Amanda Lydért & Frederik Nystrup-Larsen: Artists in residence

May 1 - 31, 2026

Overview

IN RECENT YEARS, Nystrup-Larsen has focused on plant blindness through oil painting, investigating how plant species that constitute our everyday environments increasingly go unnoticed and undervalued.

Frederik Nystrup-Larsen engages in a range of artistic collaborations and projects that further expanded his cross-disciplinary approach, allowing form and process to move fluidly between media while maintaining a restrained, conceptually grounded use of personal experience.

In recent years, Nystrup-Larsen has focused on plant blindness through oil painting, investigating how plant species that constitute our everyday environments increasingly go unnoticed and undervalued. This growing disconnection from nature contributes to a diminished understanding of plants’ essential role within the biosphere and accelerates the loss of biodiversity. In response, Nystrup-Larsen documents, preserves, and revitalises local flora. His works function as an archive - one that seeks to restore awareness and foster renewed engagement with the natural world.

The work of Amanda Lydert oscilliates between the intimate and the relational. Working conceptually across text, painting, and installation, Lydert employs a methodology of collage and sampling, often co-opting the high-gloss strategies of advertising and commercial image culture.

Central to her work is an auto fictional and often explicit “I”, resulting in honest, almost confessional self-reflections; yet the “I” insists on appearing as a symptom and a sign rather than as a centre. Through a liberal use of the concepts of resonance and mark-making, Lydert explores how the individual and the world echo one another - how they bruise and brace one another. In a language that borders euphoria, catastrophe and the everyday, her work points to the crashes and collisions in economies played out on earth, specifically those of ecology and attention. Lydert’s way is poetic, always relying on the seduction of beauty, while never neglecting the subversive power of humor.