Kaja Lahoda
Kaja Lahoda is a visual artist who graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Schools of Visual Arts in 2023. She is part of Young Contemporary Art – Track 2: Site-Specific Anchoring in Landscape Planning, where she is developing a work in dialogue with the landscape at Deep Forest Art Land. Lahoda received the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Talent Award in 2024 and has exhibited in Denmark, the Czech Republic, Norway, Switzerland, and Lithuania. Her practice revolves around the encounter between man-made materials and the forces of nature.
Between Nature and the Man-Made World
Kaja Lahoda works primarily with installation and sculpture, combining readymades with organic materials to explore the relationship between humans and nature. Her works revolve around human fragility, the desire to control nature, and the barriers we have created between ourselves and the outside world.
Through distorted everyday objects, she allows organisms, vegetation, and unexpected materials to emerge in places where they do not belong. Raindrops can appear on the inside of a window, walls can turn inside out, and nature intrudes into our built environment. In her choice of materials, she deliberately works with contrasts between soft and hard, natural and industrial surfaces.
In Deep Forest Art Land, Lahoda is developing a site-specific work in which man-made materials and objects are placed in the forest, where they are gradually affected by the wind, weather, and vegetation. The work explores the encounter between the familiar and the unfamiliar and invites reflection on the forest’s history, beauty, and inherent eeriness.
Photo credits: Niels Østergaard Munk, Lea Emilie Hansen, and Vibe Kilde.
Track 2 of "Young Contemporary Art" is supported by the Louis Hansen Foundation.
