About
Regenerative cultures
Working with interdisciplinary with art & activism for 20 years and permaculture design for 10 years, I know, that culture bottom-up can change global agendas and people´s lives.
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 multimedia works as co-founder of UFOlab, Scandinavia´s first BIPOC art collective, pioneering friendly and care activist strategies and building aesthetic and theoretical language around otherness, marginalized identities, non-western feminism, internalized racism and adoption politics, successfully transforming political agendas today on transnational adoption.
Skye Jin´s practice has always been visionary, interdisciplinary and activistic, taking on the role to push boundaries formally and thematically, being one of the first in a Danish context to work with global feminist critique, epigenetics and inheritable trauma, art as healingspaces and land connection practices - moving through performative installations and social sculpture to decolonising social commons and learning communities as an expanded art practice.
Founder of Gardening is Activism and Art+Science+Permaculture. Member of the Danish Arts Council Committee for Project Grants 2022-2025 and Chair of the Danish Cultural Ministry Illustrator Award Committee.
Member of the activist artplatform Til Vægs.
Co-editor in chief of PERMAKULTUR magazine.
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.
Lives in Roskilde, Denmark, with her partner and two kids near fields, forests and the fjord. Passionate about edible plants from Korea and Japan, life design, regenerative social patterns and reading about pre-historic cultures.
The wind carries songs from our ancestors, of how to live on this planet for many generations to come. With sensitivity and courage, we can tune in and catch those messages
- Skye Jin