Fredrik Roos Art Grant 2019: Sara Nielsen Bonde

About the exhibition

The art grant was awarded to Sara Nielsen Bonde with the following motivation:

”The Fredrik Roos Art Grant 2019 awarded Sara Nielsen Bonde for an artistry founder in a tradition that tears upp the classic dichotomy between nature and culture. Nielsen Bonde uses a double motion between nature in landscape and when she brings the nature into the room of art. Her art plays with our predictions of authentic experiences and culture and concerns key questions regarding nature, culture and climate.”

About the artist

Sara Nielsen Bonde has devoted herself to art and architecture ever since 2011, when she enrolled at the BGK Syd, Sønderjylland Art School in Denmark. The following year, however, she moved on to study at the School of Architecture in Copenhagen. After reconsidering her choice of studies, Nielsen Bonde decided to quit and focus on her artistic practice. In 2014, she was accepted for the five-year Fine Art programme at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, where she will graduate in spring 2019. During these five years, she has been drawn towards places with close connections to nature. This has prompted several trips to the south of Denmark as well as two semesters abroad as an exchange student, one at the Academy in Tromsø, and on Iceland at the Academy in Reykjavik. Nielsen Bonde has participated in national and international group and solo exhibitions, including the duo show Fossils from Future, 2016, in collaboration with Jonas Bentzer at Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Mexico. Her most recent exhibitions include a group show in Helsinki and her graduate show Outer Bark, Inner Wood at Galleri Mejan in Stockholm.