The foundation's justification reads:
"Fredrik Roos foundation's scholarship 2019 is awarded to Sara Nielsen Bonde for an artistry that starts from a tradition that breaks up a classic dichotomy between nature and culture. Nielsen Bonde uses a double movement between nature in the landscape and when she brings nature into the space of art. Her work plays with our notions of what are authentic experiences and what are cultural notions and touches on several relevant questions about nature, culture and climate."
Biography of Sara Nielsen Bonde
Born in 1992 in Sønderborg in Denmark, lives and works in Stockholm.
Sara Nielsen Bonde has devoted herself to art and architecture since 2011, when she began studying at BGK Syd at Sønderjyllands Kunstskole in Denmark. The following year, she continued to study architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts' School of Architecture in Copenhagen. After careful consideration, Nielsen Bonde nevertheless decided to discontinue his architectural studies and instead focus on his artistic practice. In 2014, she entered the five-year program in liberal arts at Kungl. The Art Academy in Stockholm, where she will take her degree in spring 2019. During the five years at Kungl. At the University of the Arts, she has been drawn to places with a close connection to nature. This has led to several trips to southern Denmark and two semesters abroad as an exchange student, one in Norway at the Kunstakademiet in Tromsø and the other at Iceland's art school, Listaháskóli Íslands, in Reykjavik.
During her studies, Sara Nielsen Bonde has participated in national and international group and solo exhibitions, for example Fossils from Future, 2016, at the Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro in Mexico. Her most recent exhibitions include a group exhibition in Helsinki in collaboration with fellow students on the master's program, and her graduation exhibition Outer Bark, Inner Wood at Galleri Mejan in Stockholm.
After graduating in 2019, Nielsen Bonde plans to move to Gothenburg where she will continue her artistic work.
Read an interview in Nacka Värmdö Posten with Sara Nielsen Bonde here >>