Rose P Bendixen

“I read somewhere that art is supposed to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable, and that’s really what I’m attempting to do – in my own colorful and empathic way.”

Rose Bendixen (@rosebendixenpaints) is a Copenhagen based artist, born 2000. For her, painting is like outsourcing emotions. It creates an external safespace for complete transparancy, where all the things we usually don’t talk about, can exist freely and without judgement. To convey this, she uses bright colors, pearl embroidery, silhouettes and always an element of text. The silhouettes are a sort of blank, creating a collective identity in which we can all reside in one way or another.

“To me, it’s about creating a sort of micro-narrative in (extra)ordinary surroundings. The works are full of details, so you can revisit the image and still see something new – I don’t really work with minimalism, as you can probably tell. In my universe of controlled chaos the end goal is to find strength in vulnerability and encourage honesty instead of self-staging a sugarcoated existence.

She currently has an atelier in the art collective OSSOLO CPH in Vesterbro, and can be contacted for studio visits.