Ida Thorhauge, DK

Ida Thorhauge (DK, b. 1990), is a young artist talent working primarily with figurative painting and drawing. In her works monumental female bodies, with broad shoulders and grounded wide legs, are situated in vibrant flower meadows and abstract landscapes lightened by the moon.

The characters that inhabit Thorhauge’s universe are contemplative and mysterious, painted in expressive brushstrokes and with deep red, purple and bright colors. In her world, no one has the sole claim to gender, expression, and behavior. Thorhauge’s works portrays the many positions and transformations that humans and other creatures move through in a lived life, and reflects on the great fauvist masters and modernism’s depictions of monumental female figures.

Ida Thorhauge has an MA from The Jutland Art Academy. She has exhibited at art institutions and museums all over Denmark, such as KUNSTEN – Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, The Museum of Religious Art, O – Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art, Kunsthal Aarhus, Kunsthal Nord, and at Roskilde Festival. In 2020 she was awarded a spot in The Danish Arts Foundation career program The Young Artistic Elite and her work is part of the permanent collection at The Danish Arts Foundation, The New Carlsberg Foundation and The Museet for Religiøs Art and KUNSTEN – Museum of Modern Art Aalborg.