Billboard Festival Copenhagen
March 3 – March 16, 2025

Homage to Older Women

Billboard Project Copenhagen

Society is full of cultural narratives and expectations of what older women are, can do and should be.

To counter this HOMAGE TO OLDER WOMEN invites 100 women artists from Scandinavia to express their personal view of older women and this phase of their lives. The individual works of art on railboards in stations in and around Copenhagen present 100 visual statements that bring a broader and more nuanced picture of older women into public space.

The project symbolises and generates solidarity across the generations, creating an artistic community that pays tribute to the wrinkles, wisdom and life experience of older women to generate recognition and present alternative visions.

It is 20 years since Danish artist Hanne Lise Thomsen made her first billboard project WOMAN 2003 in Copenhagen with works by 100 women artists from Scandinavia. To mark the occasion and continue the pioneering work it initiated HOMAGE TO OLDER continues to develop old and new networks and connections between women artists in the region. Through its key mission of providing a new and diverse view of older women the project aims to create a sense of community and solidarity across generations. The billboard project is the concept and initiative of Danish artist Hanne Lise Thomsen developed and produced in collaboration with Danish curator Lise Grüner Bertelsen.

Participating artists:

FINLAND
Elina Brotherus, Hertta Kiiski, Heta Kuchka, Aurora Reinhard.

SWEDEN
Elisabeth Apelmo, Anette Abrahamsson, Hilda Ekeroth, Maria Finn, Astrid Göransson, Annika von Hausswolff, Marit Lindberg, Annika Lundgren, Annee Olofsson, Annika Ström, Lisa Strømbeck, Karin Westerlund

NORWAY
AK Dolven, Hilde Honerud, Lotte Konow Lund/Eline Mugaas,
Beathe C.Rønning, Christel Sverre

ICELAND
The Icelandic Love Corporation, María Kristín H. Antonsdóttir

GREENLAND
Julie Edel Hardenberg, Jessie Kleemann

DENMARK
Kristina Ask, Jeanne Betak, Karen Bohøj, Nanna Debois Buhl, Anne FabriciusmMøller, Christina Capetillo, Sidse Carstens, Regitze Engelsborg Carlsen, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Charlotte Haslund-Christensen, Sonja Lillebæk Christensen, Viera Collaro, Rikke Diemer, Sophie Dupont, Paula Duvå, Jeannette Ehlers, Tina Enghoff, Anne-Li Engström, Biba Fibiger, Signe Maria Friis, Fryd Frydendahl, Cecilie Gravesen, Marianne Grønnow, Gry Worre Hallberg, Gudrun Hasle, Molly Haslund, Ane Henriksen, Nanna Gro Henningsen, Hesselholdt_Mejlvang, Lea Guldditte Hestelund, Marianne Hesselbjerg, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Dorte Jelstrup, Mette Kit Jensen, Astid Kruse Jensen, Vibeke Jerichau, Mette Gitz-Johansen, Ditte Haarløv Johnsen, Birgit Johnsen & Hanne Nielsen, Gitte Juul/Anja Franke, Kirsten Justesen, Noah Umur Kanber, Jane Jin Kaisen, Sophia Kalkau, Randi Og Katrine, Lisa Klapstock, Jessie Kleemann, Eva Koch, Malene Landgreen, Hellen Lassen, Madeleine Kate MCGowan, Suanne Mertz, Eva Mertz, Mo Moesgaard, Marie Munk, Miriam H. Nielsen, Tina Maria Nielsen, Maria Nørholm Ramouk, Lea Porsager, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Pulsk Ravn, Jytte Rex, Rosemaria Rex, Lisa Rosenmeyer, Ane Mette Ruge, Jeanette Land Schou, Lise Tovesdatter Scou, Alberte Malling Skronski, Apolonia Sokol, Trine Søndergaard, Malene List Thomsen, Hanne Lise Thomsen, Hannah Toticki, Gina Zacharias, Simone Aaberg Kærn.