I have a CRAVING FOR IMAGES. Inge Lise Westman (1945-2024)

10.05 - 19.10. 2025

Artist Inge Lise Westman (1945–2024) led a very productive life. She began working with images at a tender age and continued until her death. She trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, she exhibited her works in artists’ association venues, and she prepared her own exhibitions in Denmark, Germany and Sweden. She incorporated both her local surroundings and images from newspapers, magazines and the internet into her artistic processes. She created images in multiple media. Her works of graphic art and painting are the best known, but she also produced an extensive array of sculptures. Her craving for images was never satisfied and her images were a means of social connection with other people.

The works of four artists from Westman’s network are represented in the exhibition: Palle Nielsen (1920–2000), Emil Westman Hertz (1978–2016), Silas Inoue (b.1989), and Norman Westman Hertz (b.2007).

Both of Inge Lise Westman’s parents were visual artists. She herself inspired others around her to pursue a life of images. When she moved to the country in 1971, her entire oeuvre began to revolve around nature. Inge Lise Westman’s prescient, consistent critique of how nature areas were being managed made her a pioneer in her generation of artists and in Danish art history post-1960.

I have a CRAVING FOR IMAGES is the first exhibition of her works since her death. The exhibition is both monographic and retrospective and presents a number of works never exhibited before.

The Bornholm Art Museum is grateful to the following for their generous involvement in and support for the exhibition:

Ole Hertz, Karen Westman Hertz