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.