BIOGRAPHY
Helle Bang graduated as a visual artist from the Aarhus Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark.
Helle Bang is affiliated with renowned Danish and foreign galleries, where she regularly has solo exhibitions.
Helle Bang is known for several major decorations in Danish companies.
Helle Bang is also known for her sculptural work. Her sculptures in bronze are most often figurative – often women, where the face appears as a mirror to the soul.In his opening speech at a painting and sculpture exhibition in Aarhus, art writer Erik Meistrup summed it up as follows: “Helle Bang works with painting as colour and sculpture as figure. She thus unites two of the crucial features of the cultural history of art in modern times. She does it in her own special way, which is both modern – and yet out of time”In the autumn of 2008, Helle Bang received a beautiful recognition as a church artist with the hanging of the painting “Gabriel” in Ryde Church near Vinderup, where the painting is now on the wall with a centuries-old fresco.In 2019, the bronze sculpture with 5 Dolphins “Samspil” will be unveiled on the occasion of the Aarhus University Research Foundation’s 75th anniversary.In 2023, Helle Bang solved a sculpture assignment in bronze for Funder Church “The Liberation”In April 2012, Helle Bang’s bronze sculpture on granite “Himalayas” was erected at the inauguration of the new Courthouse, Haraldsgade 28, Herning.March/April 2014, Helle Bang was current with the exhibition “Nordic Nature Interpretations” at Greenland’s Cultural Centre KATUAQ in Nuuk.Helle Bang is a member of Bkf – the Association of Visual Artists in Denmark – KKS – the Society of Women Artists – as well as ProKK – Professional Artists – and DBS – the Danish Sculptors’ Society
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Helle Bang
www.hellebang.dk
Visual Artist and Sculptor
Born 1947 on the island of Mors, Denmark
Studio and residence in Højvangen, Skanderborg, Denmark
Education
Visual Artist, Aarhus Academy of Fine Arts, 1993-1997
Memberships
• BKF – Association of Visual Artists in Denmark
• KKS – Society of Female Artists
• ProKK – Association of Professional Artists
• DBS – Danish Sculptors Society
Curated Exhibitions
• Galleri 12, Danmarks Radio, 1997 and 1998
• KS 98 – Artists’ Curated Summer Exhibition, Tistrup, 1998
Church Art
• Ryde Church, 2008
• Funder Church, 2023
Art Museums
• Frederikshavn Art Museum, 2008
• Himmerlands Art Museum, 2016
Publications
• “Fornemmelse for Farve” – “Helle Bang and Painting” by Ole Lindboe, 2007
Public Art Installations
• Luxor a/s, Copenhagen
• Andelskassen Midtthy, Moland, Skive
• Damstahl, Skanderborg
• Sydbank, Skanderborg
• Scan Truck, Skive
• Trepol, Skovby
• Jyske Bank, Silkeborg
• Aarhus University Research Foundation, 2019
Represented At
• Gedved Seminar, Herning New Courts Building
• PFA Pension, Copenhagen
• Sofienborg Castle, Rungsted
• Odense University Hospital
• Entra Ejendom AS, Oslo
• Elsam, Skærbæk
• Lantmännen/Unibake
• Skanderborg/Odder Business School
• LEO Pharma A/S, Ballerup
• Torshavn Municipality, Faroe Islands
• Friends of Kastrupgårdsamlingen
Selected Art Fairs
• ART Copenhagen, Aarhus Academy of Fine Arts, 1997
• ART Copenhagen, Galerie Helth, 2001-2002
• ART Copenhagen, Galleri Elise Toft, 2003-2004
• ART Copenhagen, Galleri Sct Gertrud, 2006-2012, 2014-2016
• ART Herning, Galerie Bram, 2001-2013
• ART Herning, Galleri Sct. Gertrud, 2014-2023
• Konst- & Antikmässan, Stockholm, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025
• Helsingborg Art & Antique Fair, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025
• Affordable Art Fair, Stockholm, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025
• Art Hillerød, 2024, 2025
• THE ART FAIR Kunst for alle, 2024, 2025
Selected Group Exhibitions
• Sculpture Park, Hune, 2017
• Sculpture City Galten, 2019, 2021, 2023
• Sculpture City Give, 2020, 2021
• Sculpture City Ølgod, 2021, 2022, 2023
• Galleri Sam, 2025
• Dronninglund Art Center – DBS, 2022
Selected Solo Exhibitions
• Galerie Helth, 1998, 2000
• Galleri Elise Toft, Kolding, 2001, 2004, 2006
• Galleri Sct Gertrud, Copenhagen, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019
• Morsø Art Association, Nykøbing Mors, 2010
• Baunhøj Mill, Grenå, 2012
• Philosophy Art Building, Odense, 2013
• Culture House Skanderborg, 2017
• Gallerimagine, 2023
• Belle ART Gallery, 2013, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023
• Galleri Juel Verland ART, 2024
International Exhibitions – Selected
• Culture House KATUAQ, Nuuk, Greenland, 2014
• Galerie Per-Seh, Hannover, 2013 and 2019
• Smidjan, Torshavn, Faroe Islands, 2012 and 2017
• Galleri Kjeldaas, Oslo, 2006
• Artlequin, Agay, France, 2005
• Galleri Melefors, Linköping, Sweden, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024
• Galleri Holmsbustuene, Holmsbu, Norway, 2017, 2018
Grant Support From
• NAPA and Cultural Funds – for the exhibition 2014 at Greenland’s Culture House KATUAQ, Nuuk
• NAPA – for the exhibition 2017 at Smidjan, Litluvik, Faroe Islands
STATEMENT
Helle Bang is both an expressive and abstract painter, for whom color is a decisive factor in any artwork. For her, it is nature’s special color poetry that fascinates. She captures it—with precision—and reproduces it with great coloristic sense.
She is experienced and playful at the same time, so the wild and daring strokes result in stylish and extraordinarily beautiful paintings.
Her interest in nature dates back to her childhood, when she cycled to the Limfjord, passing blooming roadside edges and beautiful fields and meadows along the way. Helle was also very interested in biology in school, and she therefore started painting the flora in nature even before she attended the Art Academy. At the academy, she was trained in the “right” direction, but now she can no longer hold back; nature must once again be expressed on her canvas. Fortunately, we have also gotten the roadside edges back, much to the delight of biodiversity, which has not been present for many years. Now Helle can once again follow her heart.
Helle is driven by a curiosity about what happens when you set colors against each other on the white canvas. She simply has a need to paint; she cannot help herself.
