Kirstine Roepstorff | Biography | RH Gallery Contemporary Art and Design

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Born 1972 in Copenhagen. Currently lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin.

Kirstine Roepstorff has created a body of work that seamlessly integrates political, social, art historical, metaphysical and aesthetic components into powerful works that are, often at once, sculpture, collage and textile. Juxtaposing found imagery with abstract elements, Roepstorff creates multilayered works that pose important questions. In an interview with Christine Buhl Andersen, she explained, “I work by collecting what I regard as forms from our shared image bank, our common historical frame of reference and then process them, shoot at them from different angles. I comment on the images which represent our primordial emotions." Both her materials and subjects, never fit neatly into a frame. They are always hovering between history and the present, between color and black and white, across borders and dimensions. In an article reviewing Personal Protocols and Other Preferences at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, art critic Daniel Kunitz called Roepstorff “one of the most compelling artists working in Europe today.”
Roepstorff has exhibited internationally in important museum and gallery exhibitions including The Triumph of Painting: Germania at the Saatchi Gallery, It's Not the Eye of the Needle that Changed The Time at the Drawing Center in New York. A recent solo exhibition curated by Nikola Dietrich was held at the Kunstmuseum Basel. Her work is included in the Dakis Joannou Collection, MOMA (New York), The National Gallery of Copenhagen and the Royal Museum of Fine Art (Copenhagen) among others.