Born 1973 in Aarhus.
Lives and works in Copenhagen.
Ebbe Stub Wittrup graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 1999, and in 2010 he received the Danish Arts Foundation’s three-year work grant. In 2013-2019, Ebbe Stub Wittrup taught media art at the Jutland Art Academy.
In his artistic practice, Wittrup works conceptually within a wide variety of media. Since the end of the 1990s, Ebbe Stub Wittrup’s practice has focused on especially the photographic medium. Many of Wittrup’s works can be described as either neorealistic snapshots or as conceptual photography, both characterized by a mysteriousness and by themes such as mythology and perception. The photographic works are often combined with other types of media such as video, text or objects.
In his early works, Wittrup used manipulative photographic devices, but in more recent works he has aimed at a distinctive, photographically determined aesthetic that calls forth a visible and convincing sense of reality. Wittrup’s work takes its starting point in a specific conception of the world, which is expressed through the documentary idiom of his works. In doing so, Wittrup also seeks to convey a mythical quality, which has been implemented through tales and legends. For example, Wittrup has photographed various medieval bridges in Southern Europe, so-called Devil’s Bridges, which seem impossible in their construction and location and therefore encourages myth-formation.
Ebbe Stub Wittrup has been presented at a number of group and solo exhibitions, both in Denmark and abroad. Most recently the exhibition Botanical Drift at Copenhagen Contemporary, which was presented in collaboration with the Gl. Holtegaard. While Botanical Drift was a presentation of Ebbe Stub Wittrup’s sculptural works and installations, Photographs at Gl. Holtegaard exhibited selected photographic works by Wittrup from the past ten years.
He is represented in art collections at Albright-Knox Gallery in New York, SMK – The National Gallery of Denmark, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, the Danish Arts Foundation, Carlsberg Foundation, The National Museum of Photography, Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Austria, and Faulconer Gallery, USA.
