2008
Dune, big wall piece, New York
Salon du dessin Contemporain, Paris
Fritz Hansen, New York
Galleri Donn Roca, Odense
TV2, Denmark

2007
Gentofte Art library, Denmark
CCI-europe, Danmark
Salvatore Ferragamo Gallery, New York
Donn Roca Gallery, Denmark
Vipp Showroom, New York

2006
Citibabes, New York, Curated by Blair Voltz Clarke

2005
Scope Art Basel, Miami
M. Mercer, New York, Curated by Blair Voltz Clarke
Mandarin Oriental, Armory show, New York
Påskeudstillingen Tistrup, Denmark
L.A.Gallery, Metroplolitan Interiors, New York
Galerie Maria Lund, Paris

2004
ISCP: International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York
Galleri Nolo, Copenhagen
Copenhagen Project Room, Copenhagen
Georg Jensen, Paris

2003
Gallerie Danoise, Paris
Kunstforeningen Gl Strand, Copenhagen
Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen
Glostrup Kunstforening, Copenhagen
Galleri Dansk, Paris

2002
Horsens Museum of Art, Quirky Girls, Denmark
Den Frie, ALIBI- Alle lever i byens igloer, Copenhagen
DCA Gallery, Quirky Girls, New York

2000
Æglageret, Holbæk
Royal Danish Academy, Konnichiwa, Copenhagen
Forårsudstillingen Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Østre Gasværk, Copenhagen

1999
Debutantudstillingen, Silkeborg
Danske Grafikers Hus, Tryk 14, Copenhagen
Gallery Rhizum, Tryk 14, Aarhus
Nordic Film, Copenhagen

1998
Forårsudstillingen Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Kunstforeningen Gl Strand, Exit, Copenhagen
Rampen, 5, Copenhagen
Gallery New Art, Copenhagen
Galerie Orange, Helsingnor
1997 Gallery Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
Paintspace, Copenhagen
Grændselandsudstillingen, Aabenraa
1996 Gallery Max Mundus, Copenhagen
Gallery Eat Me, Copenhagen
Turbinehallen, Convoy, Copenhagen
Rådskæklderen, Copenhagen
Scanticon, Espergære
Gallery Orange, Helsingnor
1995 Gallery Pink, Copenhagen
Kastrupgaardsamlingen, Copenhagen

EDUCATION

92-99 The Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen
1996 Chelsea School of Art, London

METRO INTERIORS

The idea of the city jungle reverberates in the paintings and installations of Ann Sophie Stærk. The artist’s pictorial universe is inspired by her adopted city, New York her hometown, Copenhagen. The frenzy of NY, its myriad of people and its irresistible vivacity, is a contrast to the more sedate Danish city where nature and design play a part in both city and home life.

Metropolis is the vibrant city; we are bombarded by its movements, facades, architecture and public spaces. Interiors function, in our passion for design and comfort, as a continuation of the city. However, the home sphere is also the city’s antithesis; an oasis needed to withdraw from the insistent buzz of urban surroundings.

As a flâneur, Stærk explores urban settings and home interiors and these everyday environments are synthesized into dreamy constellations. Stærk liberates well-known objects and spaces from their function. Familiar motives are disturbed, populated and transfigured by magic creatures and untamed flora and fauna. As viewers, we are sucked into a universe floating in a zone between abstraction and figurative, recognizable forms.

In some works Stærk retains only a few vague spatial markers from the original subject, transforming fashion storefronts or living rooms into colorful organic landscapes. Streets and interiors become abstract fields of luscious pastels; chandeliers and lamps become exotic vegetation in a transformation of cityscape into fantasyscape. Fluid lines and flat blocks of color create an - almost wistful - enchanted cosmos.

Susanne Ungar Thomsen, MA Art History