Nature as Art

Sara Martinsen is a Danish designer working in Copenhagen who operates in the intersection of art and design, with a strong commitment to sustainable, bio-based materials. She crafts edition pieces that aren’t just visually appealing, but tactile and material-aware: her work invites people to touch, to sense, and to experience what materials feel and do.

Her practice involves deep investigation into how natural and responsibly sourced materials can be transformed without losing their inherent qualities. She celebrates the texture, colour, and “character” each material brings – how grain, scent, or surface variation tell their own stories. She also collaborates more broadly: advising companies on responsible design, helping to bridge the gap between innovation, sustainability, and craft.

In our hotel, Sara’s works offer a moment of stillness and discovery. They rest quietly in the space, but reward guests who observe closely: noticing subtle changes in surface, how light plays on texture, and how the feel of something natural triggers senses beyond the visual.

Rhoda Ting & Mikkel Bojesen’s Landscape Portrait series explores ecological themes in a poetic, almost alchemical way. Their work is a response to our changing environment – reflecting on migration, decay, collapse, and the way biology and industry meet. Rather than nostalgic notions of “wild nature,” their pieces imagine more complex, entangled futures in which human and more-than-human life form relationships.

In making Landscape Portrait, they combine foraged wild species – fungi, mosses, lichens and native flora – together with agricultural waste (such as from oyster mushrooms). These materials are embedded in resin. Through the chemical/physical interactions among organic matter (with varying water content, texture, etc.) and synthetic resin, surprising patterns emerge: fluid white marks, natural pigmentation, shapes that emerge from both growth and decay.

The works are wall-mounted sculptures; they demand a slower gaze. They ask us to consider our place within ecological systems, to witness the meeting points of the synthetic and natural, the fragile transitions, the unseen micro-worlds that often go unnoticed. In our hotel context, they add a layer of reflection: about what we bring inside, what we leave behind, how spaces can be both constructed and wild.

Tine Otto Møller is an artist whose work is deeply rooted in textile craft, natural dye and place. Her practice is intimate and generational: she uses yarn spun by her mother, and she makes dye baths from everyday organic materials – things like coffee grounds, avocado pits, local plants and grasses – materials that are often overlooked. The result is work that is materially honest: the colours, textures and imperfections of natural dyeing are evident, and celebrated.

Her pieces often speak of time and place: how colours shift, how the fibres absorb dye unevenly, how the process itself creates variation. There’s a sense of continuity (heritage, craft passed through family) as well as a quiet modernity – the aesthetic aligns with minimal, nature-aligned design but also with unhurried, thoughtful making.

In 1 Hotel Copenhagen, Tine’s works connect us to the immediate environment: the local flora, the everyday usage, the cycles of waste and reuse. They show how craft can be slow art; how something made with care, with humble materials, becomes rich in story and sensory presence.