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Nordic Portraits
by Various
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, setbacks and everything in between. Discover nordic culture through the eyes of its leading artists. Music by Nina Liv. Visuals by Frame CPH.
Episodes
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Leonora Christina Skov
Leonora Christina Skov is an acclaimed author, whose 2018 autobiography ‘Den, Der Lever Stille’ (The One Who Lives Quietly) catapulted her to critical and mainstream recognition and was since voted the greatest Danish book of the last 20 years. Her 2021 followup ‘Hvis vi ikke taler om det’...
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Anthony Dod Mantle
Anthony Dod Mantle is an Academy Award-winning cinematographer, responsible for such films as Slumdog Millionaire, 28 Days Later, Dogville, Rush, and The Last King of Scotland. In addition, Anthony was one of the pioneering voices in the Dogme 95 movement, having soared to international…
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Tori Wrånes
Tori Wrånes is a multi-disciplinary, or as she herself likes to call it ‘trans-disciplinary’ artist working largely with performance, sound, sculpture and installation. Her immersive, fantastical, world-building shows challenge the viewer to rethink traditional ideas of identity, language, social...
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Caspar Eric
Caspar Eric is a poet and activist, whose 2014 debut ‘7/11’ was lauded for its searingly honest depiction of heartbreak, desire, sex, drugs and boredom as a 20-something navigating life in Copenhagen. Caspar’s unique writing style, infused with pop culture references has led him to be dubbed the...
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Pilou Asbæk
Pilou Asbæk is a critically-acclaimed actor, who first made a name for himself in the Danish political drama Borgen, with his breakthrough performance as spin doctor Kasper Juul. Since then, Pilou has entrenched himself as a leading man on the global stage by virtue of major roles in Game of...
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Alexander Tovborg
Alexander Tovborg is an internationally-acclaimed visual artist whose work largely deals with themes of faith, doubt, organised religion and personal ideology. His expansive world-building includes large-scale paintings, sculptural works, installation and performance - often echoing a visual...
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Bjarke Ingels
Bjarke Ingels is a world-renowned architect who has spent the past two decades building a reputation as one of the leading forces in the design and construction of buildings globally. In 2005, he founded BIG: Bjarke Ingels Group, which today comprises more than 700 employees and has been...
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Kim Munk
Kim Munk is a songwriter and musician best known as the frontman for Danish power pop band The Broken Beats. As the creative force behind such hit songs such as ‘Essentials’ and ‘The Rules’, Kim has garnered critical praise for his sophisticated arrangements and charismatic live performances, the...
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A K Dolven
A K Dolven is a multi-disciplinary artist working with painting, film, sculpture, sound and performance. Primarily operating out of her atelier in Kvalnes, located above the Arctic Circle, her work often deals with the representation of natural forces and their resonance with human sensibilities.…
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Kaspar Bonnén
Kaspar Bonnén is a multi-disciplinary artist working with painting, ceramics, installation and poetry. His work often explores themes of memory, identity and sense of place - with depictions of his childhood environment acting as a recurring motif. Kaspar is also a critically-acclaimed author of...
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Ida Ekblad
Ida Ekblad is an artist whose practice incorporates painting, sculpture, performance filmmaking as well as poetry. Her expressive paintings are noted for their bold application of colour and unique compositions, nodding to historical movements such as CoBrA and Abstract Expressionism whilst...
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Bonus Ep - Jussi Adler-Olsen Returns
Jussi Adler-Olsen is a Danish author who rose to international prominence in 2007 with his thriller ‘Kvinden i buret’ or The Keeper of Lost Causes’ - the first instalment in the successful Department Q series, which has sold more than 30 million copies and been translated into over 40 languages.…
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Jussi Adler-Olsen
Jussi Adler-Olsen is a Danish author who rose to international prominence in 2007 with his thriller ‘Kvinden i buret’ or The Keeper of Lost Causes’ - the first instalment in the successful Department Q series, which has sold more than 30 million copies and been translated into over 40 languages.…
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Apolonia Sokol
Apolonia Sokol is a French-Polish visual artist who grew up in Denmark before returning to Paris to establish herself as one of the leading voices of her generation in art today. As the subject of Lea Glob’s 2022 Academy Award shortlisted documentary ‘Apolonia, Apolonia’ she has since become...
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Iben Hjejle
Iben Hjejle is an actor of both screen and stage, who burst onto the international scene with her critically-acclaimed performance in Søren Kragh Jacobsen’s Dogme 95 classic Mifunes Sidste Sang as well as starring in Stephen Frear’s romantic comedy hit, High Fidelity. In addition, Iben has become…
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Petra Kleis
Petra Kleis is a photographer, best known for her striking portraits of Denmark’s biggest names from the world of art, music, film and politics. Having ascended to the country’s most sought-after fashion and portrait photographer, Petra also continues to develop long term art projects including...
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Nina Persson
Nina Persson is a musician and songwriter best known as the frontwoman for Swedish rock band The Cardigans. Following their breakthrough global megahit ‘Lovefool’ the band released a string of commercial and critically successful albums, having sold over 15 million records to date. In addition,...
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Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Nikolaj Lies Kaas is an actor, writer and director who rose to prominence as a fresh-faced 17-year old with his award-winning performance in the 1991 Danish classic Drengene fra Sankt Petri. Since then, Nikolaj has become a household name by virtue of starring in such seminal films as Blinkende...
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Bjørnstjerne Christiansen
Bjørnstjerne Christiansen is a founding member of Superflex, a Danish art collective formed in 1993 together with Jakob Fenger and Rasmus Nielsen. Superflex’s diverse body of work has taken on the form of sculptures, energy systems, beverages, hypnosis sessions, infrastructure, paintings, plant...
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Mamma Andersson
Karin ‘Mamma’ Andersson or simply Mamma Andersson as she’s more commonly known, is one of Sweden's most internationally-recognised visual artists. With a career spanning over thirty years, Mamma is renowned for her technical prowess and nuanced exploration of such themes as memory, femininity and...
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Kjetil Trædal Thorsen
Kjetil Trædal Thorsen is an architect and co-founder of the world-renowned firm Snøhetta. Responsible for such high-profile projects as the Oslo Opera House, Alexandra Library, September 11 Memorial Museum Pavillion and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Kjetil and his team have built a strong...
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Jesper "Yebo" Reginal
Jesper Reginal Petersen or Yebo as he’s most commonly known, is a musician, entrepreneur and co-founder of Crunchy Frog Records. Having been at the forefront of the Danish indie music scene for more than three decades, Yebo has played a pivotal role in the career of many of the country’s most...
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Sara-Vide Ericson
Sara-Vide Ericson is a visual artist, whose work is often characterised by large figurative oil paintings inspired by her immediate environment and the vast landscape of her native region of northern Sweden. Noted for her innovative use of material combined with a highly technical approach,...
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Casper Christensen
Casper Christensen is an actor, comedian, filmmaker and writer as well as the creative mind behind such Danish comedy mega hits as Tæskeholdet, Langt Fra Las Vegas, Mandrillen and Klovn. The latter of which ran for 9 seasons and spawned three box-office topping feature films. Casper has also…
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Mads Nørgaard
Mads Nørgaard is an award-winning fashion designer and author who has spent the last 40 years establishing an international name within the world of clothing. Building on the legacy of two generations, Mads continues to push new boundaries, whilst still honouring the classic look synonymous with...
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Trentemøller
Anders Trentemøller is a composer, producer and musician who rose to international fame with his 2006 debut album ‘The Last Resort’. Since then, Anders has continued to push sonic boundaries with his genre-defying blend of indie, synthwave, shoegaze, electronica that has resulted in a string of...
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Emily Gernild
Emily Gernild is a visual artist, best known for her paintings that combine abstract dreamlike elements with classical still life subjects and composition. Noted for her bold colour palette and autobiographical subject matter, Emily’s work has been exhibited in widely in Europe and acquired by...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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Mikael Bertelsen (Part Two)
Mikael Bertelsen is a TV and Radio personality, former commissioning editor and media entrepreneur who has played a significant role in shaping the Danish media and entertainment landscape over the past two decades. As the man behind a string of successful DR comedy series such as Drengene Fra...
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Mikael Bertelsen (Part One)
Mikael Bertelsen is a TV and Radio personality, former commissioning editor and media entrepreneur who has played a significant role in shaping the Danish media and entertainment landscape over the past two decades. As the man behind a string of successful DR comedy series such as Drengene Fra...
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SØS Gunver Ryberg
SØS Gunver Ryberg is a multi award-winning composer, producer, sound artist and live performer. Known for her intense and genre-defying electronic recorded works and concerts SØS is involved in compositional and soundtrack work for video games, films and international theatre & philharmonics as...
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Lone Frank
Lone Frank is an award-winning author, scientist and journalist, who has over the past 30 years, established herself as a leading voice within the field of neurobiology, scientific technology and ethics. Her very personal relationship to scientific research was laid bare in Pernille Rose…
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José González
José González is a Swedish singer-songwriter who rose to international prominence in 2003 with his debut album Veneer. Known traditionally for his stripped down blend of classical and folk guitar with poetic lyrics and distinctive melodies - he’s also no stranger to collaboration, be it with his...
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John Kørner
John Kørner is an internationally renowned visual artist, primarily working with painting, installation, ceramics and glass. Noted for his distinct use of colour and unique depiction of characters, his work often deals with contemporary issues that invite the viewer to reflect on political…
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Jeannette Ehlers
Jeannette Ehlers is a Copenhagen-based artist of Danish and Trinidadian descent who works primarily with photography, video, installation, sculpture, and performance. Her practice often makes use of self-representation and image manipulation to explore themes relating to identity, ethnicity and...
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Christian Lemmerz
Christian Lemmerz is a sculptor, visual and performance artist who rose to prominence in the mid 1980s as a pivotal member of the Danish artist collective, Værst. He has since garnered widespread recognition internationally for his large-scale marble sculptures and installation work - often...
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Teitur
Teitur is a musician and songwriter hailing from the Farøe Islands, whose 2003 debut album 'Poetry and Airplanes' paved the way for international success and a host of new fans including the likes of John Mayer, Aimee Mann and Rufus Wainwright. Since then, he has continued to build a strong...
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Fryd Frydendahl
Fryd Frydendahl is an art photographer, who over the past two decades has built an impressive body of work, including a series of deeply personal projects that have resulted in the publishing of critically acclaimed books and exhibitions within Denmark and abroad. Fryd has also made a global name...
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Adam Price
Adam Price is a screenplay writer, playwright, restaurateur and television chef who burst onto the international scene in 2010 with the Danish political drama Borgen - a DR series that won him a BAFTA award and was subsequently sold to over 90 countries. Adam is also a major figure in the...
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Cathrine Raben Davidsen
Cathrine Raben Davidsen is a visual artist who has, over the past 30 years made a name for herself in Denmark and abroad with her paintings, drawings and ceramic works that explore ancient history as well as modern cultural and philosophical thinking. Cathrine’s work is represented in numerous...
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Le Gammeltoft
Le Gammeltoft is a DJ, radio host and entrepreneur who has spent the past two decades exposing Danish audiences to bold new sounds through her dynamic live sets and high-profile radio programs. In recent years, Le has emerged as one of the leading figures in the national media landscape, having...
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Margrethe Odgaard
Margrethe Odgaard is a colour and textile designer and artist, who has over the past two decades established herself as Scandinavia’s leading expert in colour. In 2013, she founded her own studio and has since collaborated with visual artists, musicians, chefs, fashion designers and brands such…
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Peter Ravn
Peter Ravn is a visual artist, designer and music video director, perhaps best known for his figurative paintings that depict male characters placed in awkward positions or difficult situations - serving as a motif for the plight of the modern man. Peter’s work has been exhibited extensively…
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Jenny Wilson
Jenny Wilson is an internationally renowned songwriter & musician known for her bold conceptual albums and uncompromising artistic vision. Her recent trilogy of albums - Exorcism, Trauma and Mästervarket have been lauded by critics and fans alike as she shares her deeply personal experiences in…
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Carl Krull
Carl Krull is a visual artist perhaps best known for his striking drawings and paintings often depicting figures within topographical environments. His artwork has been exhibited extensively within Denmark and abroad - and more recently, he has been commissioned to complete a number of critically...
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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, setbacks and everything in between. Discover nordic culture through the eyes of its leading artists. Music by Nina Liv. Visuals by Frame CPH.
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