Art Calendar

i8 Gallery is pleased to present the works by Birgir Andrésson (1955-2007) who lived an worked in Reykjavik, Iceland.

The Bear from Bern is a presentation of works by Birgir Andrésson originally commissioned for the Department of Social Services in the Swiss capital of Bern.

Over the summer, SPECTA is proud to present a series of works by Poul Pedersen.

The painter Poul Pedersen painted letters. Poul Pedersen originally worked as a house and sign painter, but in the 1960s he became part of a group of avant-garde artists in Aarhus and began working as an artist. One of Poul Pedersen's absolute masterpieces is The Stolen Alphabet. Over a number of years, Poul Pedersen sought out famous paintings to copy letters onto a canvas. An A from a painting by Picasso, an H from Robert Rauschenberg, a P from Mondrian, a Q from Asger Jorn, etc.

24 years after starting this theft, Poul Pedersen completed the series, and he then donated the entire The Stolen Alphabet to the State Library in Aarhus, DK. As Poul Pedersen said, the painters had stolen the letters from the writers, and now he had stolen them from the painters and sent them back to live among the books.

Alice Folker is pleased to present Why Do Birds, a summer group exhibition.

The exhibition includes artworks by artists Aki Turunen, Anna Stahn, Asger H. Gjerdevik, Christine Overvad Hansen, Filip Vest, Frederik Næblerød, Hiu Tung Lau, Liva Jo Juul Streich, Liv Ertzeid, Maria Torp, Maria Zahle, Marie Rud Rosenzweig and Tal Regev.

Alice Folker Gallery is proud to present the solo exhibition ANIMA by artist Signe Erichsen in her exploration of the subconscious.

Signe Erichsen's oeuvre reflects an artistic practice rooted in exploring how the subconscious manifests in the physical world. Through her labour-intensive layered technique, she immerses a range of inner states into the canvas, creating a visual language that runs throughout the works.

This visual language reveals different subconscious states that Erichsen regards as universal aspects of the human condition, reminding the viewer to turn their attention inward. The title of the exhibition, ANIMA, derives from the Latin word for life force, soul, or breath - a word that describes the essence of all living things.

The titular painting is a monochrome work created with gold pigment, symbolizing an immense magnification of this very essence. The piece Memento Mori emerges from a deep blue background like an explosion of life force. Its title refers to the awareness of our own mortality, a reminder that can sharpen our sense of presence and what we wish to give to life while we are here.

Galerie Nordenhake celebrates its 50th anniversary with a major exhibition unfolding simultaneously across its three spaces in Stockholm, Berlin, and Mexico City.

Opening during the first weekend of July, Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, Stockholm, Mexico City, 50 years brings together historical pieces and newly commissioned works by 84 artists. Functioning as both an exhibition and a living archive, it traces the history of the gallery from its inception in 1976 to the present day. Rather than following a chronological framework, the exhibition centers on the artists, their work and interwoven relationships cultivated by the gallery over five decades.

V1 Salon is pleased to present Jeremy Shockley in his solo exhibition, Honkey Tonk Angels.

The exhibition title is derived from the trailblazing feminist country song; It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels by Kitty Wells (1952). The song was a response to earlier songs that blamed women for going to gritty country bars, honky tonks, and leading married men astray. Wells flipped this accusation, implying that the that the truth was quite the opposite. Shockley, however, strips the phrase of its moral framing and treats it as evocative imagery, imagining the divine mingling with the gritty. This juxtaposition set the stage for his strange image-world — a place where literal Angels might be seen wandering into honky tonks.

Dorothée Nilsson is proud to present Evan Roth's solo exhibition, A Hundred Thousand Years of Light.

Photography has been woven so thoroughly into the contours of our lives that we rarely stop to feel its texture. Evan Roth does. In A Hundred Thousand Years of Light, photographic images are digitally printed onto fabric and stitched with a domestic sewing machine, thread tracing a path that wanders without destination.

What happens when a contemporary artist chooses quilting as the primary medium through which photographic images circulate? Against the accelerated cycles of contemporary image culture, the work proposes an alternative grounded in duration, accumulation, and the materialization of light.

i8 is pleased to present Afterimage, Arna Óttarsdóttir third solo exhibition with i8, that inaugurates i8’s newly renovated gallery space at Tryggvagata 16 in Reykjavík.

For Afterimage, Óttarsdóttir has created three major new weavings in her largest scale to date. These works expand the artist’s exploration of color, texture, shape, and composition, while maintaining her dedication to handmaking and exploration of personal influences.

Throughout this exhibition, several dualities emerge, including the presentation of works inspired by the dark harshness of winter during the bright, long light of summer. The palette of Óttarsdóttir’s new tapestries is heavier and deeper than any of her prior weavings. While the warp, the vertical threads that form the structure of a textile, in her works is typically undyed, these new weavings have a dark warp, which further emphasizes the enveloping nightfall that is characteristic of Icelandic winters.

BERG Contemporary celebrates its 10th anniversary with a joint exhibition of the gallery's artists and several of its recurring guests.

Most of the works are new, and many of them have been created especially for this occasion. The emphasis remains on creating a coherent exhibition while highlighting the individual characteristics of each artist. It goes without saying that the intention here is not to present each artist in their entirety. They are complex and multifaceted, sharing the common denominator of successful careers, albeit of varying lengths.

The exhibition can rather be seen as a simultaneous snapshot of each artist and the gallery.

Galerie Nordenhake celebrates its 50th anniversary with a major exhibition unfolding simultaneously across its three spaces in Stockholm, Berlin, and Mexico City.

Opening during the first weekend of July, Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, Stockholm, Mexico City, 50 years brings together historical pieces and newly commissioned works by 84 artists. Functioning as both an exhibition and a living archive, it traces the history of the gallery from its inception in 1976 to the present day. Rather than following a chronological framework, the exhibition centers on the artists, their work and interwoven relationships cultivated by the gallery over five decades.

Persons Projects is pleased to present Bamboo Whispers in Fading Light, a solo exhibition by Finnish artist Sandra Kantanen, one of the leading figures of the Helsinki School.

The exhibition brings together works that reflect Kantanen’s long-standing fascination with idealized Asian landscapes. The show continues her search for environments threatened or already damaged by human activity, which she then reinterprets through her artistic intervention.

Helsinki Contemporary is pleased to present Swedish-Chilean artist Anton Alvarez's first solo exhibition in Finland.

The Colour of Gravity presents striking ceramic sculptures that play with the human scale and challenge our perceptions of craftsmanship and the use of technology in art.

Anton Alvarez approaches artmaking through materials and processes. He designs and builds machines that he uses to create his works, combining the roles of both engineer and sculptor. In addition to ceramics, Alvarez has worked with materials such as thread and, as of late, papier-mâché, creating exhibitions in which, for example, museum staff used an extruder to produce ceramic sculptures for the exhibition while it was on view.

Galerie Anhava is pleased to present Inka Bell in her solo exhibition, To and Fro.

Inka Bell‘s delicate yet edgy solo exhibition explores liminal spaces between two- and three-dimensionality. The show consists of paper sculptures and collage-like works whose essence lies in the dynamic between geometric forms and the material and technique. Even with their echoes of minimalism and concretism, the works are nevertheless unmistakably, playfully, insightfully Bell’s own. They are subtle events of transition, repetition, and transformation where two surfaces come together again and again.

Arnstedt Östra Karup is proud to present Diana Orving, in her solo exhibition, A room that is fainted.

Diana Orving's work often moves in a field between fragment and whole. Forms arise as individual elements, but at the same time seem to be part of a larger context. They stretch towards each other, form connections and open spatial relationships that cannot always be seen from a single point. What appears to be a coherent form from one angle can be dissolved and reshaped from another.

Arnstedt Östra Karup is pleased to present Linn Fernström in her solo exhibition, Among Eagles.

Linn Fernström is one of Sweden’s most acclaimed contemporary artists. She is now presenting a new exhibition, "Bland örnar" (Among Eagles), at the same gallery where she made her debut 26 years ago.

… just a shell. is a year-long exhibition by Ingólfur Arnarsson at i8 Grandi.

Throughout the year, the artist will make architectural modifications to the exhibition space through additions and alterations, while the inclusion of a set of drawings serves as a constant in each transformation. Arnarsson’s drawings are built up through layered crosshatching of hard-leaded pencil lines, creating a field of subtle irregularities. Continuously evolving with the addition of new works and interventions, each iteration will be accompanied by a new text by Lani Yamamoto.