‍International breakthrough
‍He began photographing in 2007 and already in 2009 held his first solo exhibition in Greenland. The following year, he enrolled at the renowned Danish photography school Fatamorgana, and from 2015 to 2016 he studied at the Center of Photography in New York. Since then, his work has been exhibited at several institutions, including Nordatlantisk Brygge in Copenhagen, MoMA PS1 in New York, and from 5 February to 30 August 2026 at ARKEN as part of the group exhibition 55.6° North.

His international breakthrough came in 2024, when Inuuteq Storch exhibited the work Rise of the Sunken Sun at the Venice Biennale, one of the world’s most significant art exhibitions. It marked the first time a Greenlandic artist held a solo exhibition in the Danish Pavilion at the Biennale. Since then, he has been a highly sought-after artist.
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A personal perspective on life in Greenland
‍Inuuteq Storch tells stories through his photographs, and for him it is essential that these stories are told from a Greenlandic perspective. In his art, he portrays culture, traditions, and everyday life as seen from within. This includes both the mythical dimension—where spirits and gods exist, and where hunters must remain on good terms with them, as they provide seals—and contemporary Greenland, with the challenges that come with being a self-governing territory within the Danish state. Inuuteq Storch’s photographs act as a counterpoint to external images and narratives of Greenland shaped from an outside perspective.
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History also matters
Inuuteq Storch’s artistic practice combines personal photographs with archival material that he reanimates and recontextualises. He began his artistic career by working with historical archive photographs and small-gauge films, which he incorporated into his art projects. Through this process, he sought to understand the original customs and ways of life in Greenland before the country was colonised by Denmark in the early 20th century.
He has also worked with a collection of his parents’ youth photographs and the letters they exchanged from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, forming the basis of the work Porcelain Souls.
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Works from the photographic series What If You Were My Sabine? are presented in 55.6° North – Arkens’s Collection at ARKEN, and tell a love story about a country -Greenland - and a woman.

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^{Inuuteq Storch, What If You Were My Sabine?, 2019-2025}

Bio: Inuuteq Storch
Inuuteq Storch was born in Greenland in 1989, where he lives and works. He graduated from the Fatamorgana School of Photography in Copenhagen (2011) and the International Center of Photography in New York (2016).
Storch has worked with photography since 2007 and also engages in archival and video-based projects. His work has been exhibited internationally, including in Greenland, Denmark, the United States, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Canada, and Colombia.
He has published several photobooks, including Porcelain Souls (2018, Konnotation), Flesh (2019, Disko Bay), John Møller – Mirrored, Portraits of Good Hope (2021, Roulette Russe), Keepers of the Ocean (2022, Disko Bay), and Necromancer (2024, Marrow Press).

Sources:
inuuteqstorch.com
kunst.dk (”Nu åbner Venedig Biennalen 2024”)