Andersen's (DK)

Based in Copenhagen, Andersen’s opened in 2005 with a programme focused around Claus Andersen’s German connections; showcasing predominantly the artists in Berlin he was working with at that time, including Anselm Reyle, Olafur Eliasson, and Tomás Saraceno. Today the gallery represents a variety of emerging and established artists from all over the world.

Rentemestervej 49
2400 København NV
Denmark
(+45) 91 10 36 04

gallery@andersen-s.dk
andersenscontemporary.dk

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Martin Brandt Hansen (GL)

Martin Brandt Hansen primarily works in sculpture and installation, with a distinctive style rooted in his Greenlandic heritage. His practice merges Western mass culture and art history with Inuit mythology, anthropology, and ethnographic methods. Historically, Greenlandic art history has been told, written, and displayed from an outsider’s perspective. The artistic creations of Greenlandic people have often been categorized as primitive and non-Western. In his work, Brandt Hansen challenges these traditional narratives, rethinking how Greenlandic art and culture are exhibited and displayed—shifting perspectives and articulating new narratives.

Martin Brandt Hansen (b. 1990, GL) has a master’s degree from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 2022. His graduation project received the esteemed Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen’s Foundation talent prize. Brandt Hansen has exhibited at Arken Museum of Contemporary Art (2024), Nordatlantens Brygge (2022), V1 Gallery (2020) and Nuuk Art Museum (2020) and is represented in several private and public collections such as New Carlsberg Foundation, Danish Art Foundation, National Gallery of Denmark, Nuuk Art Museum.

liarsuk

Greenlandic marble
2025

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's

Black Box 3905

Installation
2022

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's. Photo by David Stjernholm.

Kaassassuk

Ceramic stoneware
2020-2022

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's

Kiinappalik Thule Vessel

Stoneware
2018

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's. Photo by Malle Madsen.

X-RAY TARGETS

Installation view
2022

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's. Photo by Malle Madsen.

Asiaq

Sculpture, installation view
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's. Photo by CHART.

Kabinet 3905.6

Installation
2022

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's.

That's not a knife

Installation
2022

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's

Portrait of Martin Brandt Hansen

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's

Melanie Kitti (SE)

Erupting in colour, sensations and tactility both Kitti’s visual arts practice and writing works with liminal states. Dreams, childhood memories, family history and human relationships with organic and inorganic matter forms revealing, morbid and sometimes sordid narratives traversing between realms and states of being. Merging prose and poetry, sculpture and painting, applied and visual arts Kitti forms fragmentary systemic disruptions to instigate new worlds, formed in community, to initiate both the breaking and creation of lineages. A pivotal part of her practice centers resistance and equity work challenging social discourse through communal organizing, gathering and fundraising events like the Benefits Art Sale at Overgaden.

Melanie Kitti (b. 1986, SE) is a visual artist, poet and community organizer. She studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and The Danish Academy of Creative Writing in Copenhagen. Gyldendal published her critically acclaimed debut book 'Halvt urne, halvt Gral' in 2022. Kitti’s works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions at O-Overgaden Copenhagen (2023), Rønnebæksholm, Næstved (2022–23), Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo (2022), Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, Carl Eldhs Ateljémuséum, Stockholm and ARIEL, Copenhagen (2022).

I boiled my roots in an old pot

Installation view
2022

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's. Photo by Malle Madsen.

I boiled my roots in an old pot

Installation view
2022

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's. Photo by Malle Madsen.

I boiled my roots in a old pot #3

Detail
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's. Photo by Malle Madsen.

Portrait of Melanie Kitti

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's

Esben Weile Kjær (DK)

Esben Weile Kjærs work spans sculpture and performance, drawing on the history of pop culture to investigate themes of nostalgia, authenticity and generational anxiety. In his performances, installations and sculptures, he examines identity among his own generation and explores the role of popular culture and technology in shaping experiences of community and freedom. Kjær also curated the exhibition 'BUTTERFLY!' at Arken Museum of Contemporary Art, 2023, which primarily consisted of works from the museum’s own collection staged in an immersive scenography.

Esben Weile Kjær (b. 1992, Aarhus; DK) lives and works in Copenhagen. He graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2022. In 2024, his largest solo exhibition to date, 'Solar System', opened at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg. Kjær has had solo exhibitions at Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand and Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark (2020) and has previously staged performances at numerous institutions in Denmark and internationally at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin among other places.
He was awarded the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Talent Award (2022) and has received the Aage and Yelva Nimb Foundation’s honorary grant (2023). His works can be found in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Denmark, Kunsten, Malmö Art Museum, Brandts Museum, Arken, the Danish Arts Foundation and the New Carlsberg Foundation.

Dog, 2024

2024

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's Contemporary. Photo by Malle Madsen

SHELL

2025

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's Contemporary. Photo by New Document

Solar System

Installation view at Kunsten
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's Contemporary. Photo by David Stjernholm

Galaxy Parade at Neue Nationalgalerie

2024

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's Contemporary. Photo by Tobias Kruse

Milky Way

Installation view at TRAUMA, Berlin.
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's Contemporary

Rainbow Tornado

Rudolph Tegners
2024

Photo by David Stjernholm

GRAVITY!

Installation on Heartland Festival 2024

Photo by Anne Mie Bak

Mirror

Installation View
2022

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's Contemporary. Photo by David Stjernholm

Portrait of Esben Weile Kjær

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's. Photo by Casper Sejersen

Anselm Reyle (DE)

Anselm Reyle is known for his interest in experimenting with a wide range of techniques, employing traditional media alongside industrial scraps, coloured foils, found neons, automotive lacquer, and items from our everyday lives in the form of objet-trouvés. By removing these materials from their original context and altering their once-defined function, Reyle masters the vocabulary and formulas of appropriation to create immersive installations, sculptures and paintings. In the spontaneity of its language, the work of Reyle challenges the primarily sublime ideal of abstraction, as addressed by the modes of modernism, by drifting in direction of a seemingly provocative orientation towards what is generally regarded as kitsch. The viewer is engaged to re-think each individual element in their newly acquired context – an ambivalent tension which unobtrusively emphasizes the discrepancy between the subject matter and its visual representation.

Anselm Reyle (b. 1971, DE) studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart and at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe. He moved to Berlin in 1997 where he started a collaboration with John Bock, Dieter Detzner, Berta Fischer and Michel Majerus. From 1999 to 2001, Reyle worked together with Claus Andersen on the artists-run space ‘Andersen’s Wohnung’ as well as ‘Montparnasse’ together with Thilo Heinzmann. The work of Reyle has been exhibited at key institutions internationally including: Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, ARKEN, Denmark, Kunsthalle Zurich and currently at the newly built Aranya Art Center in China.

Untitled

Mixed media on burlap, chrome optics

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's

Untitled

Mixed media, acrylic glass
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's

Untitled

Mixed media on canvas, wooden frame
2009

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's

Portrait of Anselm Reyle

Courtesy of the artist and Andersen's. Photo by Dale Grant

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