Kirsten Gitz-Johansen

Kirsten is a selftaught wood carver, mask-maker-player and instructor to various assignments in Scandinavia, Europe and Greenland.
The masks are done in pine or birch. Their expressions are being accentuated by the yearrings and the surface treatment.
They are being used in many connections: exhibitions, workshops, teaching, theatre and processions.
Kirsten is also working with paper, metal, glass-fiber and making plaster figures, big sculptures and reliefs.
Since 1982 working with the theatre group Morild. They are playing with masks and telling stories for children and adults.
She is the leader of Dunkelfolket which is a group existing of up to 45 maskdancers.
Dunkelfolket has attended many different carnivals: Aalborg, Stockholm, Viareggio, London, Vilnius, Oslo just to name a few.

Exhibitions
On the road through life
Masks

In february 2000 Dunkelfolket is going to be one of the main attractions at the big New Year celebration in Singapore.
Kirsten has since 1995 been working as an instructor and maskmaker at "Købmands-gårdens teater".
In 1998 she took part in the "Hope theatre Festival" in Tokyo Japan, and the same year she went to Canada on a study tour to visit the Haida Indians.
Kirsten is a teacher at "Nordjyllands Amt" where you can hire an artist for only a fourth of a normal salary.
She is a member of "Danske Billedkunstners Fagforening","Kunstnernes kooperative" and "Det kunstneristiske Råd Kunstpavillon-en Aalborg".
From 1993 to 97 she has been a member of the group behind "Aalborg Kommunes Kul-turpulje".

The Maskmaker in person
Kirsten
Dunkelfolket
Morild
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