Galleri Susanne Ottesen

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Galleri Susanne Ottesen

Galleri Susanne Ottesen is owned and run by Susanne Ottesen. The gallery has existed since 1983. Galleri Susanne Ottesen was founded in 1983 by Susanne Ottesen.

It was one of a small number of pioneering galleries in Denmark to champion a generation of local and international artists who were transforming the way art was thought, made and presented. Over the past thirty years Galleri Susanne Ottesen has built on this foundation, identifying and supporting succeeding generations of artists, each with a radical and distinctive approach to the possibilites of art.

19/02/2026

From the archives: press clips from Maria Eichhorn’s 1995 show in the gallery�

“What is interesting about Eichhorn’s exhibition is that it is the opposite of an institutional installation of artworks; rather, it is a staging of the works within a new and different context, which entails a re-writing of the works’ history of effect. […] Cage, Maciunas, and Brecht are given new clothes: new meanings have been added, old meanings peeled away. […] Fluxus art has rarely looked so cool and precise as in Eichhorn’s well-functioning installation.”��
- Andreas Brøgger, "Fluxus som readymade", Dagbladet Information, 14 March 1995 (Translated from Danish)

�“By transplanting experiments from the 1960s and 70s into the 1990s, she refutes the notion that the ‘avant-garde’ work emerges from a zero point like a newborn without a family tree.”�
- Anne Ring Petersen, "Fluxus som genbrug" in Berlingske Tidende, Saturday 18 March 1995. (Translated from Danish)

��You can experience Maria Eichhorn’s recreation of her 1995 show until 14 March 2026.

18/02/2026

On view: Maria Eichhorn's solo exhibition '(Re)visit' - a recreation of her 1995 solo show in the gallery.

Join us for 'Speakers' Corner' this Saturday from 14.00-17.00, where Maria Eichhorn will be present, and a text of hers will be performed as a part of the program.

Pictured here, her staging of John Cage's 1969 work, '33 1/3'. The work provides the audience with 100 long-playing records (played at 33 1/3 rpm) from as many different musical genres as possible, along with 10 record players. The record labels is covered with blank stickers and therefore identical for selection. Visitors can place records without being able to choose from them. In Eichhorn's arrangement, the record players themselves functions like a record, the table like a record player, the tabletop the turntable, and the column as the central axis (of the turntable).

Photo: Stine Heger

03/02/2026

INVITATION:

Maria Eichhorn
(Re)visit

Exhibition: 6 February - 7 March 2026
Speakers' Corner event: Saturday 21 February

Note: Per the artists's wishes, there will be no opening, rather you are invited to pass by during our regular opening hours.

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‘(Re)visit’ enacts in its entirety Maria Eichhorn’s 1995 exhibition at Galleri Susanne Ottesen, repeating her precise staging of three works by central figures of the Fluxus movement: Chair Events, 1969, by George Brecht; 33 1/3, 1969, by John Cage; and Flux Ping-Pong, 1969, by George Maciunas.

Eichhorn’s exhibition poses fundamental questions about artistic authorship, audience participation, and the gallery as an active framework through which art is made and experienced. By recreating works from the René Block Collection, Eichhorn also addresses questions of public display and censorship, raised following the collection's inaugural presentation at Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen (1992).

Revisiting her conceptual methodology, three contemporary artists will activate the exhibition from Saturday 21 February through its close on 7 March. The prorgamme will be accompanied by a day of short talks by artists and industry figures, which collectively asks, “What do galleries mean to you?”. The Speakers’ Corner will take place on Saturday 21 February, with details to follow.

📸 Stills from Maria Eichhorn's archive, documenting her 1995 exhibition at Galleri Susanne Ottesen.

01/02/2026

UPDATE TO OUR OPENING HOURS!

Please note that the gallery will now be open regularly:

10:00 - 17:00 Tuesday - Friday
11:00 - 16:00 Saturday

We look forward to seeing you soon.

📸 We couldn't resist sharing this fabulous archival photo of A.R Penck's 1989 gallery exhibition, our first in our Gothersgade space.

31/12/2025

As we wait to ring in the New Year, we're looking back at our 2025 programme of exhibitions!

Thanks to all for stopping by for tours, tea, coffee, cake and wine. We can't wait to welcome you back in 2026.

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1. Troels Wörsel, Venezia, 2007, 250 x 200cm as part of Troels Wörsel: In Colour, 6 Feb - 22 March 2025

2. Finn Reinbothe, Walk With Me (Between The Lines), 2024, 250 x 350 x 5cm as part of 3 nudes in a purple garden, 28 Mar - 3 May 2025

3. Ragna Braase, Untitled, 1974, and Untitled, 1973, both 55.6 x 75.5 cm as part of Ragna Braase & Nanna Abell, Martin Erik Andersen, Andreas Eriksson, FOS, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Bjørn Nørgaard, Kirstine Roepstorff, Tove Storch, Mette Winckelmann, 9 May - 14 Jun 2025

4. Richard Deacon, Everybody's Looking For Something #4, 2023, 15 x 37 x 24.5cm as part of our Summer show, 24 Jun - 22 Aug 2025

5. Kehnet Nielsen, Moments IV, 2025, 50 x 40cm as part of All The Darkness Behind The Light, 22 Aug - 18 Oct 2025

6. Fatima Moallim, Manifest, 2025, 12 x 132cm as part of MANUALS, 20 Oct - 15 Nov 2025

7. Martin Erik Andersen, Krystallys, St. Petri (Lewerentz), 2025 as part of Wege, Lauf und Bahn, 21 Nov 2025 - 24 Jan 2026

20/12/2025

We are now closed for the holidays!

Wishing you a restful break and a very Happy New Year. We look forward to welcoming you back in 2026.

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Winter close: 21 December 2025 - 5 January 2026
Reopening: Tuesday 6 January 2026

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📩 Urgent query? Our main inbox - [email protected] - will be infrequently monitored through the close. Otherwise we look forward to being in touch again in 2026.

📸 Stig Brøgger's annual Christmas calendar for Galleri Susanne Ottesen, 2007 edition, installation view.

06/08/2025

🗞 Pernille With Madsen | Boglancering & Artist Talk | Galleri Susanne Ottesen 🗞

Næste torsdag inviterer vi dig til at fejre udgivelsen af Pernille With Madsens nye kunstnerpublikation TimeBeing. Arrangementet byder på en uformel reception og en samtale mellem kunstneren og flere af de centrale bidragydere til publikationen.

📅 Næste torsdag den 14. august

16:45 – Ankomst
17:00 – Samtalen begynder
18:00 – Tak for i dag

I samtalen deltager Pernille With Madsen sammen med Claus Due fra Studio Claus Due, billedkunstner Kasper Hesselbjerg og kunsthistoriker Jacob Lund, som har bidraget med essayet "A Dialectical Trip" til bogen.

Sammen vil de dykke ned i Pernilles praksis, præsentere essayet og dets relation til hendes værker, og dele refleksioner over tilblivelsen af TimeBeing – samt mere generelle overvejelser om det at arbejde med kunstnerpublikationer.

🔔 Samtalen kommer til at foregå på dansk.

🎨 Pernille With Madsen, 'Solid_conductor', 2024, silketryk, 106 x 146cm
📸 Stine Heger

Bogomslag: Peter Skyum
Prepress: Narayana Press & Werkstette
Produceret af: Graphic Unit
Støttet af: NyCarlsbergfondet & Statens Kunstfond

📬 Alle kunstforespørgsler via [email protected]

05/08/2025

👋 We are back!

We've returned from the summer break refreshed and ready to re-welcome you into our summer group show featuring works by six gallery artists: Nanna Abell; Morten Buch; Jean-Marc Bustamante; Richard Deacon; Andreas Eriksson and Pernille With Madsen.

🏃‍♀️ Swing by between 10:00 - 18:00 today through Friday or between 11:00 - 16:00 on Saturday.

We look forward to seeing you -

🎨 1. Install view featuring Jean-Marc Bustamante (left) and Richard Deacon (right)
2 -5. Richard Deacon, 'Motif', 2022, Sublimation printing on polyester, 52 x 52cm
📸 Galleri Susanne Ottesen & Stine Heger

All artwork enquiries via [email protected]

31/07/2025

⭐ Coming soon...

a solo show with Danish painter, Kehnet Nielsen!

📅 Join us for the opening on Friday 22 August, 17:00 - 19:00.

🎨 Kehnet Nielsen (b. 1930) is a Danish painter whose work unfolds like visual poetry; layered, enigmatic, and deeply attuned to the rhythms of nature and the human psyche. With a keen sense of colour and composition, Nielsen creates evocative works where landscape, memory, and abstraction meet. His paintings often carry a quiet intensity, hinting at something just beyond the visible: a symbolic place shaped by time, myth, and personal reflection. Nielsen has developed a singular voice in Danish art — contemplative yet bold, rooted yet expansive — continuing to draw viewers into richly imagined worlds that linger long after the first glance.

🖌 Kehnet Nielsen, 'Mirroring Landscape', 2022, Oil on canvas, 160 x 135 cm

📩 All artwork enquiries via [email protected]

05/07/2025

🍉 Don't miss acclaimed Norwegian painter Olav Christopher Jenssen's gorgeous journal works, on view as part of our summer group show. 🍉

We're delighted to present 8 framed drawings from the series, begun by the artist back in 1986, alongside two sumptuous ceramic works. Executed in various media on the same size waxed paper, the ongoing project constitutes an impressive diary that invites viewer's into the artist's world, offering insight into his creative flow, ideas and inspiration.

Made in his studios in Berlin, Germany and Lya, Sweden, as well as in diverse locations including Iceland, Japan and on the ICE trains in Germany, the drawings exhibited in the gallery share a geometric form and highly pigmented, textured surface.

👀 Interested in the featured artworks? Reach out via [email protected]

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We're open until 16:00 today before signing off for the holiday.

We re-open with the summer group show on Tuesday 5 August and it will remain on view through Saturday 16 August.

🖌️ Olav Christopher Jenssen, 'Journal', 2025, Mixed media and wax on paper, 61.5 x 47.5cm
📸 Stine Heger

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Tirsdag	10:00 - 18:00
Onsdag	10:00 - 18:00
Torsdag	10:00 - 18:00
Fredag	10:00 - 18:00
Lørdag	11:00 - 16:00

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+4533155244

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