Art Calendar

Galleri Magnus Karlsson is delighted to announce Duda Bebek’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition Phantom presents a collection of new paintings made in the last year. In recent years, Duda Bebek has explored themes related to modern motherhood. Through personal and revealing images, she depicts scenes where the worlds of mother and child merge in intimacy or separate in moments of conflict.

The paintings in the exhibition Phantom present a suggestive imagery, where everyday realism meets echoes of art history and allegories. We are taken on a dramatic journey through the small passages that make up life – a fragile existence where calm and chaos coexist. The works are staged portrayals of a scattered reality, where Bebek’s narrative and psychological drama are visualized. With expressive brushstrokes and an intense color palette, Bebek captures both the dysfunctional and claustrophobic, as well as dreamlike, intimate moments.

Whisk d’Or is a fusion of the well-known cat food brand Whiskas and the French term for “gold,” symbolizing a blend of everyday commercialism with notions of luxury and allure. In his second solo exhibition at palace enterprise, Magnus Andersen merges the classical traditions of still life and portraiture with the psycho-visual language of contemporary advertising.

Magnus Andersen draws abundantly from a wide range of art historical and popular cultural references, spanning Flemish still lifes, 17th-century baroque and classical music, to color field painting and advertising aesthetics. Andersen renegotiates mundane and easily recognizable signifiers of contemporary visual culture and deliberately exaggerates them to a point of uncanniness. Cultivating humor and seriousness equally, his work engages with an accelerated nostalgia emblematic of post-industrial consumerism.

Andréhn-Schiptjenko is pleased to present How do we hold our stories? by British-Nigerian artist Ranti Bam. Previously part of the group show malleable/alléatoire (2023), curated by Chloé Bonnie-More, this marks Bam's first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition features new Ifa sculptures alongside pieces from her Abstract Vessels series.

The title How do we hold our stories? reflects Bam's deep interest in language. She explores the feminine semiotics of intimacy, care, and vulnerability, crucial for rethinking our relationship with nature and dismantling ideological constructs. Bam uses clay as an avatar to explore themes of collective bodies, connectivity, and the multiple significations of water.

It is with great pleasure that Galleri Bo Bjerggaard presents Emily Gernild's latest exhibition, 'We Breathe the Same Flesh'. The lemon and other living organisms have long been a preferred subject for Emily Gernild, and after a stay on a lemon farm in Spain, she delved into the groundbreaking thoughts of the Italian natural philosopher Emanuele Coccia on the connections between humans, nature, and existence. Coccia, known for his philosophical approach to the significance of nature, highlights how plants are fundamental to the maintenance of life. He points out that plants, without our request, convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into oxygen through photosynthesis and are thus the only living beings that actively give life to others. This fundamental dependence on the life force of plants, which Coccia describes as a "first form of cannibalism," is a central theme in Gernild's exhibition.

Through her paintings, Gernild explores how we, like plants, live in constant exchange with the world around us—we breathe because plants live.

On the bone the meat hangs

Soft tissue hard bones, like a chair.

Blood flows through a structure.

the bones sits, drugged into the chair

let's celebrate.

‘Macro’ is an ode to the intriguing and almost mysterious species of fungi. The ‘Bonum Lumen’s are partly inspired by a fascination of the psychoactive properties of mushrooms; Literally bioluminescence, Internal awareness expressed as an external enlightenment. But it is also a result of an interest in the concepts of balance and dualities. Balance as an omnipresent factor to a modern individual finding a balance between dualities.
-small /big, up/down, wet / dry, cold/ warm, above/ below, internal/ external… on/ off

Always perceiving his works as tests, experiments, or rather sketches that only fully function when being activated, these lamps are supposed to change, adapt and thrive when activated and exposed to different environments. They are supposed to light up nature in its natural environment hence the imitated forest floor cells in the gallery. Here, Karl Monies has teamed up with Anna Sofie Jacobsen, a Danish floral artist and designer of outdoor environments. Her focus and ambition are always about reconnecting people to the wonders of nature. This applies to both her installations and her designs of outdoor spaces. For ‘Macro’ her focus has been on creating a forest landscape and to give an insight into the vitality of bulbs and tubers when left alone.

Wilson Saplana Gallery is proud to present an exhibition with the world-renowned French artist Sophie Calle. Sophie Calle's works can be seen as a series of rituals, where she blurs the boundaries between the intimate and the public, reality and fiction, art and life, while leaving room for chance. In her works, Calle depicts both human vulnerability and folly, often with herself at the center, as in her expansive series of Autobiographies which we will show works from in the gallery.

The exhibition 'Ma mère aimait qu’on parle d’elle' (My mother enjoyed being talked about) is about Sophie Calle's relationship with her mother and her mother's death. Through photography and text, we can experience Sophie Calle giving birth to her cat and her mother get a pedicure as part of her own funeral preparations. We are also invited into Calle's studio, where a giraffe named after the mother Monique hangs.

i8 Gallery is pleased to present Real Time, a year-long exhibition by Andreas Eriksson at i8 Grandi. The presentation opens on 18 January and will be on view until 18 December 2024. Throughout the year, the show will evolve with the addition of one new painting a month, all the same size, concluding with twelve paintings in December. In the adjunct gallery room, Eriksson presents a new edition in the form of a calendar, which is printed in an edition of 366 to reflect the length of this year.

Eriksson’s exhibition is the third year-long presentation at i8 Grandi, following B. Ingrid Olson in 2023 and Alicja Kwade in 2022. Spanning far longer than traditional museum or gallery shows, i8 Grandi’s programming focuses on concepts of space and time. The sustained duration of the annual format allows artists to consider how time affects their work, and the fluidity encourages audiences to revisit the changing installations. This exhibition marks Eriksson’s second show with i8.