Galleri Susanne Ottesen (DK)

Galleri Susanne Ottesen was founded in 1983 by Susanne Ottesen and is one of the pioneering galleries in Denmark to champion a generation of local and international contemporary artists, each with a radical and distinctive approach to the possibilities of art.

Curated for
CHART

For CHART 2023, Galleri Susanne Ottesen is delighted to present a group exhibition of works by Morten Buch (DK), Jiri Georg Dokoupil (CZ), Andreas Eriksson (SE), Pablo Jansana (CL), Marie Søndergaard Lolk (DK), and Nina Nowak (PL/DE) which explore (re)connection, (re)construction and (re)interpretation. Comprising print, painting, and assemblage, the works on view will examine how we perceive reality; how we respond to our environment; how visual language(s) can communicate when images accumulate, layer, fracture, or are erased or covered. Situated at the border where abstraction and figuration meet, Buch, Dokoupil, Eriksson, Jansana, Lolk, and Nowak embrace dualities, presenting innately human yet elusive, transforming or otherworldly works.

Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Landschaft (Baum), 2012

Andreas Eriksson, Shoji, 2022

Morten Buch, Begivenhed uden navn, 2022

Pablo Jansana, B and C for a crime, 2023

Nina Nowak, HYPOSMALLdog XR (das Nächste), 2017

Marie Søndergaard Lolk, Untitled, 2021

Nina Nowak (DE/PL)

In her artistic practice, Nina Nowak explores the relationship between animate and inanimate matter. Nowak is especially drawn to what she refers to as the “borderlands” that distinguish between living and non-living matter. Informed by anthropology, literature, history and biology, Nowak has developed a practice that is at once research based and materially dedicated. The installation as a functional set-up for different processes of material transformation, and the functional object as an extension of the human body, are recurring themes in her work.

Nina Nowak (b. 1984, Poznan; PL) lives and works between Belin, Germany and Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2018, Nowak was awarded a one-year grant by Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn. In 2017, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North-Rhine Westphalia supported her work with an individual working grant. The artist is represented in the collection of Horsens Kunstmuseum, Denmark.

A Timeline Starting on the Surface (part 1)

Installation view
2021

Photo by Stine Heger

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A Timeline Starting on the Surface (part 1)

Installation view (detail)
2021

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And Now, Up in the Air! (machine part 2/3)

Installation view
2021

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Untitled (stumpf)

Carved wood
2022

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Nina Nowak, Material World Pt. I, Equilibrium Tide, 2021-2022. Installation view from ARKEN's exhibition 'From The Earth'

Photo by Frida Gregersen