Holiday Opening Hours

The gallery is closed from December 21 – January 1, except December 27 where we will be open from 11-16.

Last chance: Mille Kalsmose at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art

Mille Kalsmose’s work Cosmic Relations is currently on view at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art as part of the exhibition If You See What I See – Stine Goya x Kunsten. On view until January 4, 2026.

Kunsten has invited the internationally renowned Danish fashion designer Stine Goya to explore the museum’s collection of nearly 4,000 artworks. The result is an aesthetic, intuitive art experience featuring carefully selected works that, in interaction, create a narrative about separation, longing, dreams, and desire.

Instead of following a classical art historical narrative, the exhibition emphasizes an aesthetic, sensory-driven, and personal approach, offering new perspectives and insights into Kunsten’s collection.

Opening Saturday December 6

Join us for the opening of Writing on the Wall, a new solo exhibition by Kristian Dahlgaard, on Saturday December 6 at 13 – 16. Dahlgaard’s wall-mounted sculptures unfurl across the surface as gestural tracings made from metal and rendered in vivid colours, like three-dimensional drawings in space rather than on paper.

Performance at EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art

Place of Memory is a performance created in connection with Mille Kalsmose’s artwork Conscious Matter, which is part of the Arte Povera – A New Chapter exhibition.

Podcast with Astrid Kruse Jensen

Astrid Kruse Jensen talks about the meeting with Karen Blixen in relation to her photographic method with memory as a construction.

Eva Koch at Kalundborg Havnepark

You can soon experience Eva Koch’s video work NoMad (1998) at Kalundborg Havnepark. The exhibition is organized and curated by open-source.tv.

Book Launch with Nicolai Howalt

We’re really proud and happy to finally announce that Nicolai Howalt’s new book Fungi will be officially released on the 20th of November, 2025.

After a long and careful process, the books have arrived from Narayana Press — and they look beautiful: Fabric-bound hardcover with rounded corners and colored edges; printet on two different types of paper with a five-page leporello folding out from the back. It’s a publication we’ve been working on for a long time and we’re incredibly proud of the result.

Fungi contemplates a realm largely invisible to the naked eye, yet as essential to life on Earth as sunlight or oxygen.Working at the intersection of scientific inquiry and artistic experimentation, artist Nicolai Howalt integrates different species of fungi directly into the creative and photographic processes, allowing these enigmatic and vital organisms to influence the visual and material outcomes of the work.

Each image unfolds as a quiet dialogue between human intention and non-human agency: traces of life briefly lived on light-sensitive paper, marks formed through nourishment and erosion, fragile imprints of growth and decay, presence and disappearance.

Fungi is neither a scientific catalogue nor a botanical manual, but a poetic and visual meditation on fungi and their role in shaping life and matter — a reflection on transformation, coexistence, processes of image-making, and the unpredictable aesthetics of living organisms.

At a time when fungi are increasingly recognised as key to the future of ecological balance, medicine, and sustainable innovation, the book gathers Howalt’s experimental works into a poetic and tactile volume, designed by the award-winning Rasmus Koch Studio and printed by Narayana Press, with accompanying texts by author Morten Søndergaard and mycologist Henning Knudsen.

Fungi was made possible by the generous support of New Carlsberg Foundation, Bestles Fond, Poul Johansen Fonden af 1992, Danish Arts Foundation, Dansk Tennis Fond, Arne V. Schleschs Fond.

Winner of the Heitland Honorary prize 2025

Mille Kalsmose received the Heitland Foundation Honorary Prize 2025, together with Eva Steen Christensen og Louise Hindsgavl.

Elina Brotherus’ solo show Seabound opens Saturday

Martin Asbæk Gallery is delighted to present Seabound, a solo exhibition by Finnish artist Elina Brotherus. Commissioned by the Tangen Collection in Norway, the works on view are generously on loan from Kunstsilo. This marks the first presentation of the Seabound series in Denmark and coincides with Brotherus’ major solo exhibition at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg.

Elina Brotherus’ practice oscillates between the autobiographical and the art historical. In recent years, she has revisited Fluxus event scores and other performance-based instructions from the 1950s to the 1970s, transforming them into visual narratives. In her publication of the same title, Brotherus introduces SEABOUND by reflecting on the origin of its name, which she calls a misunderstanding: “Or a mistranslation, to be exact.”

Much of the series draws inspiration from Norwegian performance artist Kurt Johannessen, known for his small books filled with “øvingar” – short, poetic exercises. While working in Norway, Brotherus carried these instructions with her, one of which read: Havbunnen to netter på rad. The artist recalls: ”Seabound, I thought, two nights in a row. How beautiful. That’s me! I was in the outer archipelago and was drawn to the sea all the time, day and night.”

It was only later that she discovered her poetic interpretation was off. Bunnen, which she had mistaken for the Swedish bunden (meaning “bound”), in Norwegian actually means “bottom.” Johannessen was referring to the seabed, not a romantic yearning for the sea. But by then, the moment had passed – and the image had been made: Brotherus, in a red coat, captured on the second night, gazing out over the open water.

Last chance to visit Kasper Eistrup’s solo show

This is the final week of Kasper Eistrup’s How to Expand an Ocean, his solo exhibition at CCA Andratx in Mallorca.

Since time immemorial, the ocean has been a barrier between continents – a paradox of infinity and closeness, uniting what distance separates. In How to Expand an Ocean, Kasper Eistrup’s solo exhibition at CCA Andratx, the artist is preoccupied with the sea as an erratic barrier, a great division between both continents and people. Yet, the Danish artist remains deeply concerned with bridging these distances, especially as the sea continues to rise and the divides grow ever more pronounced.

Kasper Eistrup has always sought to connect the seemingly impossible. By counterposing order and chaos, his work utilizes different methods and materials, but also separate and distinct visual expressions, ranging from meticulous depictions of the outer world, it’s machines and architecture, to a deeply aesthetic expression of emotions. This approach could have resulted in an ambivalence within the work but rather establishes as a wide ranging and distinct artistic language of its own.

The title of the Eistrup’s monumental work Confluence (2024) refers to the junction of two rivers. This flowing together is present in both the artist’s paintings and drawings which he counterposes with photomontage. In an almost kaleidoscopic pattern, a myriad of details has been intuitively arranged and seamlessly combined.

The intricacy of Eistrup’s work results in an effect where certain details, which at a distance appear almost blurry, stand out with great precision once the viewer moves closer. Much of the material used is collected through reference works, books and old magazines, vintage paper and the result is a babbling rendering of the past, presented almost as a film roll, stretching across the space.

In the beginning of 1950s, American marine biologist and conservationist Rachel Carson wrote: “The sediments are a sort of epic poem of the earth. When we are wise enough, perhaps we can read in them all of past history.” (The Sea Around Us, 1952). And to Eistrup, images do not only carry an iconographic value; they are also a cautionary tale, drawing parallels between the past and the present, tracing human and natural history through the good and the bad.

Photographer: David Bonet

Elina Brotherus solo show at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art

We are pleased to that the news of Elina Brotherus’ solo exhibition Fill With Own Imagination at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art. The museum is brought to life and Aalto’s architecture is inhabited as the Finnish contemporary artist presents a series of entirely new works created with the museum as her setting.

This major solo exhibition coincides with Martin Asbæk Gallery’s presentation of Seabound (Available on Artsy), the first presentation of the series in Denmark. Commissioned by the Tangen Collection in Norway, the works on view are generously on loan from Kunstsilo.

Photographer: Diana Aud