Anna Marie and Ulla, 2025
Anna Marie and Ulla, 2025
Railboard 120 x 241 cm. Our mothers photographed by Petra Kleis.
Included in the group show HOMAGE TO OLDER WOMEN - an exhibition on railboards in Copenhagen, Denmark, featuring 100 women artists from the Nordic Countries.
Curated by Hanne Lise Thomsen and Lise Grüner Bertelsen.
Anna Marie og Ulla is on view at Nordhavn Station from March 3 - 23 2025.
Two women, two lives, two daughters, our mothers and us—four lives, a mirroring.
Our mothers, Ulla and Anna Marie, are wearing our costumes, which we have used in several
performances where endurance and women’s struggles were the themes. Our mothers pose as
goddesses of victory, a dual heroic portrait. They also represent us. They are us, and we are them.
Time is present—they are us in the future, they gave birth to us in the past, and they stand right
here, right now, dressed as goddesses from another time. It turns our thoughts to our own
daughters and sons, who will be here after us.
Our mothers meet the viewer's gaze directly. They carry standards bearing white flags—a
negotiation, a struggle, a surrender, a truce? And a nod to our numerous artworks featuring flags,
which occupy a special place in our hearts.
The project is generously supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.
HOMAGE TO OLDER WOMEN
Society is full of cultural narratives and expectations of what older women are, can do and should be. To counter this HOMAGE TO OLDER WOMEN invites 100 women artists from Scandinavia to express their personal view of older women and this phase of their lives. The individual works of art on railboards in stations in and around Copenhagen present 100 visual statements that bring a broader and more nuanced picture of older women into public space.
The project symbolises and generates solidarity across the generations, creating an artistic community that pays tribute to the wrinkles, wisdom and life experience of older women to generate recognition and present alternative visions.
Artists:
FINLAND: Elina Brotherus, Hertta Kiiski, Heta Kuchka, Aurora Reinhard.
SWEDEN: Elisabeth Apelmo, Anette Abrahamsson, Hilda Ekeroth, Maria Finn, Astrid Göransson, Annika von Hausswolff, Marit Lindberg, Annika Lundgren, Annee Olofsson, Annika Ström, Lisa Strømbeck, Karin Westerlund.
NORWAY: AK Dolven, Hilde Honerud, Lotte Konow Lund/Eline Mugaas, Beathe C.Rønning, Christel Sverre.
ICELAND: The Icelandic Love Corporation, María Kristín H. Antonsdóttir.
GREENLAND: Julie Edel Hardenberg, Jessie Kleemann.
DENMARK: Kristina Ask, Jeanne Betak, Karen Bohøj, Nanna Debois Buhl, Anne Fabricius Møller, Christina Capetillo, Sidse Carstens, Regitze Engelsborg Carlsen, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Charlotte Haslund-Christensen, Sonja Lillebæk Christensen, Viera Collaro, Rikke Diemer, Sophie Dupont, Paula Duvå, Jeannette Ehlers, Tina Enghoff, Anne-Li Engström, Biba Fibiger, Signe Maria Friis, Fryd Frydendahl, Cecilie Gravesen, Marianne Grønnow, Gry Worre Hallberg, Gudrun Hasle, Molly Haslund, Ane Henriksen, Nanna Gro Henningsen, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Lea Guldditte Hestelund, Marianne Hesselbjerg, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Dorte Jelstrup, Mette Kit Jensen, Astrid Kruse Jensen, Vibeke Jerichau, Mette Gitz-Johansen, Ditte Haarløv Johnsen, Birgit Johnsen & Hanne Nielsen, Gitte Juul/Anja Franke, Kirsten Justesen, Noah Umur Kanber, Jane Jin Kaisen, Sophia Kalkau, Randi Og Katrine, Lisa Klapstock, Jessie Kleemann, Eva Koch, Malene Landgreen, Hellen Lassen, Madeleine Kate MCGowan, Suanne Mertz, Eva Mertz, Mo Moesgaard, Marie Munk, Miriam H. Nielsen, Tina Maria Nielsen, Maria Nørholm Ramouk, Lea Porsager, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Pulsk Ravn, Jytte Rex, Rosemaria Rex, Lisa Rosenmeier, Ane Mette Ruge, Jeanette Land Schou, Lise Tovesdatter Scou, Alberte Skronski, Apolonia Sokol, Trine Søndergaard, Malene List Thomsen, Hanne Lise Thomsen, Hannah Toticki, Gina Zacharias, Simone Aaberg Kærn.
