Art Calendar

Leading galleries across the Nordics are constantly opening fantastic new exhibitions – we are delighted to bring you a curated selection, hand-picked by members of the CHART community, to make sure you stay in the loop about must-see shows in a city near you.

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  • Denmark
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  • Germany
  • Austria

Date

Venue

Exhibition

City

Country

  • 10 Mar—2 Apr

    MELK

    Emil Finnerud: Attrition

    Oslo

    Norway

    Emil Finnerud’s first solo show at MELK is a total installation of the gallery space consisting of site-specific works, sculptures and sound.

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    Emil Finnerud, Attrition

    Courtesy of the artist and MELK

  • 4 Mar—5 Apr

    Galleri Magnus Karlsson

    Tommy Hildin: Inversion

    Stockholm

    Sweden

    Tommy Hilding’s fourteenth solo exhibition at Galleri Magnus Karlsson 'Inversion' features a selection of paintings from the last four years. Recently, he has integrated samples from art history into his work. These are usually motifs from 19th-century romantic painting which either blend seamlessly into the image or are put in contrast with the contemporary. Tommy Hilding’s artwork portrays an ambivalence and rootlessness that exist in our time.

    Exploring several paths simultaneously, and sometimes combing them in one painting, he challenges chronology and reverses concepts. Hilding carefully constructs images of urbanity or the surrounding nature is a documentary and realistic visual language. His more abstract and spontaneous way of painting exists both inside and outside the motif itself.

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    Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

  • 10 Feb—8 Apr

    Etage Projects

    FOS: Warm Leatherette

    Copenhagen

    Denmark

    Warm Leatherette is a song by synth pop band The Normal, inspired by J. G. Ballard's Crash. The book conflates the functionality of the automobiles with that of the human body: instead of a whiplash, the car crash unleashes a new sexual fetishism, born out of a perverse technology. "The handbreak penetrates your thigh. Quick let's make love before we die".

    This exhibition by FOS at Etage Projects emphasises design as a repetition. A repetition of the body's purpose to add and adapt to a fluid environment in order to survive.

    Design is an evolutionistic repetition and penetration. An exercise to expand our lungs, sight and touch, to rehearse the physical and psychological movements eternally locked in the connection with the materials of this world. Bronze, glaze and bones. Functions brush over the object's surfaces and move in and out of our tissues. In this accumulation of movements, an atmosphere is formed. Something distant and warm.

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    FOS, Warm Leatherette, 2023

    Courtesy of the artist and Etage Projects

  • 3 Mar—14 Apr

    V1 Gallery

    Anton Funck: agaist the sun

    Copenhagen

    Denmark

    V1 Gallery is pleased to present Anton Funck's solo show against the sun. Exhibition about artist's best and worst times. Death, life, cycles and how opposite’s only exist in co-existence.

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    Courtesy of the artist and V1 Gallery

  • 3 Mar—14 Apr

    Eighteen Gallery

    Fryd Frydendahl: Oddly Satisfying

    Copenhagen

    Denmark

    Eighteen Gallery is pleased to present Oddly Satisfying, which is Fryd Frydendahl’s response to this internet new phenomena. She presents her own experiences in her algorithm on platforms such as Youtube, Instagram, and Facebook in a way that, as the concept indicates, is both strange and overwhelmingly wonderful.

    For the past 15 years, Fryd Frydendahl has marked herself as one of her generation’s most important photo artists. Her works have a unique, surreal look that sets her apart.

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    Fryd Frydendahl, Oddly Satisfying

    Courtesy of the artist and Eighteen Gallery

  • 3 Mar—14 Apr

    V1 Gallery

    Sofie Burgaard: Take Care

    Copenhagen

    Denmark

    Sofie Burgaard's solo exhibition, Take Care, opens at V1 Gallery II.

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    Sofie Burgaard, Greetings from the Garden, 2023

    Courtesy of the artist and V1 Gallery

  • 23 Feb—15 Apr

    GSA Gallery

    Emma Hartman: Heathers

    Stockholm

    Sweden

    GSA Gallery presents Emma Hartman’s fifth solo exhibition Heathers at the gallery which features a new series of paintings and pastels.

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    Emma Hartman, Heather, 2023

    Courtesy of the artist and GSA Gallery

  • 17 Mar—15 Apr

    Gether Contemporary

    Jochen Mühlenbrink: MWP

    Copenhagen

    Denmark

    Gether Contemporary presents MWP, a solo exhibition by Jochen Mühlenbrink.

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    Courtesy of the artist and Gether Contemporary

  • 9 Mar—15 Apr

    NEVVEN

    Kyvèli Zoi: Spectators

    Gothenburg

    Sweden

    NEVVEN is proud to present Spectators. In the solo show Athens and Paris based Greek artist Kyvèli Zoi, presents a new body of paintings on canvas. Zoi's paintings gain an almost sculptural physicality while they stand in comparison with the viewer's body. Humongous and bitty at once. These extreme proportions, and the contrasting power relations they suggest, are reinforced by Zoi's signature trait of producing extremely homogeneous series, reiterating their subjects to the point of excess, until any singularity is lost, as if to transform subjects into archetypes.

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    Kyvèli Zoi, Youth, 2022

    Courtesy of the artist and NEVVEN

  • 3 Mar—15 Apr

    Galleri Susanne Ottesen

    Pablo Jansana: Rododendro

    Copenhagen

    Denmark

    Galleri Susanne Ottesen is pleased to present a solo exhibition by a multi-disciplinary artist, Pablo Jansana. Working with painting, sculpture and text, his use of diverse materials creates infinite possibilities of reinterpretation. Jansana explores how using oil, watercolour, enamel, resin, wood and clay, can generate meanings in juxtapositions of historical, personal and fictive worlds. His work draws the viewer into psycho-dramatic narratives and states of being.

    Rododendro takes its title from the Chilean cinematic master Raoul Ruiz. During his multidimensional film Night Across the Street from 2012, a character who sometimes calls himself Rododendro splits into multiple selves at different ages.

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    Pablo Jansana, Detectives and the medium, 2022

    Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Susanne Ottesen

  • 23 Mar—16 Apr

    Galerie Anhava

    Group Exhibition: Light Departures

    Helsinky

    Finland

    Light Departures brings together three artists whose works and practice share the ideas of organic variation, subtle transitions and departures. Transitions take different forms in the featured works: as changes to the processes or qualities of artworks that rise from concrete, material circumstances, such as conditions of a summer residence or the choice of medium. They are present in the fine-tuning of form when transitioning from one scale to another, or in more conceptual shifts of agency and dialogical reflection.

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    Maija Luutonen, 2023

    Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Anhava

  • 3 Mar—22 Apr

    Persons Projects

    Group Exhibition: The Veneer of Happiness

    Berlin

    Germany

    Persons Projects is proud to present a group exhibition, The Veneer of Happiness. The show focuses on the various myths and stereotypes associated with how success equates with happiness. These collected works exemplify the art of observing and displaying various states of happiness through altered realities from different perspectives: While Dominik Lejman and Katarzyna Kozyra share a common interest in challenging common concepts of beauty, we experience another perspective in the work of KwieKulik and Ulla Jokisalo whose works question and confront how western culture bends reality to fit certain norms or expectations in politics, economics or gender that define our presumed narrative for what happiness should look like.

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    Ulla Jokisalo, Katarzyna Kozyra, KwieKulik, Dominik Lejman, Santeri Tuori, The Veneer of Happiness

    Courtesy of the artists and Persons Projects

  • 11 Mar—22 Apr

    BERG Contemporary

    Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir: Schemes

    Reykjavik

    Iceland

    Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir makes interactive constellations, large-scale paper installations, often resulting in a group or cluster of related things. Often intertwined with creating a dialogue of sound, her work might manifest itself as a frozen puddle in the middle of the summer, pop-up igloos, fireworks, or wishing wells. Her works carry significant moments of wonder, magic, and the unexpected. Time is a fundamental feature that Hekla communicates in diverse and often surprising ways, not only through traditional time-related media, e.g. videos, sound, and performances but also through content and exhibition format.

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    Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir, Schemes

    Courtesy of the artist and BERG Contemporary

  • 24 Mar—22 Apr

    Lagune Ouest

    Javier Tapia: Hvidevarer

    Copenhagen

    Denmark

    Javier Tapia works with accumulation and juxtaposition of images and objects of various kind and from various sources. Often the images or objects are found in the storages of art and cultural institutions, left-over prints from educational material, outdated publications, photos of ethnographica, scrap construction material, magazines, at markets or even stuff collected from the bin. His art is always being produced in relation to- against- or on top of something existing and has reference points to how societies produce content, (art) history and share or hide cultural heritage. Questioning traditional scientific western methods of categorising, hierarchising, and periodising Tapia is consciously using his non-western gaze to reimagine, recreate, renegotiate and rethink predominant so-called objective knowledge and narratives surrounding exhibitions of art and culture.

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    Javier Tapia, Untitled (From the series Symbiotic Circles), 2020-2021. Photo by Malle Madsen

    Courtesy of the artist and Lagune Ouest

  • 3 Mar—22 Apr

    Persons Projects

    Katarzyna Kozyra: Fressen

    Berlin

    Germany

    For this year’s EMOP Berlin (European Month of Photography), Persons Projects is proud to present a project Fressen, the most recent work of Polish-born performing-video artist Katarzyna Kozyra. On view are the photographic series as well as the video recordings of the performance that was realized in the fall of 2021 at Warsaw’s Teatr Powszechny.

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    Katarzyna Kozyra, Feast (Fat Woman Face And Octopus), 2021

    Courtesy of the artist and Persons Projects

  • 17 Mar—22 Apr

    Martin Asbæk Gallery

    Slater Bradley: New Jerusalem Gates and the Cloud Phoenix

    Copenhagen

    Denmark

    Martin Asbæk Gallery presents "New Jerusalem Gates and the Cloud Phoenix" by Slater Bradley. The “New Jerusalem Gates” are indeed a psychedelic twin to the first series “The Gates of Many Colors”. A veiled allusion to the Biblical prophecy of the Third Temple and New Jerusalem, the hallucinatory colors of the New Gates point to the activation of an Open Third Eye, the Ajna chakra representing Aquarius, and the supernatural abilities of astral travel. The Cloud Phoenix, an archetypal symbol revealed to me by Spirit above the Aegean Sea, refers to this interdimensional travel and rebirth of the 2160 year cycle of the Age of Aquarius that is upon us, as activated by the Winter Solstice alignment.

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    Slater Bradley, 2023

    Courtesy of the artist and Martin Asbæk Gallery

  • 23 Mar—23 Apr

    Galerie Forsblom

    Sami Lukkarinen: Borderland

    Helsinki

    Finland

    The exhibition features a series of works based on AI-generated characters composed from portraits in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. For many years, Lukkarinen has taken a special interest in the connection between social media and historical portraiture. The combination of artificial intelligence and art history is indeed a fascinating one, as both lend themselves to the study of classical art history concepts, especially the laws governing perception. The raw material for his new portraits consists of 3,000 unpublished self-portraits –selfies – donated by volunteers as part of the long-term Unpublished project launched by Lukkarinen and artist-researcher Roope Mokka. An artificial intelligence system was taught to analyze donated photos and use them as a basis for creating portraits.

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    Sami Lukkarinen, Artificial XVI, 2021

    Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Forsblom

  • 23 Mar—23 Apr

    Galerie Forsblom

    Tuukka Tammisaari: Bit of a pickle

    Helsinki

    Finland

    Tuukka Tammisaari's highly recognisable visual idiom has grown even richer in his recent paintings, which exude a sincere spirit of joy and free creativity. His canvases radiate an exuberant energy that penetrates directly into the viewer’s subconscious.

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    Tuukka Tammisaari, Rendang Rendezvous, 2023

    Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Forsblom

  • 23 Mar—28 Apr

    Saskia Neuman Gallery

    Mark Dion: Systema Naturae

    Stockholm

    Sweden

    In 'Systema Naturae' the artist continues to examine themes common to his practice. Dion’s work explores the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. The job of the artist, he says, is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention. Appropriating archaeological, field ecology and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘rational scientific methods and irrational influences. The artist’s spectacular and often fantastical curiosity cabinets, modeled on Wunderkammen of the 16th and 17th century, exalt atypical orderings of objects and specimens.

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    Mark Dion, Systema Naturae

    Courtesy of the artist and Saskia Neuman Gallery

  • 31 Mar—30 Apr

    Andersen's Contemporary

    Farshad Farzankia: Eye and light

    Copenhagen

    Denmark

    Experience the breathtaking artistry of Farshad Farzankia, a visionary painter who has taken the art world by storm. His paintings have graced the walls of prestigious museums, and his latest collection has caused quite a stir in the art community. Don't miss your chance to witness this second solo show at the gallery. Join us for an unforgettable evening and be among the first to discover these stunning new paintings. We can't wait to share them with you.

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    Farshad Farzankia

    Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's Contemporary

  • 4 Mar—30 Apr

    Dorothée Nilsson Gallery

    Julia Peirone: Make up and Smile

    Berlin

    Germany

    Julia Peirone explores issues of identity and the construction of gender in her photographic and video work. Her visual world is populated by teenage girls and young women still forming their identities. The modern-day visual culture favors self-glorification and an obsession with abstract and hard-to-obtain ideals of beauty. Peirone explores and captures her protagonists‘ search for themselves and their sexuality while confronted by feelings of shame and vulnerability. Frustration plays a part too, as their annoyance at the societal standards and beauty ideals that are being imprinted on them and exaggerated in the photoshoots.

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    Julia Peirone, Make up and Smile, 2023

    Courtesy of the artist and Dorothée Nilsson Gallery

  • 24 Mar—6 May

    palace enterprise

    Cally Spooner: Still Life

    Copenhagen

    Denmark

    palace enterprise is pleased to present Cally Spooner's solo show Still Life.

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    Cally Spooner, Still Life, 2018

    Photo by Daniel Perez. Courtesy of ZERO

  • 31 Mar—7 May

    Helsinki Contemporary

    Elina Brotherus: Spaces and Places

    Helsinki

    Finland

    ⁣Helsinki Contemporary is excited to announce Elina Brotherus's first solo exhibition at the gallery.
    ‘Spaces and Places’ is the artist’s first gallery show in Finland, filling the gallery space with a previously unseen set of works from four different series of photographs. The exhibition is made up of dialogues with works by the famous artists Amaldus Nielsen, René Magritte and John Baldessari, and of a selection of self-portraits made at the Didrichsen Art Museum. The dialogue between artists adds a temporal dimension to the exhibition, a journey from romanticism, via surrealism, to the core of postmodern contemporary art. ⁣

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    Elina Brotherus, Spaces and Places

    Courtesy of the artist and Helsinki Contemporary

  • 30 Mar—13 May

    Croy Nielsen

    Nina Beier: JOBS

    Vienna

    Austria

    Croy Nielsen is excited to present Nina Beier's 5th solo exhibition at the gallery.

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    Courtesy of the artist and Croy Nielsen

  • 1 Apr—19 Aug

    Peder Lund

    Robert Irwin: New Sculptures

    Oslo

    Norway

    The artist's second solo exhibition at the gallery will present four works from Irwin’s latest suite of columnar sculptures. Constructed from translucent sheets of pigmented acrylic in tones of grey and green, as well as red, the sculptures are made from transparent materials. Irwin's latest works offer a survey of the current state of this important valence of his larger practice.

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    Robert Irwin, Notations, 2021

    Courtesy of the artist and Peder Lund

  • 20 Jan—20 Dec

    i8 Grandi

    B. Ingrid Olson: Cast of Mind

    Reykjavík

    Iceland

    i8 Grandi is pleased to announce Cast of Mind, a year-long exhibition by B. Ingrid Olson. The artist’s show opens 20 January, 2023 and will be on view until 20 December 2023. Spanning far longer than traditional museum or gallery shows, i8 Grandi represents a new model for exhibitions. The programming focuses on concepts of space and time, and the presentations will evolve while on view. 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.

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    B. Ingrid Olson, Cast of Mind, 2023

    Courtesy of the artist and i8 Grandi