Ragnhild Joest Harbeck

Ragnhild Joest Harbeck (DK, b. 1969) member of Danish Visual Artists – (IAA International Association of Art)

RJH is a visual artist, living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Painting is her primary media - acrylic, pencil and mixed media on canvas and paper, in the field between figurative and abstract art.

In her work, RJH is preoccupied with the ongoing chaos/order interaction and the narrow distance in between. In each piece of art, she is searching for her own invisible rules to apply to, in her effort to arrange all the fragments into the turbulent space.

She wants to illustrate the forces of nature that we are subject to. They make us feel humble, and perhaps force us into new, unknown directions. Elements are turning upside-down. The balance is drawn against the impossible distortion, and the ends are collected and balanced with the vibration of a nerve. The subtle and undiscovered land is ready for search.

Spending her childhood on a farm in the countryside and her grown-up life in the city, she is naturally influenced by the contradictory conditions and disunity between the countryside and the city. She is investigating the notion of freedom, with an awareness of both the narrow and loose ties aroun...

RJH is educated in graphic design, and has attended several artcourses. She has worked full-time as a visual artist for the last 20 years. Besides painting she has furthermore worked with installation art, computer-based art and graphic printing.

She has previously exhibited at the Danish censored exhibitions KE, KP and KS, and at Art CPH, Kunsthal Nord, Øksnehallen, several art galleries and Hjørring Art Museum.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020 Soloexhibition Glostrup Kunstforening, Glostrup
2019 Soloexhibition Skovlunde Kulturhus, Skovlunde
2018 Soloexhibition Ågalleriet, Frederiksværk
2016 Dianxi Science and Technology Normal University, Imago Mundi, China
2015 Imago Mundi, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Italy
2014 Imago Mundi, imagomundiart.com, curatet by Sophus Gether, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen
2013 Soloexhibition Pakhusgalleriet, Ny. Sj. Kulturhus
2013 Øksnehallen, Copenhagen
2012 Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg
2011 Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg
2011 Galleri Nakke Hage, Copenhagen
2010 KE - Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling 2010, National Juried Exhibition, Copenhagen
2010 Galleri Nordrum, July - August, Hornbæk
2010 Kunsthal Nord, "Looking at Art", Marts - May, Aalborg
2009 Galleri Elander, June, Tisvildeleje
2009 Galleri Elander, December, Tisvildeleje
2009 Art Copenhagen 09, Nordic Artfair, September,
Copenhagen
2009 Copenhagen City Court, January - Marts, Copenhagen
2008 Group exhibition, Flow Galleri, December, Hellerup
2008 "Light & Transperency", Flow Galleri, May - June, Hellerup
2008 Flow Galleri, (former Galleri 360), February - April, Hellerup
2007 KS - Kunstnernes Sommerudstilling, National Juried Exh...