Nordic Portraits Various
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Nordic Portraits is a series of one-on-one conversations with Scandinavian artists, exploring topics ranging from how they approach their craft through to their personal experiences with success, failure, collaborations, triumphs, disappointments, blowups and everything in between. Series One looks to explore Danish culture through the eyes of the nation's leading artists. Music by Nina Liv. Visuals by Frame CPH.
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Mikkel Bjergsø
Mikkel Bjergsø is the founder of world-renowned craft brewery Mikkeller. Since its inception in 2006, Mikkeller has experienced a rapid growth both in terms of scale and reputation, where today its products are available in over 50 countries and boasts 40 bars and restaurants globally - spanning from Tokyo to Torshavn. Beyond masterminding new recipes, Mikkel continues to launch new initiatives under the Mikkeller brand including running and cycling clubs, as well as music and beer festivals - not to mention his countless collaborations with artists.
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Charlotte Bruus Christensen
Charlotte Bruus Christensen is an award-winning cinematographer and director who made a name for herself internationally for her work on Thomas Vinterberg’s 2012 film Jagten (The Hunt) for which she received the coveted Vulcan Award at the Cannes Film Festival. In recent years, Charlotte has turned her attention to Hollywood, having helmed such high profile features as A Quiet Place (2018), Molly’s Game (2017), The Girl on the Train (2016), The Banker (2020) as well as Denzel Washington’s critically acclaimed directorial debut, Fences (2016).
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Anders Morgenthaler
Anders Morgenthaler is a film director, author, illustrator and climate activist. Perhaps best known to many for his long-term collaboration with Mikael Wulff, Wulffmorgenthaler (WuMo) has yielded a number of critically acclaimed and commercially successful tv series, feature films as well as a comic strip that has featured daily in over 150 newspapers in the United States alone. More recently, Anders has turned his attention to addressing the climate crisis through the creation of a number of sustainability projects.
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Anna Bjerger
Anna Bjerger is a Swedish visual artist working primarily with figurative painting. Her work draws its inspiration largely from found images, namely photographs featured in out-of-print books, vintage magazines and travel brochures. Since training at the Royal College of Art London, Anna spent the last two decades building a strong international profile and her work has been subsequently acquired by the permanent collections of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Moderna Museet Stockholm and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, amongst many others.
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Adam Jeppesen
Adam Jeppesen is an art photographer and visual artist who first rose to international prominence with his groundbreaking 2008 series Wake, which resulted in a book of the same title being published by Steidl and subsequently nominated for a string of prestigious awards. Noted for his bold experimentation with form and materiality and exploring universal themes relating to the scientific, religious and philosophical, Adam’s work has been exhibited worldwide and is present in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum (USA), the Danish Arts Foundation and the National Public Art Council of Sweden.
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Lærke Bagger
Lærke Bagger is an internationally renowned knitwear designer and best-selling author. Known for challenging the traditional approach with her bold use of yarn offcuts, beads and array of colours, Lærke’s pieces are some of the most sought after within the world of women’s fashion. At the same time, she continues to introduce new patterns to her rapidly growing army of followers as a way of encouraging individuals of all levels of experience and proficiency to pursue knitting.
Explore more of Lærke's work at:
www.laerkebagger.com