Openings This Week
Each week, we gather new openings from our galleries in the Nordics and beyond, alongside highlights from our cultural partners here in Stockholm.
Week 36
At Market Art Fair this past May, Company Gallery presented works by Ambera Wellmann. The Canadian artist, recognised for her layered oil paintings depicting fluid, often ambiguous human and animal forms, shifting between the uncanny and the intimate, now opens her second solo exhibition with the gallery in New York, presented concurrently with her debut exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Wooster Street in the city.
Also featured at the fair, Oscar Eriksson Furunes opens his new series ‘Morning Haze’ at Arnstedt, Östra Karup, shown alongside Malmö-based painter Selma Sjöstedt.
In Stockholm, Carl Kostyál started its autumn season yesterday at Hospitalet with a solo exhibition by Swedish-born, Los Angeles–based artist Camilla Engström. On Saturday, Galleri Magnus Karlsson will open its first exhibition of the season, presenting Ebba Svensson’s debut solo show with the gallery.
This week also brings new openings in Helsinki. At Galerie Anhava, Finnish artist duo Grönlund-Nisunen are joined by Swedish artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff, continuing a collaboration that began with their joint presentation in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2001. Nearby, Helsinki Contemporary presents new paintings by Finnish artist Rauha Mäkilä in a solo exhibition.
In Berlin, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery reopens for the season with ‘Mehr Licht’, an exhibition marking the tenth anniversary of Sasha Weidner’s passing, revisiting the late artist’s poetic and emotionally charged imagery.
Stockholm
Carl Kostyál
Camilla Engström
Två Hjärtan [Two Hearts], 4 September – 4 October
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Work by Camilla Engström in the exhibition Two Hearts at Carl Kostyáls Hospitalet. Image courtesy of the artist
Galleri Magnus Karlsson
Ebba Svensson
Sly, 6 September–11 October
From the exhibition text: “The exhibition title Sly can be used in both Swedish and English to describe its content and characteristics. The Swedish word Sly, a dense and tangled vegetation with shrubs or young trees, is linked to the imagery, while the English adjective Sly may refer to a quality in the painting; something misleading and elusive. In Ebba Svensson’s paintings, there is a membrane or haze that divides the image into a foreground and a background. We are faced with a choice: to wander with our gaze on its surface or to step into its space. The intricacy that winds its way across the canvas reaches out towards the viewer and down into the depths of the painting. Roots that twist and cling, and branches that stretch away. In some works, the motif itself is also a water surface, a double exposure of the reflection and the transparent. Perhaps they can be seen as snapshots of a reality that is constantly changing? A stem or a branch breaks free from the thicket and resembles handwriting, like an invitation to stay.”
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Ebba Svensson, 'Sigill' (2025). Image courtesy of Galleri Magnus Karlsson
Helsinki
Galerie Anhava
Grönlund–Nisunen + Carl Michael von Hausswolff
5 September – 28 September
From the exhibition text: “Grönlund-Nisunen’s exhibition consists of works that, in the artists’ characteristically precise and minimalist idiom, touch on the dimensions of time, space and continuity. The duo Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen have invited Swedish artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff to join them in this exhibition. Their previous collaborations have included the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2001, and the opening exhibition of Kiasma in 1998. In the exhibition, time appears as an inexorably progressing yet relative dimension, communicating and morphing with the space of the gallery. Beyond the limits set by time and space, the deliberately poetic works are crystallisations of changes and shapes triggered by physical phenomena such as tension, gravity and pressure.”
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Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Spiriport, 1979/2006, 13-channel sound installation. Photo: Carl Michael von Hausswolff. Courtesy of Galerie Anhava
Helsinki Contemporary
Rauha Mäkilä
Syksy 2025, 5 September–28 September
Rauha Mäkilä’s solo exhibition Syksy 2025 (Autumn 2025) presents new works united by a common theme: exploring memories through painting.
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Rauha Mäkilä, Piilovaihe (2025). Photo by Jussi Tianien. Courtesy of Helsinki Contemporary.
Berlin
Dorothée Nilsson Gallery
Sascha Weidner
Mehr Licht, 7 September – 8 November
Dorothée Nilsson Gallery exhibits works by the late Sascha Weidner, marking ten years since his passing, ‘Mehr Licht’ revisits Weidner’s poetic and emotionally charged images, which create a radical and subjective visual world shaped by perception, longing, and coded symbolism.
United States
Company Gallery
Ambera Wellmann
One Thousand Emotions, 5 September
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Ambera Wellmann, One Thousand Emotions (2025). Courtesy of Company Gallery and the artist.
Skåne
Arnstedt Östra Karup
Oscar Eriksson Furunes
6 September – 4 October
Selma Sjöstedt
6 September – 4 October
Full exhibition overview
For a complete overview of exhibitions currently on view, visit our overview. Discover what’s happening across Market Art Fair’s network of galleries in the Nordics and beyond, updated regularly to help you keep track of current exhibitions.