Anna Skov Hassing
Photo Sofie Amalie Klougart
Anna Skov Hassing is a visual artist who lives and works on the isle of Møn, Denmark. Her practice takes shape in painting, text and installation. Occupied with our perception of what is real, she draws on blurring the borders between the personal and the collective, the recognizable and the abstract. In her motives and installations, she often works with amplifying proportion and displacement, to question pre-settled attachments, positions and hierarchies. Exploring – visually and sensually – relational connections, borders and transits between inner and outer spaces.​
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EDUCATION
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2015-2018
MFA, Malmö Art Academy (Prof. Emily Wardill)
2011-2014
BFA, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamborg (Klasse Matt Mullican)
2010-2011
BFA, Gerrit Rietveld Academy
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2009-2010 Spektrum Art school, Copenhagen
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SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025
S I N G L E, Frise, Hamburg, DE.
2021-22
Min fars arkiv - Hesten på din arm, på muren, i skuret, den løbske, The Danish Welfare Museum, Svendborg, DK.
2021
Kassandra – Out of blue, PDAS, Møn, DK.
2020
Rummet mellem buba, (duo with Mie Lund) BoVita, Copenhagen, DK.
2018 I din mund smager alt af jordbær, MFA Exhibition, KHM1, Malmö, SE.
2014 The Body of giantG, BFA Exhibition, HfbK, Hamburg, DE.
2013 but one among them all troubled me, (duo with Rosa Joly) Gallery der HfbK, Hamburg, DE.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010–2025
The public interior, TITLED, Copenhagen, DK.Midnight blue and Apricot, Exhibition Space Sydhavnstation, Copenhagen, DK. 20 x Testimony, Kunsthal Vejle, DK. Tin Foil Agenda, Marie Kirkegaard, Copenhagen, DK. The Final Exhibition, Axel Tower, Copenhagen, DK. A heart A dress, Pauline Perplexe, Paris, FR. Frenzi and Friends in The Black Box, Forum Box, Helsinki, FI. Newcomers Exhibition, KHM, Malmö, SE. Delta15, Wasserwerk Falkenstein, Hamburg, DE. Frenzi and Friends (A holy Circle), Grindel Allee, Hamburg, DE. INDEX, Berenberg Prize for Young Art, Kunsthaus Hamburg, DE. Love is a Battlefield, Gängeviertel, Hamburg, DE. Mononale, Gallerie Vorwerkstift, Hamburg, DE. Kunstfrühlung Bremen, Bremen, DE. The Magic of Logic, Frappant, Hamburg, DE. Class Matt Mullican group show, Ingeborg Winsowsky, Berlin, DE. On Sound, Toolstraat, Amsterdam, NL. KE10, Taphallerne Carlsberg, Copenhagen, DK. Spring exhibition, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Danish Art Foundation's Collection. KPA Collection.
GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
The Danish Arts Foundation; Work Grant, Project Support, Art in the Public Space & Travel Grant (Architecture) . Grosserer L.F. Foghts Foundation, Bispebjerg Local Committee, Danish Tennis Foundation, Augustinus Foundation, Nordea Foundation.DIA Recidense – Danish Institute Athens, GR. The Berenberg Preis für junge Kunst, DE. Vorwerkstiftung Recidency, DE.
Bio by Julie Gufler, 2018 - from the exhibition I din mund smager alt af jordbær
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Anna Skov Hassing holds a BFA from Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg 2014, and a MFA from Malmö Art Academy 2018.
Mary Shelley was pregnant when she wrote her novel Frankenstein (1818) about the monster created from adults’ body parts, but with a soul like that of a newborn baby. In the Shellian sense, Anna Skov Hassing’s lyrical sculpture and painting is a personal testimony to what might be called ‘the monster nursery’.
There is wonderful tenderness and sometimes even comedy to the monster, whose hands are so big that they could only ever knock over or crush any tiny porcelain consonant, and who must see the wet splotches of sweat on his t-shirt in order to know that he is dead scared. But the sickness is unto death—the heart is ticking like the rain and Anna Skov Hassing’s song is no nursery rhyme; Nor exactly a call across the water, one understands, but I thought I heard a panting over there: perhaps from behind those trees? ​