Margrethe Troensegaard
Dr Margrethe Troensegaard is a Visiting Tutor in History and Theory of Contemporary Art.
Margrethe Troensegaard is a curator and art historian. She has worked curatorially for the past 15 years both independently and in institutions including Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk), Øregaard Museum (Copenhagen), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), Dia Art Foundation (New York), Raw Material Company (Dakar), Frieze Masters (London), and SKILTET, Hornbæk Kunsthal.
Her research interests include art and visual culture of the 20th and 21st century; art as commemoration; loss and communal mourning; art in the public space; the representation of history through archives and art objects; counternarratives; art and sexuality; ekphrasis; history and theory of curating; history of public art collections.
Margrethes doctoral research, If This is a Monument: Artistic Responses to a Cultural Form (2024) reflected on radical monument critique as voiced from within modern and contemporary art and explored alternative aesthetic and political solutions to the monument conceived as a permanent, vertical, commemorative marker. Her current research project considers the production of art after mass destruction.
Her writings on Man Ray, Kara Walker, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Danh Vo have been published by König Books, Phaidon, Fruitmarket, Park Books, and Stedelijk Studies.
Margrethe holds a BA from Copenhagen University, an MA from the Royal College of Art, London, and a DPhil from The Ruskin School of Art, St. Edmunds Hall, University of Oxford.
