City & Silence explores the fragile intersection between the natural and the unnatural, silence and chaos, slowness and overstimulation. Through vastly different media and materials, two young female artists - Anne Mie Bak and Rose P. Bendixen - examine the places where human experience drifts away from its biological origins and longs for a moment of balance.
Anne Mie Bak creates upcycled photo-textile works that explore climate grief and the fragility of nature. Based in Denmark, her practice is rooted in photography but expands into the sculptural and tactile. Using misprinted photographs, plastic fragments, and discarded tulle, she weaves and layers materials into semi transparent installations that hover between presence and disappearance. Through this process, she gives new life to waste, transforming remnants into visual landscapes that echo both the beauty and the vulnerability of the natural world. Her vivid aesthetic draws viewers in, only to reveal quieter reflections on the slow erosion of rural communities and our strained relationship with the natural world. Underneath the beauty, a haunting question lingers: where is humanity headed?
Rose P. Bendixen is based in Berlin and works in painting and linocut to explore the weird and tender experience of being human. Her vivid canvases often depict faceless figures in stretched, hypercolored and dreamlike interiors. Her characters move through intimacy, awkwardness, softness, and solitude, suspended between the deeply personal and the universally recognizable. Language flickers throughout her works: fragmented thoughts, unsent messages, and quiet commentary on care, attachment, gender, and emotional survival. Rose’s work is at once vulnerable and knowing, a poetic documentation of what it feels like to live in a world that often forgets to feel.
Together, the two artists inhabit the title's oppositions: City & Silence. One speaks through the materials of the natural world, the other through the language of city noise and emotion. One is sculptural, the other pictorial. One slows down, the other pulses. But both ask: how do we find meaning—and maybe even peace—in the tension between growth and stillness, between nature and the modern self?
Curated by Karen Dulong, founder of Galeria 18, the exhibition continues her mission to create space for emerging voices, new conversations, and artistic perspectives that challenge and inspire. With a background in Strategic Design and Entrepreneurship from CBS and the Royal Danish Academy, Karen builds exhibitions that bridge disciplines, aesthetics, and emotions. City & Silence is a sensory journey into two minds shaped by different surroundings, but united in their search for something human.
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