OTP Copenhagen (DK)

OTP Copenhagen is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2021 focusing on showcasing challenging and unfamiliar practices within Copenhagen’s art scene. Whilst the gallery exhibits a range of artistic media including painting, drawing, sculpture and installation, OTP Copenhagen has become best known for exhibitions that engage with ideas of the personal, the grotesque, sexual politics, and new approaches to religion and spirituality. Having previously occupied premises at Haraldsgade 16B and Rantzausgade 9 in Copenhagen's Nørrebro district, In September of 2024 the gallery relocated to a new space at Vester Farimagsagde 6 in Copenhagen’s historic BUEN building.

OTP Copenhagen
Vester Farimagsgade 6
1606 København V (DK)
+45 50 69 19 45

info@otpcopenhagen.com
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Curated for
CHART

For CHART 2026, OTP Copenhagen will exhibit a group presentation with works by Penny Davenport, Stine Deja, Christian John Munks and Jason Thompson. Featuring drawings, oil paintings, assemblage-based works and a new sculptural edition, the presentation offers a selective overview of the gallery's programme from the past 5 years and bridges contemporary art practices from the UK and Denmark.

Penny Davenport (UK)

Penny Davenport’s depictions of anthropomorphic animal characters explore the complexities of human psychology and inter-personal relationships. Having worked for many years in schools for children with specific educational needs, Davenport’s practice shows an acute awareness to how people are socialised and social groups maintained. Her works offer an honest insight into complex individual mental states, often using a “cute” aesthetic as a vehicle to explore the more difficult aspects of human experience. Appearing like half-remembered images from childhood, or individual frames from an incomplete narrative, Davenport’s works in recent years has increasingly emphasised ideas of arrival and escape.

Penny Davenport (b. 1979, Inverness; UK) lives and works in Liverpool, UK. The artist graduated with a BA from Liverpool John Moores University. Recent exhibitions include OTP Copenhagen (Copenhagen; DK), Nidi Gallery (Tokyo; JP), Meyer Riegger (Berlin; DE) and Harkawik (New York City, NY; US).

Loooking At Waves

Watercolour on wood
2022

Courtesy of the artist and OTP Copenhagen

Murmurings

Ink and oil on paper
2020

Courtesy of the artist and OTP Copenhagen

Old Ghosts

Oil, wax and ink on paper
2025

Courtesy of the artist and OTP Copenhagen

Our Other Worlds

Oil on canvas
2025

Courtesy of the artist and OTP Copenhagen

Where The Noise Goes

Oil on linen board
2023

Courtesy of the artist and OTP Copenhagen

Portrait of Penny Davenport

Courtesy of the artist and OTP Copenhagen. Photo by Jason Thompson

Stine Deja (DK)

Stine Deja’s work explores the effects of technological development, relative to our psychology, living conditions and patterns of behaviour. Combining conceptual research with an otherworldly aesthetic, Deja’s work offers an absurd and critical perspective on the future of human culture. Working across total installation, kinetic sculpture, sound installation, video, and 3D animation, Deja’s practice often focuses on the intersection between human biology and digital technology. Previous bodies of work have engaged with the commercial cryogenics industry, in vitro fertilisation treatments, prosthetic enhancements to the human form and the potential for migrating human and animal consciousness to digital avatars.

Stine Deja (b. 1986, Horsens; DK) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Works by the artist are included in the collections of Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma (Helsinki; FI), ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art (Ishøj; DK), Esbjerg Kunstmuseum (Esbjerg; DK), Vejle Kunstmuseum (Vejle; DK) and the New Carlsberg Foundation.

Stine Deja

LAST SURVIVORS
2025

Courtesy of the artist. Photo by David Stjernholm

MICRO MANAGEMENT

2026

Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Jacob Friis-Holm Nielsen

Heavy Render_2

2023

Courtesy of the artist and OTP Copenhagen

Thermal Womb

2019

Courtesy of the artist and OTP Copenhagen

Portrait of Stine Deja

Courtesy of the artist and OTP Copenhagen. Photo by Moniek Wegdam

Christian John Munks (DK)

Christian John Munks is a painter whose psychologically-charged works are often shaped by an interplay of anxiety and intimacy. His approach to representation combines drawing from life with references to photographs, film stills and other sources of fiction and distortion. Attention in Munks’ works is largely focused towards facial expressions and hand gestures, although sections of patterned fabric also play an important role - often providing a protective or concealing layer. With extraneous objects and scenery stripped out, what emerges in its place is a unique emphasis on expression, on surface, and on that which lies beneath.

Christian John Munks (b. 1985, Copenhagen; DK) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. The artist attended the Funen Art Academy (DK), having previously studied Film Studies at Lund University (SE). Recent exhibitions include: OTP Copenhagen (DK), New York Life Gallery (US), Minor Gallery (DK), CABIN (US) and MAMOTH (UK).

Uden titel (morgen)

Oil on panel
2026

Courtesy of the artist and OTP Copenhagen

Verdens sidste aften

Oil on linen
2026

Courtesy of the artist and OTP Copenhagen

Tåredalen

Oil on linen
2026

Courtesy of the artist and OTP Copenhagen

Portrait of Christian John Munks

Courtesy of the artist and OTP Copenhagen. Photo by Lasse Dearman

Jason Thompson (UK)

Describing his works as hovering between a religious icon and a shed door, Jason Thompson uses found materials and a patchwork process of composition to produce objects that feel like they have been touched by a thousand hands. The artist’s approach to composition mimics evolution: marks either survive and multiply or are replaced and disappear. Working primarily between painting, drawing and a sculptural form of assemblage, Thompson’s abstract visual language has a philosophical underpinning. Namely, that artworks must undergo significant and unexpected change – weathering the process to be transformed by the experience – for them to achieve a sense of depth.

Jason Thompson (b. 1970, UK) lives and works in Liverpool. The artist graduated with a BFA and MFA from Chelsea College of Art. Works by the artist are held in the collections of the Ny Carlsberg Foundation, Arts Council England, Walker Art Gallery and Office of Public Works Ireland.