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.

Gothersgade 49
1123 Copenhagen K
Denmark
(+45) 33 15 52 44

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CHART

For CHART 2024, Galleri Susanne Ottesen will present a group presentation featuring works by Nanna Abell, Martin Erik Andersen and Richard Deacon.

Nanna Abell (DK)

The Danish artist Nanna Abell works primarily with sculpture. Often she uses surprising juxtapositions of different materials, planting recognisable elements from everyday scenarios into contexts where they visibly do not belong. This allows her to both enhance the evident and concrete functions of any given object, at the same time as pointing to the untapped aesthetic potential and absurdities of the ways we sense and act. In this way, the artist highlights the essential ways we deal with the world.

Nanna Abell (b. 1985, Roskilde; DK) lives and works in Vordingborg, Denmark. She received her MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2013. Abell was awarded a grant from Nils Wessel Bagges Kunstfond in 2014. Recent exhibitions include: Galleri Susanne Ottesen (Copenhagen; DK), Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon (Videbæk; DK), Ringsted Galleriet (Ringsted; DK). Abell’s work is represented in the public collections of Horsens Kunstmuseum (Horsens; DK), New Carlsberg Foundation, and Copenhagen Municipality.

Nanna Abell

2024

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Susanne Ottesen

Portrait of Nanna Abell

Courtesy of Galleri Susanne Ottesen. Photo by Jakob Emdal

Martin Erik Andersen (DK)

Martin Erik Andersen (b. 1964, Copenhagen; DK) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. He studied at Al-Fonun Al-Gamila (The Fine Arts Academy) (Cairo; EG) and received his MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Copenhagen; DK) in 1992.

Major solo exhibitions include Gl. Holtegaard (Holte; DK), Horsens Kunstmuseum (Horsens; DK) and Holstebro Kunstmuseum (Holstebro; DK). From 2009-2019 Martin Erik Andersen was Professor of Sculpture at the Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He received the Medal of Eckersberg in 2004 and was awarded Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl Nielsen’s Grant in 2010. In 2014 he received the Medal of Thorvaldsen. He is represented in the public collections of The National Gallery of Denmark (Copenhagen; DK), Horsens Kunstmuseum (Horsens; DK), Arken Museum of Modern Art (Ishøj; DK) and Holstebro Kunstmuseum (Holstebro; DK).

The Garden

Silver on rug, laser cutting, graphite
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Susanne Ottesen

Mappa (Hypostasis)

Silver on rug, laser cutting
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Susanne Ottesen

Portrait of Martin Erik Andersen

Courtesy of Galleri Susanne Ottesen

Richard Deacon (UK)

Richard Deacon studied at Somerset College of Art, Taunton, from 1968-69, St Martins School of Art, London, from 1969-72 and the Royal College of Art, London, from 1974-77. He studied part-time at Chelsea School of Art, London, in 1978.

Richard Deacon (b. 1949; UK) lives and works in London, United Kingdom. Richard Deacon won the Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, in 1987. In 1995 he was awarded the Robert Jacobsen Preize by Stiftung Würth. In 2013 he received Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Award and, in 2013, the Ernst Franz Vogelmann Prize for Sculpture, in Heilbronn, Germany 2017.