ANN LINN PALM HANSEN. TOWARDS THE MOTIF.

The Danish contemporary artist Ann Linn Palm Hansen (b. 1984) has taken over Ordrupgaard with her largest solo exhibition to date. Both as a visual artist and author, Palm Hansen is known for her in-depth and systematic work with color and form theory as a starting point for studies of human perception of the world.

In a movement from abstraction to figuration, Palm Hansen explores in the exhibition Towards the motif at Ordrupgaard the aesthetics and thinking that takes place between the two expressions. Her artistic work is driven by an investigative approach, where questions rather than answers are central, and out of a strict mathematical universe, soft, poetic artworks emerge, which arouse curiosity and invite reflection.

94 works are installed in Zaha Hadid's large exhibition hall, where the raw concrete surfaces form the backdrop for a sensual overall experience of colors, shapes, and some of life's most fundamental questions.

“I explore the tension between the figure and abstraction. As a starting point for the figure, there is the human body and the horse. Initially, these figures are chosen because they very concretely provide an understanding of scale and thereby also a simple intuitive opening, in which the viewer can place themselves and “read” / be in the art.” – Ann Linn Palm Hansen.

The exhibition is realized with support from:

Axel Muusfeldts Fond

Beckett-Fonden

Dansk Tennis Fond

Gangstedfonden

Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond

Hoffmann og Husmans Fond

Jørgen Krygers og Anne Ammitzbølls Fond

Knud Højgaards Fond

Lemvigh-Müller Fonden

Statens Kunstfond

Toyota-Fonden