Matteo Cantarella (DK)

Matteo Cantarella was established in 2022 in a residential complex in the outer district of Nordvest, in Copenhagen. From the beginning the gallery has supported the career of emerging artists, oftentimes presenting their first solo exhibitions in Scandinavia. 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 queer and female artists working with installation, performance, time-based media and painting.

Rådmandsgade 45
2200 Copenhagen
Denmark
+45 91 10 36 04

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Curated for
CHART

For CHART 2025, Matteo Cantarella brings a group presentation consisting of Danish and international artists. The presentation sees the return to CHART of artists Cecilie Norgaard, Vibe Overgaard and Frederikke Jul Vedelsby while introducing Sanna Helena Berger and Maryam Jafri, both having shown for the first time with the gallery this year.

Cecilie Norgaard, Pic in pic, oil on canvas, 60.0 x 77.0, 2025. Photo by David Stjernholm

Frederikke Jul Vedelsby, I must see more of you or I will be quite sad (drawing) 1, beeswax, oil and pigment on paper, 27.0 x 26.0 cm, 2024. Photo by Woojae Lee

Maryam Jafri, Doom Loop, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Matteo Cantarella

Sanna Helena Berger, Rational Display, 2023, Mini Billy, particleboard, paper foil, plastic edging, fiberboard, paint, perspex case. Photo by Ive Trojanović

Vibe Overgaard, Industrion Mainframe Section 1a, wood, ceramic, thread, 28.5 x 23.5 x 4.0 cm, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Matteo Cantarella

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, Denmark) lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include Emotionally Invested, O-Overgaden, Copenhagen (2025); Die Installierte Reale (with Sanna Helena Berger), Rinde am Rhein, Düsseldorf (2024); Success Media, Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin (2024); Cave Painting, Matteo Cantarella, Copenhagen (2024); WHEELS, galeriepcp, Paris (2023); Stretch and Ground, Rinde am Rhein, Düsseldorf (2022).

Under the Weather

Tempera and oil on canvas
2024

Courtesy the artist and Matteo Cantarella

Palette

Oil on canvas
2025

Courtesy the artist and Matteo Cantarella. Photo by David Stjernholm

Pic in pic

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

Frederikke Jul Vedelsby (DK)

Working across drawing, time-based media and writing, Frederikke Jul Vedelsby examines non verbal and alternative forms of sensorial connections happening outside of our systems of understanding. In opposition to a society ruled by capital, one-directionality, and effectivity, her work is invested in personal rituals as a practice of awareness.

Frederikke Jul Vedelsby (b. 1990, DK) graduated with an MFA from the Malmö Art Academy, Sweden (2020), and from the Maumaus Independent Study Programme, Portugal (2021). Her work has been exhibited at SHOWER (Seoul, Korea), Kunsthal Kongegaarden (Kørsor, Denmark), Malmö Konsthall (Malmö, Sweden), Den Frie Udstillingsbygning (Copenhagen, Denmark), Heima (Seyðisfjörður, Iceland) and at The Beat Museum (San Francisco, US) among others.

Drawing

Beeswax, oil and pigment on woven paper
2020

Courtesy of the artist and Matteo Cantarella. Photo by Youngjae Lih

I must see more of you or I will be quite sad (drawing) 1

Beeswax, oil and pigment on paper
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Matteo Cantarella. Photo by Youngjae Lih

I must see more of you or I will be quite sad (drawing) 2

Beeswax, oil and pigment on paper
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Matteo Cantarella

Not without Rose 2

Beeswax, oil and pigment on paper
2024

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, Denmark. Her work has been widely exhibited, including in solo shows at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (US), Blaffer Museum of Art, Houston (US), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (CH), Betonsalon, Paris (FR), Gasworks, London(UK), Kunshtal Aarhus (DK), Museet for Samtidskunst Roskilde (DK), Malmö Konstmuseum (SE) and elsewhere. Recent biennials include Front International (Cleveland Triennial), Sao Paolo Biennial, Venice Biennial (Belgian Pavilion), Manifesta 9, Shanghai, Taipei, Bucharest, Thessaloniki, and Quebec City Biennial, among others.