Mai Dengsøe ^(DK)

Mai Dengsøe, Art historian and curator at Gammel Strand. Previously working as curator at Kunsthal Rønnebæksholm and Gl. Holtegaard. Together with visual artists Magnus Andersen and Louis Scherfig, she ran the curatorial research collective and exhibition space Bizarro in Copenhagen. For several years Dengsøe lived in the countryside of Denmark working both at Kunsthal44, Møen and with German artist Ursula Reuter Christiansen, building a rare bridge between generations. Dengsøe’s style, approach, and interest constitute a rare eclectic approach that is at ease with the coexistence of fiction and artmaking along with theory and curating. She has published several books and authored the first monograph on Reuter Christiansen entitled: Poppies Mutate into Bats: A 60-year Expanse of Paintings. Dengsøe has worked with curation since 2016 and published articles in magazines such as Periskop, Ny Jord and AWARE Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions. She studied art history at the University of Copenhagen and Humboldt-Universität in Berlin.

This profile was last updated on 18 March 2025.