Astrid Kruse Jensen: [WG.142] The Unveiled Space

Wetterling Gallery is proud to present The Unveiled Space, an exhibition by Danish photo-based artist Astrid Kruse Jensen. In this exhibition at the gallery in Gothenburg, Kruse Jensen continues her exploration of the artist’s home, places that extend beyond architecture and history, unfolding in a constant dialogue between past and present.
Her practice engages with spaces as environments that surround us, but also as forces that arise through us and shape our experience of being. The interiors merge with the fluid structures of memory, where perception and remembrance interact. In her work formerly private spheres became universal openings, resonating with emotional and existential presence in an expanded now.

Absence and presence intertwine in the works, balanced through movement, shadow, and diffused light. In her works, Astrid Kruse Jensen uses expired Polaroid films, where time has influenced the chemistry that captures the motif. Instead of capturing time through the lens of the present, the present is embedded in time itself and not only motif and material merge in Astrid Kruse Jensen's works, past and present converge in the photographic surface, reflecting the artist’s longstanding interest in memory as a constructed and displaced reality.

The exhibition includes new works from 2024–2025 created across locations from Rungsted through Funen to Skagen, forming the basis for the artist’s continued exploration of artist homes.

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Astrid Kruse Jensen (b. 1975) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in the Netherlands and at the Glasgow School of Art. She has received the Niels Wessel Bagges Kunstfond in 2008, the Arken Travel Grant in 2014 and the Anne Marie Telmányi Prize for Women Artists in 2017. She has had solo exhibitions in Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Iceland and India, as well as several group exhibitions in Europe as well as the USA, Canada and China. Astrid Kruse Jensen's works are represented in numerous private and public collections, including ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, the National Photo Collection, the Danish Art Foundation, the New Carlsberg Foundation, Hafnarborg Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Artotheque de Caen, The John Kobal Foundation, Manchester City Gallery, The George Eastman House, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.