Nordic Portraits is a series of one-on-one conversations with Scandinavian artists, exploring topics ranging from how they approach their craft through to their personal experiences with success, failure, collaborations, triumphs, disappointments, blowups and everything in between. Series One looks to explore Danish culture through the eyes of the nation's leading artists. Music by Nina Liv. Visuals by Frame CPH.
Dorte Mandrup is an internationally renowned architect who has earned a reputation for creating structures that have a strong sense of place and a unique sense of materiality. Having founded her own…
Rose Eken is an internationally acclaimed visual artist working with a range of materials, but perhaps most noted for her use of clay… often to populate spaces with everyday objects that invite and c…
Thure Lindhardt is an accomplished actor of both stage and screen who has over the past two decades built a successful international career. You might know him best as Detective Henrik Sabroe from D…
Rasmus Munk is a chef and the mastermind behind Alchemist, one of the most talked about restaurants on the planet today. Alchemist is a culinary experience unlike any other - a multi-sensory journey…
Sharin Foo is a musician and one half of the critically-acclaimed and globally revered indie rock, shoegaze, garage, noise, everything genre-shapeshifting band The Raveonettes. In the early 2000s, S…
Søren Solkær is one of Scandinavia's leading art photographers, perhaps best known for his distinctive portraits of musicians - the likes of which include Björk, The White Stripes, The Arctic Monkeys…
Lone Scherfig is a film director and screenplay writer who rose to global acclaim with her 2000 Dogme classic Italian for Beginners and has since been responsible for a number of highly successful En…
Henrik Vibskov is a leading figure in the world of fashion. A multi-disciplinary artist, primarily working with textiles... and the mastermind behind a successful global fashion brand. Since 2003 he …