Annika Nuttall Gallery (DK)

Annika Nuttall Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in the centre of Aarhus, DK. It was founded in 2020 by Annika Nuttall, who holds a master's degree in Art History. The gallery represents both emerging and established artists from Denmark and abroad, with a particular focus on painting and sculpture.

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CHART

For CHART, Annika Nuttall Gallery presents a curated exhibition featuring works by Johannes Holt Iversen, Stine Deja, and Martin Paaskesen – three contemporary artists whose practices explore the temporal tension between past and future while reflecting on the conditions of the present. Working across a range of media – from wall-mounted compositions to sculptural installations – the artists activate a dialogue between object, space, light, and viewer. The exhibition foregrounds aesthetic experience as a means to provoke reflection on individual actions and the sociocultural realities we inhabit.

Johannes Holt Iversen (DK)

Johannes Holt Iversen is a Danish painter and sculptor currently located in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Herfølge, Denmark. He is an apprentice of Danish painter and sculptor Erik Rytter (former assistant of Poul Gernes). Holt Iverson focuses on exploring the tension between artificial and organic material and life forms and works with both traditional art forms and cutting-edge technology including AI, to imbue his viewers with an existential awareness of the hyper-slick representation of reality that surrounds them. His works can be abstract at times, but are always related to the real-world counterpart, often appearing from the use of high-tech materials; used in other industries such as retroreflection technology from the aviation industry, functional aesthetics from industrial plastic construction and chrome pigments from the car manufacturing industry. Iversen draws on inspirations in various fields; whether it be historical elements, like the early depictions from the Lascaux caves or other inspirations that comes from the fields of sociology, psychology, scientific methodologies and pop culture; all with a common denominator in using, dissecting and understanding symbols, relics and human selfrepresentation; such as the anthropromorphic qualities certain objects contains.

Johannes Holt Iversen (b.1989, DK) lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Herfølge, Denmark. He holds an BFA in Painting from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Netherlands (2020). He has recently exhibited at Art Central (Hong Kong, China), Hotel d’Angleterre (Copenhagen, Denmark), Galerie Duret (Paris, France), Loughran Gallery (Hampshire, United Kingdom) and Annika Nuttall Gallery (Aarhus, Denmark). In september 2025 he has a solo exhibition at Viborg Kunsthal (Viborg, Denmark) and in October he is part of a collectors exhibition at Heart - Museum of Contemporary Art (Herning, Denmark).

Chauvet 1.3.40 OC002

Oak/Birch wooden plate, Holographic PVC, Retroreflective Polyester, Transparent Vinyl, Shellac & Ink/Polymer Acrylic
2025

Courtesy of the artist and Annika Nuttall Gallery

Chauvet 1.3.44 OC002

Oak/Birch wooden plate, Holographic PVC, Retroreflective Polyester, Transparent Vinyl, Shellac & Ink/Polymer Acrylic
2025

Courtesy of the artist and Annika Nuttall Gallery

Chauvet 1.3.39 OC002

Oak/Birch wooden plate, Holographic PVC, Retroreflective Polyester, Transparent Vinyl, Shellac & Ink/Polymer Acrylic
2025

Courtesy of the artist and Annika Nuttall Gallery

Lascaux 1.5.66 Dual-Core II

Oak/Birch wooden plate, Holographic PVC, Retroreflective Polyester, Transparent Vinyl, Shellac & Ink/Polymer Acrylic
2023-2025

Courtesy of the artist and Annika Nuttall Gallery

Chauvet 1.3.30 Echelon Excelsior II

Oak/Birch/OSB wooden plate, Holographic PVC, Retroreflective Polyester, Transparent Vinyl, Shellac & Ink/Polymer Acrylic
2025

Courtesy of the artist and Annika Nuttall Gallery

Chauvet 1.3.42 OC002

Oak/Birch wooden plate, Holographic PVC, Retroreflective Polyester, Transparent Vinyl, Shellac & Ink/Polymer Acrylic
2025

Courtesy of the artist and Annika Nuttall Gallery

Chauvet 1.3.40 Echelon Excelsior II

Oak/Birch/OSB wooden plate, Holographic PVC, Retroreflective Polyester, Transparent Vinyl, Shellac & Ink/Polymer Acrylic
2025

Courtesy of the artist and Annika Nuttall Gallery

Portrait of Johannes Holt Iversen

Courtesy of Annika Nuttall Gallery

Martin Paaskesen (DK)

Martin Paaskesen is a Danish painter who works in the space between figuration and abstraction, where traditional painterly motifs are explored as a language in dissolution. His paintings, executed directly on raw canvas, emerge as both visual constructions and deconstructions, in which errors, accidents, and overpainting become meaning-bearing elements. The compositions balance control and spontaneity and draw on an iconoclastic approach, in which recognizable forms are destabilized and displaced. Paaskesen insists on allowing the painting to remain unfinished and vulnerable—a living and sensuous space where images can simultaneously emerge and dissolve. It is a deliberate practice grounded in a constant tension between intuition and deliberation, where immediacy and resistance, fallibility and control, are all integrated into the process of making the work.

Martin Paaskesen (b. 1987, DK) lives and works in Møn, Denmark. He holds an MA from the Danish National School of Performing Arts (2016). He has recently exhibited at Valerius Gallery (Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Galeria Fran Reus (Palma, Spain), Estampa Contemporary Art Fair (Madrid, Spain), Annika Nuttall Gallery (Aarhus, Denmark), Escat Gallery (Barcelona, Spain) and Mott Projects (New York, USA). In October he is part of a collectors exhibition at Heart - Museum of Contemporary Art (Herning, Denmark).

But We've Still Got the Menu (series of 9)

Acrylic, Oil Stick, Glue, Canvas on Canvas, 80 cm x 65 cm
2025

Courtesy of the artist and Annika Nuttall Gallery

But We've Still Got the Menu (series of 9)

Acrylic, Oil Stick, Glue, Canvas on Canvas, 80 cm x 65 cm
2025

Courtesy of the artist and Annika Nuttall Gallery

But We've Still Got the Menu (series of 9)

Acrylic, Oil Stick, Glue, Canvas on Canvas, 80 cm x 65 cm
2025

Courtesy of the artist and Annika Nuttall Gallery

But We've Still Got the Menu (series of 9)

Acrylic, Oil Stick, Glue, Canvas on Canvas, 80 cm x 65 cm
2025

Courtesy of the artist and Annika Nuttall Gallery

Portrait of Martin Paaskesen

Courtesy of Annika Nuttall Gallery

Stine Deja (DK)

Stine Deja’s work explores the effects of technological development, relative to our psychology, living conditions and patterns of behaviour. Combining extensive conceptual research with an otherworldly aesthetic and satirical wit, Deja’s work offers an absurd and critical perspective on the future of human culture. Working across a variety of different media that includes total installation, kinetic sculpture, sound installation, video, 3D animation and text-based work, Deja’s practice often focuses on the intersection between human biology and digital technology. Previous bodies of work have engaged with the commercial cryogenics industry, in vitro fertilisation treatments, prosthetic enhancements to the human form and the potential for migrating human and animal consciousness to digital avatars. In each case, Deja infuses narratives of progress and opportunity with a sense of stasis, ennui and an uncanny sense of self-awareness. Much of Deja’s work focuses on the relationship between human emotional complexes, our motivations and obligations, and the mechanisms we enlist to help us achieve the things we want. Ideas of fantasy and desire play a crucial role in this work, as does a veiled sense of eroticism that emerges in unexpected ways as part of nuanced discussions about the relationship between humans and machines. The figures that appear in Deja’s universe are often hybridised (human-shaped but made of welded steel and backlit displays), fragmented or partially obscured – recognisable only by their blinking eyes or vocal expressions. Signifiers of specific identities are left purposefully ambiguous.This sense of non-specificity also extends to Deja’s treatment of time and place. Although several works directly address a sense of contemporary ecological crisis, and others hint at an idea of post-human apocalypse, time in Deja’s universe most commonly favours a looping structure. As viewers we enter into sequences that seem to have always been in motion and will continue for eternity, unless the surrounding environment floods, freezes or burns up.

Stine Deja (b. 1986, DK) is a visual artist based in Copenhagen (DK). Deja’s work is included in the collections of Arken Museum for Contemporary Art, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum and the New Carlsberg Foundation. Previous institutional exhibitions of the artist’s work have been held at: Fuglsang Kunstmuseum (Toreby; DK), Politikens Forhal (Copenhagen; DK), Vestjyllands Kunstpavillion (Videbæk; DK), Tranen (Gentofte; DK), Kristianstad Museum (Kristianstad; SE), PINKOU (Shanghai; CN), Esbjerg Kunstmuseum (Esbjerg; DK), Art Sonje Center (Seoul, KR) and Jinan Art Museum (Jinan; CN).

Grave Matters

6 pieces (each 200 cm x 60 cm), Aluminium, Digital Screens, Animation, Sound and Cables
2025

Courtesy of the artist and Annika Nuttall Gallery

Grave Matters

6 pieces (each 200 cm x 60 cm), Aluminium, Digital Screens, Animation, Sound and Cables
2025

Courtesy of the artist and Annika Nuttall Gallery

Portrait of Stine Deja

Courtesy of Annika Nuttall Gallery

Annika Nuttall Gallery (DK)

Curated forCHART