Evalajka Pervin 1973

Danish-Pakistani multidisciplinary artist based in Copenhagen
Co-founder of FOYERcontemporary, a nomadic, site-specific art space.
Self-taught, working across video, performance, poetry, and installation.
Her practice explores dual cultural identity, memory, and ritual through personal mythologies and embodied storytelling.

Selected Works (2025–2016)

The Portal (2025) – Site-specific installation & public performance, The Doll House / Funen Art Academy

The Oracle from Lahore (2025) – Ritual performance & sound piece, Lake House, FOYERcontemporary /Art Matter Festival

NOT SoEXoTIC (2024) – Performance, video & text installation, FOYERcontemporary / Art Matter Festival

I Am...  – Video, shown in group exhibitions in Norway, Chile, Køge & KunstRum Fyn

RorgASM The Culture Tower (2019) – Site-specific solo project in Kulturtårnet, Copenhagen, DK

Breathe in and breathe out (2016) – Video installation, Das Klohäuschen, Munich

CV

Evalajka Pervin 1973

EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES

2025

The Oracle from Lahore · Ritual performance + sound art (Hear-Away)· FOYERcontemporary × LakeHouse, Art Matter Festival · Copenhagen, DK

The Portal / Portalen · Public performance walk, site-specific installation · THE DOLLHOUSE_ARTSPACE, Fynske Kunstakademi, Grand Foyer · Odense, DK

2024

NOT SoEXoTIC · Performance, text-based work, screening · FOYERcontemporary, Art Matter Festival · Copenhagen, DK

Et vindue til verdenen · Group screening with I am... · 60 Second Film Festival · Køge, DK

2023

Feminist Practice Bridging Identities · Group screening · FOYERcontemporary, Art Matter Festival · Copenhagen, DK

I am… Evalajka (DK) Liesel Burisch (DK/DE) – Good Intention,

Nida Bangash (PK/IR) – This Bridge Called My Back

Open Video XVI · Group screening, I am... · Kunst Rum Fyn · October 27–29 · Odense, DK

2022

Venus Combs Her Hair · One-day art intervention, screening, site-specific installation · Kunsthal Sophienholm · Sorgenfri, DK

2019

RorgAsm / The Culture Tower · Site-specific installation, performance · Copenhagen, DK

I am..., Blanca's Pearls · Screening

Venus Combs Her Hair · Video work

My Childhood Katekismus · Video installation

Lullaby · Video installation

Blanca's Laces / Black Box Gallery · Solo · Video installation, performance, sculpture, mixed media paper works · Copenhagen, DK

Lullaby, Blanca's Pearls

2018

I am... · Screening · Frame & Vision, MAM Chiloé · X Región de los Lagos, CL

I am... · Screening · Institut Français du Danemark, 60 Seconds Film Festival · Copenhagen, DK

2017

60+ Leap Second Screening · Curated group screening · Bergen, NO

2016

Three Walls and a Window · Opening performance Breathe in and Breathe out · Black Box Gallery · Copenhagen, DK

Breathe In and Breathe Out · Site-specific total installation with video work · Das Klohäuschen · Munich, DE

2015

KE15 · 4 video works · Den Fri Centre of Contemporary Art Copenhagen, DK

2014

My Childhood Katekismus · Screening · Comfort Station · Chicago, IL, USA

My Childhood Katekismus · Screening · The Armory · Pasadena, CA, USA

Watch Out Film Festival · Screening · Tetovo, MK

2013

Tales · Solo · Performance, video installation, spoken word · Black Box Gallery · Copenhagen, DK

My Childhood Katekismus, Homage to Edvard Munch

I am... · Screening · Black Box Gallery · Copenhagen, DK

I am... · Screening · Videoholica Video Festival · Varna, BG

I am... · Screening · Façade Film Festival · Plovdiv, BG

I am... · Screening · Diffusa by SAQS / Mail Art Kiliano, Villa Maria · Quilliano, Savona, IT

2012

I am... · Premiere screening · Copenhagen Metro Short Film Festival · Copenhagen, DK

I am... · Screening · Ali Ribelli Artist Collective, Museo del Brigantaggio · Itri, IT

Multiple · Spoken word, group exhibition · Black Box Gallery · Copenhagen, DK

2011

KE11 · Video · Den Fri Centre of Contemporary Art · Copenhagen, DK

KP11 · Video · Aarhus Kunstbygning · Aarhus, DK

KS11 · Video · Janusbygningen · Tistrup, Jylland, DK

DCK#11 · Video · Filosofgangen · Odense, DK

2009

Political Statement · Work on paper, group exhibition · Kunsthaus Tacheles · Berlin, DE

Falconer Projects · Group exhibition · Copenhagen, DK

2008

Paintings, Graphical Prints · Solo autumn exhibition · Illums Bolighus · Copenhagen, DK

Drawings, Art Talk · One-day preview · Rothas Gallery by Salima Hashmi · Lahore, PK

EDUCATION

1997–2001 Independent studio practice, graphical techniques · Copenhagen, DK

1995–1996 Billedkunstskolen i Valby · 7 months · Valby, DK

1994–1995 Skulptur Skolen · 9 months · Østerbro, DK

In collaboration with Klohäuschen has an installation with an video work exploring the fields of tight spaces “ Breathe in and Breathe out “ been created.

During daylight you will see an insignificant change at the door to the urinal.

With a closer look you will see that it is covered with a see through familiar plastic structure; bubble wrap. There are peepholes which invite you to come closer crossing the boundaries as a voyeur into an intimate space covered in layers and layers of bubble wrap, at the same time covering and yet letting you see the familiar structure behind.

Inside if you listen carefully you will hear a subtle claustrophobic and hypnotic struggling breathing sound filling the space.

As night falls the installation gets stronger and more visible to the eyes. As the night falls the space comes alive.

Using the well known, everyday material bubble wrap is vital in this work. It acts as a key object in the video performed and therefore most importantly it unfolds as an object into the surrounding space and thus including the existing space into the existing artwork tying them together in a "joint third" a piece which can and will only exists while the installation is shown at Klohäuschen.

SELECTED WORKS

The Portal 

The Oracle from Lahore

NOT SoEXoTIC

I am...

RorgASM