Magnus Andersen draws abundantly from a wide range of art historical and popular cultural references, spanning Flemish still lifes, 17th-century baroque and classical music, to color field painting and advertising aesthetics. Andersen renegotiates mundane and easily recognizable signifiers of contemporary visual culture and deliberately exaggerates them to a point of uncanniness. Cultivating humor and seriousness equally, his work engages with an accelerated nostalgia emblematic of post-industrial consumerism.
Magnus Andersen (b. 1987) lives and works in Copenhagen. He studied visual art at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Recent exhibitions include Liste Art Fair (Basel), palace enterprise (Copenhagen), Kunstverein Wiesbaden (Wiesbaden), Den Frie, (Copenhagen), Gio Marconi (Milan), and Tranen Space for Contemporary Art (Gentofte). In 2025, Andersen will open an extensive solo exhibition at Kunsthal Rønnebæksholm (Næstved).
Curated by Sandra Vaka