Caroline H. Thon is a Copenhagen-based visual artist whose practice centers on oilpainting and large-scale public art projects. Her work investigates the interwoven relationships between the body, consciousness, spirituality, and the natural world. In recent years, she has focused on existential experiences related to neurological trauma, with particular focus on the role of plants in healing processes. Through experimental approaches to painting, she reflects the layered complexity of these themes.

With an academic background in biology and art history (MSc) and curatorial experience in art–science exhibitions, she brings a cross-disciplinary perspective to her work. Grounded in an ecological worldview, her art is shaped by emerging scientific insights into the deep interconnections between humans and other species—and how these discoveries transform our understanding of reality.

Thon has completed large-scale public art projects in France, Chile, and Denmark. Her work has been exhibited in Leipzig, Limassol, Shanghai, Berlin, and in major cities across Denmark.

"I am a painter, and my love for the act of painting is central to my practice. I strive to create images and spaces that expand the world and make it feel a little less lonely.

In my recent solo exhibition "In the Light of, In the Shadow of" (Arden Asbæk Gallery), I explored the relationship between a human and a tree as a reflective space for themes such as trauma, time, loneliness, healing, and interconnectedness. The exhibition was grounded in both theoretical sources—including the writings of Emanuele Coccia and Peter Wohlleben—and personal experience. The works were created on semi-transparent canvases stretched in multiple layers, producing moiré patterns that mirror both the trembling state of traumatic being and the energetic interference of the world itself.

This body of work builds on my ongoing umbrella project "Vital Signs," which I initiated in 2021. The project investigates and communicates existential experiences related to neurological trauma, with a particular focus on the role of plants in healing processes. Within this framework, I have created plant-based installations addressing our relationship to life’s fundamental biological rhythms and balances, as well as painterly series that explore shifts in perception and consciousness, and themes of rebirth.

I am currently working on a project titled "Small Wonders Under the Sun," which continues this trajectory through an expanded investigation of the concepts of life and hope. Drawing on vitalism and theories of consciousness, metaphysics, and quantum physics, the project asks what characterizes the living. In a dystopian era shaped by a new machine-driven revolution, the series questions what distinguishes life from the machine, and how everyday moments might illuminate what it means to be alive, to be human, and to find meaning in life."