KATHRINE ÆRTEBJERG

Kathrine Ærtebjerg (b. 1969) creates colourful and imaginative works that reflect upon transformation as a fundamental human condition. The works take their point of departure in a specific female universe of experience. Simultaneously, the works depict a universal experience of transformation and creation: A state of transition, where the external circumstances and inner mental relationsships cross, merge and are displaced into each other. Ærtebjergs works thus deal with the notion of metamorphosis, as they present themselves as pictures of the physical, social and psychological changeability of human beings.

In her artistic practice Ærtebjerg sets focus on narrative, figurative painting. Her works are played out in the borderland between conciousness and unconciousness, reality and fantasy, figuration and abstraction. Usually a female figure is placed in a more or less recognizable universe. It is an ambiguous universe that is neither defined as recognizable realism nor as unreal conceptions of the imagination. Ærtebjerg’s enigmatic works rather place themselves somewhere in between, due to the fact that they, with their open interpretations and meanings enable the beholder to explore the complex and visually fascinating pictorial world of the painting.

2004 25.09 - 30.10 Kathrine Ærtebjerg, HUN

2003 18.01 - 22.02 Lise B. Andersen, Kathrine Ærtebjerg, Sabina Mlejnek

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