TEFAF Talks: Eva Helene Pade Meet the Experts

In this Meet the Experts session, artist Eva Helene Pade offers a rare, firsthand insight into Jagt (Hunt) (2026), a key work from her most recent series of paintings. Across her practice she draws on art history while exploring human relationships. Often focusing on groups in her paintings, Pade blurs the line between individual and collective experience, creating scenes that feel immersive and subtly unsettling.

Jagt (Hunt) reflects Pade’s engagement with historical hunting imagery, and draws on its choreography. At the centre of the composition, several hounds race towards the object of their chase: a twisting, lunging figure enveloped in the smoke of firing rifles. Ambiguity lingers among these translucent clouds, which serve simultaneously to extinguish and conceal. Beneath the refuge of their abstractions, the protagonist’s body appears to sublimate, as though transformation offers a mode of protection – an escape from one form of embodiment to another.

TEFAF Meet the Experts programs celebrate the expertise of our world-renowned exhibitors, spotlighting exceptional objects and the stories they tell across categories and 7,000 years of history.  

Registration is mandatory but free to TEFAF New York ticket holders.