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Born 1967 (age 58) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Notable Works “360° Room for All Colours” • “Ice Watch” • “Room for One Colour” • “The Blind Pavilion” • “Ventilator” • “Your Strange Certainty Still Kept” • “Your rainbow panorama”

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