Kunsten presents the first solo museum exhibition in the Nordic region by internationally acclaimed photographer Inuuteq Storch (b. 1989, Sisimiut, Kalaallit Nunaat), following his critically praised representation of Denmark with Rise of The Sunken Sun at the Venice Biennale 2024.
Inuuteq Storch explores the cultural, social, and historical potential of photography through the lens of his homeland. Offering a rarely seen insider perspective on Arctic environments, he portrays life in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) with images that are both raw and poetic. His practice merges the traditional with the contemporary, weaving personal narratives together with broader reflections on Greenlandic history, identity, and everyday life.
With an intuitive working approach and without staging his scenes, Storch grants us access to Greenland as seen from a Greenlandic point of view. Through compelling portraits, depictions of daily life, and sweeping landscapes, his works map what it means to live at the intersection of Inuit traditions, Danish colonial heritage, the climate crisis, and the pressures of globalization.
Storch often works with analogue methods, photographing with cameras given to him by friends and family, and combining his own images with found photographs and archival material. The photobook is central to his practice, as the format allows him to work with rhythm, sequencing, and pauses that unfold the narratives he engages with. The exhibition is therefore structured like a book in seven chapters: five based on existing photographic works, shown here in new formats, and two new chapters created from previously unseen photographs.
The exhibition is produced in collaboration with the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, where it will be presented in spring 2027.
The photographer and artist Inuuteq Storch (b. 1989) lives and works in Sisimiut, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), and in Copenhagen. He graduated from the International Center of Photography in New York (2016) and from Fatamorgana – The Danish School of Art Photography in Copenhagen.
In 2024, he became the first Greenlandic artist to represent Denmark at the 60th Venice Biennale, and since then he has exhibited at institutions including MoMA PS1 and the Sharjah Art Biennial. Storch’s works are part of several prominent collections, including Moderna Museet in Stockholm, MoMA PS1, and ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art.
Kunsten began collecting works by Storch in 2024, after art collectors Margit and Jens Haven Christiansen donated three key works: two from the series Keepers of the Ocean (2019) and one from Soon Will Summer Be Over (2023).
In 2025, the New Carlsberg Foundation followed up with a donation of the entire series At Home We Belong (2015), comprising 25 photographic works and constituting a significant contribution to the museum’s collection.
