Wilson Saplana Gallery (DK)

It is Wilson Saplana's mission to exhibit visionary artists and present high-quality experimental exhibitions. Working from the method of artistic development the gallery has shown a strong ability to spot younger artistic talents and support their professional artistic careers. The gallery is international both in its way of working and thinking and values a diverse program. The represented artists work with multiple media, are from different nationalities and are not tied to one generation. The gallery was founded in January 2022 by gallerist Christina Wilson, art advisor and former owner of Gallery Christina Wilson (2000-2012), and curator Nanna Saplana.

Curated for
CHART

For CHART 2025, Wilson Saplana Gallery presents works that insist on small narratives; the intimate, the spiritual and the everyday, in a time where the universal stories of the world seem to be changing rapidly. The intimate narratives are present in Sophie Calle’s works engaging rituals about heartbreak and love, in Miriam Kongstad’s sculptures questioning gender roles, and in Inuuteq Storch’s photographs depicting Inuit culture. The everyday and spiritual are weaved closely together, bridging to the spiritual dream-imagery by Maria Wæhrens where the unconscious create meaning. Similarly, Jytte Rex’ poetic works bridges the historical and mythical with the personal.

Hannah Toticki, Til skytsenglen for uskønne følelser For the Guardian Angel of Unlovely Feelings, 2023, Patinated Line-X, fabric, plastic,149 x 105 x 18 cm

Miriam Kongstad, HEART OF STEEL, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Wilson Saplana Gallery. Photo by David Stjernholm

Inuuteq Storch, Keepers of the Ocean, photograph, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Wilson Saplana Gallery

Maria Wæhrens, Opstigning (Sammensmeltning), oil, egg tempera, and coal on canvas; 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Wilson Saplana Gallery. Photo by Malle Madsen

Jytte Rex, Skin/Hud, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Wilson Saplana Gallery. Photo by David Stjernholm

Sophie Calle, Aujourd'hui ma mère est morte, print on aluminum in mahogany frame, 2013. Courtesy of the artist, Perrotin Gallery and Wilson Saplana Gallery. Photo by Claire Dorn

Inuuteq Storch (GL)

For his solo presentation at the Danish Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, Inuuteq Storch presented multiple series of works spanning personal photography from the last decade together with archival photography. This was both derived from family albums and from official Grenlandic archives e.g. photography by John Møller (b.1867), the first professional Greenlandic photographer. Through photography and installation Inuuteq Storch skilfully explores his Inuit identity, portraying the everyday life of the Kalit people, the spectacular surrounding nature and the spirits that came before.

Inuuteq Storch (b. 1989, GL) is a Inuit artist based in Sisimiut, Greenland. Storch represented Denmark at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) - bringing Kalaallit Nunaat to the Danish pavilion. Storch studied at ICP, New York, and at Fatamorgana, Copenhagen. Inuuteq Storch has exhibited at AKG Art Museum Buffalo, GL.Strand, Copenhagen. In 2025-2026 he will exhibit in New York (TBA), the Bonavista Biannual, Canada, Kunsten - Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, at Bonnefanten Museum, Limburg, and the Hasselblad Center, Göteborg.

At Home We Belong

2015

Courtesy of the artist and Wilson Saplana Gallery

 

At Home We Belong

2015

Courtesy of the artist and Wilson Saplana Gallery

 

At Home We Belong

2015

Courtesy of the artist and Wilson Saplana Gallery

 

Keepers Of The Ocean

2019

Courtesy of the artist and Wilson Saplana Gallery

 

Soon Will Summer Be Over

2023

Courtesy of the artist and Wilson Saplana Gallery

 

Portrait of Inuuteq Storch

Courtesy of the artist and Wilson Saplana Gallery. Photo by Arny Koor Morgensen

Jytte Rex (DK)

Jytte Rex studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in the early 1970s and was at the forefront of the Scandinavian feminist arts movement. Throughout her extensive career, she has worked with various media, performances, video work, sculpture, and photography. Rex’s photographic work appears in multiple collages and settings, changing their narrative and agency. Her works are avant-garde and poetic, with stories often carried by a feminist commitment.

Jytte Rex (b.1942; DK) is an accomplished Danish artist, writer, and film director, holding a unique position in Danish film, literature, and art history. For decades, she focused on her international career as a film director, receiving both the Eckersbergs Medal and, the same year, the Danish Arts Foundation’s lifetime honor. She received the Skovgaard Medal in 2004 and the Thorvaldsen Medal in 2005. In recent decades museums around the world have rediscovered her great feminist artistic practice and her works are represented in the collections of The National Gallery of Denmark, Aros - Museum of Contemporary Art, KUNSTEN - Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Ny Carlsbergfondet, Vejle Art Museum, Art Museum Brandts, the National Photography Museum.

TAVLER/TABLETS

Print on aluminium in painted wooden frame
2013

Courtesy of the artist and Wilson Saplana Gallery. Photo by David Stjernholm

 

My Tender Wife

2024

Courtesy of the artist and Wilson Saplana Gallery. Photo by David Stjernholm

 

My Tender Wife

2024

Courtesy of the artist and Wilson Saplana Gallery. Photo by David Stjernholm

 

Portrait of Jytte Rex

Courtesy of the artist

Miriam Kongstad (DK)

Expanding from a background in choreography and performance, Miriam Kongstad's practice is anchored in artistic research on embodiment and the human body, whilst materialising as images, installations, performance, sculpture and sound. Her work takes place in a social realm, depicting cultural and political structures surrounding the human body while honing in on themes such as identity, sexuality, health, desire, pain and pleasure. Miriam’s work questions how currents and societies are changing bodies and ideals; and how bodies and ideals are changing societies, by exploring the metaphysical, organic, social and spiritual aspects of inhabiting a body - the extended experience of being flesh.

Miriam Kongstad (b. 1991, DK), is a Danish artist based in Berlin who represented Denmark at the 15th Gwangjubiennale (2024). Miriam Kongstad originally trained as a choreographer at Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT) and subsequently completed an MFA in Fine Arts from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam in 2020. Kongstad has exhibited/performed at the Gwangju Biennale, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, the Glyptoteket Museum, Copenhagen, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Het Hem Art Center, the Netherlands, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, MMAG Foundation, Jordan, Fundación Botín, Estland, PPL, USA, and Sophiensaele, Berlin. In 2022 Kongstad’s graduate work was acquired by SMK - The National Gallery of Denmark.

Powerhouse

Installation view
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Wilson Saplana Gallery. Photo by Morten Jacobsen

 

HEART OF STEEL

2023

Courtesy of the artist and Wilson Saplana Gallery

 

Wallop

Video still
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Wilson Saplana Gallery

 

Portrait of Miriam Kongstad

Courtesy of the artist and Wilson Saplana Gallery. Photo by Filip Vest

Wilson Saplana Gallery facade

Courtesy of Wilson Saplana Gallery. Photo by David Stjernholm