Ivínguak Stork Høegh
Høegh’s artistic language is rooted in a vibrant fusion of street art, pop aesthetics, found imagery and digital collage. Her compositions are marked by prismatic colour palettes and visual rhythms that draw upon Kalaallit stories, environments, and lived realities. As a member of a family deeply engaged in the arts, music, and cultural work across Kalaallit Nunaat and Denmark, Høegh operates within a broader constellation of cultural production that informs her interdisciplinary sensibility.
Works by Ivínguak Stork Høegh can be found both in the exhibition space and in the children’s library of the Nordic House as part of the exhibition The North. In her work, she reimagines Arctic futures through indigenous futurism, blending vibrant colours and cultural symbolism to envision resilience, transformation, and new possibilities for Arctic identities.
Works in this exhibition:
In the Ice Mountain, 2022
Sikorsuaq Big Iceberg, 2021.
Beach Day (digital photocollage, 2025)
from the series Arctic Exotic, explores exoticism by pairing Greenlandic scenes with tropical imagery. These playful juxtapositions reveal colonial legacies in photography and its role in defining the “other.” Rather than direct critique, the project uses hybridity and visual collision to examine how cultural encounters are shaped through layered, fractured perspectives.
Nipersuaq – There Is a Lot of Noise Around Here, 2015 (digital photocollage)
Untitled , 2025 (digital photocollage)
Both works are from the series My Home – My Society. Using layered photography and collage to portray life in Greenland, blending portraits, architectural fragments, and textured details, they explore nationalism, care, and social struggle. Influenced by graffiti and street art, theseries reflects on forces shaping daily life in the rapidly globalizing city of Nuuk.
STOP, 2025 (digital photocollage and video).
Here, a surprise awaits the viewer. By pausing, moving closer, and peering through the gaze of the woman in the foreground, the work opens onto something unexpected.
If you would like to continue into the children’s library to view the exhibition there, you can ask the staff at the reception desk to open it for you.
Sikorsuaq Big Iceberg, 2021.
Beach Day (digital photocollage, 2025)
from the series Arctic Exotic, explores exoticism by pairing Greenlandic scenes with tropical imagery. These playful juxtapositions reveal colonial legacies in photography and its role in defining the “other.” Rather than direct critique, the project uses hybridity and visual collision to examine how cultural encounters are shaped through layered, fractured perspectives.
Nipersuaq – There Is a Lot of Noise Around Here, 2015 (digital photocollage)
Untitled , 2025 (digital photocollage)
Both works are from the series My Home – My Society. Using layered photography and collage to portray life in Greenland, blending portraits, architectural fragments, and textured details, they explore nationalism, care, and social struggle. Influenced by graffiti and street art, theseries reflects on forces shaping daily life in the rapidly globalizing city of Nuuk.
STOP, 2025 (digital photocollage and video).
Here, a surprise awaits the viewer. By pausing, moving closer, and peering through the gaze of the woman in the foreground, the work opens onto something unexpected.
If you would like to continue into the children’s library to view the exhibition there, you can ask the staff at the reception desk to open it for you.
Bio
Ivínguak Stork Høegh is an Inuk born in 1982 in the town Aasiaat in Kalaallit Nunaat. Her practice spans graphic design, collage, and media art. She studied at the Greenlandic National Art School in Nuuk (2003–2004) and later at the Academy of Fine Arts in Aarhus, Denmark. After returning to Nuuk, she assumed the role of Director of the National Art School in 2021.
Stop. Photo collage by Ivínguak Stork Høegh.
Listen to Ivínguak speak about her works in her native language: