Anne Sofie Skjold Møller primarily works with textiles, ceramics and other materials that have a functional history and are connected to the work of the hand. For BKF's secretariat, she has equipped the meeting room with pillows, blankets and sleeping masks with lavender, so that the employees can take a nap between meetings.
"I am interested in the body's basic needs, the recurring routines in everyday life and I want to bring the aspects of our lives that are often hidden away in the private, into the light".
With the soft and embracing works, she wants to bring the vulnerable and intimate situation of sleep and rest into the workplace and offer a small rebellion against the optimization and capitalization of cognitive resources.
Anne Sofie Skjold Møller (b. 1991), graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2021 at the School for Contextual and Conceptual Practices.
Her next project is a group exhibition in September at the baroque castle Halbes Schloss, which is outside Leipzig in Germany.
"I am looking forward to exhibiting in rooms with so much history and character, and the castle attracts many visitors every year with events, so it will be exciting to see how the guests will react to the works.
For the exhibition I will continue to work with textiles. My idea so far is to create an installation for children that the children can play in, partly inspired by Graziela Kunsch's Daycare for Documenta Fifteen and Palle Nielsens's Modelen”.
“I think that it has been difficult to get the financial aspect together, and it's sad that so much depends on factors that have nothing to do with art. For example whether you have a partner who can help to make your financial situation more stable, or whether you have a family who would be able to help if you e.g. suddenly get a big dental bill. Right now I'm thinking a lot about pension, maternity leave, income during illness, etc. Since I graduated, I've had different jobs, but they've all been temporary and/or with few hours and haven't made my financial situation any less precarious. It's really sad that it seems like I have to choose between the possibility of having a child, being able to retire and being able to call in sick and then my artistic practice. I can see that some of my colleagues can make it work, but right now I can't quite see how myself.
Actually, the financial aspect of the artistic practice is something I find quite exciting, but it is really an exercise for me (every single time) not to work for free (in connection with money jobs, with artistic work it seems almost impossible) , and to get the right price for works and work. I look forward to the day when, without hesitation or reservation, I can come up with the right number when someone asks me how much a service or work costs”.
BKF's exhibition scheme for graduates
The exhibition is part of the association's Graduate Scheme, which is aimed at newly qualified visual artists from Danish and foreign art academies.
The scheme gives new graduates who are members of BKF a good entry into working life as an artist.
Have you graduated within the last five years and would you like to exhibit with us, have a mentor or strengthen your network?
Check out BKF's Graduate Scheme here…