Mikael Colville-Andersen painting during a missile strike in Kyiv, 2024

Art by Colville-Andersen

Mikael Colville-Andersen (b. 1968), Danish artist.

What started with impatient drawings and occasional acrylic paintings in the early 1990s, soon morphed into full exhibitions in Copenhagen from 1996. It was then I found the materials that would prefer to use - and rarely deviate from: plaster on wood. My father was a plasterer and the scent of his clothes after a hard day of work is firmly implanted in my olfactory memory. The texture continues to thrill me, even though I cast myself headlong into other materials like an unfaithful rapscallion on occasion.

There was a flurry of exhibitions in Denmark between 1996 and 2002 where, to my surprise, most paintings were sold. I wandered into other creative pursuits but kept up the habit of making crappy sketches and grand plans for works. In 2017, I was yanked briefly back into the game with a dual exhibition in Reykjavik. And in late 2023, another hand grabbed mine and pulled me firmly back into art. This has resulted in two exhibitions in Kyiv, in March 2024 and April 2025.

I didn’t come to Ukraine to make art - I came to volunteer to help the Ukrainian people. But living here in a war zone with constant missile attacks… let me tell you… this war made me need to make art. Art and art therapy is a medicine and this series is directly and completely influenced by my experiences in Ukraine and painting in Kyiv.

See the Kyiv Works 2024/2025 here

Selected Recent Stuff

The Kyiv Snafu* Drawings

Random Previous Works

  • Unfuckwithable (2021)

    Ink, acrylic, plaster on wood. (100 x 100)

    Private Collection

  • Love Me Forever (2000)

    Ink, acrylic, plaster on wood.

    Private Collection

  • Zusammen (2002)

    Ink, acrylic, plaster on wood (100 x 100)

    Private Collection

  • Fuckjavik (2017)

    Ink, acrylic, plaster on wood

  • Genius Loci (2017)

    Ink, acrylic, plaster on wood 50x50

  • Metropolis

    Ink, acrylic, plaster on wood

  • City (2017)

    Ink, acrylic, plaster on wood

  • ByStadBorgByurKaupunki (2017)

    Ink, acrylic, plaster on wood

  • Stad (2017)

    Ink, acrylic, plaster on wood

  • Urbs

    Ink, acrylic, plaster on wood

  • City (2017)

    Ink, acrylic, plaster on wood

  • Selected works from 1996

    Plaster, papier maché, watercolor, acrylic on wood.

    Private Collections.

  • Selected works from 2002

    Plaster/acrylic/ink/watercolor on wood.

    Private Collections.

  • Selected works from 2000

    All in private collections

    Plaster/acrylic/ink/watercolor on wood

  • Bronze Age Techno Buddy (1996)

    Ink, acrylic, plaster, papier maché on wood.

    Private Collection.

  • Navigare (1994)

    Ink, watercolour on paper

  • Waiting for Gouda (1994)

    Acrylic, watercolour on paper

  • Cornered (1994)

    Ink, acrylic on paper

  • Cornered2 (1994)

    Ink, acrylic on paper

  • Mother Earth (1994)

    Ink, watercolour on paper

  • Self-portrait (1994)

    Watercolour on paper

  • Future Mirror (1995)

    Ink on paper

  • Juliette (1991)

    Ink on paper

  • Chloe (1991)

    Pencil on paper

  • Storm (1990)

    Acrylic on paper