Everything I do is designed from an ethical mindset of caring for living ecosystems many generations from now. And what that takes, I am dedicated to share in learning communities.
Skye Jin is an artist, educator, permaculture designer and cultural sustainability advisor with a background in performative installations and public, co-creative art projects. MFA graduate from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2010, receiver of the 3-year work stipend from the Danish Arts Foundation in 2015, certified PDC Permaculture Designer in 2018 and Diploma in Applied Permaculture from Permaculture Association Britain in 2024.
Born in South Korea and grew up in Denmark.
Her work in the early 00s were performative video installations and collaborations like UFOlab, one of Scandinavia´s first BIPOC art collectives, pioneering friendly and care activist strategies and building aesthetic and theoretical language around transnational otherness, marginalized identities, non-western feminism, internalized racism and adoption politics.
Cultural hierarchies are turned upside down in many of her projects where the outsider is in the center. Feminist strategies of shared authorship to direct public projects introduce a sensory, interactive and transparent architecture with textiles, light, sound and sculpture that link collective spaces to the scale of the human body.
Her holistic work processes are often presented with 3 stages in exhibitions, where the before and after play an equal part, weaving in expanded notions of identity, performance, landscape and community as well as scientific collaborations and biology as critical space, inherited trauma through epigenetics and cultural ecosystems.
Currently she is active in the interdisciplinary projects Art+Science+Permaculture and Gardening is Activism. Member of the Danish Arts Council Committee for Project Grants 2022-2025 and Chair of the Danish Cultural Ministry Illustrator Award Committee.
Exhibited internationally in museums, biennials, festivals, galleries and in public space like: The 6th Gwangju Biennale, ARoS Museum of Contemporary Art, Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Kyunghee Museum of Art, 1st Nordic Art Triennial at Eskilstuna Art Museum, GI ´08 Glasgow International, The VM Mountain by Bjarke Ingels, U-Turn Quadrennial for Contemporary Art and public commissions like HK20 for the Danish Building Agency.
The wind carries songs from our ancestors, of how to live on this planet for many generations to come. It is us who need to have the sensitivity and courage to catch those messages
- Skye Jin