Art Calendar

Galleri Susanne Ottesen is pleased to present All The Darkness Behind The Light: A solo exhibition by Kehnet Nielsen

Kehnet Nielsen is renowned for his richly layered paintings, blending personal experience with literary and art historical references to create what he describes as ‘psychological landscapes’. This exhibition marks over three decades of collaboration between Nielsen and the gallery, with a series of twenty-five new paintings. A self-contained library will invite visitors to experience the works guided by the cast of cultural characters – from Ernest Hemingway to Albert Camus and Cy Twombly to Sophie Calle – who accompany Kehnet through his creative process. "Creating, considering and interpreting an artistic work, linguistically or visually, are two sides of the same coin albeit different. Language creates images, and images create words, to interpret what is seen and what is felt." - Kehnet Nielsen

The Royal Academy of Fine Arts and CFHILL presents a major solo exhibition of new works by Marie-Louise Ekman. Entitled Förklara allt – Nu., the exhibition features paintings, installations and glass sculptures created in recent years. Several of the paintings have expanded into a larger format – a scale previously untested by the artist. It was in dialogue with choreographer Alexander Ekman that this shift first took shape:

“Something emerged between his gaze and my space… as if what I was painting gained new life… suddenly the studio was invaded by very large people.”
— Marie-Louise Ekman

A richly illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition. It includes interviews conducted by Michael Storåkers with Marie-Louise Ekman, Alexander Ekman, Mats Ek, Carl Johan De Geer and Maria Lind, as well as an essay by Christpher Garplind.

Born in 1944, Marie-Louise Ekman has been a central force in Swedish cultural life for more than six decades. As an artist, director, playwright, head of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and professor and later principal of the Royal Institute of Art, she has left an indelible mark on the country’s cultural identity. With an unwavering drive to explore new forms of expression – from film and postage stamps to public art, theatre and scenography – she has consistently demonstrated both talent and a hunger for renewal.

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Introduction to Marie-Louise Ekman Förklara allt – Nu. at Konstakademien. In Focus. August 22, 2025.

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.

Annika Nuttall Gallery is pleased to introduce the exhibition “Animalistic Lipstick” by German artist André Wendland German artist who presents his new series "Animalistic Lipstick" in this exhibition. Wendland's visual language, inspired by cartoons and animated films, unfolds in figurative compositions marked by bold color fields and a playful approach to form.

In the exhibition hybrid bodies full of allure, danger, and mystery inhabit the pictorial worlds. Vivid colors, tangled shapes, and occasionally grotesque features speak of a shifting boundary: between nature and culture, between beauty and threat. The resulting creatures resist clear categorization sometimes grotesque, sometimes seductive. The intense use of color amplifies this ambivalence it attracts and repels, exaggerates, distorts, and plays with our perception. Beneath all the seduction and menace, a subtle humor runs through the works a subversive wit that renders the animalistic elements playful as well.

Galleri Magnus Karlsson is delighted to start the autumn season with Ebba Svensson’s exhibition Sly.

Sly is her first solo exhibition at the gallery and it presents a series of paintings completed over the past year. The exhibition title Sly can be used in both Swedish and English to describe its content and characteristics. The Swedish word Sly, a dense and tangled vegetation with shrubs or young trees, is linked to the imagery, while the English adjective Sly may refer to a quality in the painting; something misleading and elusive.

In Ebba Svensson’s paintings, there is a membrane or haze that divides the image into a foreground and a background. We are faced with a choice: to wander with our gaze on its surface or to step into its space. The intricacy that winds its way across the canvas reaches out towards the viewer and down into the depths of the painting. Roots that twist and cling, and branches that stretch away. In some works, the motif itself is also a water surface, a double exposure of the reflection and the transparent. Perhaps they can be seen as snapshots of a reality that is constantly changing? A stem or a branch breaks free from the thicket and resembles handwriting, like an invitation to stay.

Matteo Cantarella is pleased to announce a new solo exhibition by Danish artist Frederikke Jul Vedelsby.

In her new video work You and Joy (2025), Vedelsby returns to film long-time collaborator Alba S. Enström and retired Greek actress Eleni Sofou. Linked solely by this mutual connection with the artist, Alba (You) and Eleni (Joy) step into a spontaneous role play, engaging in the co-creation of an unscripted kinship. By tracing situations, dialogues and emotional states arising from experiences of connection with other people, Vedelsby seeks to overcome the idea of a predetermined model of sociability, formats which too often come to define the trajectory of our social and affective engagement.

Frederikke Jul Vedelsby (b. 1990, DK) lives and works in Copenhagen. Vedelsby graduated with an MFA from Malmö Art Academy, Sweden (2020), studied at Maumaus Independent Study Programme, Portugal (2021), and specialized in critical writing at Biskops Arnö, Sweden (2022). Her work has been exhibited widely in Denmark and abroad.

V1 Salon is pleased to present an exhibition by Noa Lachmi.

The body unfolds like a landscape. Ribs rise into hills, bellies sink into valleys, torsos fold into hollows. To lie on the earth is to feel this mirroring: the spine curving with the ground, the sand imprinting its texture onto skin. In that moment, the distinction disappears. The body becomes the landscape, and the landscape becomes the body, and between them flows a light with no end.

From here "For the Light with No End" begins: with the recognition that nothing exists in isolation. A wave depends on the pull of the moon, breath depends on the air, and we depend on everything from the smallest particles to the most distant stars. Each breath is shared. Each gesture leans on another. To live is to be interconnected, and for one thing to continue, countless others must also continue. Yet in fear and pain we forget this. The exhibition raises the question: if the truth that nothing exists in isolation were not only known but embodied, could it awaken empathy, could it cultivate love?

palace enterprise is pleased to present Simon Dybbroe Møller’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, Sjæl/Seele/Soul, with texts by Saim Demircan and Simon Dybbroe Møller.

"Photographic images can bypass reflection and go straight to the gut – think of body horror movies or pornography. The Photographic is not merely visual; it is visceral. Retinal Rift shows the mechanics of an organic eye recorded by a machine eye, an encounter between the machine-like and the weirdly human. They are glimpses into the abyss: a shared threshold, an uncanny intelligence, a symbiosis. Like the hearse in Commute, these eyes appear both familiar and wrong, logical and horrendous. They are things that usually slip by. The blood in the image, the body in the flow. "

- text by Simon Dybbroe Møller

Gallery Gudmundsdottir proudly presents The Rehabilitation of La Casa Invisible – Chapter I - An Ongoing Collective Art Project by Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson and La Casa Invisible.

Opening a new chapter of activist art, collective architecture, and civic imagination, The Rehabilitation of La Casa Invisible – Chapter I, is an expansive community art project that operates across architecture, film, activism, and social practice. La Casa Invisible, a citizen-managed social and cultural center located in an 1850 neo-Arabic building in the heart of Málaga, is a living experiment in citizen participation and horizontal governance. Since its occupation in 2007, the center has grown into a crucial commons — nurturing cultural, artistic, ecological, feminist, queer, and political initiatives in defiance of institutional neglect. Now facing imminent eviction, the project seeks to re-anchor by strategically reintroducing an architectural renovation plan by architect and professor José Manuel López Osorio, through a useful art project initiated by Castro & Ólafsson with the center and curator Gemma Medina Estupiñán.

Lagune Ouest is pleased to present the group exhibition "Little Fluffy Clouds" by artists Rachel Fäth, Doris Guo, Mathias Toubro, Pol Wah Tse, and Mille Qvist.

BORCH Editions is pleased to present Cassetta’s handcrafted frames, designed by Mentze Ottenstein, Anne Dorthe Vester, and bahraini—Danish and carefully curated according to a series of prints by artists collaborating with BORCH Editions. The selection of prints by Mamma Andersson, Nanna Debois Buhl, Andreas Eriksson, Marianne Grønnow, Emma Kohlmann, Tal R and Matt Saunders offers a contemporary take on the classic landscape motif. Cassetta’s distinct focus on tactility, materials, form and detail corresponds with the classic printing techniques still used at BORCH Editions’ printmaking studio.

Dorothée Nilsson Gallery is proud to present Mehr Licht: a solo exhibition with Sascha Weidner.

Marking ten years since his passing, „Mehr Licht“ revisits Weidner’s poetic and emotionally charged images, which create a radical and subjective visual world shaped by perception, longing, and coded symbolism. Through his photographs, Weidner celebrates and captures the beauty of the perfect moment, turning unconditionally towards himself and his environment.

His radically subjective cosmos of images is a poetic film of life, in which every shot is an exuberant affirmation of life or a quiet melancholy. Weidner often used a mix of formats and sized photographs, covering entire exhibition walls with images that invited viewers to form their own associations and discover unexpected connections.

The exhibition coincides with the release of the publication “Estate und Künstlernachlass,” authored by Ole Truderung, the Estate of Sascha Weidner, and Inka Schube, curator of photography at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover. The booklet will be presented during a panel discussion at the Berlinische Galerie on September 12 at 4 p.m., as part of Berlin Art Week. The panel will feature Truderung, Schube, and Dorothea Schöne, director and curator of Kunsthaus Dahlem in Berlin.

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.