About
Rasmus Søndergaard Johannsen creates process-lead works with a strong focus on textile art. The repetitive processes involved in production, rhythms of action and pattern repeats typically provide the starting point for the content and form of his long-term projects, which require extensive familiarisation with intricate work
techniques.
Rasmus Søndergaard Johannsen studied at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, exhibited at Kunstverein Göttingen, Kunsthalle Darmstadt and KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin and is initiator and curator of the exhibition space Kunsthal Thy that opened in 2023.
Education
2013 - 2014:
Meisterschüler - Hfbk Frankfurt am Main - Städelschule, Class of Peter Fischli
2011:
Cooper Union School of Art, New York, Classes of Walid Raad, Sharon Hayes, Jill Magid, Lan Tuazon
2008 - 2013:
Hfbk Frankfurt am Main – Städelschule, Class of Simon Starling.
Prizes & Stipends
Grand Prix JCE Biennial 2017
Preis der Darmstädter Sezession 2017
Work grant, Danish Arts Foundation: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2023, 2025
Residencies
Residency To Go, Art Hub Copenhagen, 2023-2024
ISCP, New York City, 2019
JCE Biennial Residency, Paris, 2018
SKAD, Porto, 2015
AirAntwerpen, 2015
Meetfactory, Prague, 2013
Selected Exhibitions
2025:
J.P. Jacobsen Aktualiseret - Bindesbølls Rådhus, Thisted, Denmark
Market Art Fair, Stockholm
2024:
HAGD Contemporary *
Roskilde Festival 2024
2023:
Subluna, Det Nordatlantiske Fyr, Hanstholm, DK *
2022:
Asir Art Museum, Tainan City, Taiwan (with Mette Juul)
TOR Art Space, Frankfurt am Main *
Hošek Contemporary, Berlin *
2021:
Patterns - Open White Gallery, Berlin *
2020:
Etwas mehr als Arbeit - Kunstverein Göttingen
Final Take/A Sporadic - Open White Gallery, Berlin (with Liesel Burisch)
2019:
Kahnweilerpreis 2019 - Museum Pachen, Rockenhausen
Helmpflicht - Kunsthalle Darmstadt, DE
JCE Biennial 2017-2019 - Como, Italy, Figueres, Spain, Amarente, Portugal
2018:
Fixes idées - Kunstbygningen i Vrå, DK *
Fixations - Galerie Kuchling, Berlin (with Mette Juul)
Lineated Luminary - Pragovka Gallery, Prague *
MATERIAL - Cob Gallery, London
JCE Biennial 2017-2019 - Vrå, Denmark, Cesis, Latvia, Cluj, Romania
SPECTA Surplus Store - Galleri Specta, Copenhagen
-46,08 ° - fffriedrich, Frankfurt am Main
2017:
Wohnfront Megadark - Plan5 (organized by just married exhibitions), Stockholm
JCE Biennial 2017-2019 - Le Beffroi, Paris
KN 1-15 - Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg, DK
Times New Romantic, Kurfürstenstraße 14 (organized by M.I/mi1glissé), Berlin
Twill - Kunsthal Ved Siden Af, Svendborg, DK (with Adam Fearon)
Darmstädter Sezession - Kunstforum TU, Darmstadt, DE
Hans-Purrmann-Preise - Kunstverein Speyer, DE
2016:
13th Fellbach small scale sculpture Triennial ‘FOOD – Ecologies of the Everyday’, Alte Keller, Fellbach
Søby Skulpturbiennale - Ærø, Denmark
viscous, ZQM - Berlin *
2015:
fyr, Doppelzimmer - 3 1/2, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (with Filippa Pettersson)
The second death of George Mallory - Karlin Studios, Prague
Quando cabelo nasce às crianças - SKAD, Porto (with Andreas Bülow Cosmus)
Men hvorom alting er - Galleri SØ, Copenhagen
2014:
Fall - Galerie Jochen Hempel, Leipzig
2013:
Collision Course - Sodom&Gomorrah, Amsterdam
Forgotten Design Problems In Showbiz - Four Boxes Gallery, Krabbesholm Højskole, Denmark
Lummerland II - Meetfactory, Prague
2012:
VOID - Flûte Douce, Frankfurt am Main *
2011:
Übermorgenkünstler II - Heidelberger Kunstverein
Lummerland I - Toves Galleri, Copenhagen
2010:
KE 2010 - Carlberg Ny Tap, Copenhagen
2009:
Spring09 - Kunsthal Århus, Denmark
Lebenslust - Städelmuseum, Frankfurt am Main
Curating
2023:
Founder and artistic director of Kunsthal Thy
2020:
Co-curator of Tværsnit/SSS 2020, sculpture biennial in Svendborg and on Ærø, DK
2016 & 2017:
Teacher at Ærø Art school and co-curator of the sculpture biennial SSS (Sommerskulptur Søby), Ærø, DK
2012 - 2013:
Co-curator of the project space Solalanotte (with Elisa Caldana og Clémentine Coupau), Frankfurt a. M.