Anette Harboe Flensburg is know for her interior paintings which are based upon dollhouse models that she creates in her atelier. Inside these models, plates form the walls, holes act as windows and doors, and pieces of plexiglass create colourful light effects inside the rooms. Time also plays a role as it is only once the set-up and the lighting conditions are optimal that she photographs each model. This photograph then forms the basis for her subsequent work on the painting.

Anette Harboe Flensburg’s interior scenes have often inspired comparisons with artists such as the 17th century Dutch painter Jan Vermeer (1632–75) and Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916), both masters at depicting the play of light in rooms devoid of people.

In Anette Harboe Flensburg’s case, the contours of a natural world outside can often be glimpsed in the shadows, windows and doorways of the rooms. Trees and nature have always been present in her oeuvre, but they take on a much more prominent role in her latest works.

A catalogue also entitled Træerne Findes (The Trees Exist) is being published in conjunction with the exhibition, featuring texts by Jeppe Priess Gersbøll, curator of the Johannes Larsen Museum in Kerteminde (DK) and art critic and author Mai Misfeldt. The articles cast fresh light on the work of Anette Harboe Flensburg and on her artistic process.

The exhibition and the catalogue have been created in collaboration with the Skovgaard Museum in Viborg and the Johannes Larsen Museum in Kerteminde.