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 an author, Palm Hansen is known for her in-depth and systematic work with color and form theory as a basis for studying human perception of the world.

In a movement from abstraction to figuration, Palm Hansen explores the aesthetics and thinking that take place between the two expressions in the exhibition Towards the Motif at Ordrupgaard. Her artistic practice is driven by an investigative approach where questions rather than answers are central, and from a strict mathematical universe, soft, poetic artworks emerge, awakening curiosity and inviting reflection.

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

“I explore the tension between the figure and abstraction. The human body and the horse serve as the starting point for the figure. 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.

August 1st at 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.

Note! The special exhibition is closed to other guests during this period.

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100 DKK for a regular ticket. The ticket does not include admission to the museum.

Meet artist and author Ann Linn Palm Hansen in conversation with cultural writer Oliver Stilling, where the ideas behind this summer's major exhibition will be unfolded. What is the story behind the horses? And how does one put colors and form to their relationships, as Palm Hansen has done in the series Relationships from A to Å?

Look forward to an exciting conversation that will be about art, colors, and systems.

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