“I just want to dissolve myself and distribute myself to everyone around.” Meet the artist Rasmus Myrup, whose work spans drawing and painting, sculptural folklore figures, and speculative evolutionary artworks.
“I’ve always felt there’s a membrane between myself and others.” Rasmus Myrup says, recalling the sensation since childhood. The early experience of disconnection became a lifelong impulse towards making: a way to reach across the membrane, not to explain the self, but to connect. “We humans are so extremely young,” he says. “Anything and everything we do with our hands is part of the same tradition.” He’s interested not in materials as objects, but as conduits for meaning. A wooden stump or hammered sheet of metal isn’t just a tool—it can be a feeling, a hunch, a fragment of gossip from the past. His sculptures depicting anthropomorphic figures draped in garments made by the artist himself invite the viewer in. They’re not just sculptures but have a true presence standing on the floor before you.
A central starting point of Rasmus Myrup’s work is “multiguity” – not ambiguity in the vague sense, but a belief that everything is multi-layered: “Life will never be a singular experience” he says and continues: “Why would something we all share be more simplistic than what I’m feeling?” His pieces resist summary because they reflect the complexity of being: layered and shifting. In his series Homo Homo, the viewer meets a queer reimagining of evolutionary history and theory. Here, tender drawings of prehistoric men are seen in ways that a textbook would never show: embracing, kissing, having sex, making art. “As a gay man, I felt very estranged from this reproductive cycle that a lot of natural history was about,” he says, “I couldn’t imagine what Neanderthal Rasmus would be like, because it wasn’t anywhere to be found.”
To Rasmus Myrup, art is not about asking questions, it’s about “manifesting hunches” – a balance between certainty and curiosity. To him, art can’t “just go, dissipate into the air. It needs to come from something, from someone who’s convinced at least today that thing might be a little big this way.” Ultimately, Myrup’s work aims for a connection: “It’s such a blessing to be alive, but it’s also this weird curse to be an individual.”
Rasmus Myrup (b. 1991, Denmark) is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen. His practice explores mythology, history and collective memory through sculpture, installation, paintings, and drawings. He received his BFA and MFA from The Funen Art Academy in Odense, Denmark. Myrup’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including Rasmus Myrup at Frederiksborg Museum of National History (Hillerød, 2025); Showing Holes at Galleri Nicolai Wallner (Copenhagen, 2024); Precoming at Overgaden (Copenhagen, 2023), and Slut (The End) at Jack Barrett (New York, 2022). He has also participated in numerous group shows such as Group Therapy, Arken (Ishøj, DK, 2024); Profanations, Fidelidade Arte (Lisbon, 2023); NADA House (New York, 2021); Witch Hunt (Copenhagen, 2021), as well as the Göteborg International Biennale for Contemporary Art in Göteborg, Sweden (2023). His work is represented in several public collections, including the Statens Museum for Kunst, ARoS, Arken Museum of Contemporary Art, and Malmö Konstmuseum.
Rasmus Myrup was interviewed by Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen in April 2025 in his studio in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Camera: Rasmus Quistgaard
Footage from Frederiksborg Museum of National History: Joakim Züger
Editor and producer: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2025
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