When the first European explorers ventured into the unknown Pacific Ocean, their minds were filled with tales of remote, paradisiacal islands. Hopeful…

When it comes to images, we are all animists. Deep down, we all know that images can – at least potentially – be alive or come to life. Nowadays, we m…

Hospitalized following a mental health crisis in 1929, Louis Marcussen (1894—1985) begins a spectacular journey. He fills his room at the psychiatric…

‘A lover of light’: in 1912, a French critic used these words to describe the great Danish painter Peder Severin Krøyer, who had close ties to the Fre…

Cultural differences are often the trigger for conflict – whether politically motivated or arising from dissonant understandings of national culture.…

The history of modern design and architecture has seen many attempts to embrace and merge different art forms, and to bring art into the framing of ev…

Following modern and postmodern philosophy’s critique of metaphysics, experiences of transcendence are often considered ‘aesthetic’ rather than ‘metap…

Philosophy originates in wonder that generates sensitive thinking, also called ‘aesthetic thinking’—an expanded mode of thought that bridges and disso…

The Danish neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), who lived most of his life in Rome, was not only one of Europe’s most soughtafter art…

The image is an ontological paradox; it is made of dead matter, yet appears to be alive. For centuries, artists have created images of the living worl…

Peter Brandes is one of the most significant Danish visual artists alive today. He is represented in the collections of leading museums worldwide, inc…

When images look like something they do so because they are different from what they resemble. This difference is not sufficiently captured by the tra…