Creative Thought Space |
Bente Lindum | Copenhagen, Denmark | www.bente-lindum.dk
Artist/Installation Artist
What do you think being creative means?
To be creative, to create and use your imagination is a huge part of being a human. Unlike animals we as human beings are able to constantly change (and rethink) our position in the world (or our own reality). We are able to experiment and according to the outcome (whether good or not that good) continue or change new creative actions and ideas on development. I love my work as an artist and fight every day for my position. I love to give back to the world my results - my art.
How do you include creativity in your life?
My life as an artist is based on creative processes, which develop my work. Each day I am hunting for new ways of expressing my ideas through aspects of form. Personally I’ve developed my creativity and my personal artistic language through many years of practice. So therefore my art is in a process all the time - every day and every minute. I have tried not to make art in periods where other aspects of life have been more important, like having a child or earning money for living through e.g. teaching.
What are your thoughts on how your life has influenced your creative imagination, and how your creative imagination has influenced your life?
Creativity has a huge influence on my life. I am in an everlasting process where I am in a constant motion between stages of ideas and different methods. My work therefore has a huge influence on my private life, where I can be distracted and get a sudden idea I just have to follow or think through. There is an interaction between my private life, the society I live in and my art. The fact is that it can be very hard to separate the creative processes and my private life. From time to time it is a dilemma and I try not to interpret and think everything into a meta-level in art, but just enjoy life. Then I use activities like sport e.g. skiing to be in the presence of my friends and family.
What, if any, exercises do you do to get into a creative mode?
To get in the mood of my working process I have some routines I do every day when I begin. For example I start my creative process everyday at 9 in the morning. By doing that I don’t question my ability to make and create, but trust my work and the developing process. I use my knowledge on earlier contemporary art in my work and also topics from news and music to get in a certain working mode.
How important do you think creativity is in life?
To me as an artist creativity means everything. My experience of society, of my family and friends, is that not everyone wants or feels the need of using or developing creative processes, at least not expressed though fine art. And not everyone understands the way I work or live the way I have chosen. I respect people to whom two and two is four and people who take the same route to work every day, but I also believe that society is in need of people who live with and hold a higher amount of creativity.
To be creative, to create and use your imagination is a huge part of being a human. Unlike animals we as human beings are able to constantly change (and rethink) our position in the world (or our own reality). We are able to experiment and according to the outcome (whether good or not that good) continue or change new creative actions and ideas on development. I love my work as an artist and fight every day for my position. I love to give back to the world my results - my art.
How do you include creativity in your life?
My life as an artist is based on creative processes, which develop my work. Each day I am hunting for new ways of expressing my ideas through aspects of form. Personally I’ve developed my creativity and my personal artistic language through many years of practice. So therefore my art is in a process all the time - every day and every minute. I have tried not to make art in periods where other aspects of life have been more important, like having a child or earning money for living through e.g. teaching.
What are your thoughts on how your life has influenced your creative imagination, and how your creative imagination has influenced your life?
Creativity has a huge influence on my life. I am in an everlasting process where I am in a constant motion between stages of ideas and different methods. My work therefore has a huge influence on my private life, where I can be distracted and get a sudden idea I just have to follow or think through. There is an interaction between my private life, the society I live in and my art. The fact is that it can be very hard to separate the creative processes and my private life. From time to time it is a dilemma and I try not to interpret and think everything into a meta-level in art, but just enjoy life. Then I use activities like sport e.g. skiing to be in the presence of my friends and family.
What, if any, exercises do you do to get into a creative mode?
To get in the mood of my working process I have some routines I do every day when I begin. For example I start my creative process everyday at 9 in the morning. By doing that I don’t question my ability to make and create, but trust my work and the developing process. I use my knowledge on earlier contemporary art in my work and also topics from news and music to get in a certain working mode.
How important do you think creativity is in life?
To me as an artist creativity means everything. My experience of society, of my family and friends, is that not everyone wants or feels the need of using or developing creative processes, at least not expressed though fine art. And not everyone understands the way I work or live the way I have chosen. I respect people to whom two and two is four and people who take the same route to work every day, but I also believe that society is in need of people who live with and hold a higher amount of creativity.
About
Bente Lindum has been producing and exhibiting art, design and installation for the past 30 years all over her home country of Denmark. She makes it her point to keep things interesting by mixing mediums and forms of expression and has worked with painting, textiles, ceramics, sculpture, collage, mosaics, video footage, room installations and performance pieces/happenings.
In the late 80’s to early 90’s Bente studied under and assisted renowned Danish painter, printmaker and sculptor Poul Gernes when he was a professor at the Royal Danish Art Academy in the Institute for Mural and Spatial Art.
She also followed her own desire to teach and became a qualified teacher lending her expertise at designs schools, colleges, Haslev Seminary, Gladsaxe Seminary and art holidays in Provence. Of teaching Bente says “I am interested in the development of psychological learning processes preceding the spontaneous processes in the artisanal work with visual art… For me it is important that my students become proficient to reflect reality in many ways.”
In 2011 Bente was selected to present a proposal for “Spring 2011” at Aarhus Art Building, in support of the major exhibition “We Shall Overcome” Filosofgangen, Odense.
She has passed on her passion for art to her daughter Gurli-Marie, who won the prestigious Young Artist Ung Kunst prize in 2012 in Sweden, and took part in the KE12 exhibition, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning in Denmark.
Bente Lindum has been producing and exhibiting art, design and installation for the past 30 years all over her home country of Denmark. She makes it her point to keep things interesting by mixing mediums and forms of expression and has worked with painting, textiles, ceramics, sculpture, collage, mosaics, video footage, room installations and performance pieces/happenings.
In the late 80’s to early 90’s Bente studied under and assisted renowned Danish painter, printmaker and sculptor Poul Gernes when he was a professor at the Royal Danish Art Academy in the Institute for Mural and Spatial Art.
She also followed her own desire to teach and became a qualified teacher lending her expertise at designs schools, colleges, Haslev Seminary, Gladsaxe Seminary and art holidays in Provence. Of teaching Bente says “I am interested in the development of psychological learning processes preceding the spontaneous processes in the artisanal work with visual art… For me it is important that my students become proficient to reflect reality in many ways.”
In 2011 Bente was selected to present a proposal for “Spring 2011” at Aarhus Art Building, in support of the major exhibition “We Shall Overcome” Filosofgangen, Odense.
She has passed on her passion for art to her daughter Gurli-Marie, who won the prestigious Young Artist Ung Kunst prize in 2012 in Sweden, and took part in the KE12 exhibition, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning in Denmark.
