Emil Westman Hertz
Works
Solo exhibitions
Group exhibitions
Biography & CV
Emil Westman Hertz (1978-2016) was born in Gudhjem, Bornholm, Denmark. Hertz lived and worked in Gudhjem and Copenhagen, Denmark. He studied Eskimology at the University of Copenhagen (1999-2000) and received his MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2008).
Solo exhibitions include Bornholms Kunstmuseum, Gudhjem (2016); Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro (2013); Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens (2014) and Heerup Museum, Rødovre (2007) in Denmark. Among awards Hertz received Horsens Kunstmuseums Venners Kunstnerpris (Horsens’s Art museum’s Friends’ Art Prize) in 2014, the Niels Wessel Bagge’s Art Grant in 2013 as well as the Danish Art Foundation’s 3 Year Work Grant in 2012.
The artist is represented in several prominent public collections, including Bonholms Kunstmuseum, the Danish Art Foundation, Holstebro Kunstmuseum, and the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) in Denmark and Magasin III in Sweden.
Selected solo exhibitions
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2023
Last Light, with Nick Theobald, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark
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2016
UNDER BJERGET, Bornholms Kunstmuseum, Bornholm, Denmark
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2015
NINE OF WANDS, ANNAELLEGALLERY, Stockholm, Sweden
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2014
alt hvad der var er nu væk, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Denmark
Chambres des pleurs, Oluf Høst Museet i Gudhjem, Bornholm, Denmark
Prinsens Have, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark -
2013
De smukke drømmes lagune, Holstebro Kunsmuseum, Holstebro, Denmark
Sømandens grav, AnnaElleGallery, Stockholm, Sweden -
2011
The Gathering, Lothringer 13, München, Germany
Forever Altered, Space of Drawings, Copenhagen, Denmark
Feber, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
