Martin Asbæk Gallery (DK)

Martin Asbæk Gallery was founded in 2005 by Martin Asbæk and is an international contemporary art gallery based in central Copenhagen. The gallery works with both established and upcoming artists within a variety of media and is one of the leading galleries within photo-based art in Denmark. Artists represented by the gallery exhibit around the world, in biennials, museums and galleries, and are part of significant public and private collections. The three-floor gallery present around 10 solo exhibitions anually as well as curated group shows. Martin Asbæk Gallery regularly participates in art fairs both in and outside Denmark, such as CHART, Paris Photo, EXPO Chicago, Market Art Fair, Armory Show, ARCO Madrid, Art Brussles, among others.

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CHART

For CHART 2025, Martin Asbæk Gallery will present works by Ditte Ejlerskov (DK), Jane Jin Kaisen (DK) and Clare Woods (UK), three significant female contemporary artists spanning sculpture, digital art, video art, photography and painting. The presentation will feature new works from all three artists, which in each their own way convey spiritual, cultural, historical and existential questions related to topics such as spiritual depletion, migration and borders, as well as life and death.

Ditte Ejlerskov (DK)

Ditte Ejlerskov’s earlier work draws inspiration from mainstream culture and politics, while her recent work focuses on the more formal aspects of her practice, represented in her series of large-format hand-painted color gradients, which works as a form of chromotherapy. Alongside these, Ejlerskov also works within the realm of NFTs and virtual sculptures, which entail a new way of thinking about ownership. By enabling wide access to the source files, the work gains a life of its own in our shared digital space. This format disarranges the traditional understanding of ownership.

Ditte Ejlerskov (b. 1982, DK) lives and works in Denmark. She studied at the Funen Art Academy, The Cooper Union School of Art (New York) and Konsthögskolan Malmö, which she graduated from in 2009. Ejlerskov has exhibited at institutions such as Malmö Konsthall, Kristianstad Art Museum, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art and ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art among others.

Ditte Ejlerskov - Rán

Sculpture, bronze
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Martin Asbæk Gallery. Photo courtesy of Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum.

Dream Gradient (Faded Serena Waterford Green Meets Beiged Lime)

Acrylics and wax on canvas
2023

Courtesy of the artist and Martin Asbæk Gallery

Dream Gradient (Light Matrix Green Meets Soft Lavender)

Acrylics and wax on canvas
2022

Courtesy of the artist and Martin Asbæk Gallery

Dream Gradient 34 (Pale Cold Yellow Meets Dusky Flickering Vermillion Red)

Acrylics and wax on canvas
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Martin Asbæk Gallery

Goddess Interfered 3

Acrylics and oil on two canvases woven together
2023

Courtesy of the artist and Martin Asbæk Gallery

Portrait of Ditte Eljerskov

Courtesy of the artist and Martin Asbæk Gallery

Clare Woods (UK)

Clare Woods paintings are essentially concerned with sculpting an image in paint and expressing the strangeness of an object. Having initially trained as a sculptor, Woods’ understanding of sculptural forms underpin her paintings, collages and prints, which depict still lifes, interiors and portraits. She reinterprets found imagery, cropping or repositioning the subjects so that they hover on the edge of legibility and figuration and present the viewer with both the familiar and the uncanny, the gentle and the sinister. Woods explores the ambiguous threat of every-day life, mediating between moments of beauty and mortality.

Clare Woods (b. 1972; UK) is a British contemporary artist. Notable solo exhibitions include Norrtälje Konsthall (2024), Serlachius Museum (2022), Pallant House (2016), The New Art Centre (2013). Her work is included in collections such as Tia Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, The National Collection of Wales, among others.

Brian's Magic

Oil on aluminium
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Martin Asbæk Gallery

The Lack

Oil on aluminium
2025

Courtesy of the artist and Martin Asbæk Gallery

Still Room

Oil on aluminum
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Martin Asbæk Gallery

The Dark Sun

Oil on aluminum
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Martin Asbæk Gallery

Portrait of Clare Woods

Courtesy of the artist and Martin Asbæk Gallery

Jane Jin Kaisen (DK)

Spanning the mediums of video installation, narrative experimental film, photographic installation, performance, and text, Jane Jin Kaisen’s artistic practice is informed by extensive interdisciplinary research, longterm collaborations, and engagement with minority communities. She is known for her visually striking, multilayered, performative, poetic, and multi-voiced feminist works through which past and present are brought into relation.

Jane Jin Kaisen (b. 1980, DK) is a Danish visual artist, filmmaker, and Professor at the School of Media Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She holds a PhD in artistic research from the University of Copenhagen, an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from UCLA, an MA in Art Theory and Media Art from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and she participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. Kaisen is a recipient of the Beckett-Prize (2023) and the New Carlsberg Foundation Artist Grant (2023). She represented Korea at the 58th Venice Biennale with the film installation Community of Parting (2019). She was awarded “Exhibition of the Year 2020” by AICA - Denmark for the exhibition ‘Community of Parting’ at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.