Rhoda Ting & Mikkel Bojesen
Rhoda Ting & Mikkel Bojesen (formerly Studio Thinkinghand) is an art duo currently based in Kalvehave, close to Copenhagen, Denmark. Their works focus on methods of listening, relating and co-creating with other than human species such as fungi, bacteria and ecosystems as well as, synthetic life such as soft robotics, making visible stories, intelligences, and life beyond the human gaze. Bringing together science, technology and industry, their work investigates speculative futures, and explores philosophies that can move us collectively and affirmatively beyond the anthropocene. Drawing inspiration from contemporary disciplines such as queer ecology, posthumanism and vitalist materialism, they seek to apply and revise ways in which humans participate in a dynamic web of planetary interconnectedness. They imagine a future of co-evolution, queer futurity and adaptability in which we look towards borderzones and relationality, challenging human exceptionalism and reductive notions of binary categorisations between Nature and Culture, the organic and the synthetic and the pure and feral.
Selected Exhibitions & Projects
Studio ThingkingHand at GLAS - museet for glaskunst
CV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Chart Art Fair w. Gether Contemporary, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen
2023
Extremophilia, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen
EVOLUTIONS, GLAS - Museet for glaskunst, Elbeltoft
2021
Feral Fetish, Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen
A Foreign Forest, Kunshal Nord, Kunstpioneerne, Brovst
2020
Entangled Encounters, Munkeruphus, Dronningmølle
2019
FUGUE, Kvit Galleri, Copenhagen
2018
Amongst Ruins, Wonderland Art Space, Copenhagen
PERMANENT PUBLIC WORKS
2025
(Work in progress), Sundskolen, Guldborgsund Kommune
2024
Væsner, Børnehuset Vingesuset, Kolding Kommune
Spjelkavik Arena, Ålesund Kommune
2023
Amphibiome, Jøssingefjords Vitenmuseum, Jøssingefjord
2022
Entangled Encounters, Læringhuset Nærheden, Høje Taastrup Kommune
Archetyepe, Apoteker Passagen, Aabenraa Kommune
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Sensing the Sea, The Nordic Contemporary Art Center (NAC), Xiamen
We are all Hybrids, Aarhus Festuge, Aarhus
X, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen
2023
Reset Materials (+philmann architects), Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen
BLOOM, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen
Amazing Nature, Kunstcentret Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg
2022
Minimalism-Maximalism-Mechanissmmm, Act 4, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus
Flæðir að – Flæðir frá, Hafnarborg - Hafnarfjörður Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland
Museum For Fremtiden, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus
The Great Outdoors, Skovhuset, Værløse
Museum For Fremtiden, Sort/Hvid Teater, Copenhagen
Københavnerstykker, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen
Unruly Nature, Bloom Explore, Online Exhibition
Minimalism-Maximalism-Mechanissmmm, Act 4, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
Mykologisk Salon, Fraktal Ventesal, Skørping
2021
Organism, KH7 Artspace, Aarhus
Vita Necro Vita, Bloom Festival, Copenhagen
Nothing Makes Itself, ARKO, Arts Council of Korea, Seoul
Naturen Taler, Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø
2020
14,8x21, Tom Christoffersen Gallery, Copenhagen
“The arts are essential to any complete national life...”, Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen
2019
Open Studioooo, Seoul Museum of Art, SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul
Unfunctionality, Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen
Future Food Today, Space10, Copenhagen
Winter Selections, VÆG Gallery, Aalborg
2018
0fr Copenhagen, Copenhagen
Mycelium Moon, Floating Art 2018, Vejle Kunstmuseum, Vejle
Dawn Exhibition, Nomad Workspace, 3 Days of Design, Copenhagen
Relationscape (with Nana Francisca Schottländer), Bloom Festival, Copenhagen
AF·ART Mod Systemer; Materialitet, PVC, Copenhagen
Relationscape (with Nana Francisca Schottländer), Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Berlin
2017
Ritus: Lights, Mads Nørgaard, Strøget, Copenhagen
Display Installations, Stine Goya, Copenhagen
Membrane (with Rune Bosse, Nana Francisca Schottländer), Festival of Future Nows, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
In, Around and All In-Between (with Rune Bosse), Code Art Fair, Copenhagen
Concaves, Stine Goya, Copenhagen
Network (with Rune Bosse), Roskilde Festival, Roskilde
Research for Network (with Rune Bosse), SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Phantom Muse (with Ray Roa), P‐Noise Festival, Philliphines
2016
The Sweet Smell Of, Alternativets Kulturnat, Copenhagen
The Awkward Curiousity of Interacting Nonsense, Trailerpark Festival, Copenhagen
RESIDENCIES
Arctic University of Norway, Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, Norway, 2022
Seoul Museum of Art, SeMA Nanji Residency, Korea, 2019
PRESS
Creative Voyage, Issue Three, Winter 2021/2022, Print
Kulturen på P1, DR, Interview, December 21st, 2021
Kulturen på P1, DR, Reportage, Sept. 15, 2021.
Kunsten.nu | Naturen er vild, kaotisk og queer | Interview | Trine Rytter Andersen, 2021
Politiken | Kunstanmelderen er begejstret: Her kan du smelte sammen med det kosmiske kaos | Anmeldelse | Politiken, 15 Juli 2020, Mathias Kryger. 2020
RUM International: Hello Darknes | Organic Decay: Portrait of Studio ThinkingHand, Print. 2019
Kunsten.nu: Review of the exhibition Amongs Ruins at Wonderland Art Space | Anna Cæcilia Fløche. 2018
I Do Art | STUDIO THINKINGHAND "AMONGST RUINS" Billedeserie. 2018
Age of Biology | Art and the Rush of Life. 2018
Labiotech.eu | Biology and Art Takes Over the Berlin Central Station. 2018
I Do Art | Rune Bosse & ThinkingHand: Naturens Skjulte Lærdom. 2017
AF·ART Magazine #6 | M.S Nielsen: Against The Educational System. Print. 2017
PORTRAIT FILMS
NDR, Ostsee Report, Documentary feature, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Germany [2020]
Bloom Explore I Bløde Robotter, Studio ThinkingHand, Video Short. 2020
PUBLICATIONS
Museum for Fremtiden, Anders Thrue Djurslev og Mathias Kokholm, Antipyrine, 2022
ARTIST TALKS
Chart Art Fair, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2024
ARKO, Arts Council Korea International Symposium, RE:Think, Imagine & Act, 2022
Bloom Festival, Greetings From the Symbiots w/ Tom Gilbert, 2021
Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, IBD, MA. 2021
Bartlett School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture MA/MLA, 2021
Kunsthal Nord, Kunstpioneerne, by Trine Rytter Andersen, 2020
Kunsten i Aalborg, Landskaber, by Søs Bech Ladefoged, 2020
WGSN, Ascential, London, 2020
Munkeruphus, 2020
Enter Artfair, Cheating entropy: on microbes and planetary changes. v/ Irene Campolmi, David Zilber, Adam Bencard. 2020
RESPOND Festival, Artistic Perspectives on Science, by Nana Balslev Strøjer. 2019
Af·Art Magazine: Mod Systemer; Materiality, PVC, w/ Gudrun Hassle and Louise Cehofski. 2019
WORKSHOPS
Roskilde Festival, Microbiome Workshop, Denmark 2022
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Painting and Pictorial Practices v/ Ferdinand Ahm Krag, Denmark, 2020
Hjemme i Kunsten, Skolen i Virkeligheden, Denmark [2020]
Skovhuset, Land Art and Relational Process, Denmark [2020]
Munkeruphus, Gillbjerg primary school v/ Christina Helvad, Land Art and Relational Process, Denmark, 2020
Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, MA, 2018 + 2020
ABSALON, Facilitator of Absalon Artlab, as Mikkel Dahlin Bojesen. 2016
Sisters Academy. Performative methods and sensuous spaces. For Sensuous, Gry Worre Hallberg, 2014 - 2019
Krabbesholm Højskole, Guestteacher with Rune Bosse, As Mikkel Dahlin Bojesen. 2013 - 2017
COLLECTIONS
Represented in the public collection of Copenhagen Municipality, 2021
Acquisition for permanent outdoor exhibition at Munkeruphus by Kirsten og Frits Frederiksens Fond, 2021
Represented in the collection of JP.Politikens Hus, 2019
WORK, TRAVEL & RESIDENCY GRANTS
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts: Akademirådets Rejselegat, 2022
The Danish Arts Foundation: Special workgrant related to projects during covid-19, 2020
The Danish Arts Foundation: Residency stipend for Seoul Museum of Art, SeMa Nanji Residency, South Korea, 2019
PRODUCTION GRANTS
The Danish Arts Foundation: High Tide - Low Tide, Hafnarborg, Iceland, 2022
The Danish Arts Foundation: Archive of Aesthetic Exploration (MMM4), Art Sonje & Kunsthal Aarhus, South Korea & DK, 2022
The Danish Arts Foundation: Feral Fetish, ARKO, Art Council Korea, 2021
Poul Johansen Fonden: Naturen Taler, Sorø Kunstmuseum, 2021
The Danish Arts Foundation: Naturen Taler, Sorø Kunstmuseum, 2021
Konsul George Jorck og Hustru Emma Jorck’s Fond: Feral Fetish, Politikens Forhal, 2021
The Danish Arts Foundation: Museum For Fremtiden, Teater S/H + Aarhus Kunsthal, 2021
The Danish Arts Foundation: Feral Fetish, Politikens Forhal, 2021
Copenhagen Municipality, Council for Visual Arts: Feral Fetish, Politikens Forhal, 2021
Copenhagen Municipality, Council for Visual Arts: FUGUE, Solo Exhibition, KVIT Gallery, 2019.
The Danish Arts Foundationl: Mycelium Moon, Vejle Kunstmuseum, 2018.