Rune Bødker is a visual artist and illustrator based in Copenhagen’s Northwest district. He works primarily with classical figurative painting, focusing on portraits, still lifes, and urban scenes drawn from his everyday surroundings.
His paintings explore the intimate and the ordinary, rendered with technical precision and a quiet, sensuous clarity that elevates the familiar and gives it a universal resonance. Rooted in close observation, his work reflects a sustained attention to light, form, and composition, and a search for beauty in the seemingly commonplace.
In Bødker’s practice, traditional painterly discipline meets a contemporary, understated attentiveness to the world around him. Silence plays a central role, allowing light and precise form to carry the narrative. Rune Bødker’s art is not loud. It is attentive. It listens.
For inquiries about work, commissions or in general, please contact rune@bodker.art
