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Education

 

1951

  • Born in Copenhagen, Denmark

1970

  • Graduating high school; enrolls at the University of Copenhagen to study philosophy, French and Art History. Part of second year: the University of Aix -en Provence. Studying the French masters

1972 – 76

  • Jonstrup TTC. Majors (BA) in the Danish artist Willy Oerskov’s theories on subject and object. Research: Young People’s Attitude to Art

1976 – 78

  • Teaches art at Jonstrup TTC and at Bernadotte International School.
  • Lecturing at many different institutions on her ideas on how to teach art

1979

  • Enrolls at the Danish Teacher Training College to study Visual Communication with the artists Kirsten Justesen and Knud Andersen.
  • Takes an interest in organic architecture, making conceptual work on intervals with thread, glass fibre and paint, constructing “intervals”

1980

  • Approached by the Nysted Cultural Department to help building up a cultural art centre in Nysted in the Southern part of DK

1981

  • Provided with studio at the estate of Hestkoebgaard, Birkeroed, in exchange for organizing cultural events.
  • Studying at Haystack Mountain School of Arts and Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine USA with Yosiko Wada – doing conceptual work with plastic threads, sun and water, drawing lines. Encouraged to do further studies in USA

1982

  • Receives grants from Denmark – America Foundation, Knud Hoejgaards Foundation and The Danish National Bank Jubilee Foundation to study the art scene in New York, New Mexico and San Francisco.

1982 – 83

  • All her artistic experiments had so far been a research on the fundament of a painting: how to fuse the inner space of a painting, the invisible, with the visible sign. In search of a substance that she could invent and control herself in order to paint with it and on it. While in USA most exhibitions were about “The White Explosion.” Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine, Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland, Robert Motherland, Frank Stella a.o. had made unique work at Tyler Graphics Ltd. in Bedford Village, New York, which demonstrate the complete unity between paper and print. It fascinated Anne Vilsbøll and her long journey began in order to learn the secrets of paper with the aim of been able to obtain a symbiosis between the fundament and the sign, which for her has equal value in the final work of art.In USA she learnt papermaking by professor Frank Eckmair, Suny, Buffalo,Paper and Print, by Nancy O’Banion, CCAC, Oakland, Donald Farnsworth, Magnolia Press, by Bob Nugent and Joseph Zirker, Kala Institute in California, a.o.

1984 –

  • Upon her return to DK from USA she knew she needed to learn more. In Denmark no art institutions provide courses on the influence of paper as a basis for painting.
  • She had to search elsewhere and began her research visiting paper mills in the world:
  • In Italy 1984/86/87/93/96/98/00/05/14
  • In Spain 1987/92/99/03/17/22
  • In France 1988/ 08
  • In Germany 86.94/95/10
  • In Belgium and The Netherlands 1994
  • Went to Japan and the Phippines in 1987/ 89/95/97
  • Again USA in 89/98/99/10/12/14/17/18/22
  • China 1990
  • Argentina 1993
  • Canada 1993
  • South Africa and Zimbabwe 1995/, Burma, Nepal, Thailand 1995
  • Egypt 1996
  • Israel 1998
  • Australia, New Zealand 1998/02
  • Scotland 08/10
  • Sri Lanka and India 1999/00
  • Mexico 2018
  • India 2001 – 23, each year, testing papers for printing and painting, as well as collaborating on projects, such as artists book, lecturing and curating exhibitions..

Awards:

1994

  • Gosta Liljedahl’ s Foundation in honour of research on the history of paper
    Paper Works, The Westbrook Gallery, Atlanta
  • Georgia, prize winner for the artist book Vice Versa, produced in Capellades, Barcelona, Spain
  • Solar Fonden, grant of honour 78, 01, 04
  • Henry Heerup, grant of honour for artistic qualifications 2021

Residencies:

1984/ 85

  • Scandinavian Institute in Rome, Italy

1988/ 91

  • Ludvig Preetzmann – Aggerholm and his wife’s Foundation in Paris, administrated by the Danish State, printing lithography with Clot, Bramsen & Georges

1993

  • San Michele Foundation, Capri, Italy

1997

  • Awagami Paper Factory, Japan

2012

  • The Dora Maar House in Menerbes, France, The Brown Foundation Fellows Program

 

 

2023

  • Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Almeira, Spain

 

 

 

 

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