°1963 in Viborg, Denmark.
Danish artist Ane Vester, based in Belgium, works with colour as a carrier of memory, language, and space. Her abstract paintings, often composed of matte colour fields and accompanied by carefully chosen words, are not purely aesthetic compositions but tangible memories, filtered through time and place. Vester regards colour not merely as a visual element, but as an emotionally charged surface, a poetic residue of the past.
Since the 1990s, her practice has evolved from installations and sculptures toward an expanded form of painting. She draws from a personally compiled archive of colour swatches: the mustard green of her father’s Morris, the yellow of a childhood jacket, the dark green of a gym mat. By carefully reconstructing and placing these tones side by side, a quiet dialogue emerges, between memory and the present, between abstraction and intimacy.
Although her work may sometimes appear distant and objective, it is deeply personal. She always mixes her own colours and works site-specifically, allowing materials like wood, Plexiglas, and aluminium to interact with light and space. By avoiding expressive brushstrokes, she shifts the focus to the surface and the immediate presence of the work, as object, as image, as sign.
