Artist’s Statement

Johanne Rude Lindegaard (b. 1987) graduated from the Funen Art Academy and Akademie
der bildenden Künste Wien (Expanded Pictorial Space by Professor Daniel Richter). She
received the 15 June Foundation's Honorary Award for her final works exhibited at Brandts
Kunstmuseum in 2017. She has exhibited at, among others, fAN Kunstverein in Vienna, OK
Corral in Copenhagen, and at the gallery Pablo's Birthday in New York. She has since had
her first major institutional solo exhibition Shadows in Pieces at O -Overgaden in 2021, and
has made her first permanent decoration Sensibility Sea in Østre Landsret in 2022.

Rude Lindegaard finds inspiration across some of the major historical currents – from the high-flying existentialist and philosophical thoughts of antiquity to the realistic reproduction of the Renaissance to the baroque's preoccupation with evading reality, by consciously creating an illusion that is overwhelming, alluring, and dreamlike. To all these historical directions, she opposes an investigation of abstract painting's insistence on material and form, including the breaking of illusion. Perhaps Rude Lindegaard's works are the materialization of the fact that we need both, to feel, to be present – to sense and dream at the same time.