ABOUT MY WORK

My practice spans painting, ceramic sculpture, glass works, and animation. Across these media, my work is connected by narratives exploring the life of the modern human — our emotions, memories, and experiences as they take shape within the body. These memories transform what we have seen into something more indefinable and uncontrollable.

 

My works are dense and compressed in their form, reflecting an intensity of experience. In my paintings, I work with layered compositions of color fields and materials — paint, cutouts, graphic prints, oil pastels, cardboard, and foil — to build compact, tactile surfaces. I navigate between figuration and abstraction, allowing the recognizable to dissolve into the dreamlike.

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Mette`s works 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.

​​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.