Art Calendar

Fredrik Söderberg's exhibition 'Spöksonaten', has self-made colors with dust from gemstones. The paintings have something of the classic ghost story about them with transparent, phantom-like figures and severed heads. But they also contain dark descents, portals, desolate rooms and brick and stone facades. His meticulous craftsmanship, brilliant in every brushstroke and choice of material is a slow process, which he, like a sculptor, chisels into his paintings.

Participating artists: Lena Cronqvist, Kari Cavén, Ditte Ejlerskov, Lars Englund, Kristina Eriksson, Linn Fernström, Per Fhager, Peter Frie, Clara Gesang-Gottowt, Maria Hall, Ellisif Hals, Emma Hartman, Jarl Ingvarsson, Martin Jacobson, Gabriel Karlsson, Ella Azearate Lindblom, Yvonne Möller, Roland Persson, Jakob Simonsson, Dan Wolgers, Hanna Zelleke Collin, Christine Ödlund.

AZ is Anna Walther’s first solo exhibition at Sharp Projects featuring new sculptural works. In the exhibition AZ, Anna Walther draws on her personal experience of navigating educational environments as neurodivergent. Here, there is no straight line ‘–‘ between A and Z, but twists, twines, and branch outs; as well as uplifts and a longing for a renegotiation of the conventions and undervalued skills among students in educational institutions. The book thus becomes an esoteric object, heavy like a brick and impossible to open. By asking questions about who is allowed to express themselves in institutional settings or represented in the contents of the books, she takes advantage of her outsider position, which allows her to make an infrastructural inversion.

Anna Walther comfortably stands by the importance of the conceptual dimension of her practice, enabled by her embodied experiences. Hence, the artworks uncanny likeness of everyday objects in the exhibition, disturbed by their exaggerated size, broken attributes or loss of function is an invitation for you to reflect and be transparent; Who is your wedge, creating access or stilts lifting you up, aiding your path from A to Z?

"I did it out of plain lust with compromised joy. My joy was tackled by my knowledge of simple beauty as a sceptic motive in painting. And the flower as a primitive motif. I did it anyways. I stole these flowers for the fun of it. I crossed your fields with kilos of sticky colour. I read about plant blindness and felt convinced that decoration is an underestimated function fit for progressive propaganda. The advertising business gets this. Kilos of dead botanicals across your living room. Today I insist that it makes sense. To replicate, in paint. To please. As a way to remind or to connect. For you to care. That and what I stole." - Frederik Nystrup-Larsen, 2024

Glimpse from a Danish Collection features works by a great variety of artists, collected over the past 40 years. The works on show are selected as a glimpse of the collection, without representing it in full. Come by for an eclectic mix of media, time, size and expression.

Gether Contemporary is proud to present Helene Blanche (DK) in her first solo exhibition at Gether Contemporary. Helene Blanche is known for her incredibly beautiful textile patterns, with which she has gained great international attention. But before her final designs, with their tactile, timeless and poetic expression, lies a great artistic investigative process.

Here, Helene Blanche works with ink on silk and creates dreamy motifs with a nod to Japanese art, where light and shadow meet in inner images. Sometimes dark and intensely deep in color, and other times light and spherical, to be replaced again by delicate repetitive patterns in several dimensions.

V1 Gallery is pleased to present 'For the Geniuses of Art There Are No Limits' a solo exhibition by Kent Iwemyr. Kent Iwemyr crafts poetic, pictorial ballads and intimate tableaus rendered with purposeful brushstrokes in acrylic on linen. His intuitive and open compositions sing songs about Iwemyr’s observations and contemplations and are frequently set in his local community, located in the small post-industrial town of Hallstahammar in rural Sweden.

'For the Geniuses of Art There Are No Limits' is a microcosm where folklore, village talk, tall tales, dreams and nature converge in imaginative stories. An empathetic and humorous stream flows through the idiosyncratic motifs. A mysterious creature, a mixture of Greta Thunberg and a nymph, emerges from the forest riding a moose in the moonlight. A priest in his underwear, violin in hand, surfs the rooftop of a car through a rural landscape, a small white wooden church in the background. An organist plays a large organ in the lush marshes at dusk, and one senses the eerie soundscape in the rhythm of the painting. Three artists share a brandy on a cold winter’s morning in anticipation of their coming journey. A gentle fox rests in a moonlit pine forest covered by a blanket with a berry pattern in an homage to the artist and writer Ernst Billgren.

Þula is pleased to present 'Trú Blue', a solo exhibition by Rakel McMahon. The Old Game by María Elísabet Bragadóttir, inspired by Trú Blue.

Two women leap – one with longing, the other with need. One is prepared for the dark abyss, the other aims for the blazing sun. Their differences apparent in their relationship with the ancient creature of darkness, Shame. Desire imparts the rules of the old game: leaping while acknowledging the dark shadow as part of divine creation. When you realize that the shadow is not your own creation, you have acknowledged the existence of God. This is how we do it, and then we leap.

Etage projects is pleased to present “Tribal Rites of Saturday Night – Empty Moon Full Heart” An exhibition consisting of paintings and wall objects by Ulrik Weck.

The focal point of the exhibition is a series of paintings depicting people dancing. Throughout history, dance has been a powerful expression of human emotions, culture and community and is a universal form of communication that transcends language – in the same way as painting. The essence of dance as a primal, universal human experience is a tribute to movement and freedom. The motifs in the works explore the unconscious and the spontaneous, where the rhythm and energy of the painting try to imitate the dynamics of dance on the dance floor. A ritual place for self-expression and social status.

Coulisse Gallery is happy to announce their summer exhibition 'Heatwave Vol. II'. Participating artists are Uchercie, Julia Kowalska, Josefina Anjou, Annie Åkerman and Sanna Lindholm.

Ann Iren Buan (b. 1984) lives and works in Oslo. In her practice, Buan explores the notions of decay and destruction through drawing and sculpture. Monumental, fragile, and haptic, her work investigates the materiality of drawing through a three-dimensional sculptural expression. Her sculptures appear to be in a continuous state of ruination, a fact further reinforced by her choice of fragile and vulnerable materials. Seemingly on the brink of collapse, the works insist on a continued existence and are often used as elements in new artworks in a cycle of decay and renewal.

Acts of care are often preceded by acts of violence. For her exhibition ‘Hudsult’ at OSL contemporary, Buan has applied a technique where she first weakens the paper by soaking it in water, before proceeding to rub and scratch the paper’s surface. This disrupts the material’s fibres, creating an open wound; a vulnerable surface that exposes the fragility of the paper. Following this destructive act, she tends to the wounds, covering them with dry pastel drawings, in clear and distinct hues of colour. For the artist, the colour itself is charged with emotions and qualities: they might be blustery, dry, or sorrowful, always stating a temper that evokes a certain set of emotions.

There are the kind of motifs you have seen so often that they almost become invisible. Motifs and shapes merging into that particular background of expected recognizability, and only draws attention to itself when they’re no longer a given. Van Gogh’s strong-colored starry night on a postcard in the museum shop, printed and reprinted so many times that any relation to the original scale of the work has dissolved. The first man on the Moon depicted on a grainy black and white photograph (perhaps standing in the shadow of a dinosaur), Taylor Swift in a sparkling bodysuit at a stadium, or other cultural, visual icons such as the smiley and the positive like-thumb circulating so inconspicuously and smoothly through social networks that you don’t pay many thoughts to where they come from and why they look like they do.

In a visually overmodulated culture like the one we live in, creating images in their own right is a difficult exercise; images that are not already loaded with meaning, images that we don’t already know (or expect that we know) how to read. Pernille With Madsen presents us with such images, which at the same time cause astonishment, skepticism, and surprise in a tension between upholding the illusion and admiring its production. Rather than drawing on existing meanings they point towards questions of how meaning is constructed in an interplay between expectation, convention, and recognition.

Dorothée Nilsson Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition 'RIZZ/MAXX ’24'. Participating artists are Lotta Antonsson, Vitali Gelwich, Inka&Niclas, Julian Jakob Kneer, Evan Roth, Henrik Strömberg, Christer Strömholm, Tokyo/W.T.

As is tradition, Martin Asbæk Gallery kicks off the summer season with the annual group show Summer in the City.

Featured artists: Niels Bonde, Peter Bonde, Slater Bradley, Thorsten Brinkmann, Rebecca Brodskis, Elina Brotherus, Jesper Carlsen, Kristian Dahlgaard, Chioma Ebinama, Kasper Eistrup, Ditte Ejlerskov, Gonzalo Guzmán, Nicolai Howalt, Des Hughes, Alexander Iskin, 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, Matt Saunders, Helen Sear, Trine Søndergaard, Jacob Stangerup, Lisa Strömbeck, Ebbe Stub Wittrup & Clare Woods

Persons Projects is pleased to announce its summer exhibition 'Tensional Integrities'. This exhibition brings together a group of artists who infuse into their works through their use of line, sound, space, and color to form a condition of visual and physical harmonious tensity. This presentation represents five distinctly different material approaches in how they pursue their own narratives in exploring their innate sensibilities.

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.