[ohne Titel], 2025

[Untitled] refers to Vilhelm Hammershøi’s *Interior, Strandgade 30* (1901). In this work, Hammershøi depicted his wife Ida, who appears as a quiet, withdrawn figure in many of his interiors. She remains almost intangible, as if sucked into the space.

This latent desire for invisibility is consistently carried forward in the new work: the female figure, which in Hammershøi’s painting remains visible in the background, has here dissolved completely. Only a vague sphere hints at her former presence.

The room itself has also been transformed. Whilst Hammershøi worked with open doors and clear geometry, the space expands in this version. The central door is missing, thereby breaking up the rigour of the symmetry. The result is a space that appears larger, with an intense reddish hue, which emphasises the figure’s absence even more clearly. In the lower third, a seam also runs across the canvas – a visible fault line that both divides and holds the composition together.

The chair placed within it seems to invite the viewer to take Ida’s place and fill the void with their own presence. In this way, the work transforms the quiet withdrawal of the figure in Hammershøi’s painting into a radical disappearance, which appears to fulfil the protagonist’s wish.

Material:

Oil on canvas

Technique:

Painting and sewing

Shipping:

The work will be shipped stretched on a stretcher frame, complete with a fitted shadow-joint frame – including a certificate of authenticity and the artist’s signature on the reverse.