Charlotte Sprogøe

Ph.D. Contemporary art & Curating

Curator & Art Writer 

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Founder La Pêche - Contemporary Art Commissions​
e: charlotte.sprogoe@gmail.com

Instagram @charlottebornsprogoe

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Experience

SMK Statens Museum, The Danish National Gallery of Art

Director Tranen

Curator Brandts Museum

Senior Curator MAPS Museum of Art in Public Space

Chief curator Kunsthal Aarhus

U-turn Quadrennial of Contemporary art

Director Copenhagen Photo Festival
Louisiana
PS1 - Center of Contemporary Art

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts research department

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Bio

Charlotte Sprogøe’s curatorial practise is focused on how 'every force evolves a form’ and on contemporary arts connections to life, as manifested in the psychological, choreographic, locational, aesthetic and political dimensions of the exhibition as feeling and thinking form. Through her curatorial projects, writing and curatorial research, she explores art and curating as forces, intensities and dynamic form – and backdrop as character. In her projects new productions, location-specificity and performance commissions have been recurring tropes, as well as the ambition of introducing new international artists in all exhibitions. 

Performance exhibitions have been integral to Sprogøe's work. She curated the performance exhibition CAT COW with Nina Beier in Kunsthal Rønnebæksholm's historic barn as part of Sprogøe's ongoing  research on contemporary art commissions and off-site locations  and the play of energies between death and life in exhibitions. The exhibition won Bikuben Foundation's Vision Prize 2020 as an independent part of Rønnebæksholm’s Soil.Sickness.Society program.

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Previously Sprogøe as senior curator at MAPS Museum of Art in Public Space curated the international survey exhibition The Story of Public Art, 2025 in close dialogue with the artists, foundations, museums and estates as well as with colleagues from Circa, DIA, Creative Time, Public Art Fund, with, Savanna Art Center, Art Angel, High Line. 

Here she curated the exhibition with projects by 70 artist from 40 countries amongst others: Heidi Bucher, Hélio Oiticica, DIS, Ewa Partum, Franco Mazzucchelli, General Idea, Gordon Matta-Clark 3Nós3 Alex Mlynarcik & Stano Filko, Alfredo Jaar, Allan Kaprow, Anna Halprin, Anicka Yi, Barbara Kruger, Basquiat, Big Tail Elephant Bjørn Nørgaard & Lene Adler Petersen, Curtis Cuffie, Danh Vo, Daniel Buren, Graciela Carnevale, Günter Brus, Hi-Red Center, Ibrahim Mahama, Jeremy Deller, Kader Attia, Kang Kuk-jin, Chong Ch’an-sung & Jung Kangja, Lawrence Lek, Marta Minujín, Michael Rakowitz, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Pope.L, Public Movement, Rachel Whiteread, Rosemary Mayer, Sanja Ivekovic, Suzanne Lacy, The Neo-Dada Organizers Theaster Gates, Thomas Hirschhorn, Trisha Brown, Ushio Shinohara, Vito Acconci, Wolf Vostell, Robert Smithson, Judy Chicago, Marisa Merz, Heinz Mack and many others - Sprogøe invited the Milan based design firm FormaFantasma to create the performative exhibition design changing lights and sensibility thoughout the hours of the day - from daybreak to midnight. 

For MAPS Sprogøe also curated the opening program in public space as a take-over of the city hall square in Copenhagen with commissioned animation art  by Jenny Holzer for the city’s billboards and the performance Venus 2.0. by Göksu Kunak for the square of the city hall. This curatorial program expanded onto other LED billboards in Copenhagen and Odense with Alfredo Jaar’s CIRCA commission Tonight No Poetry Will Serve. 

As part of Sprogøe's curatorial take on the MAPS Museum as public Space she developed the concept of a new large scale billboard on the museum facade and curated a public space exhibition with Yoko Ono, Gurillia Girls, Erik van Lieshout, Pussy Riot and Nadya in dialogue with the artists for the facade, as well as a new performance commission Forward, by artist and choreographer Maria Hassabi for the atrium of the museum.  

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Sprogøe has in the past decade curated a series of research-based exhibitions both in relation to her PhD at the Danish Royal Academy of Arts and as Head of the Ministry of Culture’s founded research project Site Uncertain. Site Uncertain was conducted in collaboration with Professor Carla Zaccagnini at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, exploring new curatorial and artistic approaches to uses of location in contemporary art through curatorial experiments and in symposiums with invited curators such as Raimundas Malasauskas, Neville Wakefield, Rebecca Lamarche Vadel e.o.

At Kunsthal Charlottenborg Sprogøe curated Red Light Green Light Intimacy, Desire and Tension (In the Realm of the Senses), 2022, an exhibition created as a living form spreading from the kunsthalle to historic palaces and emblematic locations in the city with Korakrit Arunanondchai, Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Cecilia Bengolea, Ylva Snøfrid, Cally Spooner & Geumhyung Jeong. 

For Kunsthal Aarhus Sprogøe curated the public space exhibition You'r In My Veins, 2019 on love and longing form with George Henry Longly, Alex Cecchetti, Soshiro Matsubara, Rolf Nowotny a queering of the public space format as an intimate tonality guided by the commissioned themesong by Adam Christensen. Sprogøe has previously worked as chief curator at Kunsthal Aarhus, where she curated the show Look at Me, 2012 with Vito Acconci e.o and the video exhibition Performing Woman with Carolee Scneemann, Joan Jonas, Mariana Abramovic, and Yvonne Rainer, Ursula Reuter Christiansen and Lene Adler Petersen, 2012 

From 2014 to 2017 as artistic director of Tranen Sprogøe relaunched the new Tranen (previously Traneudstillingen) and curated a series of seasons expoloring the post-internet and post-performance sensibilities: 3D to Infinity: Honza Hoeck, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Valerié Collart, Yemenwed, Asbjørn Schou. Domain: Rolf Nowotny, Geumhyung Jeong, Franco Turchi & Louise Rosendal, Cecilie B. Evans, David Stjernholm. Sensibility: Astrid Svangren, Jessica Warboys, Uffe Isolotto, Naomi Fischer, Johan Rosenmunthe. Creation - Mists of Dawn: Tiril Hasselknippe, Cyprien Gaillard, Astrid Myntekær, Simon Fujiwara and Jesper Carlsen. Art & Life - Social Aesthetics Obscured: Mathias & Mathias, Cao Fei, Amitai Room, Kae Bee Chow, Jules Fisher, Sandra Mujinga.

Sprogøe has throughout her carrer created numerous projects in public space  – such as the Triennial Sculpture Odense 14 - Still Waters Run Deep for Museum Brandts with Nina Beier, David Douard, Gabriel Kuri, Tiril Hasselknippe, Simon Fujiwara, SUPERFLEX, Theis Wendt, Jette Hye Jin Mortensen, Tue Greenfort, Jiri Kovanda, FOS, Mikkel Carl, A kassen & Mathias & Mathias, Nanna Rützou Abellm, and as artistic director and chief curator at the first Copenhagen Photo Festival the Day & Night show in collaboration with Jesper Elg  with international contemporary art photography by Anne Hardy, Walead Beshty, Laurel Nakadate, Peter Funch, Jason Nocito, Nicolai Howalt, Tim Davis and Hanna Liden.  

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