A portrait that only looks like someone is not enough.
Does a portrait succeed if it looks like the person? Not only. A great portrait reveals something true that a photograph can’t capture — it is not a record, but a presence.
Human Nature – Dragør Havnegalleri – September 26
Dragør Havnegalleri presents Annette Falk Lund and Suzana Profeta. Two artists from different beginnings — the GDR and Brazil — meeting in what connects us as human beings.
NEWS FROM SUZANA PROFETA JULY 2026
Human Nature opens on 4 September at Dragør Havnegalleri with my first works from The Inner Room. From 3 October I exhibit in Tæt På at Galleri 2132 on Mors. Commissions remain welcome.
The people around us shape who we become.
The people around us shape who we become, but we rarely stop to look at how. A book argues. A film explains. A painting just holds it there — and lets you sit with it.
What a brain injury taught me about art — and about being alive
A chronic concussion changed the course of my life. It took me back to art — and to flow, where the brain that can’t focus vanishes into the canvas, and I feel fully alive.
Art has a unique ability to make us think about things we usually don’t
How do the people around us shape who we become? That’s the starting point for Human Nature, my exhibition with Annette Falk Lund at Dragør Havnegalleri, 4–10 September 2026.
There are no rules for buying art – Except for one.
Buy what you can’t stop looking at. Not what matches the sofa, not what someone called a good investment. Buy for the long relationship — the work you’ll live with on bad mornings and good ones.
Art does something the rest of life rarely manages
Art takes you completely out of yourself. Not distraction, not escape, but something closer to flow — where time disappears, the mind quiets, and you simply are. That’s not decoration. That’s medicine.
The problem you can’t solve is usually the one you’re staring too hard at.
When a problem won’t yield, artists look at the negative space — the shape of what’s missing. A portrait that kept going wrong showed me how the same move works in business.
Seeing art through Deep Looking
Most people spend less than eight seconds looking at a work of art. Deep Looking is about seeing more, not knowing more — five simple steps that change how you look at anything.