Vintersalon

Anna Stahn / Asger Harbou Gjerdevik / Casper Aguila / Frederik Næblerød / Helen Teede / Hiu Tung Lau / ihsan saad ihsan tahir / Nat Bloch Gregersen / Noah Kanber / Liv Ertzeid / Maria Zahle / Marie Rud Rosenzweig / Ragnhild May / Sarah McNulty / Sophie Kitching
 

Anna Stahn (b. 1994, Denmark) graduated with an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen and Parsons Fine Art, The New School, New York. Stahn works with formats on paper, in text or sculpturally in metals, ceramics, and textiles. Throughout her practice, she is concerned with women's lives, exchanges, and modernity. Her works examine the aspects of human existence that are controlled by desires, economies, and the power of the imaginary in a way that points to the strong human attachment to the material world.

Stahn’s upcoming exhibitions include a group show at Skovgaard Museum, Viborg (2024). Stahn has recently exhibited with solo shows at Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2023); Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen (2023) and Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen (2022). Recent group exhibitions include shows at Gl. Holtegaard Museum, Holte (2022 & 2021); BORCH Editions, Copenhagen (2021) and dépendance Bruxelles x Alice Folker (2020).

In addition to her visual art practice, Stahn works as a writer of texts for books, magazines, and exhibitions, and she is founder and editor of the publishing house Longetti. She was awarded by Statens Kunstfond for her first solo exhibition Stars in the hair at Alice Folker Gallery (2021). Her works can be found in the collection of the New Carlsberg Foundation.

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Asger Harbou Gjerdevik (b. 1986, Denmark) graduated with an MFA in Painting from Royal College of Art, London and BA in Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. Gjerdevik works with various media such as painting, sculpture, collage, and drawing. His works are created in a process that involves continuous additions of materials, interposed references, transformations, and overlays. Often the results are both complex and boundless pictorial spaces or structures, with potential for perpetual change.

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Gjerdevik’s upcoming exhibitions include a group shows at Quantum Oddity Gallery, Berlin (2023) and Skovgaard Museum, Viborg (2024). Gjerdevik has recently exhibited with solo shows at Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2023 and 2020); CCA, Andratx (2021); Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen (2021) and Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen (2019). Group exhibitions include shows at Studio Schreck Gustafsson, Borrby (2023); Alma Pearl Gallery, London (2023); Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen (2023); Art Brussels, Brussels (2022); Philipp Haverkampf, Berlin (2020); dépendance Bruxelles x Alice Folker (2020) and Kunsthalle E-werk, Schwerin (2019).

Gjerdevik has created public commissions to the Western High Court (2021) and the Eastern High Court (2022) in Denmark. His works can be found in several public collections, including the City Council of Copenhagen, Politikens Hus, and the court in Lyngby.

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Casper Aguila (b. 1985, Denmark) studied fine arts at Accademia Italiana, Florence and is a photographer. He works with different media including film, photography, installation, sculpture, drawing, and painting. His works capture nature and humans in delicate, almost fragile situations, yet his perspective remains both poetic and raw. Through novel combinations of photography, sculpture and painting, he explores how these classical techniques are perceived, hereby making room for reinterpretations and new possibilities in the materials.

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Aguila has recently exhibited with shows at Alice Folker Gallery (2023, 2022 and 2021); dépendance Bruxelles x Alice Folker (2020); Philipp Haverkampf, Berlin (2020) and Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen (2019). Furthermore, he has participated in Copenhagen Photo Festival (2022) and Arles Photo Festival (2019). ​

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In 2018, Casper Aguila was nominated for Kunstkritikerprisen (AICA-prisen) together with Frederik Næblerød, and their duo exhibition Off-Grid at Alice Folker Gallery (2019) received an award from the Danish Arts Foundation. His works can be found in the public collection of The Danish Arts Foundation.

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Frederik Næblerød (b. 1988, Denmark) graduated with an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Næblerød’s works span across paintings, drawings, sculptures, and off-grid projects. His works are expressive, sometimes bordering on the grotesque. Often, they draw inspiration from his immediate surroundings to convert the wild, quivering energy from life, people, and things around him to present and pertinent works whose materials, motifs, sizes, and messages span widely.

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Næblerød’s upcoming exhibitions include a group show at Skovgaard Museum, Viborg (2024). Næblerød has recently exhibited with solo shows at Gl. Holtegaard Museum, Holte (2023); Horsens Art Museum, Horsens (2022); Vejle Art Museum, Vejle (2022); Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2021); Artissima, Turin (2020) and Kunsthal for Maritim Æstetik, Grenå (2019). His duo and group exhibitions include shows at The Telegraph, Czech Republic (2022); Jeppe Hein Studio, Berlin (2022); Art Brussels, Bruxelles (2022); Philipp Haverkampf, Berlin (2020); Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen (2019) and Kunsthalle E-werk, Schwerin (2019).

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In 2018, Frederik Næblerød was nominated for Kunstkritikerprisen (AICA-prisen) together with Casper Aguila, and their duo exhibition Off-Grid at Alice Folker Gallery (2019) received an award from the Danish Arts Foundation. His works can be found in public collections including the New Carlsberg Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation, Kastrupgårdsamlingen, Vejle Art Museum, and Horsens Art Museum.

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Helen Teede (b. 1988, Zimbabwe) graduated with an MFA in visual art from IUAV University of Venedig. Her dissertation, "Phenomenology of Painting as an Intersectional Medium" reflects on storytelling through painting as a medium that includes ongoing formations and as dependent on situated knowledge and material thinking.

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Teede’s recent exhibitions include shows at Norval Foundation, Cape Town (2022); Africanah Art Foundation at the WTO biannual meeting, Geneva (2021); Qingdao Art Museum, Shanghai (2021); Zeitz MoCAA, Cape Town (2021); Paris Internationale, Paris (2021); House Parté, Palm Springs (2021) and Nomad Gallery, Brussels (2021).

Her works are represented by many international private art collections. She was a finalist in the 2022 Sovereign Art Prize, which was hosted by Norval Foundation in Cape Town.

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Hiu Tung Lau (b. 1985, Hong Kong) graduated with an MFA in painting from The Royal College of Art, London and a BFA in painting from The School of Visual Arts, New York. Her works span across various media including painting, sculpture, and performance. Through apparent simplicity and minimalist compositions, Lau attempts to convey the sea of complex human emotions. Her work can be regarded as a meditation over the process of painting where she explores experiences that had an emotional impact on her and inspired her to paint, whether it be a stranger she met, bushes from sidewalks, or the taste of kumquat.

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Lau has recently exhibited with shows at Flowers Gallery, Hong Kong (2022); Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2022 and 2020); Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong (2021); Fringe Club, Hong Kong (2019) and Dyson Gallery, London (2017).

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ihsan saad ihsan tahir (b. 1995, United Kingdom) is currently completing his MFA at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. ihsan works figuratively and abstractly across different media such as painting, drawing, sculpture, and text. To a wide extent, his artistic practice revolves around notions of class, cultural exchange, translation, nostalgia, and the complexities of being an Iraqi diaspora with a working-class refugee background. These themes have been affected by his upbringing in Denmark, which was influenced by western ideologies and privileges.

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ihsan’s upcoming exhibitions include solo exhibitions at SKAL Contemporary, Skagen (2025) and Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus (2024), as well as group shows at Skovgaard Museet, Viborg (2024) and Vejen Art Museum, Vejen (2023). He has recently exhibited with shows at GAS9 Gallery, Copenhagen (2023); Aarhus Kunsthal, Aarhus (2023); Gl. Strand, Copenhagen (2023); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2023); Marie Kirkegaard Gallery, Copenhagen (2022); Haveselskabets Have, Copenhagen (2021); Gallery Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen (2020); Kunsthal Ved Siden Af, Svendborg (2020) and Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Inujima (2018).

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Liv Ertzeid (b. 1986, Norway) graduated with an MFA from Oslo Academy of Fine Art, and she has a BA in Social Anthropology from University of Oslo. Ertzeid primarily works with painting, sculpture, and installation. Her works often center around explorations of gardens, vegetation, and small creatures. Moving between abstraction and figuration, plants, flowers, and sprouts stretch across the canvas in a confabulation of colour and directions.

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Ertzeid has recently exhibited with solo shows at ISCA Gallery, Oslo (2023 and 2020); Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger (2021); Stormen, Bodø (2021); Plum Trum, Nesodden (2019) and Destiny’s Atelier, Oslo (2019). Her duo and group exhibitions include shows at Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo (2023); Stockholm Furniture Fair, Stockholm (2023); Chart Art Fair, Copenhagen (2022); London Craft Week, London (2022); Art Cologne, Cologne (2021); Henie Onstad, Bærum (2020); Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger (2020); LNM, Oslo (2020) and Blomquist / QB Galleri, Oslo (2019).

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Ertzeid has been co-founder of the artist-run gallery Slursula in Oslo from 2015-2018. She has created works for several collections and commissions including Stavanger Kunstmuseum, The Norwegian Parliament Art Collection, Christen Sveaas Art Collection, KORO Public Art Norway, and the National Museum of Art in Norway.

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Maria Zahle (b. 1979, Denmark) received her Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from the Royal Academy Schools, London and BA in Fine Art (Hons) from The Slade School of Fine Art, London. Zahle's practice is interdisciplinary, and she works with sculpture, textile, collage, performance, and poetry. Zahle insists on the body and the process of making as unavoidable prerequisites of her works – and as decisive for the images and imprints we all leave on the world. In recent years, sculptural weaving and plant dyeing have become a central part of her practice.

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Zahle’s upcoming exhibitions include group shows at Fraktal Ventesal, Skørping (2024) as well as at Skovgaard Museet, Viborg (2024). Zahle has recently exhibited with solo shows at Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2023); Arcade, Bruxelles (2022); Rønnebæksholm, Næstved (2022); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2021); Arcade, London (2018) and Sophienholm, Kongens Lyngby (2018). Her duo and group exhibitions include shows at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen (2023); Violet Art Space, Antwerpen (2022); Hillerød Library, Hillerød (2021); Frise Kunsthal, Hamburg (2021); CCA, Andratx (2019) and Kettles Yard, Cambridge (2018).

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Zahle has created public commissions to three pedestrian tunnels in Copenhagen (2016-2019), to the Department of Energy Technology, at Aalborg University, Aalborg (2016), and to the New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester (2014). Three works from her latest solo exhibition have been purchased by the New Carlsberg Foundation.

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Marie Rud Rosenzweig (b. 1991, Denmark) graduated with an MFA from the Funen Art Academy, Odense; Univärsitet der Künste, Berlin, and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Her works span across different media including painting, installation, photography, drawing, and text. Rosenzweig is inspired by science fiction, fairy tales, popular culture as well as people and things from her own private sphere. Through a formalistic study of figure and motif, focus in her works shifts from the human perception of things to the things in themselves.

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Rosenzweig’s upcoming exhibitions include a show at Golsa Gallery, Oslo (2024). Rosenzweig has recently exhibited with solo shows at Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen (2023); M100, Odense (2023); Baka’d’Busk, Copenhagen (2021); Baggaarden, Copenhagen (2020); Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2019) and FAA Room, Odense (2018). Her duo and group exhibitions include shows at Mamoth Gallery, London (2023); Rundetårn, Copenhagen (2022) and Kunst im Hafen, Düsseldorf (2021).

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In 2023, she received the largest Danish award for painting talents, Jens Søndergaard og Hustrus Mindelegat. Her works can be found in multiple public collections, including the Danish Parliament and the Danish Arts Foundation.

Nat Bloch Gregersen (b. 1986, Denmark) graduated with an MFA from The Jutland Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark. Bloch Gregersen works with installation, sculpture, text and performance. She uses materials such as silicone, resin, salt, textiles, and candles to stage viscous and porous three-dimensional installations. In this way, shifts arise between form and material, the heavy and the light, the invisible and the visible, the fast and the fluid.

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Bloch Gregersen has recently exhibited with shows at Art Hub Copenhagen x Vega|Arts, Copenhagen (2022); In Extenso, Clermont-Ferrand (2021); Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2021); Gammelgaard, Herlev (2020); Rønnebæksholm, Næstved (2020); Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen (2018) and Kunsthal Aarhus Skulpturpark, Aarhus (2017).

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She was one of 8 selected Danish artists who exhibited at the International Biennial of Contemporary Art - JCE Biennale 2019-2021, and in 2019 she won the special prize PRIX SPECIAL «IN EXTENSO - ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE». In 2021, she was nominated for the Remmen Foundation's art prize. Her works can be found in the collection of the Danish Arts Foundation, and she has created public decorations for the Court in Lyngby (2020) and Ringsted Kommune (2023).

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Noah Umur Kanber (b. 1991, Denmark) is currently completing her MFA at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Her ever-evolving practice spans across various mediums – from photography to ceramics and glass sculptures, performance and installation. In her works, Kanber goes back and through memories, creating a space that should have been there for her as well as for others. Tracing connections between performative explorations of self and other, childhood fantasies and traumas, and Turkish and diasporic cultural symbols, her works convey an urge to (re)arrange reality, proffering new models for a future informed by queer ecology and interspecies symbiosis.

Kanber’s recent exhibitions include shows at Bricks Gallery, Copenhagen (2023); Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2023); OUTPOST, Copenhagen (2022); Augustiana Park, Augustenborg (2022); Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen (2022) and Art Hub, Copenhagen (2021).

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Ragnhild May (b. 1988, Denmark) graduated with an MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York and is currently completing her Ph.D in Artist Research at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. May works as a visual artist and combines different media such as sound, sculpture, video, installation, and performance with conceptual rigor, sensitivity and humor. Her work encompasses technology, science fiction, feminism, and sound theory. The use of sound within a context of visual art is of particular significance to her practice, as her work draws on the specificity and history of sound.

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May has recently exhibited with solo shows at Regelbau 411, Thyholm (2023); Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2022); Tabakalera - International Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastián (2022); SOL, Nexø (2021); VEGA Arts, Copenhagen (2019) and Die Raum, Berlin (2018). Her works has been shown in group exhibitions at Urban Sound Art, Kråkerøy (2023); Vizura Aperta Festival (2023); Rønnebæksholm, Næstved (2021) and Gammelgaard Museum, Herlev (2020). Furthermore, May has performed at several venues including SMK - the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2023 and 2015); Bauhaus Museum, Berlin (2022); Gl. Holtegaard Museum, Holte (2021); The New Museum, New York (2020); Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen (2019); Roulette, New York (2019); Hopkins Center For the Arts, Hopkins (2018); Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Arts, Copenhagen (2018) and SuperDeluxe, Tokyo (2017).

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She is a recipient of the Carl Nielsen Talent Award and scholarships from the Danish Art Foundation and Fulbright. She was selected by the The Danish Arts Foundation to take part in their career development program ‘The Young Artistic Elite’ from 2020-2022. In 2022, she created the work Lutter Ører for public decoration of Helsingør Health Center. Her works can be found in public collections including Fuglsang Art Museum, Copenhagen Municipality Art Collection, 1000 Scores (digital collection), Museum for Contemporary Art Roskilde (digital collection), Horsens Art Museum, and the New Carlsberg Foundation.

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Sarah McNulty (b. 1979, USA) graduated with an MFA in Painting from The Slade School of Fine Art, London, in addition to Fine Art courses at the School of Visual Arts, New York and a BA Hons in Art from Georgetown University, Washington. McNulty works with painting, drawing, installation, and public art. Her practice explores physical and personal relationships with surrounding environments, as well as the reception of visual information in an era of targeted experience. The contingent nature of painting and its history are fundamental in her work, with a focus on points of rupture and collapse. It is a cyclical process where paintings are suspended in various states, often as a provisional archive of a specific place, time, and action.

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McNulty has recently exhibited with solo and duo shows at AGA Works, Copenhagen (2023 and 2022); PFA Pppeter, Copenhagen (2022), Danske Grafikeres Hus, Copenhagen (2020); Stereo Exchange, Copenhagen (2020); Kiosk 7, Copenhagen (2018); Sydhavn Station Billboard, Copenhagen (2018) and Metroselskabets Byens Hegn at Trianglen, Copenhagen (2018). Her group exhibitions include shows at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen (2023); Vermillion Sands, Copenhagen (2022); Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen (2022); Transmitter Gallery, New York (2021 and 2018); Terrace Gallery, London (2019); Gary Paul, Los Angeles (2019); Art Trail E17, London (2019); Parasol Projects, New York (2018); Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning (2017), Jir Sandel, Copenhagen (2017) and Seminovskaya Library & Gaza Palace of Culture & Technology, St. Petersburg (2017).

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McNulty has been co-founder of the exhibition platform Tørreloft, AGA Works in Copenhagen since 2015, as well as the project space Kiosk 7 in Copenhagen from 2016-2018. Her works can be found in several public collections including Copenhagen Municipality Art Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum and UCL Duveen Library, London.

Sophie Kitching (b. 1990, Isle of Wight, UK) graduated from École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, and School of Visual Arts, New York. Kitching works with installations, paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. With a poetic exploration of environment and natural phenomena, Kitching offers curious reflections on the concepts of space and reality, through an alluring and inviting materiality. She creates atmospheres of both utopic otherworldliness and a grounded familiarity for the viewer to enter.

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Kitching has recently exhibited with solo shows at The Finch Project, London (2023); 3A Gallery, New York (2023); Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2022); Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris (2022); PS122 Gallery, New York (2022); Park Hyatt, New York (2021) and Galerie Vaste Horizon, Arles (2019). Her latest duo and group exhibitions include shows at C1760, New York (2023); Nosbaum Reding, Bruxelles (2023); FRAC Grand Large – Hauts de France, Dunkirk (2023); KENZO Marais, Paris (2019) and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2017).

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In 2016, Sophie Kitching was nominated for the ‘Bourse Révélations Emerige’ in Paris. In 2017, she inaugurated the artist residency at Maison de Chateaubriand in Châtenay-Malabry, and Lienart published her first monographic catalogue Nuits Américaines. The same year, she created sets for Kader Belarbi’s Ballet Don Quichotte at Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse. In 2018-2022, she was awarded a studio residency as part of Painting Space 122 in New York. During Frieze NY 2022, Kitching exhibited at House of Ruinart’s Maison 1729 and created a limited-edition of Second Skin Magnums and in 2023, during Paris Fashion Week - Haute Couture, she created two limited-edition Serpenti Forever Handbags in collaboration with BVLGARI. His works can be found in collections including Art Observed in New York, Maison Ruinart in Reims, Daniel Humm in New York, and Library of EnsAD in Paris.