ANDREAS WELIN
Biography
Andreas Welin creates work that invites the viewer into a state of active imagining - a space where personal narratives can form, intersect, and unfold. His paintings emerge from an ongoing effort to capture the emotional atmospheres that shape our social lives. Through body language, gesture, colour, and the subtle tension between figures, he studies how we physically express what we feel when we encounter one another.
Each painting operates like a temporal fragment: a posture held mid-motion, a glance caught between intentions, a room altered simply by being entered or left behind. Welin is interested in what happens to a space when we inhabit it, what echoes remain, and how time folds around these transient gestures.
A prominent element in both his work and process is anxiety. It often surfaces at the moment a painting demands change - when a wrong turn, a failed attempt, or an unresolved composition pushes him to intervene. These moments of uncertainty, though uncomfortable, frequently catalyze the most compelling shifts in the work, guiding it toward unexpected and meaningful directions.
Each painting operates like a temporal fragment: a posture held mid-motion, a glance caught between intentions, a room altered simply by being entered or left behind. Welin is interested in what happens to a space when we inhabit it, what echoes remain, and how time folds around these transient gestures.
His works exist within a larger narrative of fleeting momentum - the “right now” that is always slipping into the “not yet.” They capture moments, and they release them just as quickly.
Each painting operates like a temporal fragment: a posture held mid-motion, a glance caught between intentions, a room altered simply by being entered or left behind. Welin is interested in what happens to a space when we inhabit it, what echoes remain, and how time folds around these transient gestures.
A prominent element in both his work and process is anxiety. It often surfaces at the moment a painting demands change - when a wrong turn, a failed attempt, or an unresolved composition pushes him to intervene. These moments of uncertainty, though uncomfortable, frequently catalyze the most compelling shifts in the work, guiding it toward unexpected and meaningful directions.
Each painting operates like a temporal fragment: a posture held mid-motion, a glance caught between intentions, a room altered simply by being entered or left behind. Welin is interested in what happens to a space when we inhabit it, what echoes remain, and how time folds around these transient gestures.
His works exist within a larger narrative of fleeting momentum - the “right now” that is always slipping into the “not yet.” They capture moments, and they release them just as quickly.
ANDREAS WELIN (b. 1993 in Sønderborg, Denmark) currently lives and works in Copenhagen. He has developed his practice through extensive coursework at Practice Room, Tegneskole KBH, and at BGK Sønderborg.
Solo exhibitions include: Lysninger, VÆG Contemporary Art, Aalborg (2025); Social Strings, Sydbank, Sønderborg (2025); Right Now, Not Yet, VÆG Contemporary Art, Aalborg (2024); Wilderness, Justin Hanney, Melbourne (2018).
Group exhibitions include This Is Real, VÆG Contemporary Art, Aalborg (2025); Grænselandsudstillingen, Sønderjyllandshallen, Aabenraa (2025); We Just Burn, VÆG Contemporary Art, Aalborg (2024); and We Paint, VÆG Contemporary Art, Aalborg (2023).
Beyond the studio, Welin’s mural practice spans more than a decade and includes large-scale commissions across Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Albania, Australia, and beyond, with projects produced for cultural festivals, private clients, and community-led organisations.
