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NILS STÆRK

Name: NILS STÆRK
Address: Glentevej 49, Copenhagen, 2400, DK
Telephone: +4532544562
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NILS STÆRK is a contemporary art gallery with an international profile, established in 1997 The gallery was established in 1997.

NILS STÆRK is a contemporary art gallery with an international profile based in Copenhagen. Today, the gallery represents both upcoming, mid-career, and established national and international artists working across various media and genres, united by a conceptual narrative exploring current societal values and conflicts in today’s globalized society. Since its inception, NILS STÆRK has fostered global collaborations, particularly within the Central and Latin-American art scene, as well as with global art institutions, biennales, and galleries, creating new projects and opportunities with its represented artists and placing their work in significant art collections. The gallery has since its inception participated in several international art fairs such as Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Arco, Art Brussels, FIAC and ZsonaMaco. Initially located in a small gallery in the warehouse district at Islands Brygge, followed by a large space at Carlsberg Copenhagen, the gallery relocated to a 500 m2 former car workshop in the Northwest part of Copenhagen in the spring of 2017. This location still bears the mark of a raw, industrial aesthetic, a stark contrast to the gallery’s minimalistic interior designed by Henning Larsen Architects. In 2024, the gallery expanded with a second space in Copenhagen's city center, responding to increased interest in exhibitions featuring its artists. Situated on a bustling high street, this space intertwines its shows with the vibrant city through large, street-facing windows.

21/10/2026

IN FOCUS⁠
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We are pleased to present works by Jone Kvie as part of our latest focus26 presentation at Glentevej 49, Copenhagen.⁠

Jone Kvie’s glass works were produced during a residency at CIRVA (Centre International de Recherche sur le Verre et les Arts plastiques) in Marseille in 2016.

For Kvie, glass became a way of extending concerns already central to his sculptural practice: matter, transformation, geological processes, and the relationship between the human body and forces that operate on vastly different scales.

For more information about the works on view, please visit our website.⁠

20/10/2026

"Family Familiar" (2024–ongoing) by Ikram Abdulkadir is currently on view as part of the group exhibition "Remnants" at Tensta konsthall in Stockholm, through January 10, 2027.

The photographic installation brings together photographs and fragments of a deconstructed wooden cabinet, carefully reimagined for Tensta konsthall.

"Remnants" pulls together a poetic constellation of gestures by living and departed artists, where pasts and presents meet in chorus. In the exhibition, we encounter works that resonate with historical memory, resistance, and the lived experiences of diaspora and exile. Together, they unfold through the rhythm and sound of jazz.

Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger

16/10/2026

OPENING SOON

One week from today, Eliyah Mesayer’s solo exhibition "Letters from a Huntress" opens at the gallery. Join us for the opening on October 23, from 5–7 pm, at Holbergsgade 19, Copenhagen.

A huntress has passed through the exhibition. She is never seen, yet her presence lingers in the objects she has left behind: letters, a tent, a bow, and six arrows.

"Letters from a Huntress" considers what it means to send something out into the world without knowing whether – or how – it will be received. It asks how a home, an identity, and a narrative might be formed through the traces one leaves behind.

For more information about the exhibition and the artist, please visit our website.

Photo: David Stjernholm / Godsbanen
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14/10/2026

IN FOCUS⁠
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We are pleased to present works by Gardar Eide Einarsson as part of our latest focus26 presentation at Glentevej 49, Copenhagen.⁠

Einarsson appropriates existing images and visual languages to examine the relationship between personal freedom and institutional authority. Drawing on references to propaganda, counterculture, and the history of modernism, his work challenges established structures of meaning and authorship.

For more information about the works on view, please visit our website via the link in bio.⁠

10/10/2026

LAST DAY

Today is the last day to visit Violeta Maya’s solo exhibition, “Absoluto Estado de Proliferation.” Our galleries are open today until 3 pm.

Working primarily with wet-on-wet techniques on unprimed canvas, Maya allows pigments to spread, absorb, and interact beyond her complete control, treating material behavior as an integral part of the work’s formation. The resulting surfaces hold a dynamic tension between intention and unpredictability, foregrounding process and material responsiveness as central to meaning.

09/10/2026

Olaf Breuning's "Clouds" are now on view in New York City on the Broadway pedestrian plaza between 39th and 40th Streets, through March 2027.

The ten-meter-high installation calls to mind the set design of a school play or childlike drawings of the sky. The idea for the work was inspired by one of the artist’s staged photographs. Interested in situations that bend reality to the whims of his imagination, Breuning’s forays into film, sculpture, drawing, and photography often propel viewers into a world that borders on the surreal and underscores the humor of everyday life.

"Clouds" dramatically transforms the skyline into a playful, fictional tableau, inviting us to experience the stage-like quality of a busy New York City street with a new sense of wonder and possibility.

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08/10/2026

OPENING SOON⁠
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We are pleased to present "Letters from a Huntress", Eliyah Mesayer's first solo exhibition with NILS STÆRK, opening October 23, 5–7 pm at Holbergsgade 19, Copenhagen.⁠
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The exhibition continues Mesayer’s ongoing project Illiyeen, an imaginary state. Conceived as both a poetic nation and a conceptual manifestation, Illiyeen is brought into being through stories, rituals, and symbols.⁠
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Within the imagined geography of Illiyeen, the huntress appears as a traveler, messenger, and possible guardian. Her precise role remains unresolved, allowing her to move between different identities and meanings throughout the exhibition.⁠
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03/10/2026

LAST WEEK

This is the last week to visit Violeta Maya's solo exhibition "Absoluto Estado de Proliferación" at our gallery.

Captivated by nature's continual process of creation, Maya explores the capacity of matter to sprout, multiply, and generate form. Across painting and sculpture, "Absoluto Estado de Proliferación" (Absolute State of Proliferation) unfolds through forms suspended between the botanical, the corporeal, and the geological. Cavities, membranes, stems, swollen bodies, and flowing structures evoke seeds, organs, plants, landscapes, and bodies without ever resolving into any one of them.

The exhibition closes October 10.

02/10/2026

On the occasion of Michael Kvium’s focus26 presentation, the artist was joined by Jeannette Ehlers for a conversation moderated by Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt, Associate Professor in Performance Studies and Cultural Studies at University of Copenhagen.

Bringing together two distinct artistic practices across generations, the talk explored performance, video art and the body as both material and a site of meaning.

To watch the full video, please visit our website.

01/10/2026

OPENING TODAY
5 – 7 PM

Lea Porsager is part of "LIGHT ECHOES", an exhibition and research project where science and art come together to explore light, time, and the universe, curated by Irene Campolmi at Rundetaarn.

Porsager’s "Einstein Cross" explores gravitational lensing, a phenomenon in which a massive galaxy bends light from a distant source. An “Einstein Cross” occurs when a quasar appears as four images around a foreground galaxy – light from a single source reaching us along different paths. Porsager translates this cosmic phenomenon into a cross fitted with spheres and prisms reminiscent of those used in lighthouses, bringing cosmic processes into dialogue with terrestrial technologies of navigation.

Set against the neighbouring Trinitatis Church and its intertwined histories of religion and astronomy, the work evokes light as both radiation and revelation.

"LIGHT ECHOES" is presented by the Rundetaarn and Yonder Art•Science in collaboration with the Niels Bohr Institute.

Adresse

Glentevej 49
Copenhagen
2400

Åbningstider

Tirsdag	11:00 - 17:00
Onsdag	11:00 - 17:00
Torsdag	11:00 - 17:00
Fredag	11:00 - 17:00
Lørdag	11:00 - 15:00

Telefon

+4532544562

Website

http://www.nilsstaerk.dk/

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