Danish multidisciplinary artist Oscar Juul-Sørensen (b.1989) started painting with oil at the age of 19, later moving to the Netherlands in pursuit of an art education. he graduated from KABK, Royal Academy of Art with the highest grade possible awarded to his installation and video works. He currently resides and works as an artist in Berlin.

Juul-Sørensen’s work presents contrast, evoking scenes where emotions run high and love and hate exist simultaneously and with great friction. The audience is invited to observe his fascination with triviality and making visible the cracks in idyllic mundanity:

“Fuck the Hallmark greeting cards and the craving for picturesque life. Facades are meant to be dealt with and broken down. Daily encounters, frustration and passion — big mocktail of life — what is true? What is false? Where do I stand and where do I fall? Perseverance held up by persuasion of the superego. The painting is to be beaten. It is always a fight with the medium, and I have to discover something —  a lie or a truth within — before stopping.”

In the wake of  critically acclaimed shows at the National Museum of Art in Norway, Den Frie in Denmark, Trixie in the Netherlands and Casino Luxembourg, the artist has spent the last two years manifesting himself creatively in Berlin.

In 2023, Juul-Sørensen hosted an intimate two-day preview of his smaller oil paintings at the Neukölln home of Berlin-based community radio station Refuge Worldwide, as well as taking part in a sprawling group show in West Berlin’s impressive former multi-storey car park venue Stilwerk.

As ¼ of the emerging Berlin artist collective I would die for anything, Juul-Sørensen showcased All Is Wet in February 2024 — an exhibition that unveiled new large-scale oil paintings and a limited edition apparel collaboration with Carhartt WIP.

Most recently, Juul-Sørensen’s self-portrait fuck yourself featured the much-talked about closing group exhibition of Berlin’s Studio Apelbaum.

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