LIVING FREE presents works by Kirsten Lockenwitz and Knud Hvidberg—two artists who, from the mid-1960s onward, lived and worked closely together. Their practices developed in parallel over several decades and stem from a shared investigation into art’s ability to connect with consciousness, with the spirit.
The exhibition features paintings from private collections, including works that have not been shown publicly since the 1970s. Its ambition is to reintroduce an artistic duo whose work occupies some of the most compelling intersections in Danish postwar modernism.
From an art historical perspective, Lockenwitz and Hvidberg’s practices move between several concurrent currents. On the one hand, they extend modernism’s interest in pure form and the non-figurative pictorial surface, as articulated within the circle around Linien II. On the other hand, their work relates to the more experimental art environments of the 1960s, where boundaries between art forms were challenged and the social and cognitive potential of art was reconsidered.
Lockenwitz and Hvidberg worked in dialogue with international movements such as Minimalism, Op Art, and Light and Space, while at the same time maintaining a distinct position within Danish art history—where modernist formal inquiry meets spiritual practice.
LIVING FREE points to this shared project: an art that not only organizes form and color, but seeks to activate perception—and to open a space between image, body, and consciousness.
Lockenwitz and Hvidberg worked in dialogue with international movements such as Minimalism, Op Art, and Light and Space, while at the same time maintaining a distinct position within Danish art history—where modernist formal inquiry meets spiritual practice.
LIVING FREE points to this shared project: an art that not only organizes form and color, but seeks to activate perception—and to open a space between image, body, and consciousness.
Kilde: ORTHUNGA
