Oct 26

Oct 26 Artist Spotlight - Karen Bjerg Petersen

Biography

Karen Bjerg Petersen is a Danish artist whose practice spans painting, bronze, ceramic, and concrete sculpture. With a long artistic career and formal education in the arts, she combines deep material exploration with a reflective approach shaped by her background as a researcher in pedagogy at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Floating. 2025. Mixed Media on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

Her work investigates transformation, emotion, and the dialogue between structure and intuition.
Karen Bjerg has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions, both in group shows and solo presentations. She lives and works in Denmark, continuously developing her art through an ongoing exploration of form, color, and the poetic dimension of material.

Flowers in the sea. 2025. Mixed media on canvas. 60x 70 cm

Artist Statement

My artistic practice moves fluidly between painting and sculpture, guided by a deep curiosity for material, emotion, and transformation. I work across a wide range of expressions — from abstract compositions to poetic portraits — exploring how color, gesture, and form can convey inner movement and human presence.

Between worlds. 2025. Mixed media on wood. 50 x 40 cm.

In my paintings, transparent layers and intuitive brushwork create spaces that oscillate between abstraction and figuration, inviting reflection and emotional resonance. Each work emerges from a balance between control and spontaneity, allowing traces of thought and feeling to surface through color and rhythm.

Blue mood. 2025. Mixed media on canvas. 40 x 50 cm.

My sculptural practice extends this exploration into the physical realm. Working in bronze, ceramic, and concrete, I am drawn to the tactile and expressive possibilities of each material — how weight, surface, and texture can speak to fragility, strength, and transformation.

Erosion. 2025. Sculpture. White concrete on styrofoam. 140 x 160 x 60

Across all media, my work seeks to connect the visible and the invisible — to translate the fleeting, poetic qualities of experience into form. For me, art is both inquiry and expression: a way of shaping the intangible, and of opening a quiet space where perception and emotion meet.

https://www.karenbjergart.com/
https://www.karenbjergart.dk/
Instagram: @karenbjergp