familiefond. Odense Municipal Culture. Spar Nord Fonden Support for a two year exhibition series 2018 – 2020 The Exhibitionsplace M100
2009
The Danish Art Foundation, Møllerens fond, Danish Metal, Odense Municipal Culture Support for the exhibition VITAVRAP arranged by Granat.
2008
The Region of South Denmark Pool for experimental art, Odense Municipal Culture. Support for the music project Lydild at Skibssmeden Odense, DK
2007
The Danish Art Foundation Visual Art and Literature Committee, Copenhagen Municipality’s Fine Art Selection, OAK Foundation, Tuborgfondet. Support for the exhibition project SPEAK UP! The Free Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen DK
2006
Odense Munical Culture Support for the exhibition A room of ones own and Performance Porcelænsvognen Odense, DK
2004
Odense County og Odense Munical Culture Support for the music performance Knallertsange, Funen and the Islands, DK
2002
LO´s Pool of Kulture and Copenhagen Municipality’s Fine Art Selection. The Artgroup GODT at Hvidovre Hospital, DK
Publications
2022 Article at The independent Art Medium IDOART På vej mod et mere traumeinformeret samfund
2016 Interview Artist of the week
2009 The Report Spændvidder – about art and artpolitic. The Projekt Knallertsange in the chapter Performative Art. Written by Culture Policy Research Center, Jørgen Langsted. Published by The Danish Arts Foundation. Publisher KLIM
2009 Reportage from my home and artworks. The magazine VITAWRAP. Published by GRANAT. Kunsten.nu
2007 The Book LARM, From mouth cavity to laptop-the sound of Nordic art. About Nordic female soundartist´s. Photos and text from the art projekt Knallersange. Published by Kabusa Böcker
2005 The Book Øjenkontakt. The Musicvideo Big Eyes World is represented with interview, text and videostills. North Publisher
2000 The book Konnektor Artist from Værkstedskolen in Århus. Published by The Byhøjskolen