COLOR STATE Malene Landgreen

Malene Landgreen has moved far beyond the conventional frames of painting. We witnessed this most recently in the to the wall exhibition in Kunsthal Charlottenborg and at Arena in Århus Kunstbygning, where Landgreen's work unfolded over several walls. With her enduring, site-specific projects at places such as Ålborg Airport, Novo Nordisk, Frederiksberg Gymnasium and Danmarks Radio City in Ørestaden, Landgreen has painted on the grand scale and established herself as one of the most sought-after artists in Denmark when it comes to focussing on our everyday surroundings. 

Colours are Malene Landgreen's vocabulary, and it is through their relations to volume that she ‘speaks out'. She invites us to a dialogue in potential mental spaces where there is room for the spectator. In Kunsthal Charlottenborg, too, her art sets up an interplay between the architecture, the space and the light. Here the space, the building and the art are unfolded and new abstract stories told that enclose the body as if one had entered an enormous book about the artist.  

"My work derives meaning from the fact that the uncertain, abstract, unformulated, chaotic and inharmonious, no less than the well-ordered, well-considered and flawless, always relates proportionally to something else. No matter how incomprehensible and ungraspable it might be, indeed precisely because it is. It's all about relations and proportions. that applies in art, in architecture and in life", says Malene Landgreen.

The project is accompanied by a publication in Danish and English with texts by Vibeke Petersen m.a. and Lars Bent Petersen, painter and lecturer at the Royal Danish Academy of Art. Photos by Anders Sune Berg. The catalogue will come out slightly after the exhibition opening since it will present the finished installation at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.