The poetry and beauty of everyday life constitute a central focus in Anne Langgaard’s artistic practice. Using objects and materials that form the ostensibly banal backdrop of daily existence as her point of departure, she investigates their aesthetic, poetic, and existential potential through processes of sculptural transformation. Her works foreground elements that are typically taken for granted and articulate a sustained attentiveness to the minor, the inconspicuous, and the seemingly insignificant as sites of meaning and value.

 

Langgaard works with everyday objects and materials such as used dishcloths, crumpled paper, breadsticks, and deflated balloons. Through sculptural processes, these elements are translated into works executed in materials including bronze, aluminium, and ceramic. In this process, fleeting moments of everyday life are materially fixed, generating a productive tension between ephemerality and permanence. These transformations function not as acts of idealisation, but as material investigations into time, care, and value. The works may be read as still lifes of lived experience: suspended moments that gesture toward the fragility of life and the presence of the sublime within the ostensibly negligible.

 

Employing humour and recognisability as key strategies, Langgaard’s works operate in a field of tension between the banal and the existential; between the commodities of the discount supermarket and death as a fundamental condition of human existence. Within her practice, the everyday assumes the character of a memento mori: an attempt to arrest the transient, undertaken with an acute awareness of the impossibility of such an endeavour. By conferring dignity upon ordinary objects and endowing them with a monumental quality, Langgaard challenges established hierarchies of value and beauty within both artistic and cultural discourse.

 

Anne Langgaard lives and works in Copenhagen. She is a member of the artist-run space Sydhavn Station in Copenhagen, and was also the co-founder of Walther&Langgaard, which was a Copenhagen-based curatorial duo with artist Anna Walther. Walther&Langgaard curated exhibitions and events in non-gallery environments from 2016-2019.

 

 

Texts about Anne Langgaard

 

Sonderinger i hverdagen af Lisbeth Bonde

 

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Member of Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station and Danish Visual Artists and Danish Sculptor Association(Dansk Billedhuggersamfund).

 

Education:

 

2011-13       BA (Hons) Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

2009-14       BA  Art History, Universty of Copenhagen

 

Upcoming exhibitions:

 

2026          Skulpturfestival Give, gruppeudstilling, Give, Denmark

2026          100 kunstnere, Huset i Asnæs, 4550 Asnæs, Denmark

2026          Cross Check, groupexhibition, Kunstverein Bodum, Germany

2027          Sedimenteret tid, soloexhibition, C4 Projects, Dybølsgade 60, Copenhagen

2027          Cross Check, groupexhibition,Contemporary Art Museum Crete, Greece

2028          Cross Check, groupexhibition, Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station, Copenhagen

 

Solo exhibitons:

 

2026          Foldede Nationer, soloexhibiton, Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station,Copenhagen

2025          Courage lives in quiet Gestures, Formation Gallery, Gasværksvej 9,Copenhagen

2025          Folding Nations, Galleri CC, Båstadsgatan 4, Malmø, Sweden

2023          Dont Miss the Party!, Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station, Copenhagen

2022          All we have is now, soloudstilling, Manga Spazio, Via della Pieta, Nouro, I

2022          Nothing Gold can Stay, soloudstilling, Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station, SV

2021          Alt hvad vi ser er fortid, Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station, Copenhagen

2020          Note til mig selv, Billboard, Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station, Copenhagen

2020          Procrastination, Format Artspace, Copenhagen

2019          Udfoldninger, plakatfrise på Sydhavn Station,Copenhagen

 

Selected groupexhibitons:

 

2025          Art Herning, represented through Formation Gallery

2025          SUN IS SHINING; curatorial exhibition about climate that combined selected

              works by artists and researchers from COPE (Copenhagen Center for Disaster

              Reserch, University of Copenhagen, working with heatwawes, Udstillingsstedet

              Sydhavn Station, SV

2024          Hosting, Celcius Projects,groupexhibition, Celsiusgatan 45, Malmø, Sweden

2024          Galleri Sapere Aude, Copenhagen, groupexhibition

2024          OSFA6, Format Artspace, Copenhagen, groupexhibition

2024          Store Formater, Format Artspace, Nansensgade 35, Copenhagen

2023          Juxtapose Artfair, Godsbanen Aarhus

2023          Enter Artfair, Format Artspace,Lokomotivværkstedet, Otto Busses vej

2022          OSFA7,Format Artspace, Nansensgade 35, Copenhagen

2023          Fri Form, Klub, Linnee gade 25, Copenhagen

2022          Enter Artfair, Format Artspace,Tunnelfabrikken, Copenhagen

2022          Når Tiden er vigtig, gruppeudstilling, Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station, SV

2022          Charlottenborg Forårsudstilling, Copenhagen

2021          Neighbours, Galleri Feinkunst Krüger,Kohlhöfer 8, Hamburg, DE

2021          OSFA6, Format Artspace, Nansensgade 35, Copenhagen

2021          Enter Artfair, Format Artspace,Tunnelfabrikken, Copenhagen

2020          Sorgefri, Gallery CC, Båstadsgatan 4, 214 33 Malmö, Sverige

2020          OSFA5, Format Artspace, Nansensgade 35, Copenhagen

2020          Enter ArtFair, Format Artspace, Tunnelfabrikken, Copenhagen

2019          OSFA4,Format Artspace, Nansensgade 35, Copenhagen

2019          Winther Selections, Gallery Væg, Jernbanegade 20A, Aalborg

2019          NO SCRUBS, HotDock project space, Petrzalka, Bratislava, Slovakiet

2019          Plastik, EKS-RUMMET, Prags Boulevard 61, 1. sal, Copenhagen

2019          THE FINAL EXHIBITION 2, Axel Towers,Copenhagen

2019          Supermarket 2019, Stockholm Independent Art Fair, 4–7 April 2019, Sweden

2018          One size Fits All 3, Format Artspace, Nansensgade 35, Copenhagen

2018          Code Art Fair, Format Artspace, Bellacenteret

2018          W&L's Artists Supplies Store, Delfi, Malmø, Sweden

2018          SHOW UP, RØM, Grøntorvet 24, 2500 Valby

2018          EKS-RUMMET, Prags Boulevard 61, 1. sal,Copenhagen.

2018          Specta Surplus Store, Galleri Specta, Peder Skrams Gade 13, Copenhagen

2017          Portrætter af sprogets opløsning, Koldinggade 12, Koldinggade 12,

              Copenhagen

2017          Walther&Langgaards Julestue, Julius Bloms gade, Copenhagen

2017          One size Fits All 2, Format Artspace, Nansensgade 35, 1366 Copenhagen

2017          Vi tager intet ansvar 5, Warehouse9, Halmtorvet 11A-F, Copenhagen

2017          Ventesal nr. 29, Jagtvej 29, Copenhagen

2017          Code Art Fair, Format Artspace,Bellacenteret

2016          PARTY, Kunsthal ved siden af, Frederiksø 19, Bygning 2, 5700 Svendborg

2016          12-7-1, Mønsterbageriet, Haraldsgade 64, Copenhagen

2016          Shared Walls, Julius Blomsgade 30, 2200 Copenhagen

2016          Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling, Kunsthal Aarhus

2016          En anden verden,  Bodega Hjorten, Kronborggade 12, Copenhagen

2016-11       Different interventions in the public pshere in London and Copenhagen

2015          Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling, Den Frie, Copenhagen

2014         ”Besides it has to be about the universe…now how do we turn that waterfall on?”,

              Sheik Shawarma, Nørrebrogade 98, Copenhagen

2013          Bench for viewing the sunset, Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art and Design,

              London

2013          Fabric(ate), Central Space, London

2012          BRITTVINTER, Umeå, Sweden

2011          Poster Exhibition, Ærø, Denmark

2010          CWR- Contemporary Reflections on War, “BKS Garage”,Copenhagen