From small gestures, to larger rhythms and sequences of current daily life, Helene Koch’s work questions how we construct, perceive and experience places, well known objects and situations. Whether she uses the city as her studio, or her own studio’s relation to the outside world and its phenomena, Koch often works with the surrounding space as a premise for her interventions.
Working across media, which encompass photography, site specific installations, drawings and sculptural objects, she explores what often goes by unnoticed. Through places and through time. Whether it is the detail of a space or the fraction of a moment which describes the margins of our lives.
Helene Koch has participated in a number of group exhibitions internationally, with a recent solo and duo exhibition in South Korea, 2023. Her work has been exhibited in Seoul, Los Angeles, Miami, London, Vilnius, New York and Copenhagen.
She has been an external examiner and guest critic at the Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, DK, Lund University, School of Architecture, SE, Korea University, Architecture Department, KR and invited by Princeton University Imagination Center, to lead a bootcamp/workshop for students and Faculty. Princeton University SoA, US.
Helene Koch was born 1979, in Copenhagen, Denmark. She holds a Master in Architecture from the Royal Danish Academy. After years abroad, she has recently moved back to Denmark and currently lives and works in Copenhagen.
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Seoul Living Design Fair, Coex Gangnam, Gallery Jiwooheon, KR 2023 Walking through paper stacks, solo exhibition, CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, KR 2023 Like dissolves Like, duo- exhibition with Jongjin Park, Gallery Jiwooheon, Jongno-gu, Seoul, KR 2022 I, group exhibition, CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, KR 2020 duo exhibition, The Project Space, Deakin University, AUS, postponed_Covid 19 2020 28th edition of Photo LA - FOCUS photo l.a. (1st Runner Up) Los Angeles, US 2018 group exhibition, Alfa Gallery, Miami, US 2017 Canvas in Thames, Saatchi Screen Project, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK 2017 group exhibition, The Rooster Gallery, Vilnius, LT 2016 The Artists' Autumn Exhibition, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK 2016 Things we did, group show, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK 2015 Landshape, land art exhibition, Northern Jutland, DK 2010 Young Danish Photography, (Ung Dansk Fotografi) Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, DK 2009 Open Studio exhibition, Chelsea, New York City, US
PRESS, PUBLICATIONS, TALKS
2023 CICA ART NOW 2023, CICA Press 2023 Artist talk, Gallery Jiwooheon, Jongno-gu, Seoul, KR. 2023 Interview, LUXURY, May issue, designhouse 2023 Article, 항복이 가득한 집, 2023 5 2020 Artist talk, Open Show L.A. Focus Photo L.A. Barker Hangar, US 2018 Interview, Spectrum Photographic 2018 Aesthetica Magazine, The Artist's Directory, 82
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2018 Curation and exhib. design, Design School Kolding + KADK, CPH Fashion week. Collab / Marie Nørgaard 2018 High on Luxury, Glyptoteket, CPH, DK. Exhib. design and staging. Collab / Jakob Helmer 2014 Plethora Magazine, Issue No.2: Cenotaph – Unlocking the Vaults of Heaven. Article written in collaboration with founder and editor in chief, Peter Steffensen
WORKSHOPS / TEACHING
2019 Princeton University SoA, leading a boot camp/workshop for students and faculty at PUIC, NJ, US. 2015 - 2018 DIS Copenhagen, DK, external lecturer and course leader in photography
GUEST CRITIC / EXTERNAL EXAMINER
2022 Korea Uni, dept. of Arch. Seoul, KR - guest critic 2014 - 2019 The Royal Danish Academy, School of Arch, DK - guest critic & appointed external examiner 2011 - 2019 Lund University, Arch. Master’s Program, SE - guest critic, external examiner and lecturer
EMPLOYMENT / SELECTED WORKS
2014 Assistant curator of Empowerment of Aesthetics by SLA, The Danish Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale. 2012 Assistant curator of The Bark Room / The Terrain Space by SLA, New Nordic, Louisiana Museum, DK.
AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES
2020 Finalist, 1st Runner up for the winter 2019 edition, Focus photo LA, Barker Hangar, Los Angeles, US. 2016 Contemporary Art in Practice, RCA, London, UK 2016 - 2018 Board Member, The Artists' Autumn Exhibition 2015 Danish Art Workshops 2015 Dreyers Fond 2014 Finalist, Land Shape, Land Art North Denmark 2009 Residency, School of Visual Arts, NYC, US 2009 Danish Arts Foundation 2002 Knud Højgaards Fond
EMPLOYMENT
2008 - 2015 Architect at SLA, DK 2006 – 2007 Architect at Arkitema, DK
EDUCATION
2006 Master of Architecture, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, DK