Cathrine Raben Davidsen.

Cathrine Raben Davidsen is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen whose practice spans painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, textiles, object work and collaborative design. Across nearly three decades, her work has developed a distinct visual language around transformation, memory, mythology, spiritual history and the symbolic systems through which images carry meaning across time.

Raben Davidsen holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and studied at Instituto Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence and Vrije Akademie in The Hague. Her work is represented in major Danish collections including the National Gallery of Denmark, Trapholt, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Horsens Art Museum, the Museum of Religious Art, the Danish Art Foundation and the New Carlsberg Foundation. She has also created set and costume designs for the Royal Danish Ballet.

Her recent institutional profile has been decisive. In 2022 she became the first recipient of the Beckett Prize, and in 2024 Copenhagen Contemporary presented Let Everything Happen to You, her most comprehensive retrospective exhibition to date, bringing together more than 130 paintings and drawings. The exhibition attracted international coverage including Vogue, and Copenhagen Contemporary has noted that her work is held by collectors including Bruce Springsteen, Liv Tyler and Sofia Coppola. She was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 2015, and her design practice is represented internationally through Nilufar Gallery and The Future Perfect.

For Project Materia, Raben Davidsen brings an artist's language shaped by ritual, transformation and material sensitivity. Her work expands the project beyond formal design, placing matter, myth, image and object in direct conversation with contemporary collectibility.