Volkvard
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→ 2022 October: Exhibition on Lokomotivværkstedet in Copenhagen
→ 2023 may-june. Exhibited in an international juried exhibition in Budapest entitled “Art-Bias 23”, Hungary
→ 2023 maj-june. Exhibited in international juried exhibition in Budapest With the painting "Contemplation" -Under the auspices of The Golden Duck Gallery and Teravarna.
→ 2023 November: Won participation in the European juried art-collection with the theme: “Folklore and Mythology”, in regi of the Balthasart platform, with the painting: “Woman in the clouds”.
→ 2024 February. Invited to participate as member in the international NARTWORK contemporary art group: “Nartworks Aps” (13 febr 2024),
→ 2024 May: Participation in international art exhibition: “Unveiled truth” Invited to participate in the international exhibition “Unveiled truth” From 25 May to 8 June 2024 in Barcelona, at Hub/Art, the international collective Unveiled Truth organized by Nartwork aps.
→ 2024 July : Participated in “ Hamptons Fine Art Fair” art exhibition:
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→ 2025 january Appointed “International Prize Artist of the Year 2025” by the INTERNATIONAL art association: “FONDAZIONE EFFETTO ARTE”. Official award ceremony took place 25th january 2025 in Firenze, Italy
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The early years
Apart from drawing a lot in my childhood and early ears, I started my activities as a visual artist more than 30 years ago.
It took me about 10 years to reach a level where I felt ready to exhibit my paintings. Over the next two decades or so, I exhibited in private regional or company-based private art associations in my country Denmark only.
At the age of 63, I chose to retire early to devote myself to my passion for performing visual arts. It was now time to explore the interest in my art among a more internationally oriented audience.
I chose an experimental style early on, as I rarely deal with the same motif. I find inspiration and joy in working with our human emotional universe, especially social emotions.
In my previous work within trauma-focused therapy, it fascinated me how differently, we as individuals feel and experience the same social situations. This also applies to looking at paintings. It is, as if visual arts have a direct access to our social learnings – even the learnings that we are not aware of. These different learnings very often cause us to experience the same work of art completely differently.
The later years
For me it was very liberating to learn that any experience of art is strictly personal and cannot be democratised into common aesthetics or rules. Since I could only vaguely guess what exactly my viewers experienced, I had to give myself full freedom to paint what I personally felt passionate about – sometimes not knowing the origin of my own passions.
I used to say that it came from the “universe”. Therefore, my conclusion is that the value of a painting is defined primarily by the single viewer and less by the artist or by the curators. This does, however, not render the curators useless. On the contrary, they have the formidable task to mediate all the different expressions to an extremely diverse group of art lovers.
“The value of an art work is created in the viewer’s mind only”.
One could say that art that inspires our emotional life shows a mirror image of our learnings. We may only discover this, if we begin to take an interest in what other people experience and think with a genuine humility and curiosity.
I therefore hope to inspire my viewers, to not take a judgmental stance towards other people's emotional universe. Instead show genuine openness to diverse learnings and differences.
