Frieze Week London 2025: Eva Helene Pade's electric London debut Art Lover’s Guide To What’s On Around Town

By Lee Sharrock

Eva Helene Pade Søgelys at Thaddaeus Ropac London

Danish artist Eva Helene Pade is something of a star in Denmark, where she was the youngest artist to be invited to have a solo show at ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, earlier this year. Her stellar talent merges echoes of Klimt and Munch with a distinctly contemporary voice and ability to create erotically charged canvases that tell intriguing narratives. Thaddaeus Ropac presents Søgelys, Pade’s first solo exhibition in London, and her breathtaking new works evoke the decadence of Weimar Republic’s Kabaret and the feeling of being on the edge of danger that being in a crowd can induce. Pade’s women are liberated, visceral and vibrant.

“With my figurative painting, I create blurred lines or gaps that become the language for the things we can’t put into words. That’s what I envy so much about abstraction, it’s already working in a realm for which language does not exist.” Eva Helene Pade