Artists

Olivia Holm-Møller

Press release

Olivia Holm-Møller (DK, 1875–1970) dared to step into the open and the unknown – across life and art. She followed her dreams, returned home out of a sense of duty, yet never gave up herself or her painting. With a lifespan of nearly 100 years, she lived through a world undergoing rapid technological, political and artistic change. She also travelled widely at a time when travel was both unusual and demanding for a woman. This exhibition gives centre stage to Olivia Holm-Møller: a courageous individual and a searching artist whose vital, richly coloured universe, charged with an almost contemporary spiritual energy, deserves full attention. The exhibition tells the story of an artist who stubbornly insisted on being sensitive without ever being weak, and who had the courage and strength to follow her own path. With a glint in her eye and a subtle, poetic symbolism, she conveyed both her sensitivity and her unyielding will to live. As she wrote in a letter in 1911: “I am as soft as butter and as brave as a hare.”