Eva Sørensen

Hernig, 1940 - Verbania 2019
Lived in Verbania

Eva Sørensen studied in Paris with the sculptor Laszlo Szabo. In the very early Sixties she settled in Italy, frequented artists such as Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana and Enrico Castellani and during a period spent at Albisola began to work with ceramics. Her first solo show was organized by the Birch gallery in Copenhagen in 1963. From the second half of the 1960s she participated in numerous group shows and realised sculptures for public bodies and museums in Scandinavia. In 1976, the museum of Aarhus and Koldinghus organized and anthological exhibition of her work and the following year the artist moved to Mergozzo (VB). In 1978, she exhibited her sculptures in Milan’s Parco Sempione with a presentation by Pierre Restany and at the Ordrupgaard Museum in Copenhagen. In 1982 she participated in the Venice Biennale, exhibiting drawings and sculptures in the Danish Pavilion.
The works of Eva Sørensen can be found in the art collections of the Ny Carlsberg Foundation and the Danish State Art Foundation and are exhibited permanently in public museums and institutions in numerous Danish cities.

SOLO SHOWS:

2012-2013
Of Memory and Time. Anthological Exhibition, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Turin

2008
Linee, Galleria Antonia Jannone, Milan

1982
Biennale di Venezia - Danish Pavilion

1979-1981
Hydro-sculptures in Taarnby.

1979
sculptures in Hvidovre
Sculptures in Statione Square, Herning

1978
Sculptures at the Ordrupgaard Museum in Copenhagen
Sculptures in Parco Sempione, Milan

1976
Anthological Exhibition, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus

1963
Birch Gallery, Copenhagen

GROUP SHOWS:

2016
OLTRE, Palazzo Falconieri, Rome

2015
Beyond the Foreground, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Budapest
AN ART OF ONE'S OWN, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Turin

2014
Flashback, Pala Alpitour - Isozaki, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Parva sed apta mihi – Due donne e una scelta, Studio Francesco Messina in collaboration with Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Milan

2011
Albisola, Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen-aan-de-Leie
Linea Mentis, Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Turin

2009
Lake Side Art Gallery, Verbania

1973
Scandinavian House, Reykjavik

1968
Helsinki Art Association of Herning Scandinavian Countries Biennal Exhibition

1968-1976
Group shows in Grønningen

1967
Den Frie, Copenhagen

1964
Lingby, Copenhagen