Anette Harboe Flensburg (DK)

Anette Harboe Flensburg paints rooms – interiors that are empty of human presence yet extremely alive. There is often a sense of mystery – a quiet mist that veils the painting and enfolds it. Flensburg's process, from beginning to finished painting, takes its starting point in the construction of a prototype image, made from paper. She builds the prototype and lights it with different-colored sheets of acrylic glass. The prototype is moved between different environments and lights before it is finally photographed. The photos become templates for the motif she then paints. In recent years, nature has entered her paintings and can be seen in the openings of the interiors such as windows or open doors. Flensburg’s works function as an attempt to see the dark and the hidden behind the visible, the clear, and the bright.

Anette Harboe Flensburg is a Danish painter born in 1961. She graduated from The School of Art and Design, Kolding, in 1985 and has exhibited extensively both in Denmark and abroad. In 2003 she was the recipient of The Carnegie Art Award and The New Carlsberg Foundation’s artist prize in 2019. Her work is included in several public collections including: Trapholt Museum, Malmö Art Museum and the State Art Fund (Statens Kunstfond) Denmark.