Art Calendar

Andersen's is pleased to present the group show "If one could read them, one would know everything" featuring Kaye Donachie, Pati Hill, Melanie Kitti, Joanna Piotrowska, Maaike Schoorel and Nicole Wermers.

Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection, the exhibition !If one could read them, one would know everything" explores the shifting boundaries between identity and perception. Woolf’s story examines the tension between appearance and reality, showing how outward details invite speculation while inner life remains inaccessible. Through a mirror, an observer projects depth, emotion, and meaning onto an absent woman, only for these fantasies to collapse when reality is revealed as empty and indifferent. The mirror becomes a device that exposes the gap between imagination and truth, and questions whether inner identity can ever truly be known.

The exhibition takes up these questions by asking how both outer presence and inner experience might be conveyed. Can a portrait exist when its subject remains partially unseen? Moving beyond visual likeness, the works approach portraiture through traces, gestures, atmospheres, and points of view. Like Woolf’s story, the exhibition is shaped by absence and fragments, suggesting that what we perceive of others is always mediated by imagination, and that identity may be less something revealed than something continually projected.

The exhibition is curated by Naja Bak Randtorp.

Andréhn-Schiptjenko is pleased to present Dev Dhunsi’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Unmistakably You.

Unmistakably You at Andréhn-Schiptjenko is an extension of Dhunsi’s concurrently presented solo exhibition, bearing the same title, at Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art in Lillestrøm, Norway. As a foundation for the exhibition lays his recently published photobook Mixed (2026), published by SPBH Editions / Mack Books. The project was awarded the 2024 Nordic Photobook Award.

Galerie Nordenhake is pleased to present Daily Encounters, Frida Orupabo’s third solo exhibition with the gallery in Stockholm. Featuring twelve new works, the exhibition explores the quiet complexities of the everyday, capturing women and girls in a series of "micro-stories" that oscillate between domestic repose and systemic friction.

Orupabo’s latest body of work centers on the recurring theme of uneventful chores, doctor’s visits, the simple act of petting a cat, or a child presenting a school drawing. Yet, within these seemingly quiet moments, the artist embeds sharp instances of friction: an unwanted hand, an invasive medical examination, or a letter from a boss. Even the figures at rest are charged — one is “Ill at Ease,” another holds a knife in bed, while a third lies seductively with a Barbie doll.

Isaak Fangel is proud to present Halfdan Venlov's collection of photographs in his solo exhibition, Midnight Waltz.

In his solo exhibition, Midnight Waltz, Venlov uses light as a medium to depict subjects in a state of fragility. His series of photographs, taken at night, appear as unresolved scenes.

Lagune Ouest is proud to present Laura Guiseppi's solo exhibition, Sticky Tongue.

Tongue! A sticky tongue infected with saliva and drool, anger and frustration, systems that resist, the lack of the right language. Here, it appears systematised with sharp edges and abject stuff like hair, dust and nails moulded into the surface. Bits and pieces you try to hide away but that continuously reappear no matter how much you twist, shape and turn your tongue. Kissing teeth.

Helsinki Contemporary is proud to present paintings by Jon Koko (Sweden), Marie Rud Rosenzweig (Denmark), and Marlon Wobst (Germany) in the group exhibition Hard Cut.

All three artists construct multi-layered paintings that play with the flatness of the picture plane in distinctive ways. Often embracing narrativity, they explore the human condition through depictions of landscapes, objects, or architecture in styles that verge on abstraction.

Þula is proud to present Happenstance, a solo exhibition by Guðmundur Thoroddsen.

The exhibition's paintings tell a seamless story that invites the viewer to interpret it after their own heart. Much like the occurrences in poetry, sentences and alliteration come together in colors and forms that Guðmundur records on canvas with effortless brushstrokes and the sharp drawing of oil-sticks. The paintings are not calculated; they are fluid and impulsive, where one thing leads to another and ultimately come together in perfect balance. This playful approach by Guðmundur to painting yields an abstract experience that can be likened to nature, where indeterminate forms, colors, and textures are woven together, speaking directly to human emotions.

Arnstedt Östra Karup is pleased to present a group exhibition by former students of the Malmö Art Academy.

CF Hill is proud to present Anders' sculptural series in his solo exhibition, Father Figures.

High Diver is a sculptural series in polished steel and bronze depicting a youthful figure at three distinct moments of a dive: standing poised at the edge of a platform, peering down at the water; suspended mid-somersault in the air; and seated at the edge of the pool in reflection. Rich in layered meanings, the works evoke a narcissistic relationship with the self, the repetition and discipline required to excel at any endeavor, and the existential weight of the instant of decision.

Galleri Nicolai Wallner is pleased to present ‘The Mantis Muse’ by David Shrigley, for the first time outside of the UK.

For this exhibition, a giant praying mantis sculpture by David Shrigley stretches into the tall ceilings, its elegant arms and charming smile bringing an unmistakable playfulness into the white cube. Made from fiberglass and steel with an animatronic head, The Mantis Muse stands at three meters tall.

Galleri Riis is proud to present Marte's solo exhibition, Fotofobia.

Photophobia is the medical term for extreme sensitivity to light. The condition is associated with visual disturbances, migraines and a longing for darkness. The exhibition Fotofobia explores the white pigment titanium dioxide as a catalyst for the penetrating light that the white surfaces of modernity reflect.

BERG is proud to present the works of Þórdís Erla Zoëga in her solo exhibition, Domestic Sci-fi.

In her exhibition, Þórdís Erla Zoëga focuses on the shaping forces of our time, where natural processes are confronted with artificial intelligence and the ever-accelerating technological developments of today. It sheds light on our current period of transformation, where the domestic and technological merge and a new kind of reality takes shape.

Annika Nuttall Gallery is proud to present Julie Koldby in her solo exhibition, Hot interior.

Koldby's work explores the performative mindset, often emerging through actions, repetitions and time-based processes, rather than as fixed, completed objects. Using repetitive movements, blurred image sequences and materials that wear out, accumulate or lose function over time, she examines how material and meaning collapse, and how alternative systems can create the potential for change in troubling times.

Wilson Saplana Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Mette Winckelmann.

In the exhibition SLIP, Mette Winckelmann presents a series of new paintings and textile works. Paint, fabric, and composition merge in an exploration of the material’s meaning, history, and potential. The exhibition revolves around a movement — a “slip” — that points to letting go, losing control, and allowing something to slide, both mentally and physically, as well as to the intimate and body-near aspects of materiality.

Winckelmann engages with the loss that occurred when painting turned away from narrative, representation, and lived experience in favor of abstraction and formal experimentation in its most distilled modernist form. In this process, patterns, textiles, and folk art were often marginalized as low-cultural expressions. With SLIP, Winckelmann revisits this rupture, bringing forward changeability, transience, and traces of the body through her tactile works.

Martin Askbæk Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Peter Bonde.

In his solo exhibition, Peter Bonde challenges the notion of the traditional painting exhibition by recreating elements from his studio at Martin Asbæk Gallery. An overwhelming amount of new paintings – hectic, gesture-filled and executed on mirror foil, which has characterized the artist’s practice in recent years – are presented layer upon layer, carelessly leaning against the walls of the room.

Alice Folker Gallery is pleased to present Maria Torp in her solo exhibition, Transition.

In Transition, Maria Torp's first solo exhibition at Alice Folker Gallery, a sensuous, colourful universe unfolds, one where people and flora intertwine with the currents of cultural and political change. With her characteristic hyperrealistic brushstrokes, Torp creates narratives about dwelling in a time of rupture and living in a world in constant motion. In a world that can feel uncertain and vulnerable, where everything trembles and dystopian visions of the future seem to have become present realities, Torp's paintings remind us of change, community, and presence.

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.

NEVVEN is pleased to present Olof Marsja in his solo exhibition, The Nameless One. Presenting juxtaposing classic sculptures in glass and a large free-standing cyclopean figure, this exhibition brings Marsja back to Göteborg, the city he lives in.

A towering figure stands tall in the centre of the room. It has an alien looking, strange, Cyclopean head, and their gaze is powerfully haughty and pointed high above us. They are dressed in a quite laborious way, reindeer fur covers their neck, torso and shoulders and a seemingly ritual dress covers the rest of their body, the dress is patterned in flowers, yet also hand stained and coloured in red with a natural process. The Nameless One will give the viewers the possibility to see his art's latest step, and the depth and quality that brought his career to its current peak. The Nameless One invites us all to witness in first person the poetic, humorous and sharp ways in which Olof Marsja's art is uniquely able to impress, shake and move, both intimately and politically.

Palace Enterprise is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Adam Christensen.

Adam Christensen is a multidisciplinary artist based in London, whose work is primarily realized through textiles, music, and installation, blurring the boundaries between everyday life and fiction. Based on his immediate experiences, colored by the theatricality of every day, the spectacle of domesticity, chance encounters, and emotional and physical dramas, Christensen conveys these experiences through his performances.

Eighteen is pleased to present Caroline Absher's solo exhibition, Lost language.

Have you ever smiled to yourself at a message hidden in plain sight? A bird's imprint left in the snow, gone before you could be sure you saw it. A cloud formation that held, for one suspended moment, the shape of something familiar. These moments arrive uninvited, visible only to us. Are they real? Do we perceive them, or do we will them into meaning? Where does the realm of the explainable end?

In this exhibition, Caroline Absher explores the symbols that surface around us daily, and the ways in which we attempt to decipher them.

In SPECTA’s new exhibition People, works by five artists are brought together, each exploring the construction of the human subject - individually, socially, and culturally.

The title points to the dual meaning of the concept of “People”: on the one hand as an open category referring to people in a general sense, and on the other as a marker of a specific collective identity, defined through belonging, cultural codes, or borders. The exhibition explores the tension between what is universal and what is specific, between the individual and the group, and between self-understanding and the gaze of the other.

V1 Gallery is pleased to present Kasper's solo exhibition, Grå Stær, Hvid Kat.

Grå Stær, Hvid Kat (Grey Cataract, White Cat) is an exhibition rooted in the moment the artist’s vision shifted. After cataract surgery on his left eye, colours appeared hyper-vivid. The worlds living in his eyes were no longer equal: the left was flooded with pink and magentas while the right existed with a dim tint. The world was set askew. Now with a left eye equivalent to that of a six-year-old, Samuelsen had gained the ability to oscillate between the sight of the child and the adult. By closing one eye, he could shift through planes of perception and, quite literately, see the world with new eyes. With both eyes open, the worlds collide as one. This asymmetry between ways of seeing became both a physical condition and a conceptual lens through which this exhibition was developed.

Gallery Gudmundsdottir presents Bicephalia, the first solo exhibition by composer and artist Tyler Friedman. Bicephalia is a sound and light installation consisting of collage poetry embedded within an octophonic orchestral fiction.

Dwelling on contradictory and incompatible impulses towards storytelling and musical abstraction in the age of information saturation, attention deficit, the futility of art under fascism and emergent machinic logics, Bicephalia is a divination of fragmented imagination — and a warding spell against media overload. It transmutes opioid micro-narratives, symbol corrosion, lexical enumeration, psycho-activity and slop into a poetic index of processes and systems through which meaning is structured, positing music as a post-semantic language of affective vibrational mathematics.

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.

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.

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.

… 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.