Art Calendar

Arnstedt Östra Karup is pleased to present the group exhibition, Midsommar with artists Emm Berring, Morten Buch, Marie Capaldi, Carin Alegre Castegren, and Ditte Ejlerskov.

Arnstedt Östra Karup is proud to present Bilder, a solo exhibition by Marcus Matt.

Marcus Matt's paintings are characterized by a close familiarity with his materials. Everyday observations and impressions from literature or art history all become part of the artist's process. Some paintings are executed in a single stroke, while others are built up slowly through thin layers of color and light. After working in a smaller format for several years, he is now also showing larger paintings, with the same intensity that characterizes his smaller works.

Arnstedt Östra Karup is pleased to present Second Hand Vision, a solo exhibition by Martin Jacobsen.

Dreams, myths, archetypal images and an intuitive faith in painting form the basis of Martin Jacobson's work. His paintings function as portals to a shared human consciousness, spaces where time dissolves and collective experiences re-emerge. Through an associative visual language, Jacobson examines how we perceive ourselves in relation to the world. His paintings feel both deeply personal and universally familiar.

Gallery Gudmundsdottir is pleased to present Suckers, the first solo exhibition by Endre Aalrust with Gallery Gudmundsdottir.

A baby’s pacifier rests on a tabletop. Its soft nub points upward, inviting a suck. Behind it, stands a Greek tavern pitcher filled with several narcissus flowers, one of which is drooping and losing its petals. The flower stems suck up water from the jug, although the wilted narcissus no longer seems to be drinking.

Þula Hafnartorg is proud to present the solo exhibition, Mother Was Right by Karen Briem.

In the exhibition Mother Was Right, Karen explores how we relate to everyday functional objects: how often they are chosen solely for their usefulness, practicality, or temporary needs, rather than because they evoke emotion or spark curiosity.

The works celebrate the everyday, as Karen repurposes furniture and objects that have fulfilled their original function and gives them new life. In a society where seriousness and efficiency are often highly valued, the artist creates space for playfulness by allowing these objects to be funny, silly, colorful, or even slightly unnecessary. The exhibition is also shaped by Karen’s personal experience of living a transient lifestyle for many years, moving from place to place in search of the ultimate freedom.

Matteo Cantarella is proud to present Liu Shiyuan's work in her solo exhibition, Nobody Labour.

Spanning photography, video, drawing and installation, Liu’s practice explores the mechanisms of image production, dissemination, and perception in contemporary society through the deconstruction and reconstruction of online visual materials, popular culture symbols, and narrative structures.

Liu Shiyuan (b. 1985, Beijing) lives and works in Copenhagen. Liu holds an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 2012, and BFA from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing in 2009.

Eighteen is pleased to present Mixed Reality, a solo exhibition by Austin Lee.

In Austin Lee's solo exhibition Mixed Reality — his first in Denmark, we enter a contemplative plane somewhere between the mundane and the uncanny: the real virtual reality, very close, yet slightly peripheral. His new paintings and sculptures explore the human condition, probe the edges of presence and perception, as Lee employs digital tools and strategies to review and expand the ancient language of painting. Here, consciousness dances with the unconscious, and the familiar winks back at you in the mirror.

Martin Asbæk Gallery is pleased to open the summer season with the annual group exhibition Summer in the City.

Now in its 21st edition, the exhibition offers an insight into the gallery’s profile, current artistic directions, and occasionally even previews of upcoming exhibitions, as the gallery’s artists present new works.

Featured artists include Niels Bonde, Peter Bonde, Slater Bradley, Elina Brotherus, Jesper Carlsen, Kristian Dahlgaard, Kasper Eistrup, Ditte Ejlerskov, Nicolai Howalt, Des Hughes, Astrid Kruse Jensen, Adam Jeppesen, Jane Jin Kaisen, Mille Kalsmose, Eva Koch, Martin Liebscher, Paul McDevitt, Sofie Bird Møller, Markus Oehlen, Hans Hamid Rasmussen, Maria Rubinke, Larissa Sansour, Matt Saunders, Helen Sear, Trine Søndergaard, Jacob Stangerup, Lisa Strömbeck, Susanne Wellm, Ebbe Stub Wittrup and Clare Woods.

OTP Copenhagen is proud to announce After Hours a solo exhibition by Keith Boadwee. Featuring a series of new small-format paintings, the exhibition marks the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and first in Scandinavia.

Keith Boadwee (b. 1961, Meridian, Mississippi) lives and works in Emeryville, California. Since the late 1980s, performance documentary and photography have played a key role in his practice alongside a sustained interest in a variety of different approaches to painting. The artist’s works are often characterized by a queer and critical engagement with art history, combining scatological humor with an interest in performativity and the aesthetics of transgression.

In recent years, Boadwee has returned to motifs including poodles, frogs and emo kids to explore aspects of formal geometric painting - in the process testing the possibilities within these images for abstraction.

V1 Gallery is proud to present Mars Singleton in his solo exhibition, I Love You More When It's Over.

Life is often a cycle of longing, as desire is sharpened by absence, and as the beauty of a moment often appears clearest once it has slipped away. I Love You More When It’s Over unfolds within this tension, from the fundamental realization about desire and space: that we often love things most acutely when they're no longer ours to hold.

Galleri Nicolai Wallner is pleased to present the solo exhibition 'Accoutrements' by Rasmus Myrup.

'Accoutrements', the title of the exhibition, is a play on words. In French, the term evokes the idea of a disguise, while in English it refers to the accessories or details that complete an outfit and enhance its effect. Rasmus Myrup's interventions propose a scene where accessories — usually considered secondary — become the protagonists. ⁠

Over the summer, SPECTA is proud to present a series of works by Poul Pedersen.

The painter Poul Pedersen painted letters. Poul Pedersen originally worked as a house and sign painter, but in the 1960s he became part of a group of avant-garde artists in Aarhus and began working as an artist. One of Poul Pedersen's absolute masterpieces is The Stolen Alphabet. Over a number of years, Poul Pedersen sought out famous paintings to copy letters onto a canvas. An A from a painting by Picasso, an H from Robert Rauschenberg, a P from Mondrian, a Q from Asger Jorn, etc.

24 years after starting this theft, Poul Pedersen completed the series, and he then donated the entire The Stolen Alphabet to the State Library in Aarhus, DK. As Poul Pedersen said, the painters had stolen the letters from the writers, and now he had stolen them from the painters and sent them back to live among the books.

Alice Folker is pleased to present Why Do Birds, a summer group exhibition.

The exhibition includes artworks by artists Aki Turunen, Anna Stahn, Asger H. Gjerdevik, Christine Overvad Hansen, Filip Vest, Frederik Næblerød, Hiu Tung Lau, Liva Jo Juul Streich, Liv Ertzeid, Maria Torp, Maria Zahle, Marie Rud Rosenzweig and Tal Regev.

Alice Folker Gallery is proud to present the solo exhibition ANIMA by artist Signe Erichsen in her exploration of the subconscious.

Signe Erichsen's oeuvre reflects an artistic practice rooted in exploring how the subconscious manifests in the physical world. Through her labour-intensive layered technique, she immerses a range of inner states into the canvas, creating a visual language that runs throughout the works.

This visual language reveals different subconscious states that Erichsen regards as universal aspects of the human condition, reminding the viewer to turn their attention inward. The title of the exhibition, ANIMA, derives from the Latin word for life force, soul, or breath - a word that describes the essence of all living things.

The titular painting is a monochrome work created with gold pigment, symbolizing an immense magnification of this very essence. The piece Memento Mori emerges from a deep blue background like an explosion of life force. Its title refers to the awareness of our own mortality, a reminder that can sharpen our sense of presence and what we wish to give to life while we are here.

BERG Contemporary celebrates its 10th anniversary with a joint exhibition of the gallery's artists and several of its recurring guests.

Most of the works are new, and many of them have been created especially for this occasion. The emphasis remains on creating a coherent exhibition while highlighting the individual characteristics of each artist. It goes without saying that the intention here is not to present each artist in their entirety. They are complex and multifaceted, sharing the common denominator of successful careers, albeit of varying lengths.

The exhibition can rather be seen as a simultaneous snapshot of each artist and the gallery.

… just a shell. is a year-long exhibition by Ingólfur Arnarsson at i8 Grandi.

Throughout the year, the artist will make architectural modifications to the exhibition space through additions and alterations, while the inclusion of a set of drawings serves as a constant in each transformation. Arnarsson’s drawings are built up through layered crosshatching of hard-leaded pencil lines, creating a field of subtle irregularities. Continuously evolving with the addition of new works and interventions, each iteration will be accompanied by a new text by Lani Yamamoto.