Woman: Kinga Bartis: "It is a huge privilege to make art for 135,000 people."

Cecilia Saxton, Woman, 28 Jun 2023

Kinga Bartis is the artist behind the dreamy work, which adorns Gloria's facade for this year's Roskilde Festival. The work is called 'Growing Soft Hearts in Mica and Sweat', and we have had an exciting talk with the talented artist about her process and thoughts behind the work Kinga Bartis is the artist behind the dreamy work, which adorns Gloria's facade for this year's Roskilde Festival. The work is called 'Growing Soft Hearts in Glimmer and Sweat', and we have had an exciting talk with the talented artist about her process and thoughts behind the work.

 

Kinga Bartis was raised in Hungary and she was born as part of the Hungarian minority in Transylvania (Romania). In 2018 she graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and today she lives and works in Copenhagen. Kinga Bartis works primarily with painting in her works, and they often illustrate bodies that are moving or changing – surrounded or fused with the elements of the landscape.

 

Where do you find inspiration for your art?

 

“I find inspiration from literature, music and Renaissance paintings – and then I also gather inspiration from being in the present and being reflective. I have some good hours in the morning where my brain is very generous with ideas and pictures that I draw small sketches of. Later in the day I take out my sketches again, and then I work on them and sort out which sketches have the potential to turn into a painting.”

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