Gerda Hansen

Gerda Hansen (b. 1994) creates paintings that invite viewers to slow down and look twice. At first glance, her works appear calm and familiar—birds, flowers, landscapes, fragments of nature. But the longer one looks, the stranger they become. Forms shift between the recognizable and the imagined, creating a sense of curiosity, wonder, and quiet uncertainty.

Hansen is fascinated by how we look at images and how easily our minds try to make sense of what we see. Rather than offering clear answers, she leaves space for interpretation.

By bringing together digital tools and traditional painting techniques, she creates works that feel both familiar and impossible at the same time. Fueled by curiosity and the new possibilities, she has been embracing generative image models even before ChatGPT was launched.

Her paintings ask simple but increasingly relevant questions: What do we trust as real? How do images shape our understanding of the world?

Hansen received her BA in Painting in 2022 and her MA in Contemporary Art in 2025 from the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Her works have been exhibited in Estonia, Lithuania, Italy, and Sweden. In 2023, she was awarded the Adamson-Eric Young Artist Scholarship.

In late summer of 2025, Hansen’s first solo exhibition “Revelation” took place in Artrovert gallery.

In July 2026, Artrovert gallery was proud to represent Hansen’s newest works at the Riga Contemporary art fair.

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