Resumé / Birgitte Thorsen Vilslev

Born: 1979

Employments

2016 (fall) - PhD fellow at SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst/ National Gallery of Copenhagen), DFI (The Danish Film Institute) and IKK (Department of Arts and Cultural Studies) University of Copenhagen with a research project on Danish experimental film
2014-16 Editor of anthology on the Danish artist Susanne Ussing
2015-16 Maternity leave
2015 Co-editor of the journal Periskop – forum for kunsthistorisk debat, IKK.
2014-15 Museum curator sub. at The Royal Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, SMK. And assistant curator of the exhibition What’s Happening?
2013-14 Assisting curator/coordinator at SMK of exhibition with Bjørn Nørgaard at CAFA (The Central Academy of Fine Arts), Beijing.
2012-13 Curator, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen
2011-12 Maternity leave
2007-11 Student/assisting curator, The Royal Collection of Paintings and Sculptures, SMK

Education

2004-11 Mag.art. in Art History from the University of Copenhagen with the dissertation “The Aesthetics of Politics and the Politics of Aesthetics” (in Danish).
2006 (fall-winter) Studies at Goldsmiths University, Visual Department, London
2006 (summer) Summer course at The European Film College
2002-3 Basisjahr at Gerrit Rietveld Art Academie, Amsterdam
2000-2 Billedskolen v. Bjørn Bråten, Copenhagen

Current networks

Periskop – Forum for kunsthistorisk debat, IKK
Modernisms - forum for new research in modernism and art of the 20th Century, IKK (Institute of Art and Culture), University of Copenhagen

Selected publications

“Det sammensatte menneske”, in: Susanne Ussing – mellem kunst og arkitektur, (ed. Birgitte Thorsen Vilslev), Strandberg Publishing, spring 2017 (peer reviewed)

”Bo, bygge og besætte. Da det æstetetiske blev til formning af det sociale i dansk kunst”, (”Live, build, squat: Social art in Denmark around 1970”) in Periskop, no. 17, Copenhagen, April 2017 (peer reviewed, with abstract in English)
”Tårne og Sutsko. Bjørn Nørgaards værker i det offentlige rum”, in: Bjørn Nørgaard. Remodelling the World, Statens Museum for Kunst, (ed. Birgitte Anderberg), Copenhagen, 2010, p. 144-157 (in Danish, translated to English)

“Towers and Slippers. Works by Bjørn Nørgaard in Public Space” in: Bjørn Nørgaard - Remodelling the Wold again again again, (ed. Birgitte Anderberg), 2nd revised edition udg. SMK and CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, 2015, p. 144-157 (in English, translated to Chinese)

”Biografi”, in: Bjørn Nørgaard Re-Modelling the World, (ed. Birgitte Anderberg), Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, 2010, p. 174-185

“How to Use and Program T-F”, in: How to Use and Program T-F. Lea Porsager, (eds. Kristine Kern og Birgitte Vilslev) Fotografisk Center, 2013, Copenhagen, p. 5-10

Ung dansk fotografi og videokunst 11/12 (eds. Kristine Kern og Birgitte Vilslev), Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, 2012

Contact

Birgitte Thorsen Vilslev
Ph.D. scholar
birgittev@dfi.dk