Astrid Kruse Jensen

Wetterling Gallery is pleased to present the solo exhibition The Persistence Of Becoming by Danish artist Astrid Kruse Jensen.

The exhibition brings together her recent photographic series Places Beyond Places, hanging glass sculptures inspired by the landscape of Rungstedlund, the home of Karen Blixen and her newest experimental glass work, in which more than 100-year-old glass negatives are merged within blown glass. These photographic glass sculptures represent a process not previously seen, and form part of Kruse Jensen’s urge to continuously push the boundaries of what a photograph can be, extending her exploration of the medium into a more tactile and spatial form.

In the photographic works, Kruse Jensen continues her exploration of the artist’s home—places that extend beyond architecture and history, unfolding in a shifting dialogue between past and present. Interiors merge with fluid structures of memory, where perception and recollection interact. Absence and presence intertwine, shaped through movement, shadow, and diffused light.

Together, the exhibition reflects on how places can hold memory, and how images may act as fragile thresholds between what is seen and what is sensed. The Persistence of Becoming, the title carried across both the exhibition and the glass works, articulates Kruse Jensen’s understanding of memory as a continual process of transformation and reconfiguration.

Astrid Kruse Jensen (b. 1975) has studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in the Netherlands and at the Glasgow School of Art. She has been nominated for several prizes, such as the Deutsche Börse Preis in 2014 and Anne Marie Telmányi’s prize for women artists in 2017. Kruse Jensen has had solo exhibitions in Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Iceland and India, as well as several group exhibitions in Europe, The United States, Canada and China. Kruse Jensen’s works are featured in several private and public collections, including at the George Eastman House, ARoS, The National Collection of Photography, Manchester City Gallery, Sorø Kunstmuseum, Artotheque de Caen, the John Kobal Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation, Moderna Museet Stockholm