Matteo Cantarella (DK)

Matteo Cantarella is a Copenhagen-based gallery established in 2022.

From its beginning, the gallery has supported the career of emerging and mid-career artists, oftentimes presenting their first solo exhibitions in Denmark. The gallery focuses on positions which are critically invested in addressing our institutional, political and ecological surroundings: the programme reflects this ethos and places a particular emphasis on artists working with installation, performance, time-based media and painting.

Curated for
CHART

Matteo Cantarella participates in CHART 2026 with a group presentation surveying the gallery programme with works by Sanna Helena Berger, Maryam Jafri, Cecilie Norgaard, Stella Sieber, and Sofie Winther. Spanning painting, installation, photography, and sculpture, the presentation foregrounds the gallery’s focus on material experimentation across conceptually driven work. This reflects the gallery’s broader programme, which emphasizes interdisciplinary and critical positions addressing our institutional, political and ecological surroundings.

Sanna Helena Berger (SE)

Sanna Helena Berger works with site- and situation-specific installations informed and influenced by critical theory, philosophy and analysis. Her extensive writing acts not only as a coupling discourse to the exhibition, but presents the exhibition as an extension of her writing - material and theory lands on par. Her auto-didactic position manifests as a reflexive discipline, particularly in her writing, where Berger melange auto-biography with theory, utilising language both as method and topic, set in a non-disciplined form. The voice oscillates between the empirical and observed, leaving a self unpolished, openly inadequate - as with her material works, embracing lack, showing dilemma; opposing a final finish.

Sanna Helena Berger (b. 1983, SE) lives and works in Berlin. Recent exhibitions and performances include: and, then, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster; Schmutztitel, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Absolut, Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin; Under, Simian, Copenhagen; Metod, Antics, Stockholm, Texte zur Kunst, Berlin; Bourse, Centralbanken, Oslo.

Metod

2025

Courtesy of the artist and Matteo Cantarella. Photo by Katarina Sylvan

 

Die formelle Zitierung

2025

Courtesy of the artist and Matteo Cantarella. Photo by Eric Tschernow

 

Sanna Helena Berger performs ‘and, then’ at the Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, 2026

Courtesy of the artist and Matteo Cantarella. Photograph by Ygor Bahia

Cecilie Norgaard (DK)

Cecilie Norgaard incorporates traditional painting techniques with an inherent conceptual sensibility to consider implications between aesthetics, artistic production and socio-economic living conditions. Through a vocabulary of recurring signs and images, her work challenges the context of the medium, its formats and conditions, thematising institutional structures and the commercial world order of our present.

Cecilie Norgaard (b. 1991, DK) lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include Emotionally Invested, O-Overgaden, Copenhagen; Die Installierte Reale (with Sanna Helena Berger), Rinde am Rhein, Düsseldorf; Success Media, Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin; Cave Painting, Matteo Cantarella, Copenhagen; WHEELS, galeriepcp, Paris; Stretch and Ground, Rinde am Rhein, Düsseldorf.

Under the Weather

Tempera and oil on canvas
2024

Courtesy the artist and Matteo Cantarella

 

Painting and drawing

Tempera and oil on canvas
2025

Courtesy the artist and Matteo Cantarella. Photo by David Stjernholm

 

Zeitgenössische Arbeit

Tempera and oil on canvas
2025

Courtesy the artist and Matteo Cantarella. Photo by David Stjernholm

 

Portrait of Cecilie Norgaard

Courtesy of the artist and Matteo Cantarella

Maryam Jafri (US)

For over twenty years Maryam Jafri has worked across diverse media including video, installation, and photography, with a specific interest in questioning the cultural and visual representations of history and political economy and their impact on our quotidian experience.

Maryam Jafri lives and works in Copenhagen. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Blaffer Museum of Art, Van Abbemuseum, Kunsthalle Basel, Betonsalon, Gasworks, Kunsthal Aarhus, Malmö Konstmuseum, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Contemporary Art Gallery of Vancouver and elsewhere.

Depression

Wood, egg carton, cupping equipment, photos, silicone feet, acupuncture needles
2017

Courtesy of the artist and Matteo Cantarella

 

DOOM LOOP

Cardboard on alu-dibond, keyboard keycaps
2025

Courtesy the artist and Matteo Cantarella

 

Generic Corner Canned Beans

Ink-jet print, wooden frame
2015

Courtesy the artist and Matteo Cantarella

 

Untitled Obstruction

Plaster, wood, EPS foam
2023

Courtesy the artist and Matteo. Photo by David Stjernholm

 

Portrait of Maryam Jafri

Courtesy of the artist and Matteo Cantarella

Stella Sieber (DE)

Working across painting and installation, Stella Sieber examines representation as model, narrative process, and event. The image maps both social environments and the intervals between individuals, reimagining the scaling of space and place as a surface. Sequenced, broken, and aged materials, intelligible forms, and colors trace a practice of repair in which hierarchical orders and markers of agency are disrupted.

Stella Sieber (b. 1992, DE) lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from HFBK Hamburg and holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy. Her work has been shown at Gl. Strand (DK), Christiania Biennale (DK), Rinde am Rhein (DE), Christian Torp (NO), Neue Alte Brücke (DE), Sangt Hipolyt (DE) and City Galerie Wien, among others.

I am mathematics

Oil on linen
2026

Courtesy of the artist and Matteo Cantarella

 

Public Soup Kitchen

Oil on linen
2023

Courtesy of the artist and Matteo Cantarella

 

Portrait of Stella Sieber

Courtesy of the artist and Matteo Cantarella

Sofie Winther (DK)

Sofie Winther's interdisciplinary practice spans sculpture, performance and video, often brought together in immersive installations that examine the relationship between body and cultural structures. Winther’s work revolves around themes of care, control and institutionalization, addressing power dynamics within contemporary western society.

Sofie Winther (b. 1991, DK) lives and works in Copenhagen. She graduated with an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and BFA from Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Her work has been exhibited at Kunsthal Charlottenborg (DK), EMMA (FI), Nikolaj Kunsthal (DK), Four Boxes (DK), Inter.pblc (DK) and Den Frie Udstillingsbygning (DK), among others.

Coordinates of Kinship

Found object, 3D print, scent
2023

Courtesy of the artist and Matteo Cantarella

 

Smoby Life Jolie Playhouse

2025

Courtesy of the artist and Matteo Cantarella. Photo by Kirstine Autzen

 

Plug and Play

Foam sheets, stainless steel
2025

Courtesy of the artist and Matteo Cantarella. Photo by Kirstine Autzen

 

Portrait of Sofie Winther

Courtesy of the artist and Matteo Cantarella. Photo by Anika Larsen