ABOUT

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Mette Vangsgaard’s artistic practice has gradually expanded from painting and ceramics to include works in glass, textiles, and animation. Her art explores contemporary urban life and humanity’s evolving relationship with nature. Often, her works reflect the psychological contrasts in how we perceive the natural world—catastrophe and harmony, beauty and horror.

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Though she is a keen observer of social realities, her style cannot be classified as social realism. Instead, it is a distinctive and paradoxical fusion of everyday motifs with elements drawn from more "reality-remote" traditions such as Symbolism, Expressionism, and Naïvism—all infused with a contemporary awareness of the image as a sign.

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Vangsgaard engages with urban structures and the experience of city space as well as nature as space. Her work ranges from refined, color-sensitive expressions to the raw and unpolished, reflecting a dynamic and multifaceted portrait of our time. Viewers are often invited into an emotional and social dialogue with both the urban and the natural landscapes she portrays.

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Mette Vangsgaard lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. She holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In 2011, she was awarded a three-year working grant by the Danish Arts Foundation.