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In 2021, Emilia Bergmark participated in the exhibition The Flower in Art with a floral work that told the story of the world’s first financial “bubble,” when tulip bulbs reached extraordinary value before the market crashed in 1637. Emilia Bergmark lives and works in Copenhagen.
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In 2026, she presents, among other works, the large tapestry The End of the World (2023), which has since become part of ARKEN’s collection. Emilia Bergmark moves freely across materials in her artistic practice, working with large-scale woven images, sculpture, painting, photography, film, and print.
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Nature in focus
Nature is a central motif in Emilia Bergmark’s work. In her artistic practice, she often explores how humans alter nature in pursuit of their own needs, shedding light on this through small, everyday situations. In the work Norrlands flora i farve, Emilia Bergmark portrays herself as a kind of protagonist, picking flowers in a wild Swedish meadow - one she knows from her childhood.

When she returned to the meadow as an adult, she realised that even an apparently innocent act such as picking flowers can have an impact on nature and biodiversity. In other works, she often gives animals and plants a human voice and personality. By giving a voice to the non-human, she creates tragicomic scenes that expose the contradictions and dilemmas of modern life.

From Saatchi Gallery to Gladsaxe
Emilia Bergmark is a sought-after artist both in Denmark and internationally. The Saatchi Gallery holds a work by the artist in its collection, as do institutions such as the Ny Carlsbergfondet and the Region Skånes Samling.

In Denmark, Emilia Bergmark has created two site-specific works for Mørkhøj Park in Gladsaxe (2025) and for Spurvelundskolen in Odense (2024). You can experience Emilia Bergmark’s work The End of the World (2023) in the exhibition 55.6° North – Arken’s Collection.

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Bio: Emilia Bergmark
Emilia Bergmark was born in Sweden in 1986. She works in Copenhagen, where she has lived since 2017. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
Bergmark has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions across Denmark, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
The work The End of the World forms part of the research project Human Nature, in which Emilia Bergmark creates woven images exploring post-industrial nature in Scandinavia. Each work in the project is rooted in a specific landscape, its histories, and its living entities.
Her works have been acquired by major public and private collections, including the Ny Carlsbergfondet in Denmark, the Region Skånes Samling, Soho House, and the Saatchi Collection in the United Kingdom.

Sources:
vonbartha.com/artists
vonbartha.com/stories (”Right now, in my Anthropomor-phizer, you can find a moose and an old pine tree”)