Kirstine Autzen ^(DK)

Kirstine Autzen (1980) is a visual artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark, working with photographic practices, video, text and installation to explore transformation.  In her work, she strives to opens a space for perception to be active and exploratory, suggesting that new connections and understandings are possible, when things are unsettled, ambiguous, and open. Conceptions of nature, archives, and research into natural history mix with an interest in philosophical questions concerning growth, memory, and loss in a process-oriented exploration of both organic and human-made materials. Her works carry visible traces of the process, as she creates alternative techniques to blur boundaries between analogue and digital working spaces.  

She has specialised in post-photographic practices, seeking to employ the flexibility of the photographic medium to engage viewers in subjects, we are otherwise numb to. She has been part of founding and running artist run initiatives, curates exhibitions, gives lectures and workshops, and has written numerous interviews and articles.  

She holds an MFA in Fine Art Photography from HDK Valand (SE) and an MA in Visual Culture from Copenhagen University. In 2024, she received the Eric Ericsson Stiftelsens grant. 

Kirstine Autzen is taking part in the SPARK project All the Soft Always Goes Away in collaboration with researcher Ana Prohaska.

This profile was last updated on 9 June 2026.