Galleri Susanne Ottesen (DK)

Galleri Susanne Ottesen was founded in 1983 by Susanne Ottesen. It was one of a small number of pioneering galleries in Denmark to champion a generation of local and international artists who were transforming the way art was thought, made and presented. Over the past forty years, Galleri Susanne Ottesen has built on this foundation, identifying and supporting succeeding generations of artists, each with a radical and distinctive approach to the possibilities of art.

Gothersgade 49
1123 Copenhagen K
Denmark
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Curated for
CHART

For CHART 2025, Galleri Susanne Ottesen is pleased to present works by Fredrik Tydén and Pernille With Madsen. Tydén will showcase a new series of silver bronze sculptures, exploring material, form and the processes of making. With Madsen will present a site-specific sculptural installation that responds to the surroundings, playing with light, perception, and spatial relationships. Together, their practices enter a dialogue on the differing approaches to contemporary sculpture with a shared appreciation of the labour of production.

Pernille With Madsen (DK)

Dissolution, imbalance, disorientation, collapse and loss of control are core themes in Pernille With Madsen’s work. Through video, photography, drawing and installation, the artist produces impossible but insisting experiments which disorient the spectator. Through measures which often appear deceptively simple, With Madsen creates a universe which affects the spectator visually, physically, and mentally – evoking a sense of dizzying euphoria and spatial dissolution. Besides the physical, almost phenomenological effect With Madsen’s works have on the viewer, the artist aims to dissolve the symbolic and authoritative values of architecture to expose the underlying structures that saturate the spaces we inhabit.

Pernille With Madsen (b. 1972, DK) lives and works in Copenhagen. She earned her MA from Jutland Art Academy in 2003. Her work has been presented at the International Centre for Contemporary Culture in Spain, Horsens Kunstmuseum, the Contour 6th Biennale of the Moving Image, and Guandong Museum of Art.

SuperPosition_Wavy

2024

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Susanne Ottesen

Element II

Concrete, optical fibres, light panels
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Susanne Ottesen. Photo by Stine Heger

Pernille With Madsen at Niels Bohr Building, Copenhagen University

Installation view
2017

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Susanne Ottesen

SoLaR FragmenT

Archival pigment print
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Susanne Ottesen

supporting act

Archival pigment print
2023

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Susanne Ottesen. Photo by Stine Heger

Portrait of Pernille With Madsen

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Susanne Ottesen. Photo by Søren Rønholt

Fredrik Tydén (DK)

Frederik Tydén’s sculptures exist in a state of flux, navigating between acceleration and deceleration, form and formlessness. His works do not represent fixed objects but rather temporary structures in transformation, where new forms emerge within the remnants of old ones. They embody an ongoing process of construction and breakdown, pointing to themselves as sites of continuous translation. Central to Tydén’s practice is an openness to time - both as immediate action and historical progression. His approach to sculpture reflects a dynamic relationship with materiality, engaging with the evolving nature of spatiality, production, and the shifting histories of form.

Frederik Tydén (b. 1985, DK) lives and works in Vordingborg. He holds a BFA and MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and studied at École de Recherche Graphique, Brussels. His work has been shown at Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Rønnebæksholm and is included in the collection of Statens Kunstfond.