Nina Sten-Knudsen

[1][2] More recently, her large landscapes raise existential questions of past and present, the merits of the modern world and the meaning of painting.

[1] After first collaborating with the Wild Youth movement, Sten-Knudsen developed an interest in prehistory and Nordic mythology as well as in primitive cultures such as the North American Indians, evidence of which can be seen in her landscapes.

[4] Her works explore basic existential themes of evil, past and present, the merits of the modern world and the meaning of painting.

Her Girl With a Knife (2007) first looks like a classical landscape but on closer examination it seems to consist of a number of fragments without any general perspective, bringing together past and present as well as the near and far.

Since 2009, she has been working on a huge project, creating 130 images forming part of a narrative examining the origin of evil, each with a sometimes lengthy descriptive title.