Colours that shine like a cry.

Layers that conceal stories – and yet reveal them.

 Bo Larsen does not paint pictures, he opens up spaces: between glamour and decay, memory and moment, surface and depth.

Without any formal training, the German-Danish artist has developed a distinctive visual language that blends abstract expressionism, pop art and street art. His large-format works are emotional landscapes of colour in which layers, luminosity and textures merge into multi-layered narratives. Each series is a new experiment – from shimmering neon pigments to earthy metallic tones, from vast coastal landscapes to the invisible mechanisms of human emotions.

Bo Larsen – Between luminosity and depth

Bo Larsen (born in Karlsruhe in 1986) is a German-Danish artist who has consistently carved out his own path in painting – without attending art school, but with insatiable curiosity, intensive self-study and the courage to push boundaries. His works, often large-format, move between abstract expressionism, action painting, pop art and street art. They are emotionally charged, visually opulent and at the same time precisely composed.

Bo Larsen’s artistic journey did not begin on the canvas, but in film. As an assistant director, he originally wanted to use a ‘more modern’ medium to reach people. But in Berlin, painting caught up with him. Inspired by greats such as Gerhard Richter and Jackson Pollock, he developed his own visual language in which intense fields of colour, complex layers and spontaneous gestures merge into dense visual narratives.

He became known in 2016 with the series MIRAGE, inspired by mirages on Tempelhof Field. This was followed by exhibitions in Berlin, Brussels and beyond. In the DANISH SOUTH SEA series (2018), he put his roots into the picture – seascapes and coastlines whose colours and reflections oscillate between reality and memory. The Berlin series THIRD PART: BERLIN (2019/20) captured the contradictions of the capital – pulsating and historically charged, wild and poetic at the same time.

With NEON (2021), Bo Larsen brought the luminosity of fluorescent pigments to the fore, experimenting with tape demarcations, layering and deliberate breaks in the colour fields. The series TWENTIES–GOLDEN? (2023) contrasted this with muted metal pigments, oxidation effects and earthy tones – a look at glamour and decay as reflected in the 1920s and the present.

His current series of works, ABSTRACTED CHEMISTRY (2025), turns the gaze inward: it makes the invisible, molecular mechanisms of human emotions visible. Acrylic and oil combine to form multi-layered surfaces in which Bo Larsen’s characteristic squeegee technique exposes deep layers – a visual metaphor for the complexity of the inner self.

Bo Larsen’s works can now be found in numerous private collections in Germany and abroad. He lives and works in Berlin – always searching for the moment when colour, form and feeling become something that can neither be fully explained nor forgotten.