Kirsten Dehlholm

In 1969, she married the writer Otto Sigvaldi who sold his books from a pram in central Copenhagen dressed in the fanciful costumes she had designed.

She developed new concepts for performance art, creating scenarios in which people formed artistic tableaux accompanied by music or sound effects.

Her creations included Gyldne vinger og blå løfter (Golden Wings and Blue Promises, Charlottenborg, 1977) and Påtrængende slægtninge(Instrusive Relatives), a live exhibit presented at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in 1979.

Her Terra Australia Incognita (National Museum, 1989) inspired by voyages of discovery put the viewer in the unusual position of gaining a bird's eye view of the actors lying below.

[3] It was her ability to develop experimental installations combining existential themes such as belief, identity, and war which led to her being awarded the Thorvaldsen Medal] in 2013.