Tina Helen

Visiting Artist Residency

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Tina Helen is a visual artist based in Copenhagen. Her artistic practice proposes a synthesis of the practical and the theoretical in the understanding and production of images. She is engaged with questions of urban politics, power structures (economic, social or psychological), image politics, cognitive capital, self-schooling, refusal, migration, autism, autonomy, collective forms of being, escape and issues of artistic practice and organization. Engaged on a personal and political level, she explores ways to bring together the fields of visual art, knowledge production and activism.

Tina Helen holds an MFA in Critical & Pedagogical Studies from Malmö Art Academy (2011-2013) and an MA in Visualization from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design (2000-2006). She has been an artist in residency at Skaftfell Residency Program in Iceland, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Kunsthuis SYB in The Netherlands and Townhouse Gallery in Cairo. Previous projects include: Workshops at Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, MMCC Culture house in Kabul and SAWA-Outreach program in Cairo; exhibitions at Critical Distance in Toronto, Vejle Art Museum, Minuit Vernissage in Copenhagen and solo exhibitions at Hospital Prison University Archive and Danske Grafikere in Copenhagen; as well as contributions to numerous art and critical theory publications. She is a part of the critical visual collective Frisk Flugt, and the art collective FACTORY WORKERS UNITE. Tina Helen is artist in residence at Open Studio as a part of the collective Frisk Flugt.