Pia Arke

Pia Arke (née Gant; 1 September 1958 – May 2007) was a Kalaaleq (Greenlandic Inuk) and Danish visual and performance artist, writer and photographer.

[1][2] Throughout her artistic-research practice, Arke used the metaphor of her own mixed-heritage (the "mongrel") as an opportunity to engage these historical relationships, as well as address significant questions of Arctic Indigenous identity and representation.

That very same year, Arke entered the Department of Theory and Communications at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen.

[5][6] The structure had a little entry-way where the artist would climb in and attach a sheet of film along the back wall.

As an outcome, Pia is now recognized as one of the Nordic region's most important postcolonial critics and players as a result of the artistic research which she practiced for two decades.