Amalie „Sveske“ Ourø

Amalie ‘Sveske’ Ourø (b. 1994, Næstved, Denmark) is a Danish artist who has been living, studying and working in the Netherlands since 2018. Her work, mostly performative and community-based, can be best described as art-anthropology and is inspired by her curiosity about human existence and the inner workings of our society. Through her installations she actively engages with the audience through acts of play and subversion, inviting them to think critically about diverse societal urgencies within the field of sociology, urbanism, and ecology — encouraging meaningful and sustainable change along the way. She exhibited in The Netherlands and abroad at HMK (Hoorn), Ron Mandos Gallery (Amsterdam), De Tweede Kamer (Den Haag), The Long Now (San Francisco), Arti et Amicitiae (Amsterdam), HYB4 Gallery (Hybernská Campus, Praag) and the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam).

EDUCATION

2022   Bachelor in visual art from Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (NL)

Specialized Image and Language department and an honours degree from the Art and Research program.

SELECTED WORKS

2024   Green, green - grass!, Hotel Maria Kapel (NL)

2023   Radical sharing, by Bette Adriaanse, Chelsea T. Hicks at - The Interval at Long Now, in San Francisco & at the Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam (NL)

2023   Young blood foundation, De Tweede Kamer in Den Haag. 2022: Poetry international, Verhalenhuis Belvédère expo, Rotterdam. 2022: Best of Graduates, Ron Mandos Gallery Amsterdam (NL)

2021   'Resilient Bodies - Strategies and practices for Fluid Embodiments' Stedelijk museum Amsterdam (NL)

Date of residency: 01. – 31.10.2024