BIOGRAPHY
Mette Ovgaard is a Copenhagen based photographer.
In her work, she focuses on capturing the unseen subjects within the landscape, examining how we relate to them across the threshold of day and night.
She is particularly drawn to photographing after dark, where familiar motifs transform, taking on an unexpected and poetic expression hidden by daylight.
As a photographer, she positions herself as a distant observer in an exploratory search for that which remains unresolved—investigating how we truly experience, or fail to experience, the environment that surrounds us.
Born 1974
EXHIBITIONS
2026: 'Til Kanten' (To the Edge) Juried Exhibition, Kunstpakhuset, with the series 'Solitude'
2025: The Glasgow Gallery of Photography. Open Call: Ethereal. International Photo Exhibition featuring the photograph 'Winter longing'
2025: The Independent Photographer. Finalist in the Black and White Competition with the photo 'Winter longing'
2023: PortraitNow! 2023, The Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle: 'Transition'
2021: PortraitNow! 2021, Ljungberg Museum in Ljungby, Sweden: 'Ursula'
2021: PortraitNow! 2021, The Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle: 'Ursula'
2021: Red Cross Denmark Head Office: 'The Prison Choir – a portrait series of inmates and former inmates'
2020: Master in Portrait Photography, Gallery Krebsen: 'The Prison Choir – a portrait series of inmates and former inmates'
2021: Karens Minde Cultural Center: 'The Harbor – my home, my heart, my backyard'
2019: Public Art Installation on the Metro Fence at Mozarts Plads, Copenhagen: 'Absent motives'
2018: Copenhagen Photo Festival 2018, The Juried Exhibition: 'Absent motives'
2018: Fatamorgana Masterclass, The Danish School of Art Photography: 'Finding my way'
EDUCATION
2020: Master in Portrait Photography, Certified Portrait Photographer, Theilgaard Academy
2018: Fatamorgana Masterclass, Visual Storytelling, The Danish School of Art Photography
WORKSHOPS
2026: Artists Books Workshop with Claudia de la Torre, Backbonebooks, Aarhus
2026: 'Critical decisions: Perspectives on the creative process' with photographer Todd Hido, Leica Academy, Porto
2025: Masterclass Photobook Workshop with Calin Kruse, Dienact Publishing, Berlin
2019: Grundtvigs Folk High School on Photography
2015: Skitseplanet
2014: Holbæk Art Folk High School, Photography class