Ida Thorhauge

Ida Sønder Thorhauge (b. 1990) is a visual artist working primarily with figurative painting and drawing. In her works monumental female bodies and horses are situated in vibrant flower meadows and abstract landscapes lightened by the moon. The characters that inhabit Thorhauge’s universe are contemplative and mysterious, painted in expressive brushstrokes and with deep red, purple and bright colors. In her world, no one has the sole claim to gender, expression, and behavior. Thorhauge’s works portrays the many positions and transformations that humans and other creatures move through in a lived life, and reflects on the great fauvist masters and modernism's depictions of monumental female figures. 

Ida Sønder Thorhauge has an MA from The Jutland Art Academy (2011-2016). She has exhibited at art institutions and museums all over Denmark, such as O - Overgaden, Kunsthal Aarhus, Kunsthal Nord, and at Roskilde Festival and OK Corral. In 2020 she was awarded a spot in The Danish Arts Foundation's career program The Young Artistic Elite and her work has been acquired by The Danish Arts Foundation, The New Carlsberg Foundation and Museet for religiøs kunst.