ABOUT

Freeze Frame Gallery was founded in 2020 by Jens-Otto Paludan.

Before entering the art world, Paludan spent more than two decades in the music industry, including 13 years as CEO of Universal Music Denmark, working with both international and Danish artists.

Freeze Frame Gallery grew from a long-standing fascination with the relationship between film, photography and the single image — and from the idea that a fraction of a second, removed from its original sequence, can become something entirely its own.

The gallery’s first major project, ARTvonTRIER, was developed in close collaboration with Lars von Trier and Zentropa, the production company behind his films. This partnership is central to the project, bringing von Trier’s cinematic imagery into a new context as fine-art photography.

Curated by art historian Malou Solfjeld together with Jens-Otto Paludan, the collection presents selected original frames from von Trier’s films as limited photographic editions under the title A Glimpse of Human Nature. Images created for cinema are given the space to be experienced as individual works of art.

Today, Freeze Frame Gallery continues to explore the space between cinema, photography and contemporary art, developing projects in which the moving image is stopped — and given a new life.

COPENHAGEN SHOWROOM

Selected works can be viewed by appointment at our Copenhagen showroom, Godthåbsvej 45, 2000 Frederiksberg.

To arrange a viewing, contact JOP@freezeframe.gallery or +45 40 29 73 81.