Art Calendar

Galleri Riis is pleased to present Sverre Wyller’s exhibition Solen synker som et skip / Recent sculptures. It is his fifteenth exhibition at Galleri Riis since the first in 1986.

In the fall of 2024, Haugar Kunstmuseum presented the exhibition Sverre Wyller, the largest retrospective of Wyller’s work to date, including several series of paintings spanning 40 years and the later 20 years of sculpture. Among these was the restored and newly painted blue sculpture “Miramichi #3” from 2010-23, which anchors this exhibition. The sculpture, made from reworked demolition steel, was first shown at Galleri Riis in 2011 along with other works from the same series, produced in New Brunswick, Canada with materials from a dismantled industrial building.

In recent years, Wyller has developed his work with steel sculptures based on found materials and industrial paint, with varying degrees of processing and various surface treatments. The last work completed for this exhibition is a monumental freestanding relief composed of used steel material varnished in a bright red color. Blocks of untreated oak, which have previously been included as supporting elements in a number of smaller and medium-sized sculptures, now play the main role in a new sculpture with a pronounced architectural accent. A cut-off part from a metal container placed on an industrial steel bracket takes on a soft and almost comical bodily form, while a small structure welded from thin steel is reminiscent of a fragile and unsteady building under construction. Bent profiles of painted steel mounted on heavy steel blocks become resting poetic signs.

OSL contemporary is pleased to present Thorbjørn Sørensen's second exhibition at OSL contemporary.

Sørensen presents a continuation of the series titled 'A Warm Afternoon' that were presented at the gallery in 2023. In these earlier works that drew inspiration from the dramatic panoramic tableau vivant’s depicting battle scenes from the 1800s, the artist developed a distinct visual language that captured his observations of people dwelling in Tjuvholmen, a new urban park located outside the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo. Unlike the dense mass of interlocking bodies clad in bathing suits that fail to be contained within the confines of the canvas, Sørensen’s new paintings mark a departure from the soft colour palette and loose washes of thinned pigment to much deeper, muted abstract compositions.

Seemingly sharing the formal aesthetics of eighteenth-century Romanticism and colour-field painting from the late 1950s, these paintings retain a radical simplicity and dreamlike allure that embrace a painterly quality.

BORCH Editions is pleased to present "Paradise" by Alexander Tovborg.

Dante Alighieri’s "Divine Comedy" from 1320 has been a close companion in Alexander Tovborg’s life and artistic practice. The "Paradise" portfolio of 33 etchings completes Tovborg’s print project for Dante’s "Divine Comedy", which in total includes 92 prints.

In Tovborg’s "Paradise", figures emerge into the light from the darkness of outer space. The motifs radiate from the black paper in delicate and evocative colours, reflecting Dante’s upward journey in space, detached from life on earth. With the same ease as Dante’s ascension into astronomical space, Tovborg depicts the souls Dante meets on his path towards God.

V1 SALON is pleased to present 'Fortune Teller: Past – Present – Future'. A group exhibition with 58 artists.

Fortune Teller presents an eclectic selection of 55 artists; some that we have worked together with in past, we currently represent as well as artists that are new to the gallery. In 2024, the exhibition gathered 58 artists and was an enormous catalyst for this year's programme, energy and establishment of V1 SALON. They’ve invited the participating artists to play fortune tellers and create a vision of the future whether it entails dystopian sentiments, anxieties, dreams or aspirations. In this exhibition, you will find a wide variety of media with a point of departure in the A4 format (297x 210 mm / 11.7 inches x 8.3 inches). Considering that points of departure are the best way to get lost, you will naturally find lots of works which do not exactly fit this bill. Fortune Teller gather many different voices and expressions that come together as an eclectic and energic chorus. Fortune Teller is a manifestation of gratitude towards the artists, the art and those who experience it – an exhibition that not only brings out the soul of the V1 Gallery family but also cherishes the radical now and looks forward to the uncertain potential of the future.

Martin Asbæk Gallery is pleased to present Writing on the Wall, a new solo exhibition by Kristian Dahlgaard. Dahlgaard’s wall-mounted sculptures unfurl across the surface as gestural tracings made from metal and rendered in vivid colours, like three-dimensional drawings in space rather than on paper.

The works’ looping, scribbled contours evoke the immediacy of a sketch while asserting themselves with the physical presence of a sculpture. As an artist, Kristian Dahlgaard works extensively with the sculpture’s weight and with the absence of mass. His work is meticulously engineered from countless metal parts, arranged and welded together, one by one.

Each piece feels both spontaneous and deliberate, transforming walls into fields of movement and energy, mimicking the slow, fluid motion of the lava lamp or even the elongation of a cell before it divides and takes on a new life.

Wilson Saplana Gallery is pleased to introduce "Heaven" by Maria Wæhrens.

The paintings in the solo exhibition explore, drawing on the artist’s dreams and spiritual experiences, a series of intersections between the erotic and the spiritual; between desire and suffering, body and the subconscious. At the same time, Wæhrens draws upon a cast of characters that can often be traced through the works’ titles.

Maria Wæhrens has always tuned into energies and attitudes through people from her life, as well as through figures - particularly from Christian mythology. They serve as kinds of muses, invoked during the painting process so that their spirits and presence might influence the direction a painting takes. In some works, they are only there in spirit; in others, they enter directly into the motifs, as in Bente and the Doctor and No One and See You in Heaven Faster Maria. Zadkiel, part of a series of paintings named after Christianity’s archangels, is based on a dream in which an outcast figure from the artist’s family history appears as a helpful messenger.

Martin Paaskesen is a Danish painter who works in the space between figuration and abstraction, where traditional painterly motifs are explored as a language in dissolution. His paintings, executed directly on raw canvas, emerge as both visual constructions and deconstructions, in which errors, accidents, and overpainting become meaning-bearing elements.

The compositions balance control and spontaneity and draw on an iconoclastic approach, in which recognizable forms are destabilized and displaced. Paaskesen insists on allowing the painting to remain unfinished and vulnerable—a living and sensuous space where images can simultaneously emerge and dissolve. It is a deliberate practice grounded in a constant tension between intuition and deliberation, where immediacy and resistance, fallibility and control, are all integrated into the process of making the work.

BERG Contemporary is pleased to present their Christmas Exhibition, featuring works by Bernd Koberling, Bjarni H. Þórarinsson, Dieter Roth, Dodda Maggý, Finnbogi Pétursson, Goddur, Haraldur Jónsson, Hulda Stefánsdóttir, John Zurier, Katrín Elvarsdóttir, Kristján Steingrímur, Páll Haukur, Rósa Gísladóttir, Sigurður Guðjónsson, Steina Vasulka & Þórdís Erla Zoëga.

Alice Folker Gallery cordially invites you to the annual Winter Salon; the group exhibition tradition of celebrating what has been, anticipating what lies ahead, and sharing the warmth of presence in dusky days of cold. Imagination and creation form a safe haven from the harsh elements, whilst offering us a chance to experience the wonder within the darkness; crisp shades of blue, a glaze melting as if it is thawing from its cool shell, withering flowers, bright neon lights and the flickering illumination of a city being bathed in snowflakes.

The works in the exhibition invite you to sense, to embrace, to feel sparks of connection and a shared sense of being in a world of clowns, fishermen, dancing threads, groundbreaking stilettos, memory film, cherry trees, and fantastic creatures chasing their wanderlust. Being in the company of these artworks - where the artists vulnerably reveal their universes of thoughtfulness, energy, and curiosity about existence - you will never truly feel the cold.

Eighteen is pleased to present 'Phantom' a solo exhibition by Anton Funck.

Phantom presents Anton Funck’s reflections on disappearance and reappearance, exploring our shared evanescent experience. Real or imagined, the phantom grants us audience with a lost loved one, an unreconciled past, or a future not yet known.

We can become phantoms in our own lives—haunting places where love once lived or seeking solace in those who no longer recognize us as our good old selves. We might be seen as a spectre of someone who no longer exists, a reflection that no longer casts what once was.

Funck’s use of varying techniques and mediums—collage, watercolour, pencil, and crayon—reflects these plays of disappearance and reappearance. We see his familiar motifs in transitional shades and alternative forms.

The phantom—an unwanted visitor—lives in you, with you, and as you. Like the sun and the moon, these shades illuminate our lives and make visible the shadow play between presence and absence that shapes our reality.

- Text by Damai Syarifuddin

In Dye Bias, Sieber presents a new body of work comprising a series of small DIN A4 canvases, which echo and merge the subject matter of two larger paintings displayed alongside them. The works originate from earlier drawings that have undergone a process of reproduction: digitally copied, printed, transferred onto canvas, and finally reworked with paint.

V1 Gallery is pleased to present 'Alt flyder' ('Everything flows'), a solo exhibition by Troels Carlsen.

In the exhibition nothing is permanent, and everything is connected. Flora and fauna are quite literally intertwined in Carlsen’s large tableaus, often painted with acrylics on intricately collaged archival material sourced from antiquarian bookstores.

Dynamic, dancing skeletons with bodies of radiant green springy stems and lush leaves sprout blackberries and pink wildflowers, surrounded by bumblebees. Bodies, bees, flowers and fruit are interdependent in an ancient biological choreography. There is a current of freedom flowing through the works. Birds, flowers, ladybirds and butterflies are harbingers of transformation. The compositions are in flux. In one work, an eminent butterfly overshadows a human couple in the composition, while two blooming flowers rise above like floral fireworks. A subtle visual correction to our classic anthropocentric understanding. In Carlsen’s work we are not merely co-dependent on the surrounding world; we are the same – we are change.

Galleri Magnus Karlsson is pleased to present Carl Hammoud’s seventh solo exhibition at the gallery 'A Way Not to Explore the Past, But to Manipulate the Present'.

The exhibition presents new paintings and drawings with an intentionally rich variety of motifs, such as landscapes, interiors, and still lifes. The new works are sourced from Hammoud’s own snapshots, found photographs, illuminated still lifes, and digital collages.

The exhibition’s lengthy title is intended to both mislead and invite deeper interpretation. The word ”manipulate” can refer to how one masters something by hand, but also to the cognitive influence on a person or an event.

Over the years, Hammoud’s artistic practice has consistently explored the built-in uncertainty of images by challenging our understanding of them while exploring the use of titles, perspectives and visual perception. The works, which are constructed with a kind of duality, should always be open to more than one interpretation.

Andersen’s is pleased to present Martin Brandt Hansen’s exhibition Hyperborea, the artist’s second exhibition at the gallery.

According to the ancient Greeks, Hyperborea lay in a distant, northern paradise – a land of eternal sun, without disease, old age or sorrow. Here lived the Hyperboreans, a peaceful and happy people who worshipped Apollo (the god of light and the arts) and lived in harmony with nature.

Galleri Susanne Ottesen is pleased to present Martin Eriks Andersen’s solo exhibition 'Wege, Lauf und Bahn'. The exhibition displays a new series of wall-hung silver carpets, sculptures and a musical installation. Across these works, Andersen continues his exploration of circulation and re-circulation of materials, forms and earlier pieces.

Approaching visual art as a mode of understanding, experienced through a synthesis of body, intellect and sight, Andersen works at the threshold of the recognisable. His pieces reveal shifting traces and unexpected openings, inviting viewers to follow their paths or simply allow themselves to be carried along.

Persons Projects is proud to present Zofia Kulik’s solo exhibition "Written in Her Own Hand", which traces the various stages of her artistic emancipation as she discovers her own voice as an independent female artist.

The exhibition also serves as the initial platform for her first monographic book, published by Thames & Hudson, which comprehensively explores Kulik’s extraordinary body of work. The exhibition begins with her most memorable graduate work (1968–1971) and follows her transition into the collaborative duo KwieKulik (1971–1987), formed with her partner Przemysław Kwiek - Ending with a large black-and-white self-portrait depicting her as a queen. Together, these selected works provide a deeper understanding of how Kulik’s individual career developed into what it is today.

Gerdman Gallery is pleased to present ‘The House’, Johanna Bjurström’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. In her recent work, Bjurström treats each painting as a study - catching and reflecting on the inbuilt possibilities of the silence before an act.

In Johanna Bjurström’s recent work she uses her paintings as studies, to catch and reflect on the inbuilt possibilities of the silence before an act. Air cannot be seen, yet sound travels through it, a reminder that we can perceive what is otherwise invisible. Her hunches, and the longing for a work’s tone, shape, surface, and its later inherent sound, become conditions to her practice. The pieces act as silent suggestions of what they might play; touched by a hand or brushed by a streak of wind.

The works present in this exhibition came to life from an urge to depict recurring images she couldn’t get out of her mind. They were translated into fast sketches, almost like an alphabet. Since then, Johanna Bjurström has worked with the distance present in transferring an image into canvas, dealing with a different time, process, and materiality. In these works, she has often replaced oil paint with wood stain, treating the canvas as a porous surface, which breathes and holds spaces of resonance. The movements and rhythms present in the paintings flow with the air which surrounds them, shaping the sound of this room, this house.

Dorothée Nilsson Gallery is happy to present the upcoming solo exhibition Shadow Works, Living the Dream by Martina Hoogland Ivanow.

For her third exhibition at the gallery Swedish artist Martina Hoogland Ivanow is presenting selected images from her new book ’Shadow Works, Living the Dream’ alongside a video piece exploring the balance and imbalance of everyday existence. Working primarily with photography and film, Hoogland Ivanow explores the interplay between filtered light, sound and image. Her work is multi-layered and interspersed, certain themes emerge such as the irrational, the theatrical and how we as humans play with identity. She works mostly with the shadow and says it is often there in her work, in the wrong place or the least expected.

NEVVEN is pleased to present 'It Takes Many Threads to Make a Carpet; in Fairy Tales Carpets Can Fly', a group show featuring works by Astrid Lakso, Ana Manso, Minh Ngọc Nguyễn and Jiawei Zheng.

The exhibition is a four-person show that explores through a multifaceted, multigenerational, and multimedia approach, the concepts of language, translation, and the fertile confusion that can arise from them.