A self-taught Danish artist, Liza Krügermeier has been developing, since 2002, a style of painting that captures the essence of lived-in daily life: spacious interiors filled with cherished objects, flowers, Chinese vases, and small figurines that seem to have a life of their own. Her rich compositions are bathed in a northern light that her several-year stay on the Greek island of Leros has definitively warmed and intensified. It is there, under the influence of the contrasting Mediterranean light, that her palette truly comes into its own.
Her style, often described by critics as Neo-Impressionist, evokes Matisse in the freedom of her bold blocks of color, Gauguin and van Gogh in the vibrancy of her surfaces, and Danish painters like Anna Ancher in the tenderness with which she depicts interior scenes. But what is uniquely Liza Krügermeier’s own is a narrative and slightly surrealist dimension: in her paintings, nothing is entirely still. Shadows have a presence, objects interact, and unusual details slipped into the composition open the scene to something indefinable, somewhere between memory and fiction.
Working in acrylic and charcoal on canvas, often in large formats, she creates her works in thematic series. She paints every day from her studio on the island of Møn, Denmark, drawing from her immediate surroundings a vibrant source of inspiration that she transforms into luminous, evocative paintings.
Her work is featured in international exhibitions and is included in numerous private collections around the world. The gallery represents her exclusively in France.
AWARDS
2020: Audience Award, VK20 / Vestsjællands Kunstforening, Æglageret, Holbæk, Denmark
INSTITUTIONS
National Portrait Gallery of Denmark, Denmark
Ljungberg Museum, Sweden
COLLECTIONS
Works in private and corporate collections worldwide
Private commissions in Denmark, Germany, and Italy
Vordingborg Gymnasium, Denmark (2013)
PRESS (selection)
Villabyerne, 2023 (6-star review by Peter Madsen)
101 Kunstnere / 101 Artists, Tom Jørgensen, Kunstavisen
Portrait Now Publication, 2019
