Past
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Per Mølgaard: November
25 Oct - 15 Nov 2024 Wilson Saplana Gallery is pleased to present the solo exhibition 'November' by the Danish visual artist Per Mølgaard (b. 1969). For this exhibition, Mølgaard showcases oil paintings in which countless layers of paint and dry pigments evoke deep backgrounds and abstract environments. Different moods are played out here, and repeated... Read more -
Sophie Calle: Ma mère aimait qu’on parle d’elle
23 Aug - 19 Oct 2024 Download the introduction to the exhibition as well as the english translations to the artworks here Wilson Saplana Gallery is proud to present an exhibition with the world-renowned French artist Sophie Calle The exhibition is the first solo presentation of Sophie Calle in the Nordic countries for more than... Read more -
Caring Absurdities
31 May - 25 Jul 2024 In order to understand ourselves and our present time, we often look to the ones that came before us. We hold on to memories, emotions and objects they have left behind. Sometimes these marks are visible, physical and other times they are psychological. They can appear as heirlooms, photos and... Read more -
SPRING SHOW
13 Apr - 25 May 2024 It is our great pleasure to be able to welcome you all to the gallery's first SPRING SHOW, which is a group exhibition with all the gallery's represented artists: Maiken Bent, Ida Thorhauge, Jens Settergren, Jytte Rex, Mette Winckelmann, Mikkel Ørsted, Maria Wæhrens, Niels Pugholm, Miriam Kongstad, Hannah Heilmann, Kim... Read more -
Inuuteq Storch: RISE OF THE SUNKEN SUN
3 Apr - 24 Nov 2024 DANISH PAVILION, La Biennale di Venezia Wilson Saplana proudly announces the representation of Greenlandic artist Inuuteq Storch, who represents Denmark at this year’s Venice Biennial with the exhibition “Rise of the Sunken Sun”. Inuuteq Storch (b.1989), is a Greenlandic photographer with a deep connection to his homeland. Born, raised, and... Read more -
Jytte Rex: My Tender Wife
23 Feb - 6 Apr 2024 In the solo exhibition “My Tender Wife”, we show a selection of Jytte Rex’s photo prints on aluminum plates. The works are reminiscent of internal images on the retina - images that almost rub off on each other and dissolve like distant memories. They are composed like a collage, some... Read more -
Maria Wæhrens: I Take Care of You and Me
10 - 17 Feb 2024 On Saturday February 10, 2-5 (kl 14-17) we open a one week exhibition with new monoprints and monotypes by gallery artist Maria Wæhrens in collaboration with BORCH Editions. Maria Wæhrens' line and brushstroke are of central importance to her first intensive exploration of the medium of printmaking. Compositions on copper... Read more -
Mette Winckelmann: Lend and Borrow
17 Nov 2023 - 3 Feb 2024 Wilson Saplana is pleased to present artist Mette Winckelmann's first solo exhibition in the gallery, Lend and Borrow. For the exhibition, Winckelmann presents new geometric, material, and tactile paintings that freely investigate seemingly fixed dimensions such as economy, power, and gender. With a precise rectangle of green limestone from the... Read more -
Luka Kurashvili: Shouting quiet moments
6 Oct - 10 Nov 2023 In Georgian artist Luka Kurashvili’s first solo exhibition in the gallery, he shows large scale paintings where strong contrasting colors set the mood for everyday scenes of deep conversations and social situations. Despite their elaborate nature, the works have a quiet, sensitive feeling about them as they zoom in on... Read more -
Miriam Kongstad: Heart of Steel
11 Aug - 23 Sep 2023 A heart of steel is something of a paradox. The beating heart is fleshy and warm – it aches, pines and breaks, it overflows with emotion. This outpouring has been associated with a feminine sensibility and, in its extreme, with female hysteria. By comparison, a heart made of steel and... Read more -
Group show: Between grains of sand(salt)
9 Jun - 8 Jul 2023 by Samara Sallam & Kate Sterchi, Olivia Rode Hvass, Ihsan Saad Ihsan Tahir, Hannah Amalie Nielsen, Ida Raselli, and Abul Hisham. In the group exhibition Between grains of sand(salt), gas9gallery presents works by seven young contemporary Danish and international artists whose works and multiple voices intertwine as a collective, caring... Read more -
Maria Wæhrens: Ash Wednesday
21 Apr - 3 Jun 2023 We are proud to present Maria Wæhren's (DK) second solo exhibition in the gallery, this time with the title Ash Wednesday. The paintings, which alternate between large-scale series of violent gestures and smaller works that are intimate, all enclose the viewer in a wealth of abstractions and contrasting colors and... Read more -
Mikkel Ørsted: Structures of Accelerations / Systems of Repetitions
3 Mar - 15 Apr 2023 In the exhibition Structures of Accelerations / Systems of Repetitions Mikkel Ørsted presents large-scale ceramic works and paintings balancing decorative and abstract aesthetics. Ørsted insists on challenging the boundaries of materiality and new systems and visualities appear in the mist of recognizable organic forms and unknown chemical processes. From wall... Read more -
Jens Settergren: Bubbles, Orbs, Oracles
13 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 The gallery present the exhibition Bubbles, Orbs, Oracles by Jens Settergren, that engages with questions that we all too rarely ask ourselves: Where do images come from, what do they represent, and how do they affect us? He presents new lenticular prints and mosaic works where motifs from bio- and... Read more -
Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl: Shit Talk
18 Nov - 22 Dec 2022 In Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl's new solo exhibition Shit Talk, Mejdahl comes out as a shity artist presenting new videoworks, drawings, and sculptures. By using popular cultural and cheesy references Mejdahl challenges the norms of aesthetics and art historical ideas about beauty and cultural hierarchies. The exhibition balances the humorous,... Read more -
Maria Wæhrens: Tradition
30 Sep - 12 Nov 2022 For her solo exhibition Tradition Maria Wæhrens (DK) presents expressive and raw paintings, where abstract beings, body parts, emotions, and landscapes are painted with powerful intuitive brushstrokes. Screaming mouths, internal organs, and genitals, as well as desperate and embracing hands, reach out from the dark and take form between... Read more -
Maiken Bent: FIXTURES
12 Aug - 24 Sep 2022 For her first solo exhibition FIXTURES in in the gallery, Maiken Bent (b.1980) has created new sculptures that are at once poetic, complex and provocatively raw. Sculptures, which constantly causes our gaze and imagination to slide back and forth from hard to soft, from figure to abstraction, and from the... Read more -
Niels Pugholm: That is so Awkward
10 Jun - 6 Aug 2022 Øhhm, Whoopsy, Whatever, and That is So Awkward are some of the everyday expressions that Niels Pugholm (b. 1983) adds to the history of art and under the glaze of his new works displayed in the exhibition That is so Awkward. Through colorful vessels created with historical artistic and ceramic... Read more -
Ida Sønder Thorhauge: Floating Motions
29 Apr - 4 Jun 2022 In her first solo exhibition at the gallery, Ida Sønder Thorhauge (DK) has painted large oilpaintings and paper works, where colors and motifs meet us as equal elements that describe connectedness, intimacy, and rites of passage. Horses, female figures, and flower meadowsvibrate in expressive brushstrokes, and stories flow freely from... Read more -
Mikkel Ørsted: Logic qualities
4 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 In the exhibition Logic Qualities, artist Mikkel Ørsted (1988) shows new work in both large and small formats, all of which are part of a larger study of the world's structures. Through painting, and a transgression of its classic form, Ørsted combines colorful pigments and unconventional brushstrokes, with patterned textiles,... Read more -
Hannah Heilmann: Seller's Remorse
14 Jan - 26 Feb 2022 In Seller's Remorse, Hannah Heilmann presents a testament to the role of emotions in consumer behavior. By turning the term buyers remorse on its head, she situates herself as a producer within the consumer wheel, but also asks about remorse in the production industries. Through new works, including drawings of... Read more