Art Calendar

Andersen’s Contemporary is pleased to present Lithium Bliss, the third solo exhibition in the gallery by Danish artist Anders Herwald Ruhwald - an exploration of how the green economy materializes.

In Lithium Bliss, we step into a sensuous, sculptural world where materiality, transformation, and environmental consequence intersect. Five large-scale soft ceramic sculptures glazed in turquoise, blue, rose, and dusty yellow seem to echo the vast lithium extraction sites and mounds. On the gallery walls, a blue colour runs in fine strains from the ceiling to the floor in a viscous flow, allowing the liquid to reveal its physical properties as well as the surface structure of the walls.

With Lithium Bliss, Anders Herwald Ruhwald questions and problematizes the realities of aesthetic materials in the green economy. To this end, Ruhwald has developed a set of lithium-based glazes for the sculptures. Lithium is a key component in battery production, an essential element in the shift to green energy; however, the extraction of this material has substantial environmental impacts. Vast amounts of water are needed at the extraction sites, often covering thousands of hectares of land, displacing local communities and leaving large areas prone to erosion.

Þula is pleased to present Kliður / Murmur, Þula Hafnartorg’s summer group exhibition with artists Högna Heiðbjört Jónsdóttir, Ísar Svan, Karen Ösp Pálsdóttir, Petra Hjartardóttir and Steinn Logi Björnsson.

In Kliður / Murmur, five distinct artists come together in creative dialogue. At the heart of the exhibition lies the relationship between humans and nature, expressed through paintings and sculptures that reflect our connection to the environment.

In the urban murmur where everything converges, stillness often becomes a welcome presence - one we frequently seek in nature, in the mountains and valleys. But if we listen closely, we may find a quiet harmony within the hum of the city itself, where rosebushes bloom in backyards and thrushes sing from the branches of trees.

Galleri Susanne Ottesen presents its Summer Show, EXPANSE, featuring works by Nanna Abell, Morten Buch, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Richard Deacon, Andreas Eriksson, Pernille With Madsen.

For 3daysofdesign, Galleri Susanne Ottesen hosted Australian design studio DesignByThem, presenting an interdisciplinary collaborative exhibition. Exploring form, materiality, and visual languages, the studio’s designware and selected artworks by gallery artists enter into intimate dialogues throughout the space. Emerging from this collaboration stems our group summer show.

There is an immediate kinship in this meeting of art and design – a shared sensitivity to surface, weight, and structure that is explored at human-scale. The featured artworks and furniture each offer a distinct approach to materiality, while a pervasive domesticity shapes the space. These are furnishings meant for sitting, lying, eating on and their arrival in the gallery transforms the space, creating inhabitable rooms.

Persons Projects is pleased to announce its summer exhibition, The Art of Renewal, opening on June 28 between 14.00 and 18.00 at the gallery on Lundenstr. 25 in Berlin. The exhibition brings together works by the three Helsinki School artists Nanna Hänninen, Ilkka Halso and Sandra Kantanen.

Nanna Hänninen, Ilkka Halso and Sandra Kantanen's conceptual approach to their photographic based practices has engaged deeply with ecological concerns over the past two decades. Through their unique interventions, each artist seeks to symbolically restore nature to what has been lost due to climate change, human neglect and urban encroachment.

By altering images of real landscapes, they draw attention to pressing environmental issues, both present and future, blurring the line between the real and the imaginary. Their works use paradoxical situations to emphasize the reality of ecological degradation – barren landscapes infused with color, nature artificially preserved within protective structures, and untamed urban meadows transformed into surreal landscapes.

Arnstedt Östra Karup is pleased to present Vågor & partiklar: a solo exhibition by Christine Ödlund.

Christine Ödlund is a Swedish artist who unites art, science and philosophy in a practice that focuses on sound, plants and communication. Inspired by scientific studies showing that plants respond to specific sound frequencies and communicate chemically, she explores how these forms of non-human intelligence can be translated into artistic expression.

With a background in electroacoustic music and a strong interest in ecological chemistry, Ödlund has developed an imagery that is based on listening as a way of understanding the world. For her, art is about deepening our perception and creating connections between human and non-human systems. Her work often starts from the idea that everything is part of a larger whole, where artistic creation can contribute to increased awareness.

Arnstedt Östra Karup is pleased to present Kvarnämne: a solo exhibition by Gabriel Karlsson.

Gabriel Karlsson (b. 1988, Stockholm) lives and works in Malmö. He holds an MFA from the Malmö Academy of Fine Arts, where he today also teaches. His work has previously been shown at Malmö Konsthall, Ravinen in Båstad, Artipelag in Stockholm, Skissernas Museum in Lund, Landings Project Space in Vestfossen (Norway), Galleri Arnstedt, Study For Art Platform in Stockholm and Gallery CC in Stockholm. In 2021, Gabriel Karlsson was awarded the Fredrik Roos scholarship.

The exhibition launching the autumn season at Galerie Anhava is 'With All my senses' in which Jussi Niva continues his painterly exploration of the experience of space, volume and material. In a departure from his earlier works, Niva's new paintings are more freely situated in the space. Instead of conforming to the typical frontality of painting, these works are variously free-standing or lean or rest against each other, or appear to be pulling slightly away from the wall.

While the works retain the archetypal rectangular shape of the canvas, the intersections and undulating turns of the painted surfaces suggest a two-sided, curved form. The works are like fragments of a larger spherical surface, which, depending on the angle of view, may appear spatially closing or opening. As the viewer moves through the space, the works offer insights into understanding the positive and negative form of the painted surface, with some of the canvases painted on both sides.

Although they are devoid of imagery, the works are actively involved in the temporal event of viewing. Like traditional paintings, these works also project a space, but three-dimensionally and in multiple directions. Hence they are not defined exclusively by the surface but also by the viewer's changing position, distances and the surrounding space. In their immateriality, they carry as much meaning as material.

Arnstedt Östra Karup is pleased to present Vessels: a solo exhibition by Niklas Asker.

The exhibition features images of objects and materials, painted not as traditional still lives but more like portraits. A damaged stone head floats in mid air, a pair of cut branches of a geranium in a glass of water stretches up to reach the light above, a small statue of a man seems to study a couple of elderly human hands. These are depictions of emotions, of human experience, mostly devoid of physical human presence.

In this exhibition Niklas is interested in using the objects we surround us with, some with historical significance and others more mundane, to say something about who we are as humans. They are mirrors in a way, inviting the viewer in to reflect on the situations and objects before them, and at the same time on their own way of thinking and seeing. The works are vessels; of energy transmitted between the artist and viewer, of human experience and of the possibility and freedom of personal interpretation.

Galerie Anhava Underground is pleased to present pieces from Vesa-Pekka Rannikko’s new body of work titled FOR.

The series features reliefs cast in dyed plaster in soft colours as sort of three-dimensional votive paintings dedicated to nature. Drawing from ornamentation of Jugenstil and the restrained visual language of Greek-orthodox icons, the plaster reliefs shift fluidly between painting and sculpture. By combining elements from different art forms, Rannikko has once more created an entirely new form of expression. The reliefs show nature with its full intrinsic value. The little fables or thoughts suggested in the works focus completely in flora, fauna and the elements – all presence of humans and any utilitarian views of nature are erased. The subtly coloured intarsias conjure up a translucent vapour cloud, a water droplet or the wings of a starling, alongside more allusive forms, verging on abstraction.

The series is inspired by the Mexican tradition of ex-voto painting, in which gratitude for healing, success or survival is expressed through a small painting depicting the event. In Vesa-Pekka Rannikko’s reliefs, gratitude is directed towards the beings and elements of nature. The small-scale works hanging on a wall remind us gently of the existence of their subjects, of the natural world so easily forgotten in everyday life.

i8 Gallery is pleased to announce Silent Archibionts, a solo exhibition by Alicja Kwade that opens on 24 July 2025 and will remain on view until 6 September. The show, the artist’s fourth with i8, comprises a single, large-scale sculpture: Archibiont (2025). Within the work, a static, black powder-coated steel frame evolves into organic imagery, as the smooth steel transforms into highly textured, verdigris tree bark and animal antlers made of bronze.

Throughout her practice, Kwade examines overlapping principles that guide science, mathematics, and philosophy. While continually shifting perceptions and questioning established theories, the artist has developed a visual language around celestial and earthly principles and the interwoven relationships of art and nature. The continual relevance of society’s quest to apply meaning and measurement to life forces underscores the inherent mysteries of the universe, many of which remain unsolved and perpetually in a state of artistic and scientific exploration.

Lagune Ouest is pleased to present Aftermath: A solo exhibition by Henrik Plenge Jakobsen.

The opening will take place between 5-8 pm on Friday August 15th at the gallery on Tagensvej 85 in Copenhagen.

More info TBA.

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.

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.