Special Projects at CHART 2026

Presentations by galleries & collaborators outside of the art fair

As part of the expanded programme for this year's art fair, we are delighted to spotlight several presentations by artists in collaboration with the galleries at CHART or other organisations.

These special presentations will be exhibited in the foyer and stairways leading up to the fair at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, as well as outside Charlottenborg towards Kongens Nytorv. For CHART 2026, Special Projects includes works from:

Anu Ramdas (DK); Páll Haukur (IS); Marike Schuurman (NL); Icelandic Love Corporation (IS); Farshad Farzankia (IR); Kåre Frang (DK); Charlotte Gyllenhammer (SE); Katarina Löfström (SE); and FOS (DK).

Scroll down to find out more about the works that are included in this year's Special Projects.

Anu Ramdas (DK)

For CHART 2026, we are pleased to present works by Copenhagen-based artist and clairvoyant, Anu Ramdas. To produce the works, the artist asked her spirit team what could act as a counterweight to the negative frequency of the internal and external world that manifests as war, antagonistic global politics and climate crisis. After recognising the answer was LOVE, Ramdas asked to be shown a visual diagram that vibrates on that frequency. Produced by channeling messages from her spirit team, Ramdas’s works offer a form of aspirational mirror, visualising the higher uplifting energies that can be attained within one’s electromagnetic field.

Anu Ramdas (b. 1980, Sønderborg) graduated from the MFA programme at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art (Copenhagen; DK) in 2011 having completed additional study at The Central Academy of Fine Art (Beijing; CN) from 2009 to 2010 and Malmø Art Academy (Malmø; SE) from 2004 to 2006.

Anu Ramdas' works will be presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2026 by OTP Copenhagen.

Páll Haukur Björnsson (IS)

Páll Haukur reflects on the ideological relationships between nature, culture and the human experience. He continuously interrogates any given notions of meaning, often asking what constitutes an object. This is a large scale painting by Páll Haukur, where the artist uses acrylic and oil painting. In his art, Páll Haukur aims to create works of art that appear to the viewer as beyond transcendental structures of representation and symbolic hierarchy and that gives the viewer new basis to find meaning.

Páll Haukur Björnsson (b. 1981) studied at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and finished his MFA degree from the California Institute of the Arts in 2013. Páll Haukur has exhibited his works in various galleries and museums in Iceland and abroad. He is a professor at the Iceland University of the Arts in Iceland.

Páll Haukur Björnsson's work will be presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2026 by BERG Contemporary.

Marike Schuurman (NL)

For Flashback (2021) Schuurmann addresses the aftermath of the act of taking a photograph. Magnified images of blown-out or defective flashbulbs allow us to look closer at the potentially destructive power of light. The smooth glass surface becomes mangled with bulbous discoloration, while wires are tangled inside. The image captured with the bulbs is discarded. Schuurman focuses instead on the process, highlighting the transformation and destruction behind the photograph.

Marike Schuurman's works will be presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2026 by Dorothée Nilsson Gallery.

The Icelandic Love Corporation (IS)

Endurance has admirable adaptability and strength, where fine nylon socks stretch down the walls in a colorful flow with the help of a fist-sized rock in each toe. The nylon tights, The Icelandic Love Corporation’s signature oil colors, come directly from the core of the feminine reality, where the material, the nylon, has the characteristics of endurance, stamina, and perseverance.

The Icelandic Love Corporation's work will be presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2026 by Gallery Gudmundsdottir.

Farshad Farzankia (IR)

Inspired by the language of Neo-Expressionism in his large iconic paintings, Farzankia remixes references from the 80’s to today to tell powerful narratives of migration and power relations in his works. Including icons of personal importance and building a lexicon of meaning through symbol.

Farshad Farzankia (b. 1980 in Iran) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Farzankia has presented solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, some of which were held at Heerup Museum, Denmarkk (2026), Trapholt, Denmark (2025); Willumsens Museum, Denmark (2022); FOUNDRY, Korea (2022); ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (2021); Turn Gallery, USA (2020); and Richard Heller Gallery, USA (2018).

Farshad Farzankia's work will be presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2026 by Andersen's Contemporary.

Kåre Frang (DK)

The sculpture is part of the artist's ongoing series of work titled Conversations based on wind-up toys as vehicles. Kåre Frang (1992, DK) is a visual artist working with film, installations and sculpture. Through his works, Frang investigates transitional states and the inherent unease of transformation. Working intuitively, the artist explores how materials and objects carry embedded narratives that can be reactivated in new contexts. Frang is particularly drawn to culturally charged objects that mark rites of passage.

Kåre Frang's work will be presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2026 by Lagune Ouest.

Charlotte Gyllenhammar (SE)

In Sitting Giant, Charlotte Gyllenhammar presents a monumental bronze figure of a seated child, weighing over 800 kg. At an imposing scale, the child towers over the viewer, transforming a familiar figure into something uncanny and monumental. The rough, tactile surface of the bronze catches the light across the body, emphasising the sculpture’s physical presence.

The child is a recurring figure in Gyllenhammar’s practice, where shifts in scale, position and perspective are central to her sculptural language. In Sitting Giant, the proportions of the figure approach the surreal: a child rendered monumental, seated at ground level yet occupying an overwhelming physical space.

Charlotte Gyllenhammar's work will be presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2026 by CF HILL.

Katarina Löfström (SE)

The Mesh-Up works are physical extensions of Katarina Löfström’s video work, The Elements, which will be screened as part of CHART's Cinema Programme.

The deconstruction of Karin Larsson’s (1859-1928) tapestry, The Four Elements, expands from the video into physical form as elements derived from the video work are transferred to UV-prints on birch plywood. Mesh-Up is a flexible series and the different sections weave in and out of each other as the they are installed in different formations – both vertically and horizontally - across public and domestic spaces.

Katarina Löfström's work will be presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2026 by Andréhn Schiptjenko.

Mattias Selldén (SE)

Mattias Selldén himself states that he “makes dysfunctional furniture that easily could be mistaken for sculpture. Or maybe it’s the other way around?” This statement perfectly captures the playful ambiguity at the heart of his work. By calling his creations “dysfunctional,” Selldén invites viewers to question the purpose of familiar objects. His work exists in the space between sculpture and utility, where beauty and absurdity coexist.

Mattias Selldén was born in 1986 in Uppsala, Sweden, currently lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Selldén received his MA in 2019 and his BA in 2013 from Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts, Stockholm, as well as a BA from Parsons School of Design, New York in 2012.

Mattias Selldén's work will be presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2026 by Galerie Nordenhake.

FOS (DK)

The Danish artist FOS creates sculptures, installations, objects and performances with the wish to investigate the social traditions, it’s systems and principals. His artistic practice is diverse and moves through many genres and materials. FOS’ work is an ongoing study of how the language of objects and space define us as social beings. Existing in the cross-field between art and craftsmanship, FOS is driven by an interest in how our social relations and physical contexts simultaneously co-exist.

Made of terrazzo, brass, powder coated steel and fabric, ‘Always happy new year’ was originally commissioned by The Royal Danish Theater in 2015.

FOS's champagne bar Always Happy New Year will be presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2026.