Ingerlise Vikne (NO)

Born 1961

Ingerlise Vikne was born and grew up in Norway, but currently she lives in Denmark. The introverted character of her art reflects her upbringing amidst vast and solitary Norwegian landscape. Experiencing Vikne’s art requires withdrawing into our inner world. She offers us a mirror and reminds us of the value that can be found in the slipping into a universe of mind. Ingerlise Vikne conveys the inner universe with saturated and subdued colours; and it is through this colour range that she portrays the care and love she feels for her characters.

A motif she most often returns to in her works are children’s faces. They are all based on different elements of Ingerlise Vikne’s life, and as she herself says, their solitude is not to be seen as a burden, but a choice. “My figures on canvasses have made a choice, they are in a place where senses are neutralized and not stimulated – a place without expectations - obligations – a place where you turn inwards and experience… a quiet happiness…“

“[The artist] says that the audience’s first reaction is usually a feeling of melancholy and sadness. Persons portrayed on pictures, and therefore the artist herself, must be sad, lonely, isolated, and anxious. The issue with Ingerlise Vikne’s pictures is that she herself does not see them as sad. On the contrary, she sees the characters’ isolation as something positive; as one’s soothing ability to rest in oneself. In silence.”

Tom Jørgensen, redaktør af Kunstavisen

EDUCATION

2000 – 2002
Courses at Aarhus Art Academy and The Graphical School, Aarhus

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2022
“Wintershow” GALLERI V58, Aarhus, DK
"Summershow" GALLERI V58, Aarhus, DK

2021
“Wintershow” GALLERI V58, Aarhus, DK

2020
“Wintershow” GALLERI V58, Aarhus, DK

2019 
Art Herning, Herning, repræsenteret af GALLERI V58, Aarhus, DK

2018
GALLERI V58, Aarhus, Danmark
Galleri Brænderigården, solo exhibition, Horsens, DK

2017
GALLERI V58, Aarhus, Danmark
GALLERI V58 pop up, Skagen, Danmark
NORTH kunstmesse, Aalborg, represented by GALLERI V58, Aarhus, Danmark

2016
GALLERI V58, Aarhus, Danmark
Art Copenhagen, Bella Center Copenhagen, repræsenteret af GALLERI V58, Aarhus, Danmark
Storytellers, soloudstilling, GALLERI V58, Aarhus, Danmark
Galleri Brænderigården, soloudstilling, Horsens, Danmark
Gallery Art Nou Milleni, gruppeudstilling med artist talk, Barcelona, Spanien

2015
GALLERI V58, Aarhus, Danmark
Istanbul / BAP Berlin Art Project
BAP/Istanbul Art Project, Istanbul

2014
GALLERI V58, Aarhus, Danmark
On the Edge of Reality, soloudstilling, Galleri Brænderigården, Horsens, Danmark

2013
Galleri Kirk, Aalborg, Danmark
Galleri Fine Art, Oslo, Norge
Art Fair, Lübeck, Tyskland

2012
Kunstgalleriet, Odense, Danmark
Galleri ArtCompaz, København, Danmark

2011
Character Wall, soloudstilling, Galleri Margit Dørflinger, Randers, Danmark
Galleri Kirk, Aalborg, Danmark
Galleri Saltum, Danmark

2010
Galleri Kirk, Aalborg, Danmark
Berlin Art Projects, Berlin, Tyskland
Hammel Kulturhus, Hammel, Danmark

2009
Damenwahl, Berlin Art Projects, Berlin, Tyskland
Fuga Art Association
Galleri Houvig, Danmark
Tåstrup kulturcenter, Danmark
Fussingø Slot, Danmark

2008
Galleri Sortedam, København, Danmark
Galleri Art Nordic, Norge

2007
The Line Gallery, Skotland, UK
Gallery Imagination Art, Skotland, UK
Fredriksten Fort, Norge
Galleri NB, Viborg, Danmark
Galleri Art Nordic, Norge

2006
Dronninglund Kunstcenter

SCHOLARSHIP

2011
Frida Hansens Legat, Norge
Stavanger European Capital of Culture

2009
Modtaget Jyllandspostens legat til ophold i Berlin

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Please, Do Not Disturb, Don’t Even Think About It, kunstbog af Ingerlise Vikne, 2015
Katalog fra Brænderigården, Horsens, 2014

VIDEO

Portræt af Ingerlise Vikne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fvWjHSYhZY

COVERS

Twelve poetry book.covers published af Jorinde & Joringel
Karsten Bjarnholt: Mit mørke
Niels Hav: De gifte koner i København
Erik Helger: Balkoner
F.P. Jac: 33 års spontane hengivelser
Vagn Lundbye: Luftguitar
David Læby: Reade Street
Viggo Madsen: Luns af det levende
Henning Mortensen: So Happy Just To Be Alive
Mogens Bynkou Nielsen: Altid cyklende i modlys
Annelise Nielsen: Som noget af det sidste
Kirsten Nørgaard: Galileos finger
Kemal Özer: Kærlighedsmøder

‘The optimist’, unica, bronze, h. 13 cm. uden sokkel, 2024, d.kr. 12.500,

‘What you see is not what you get’, akryl på lærred, 80 x 80, 2024, d.kr. 13,500.

‘Do not pick flowers’, akryl og pigmentpastel på lærred, 110 x 130, 2022, kr. 17.500

‘On a mission’, akryl på lærred, 68 x 48, 2024, d.kr. 7.300,

‘Character’, akryl på lærred, 47 x 45, 2021, d.kr. 6.500,- (2)

‘Character’, akryl på lærred, 58 x 41, 2021, SOLGT

‘Long ago – far away’, akryl på lærred, 120 x 80, 2020, SOLGT

‘Character In Black’, akryl og pigmentpastel på belgisk lærred på plade, 61 x 50 (50 x 40), 2020, SOLGT

‘Character In Black’, akryl og pigmentpastel på belgisk lærred på plade, 61 x 50 (50 x 40), 2020, SOLGT

´Character´, akryl og pigmentpastel, 50 x 55, 2020, SOLGT

´Character´, akryl og pigmentpastel, 50 x 55, 2020, SOLGT

‘Unlike his brother’, akryl og pigmentpastel på lærred, 80 x 60, 2019, SOLGT

‘I quess it must be up to us. akryl og pigmentpastel på lærred, 120 x 150, 2019, SOLGT

‘Character with fringe’, akryl og pigmentpastel på lærred, 55 x 50, 2019, SOLGT

‘Black room with a view, akryl og pigmentpastel på lærred, 120 x 150, 2019, SOLGT

‘For those who ask questions’, akryl og pigmentpastel på lærred, 140 x 160, 2016, d.kr. 28.500,-

‘Uden titel’, akvarel, 28 x 28, d.kr. 3.500,