Anna Kristine Hvid Petersen

Anna Kristine Hvid Petersen is a contemporary Danish artist that lives and works in Copenhagen.

Hvid Petersen’s practice is primarily within the field of painting. Sublime, rich and meticulous in detail, Hvid Petersen’s paintings transcend our reality as if to create a window into an alternative world, thus, at the same time, investigating the more obscure and entangled realities of our own world.

While the paintings may at first give way to ideas of the ‘otherworldly’, they also reveal a raw and exposed view of real places and beings. Hvid Petersen does not work purely from visions originating in the mind, but has a practice that is structured around observation of objects and nature. Arranging figures and placing them in a constructed scene, the artist then observes not just their external notions but integrates somatic observations from her own body or multi-sensorial inputs from the environment. In this process of observation, she seeks to step out of the human gaze and explore the interconnected nature of all bodies and organisms. In so doing, her paintings materialise the immaterial and visualise the relationships between bodies, allowing them to contain their contradictions and complexities.

Petersen earned her BFA at the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen (2018) before receiving her MFA from the same prestigious institution four years later (2022). In between she also undertook studies at the Swedish Academy of Realist Art in Simrishamn, Sweden (2018-2019).

Petersen has exhibited her art in the following solo exhibitions: Prince Gallery, Copenhagen, Øjne af Galakser (2017); Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Stykker af og om vævet (2023); and Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Dødvågen (2025).

To this could be added the following selected group exhibitions: Udstillingsstedet Q, Copenhagen, Førsteårsudstillingen (2016); Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Hall, Ordos, China, Reconnecting (2016); Galerie Protégé, New York City, New York, U.S.A., New CopenYork (2017); Lundtofte Kirk, Copenhagen, Lersøer (2017); Prince Gallery, Copenhagen, Group show (2017); Udstillingsstedet Q, Copenhagen, Stum Sol (2018); The Danish RoyalAcademy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 1 + 1 = 1, Bachelor Degree Show (2018); Udstillingsstedet Q, Copenhagen, Til tusind nye frø (2020); The Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Master Degree Show (2022); Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Zeitgeist (2022); Union Pacific, London, Describe to me the view from my window (2024); and Art Basel Miami Beach, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.A. (2025).