Galerie Maria Wettergren is delighted to announce that High Museum of Art in Atlanta, USA has recently acquired Astrid Krogh’s Seaweed in the Universe, 2022 for their permanent collection. This acquisition by the High Museum of Art was made possible thanks to the donations of Sarah Eby-Ebersole and W. Daniel Ebersole, Baxter Jones and Dr. Jiong Yan, Carolynn Cooper and Pratap Mukharji, Brad and Dio Jensen, and Margot and Danny McCaul.

Cosmic phenomena are a great source of inspiration for Danish artist, Astrid Krogh, who for several years had been corresponding with pioneering astrophysicist, Dr. Margaret Geller, from the Centre for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, exchanging ideas on patterns in the universe. After working for several years on cosmic themes, Astrid Krogh had in 2021 the idea of turning her eyes from the sky to the ground, looking down instead of up for answers. Every morning, when she went for a swim in the sea, she took her scuba-diving glasses to look at the world under the water and collected seaweed, which she dried when she got home. Initially when making the Seaweed of the Universe, Astrid Krogh tried placing the seaweed in some kind of order, to make a pattern, however it didn’t feel right; Finally she blended the algae instead into one big chaotic order…like the galaxies in the universe.

ASTRID KROGH
Seaweed in The Universe
2022
Seaweed, glass, LED, acrylic, aluminium, walnut
140 x 140 cm
Unique piece