Michelle Eistrup (DK)
Michelle Eistrup is a visual artist, arts producer and instigator of artistic collaboration, born in Copenhagen to a Jamaican mother and a Danish father.
She grew up in Jamaica, Paris and New York but now lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Michelle’s art incorporates themes of identity, corporeality, faith, memory and postcolonialism, where her transnational background is sometimes a point of departure.
She traverses varied artistic expressions that include photography, drawing, video, sound and performance, and yet all are integrated in a heart-centered practice that is led by spirit and a strong belief in the transformative potential of collectivity.
During her residency in Leipzig, Michelle will perpetuate her research from her past project, In the Deep Underground and Up Above, and develop Stalagmite Suspension Therapy – In the Stone. Eistrup will collaborate with the Terra Mineralia Institute, Bergakademie Freiberg. A part of this investigation will be exhibited next year in the exhibit Sprachlosigkeit (Voicelessness), at the Japanisches Palais, (Japanese Palace), curated by Léontine Meijer-van Mensch, director, and Barbara Höffe, curator of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
This august Michelle Eistrup will be participating in the exhibition Always together - mostly happy in Aarhus, which is supported by Goethe-Institut Dänemark as a part of the German-Danish Cultural Year of Friendship in 2020.
Michelle Eistrup
She grew up in Jamaica, Paris and New York but now lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Michelle’s art incorporates themes of identity, corporeality, faith, memory and postcolonialism, where her transnational background is sometimes a point of departure.
She traverses varied artistic expressions that include photography, drawing, video, sound and performance, and yet all are integrated in a heart-centered practice that is led by spirit and a strong belief in the transformative potential of collectivity.
During her residency in Leipzig, Michelle will perpetuate her research from her past project, In the Deep Underground and Up Above, and develop Stalagmite Suspension Therapy – In the Stone. Eistrup will collaborate with the Terra Mineralia Institute, Bergakademie Freiberg. A part of this investigation will be exhibited next year in the exhibit Sprachlosigkeit (Voicelessness), at the Japanisches Palais, (Japanese Palace), curated by Léontine Meijer-van Mensch, director, and Barbara Höffe, curator of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
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Michelle Eistrup: "In the Deep Underground and Up Above"│Excerpt and Video Stills 2018│Video 33 mins. -
Michelle Eistrup: "In the Deep Underground and Up Above"│Excerpt and Video Stills 2018│Video 33 mins. -
Michelle Eistrup: "This Particular Masquerade 2 Unmasked"│Excerpt, print, 300 cm x 24.1 cm -
Michelle Eistrup: "This Particular Masquerade 4"│Wenge Lightbox, 600 cm x 24.1 cm & "This Particular Masquerade 2, Unmasked"│Print, 300 cm x 24.1 cm│Fotografisk Centre (Copenhagen), Denmark│Curated by Marianne Hultman (Norway), Kristine Kern (Denmark), and Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger (Finland) -
Michelle Eistrup og James Muriuki: "Too Long are Our memories" + "Borders", installation, 2010│Video 9 mins. and Light Box 12 meters x 15 cm x 15 cm installation│Exhibited at Naturama, (Svendborg, Fyn), 2012, curated by Thomas Bjørneboe Berg -
Michelle Eistrup og James Muriuki: "Too Long are Our memories" + "Borders", installation, 2010│Video 9 mins. and Light Box 12 meters x 15 cm x 15 cm installation│Exhibited at Naturama, (Svendborg, Fyn), 2012, curated by Thomas Bjørneboe Berg
Michelle Eistrup