Carina Traberg

Brief Statement

At the moment I am working with paper – photo and card collages describing a different kind of reality. One which may seem real but isn't, one that is on the edge between reality and imagination.
I work with abstracting and extending the two-dimensional, inspired by Minimalism and also Ottoman Miniature paintings in that the image is created without an illusion of a third dimension.

Carina Traberg - Cityscapes
The series of works called ‘Cityscapes’ is based on a description of a reality that doesn't exist, and despite the fact that it looks real, it is a simulation. I make 3D model modules from photographs cardboard and then I stage a photographic simulation of a real city. By investigating the image further, one will notice this. In these works I also play with scale; I reduce the size of something, which is very large, a city of skyscrapers in this case to a few centimetres in order to investigate how the body relates to things that are very out of proportion. One of the models is so small that you, when standing in front of it, have to adjust your vision to see all the details.

CV: Carina Traberg
Born: 1978 in Skanderborg, Denmark
Tel: 0790 434 4613
Email: ctraberg@yahoo.dk
website www.carinatraberg.blogspot.com

Education:
2006: Chelsea College of Art and Design Postgraduate diploma
1999-2004: The Funen Academy of Fine Art
2002: External study period in Istanbul
1999: Langeland’s Residential Art school, Denmark

Solo exhibitions:
2003: Walk Down Pantheons Fløjen Gallery, Odense, Denmark
2002: Skyscraper – inside out Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey
Corridor, Gallery Serraselviler, Istanbul, Turkey
2001: Television, House of Culture, Galten, Denmark
Skyscraper Sprays, Salling shopping centre, Aarhus, Denmark

2000: Television Pictures The Bang&Olufsen factory, Struer, Denmark

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2007:
Friday the 13th, Absorb Arts, London, England
Form Art Fair, Olympia, London, England
The New Year Show, Steps Gallery, Bristol, England

2006:
The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London, England
Growbag, The Art Pavilion, London, England
National Architecture Week, The Steps Gallery, Bristol
Chelsea Goes South, The Sun and Doves, London, England
TSF Triangle Show, Chelsea College of Art and Design,
London, England

2005:
Inspired Art Fair The Bridge, London, England
New Ways
Bavnhøj Mølle, Grenaa, Denmark
The Artist's Easter Exhibition
Kunstbygningen, Aarhus, Denmark

2004:
Minority Report – Challenging Intolerance in Contemporary Denmark Outside Ridehuset, Aarhus, Denmark
Afgang 04 Graduate exhibition from The Funen Academy of Fine Arts, Søjlerummet, Odense, Denmark
2002:
4 students from The Funen Academy of Fine Arts Gallery Ravn, Valby, Denmark
2001:
Visions – Upcoming Artists Filosofgangen Gallery, Odense, Denmark
2000:
Skyscraper, I Love You DFKU Gallery, Odense, Denmark
1999:
Television Pictures Inside Exhibition Centre, Hammel, Denmark

Grant:
The 2002 Carlsberg Travel Grant, awarded by The Funen Academy of Fine Art