Women who change the world
Background and concept
My artistic practice is, among other things, dedicated to documenting and communicating the significance of both historical and contemporary women. Through my works, I interpret and carry forward their legacy so that they may continue to inspire future generations. Their perseverance, authenticity, presence, and courage form a foundation for reflection on our shared history and today’s efforts towards diversity and equality.
My works create a visual narrative in which a stylised, timeless scene provides the setting for contemplation. Beyond the frame, infinity remains, while within it a calm emerges that allows the women’s presence to come to the fore. Through this artistic approach, a space is created that invites the viewer to reflect on the women’s historical and contemporary significance. The history of us all.
Purpose
The purpose of the project is to create new insights and social understanding of these women’s role in history and society. Through portraits and atmospheric scenes, I seek to make their contributions visible and to give them the place in cultural history that they have often been denied. Since 2015, the project has contributed to a broader, more nuanced narrative about women’s position and influence—past, present, and future.
With this project, I wish to thank the women and men on whose shoulders we stand. Those who have made it possible for us to achieve greater freedom and the opportunity to live as individuals in our own right, regardless of gender, age, convictions, religion, and colour.
We are inspired by their commitment, perseverance, diligence, and courage! They become role models whom we can encounter in my art project. So far, I have chosen to focus on one half of the world’s population—women—and to fill the void that Margrethe Vestager writes about in her foreword to an upcoming book, to be published in autumn 2026 by Linhardt and Ringhof.
With my books, lectures, and works, it is my ambition to support the UN’s fifth Sustainable Development Goal of advancing the universal rights and opportunities of women and girls, thereby making the global goals part of everyday life.
Clare of Assisi
1193 - 1253 Saint and mystic Clare of Assisi was one of the great mystics of the Middle Ages and the female counterpart to Francis of Assisi. She was a trailblazer and a reformer of monastic life for women. She was born into a wealthy noble family in Assisi, but refused to follow her parents’ wish for her to enter into a rich marriage. At the age of eighteen, she gave her vast fortune to the poor, after which she fled to Francis of Assisi, who consecrated her to God. She found her own path: to live in silence, prayer and meditation, and in complete poverty, with unconditional trust in divine providence. Other women who wanted the same way of life as Clare of Assisi soon followed, and her...
NO Trespassing – Portrait Abstraction
In Agnete Brinch’s works, one often sees abstract portraits with branches on the head, words across the face, or symbols that signal hopelessness, hope, closedness, or strength. She works deliberately with contrasts—especially between light and dark. The darkness creates the drama, while the light highlights the person. Agnete has developed a new concept, which she calls portrait abstractivism. Her idea is to create dramatic narratives that resonate with the theme of her universe.
Marlene Dietrich
1901–1992 – was a German-American actress and singer, known for her distinctive voice, elegant style, and strong personality. Marlene Dietrich was born in Berlin, Germany. She began her career as an actress in German film and theatre in the 1920s, but achieved her international breakthrough with the film "The Blue Angel", directed by Josef von Sternberg. The film made her a global star. In the 1930s, she moved to the United States and became a major star in Hollywood, where she appeared in a series of successful films. She was known for her androgynous look and challenged the gender roles of the time by performing in suits and with a confident, independent style. During the Second World...
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart 24/07/1897 – disappeared 02/07/1937 Pilot, author, nurse, social worker, American During and immediately after the First World War, Amelia Earhart worked as a nurse and social worker, but in 1920 she took her first flight as a passenger, and it changed her life forever. As early as the following month, she took her first flying lesson, and in the years that followed she set several altitude and distance records. In 1932, she became world-famous when, as the first woman—and the second person in the world (after Charles Lindbergh, 1927)—she flew solo across the Atlantic. She felt that this solo flight proved that men and women were equal in jobs that require intelligence,...
Puk Damsgård
Puk Damsgård 18.09.1978 - Journalist, author Puk Damsgård is the journalist who tells stories in the present tense—directly, boldly, and without pretense, regardless of the political attitudes of the day and public authorities’ desire to exert influence. Puk Damsgård dares to go the extra mile and place herself in the line of fire, both literally during her reports on live television and figuratively. Puk Damsgård changes the world through her portrayals, both in images and in writing. We can all see ourselves in, and be inspired by, her courage as she depicts everyday life in the world’s war-torn regions. She is curious about the unknown, the undiscovered, and the untold, and she lets her...
