Trine Søndergaard (born 1972), is a Danish photography-based visual artist. Trine Søndergaard lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Søndergaard studied drawing and painting in Aalborg and Copenhagen from 1992 to 1994 and attended the photography school Fatamorgana in Copenhagen, Denmark. Trine Søndergaard’s work is marked by a precision and a sensibility that co-exist with an investigation of the medium of photography, its boundaries and what constitutes an image. She is internationally acclaimed for her quiet and powerful imagery and she has received The Albert Renger-Patzsch Prize and the three-year working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation The landscapes and mirrorings of memory, silent inner rooms, and women’s occupations and roles through history are all themes in Trine Søndergaard’s works. Her work is marked by a quiet emotion. In her photographic series she portrays rooms, landscapes, vegetation and people. With repetition and small displacements she lets the vision stop and wonder. The works create a kind of gap, a clearing in the existence, in which all stands out in a almost extreme concentration. Trine Søndergaard says: “With my camera I listen to reality”. In her work, Trine Søndergaard’s starting point is documentary and straight photography. However, her use of reduction and repetition transforms the work into a kind of conceptual photography, and the dialogue with art history is always present in her oeuvre. The ordinary and the ceremonious are presented equally, and the undercurrents of melancholy, loss and the image as a condition transcending the verbal also characterize her work. Trine Søndergaard has exhibited all over the world and is represented in several international collections among others Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Canada, The J. Paul Getty Museum, USA, MUSAC, Spain, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sverige, Nasjonalmuseet, Norway, The Israel Museum, Israel, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, France and AROS, Denmark. Søndergaard is represented by Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen.

Publications

203 WORKS by Trine Søndergaard. FabrikBooks and Gotheburg Museum of Art, 2020, ISBN 978-87-998207-7-1 HOVEDTØJ by Trine Søndergaard. FabrikBooks 2020, ISBN 978-87-998207-6-4 A ROOM INSIDE by Trine Søndergaard. Fabrikbooks 2017, ISBN 978-87-998207-2-6 STASIS by Trine Søndergaard. Hatje Cantz, Germany, December 2013, ISBN 978-3-7757-3780-7 STRUDE by Trine Søndergaard. Museum Kunst der Westküste, Germany, 2012, ISBN 978-3-9812969-9-0 DYING BIRDS by Trine Søndergaard & Nicolai Howalt. Hassla Books, New York, November 2010, ISBN 978-0-9825471-4-4 HOW TO HUNT by Trine Søndergaard & Nicolai Howalt. Hatje Cantz, Germany, October 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-2722-8 STRUDE by Trine Søndergaard. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Denmark, 2010, ISBN 978-87-7452-314-7 MONOCHROME PORTRAITS by Trine Søndergaard. Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2614-6 TREEZONE by Trine Søndergaard & Nicolai Howalt. Hassla Books, New York, January 2009, ISBN 978-0-9800935-6-8 HOW TO HUNT by Trine Søndergaard & Nicolai Howalt. ArtPeople, Denmark, 2005, ISBN 87-91518-96-2 VERSUS by Trine Søndergaard. Thorvaldsens Museum, Denmark, 2003, ISBN 87-7521-098-3 NOW THAT YOU ARE MINE by Trine Søndergaard. Steidl, Germany, 2002, ISBN 3-88243-823-1

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Solo exhibitions: Trine Søndergaard & Nicolai Howalt

Group exhibitions

Group exhibitions: Trine Søndergaard & Nicolai Howalt

Collections

Awards and grants