About the artist
Rasmus Refer
Danish artist, born 1970, based in Copenhagen. Known simply as Refer.
Refer works with shapes and colours in his visual art, where the eye takes on a regular voyage of discovery. Reliefs, sculptures, paintings and prints share one geometric language, carried from one material to the next.
- Born
- 1970, Denmark
- Studio
- Copenhagen
- Materials
- Steel, bronze, acrylic, canvas, paper
“The eye takes on a regular voyage of discovery.”
The practice
Form, colour and material.
Sculptures in patinated bronze, granite and marble are part of his artistic work, alongside reliefs in acrylic on polished steel, copper and brass, paintings in acrylic on canvas, and art prints.
Across these materials, his work examines how light, surface and repetition transform the way we see. Mirror-polished steel takes in the room around it; corten steel weathers to a warm rust; colour fields are built up in layers until the edges hold.
His art prints extend this sculptural vocabulary into graphic works, such as The Shape of Motion: one sculptural form in twenty expressions of colour.
The work
Five ways into the work.
Exhibitions
Recently shown.
- 23–25 October 2026Carrousel du LouvreA selection of the U reliefsParis
- 24–29 September 2026U · New mirror-polished steel reliefsFirst presentation of the new works in DenmarkBredgade 22, Copenhagen
- Summer 2026U reliefsExhibitions of the new reliefsMadrid and London
Get in touch
See the work in person.
For available works, commissions, exhibitions or a visit to the studio, contact Rasmus Refer directly.