Nordic Portraits
Episodes
Pilou Asbæk
04 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pilou Asbæk is a critically-acclaimed actor, who first made a name for himself in the Danish political drama Borgen, with his breakthrough performanc...
Alexander Tovborg
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Alexander Tovborg is an internationally-acclaimed visual artist whose work largely deals with themes of faith, doubt, organised religion and personal ...
Bjarke Ingels
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Bjarke Ingels is a world-renowned architect who has spent the past two decades building a reputation as one of the leading forces in the design and co...
Kim Munk
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kim Munk is a songwriter and musician best known as the frontman for Danish power pop band The Broken Beats. As the creative force behind such hit s...
A K Dolven
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A K Dolven is a multi-disciplinary artist working with painting, film, sculpture, sound and performance. Primarily operating out of her atelier in K...
Kaspar Bonnén
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kaspar Bonnén is a multi-disciplinary artist working with painting, ceramics, installation and poetry. His work often explores themes of memory, id...
Ida Ekblad
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ida Ekblad is an artist whose practice incorporates painting, sculpture, performance filmmaking as well as poetry. Her expressive paintings are note...
Bonus Ep - Jussi Adler-Olsen Returns
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jussi Adler-Olsen is a Danish author who rose to international prominence in 2007 with his thriller ‘Kvinden i buret’ or The Keeper of Lost Causes...
Jussi Adler-Olsen
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jussi Adler-Olsen is a Danish author who rose to international prominence in 2007 with his thriller ‘Kvinden i buret’ or The Keeper of Lost Causes...
Apolonia Sokol
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Apolonia Sokol is a French-Polish visual artist who grew up in Denmark before returning to Paris to establish herself as one of the leading voices of ...
Iben Hjejle
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Iben Hjejle is an actor of both screen and stage, who burst onto the international scene with her critically-acclaimed performance in Søren Kragh Jac...
Petra Kleis
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Petra Kleis is a photographer, best known for her striking portraits of Denmark’s biggest names from the world of art, music, film and politics. H...
Nina Persson
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nina Persson is a musician and songwriter best known as the frontwoman for Swedish rock band The Cardigans. Following their breakthrough global megahi...
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nikolaj Lies Kaas is an actor, writer and director who rose to prominence as a fresh-faced 17-year old with his award-winning performance in the 1991 ...
Bjørnstjerne Christiansen
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bjørnstjerne Christiansen is a founding member of Superflex, a Danish art collective formed in 1993 together with Jakob Fenger and Rasmus Nielsen.  ...
Mamma Andersson
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Karin ‘Mamma’ Andersson or simply Mamma Andersson as she’s more commonly known, is one of Sweden's most internationally-recognised visual a...
Kjetil Trædal Thorsen
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kjetil Trædal Thorsen is an architect and co-founder of the world-renowned firm Snøhetta. Responsible for such high-profile projects as the Oslo O...
Jesper "Yebo" Reginal
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jesper Reginal Petersen or Yebo as he’s most commonly known, is a musician, entrepreneur and co-founder of Crunchy Frog Records. Having been at th...
Sara-Vide Ericson
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sara-Vide Ericson is a visual artist, whose work is often characterised by large figurative oil paintings inspired by her immediate environment and th...
Casper Christensen
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Casper Christensen is an actor, comedian, filmmaker and writer as well as the creative mind behind such Danish comedy mega hits as Tæskeholdet, Langt...
Mads Nørgaard
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mads Nørgaard is an award-winning fashion designer and author who has spent the last 40 years establishing an international name within the world of ...
Trentemøller
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anders Trentemøller is a composer, producer and musician who rose to international fame with his 2006 debut album ‘The Last Resort’. Since then...
Emily Gernild
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Gernild is a visual artist, best known for her paintings that combine abstract dreamlike elements with classical still life subjects and composi...
Mikkel Bjergsø
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mikkel Bjergsø is the founder of world-renowned craft brewery Mikkeller. Since its inception in 2006, Mikkeller has experienced a rapid growth both...
Charlotte Bruus Christensen
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Bruus Christensen is an award-winning cinematographer and director who made a name for herself internationally for her work on Thomas Vinter...
Anders Morgenthaler
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anders Morgenthaler is a film director, author, illustrator and climate activist. Perhaps best known to many for his long-term collaboration with Mi...
Anna Bjerger
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Bjerger is a Swedish visual artist working primarily with figurative painting. Her work draws its inspiration largely from found images, namely...
Adam Jeppesen
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Jeppesen is an art photographer and visual artist who first rose to international prominence with his groundbreaking 2008 series Wake, which resu...
Lærke Bagger
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lærke Bagger is an internationally renowned knitwear designer and best-selling author. Known for challenging the traditional approach with her bold...
Mikael Bertelsen (Part Two)
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mikael Bertelsen is a TV and Radio personality, former commissioning editor and media entrepreneur who has played a significant role in shaping the Da...
Mikael Bertelsen (Part One)
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mikael Bertelsen is a TV and Radio personality, former commissioning editor and media entrepreneur who has played a significant role in shaping the Da...
SØS Gunver Ryberg
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
SØS Gunver Ryberg is a multi award-winning composer, producer, sound artist and live performer. Known for her intense and genre-defying electronic ...
Lone Frank
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lone Frank is an award-winning author, scientist and journalist, who has over the past 30 years, established herself as a leading voice within the fie...
José González
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
José González is a Swedish singer-songwriter who rose to international prominence in 2003 with his debut album Veneer. Known traditionally for his...
John Kørner
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John Kørner is an internationally renowned visual artist, primarily working with painting, installation, ceramics and glass. Noted for his distinct...
Jeannette Ehlers
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jeannette Ehlers is a Copenhagen-based artist of Danish and Trinidadian descent who works primarily with photography, video, installation, sculpture, ...
Christian Lemmerz
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Lemmerz is a sculptor, visual and performance artist who rose to prominence in the mid 1980s as a pivotal member of the Danish artist collec...
Teitur
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Teitur is a musician and songwriter hailing from the Farøe Islands, whose 2003 debut album 'Poetry and Airplanes' paved the way for interna...
Fryd Frydendahl
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Fryd Frydendahl is an art photographer, who over the past two decades has built an impressive body of work, including a series of deeply personal proj...
Adam Price
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Price is a screenplay writer, playwright, restaurateur and television chef who burst onto the international scene in 2010 with the Danish politic...
Cathrine Raben Davidsen
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cathrine Raben Davidsen is a visual artist who has, over the past 30 years made a name for herself in Denmark and abroad with her paintings, drawings ...
Le Gammeltoft
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Le Gammeltoft is a DJ, radio host and entrepreneur who has spent the past two decades exposing Danish audiences to bold new sounds through her dynamic...
Margrethe Odgaard
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Margrethe Odgaard is a colour and textile designer and artist, who has over the past two decades established herself as Scandinavia’s leading expert...
Peter Ravn
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Ravn is a visual artist, designer and music video director, perhaps best known for his figurative paintings that depict male characters placed i...
Jenny Wilson
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jenny Wilson is an internationally renowned songwriter & musician known for her bold conceptual albums and uncompromising artistic vision. Her r...
Carl Krull
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Carl Krull is a visual artist perhaps best known for his striking drawings and paintings often depicting figures within topographical environments. ...
Ditte Ejlerskov
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ditte Ejlerskov is a multi-disciplinary visual artist, whose work explores themes of feminist representation, media literacy and the role that technol...
Claus Meyer
08 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Claus Meyer is a culinary entrepreneur, chef, author and television host. Perhaps best known as the founding father of the New Nordic Cuisine philos...
Daniel Rye
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Rye is a photojournalist and lecturer who in 2013 at the age of just 24 years old, was kidnapped in Syria by members of the terror organisation...
Christian Lollike
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Lollike is an award-winning, internationally renowned playwright and theatre director who has built a strong reputation for boldly explori...
Knud Romer
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Knud Romer is an author, radio host, lecturer and cultural commentator. Following a successful career in advertising, Knud turned his attention to w...
Oh Land
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nanna Øland Fabricius, better known by her stage name Oh Land, is a musician, songwriter and dancer who burst onto the international scene in 2011 wi...
Bonus Ep - Claes Bang Returns
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Claes Bang is an acclaimed actor of both stage and screen, who after building a strong career in Denmark, burst onto the global scene with his leading...
Michael Kvium
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Kvium is an internationally renowned visual artist perhaps best known for his illustrations and paintings depicting grotesque characters and e...
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen is a performance and visual artist perhaps best known for her meticulously staged theatre performances, music videos and raw...
Danica Curcic
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Danica Curcic is an acclaimed actor of both stage and screen who became a household name with her Bodil-award winning performance in Bille August’s ...
Claes Bang
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Claes Bang is an acclaimed actor of both stage and screen, who after building a strong career in Denmark, burst onto the global scene with his leading...
Tal R
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tal R is an internationally renowned visual artist, working across a diverse range of media including painting, drawing, textiles and sculpture. Kno...
Jonas Bjerre
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jonas Bjerre is a musician and visual artist, best known as the lead singer of Danish alternative rock band Mew. Since their breakthrough album Fren...
Elisabeth Toubro
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Elisabeth Toubro is a renowned sculptor, perhaps best known for her public art pieces including City Fractal in Søren Kierkegaards Plads in Copenhage...
Jacob Holdt
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jacob Holdt is a photographer, writer and lecturer whose seminal book American Pictures, chronicles his 5 years of living as a vagabond in the United ...
Nikolaj Hübbe
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nikolaj Hübbe is a globally renowned figure in the world of ballet. Having forged a career as a young talent at the Royal Danish Ballet, Nikolaj wa...
Jan Grarup
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jan Grarup is a globally acclaimed photojournalist who has spent over 25 years covering in great depth, many of the world’s largest conflicts and hu...
Kira Skov
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kira Skov is a critically acclaimed singer songwriter who rose to fame in Denmark as frontwoman of the eponymously titled rock band Kira and the Kindr...
Simone Aaberg Kærn
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Simone Aaaberg Kærn is a visual artist, filmmaker, activist and aviator. She is perhaps best known for flying a tiny single prop airplane from Denm...
HuskMitNavn
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
HuskMitNavn ('Remember My Name') is not just Denmark’s most famous street artist… He has also carved out a successful career in the art ...
Kirstine Roepstorff
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kirstine Roepstorff is a multidisciplinary artist who has spent the better part of the last two decades building a highly successful international car...
Dorte Mandrup
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dorte Mandrup is an internationally renowned architect who has earned a reputation for creating structures that have a strong sense of place and a uni...
Rose Eken
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rose Eken is an internationally acclaimed visual artist working with a range of materials, but perhaps most noted for her use of clay… often to popu...
Thure Lindhardt
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Thure Lindhardt is an accomplished actor of both stage and screen who has over the past two decades built a successful international career. You mig...
Rasmus Munk
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rasmus Munk is a chef and the mastermind behind Alchemist, one of the most talked about restaurants on the planet today. Alchemist is a culinary exp...
Sharin Foo
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sharin Foo is a musician and one half of the critically-acclaimed and globally revered indie rock, shoegaze, garage, noise, everything genre-shapeshif...
Søren Solkær
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Søren Solkær is one of Scandinavia's leading art photographers, perhaps best known for his distinctive portraits of musicians - the likes of wh...
Lone Scherfig
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lone Scherfig is a film director and screenplay writer who rose to global acclaim with her 2000 Dogme classic Italian for Beginners and has since been...
Henrik Vibskov
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Henrik Vibskov is a leading figure in the world of fashion. A multi-disciplinary artist, primarily working with textiles... and the mastermind behind ...