"For more than twelve years, a painting by Elisabeth Bergsøe hung on a wall in my office. A diagonal line divided a black plane from a plane painted a saturated and unobtrusive yellow. I never succeeded in solving the apparently simple mystery of this painting, since the two planes were engaged in constant dialogue with each other. But I was a fascinated participant in its pulsating rhythm transpiring between dark and light.
To stand inside of a painting, to be inside a painting, to create for ourselves - as spectators – a world that offers others dimensions and other ways of experiencing, are all aspects of the role that the painter takes upon herself.
Elisabeth Bergsøe has, for many years now, been working with the painterly space on the basis of the underlying assumption that it must be possible to redefine the surface of the painting through colour. Through the painter's brushstrokes, the space and the forms within it come to be a world of their own. – That is what makes her a truly concretist painter, continually perfecting her technique and consistent in her quest. Ceaselessly honing the sharp corners and the borders separating one plane of colour from the other. If we can say that we are travelling through space and that this space is full of light and colour, Elisabeth Bergsøe can be said to be the illustrator of this space shuttle.
A cartographer who is journeying toward the light's and the space's infinity."

EDUCATION:
Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen 1972-76.:
1973-76  Schools of Sculpture,  professors Erling Frederiksen and Svend Wiig Hansen, and School of Graphic Arts,professor Dan Sterup-Hansen

REPRESENTED AT:
2011 The Janus Building, West Jutland Art Museum, Tistrup, Denmark
1999, 2006, 2007 Malmø Art Museum, Malmø, Sweden
1992 Swedish Art Council
Among others

TRAVELS ABROAD:
1991-1994 (permanent residence). Stockholm and Halmstad, Sweden
1985-1986 Torshavn, Faroe Islands
1983 (summer) Nuuk, Greenland
1980 (spring) Faroe Islands
1978 (summer) Svalbard, Norway (Longyearbyen, Ny Ålesund og Danskoya).

GRANTS:
2011 The Henry Heerup Scholarship
2007 The Anna Klindt Sørensen Fund
2002 The painter Viggo Jensen and his wife Scholarship for Artists
2001Travel/encouragement grant from the Anne Marie Telmanyi, née Carl Nielsen, Fund in Support of Female Artists over 40
1997 The Artists Foundation of 1973 for the advancement and support of Danish painters and sculptors. The Henry Heerup Scholarship
1991 The Helge Bech Memorial Scholarship Fund
1981 The painter Marius Hammann Scholarship
1975 The Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Travel Grant
1973 The Gerda Iversen Memorial Scholarship Fund

LITERATURE:
North-Information, no. 231, 1994 Copenhagen, North Galleri. ( read the complete article)
Danske Kunstnersammenslutninger (Danish Artists Associations), text by Kjeld Heltoft and Marianne Barbusse in English and Danish, 1996, Copenhagen, Gyldendal.
Kunstårbogen 1997, Copenhagen, Fogtdahl (New Danish Art).
Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon (Weilbach's Encyclopedia of Artists 1994-2000).
North-Information, no. 301 “The group ‘De4’” by Bent Petersen, 2007 (Copenhagen: North Galleri).
Billedkunst, Vol.16, no.1, April 2008 (Magazine of Visual Art).
Kunstmagasinet Janus, no. 2, June 2011( Janus Art Magazine).