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About
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Ditte Knus Tønnesen (she/her) is a Danish artist and independent curator based in Copenhagen. Working conceptually with photography in a cross-media context, she tests, questions, and expands the medium through various techniques, traditions, and materials. Her practice often creates a dialogue between the handmade and the digital, embodied through both antiquated and contemporary methods. As a curator, she specializes in photography, audience-interactive art, ecological perspectives, and food culture.
Knus Tønnesen studied at the Fine Art Photography Department at The Glasgow School of Art (2005–2008), including an exchange to Kyoto Seika University, Japan, and holds an international MA in Curatorial Practice from the Art Academy – Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Bergen, Norway (2021). She was co-director of the artist-run non-profit exhibition space GREEN IS GOLD (2011–2017) with artist Amalie Bønnelycke Lunøe (DK). She is co-founder of Void & Co., an international platform for visual art projects (2018–), and served as co-curator and head of the art program at Heartland Festival (2018–2024). In 2025, she was appointed by the Danish Minister of Culture to the Committee for Visual Arts Project Funding at the Danish Arts Foundation. She also has extensive teaching experience, including as an external lecturer at the Funen Art Academy (2020–2022). Her curatorial independedprojects include Ny Nordisk Mæthed (2020), a ground exhibition in four acts with works by Søren Aagaard, Augusta Sørensen, and Jesper Aabille at Fotografisk Center and Nature Workshop Streyf in Copenhagen (DK). Most recently, she has joined GODSBANEN as Curator and Project Manager for the upcoming special exhibition on Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, where she contributes to shaping the project’s ambitious vision and its collaborative, audience-engaging approach to presenting the legacy of the modern sculptor. Knus Tønnesen has exhibited widely across the globe, including:
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