Art Calendar

BERG Contemporary is pleased to present the exhibition data-verse by Ryoji Ikeda.

In his data-verse (2019-2020), Ryoji Ikeda is driven by scientific facts, which he extracts from his studies of quantum physics and mathematical theories. According to the artist, it is the result of an accumulation of research gathered over the course of sixteen years. The work stems from Ikeda's yearning to understand what nature is and its scientific principles. Therefore, the building blocks of his visuals are sourced from particle physics, cosmology, astrophysics, and extensive data sets from institutions such as NASA, CERN, and The Human Genome Project. Understanding concepts such as galactic coordinates, the structure of protein and DNA, and deciphering their information from scratch became the foundation of the work.

Arnstedt Östra Karup is pleased to present the group exhibition Endless Tales, where stories take shape, transform and are purposely left unfinished.

It all started as an echo. The stories didn't arise here, they happened, and before they could take shape, they slipped apart again. This is reflected in the painting, where the images are never completely still but shift as soon as you look away.

The sculptures probably arose at a later time, or perhaps simultaneously, it is difficult to say. Carried by memories, the forms are sometimes almost too clear, only to become mobile and shift in the next moment.

In the middle of the room stands a table. Left in a conversation that hasn't quite ended. Next to it hang candles that aren't burning, but still haven't gone out - frozen in their own movement.

Everything is in an ongoing state of transformation, where time does not move forward but circulates.

Arnstedt Östra Karup is proud to present works by Viktor Kopp in his solo exhibition, När jag var en målning.

Inspired by Solvej Balle's novel Uträkningen av omfång, Viktor Kopp's work questions the boundary between the fictional and the real, the physical and the psychic. The work is an invitation to externalize what is thought to be intangible, imagining the reality of stumbling upon thoughts as if they were as real as the artist himself.

Andréhn-Schiptjenko is proud to present SIGHTSEEING, a group exhibition including works by Aleksandra Waliszewska, David Tibet, Olle Wärnbäck, Richard Cartwright, Niklas Nenzén and Hugo Lindblad. The exhibition, curated by Martin Jacobson, brings together six artists which unites in a visual language moving within the realm of mythologies, dreams, pop culture and the esoteric and the psychedelic.

A common thread running through the exhibition is that the works on display still seem to hold an enigma. They do not provide any clear answers or offer a definitive solution. They reflect psychological states, visions, dreams, mirror worlds and hallucinations. What may appear to be a seemingly introspective and detached view of the world is, in fact, an invitation to contemplate existence on a deeper level and open oneself up to alternative dimensions.

Galerie Nordenhakke is proud to present Gunilla Klingberg's long-awaited return to the gallery space where she presents a new body of work rooted in deeply personal experience. Distributed through the three rooms of Galerie Nordenhake, the artist explores themes around absence and transition in three distinct series and a wall-mounted sculpture.

What remains when someone leaves us? Where do we find the lingering traces of their presence? Klingberg explores these questions with the raw nerve of lived experience. Drawing on the writings of Jane Bennett, she challenges the view of matter as passive, proposing instead that all materials possess a "vibrant agency." She searches for and reveals this charged quality in otherwise “inert” materials like worn clothes, the keys of a laptop, a rock. Three of the four groups of works employ aluminium – the most common metal in the earth’s crust and in a cycle of constant reuse – a loop that recalls reincarnation. All the materials are linked through their transformation.

Galleri Bo Bjerggaard is pleased to present Interiors, a new exhibition by Mike Silva featuring paintings of unoccupied interiors and intimate portraits drawn from the artist’s personal photographs.

Working from images taken more than twenty years ago, Silva revisits private spaces, fleeting encounters, and quiet moments suspended between memory and distance. Hotel rooms, shared apartments, and solitary interiors become stages where traces of human presence linger just beyond view.

Marked by subtle shifts of light and a painterly looseness, the works explore intimacy, time, and the emotional weight carried by everyday spaces. The paintings invite viewers into moments that feel deeply personal yet ultimately remain just out of reach.

Dorothée Nilsson Gallery is pleased to present TWO, a duo exhibition with Gerry Johansson and Dawid, opening during Gallery Weekend Berlin.

On May 2nd at 2 pm, a conversation between Barbara Esch-Marowski and the artists Gerry Johansson and Dawid will take place in the gallery, offering further insight into their work and approach.

Galleri Magnus Karlsson is delighted to present Bella Rune’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. Planet features new works that criss-cross between two and three dimensions in sculptures, objects and works on paper.

The exhibition title itself suggests an ambiguity that is characteristic of Bella Rune’s artistic practice (The word Planet can mean either planet, airplane or surface in Swedish). She utilizes the everyday, the tangible and the fundamental to aim for something expansive and grand. In her most recent works, she has taken an interest in simple machines: basic mechanical devices that alter the direction or magnitude of a force to make work easier. The classic examples are the lever, the inclined plane, the wedge, the screw, the wheel and axle, and the pulley.

Galleri Riis is pleased to present a new exhibition with Fredrik Söderberg titled At the Feet of the Guru (Revisited).

"I held my first exhibition at Galleri Riis in 2012. Now, fourteen years later, I find myself returning to a kind of dialogue with the past – my own past."

The title of the exhibition, At the Feet of the Guru, borrowed its name from the book of the same title by the English writer and occultist Kenneth Grant. The book is a collection of texts written from the 1950s onwards and recounts Grant’s encounters with, and studies of, Eastern mysticism and Indian teachers and gurus. Its central theme is the exploration of a synthesis between East and West. It highlights how Grant integrated Indian tantra and philosophy into his own system, the Typhonian tradition, and how these influences shaped his interpretation of the magical work of his mentors, Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare.

Persons Projects is pleased to announce the opening of its upcoming exhibition Geometry of Light, featuring Karl Benjamin and Grey Crawford, presented as part of this year’s Gallery Weekend in the new sector Perspectives.

Geometry of Light explores, for the first time, the direct influence of Karl Benjamin’s hard-edge painting on the early conceptual photography of Grey Crawford. Though working in different media, both artists were rooted in Southern California and shared a common visual language—one grounded in the precise use of geometry, structure, and abstraction.

Isaak Fangel is pleased to present the group exhibition Twilight with new and preexisting works by Hanna Antonsson, Nicholas Marschner and Signe Ralkov. Each of the artists’ works engage with the genre of the uncanny, blurring the boundaries between animate and inanimate, human and non-human, life and death.

Popularized by Sigmund Freud in 1919, the term unheimliche directly translates to “unhomely,” but was later defined as “uncanny.” It refers to something recognizable and familiar that, through a process of repression, has become alienated. The uncanny exemplifies a feeling of eeriness and uneasiness precisely because it contains something both familiar and repulsive.

It is an in-between state, like that of twilight. Understood as a phenomenon, twilight is a transition between light and darkness. Used figuratively, it can also describe a time of transformation and the process of metamorphosis.

Galerie Nordenhake is pleased to present a solo exhibition by John Zurier, Along - Between

In John Zurier’s work, color is not merely a means of representation; together with the materiality of the canvas, it becomes the very subject of the painting – an echo of a moment, almost impossibly fleeting, yet one that lingers. This atmosphere profoundly shapes his approach and defines the paintings in his tenth solo exhibition at the gallery, opening as a part of Gallery Weekend Berlin. The show brings together new, predominately, small size works revealing the range of his monochromatic idiom.

Galleri Magnus Karlsson is pleased to present an exhibition with Lisa Jonasson in the inner room of the gallery. Second Breath presents a series of screen prints and sculptures cast in aluminium.

"In the autumn of 2025, I was restless because of the state of the world. My angry energy wasn’t suited to studio work but worked well for the metal foundry and the printmaking workshop. In recent years, I have been cutting out silhouettes, tiny little pieces that have been assembled into collages. Now I used a larger pair of scissors to cut out coarser silhouette figures in black, which I pasted together into positive originals that were then photographically transferred onto the screen frames. In the workshop, one image has led to another. To my surprise, the images turned out archaic, simple and open. Although I have spent many years working with my own inner visual world, the outside world is strongly present, now and always. In images, as in other languages, it is only what is shared that is viable."

–Lisa Jonasson

Avlskarl is pleased to present works by Okka-Esther Hungerbühler in her solo exhibition Fairy Tale Paintings.

"Fairy Tale Paintings are works that engage with (to me) familiar fairy tales. In painterly and sketchy manner, I have worked with sequences from fairy tales that have stayed with me. Often, these are existential narrative moments. With an understated brutality, they usher in a new phase of life, such as Snow White’s death or the Star Talers’ last shirt. My primary focus here is on the image in my mind, which has persisted for years.

The exhibition opens with Connection Paintings: fabric pieces that link two canvases with cable-like, hand-sewn, golden fabric strips. These connections extend across the entire space. This guides viewers to the paintings at the rear of the gallery, requiring them to navigate through a kind of golden tangle to enter the second section of the exhibition."

— Okka-Esther Hungerbühler

ISCA Gallery is delighted to present BROAD BEANS, Sophia Sørholt's second solo exhibition with the gallery.

At home I keep an emergency stock. Beans, sardines, tomatoes, pickles. Beyond the necessity, I enjoy arranging it, stacking the best-looking tins in front. Labels facing forward, everything neat. Eat that, Doomsday!

Then I get careless and start eating into it. Tins pulled from the front, the rest shoved back any which way. Labels turn. Old habits take over.

The paintings in BROAD BEANS start the same way. A clear beautiful label, forward facing. Things moved around until it settles. Everything in line. Then it slips. The brush drags, the paint thickens. The labels turn.

Sophia Sørholt (b. 1996) is an Oslo-based artist working primarily in painting. Developing her practice independently, she has established a distinct visual language that draws on elements of Abstract Expressionism. Her works are characterized by playful forms, bold contours, and heavily worked surfaces. Sørholt's practice is guided by an intuitive approach to composition and colour, working with saturated, almost edible colour. She explores subtle shifts in hue and tone, allowing colours to interact and vibrate across the canvas.

Galleri Riis is pleased to present a new exhibition with Stein Rønning, titled Script-intern II.

Script-intern II is Rønning’s fourteenth exhibition with Galleri Riis since his first in 1987; and presents new individual sculptures and photographic works as a continuation of Rønning’s Script-intern I exhibition with the gallery in 2024.

The exhibition features works from two series of sculptures that date back over three decades. One series has over the years been given the title dstnc, which points out that they were first made to create a distance in considering them as objects, and at the same time denotes the fact that they have been moved away from this starting point through several iterations which have been generated using both analogue and digital tools. In the latest generation 4.0., manual reading has been used to scan a digitized form. A series of small formats is cast in bronze and some slightly larger ones are cast in plaster and coated with iron oxide in shellac. The second series is titled dbl blnd and refers to the fact that these works were made blindly. This exhibition features versions of generation 3.0., which are subtracted enlargements by eye measurement of a triangulated digital form based on photographs of the first generation.

Galerie Anhava is pleased to present the bright joint exhibition by two maestros, Tor Arne (1934–2025) and Paul Osipow (b. 1939), with a focus on color, light and line.

The exhibition marks the conclusion of Galerie Anhava's spring program for 2026. The idea for the exhibition came about when Arne suggested a joint exhibition to Osipow in the summer of 2024. Longstanding colleagues and friends, both artists were founding members and residents of the artist’s terraced house established in Riihitie in Järvenpää in 1967. In 1984, Arne and Osipow exhibited together in the exhibition Arne–Osipow–Enckell organized at the Helsinki Kunsthalle.

Tor Arne, who passed away in August 2025, had already been working extensively for the upcoming exhibition. The small-scale works now to be presented were assembled on a large table in the artist’s studio in Oulunkylä. The final mounting for the works has been completed with the help of the artist’s trusted colleagues and family. The familiar horizontal rectangular shape of Arne’s works is repeated in most of the works, but also a few curved, round and polygonal works are included in the exhibition.

Þula is proud to present We Got Time, a solo exhibition by artist Kristín Morthens which explores the act of pausing within uncertainty and extending that moment forward. Twilight – neither day nor night – becomes a symbol of transformation, transition, and possibility.

The series is inspired by Jónsmessa (Midsummer), a time when the veil between worlds thins and nature is at its most potent. The concept reflects both hope and fear at turning points – moments when everything feels possible and time seems to stretch.

We Got Time started at Market Art Fair as a prologue to her solo exhibition at Þula.

Helsinki Contemporary is pleased to present Swedish artist Peter Köhler’s first solo exhibition in Finland.

No Rest Beneath the Rose showcases Köhler’s skillful ink and acrylic drawings, which draw inspiration from myth and fantasy. Köhler has exhibited widely in Sweden, for example, at Moderna Museet, Teckningsmuseet, and Galleri Magnus Karlsson, and his works are held in both private and public collections in Sweden, Europe and the US.

Köhler describes his work as existing at the intersection of contemporary sociology, folklore, and magical thinking. Through his distinctive visual language, he explores how archetypal beliefs and ancient myths persist in the present day. His works challenge our perceptions of rational contemporary culture and the linear nature of time.

CFHIll is pleased to present the works of artists Nils Dardel and Bror Hjorth in their exhibition "Två sommardagar. Två världar. Två mästerverk."

Painted in 1917, Den trevliga sommarsöndagen (The Pleasant Summer Sunday) reflects Nils Dardel’s return to his memories of Senlis, France, where he had spent the summer of 1914 among close friends and fellow artists.

Bror Hjorth’s Kafferep vid Långsjön (1940) is one of the most celebrated works in Swedish art, depicting an idyllic summer coffee gathering that has become part of Sweden’s shared cultural heritage. Blending the warmth of folk tradition with the innovations of European modernism, Hjorth created a vibrant and deeply human composition that captures the joy of light, nature, friendship, and community.

This summer, Yugoexport presents the founding objects of a Shanghai-based art collective, Tonic, at palace enterprise.

The exhibition draws on cinematic memory space from Irena Haiduk’s film Nula (2028), installed in the gallery as a living room called Ursula, named after two Ursulas: the author Ursula K. Le Guin (whose book The Dispossessed imagined a society without possessions) and Ursula, the fictional sea witch (who in the global imaginary commons transacts legs for voice in Walt Disney’s rendition of The Little Mermaid).

Tonic’s Host Zipper Sofa System (2026) and Waiting Objects (2026) are available for use, devised by Irena Haiduk and produced with Jiantong Zhao. The exhibition also features works by Yugoexport, a blind and non-aligned oral corporation whose founding logic is equivalence, loyalty, and familial solidarity between people and things.

Gallery Susanne Ottesen is proud to present Enter Stage Left, a group exhibition.

The exhibition brings together works from 1970 to 2026 that, in different ways, orbit the scenic. Some are created for the stage – such as Troels Wörsel’s newly rediscovered paintings and scenography for WHO’S FAKING WHO (1993) – while others move toward it, circle around it, or draw on its logics and sensibilities.

V1 Salon is pleased to present For Scale Only, a group exhibition.

A chair is perhaps the most familiar object through which we understand human proportion. In For Scale Only, it’s used not primarily for sitting, nor exactly as an object of design, but as a tool for reading scale. In the exhibition, a chair is placed beside each painting as a point of reference.

This is a familiar device within art, yet one that has taken on renewed urgency in our digital age: when artworks are most often encountered within the small rectangle of a screen, their true dimensions are easily lost. Here, the chair anchors the work in the physical world, situating it in relation to the body and to space, while turning one of culture’s most charged objects into a purely illustrative tool.

Annika Nutallal Gallery is proud to present Line Busch and Carl Krull in a joint exhibition where they investigate perception as a shifting, unstable state.

The term “parallax” originates from astronomy and optics, describing the apparent displacement of an object when viewed from different positions. In this exhibition, the concept unfolds both concretely and metaphorically: two artists see the world from different perspectives, while simultaneously revealing a surprising overlap in their visual language.

Through painting, drawing and spatial illusions, Busch and Krull share an insistence on repetition as a generative method. Lines, cuts, contours and rhythmic structures become tools through which perception is destabilized and reconstructed. In Busch’s works, color gradations, turns and reflective surfaces activate a phenomenological encounter in which the image constantly shifts in relation to the viewer’s movement in space. Her works move between precision and transformation, system and change.

Northing Space is proud to present Naeun Kang, a South Korean visual artist returning to Bergen after three years with the solo exhibition, Overthinking.

The exhibition presents a new body of oil paintings, graphite drawings, and watercolours. The works continue the artist's longstanding exploration of what is awkward, broken, messy, vulnerable, absurd, or hidden, and the ambivalence these states hold. The works move between reflections on psychology and interpersonal relationships, and the artist's transient or recurring fixations and daydreams.

Lagune Ouest is pleased to present Tobias Just in his solo exhibition, Blyantspidser.

Skrrhrrkkk… skrrhhrrk… skhrrkk…

Tobias Just works in the field between painting and drawing, exploring fleeting moments when connections between introverted and extroverted spaces dissolve.

Gallery Gudmundsdottir is pleased to present Suckers, the first solo exhibition by Endre Aalrust with Gallery Gudmundsdottir.

A baby’s pacifier rests on a tabletop. Its soft nub points upward, inviting a suck. Behind it, stands a Greek tavern pitcher filled with several narcissus flowers, one of which is drooping and losing its petals. The flower stems suck up water from the jug, although the wilted narcissus no longer seems to be drinking.

Matteo Cantarella is proud to present Liu Shiyuan's work in her solo exhibition, Nobody Labour.

Spanning photography, video, drawing and installation, Liu’s practice explores the mechanisms of image production, dissemination, and perception in contemporary society through the deconstruction and reconstruction of online visual materials, popular culture symbols, and narrative structures.

Liu Shiyuan (b. 1985, Beijing) lives and works in Copenhagen. Liu holds an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 2012, and BFA from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing in 2009.

Eighteen is pleased to present Mixed Reality, a solo exhibition by Austin Lee.

In Austin Lee's solo exhibition Mixed Reality — his first in Denmark, we enter a contemplative plane somewhere between the mundane and the uncanny: the real virtual reality, very close, yet slightly peripheral. His new paintings and sculptures explore the human condition, probe the edges of presence and perception, as Lee employs digital tools and strategies to review and expand the ancient language of painting. Here, consciousness dances with the unconscious, and the familiar winks back at you in the mirror.

V1 Gallery is proud to present Mars Singleton in his solo exhibition, I Love You More When It's Over.

Life is often a cycle of longing, as desire is sharpened by absence, and as the beauty of a moment often appears clearest once it has slipped away. I Love You More When It’s Over unfolds within this tension, from the fundamental realization about desire and space: that we often love things most acutely when they're no longer ours to hold.

Galleri Nicolai Wallner is pleased to present the solo exhibition 'Accoutrements' by Rasmus Myrup.

'Accoutrements', the title of the exhibition, is a play on words. In French, the term evokes the idea of a disguise, while in English it refers to the accessories or details that complete an outfit and enhance its effect. Rasmus Myrup's interventions propose a scene where accessories — usually considered secondary — become the protagonists. ⁠

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.

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.

… 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.