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.

Gerdman Gallery is pleased to present ‘Paintings from the Cave’ by Italian artist Gianni Politi. The exhibition takes as its point of departure the space the artist inhabits — the site where both his life and practice unfold. Long imagined to reside within the proverbial Ivory Tower, a place associated with privilege and detachment, Politi in fact situates himself elsewhere: in the cave.

For Politi, the cave represents both a physical and symbolic site — a locus of isolation, introspection, and production. It is a space that stands in proximity to the Ivory Tower, yet remains apart from it. Within this environment, the artist constructs his studio: a controlled and protective enclave with a single entrance, modulated light, and an atmosphere conducive to his particular coexistence with scorpions. In Politi’s metaphorical framework, the scorpions occupy a central role.

Their stings, both literal and symbolic, fuel his ongoing artistic research. The conditions necessary for their survival — darkness, humidity, and seclusion — mirror the conditions of his own creative process. The artist’s work thus emerges from this self-imposed environment of constraint, where the boundaries of comfort and danger blur into a generative space of reflection and making.

Primarily a painter, Gianni Politi’s practice is deeply rooted in the classical and modern pictorial traditions of his native Italy. His work continually engages with the tension between historical continuity and contemporary expression, exploring what it means to inhabit the role of painter today.

Galleri Bo Bjerggaard is pleased to present Elements, an exhibition by the Danish artist Erik Steffensen, showcasing a series of new works. Elements marks Erik Steffensen’s eighth exhibition at the gallery.

Steffensen always works from site-specific locations. For this exhibition, he has travelled through Iceland’s dramatic landscapes, where the forces of nature form the basis of his works. The photographic material from this journey has since been reworked in the artist’s studio in Copenhagen. Through the application of oil paint—both highlighting certain details and obscuring others—the viewer is invited to see and reimagine what has been lost.

Galleri Cora Hillebrand is pleased to present Annie Johansson's solo exhibition 'Mellan skog'.

Gallery Gudmundsdottir is pleased to present A Botanical Future, the first solo exhibition by Icelandic artist Katrín Elvarsdóttir at the gallery. The exhibition brings together three photographic series created between 2020 and 2025: Fifty Plants for Peace, Tropical Colony, and Living Fossil, each exploring the intersections of nature, history, and human intervention.

At the center of these works are three plant species: the Japanese Cherry blossom, the banana plant, and the dawn redwood. Each carries a layered narrative of cultivation, migration, and endurance, together forming a meditation on belonging and displacement.

The Cherry blossom, cultivated in Japan for over a thousand years, symbolizes both peace and transience, its brief flowering cycle a reminder of life’s impermanence. The banana plant, among the earliest crops cultivated by humankind, raises questions about global movement and adaptation, even appearing in Icelandic greenhouses as a cultivated curiosity. The dawn redwood, long thought extinct until its rediscovery in China in the 1940s, embodies the paradoxes of scientific discovery and reveals the colonial entanglements within Western systems of classification and possession.

Across these photographic series, Elvarsdóttir reflects on how plants, like people, are carried across borders, transplanted, adapted, and redefined. The transfer of living matter, even when guided by care or preservation, often conceals acts of displacement and control. Through her lens, these plants are not passive subjects but living witnesses to histories of migration, exchange, and transformation.

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.

i8 Grandi is pleased to present 'The Brown Period' a yearlong exhibition by Ragnar Kjartansson. This presentation, which is Kjartansson's sixth solo show at i8, will exhibit both new and existing works throughout the year.

The Brown Period is an extended project, intended to be a dive into the realms of the experimental. As i8 Grandi is a short walk from Kjartansson's studio, the artist will treat the gallery as a project space where lucky strikes and failure collides. For the artist, the bass drum in the project space will be new video works and studio shorts, mixing drama, music, and cinematic indulgence. The works on view will continue to change throughout the year as the show evolves.

Saskia Neuman Gallery is pleased to present "The Postcard Exhibition" featuring 67 artists, both Swedish and international, presented in a tapestry of voices, practices and perspectives that explore the postcard as a form, thought and symbol. The exhibition navigates the borderland between the collective and the intimate, as well as what is material and what is emotional. The idea of the postcard becomes, among the works, a medium for care and proximity, for critique and distance. It creates a form of artistic correspondence — an at times confidential conversation that moves seamlessly between the artworks and the viewer.

Like a network of images, thoughts and greetings, the works cross paths; creating space for new dialogue, and phenomena. The postcard operates between mass production and closeness, nestling itself in between the souvenir and distinct visual communication. It carries a paradox — it is many things: personal as well as universal, fleeting along with being enduring. In our current digital age, the postcard has become almost radical in its simplicity; a physical image that requires an address, a hand that writes, postage and waiting. A reminder of the slow pace of images and the importance of the human gesture. It demands intention, action and reflection — the ultimate desire to reach out, through a visual emblem.

SPECTA is pleased to present Daniel Svarre's solo exhibition 'Last Splash' at SPECTA, presenting a series of new drawings, sculptures, and installations. The exhibition moves between harmony and collapse, and between drive and apathy, pointing to how these tensions unfold in a time when both personal space and society are marked by loss of control and unpredictability.

'Last Splash' has been created from the motivation that art can create space for calm, reflection, and presence, even when reality is marked by loss of control and unpredictability. Daniel Svarre consciously works with this theme. Water, recurring in both drawings and installations, functions as a symbol of both life and concern, and possesses a meditative quality that invites immersion and attentiveness. At the same time, the interplay between the domestic and the unpredictable in the exhibited objects points to how art can open new ways of experiencing and understanding the tension between harmony and collapse. Thus, the exhibition becomes a place where one can find calm and reflect, despite - or perhaps precisely because of - the challenges and changes that characterise our time.

Gallery Steinsland Berliner is thrilled to present this year’s edition of Our Winter Show, an annual group exhibition celebrating the close of another year in the company of cherished friends, both old and new. On view is a dynamic selection of works, spanning a wide range of approaches and created by a stellar array of contemporary artists.

The show includes works by: Anastasia Ax, Arvida Byström, Ylva Carlgren, Elina Eriksson, Erik Gustafsson, Hanna Hansdotter, Mattias Nordéus, Malin Gabriella Nordin, Oskar Nilsson, NUG, Matti Kallioinen, Leo Park, Ragnar Persson, Linnéa Sjöberg, Gunnar Smoliansky, Danilo Stankovic, Tommy Sveningsson, Toxoplasma, Fredrik Åkum, Tom Hallgren, Mira Wood, Hilma Hedin, Hugo Mugerwa Klockars, Caroline Nord, Linnea Lindholm, Cilia Wagén, Alice Lefrancq Fröjd, Alexander Bäckman & Linus Klangflod.

ISCA Gallery is proud to present 'Soft Circuits', a solo exhibition by Pearla Pigao. In 'Soft Circuits', Pearla Pigao continues her cross-disciplinary exploration of the relationship between sound, material and the sensing body. Drawing from a unique background in both music and textile art, Pigao merges digital weaving, sonic structures, and performative interaction to create works that invite the audience to engage not only as observers, but as co-composers and participants.

The exhibition features a series of interactive sound textiles and sculptural installations, alongside a collection of silent wall pieces that transform the ephemeral nature of sound into visual and tactile form. Through a meticulous process of translation, musical compositions are rendered as binary image files and reinterpreted into handwoven textiles using a digital loom. Here, sound becomes something physical – something one can touch, walk around, and experience through spatial proximity.

palace enterprise is proud to present Tie – Danish sculptor Tora Schultz’ third solo exhibition at the gallery. The show consists of two new series of work Tie and Lie that examine and recontextualize everyday items with precision and humor in reference to institutional power and their standardizing effect on subjects.

Tie is a group of three wall-mounted, hand-bent sculptures in pine wood with bases shaped like Pinocchio’s face stuck in the wall. Lie moves from the realm of the handcrafted to the mass-produced with its minimalist table tops lying in a stack on the floor echoing the classroom. By bending, stripping, shaping, rearranging mundane objects, Schultz demonstrates how to sculpturally dissect complex, cultural- and material practices.

The complete work of The Brotherhood is an installation that originally consisted of six respective works. It had been developed over ten years when it was exhibited in its entirety for the first and only time in 1998, at the then-newly opened museum, NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo. Additionally, it was the first major solo exhibition to open in the museum. The ICC took on the marvelous task of commissioning and shipping the installation from the United States to Japan and published an in-depth exhibition catalog, consisting of numerous scholarly insights into the exhibition and the importance of Woody Vasulka’s work, alongside interviews with the artist himself.

Even though this production of the installation was originally intended to be about preservation and historical archiving it is safe to say that the message of the work is hugely relevant today. Unfortunately, humanity is faced with unfortunate developments in world affairs that could not have been foreseen in 2015 when this exhibition first came to our drawing table.

Galerie Anhava is pleased to present a group exhibition 'Sportlov'. The works in this group exhibition draw their inspiration from the periphery of the sports field, the functional aesthetics of lines and colours, the red-and-yellow jerseys, score statistics, sore muscles, breathlessness and balls swishing cleanly through the net. Alongside a keen eye, the works carry the hallmarks of persistent artistic independence, agility in thinking, and rules-based free expression. The works in the show are by Eetu Huhtala, Lasse Juuti and Mirella Salo.

Helsinki Contemporary’s year culminates with Winter Salon, a rich group show featuring sculptures, paintings, and drawings by Karim Boumjimar, Siri Elfhag, Pauliina Mäkelä, Frederik Næblerød, and Man Yau, presented alongside works by the gallery’s own artists.

The exhibition is curated to foster dialogue between the works and their makers. The concept of the salon evokes the cultural gatherings of past eras, when artists, writers, and thinkers met to exchange ideas about art and society. In 17th-century Paris, the tradition evolved into art salons – public exhibitions that showcased the contemporary art of their time. In this spirit, Winter Salon transforms the gallery into a meeting place for diverse encounters and conversations.

This exhibition marks the Finnish debut of Siri Elfhag and Frederik Næblerød. Elfhag’s works have been shown at GSA Gallery in Stockholm, and Næblerød’s at the Arken Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark, among other venues. Karim Boumjimar, currently enjoying significant international recognition, has exhibited this year at Pori Art Museum, Kunsthalle Helsinki, and Overgaden in Copenhagen. Pauliina Mäkelä has held solo exhibitions in 2025 at Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva and Kunsthalle Turku. Man Yau, named Finland’s Young Artist of the Year 2025, is concurrently presenting a solo exhibition at Tampere Art Museum through early January.

Þula is pleased to present the exhibition "With In It All" by Helga Páley Friðþjófsdóttir (b. 1987). Friðþjófsdóttir earned her BA degree from the Iceland University of the Arts in 2011 and works as a visual artist in Reykjavík. Since graduating, she has held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in group shows both in Iceland and internationally.

Painting has long been central to her artistic practice, a process of exploration where form, color, and texture take shape through intuition and repetition. She allows ideas to develop slowly, layering paint and letting images emerge over time. Through this process, stories unfold - built up, scraped away, and reworked until they settle into place on the canvas.

CFHILL is proud to present Adam Ytterberg’s third solo exhibition, Torun och farmor på Vinklumpsvägen, featuring a new suite of paintings where imagined characters inhabit spaces suspended between reality and reverie. Tangible yet dreamlike, these settings serve as stages for existential exploration, where questions of identity, belonging, and ecological collapse unfold through painterly richness and narrative precision.

Ytterberg’s maximalist compositions act as acts of re-enchantment in a disenchanted world. Drawing on myth, animation, and pop-cultural references, he constructs a visual cosmos that is at once familiar and uncanny. His recurring figures, rendered with meticulous brushwork and vibrant color, move through landscapes charged with symbolism and emotional depth.

CFHILL proudly presents Deep Cuts by artist Karim Boumjimar, who continues his exploration of ceramics as a vessel for memory, desire, and transformation. Known for his performances and drawings, Boumjimar now turns to clay to challenge social hierarchies and explore the intersections of identity, culture, and nature. The installation features monumental vases, their surfaces covered in intricate illustrations that weave together personal encounters, mythology, and the worlds of clubs and nightlife. Through this interplay, Boumjimar transforms earthenware into a living archive of queer experience, where fleeting moments and intimate connections are rendered permanent.

Boumjimar recently exhibited at Overgaden in Copenhagen and Kunsthal Charlottenborg and will be part of an upcoming group exhibition at Liljevalchs Konsthall in Stockholm. Across these presentations, his work expands a growing visual language that is at once bodily and mythological – an ongoing study of transformation through touch, form, and gesture.

i8 Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Ragna Róbertsdóttir (b.1945, Iceland).

This show is Róbertsdóttir’s fifth solo presentation at i8; her first show at the gallery, one of i8’s earliest exhibitions, opened in June 1996. Róbertsdóttir’s show also celebrates the 30th anniversary of i8 Gallery, which was established in November 1995 by Edda Jónsdóttir.

Throughout her practice, Róbertsdóttir explores concepts of time, place, and materiality, with a focus on natural environments. Her reductive sculptures and installations are made using elements inherent to Iceland, such as lava rock, salt, turf, and clay. For this exhibition, Róbertsdóttir presents four installations in response to the gallery’s architecture.

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.

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.

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.

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.