Trine Søndergaard is a Danish photo-based artist. Her photographic works are marked by a precision and sensibility that co-exist with an investigation of the medium of photography itself, its boundaries and what constitutes an image. Her photography is grounded in an objective and documentary attitude, heightened through both reduction and poetic narratives.

A central theme in Trine Søndergaard’s oeuvre is vision and the gaze. She utilises a circular visual poetics, in which motifs and phrases from earlier works create meaningful connections. This takes place in a spirit of both playfulness and contemplation, in a balance between the spontaneous and the precise, the planned and the accidental. Trine Søndergaard’s work is layered with meaning and quiet emotion, and her work often revolves around existential questions that are equally personal and universal. Søndergaard’s work explores what it means to be human, and while her work is often initiated by a personal angle, it also contains an overall exploration of more general phenomas related to historical, cultural and gender related questions.

In 2000, Trine Søndergaard received the Albert Renger Patzsch Award and has since received numerous grants and fellowships, including a three-year working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation and Eckersberg Medaillen in 2025. Søndergaard’s work has been featured in many international group and solo exhibitions, most recently at The Danish Royal Library, Gammel Holtegaard and Gothenburg Museum of Art. She is represented in major public and private collections all over the world and has completed public commissions for both museums and cultural institutions.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026 COORDINATES OF WITHIN, Snø Galleri, Norway
2024 SEASON OF UNDEFINED, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Denmark
2023 BLIND SIDE, Umbrella, West Coast Exhibitions, Nørre Nebel, Denmark
2023 TRINE SØNDERGAARD, CCA, Mallorca, Spain
2022 FARAWAY NEARBY, Greve Museum, Denmark
2022 UNTITLED / Til Vægs, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 UNDISCLOSED, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Denmark
2021 WORKS, The Royal Danish Library, Denmark
2021 NEARLY NOW, Gl. Holtegaard, Denmark
2020 WORKS, Dunkers Kulturhus, Sweden
2020 148 WORKS, Göteborg Kunstmuseum, Sweden
2019 HERFRA HVOR VI STÅR, Skive Museum, Denmark
2019 STILL, Maison du Danemark, France
2019 GULDNAKKE, SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion & Film, Atlanta, USA
2019 NEARER THE TIME, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Denmark
2018 STILL, Musée d’Art Moderne André Malraux, France 
2018 A REFLECTION, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, USA
2017 VAKUUM, Brandts13, Denmark
2015 A ROOM INSIDE, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Danmark
2013 BIRDS, TREES and HUNTING SCENES, Howalt & Søndergaard, Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg, Denmark
2013 STASIS, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, UK
2013 MONOCHROME PORTRAITS, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, USA
2012 STILL, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 STRUDE, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Föhr, Germany
2011 BLYGE BLIKK, Adolph Tidemand & Trine Søndergaard, Nasjonalgalleriet, Norway 

Selected Group Exhibitions 

2026 KROPP. IDEAL, BLICK, FRIHET, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden
2026 EVERY STONE MUST BE TURNED, Skovgaard Museet, Viborg, DK
2024 NEEDLE & Thread, Art Museum Brandts, Denmark
2024, IN THE NOW, Brooklyn Museum, USA
2023 TRULY WILD, Ribe Kunstmuseum, Denmark
2023 SNOWFLAKES, Northern Photographic Centre, Finland
2022 JUBILÆUM, Ringsted Galleriet, Denmark
2020 LE DELTA, Province de Namur, Belgium
2020 FACE TO FACE, Thorvaldsen Museum, Denmark
2019 PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE LAZARE COLLECTION, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
2018 FORM FOLLOWS FICTION, Kejatan Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2018 RELOAD, Kunst der Westküste, Föhr, Germany
2017 THESES, Stiftung Christliche Kunst, Wittenberg, Germany
2016 PHOTOGRAPHY FROM NORTHERN WESTERN EUROPE, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Italy
2015 FEMINA, Pavillon du Vendome, Paris, France
2014 BIKUBEN, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, USA
2014 CONTEMPORARY ART FROM DENMARK, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
2013 EVERYONE CARRIES A ROOM INSIDE, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
2013 DAS NAHE UND DIE FERNE, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
2013 COOL NORDIC, The Kennedy Center, Washington, USA
2012 NEW NORDIC, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
2011 L’ENIGME DU PORTRAIT, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France
2011 KIYOSATO MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS, Japan 

Collections 

ARoS - Bornholms Kunstmuseum - Carlsberg Museum - Fondation Neuflize Vie, France - Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Italy - Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden - Greve Museum - Hasselblad Foundation, Sweden, Henry Art Gallery, USA - Kastrupgårdsamlingen - Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan - KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg - The Hermes Collection, France - Kunstmuseet i Tønder - La Casa Encendida, Spain - Le Delta Province de Namur, Belgien - Maison Européenne de la Photographie, France - Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Canada - MUSAC, Spain - Musée d’art Moderne André Malraux, France - Museum Kunst der Westküste, Germany - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA - Museum on the Seam, Israel - Nasjonalgalleriet – Nasjonalmuseet, Norway - National Museum of Women in the Arts, UK - Ny Carlsbergfondet - Skagens Museum - Skive Museum - The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, USA - The Danish Arts Foundation - The Danish Parliament’s Art Collection - The Israel Museum, Israel - The J. Paul Getty Museum, USA - The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Ireland - Royal Danish Library's collection - The Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum, USA. 

Grants & Awards

Eckersberg Medaillen - Dansk Tennisfond - Ole Haslunds Kunstnerlegat - Ny Carlsberg Fondets kunstnerlegat - Poet Poul Sørensen & Fru Susanne Sørensens Legat - The Most Beautiful German Book Prize - Aage og Yelva Nimbs Fond - Anne Marie Telmanyi Carl-Nielsens Fond - Akademiraadet - Statens Kunstfonds 3 årige arbejdslegat- Fogtdals Rejselegat - Niels Wessel Bagges KunstFond – The Albert Renger Patzsch Prize - Ny Carlsberg Fondet - Joop Swart World Press Master Class - Award for a young artist, Museet for Samtidskunst - Ragnvald & Ida Blix Fond - Special Jury Prize Paris Photo - Kunstfrimærket/ Postnord.

Publications

203 WORKS, 2020 Göteborg Kunstmuseum/FabrikBooks A ROOM INSIDE, 2017, FabrikBooks - STASIS, 2014, Hatje Cantz - STRUDE, 2012, Museum Kunst der Westküste, DYING BIRDS, 2010, Søndergaard & Howalt, Hassla Books - HOW TO HUNT, 2010, Søndergaard & Howalt, Hatje Cantz - STRUDE, 2010,Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek - MONOCHROME PORTRAITS, 2009, Hatje Cantz - TREEZONE,2009, Søndergaard & Howalt, Hassla Books - HOW TO HUNT, 2005, Søndergaard & Howalt, ArtPeople – VERSUS, 2003, Thorvaldsens Museum - NOW THAT YOU ARE MINE, 2002, Steidl 

Trine Søndergaard

Exhibition

Trine Søndergaard: Coordinates of Within

February 21 – April 4, 2026