IDA KVETNY: SCULPTOR IN THE DIGITAL AGE

In this presentation, Ida Kvetny presents a practice where classical sculpture, relief and painting are connected with digital technologies such as VR, AR and AI. With an expanded understanding of sculpture, she works with shifts between materiality and image, body and representation, where hand-painted surfaces and digital models exist side by side as simultaneous states.

Kvetny has worked with the open archive of the National Gallery of Denmark for a long time, with a particular focus on Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen’s work with painted plaster casts in Greece and works such as The Mermaid and the Horse. These historical forms are reactivated as a form of “recast” where the sculpture is shifted from original to interpretation, from physical to digital and back again.

Her presentation at DIA revolves around the transformation of sculpture in a digital era and examines how new technologies not only reproduce, but transform our way of seeing, understanding and experiencing form.

In April 2026, Ida Kvetny is a resident at the Danish Institute at Athens. You can read more about her work on her website: IDA KVETNY – Hybrid Practice

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