Art Calendar

We are pleased to announce Petra Lindholm’s exhibition Whatever Knocks on Your Door, Dance with it in the inner room of the gallery. Petra Lindholm works with different techniques and moves freely between the digital, two-dimensional and the analogue, tactile. She alternates between textile images, sound and moving images. This exhibition shows a series of new textile assemblages.

The works are based on Lindholm’s interest in our surrounding soundscape and how it affects us. In this case, the images are inspired by the sound frequencies of three tuning forks and a specific colour chord. The motifs are landscapes based on her own video work from the beginning of the 2000s, among other things. She describes it as a stream of sceneries that have emerged through memories, the subconscious and personal experiences.

palace enterprise looks forward to welcoming you at the opening of the solo exhibition 'ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD' by Danish artist Simon Dybbroe Møller.

At once familiar and spectacular, the glowing display towers demonstrate a kinship between the kaleidoscopic regimes of the department store, the museum, the photograph, and the screen. The vitrines are reminiscent of architectural models of skyscrapers of a futuristic metropolis, of biotope-like aquariums, and of the psychedelic dream machines of the ’60s, which used stroboscopic effects to generate images in the minds of its users. As they stand here, empty, and eternally rotating, they secrete images of life in modern Western society: the clock, capitalism, the city, and the screen.

Galleri Cora Hillebrand is pleased to introduce Jason E Bowman's exhibition 'Talk to the hand'.

Galleri Bo Bjerggaard is proud to present A Face in the Clouds, an exhibition of new works by the Swedish painter Anna Bjerger. The artist’s third solo show at the gallery features paintings large and small alongside works on paper.

Bjerger’s new paintings embrace both open vistas and intimate scenes of indoor life. Unlike her earlier work, the images are not taken from the artist's books and magazines but from her own life. Large-scale skies and clouds and forest trees are complemented by smaller paintings of an overturned cup, shadows of leaves dancing on a tabletop, a flickering candle burning down. In scenes of everyday life far from the city, Bjerger compels us to look closely at ubiquitous but often overlooked things.

The gallery is very excited to present “COLLABORATION”, the second solo exhibition with Christian Falsnæs. COLLABORATION explores collaboration as an artistic strategy and performance as a tool to initiate collective processes and create the framework for the formation of new communities.

Over the past two decades, Christian Falsnæs has worked with performance and participatory strategies. By implementing group dynamics and rituals, he has examined how a given group (the audience) can conform to a framework or a set of established rules. With COLLABORATION, he attempts to delegate his authority as an artist to the audience and make room for the emergence of new collective ideas and
expressions.

At Gether Contemporary, we are incredibly proud to conclude a fantastic year of exhibitions with Christine Overvad Hansen's third solo exhibition in the gallery, Sleepers. Christine Overvad Hansen first exhibited at Gether Contemporary in 2017 alongside Lea Guldditte Hestelund.

Inspired by various sources, including espionage strategies and the small emperor moth family, Overvad Hansen unfolds a sculptural narrative of observation and pretense in her upcoming exhibition, Sleepers, which serves as both a defense mechanism and a tool of power. The works revolve around the double meaning of the exhibition title, which can loosely be translated as "the sleepers" and "moles" - those who feign loyalty but actually spy for others. This is expressed in several of the exhibition's works, portraying female figures who appear to be at rest and passive, but upon closer inspection, are strangely absorbed in observing their surroundings and the other sculptural bodies in the space, as well as the visitors.

Visit us as we introduce Christoffer Mahlknecht for the first time, a recent graduate from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts. Mahlknecht's work delves into the intricate world of material processes, employing oil paint and beeswax to construct his captivating layered artworks.

Peder Lund is honored to announce that the gallery will take part in the centennial celebration of the inimitable American artist Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015). With the upcoming exhibition “Ellsworth Kelly: Postcards”, Peder Lund will present an exclusive selection of the artist’s beloved and important production of postcard collages.

On what would have been the artist’s 100th birthday, a year-long celebration will showcase the artist’s indelible legacy. This collaborative event includes exhibitions at several museums and galleries across the U.S. and Europe.

Croy Nielsen is pleased to introduce artist Mandla Reuter’s first exhibition in the current premises of this formerly Berlin-based gallery. The interventions in the spatial structure are minimal, no locks were replaced, no floors above were flooded, though a glass barrier positioned in a passageway can result in a complete loss of distance. The main room shows the artist’s long-standing addressing of a property in the north of downtown Los Angeles, a metropolis in and of itself receptive to prospering projections of all kinds, which the artist acquired in 2011.

For Holders, their first solo presentation at Saskia Neuman Gallery, Susanna Marcus Jablonski has taken the body of a central sculpture, Weeping Lion (2023), and extended it into an all-encompassing installation of newly created glass and ceramic works. Marcus Jablonski is a Stockholm-based artist whose sculptures, moving image works, and spatial installations skillfully combine fragile materials with found objects in an exquisite balancing act of near-abstraction.

We are delighted to present the first part of Tova Mozard's exhibition ILOVERUSS, featuring a three-channel video installation. In part II of the show, photographic works will be added to the project and shown in our smaller gallery space. The second part of the exhibition will open in connection with Gallery Weekend Stockholm, Friday 10 November.

ILOVERUSS premiered at Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, earlier this year. The video installation is now shown for the first time in Stockholm. In the project, Mozard follows the struggling actor Russ Kingston in Hollywood over a 20-year period. Their friendship plays out on the screens, where Mozard tactfully lets Kingston immerse himself in a monologue about acting and life – with Mozard as a supporting actor. With his crummy apartment as a backdrop, Russ Kingston’s constant battle for a life in the limelight evokes feelings of both awkwardness and tenderness. Other glimpses in the film involve a playful Tova Mozard swimming in a pool with Kingston. Scenes from Stanley Kubrick’s “Lolita” add another dimension to the relationship between the older man and a young woman.

Galleria Heino are pleased to introduce Markus Rissanen's exhibition 'The Age of the Autofungi'.

Galleria Heino are pleased to introduce Mika Karhu's exhibition consisting of charcoal drawings and video installations, in which Karhu's explores some feelings of anxiety caused by powerlessness, feelings about a stuttered-over-again world that is difficult and problematic to grasp.

Helsinki Contemporary is delighted to conclude its 2023 programme with the group exhibition ’Inside Out’, a group exhibition featuring artists, Kati Immonen, Michael Johansson, Teemu Mäenpää and Rauha Mäkilä, who reflect on interfaces between home and the outside world, the private and the public, and the way our surrounding reality is shaped through a lens of personal interpretation. The exhibition reminds us that while the world changes, home is a place that always retains its meaning, offering a refuge, a source of inspiration, and a safe harbour to which to return.

i8 Gallery is pleased to announce Nichinichi-So, an exhibition of new paintings by Yui Yaegashi, which will be on view from 16 November until 23 December. This is the artist’s second exhibition at i8 Gallery and opens with a public reception for the artist on 16 November.

Yui Yaegashi’s oil paintings are rooted in precision, with her distinct style of patterning resulting in reductive, layered works. Yaegashi’s compositions are carefully composed, with a focus on graphic lines, veiled strokes of paint, surface textures, and explorations of both symmetry and asymmetry. The artist has a systematic approach to painting, working in her signature small format and often limiting colour palettes. While precise, the paintings intentionally include elements of imperfection, which interrupt the restraint inherent to the artist’s approach and highlight the nuances of her compositions.

ISCA Gallery is thrilled to open its new space at Skovveien 17 with the group exhibition titled ‘Ace of Pentacles’.

The opening exhibition will offer a glimpse into the gallery’s program, with a selection of artists who’s brilliant work and exhibitions have contributed to the gallery’s growth over the years. The selection of artists reflect the red thread running through past exhibitions at the gallery as well as those coming up in the next years. Camilla Løw, Liv Ertzeid, Mia Van Veen, Ida Madsen Følling, Berit Louise Sara-Grønn, Markus Li Stensrud, Sophia Sørholt, and Ali Gallefoss will present series of new pieces that display their individual approaches to painting and sculpture while creating unique dialogues between themselves and their work.

In SPECTA, Camilla Thorup opens her new solo exhibition Omen, a presentation of ceramic hybrids and elements revolving around our both connectedness and alienation to nature. Omen is not an eerie and dark exhibition about the end of the world, rather an exhibition about the extent to which we experience connectedness with nature, about how we are or can become one with it, and see snails, mushrooms and decay as part of the cycle, that gives new life. With enlarged snails, fruits in both decay and sprouting and hybrids of nature and human, Omen unfolds a world of figures that are both recognizable but also leave us in doubt: Are we really in control or does nature take its course, regardless of what we do?

Swedish artist duo Inka & Niclas manipulate the visual mechanics of nature photographs and playfully examine the everyday usage of landscape imagery. The artists probe the desire to consume nature through travels and photography and present oneself as being in harmony with nature. ‘Extensions‘ consists of a combination of different bodies of work that revolve around this central theme.

Martin Asbæk Gallery is proud to present the exhibition “Who’s Afraid of Face Recognition?” by Niels Bonde, a pioneer within digital art in Denmark. As a result of the large-scale mosaic on the gallery’s windows, the space inside shimmers as a jewel, or maybe more specifically as a flickering screen.

The artist’s interest in light and color is evident from the get-go, but the exhibition is also in many ways a logic extension of the artist’s earlier work using hacking as a strategy in the early 90s as well as his work with surveillance when it was still considered a science fiction. Now, Bonde critically examines face recognition as yet another type of surveillance through a number of pixelated, low-res images and portraits.

The technology behind face recognition is able to match a human face from a digital image or video against a database of faces, and Bonde compares this to phrenology, an influential discipline in the 19th century, in which the confirmation of the skull was believed to be indicative of specific character traits.

Galleri Susanne Ottesen is very pleased to present part two of the exhibition NOW HERE, THEN THERE, a celebration of the now and the future.
Following the historical presentation of NOW HERE, THEN THERE: PART 1, the exhibition now changes character and focuses on the years between 1989 and the present day. The five artistic positions from the early years expand and dissolve into a spectrum of forty artists - some of those who have held solo shows over the years - working across print, painting, photography, textiles, video and sculpture.

Gallery Steinsland Berliner are excited to introduce this year's final show; Our Winter Show 2023. The event has become an annual tradition that invites all willing participants to the gallery for an eclectic group exhibition featuring work by gallery affiliated artists and friends. The works on display in Our Winter Show 2023 include drawings, paintings, photography and sculpture touching on wide-ranging topics and inspirations and realized by an array of phenomenal artists whom we admire deeply.

The exhibiting artists in Our Winter Show 2023 are; Akay & Olabo, Anastasia Ax, David von Bahr, Arvida Byström, Ylva Carlgren, Erik Gustafsson, Hanna Hansdotter, Matti Kallioinen, Mattias Nordéus, Malin Gabriella Nordin, Oskar Nilsson, Nøne Futbol Club, Leo Park, Ragnar Persson, Linnéa Sjöberg, Gunnar Smoliansky, Danilo Stankovic, Tommy Sveningsson, Erik Thörnqvist & Fredrik Åkum.

Two kinds of metamorphosis take place in Emma Helle’s latest sculptures: the human figures stand motionless, perhaps on the verge of turning into trees, while the landscape-like clouds and bushes have sprouted limbs as if they were attempting to carry the space. The static figures stand watch like gentle sentinels, benevolently protecting and caring for everything around them. The physical contours of the dynamic figures meanwhile melt and fluidly coalesce with their surroundings. The clouds may drift and the landscape may change, but the movements of the mind follow the wanderer. The rippling lake is an emotional landscape with an irresistible pull.

Leading Finnish contemporary artist Heikki Marila presents a new exhibition themed around the trope of flowers. Rich in allusions to art history, the show is startling in its thematic monumentality. Marila painted his first floral compositions back in 2009, drawing inspiration from the opulent idiom of the 17th-century Dutch still life genre. Marila has recently continued his explorations of the floral theme, which he finds banal in certain respects – yet this is precisely what makes it so intriguing.

Marila’s recent renditions of the floral theme have acquired new layers of meaning. In his new works, flowers have become emphatically corporeal interpretations of aesthetic form and pictorial truth. There is tangible tension between their accentuated aestheticism and the artist’s aggressive technique, which has him literally throwing the paint at the canvas – bombing it, if you will. The paint splatters on the canvas in fragmented clots, breaking up both the pictorial surface and the subject into shattered pieces. Marila throws himself into the physical act of painting. For him, physical gesture and the imprint on the canvas are indissolubly merged. It would not be an overstatement to say that the act is sometimes more significant than the subject.

Eighteen is pleased to present the solo exhibition by Dina Roudman 'Daydreamer'. Bursts of vivid colours offer fragmented glimpses of the beyond. Mirrored memories and cosmic sensations, out of reach from verbal and written language, are expressed with paint on canvas. The compositions trace long-limbed movements, rhythm, energy, push and pull, purpose and mistakes. Beautiful mistakes. Intuitive decisions. Figurative elements appear, dissolve, transition and reappear.

V1 Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition What I Gather that presents Loji’s Höskuldsson’s embroidered reflections and meditations on the intricate relationship between self, society and culture. The works in the exhibition engage themes of national identity, soft spoken cultural cliches and stereotypes, alternative national icons, familial roots and self-understanding. Approaching the topics with a wonderfully personal and empirical methodology, a fragmented type of Knolling, Höskuldsson offers novel perspectives.

Höskuldsson’s process is excruciating slow, days and months, stich by stich, small (20 x 25 cm) and large-scale (170 x 300 cm) compositions appear on burlap, giving him ample time to reflect on the subject matter at hand. This meditative creative process is embedded in the final work, encouraging an intuitive contemplative response from the viewer. Slowing our cognitive response to the work and leaving space for a more tactile relationship and reading. It’s a form of story telling founded in a craft tradition, but harnessed to explore current issues. A kind of Dogme approach to making contemporary art.

BORCH Editions’ presentation of prints by Tacita Dean features Telomere, a large-scale photogravure with screenprint created for her 2023 exhibition at the Pinault Collection’s Bourse du Commerce in Paris, alongside a selection of other recent printmaking projects.

Tacita Dean has been collaborating with BORCH Editions since 2001. Since then, printmaking has become an essential part of her artistic practice. Partly based on her films, partly created from found material like postcards or vintage photographs, she employs the printing technique photogravure to transfer her poetic visual narratives into the realm of printmaking.

Etage projects is glad to present the group show Hybrid Habitability, curated by Jeanette Apitz & Tina Roeder. In a world where the boundaries between natural and artificial, analog and digital, and human and non-human blur, 'HYBRID HABITABILITY' offers a fresh perspective on coexistence and collaboration. This group exhibition unites a diverse array of artists and designers, each pushing the boundaries of their respective mediums to nourish hybridity in our living environments. This exhibition invites us to reconsider our connection to Earth and its inhabitants, exploring evolving relationships between humans, animals, plants, objects, technology, and other entities.

The show's featured artists are Lab La Bla, Pegasus, Product, Soft Baroque, Uffe Isolotto, Kueng Caputo, Alex Müller, Nuri Koerfer, Anaïs Borie, Tina Roeder, Lizzy Ellbrück, Arnaud, Eubelen, Koos Breen, and Bnag.

LOYAL is proud to present a solo exhibition with Hiejin Yoo entitled AM/PM 11:44, which will be installed over the two floors of the gallery. Hiejin Yoo paints as she sorts through prosaic souvenirs. With the current exhibition, she reinforces her proclivity for enhanced banality. Yoo aims to create paintings that reach out to viewers, prompting a shared interest in the minutiae of daily life. She recognizes an ongoing crisis of patience — or lack thereof — and counters the trend by marinating in thoughtful resolve. This tendency was triggered by the slowness Yoo recognized in her dog, who takes his time sniffing and looking around at everything. A gentle reminder that things can be so simple, yet blossom out into dimensional experience. What’s more, Yoo recognizes her own lived experience as a painter being consigned to head underwater, perpetually overwhelmed by compositional ideas.

We are delighted to announce Jeff Olsson’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition Oh No presents drawings from the last couple of years. In the first room we are introduced to an installation of smaller works and animations together with additions, fragments and texts applied directly on the gallery walls. In the second room a series of larger drawings are presented.

In his artistry Jeff Olsson has worked exclusively with drawing since the start. His works are created with charcoal, graphite and dry pastel on paper and have with few exceptions been in black and white. Something ancient and prehistorical about drawing lives on in Olsson’s imagery, even though they are of course contemporary. A poetic and substantive connection to a primitive creation with the coal from a burned-out campfire. The drawings often reminiscent of relics or messages from a time that no longer exists, or that has not yet arrived. They carry an inherent melancholy and despair and seem to be drawn out of necessity rather than pleasure. But in the austerity there is also a childish dark humor and an almost manic desire to tell stories. The pen, stick or piece of charcoal continues an endless journey on the paper.

Persons Projects is delighted to present the latest group exhibition titled Portraiture as Social Commentary; this exhibition not only highlights the different aspects of the genre but also links together a variety of artistic perspectives. A portrait is a painting, a photograph, a sculpture, or any other representation of a person in which the face and its expressions are predominant. They reveal the presence of the subject viewed from the perspective of the artist – a merger of contrasts between what’s projected by one and perceived by another. These images become mirrors of many faces that reflect both the political and cultural undercurrents relevant to the time period in which they were conceived.

NEVVEN Gallery are proud to announce “Gapahuk”, a solo show by Andreas Meinich. With “Gapahuk,” Oslo based Norwegian artist Andreas Meinich will present a full room installation of his monumental-sized tufted photographs. Fruit of a way of exploring his own country which is as much bodily enticing as culturally, sort of Strava meeting “National Geographic,” Meinich returns from his bikepacking explorations of the Norwegian backcountry, with a humorous and ironical representation of what one could describe as folklore. Large and goofy wooden statues, norse mythological symbols (with all their controversial appropriations), minor touristic sights and folk attractions, they all bring with them a knowledge and feeling. An almost tactile encounter with a culture that Meinich photographs in all its ingenuousness and, somehow, poetry.