Anu Ramdas DK, b. 1980

Anu Ramdas (b. 1980, Sønderborg; Denmark) is a Copenhagen-based artist. Ramdas first began drawing as a way to depict an immediate sense of feeling. During periods of meditation, the artist would begin to feel her body manifesting itself terms of specific forms and colours. Picking up a pencil and paper immediately after these sessions, Ramdas began to depict abstract self-portraits that combined a personal self-awareness with a universal otherworldly aesthetic.

 

An interest in quantum physics and quantum field theory underpins many of the artist's works, but the foundation of Ramdas’s practice lies in Indian spiritual traditions. “My Indian background and the spiritual experiences I felt as a child in India have had a very important impact on my curiosity towards how to visualise the invisible forces of nature,” says the artist herself. More recently, Tantric philosophy has helped to provide Ramdas with a framework to understand these experiences, as have the Neo-Tantric aesthetics of artists such as Ghulam Rasool Santosh and Sohan Qadri and texts associated with the development of Afrofuturism.

Anu Ramdas graduated from the MFA programme at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art (Copenhagen; DK) in 2011 having completed additional study at The Central Academy of Fine Art (Beijing; CN) from 2009 to 2010 and Malmø Art Academy (Malmø; SE) from 2004 to 2006. From 2014 to 2022 Ramdas held the position of teaching assistant in the Media Lab at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.