Mazja Hillestrøm

Mazja Hillestrøm 1976
Lives and works in Copenhagen

About Mazja

Mazja Chloé Hillestrøm was born in North Zealand in 1976 and grew up in and around Copenhagen. The interest in art was cultivated at the Bernadotte school in Hellerup, where a spectacular work from her early teens until recently was decorating one of the school's walls.

As an adult she has lived in London, New York, Vienna, and Copenhagen. Mazja has studied at Kunstskolen Spektrum in Copenhagen (2010-11), Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna (2011-13), Konsthöganskolan in Malmö (2013-14), and Fatamorgana in Copenhagen (2014-15).

Above all Mazja is an artistic photographer, but she is also interested in light, installation art, and documentaries. She had an exhibition of her lamps called Bubbles in Politikens Hus in Copenhagen (2015).
Her fine art photography has been exhibited at Gallery Christoffer Egelund several times, and with the Broken Land collection she was named artist of the year in 2017.

This year she had a special exhibition at the Rudolph Tegner Museum and Statue Park. With her metamorphosic photographs entitled Resurrection, Mazja offered a completely new perspective on the sculptures of Rudolph Tegner. In addition, she contributes...

2014-2015: Fatamorgana Photography School, Denmark
2013-2014: BFA Malmö Art Academy, Sweden
2011-2013: Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Austria
2010-2011: Spectrum Art School Copenhagen, Danmark

2020:
Grand Opening; Galleri Sandberg, Odense (DK)
XMAS' 2020; Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen (DK)
Summertime'20; Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen (DK)
Summer 2020; Galleri Sandberg, Odense (DK)

2019:
The Annual Winter Show'19; Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen (DK)
Group Exhibition: Winter Images; Galleri Sandberg, Odense (DK)
Group Exhibition: Summer Show; Galleri Sandberg, Odense (DK)
Summertime'19; Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen (DK)
Group Exhibition; Ærø Kunsthal, Ærøskøbing (DK)
Group Exhibition: Fairy Tales; Galleri Sandberg, Odense

(DK)2018
The Annual Winter Show'18; Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen (DK)
Solo Exhibition: Complete Superfection; Galleri Sandberg, Odense (DK)
Group Exhibition; Space C, Copenhagen (DK)
Summer Exhibition Gallery Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen
Solo Exhibition "Resurrection" at Rudolph Tegners Museum

2017
Vintershow at Gallery Christoffer Egelund
No Man's Land Exhibition Hotel SP34

2016
Skånes konstförening Malmö, Sweden
Metamatic:taf Athens, Greece
TAB Project Aarhus Center For Contemporary Art. Denmark.