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 42
This week brings new openings across Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and one in London coinciding with Frieze Week.
Starting in Stockholm, Galleri Magnus Karlsson presents Johanna Karlsson’s reliefs and sculptures in the exhibition’ Anatomy of Nature’. In her carefully constructed arrangements, nature feels strikingly present — to the point where we sometimes forget that what we see is built. By lifting nature out of its original context, Karlsson draws our attention to the act of observation itself.
In southern Sweden, Tommy Sveningsson’s exhibition ‘Skuggflora’ turns the gaze downward, towards the plants spreading beneath our feet. The weeds — seemingly insignificant — emerge here as central subjects. At Arnstedt Östra Karup, Dan Wolgers opens ‘Your Word’, an exhibition in which he examines the loss of belief, inspiration and trust, through works marked by both humour and despair.
Across the bridge in Copenhagen, aaaa nordhavn presents new works by Leo Elia, and further north, in Oslo, Galleri Ramfjord opens a solo exhibition with Polish artist Kesja Tabaczuk.
In London, Carl Kostyál opens ‘Three Rooms – Museum, Institution, Gallery’ by British–South African artist Gus Monda. If you happen to be in the city, the British Museum’s newly opened exhibition ‘Nordic Noir: Works on Paper from Edvard Munch to Mamma Andersson‘ is also worth a visit, featuring over 150 works by 100 Nordic artists.
Find the full guide to this week’s openings below.
Stockholm
Galleri Magnus Karlsson
Johanna Karlsson
Naturens anatomi/Anatomy of Nature, 16 October–22 November
Galleri Magnus Karlsson presents Swedish artist Johanna Karlsson’s tenth solo exhibition with the gallery. Titled Anatomy of Nature, the show features a series of reliefs and sculptures created over the past year. At first glance, Karlsson’s works appear to be near-exact reproductions of nature – carefully selected excerpts from seemingly inconspicuous yet evocative places and details. While drawn directly from reality, these compositions are placed in new contexts, inviting closer observation and reflection.
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Courtesy of Galleri Magnus Karlsson
Gothenburg
Galleri Thomassen
Tommy Sveningsson
Skuggflora, 18 October–9 November
From photographs taken during walks, an exploration unfolds – moving beyond physical reality toward a mythological vision of nature. Each work becomes a personal interpretation, carrying both visual and symbolic weight. Nature’s forms are treated as self-generating artworks, shaped by the patterns of evolution. Plant DNA acts as a code, constantly copying and duplicating itself – an organic, self-correcting system that allows species to grow and spread.
Lisa Liljeström
Stranger, 18 October–9 November
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Courtesy of Galleri Thomassen.
Skåne
Arnstedt Östra Karup
Dan Wolgers
Your Word, 18 October–29 November
“In his exhibition Your Word, Dan Wolgers demonstrates the despair and anguish that most people probably feel when they’ve lost their slip of paper — when they’ve lost their faith, their hope, their inspiration.”
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Courtesy of Arnstedt Östra Karup
Copenhagen
aaaa nordhavn
Leo Elia
The Scarecrows of Saskan, 17 October–7 November
Oslo
Galleri Ramfjord
Kesja Tabaczuk
October 18–November 19
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Courtesy of Galleri Ramfjord
London
Carl Kostyál
Gus Monday
Three Rooms – Museum, Institution, Gallery, 14 October–15 November
In ‘Three Rooms – Museum, Institution, Gallery’, Monday performs a literal and critical dissection of three distinct yet mutually referential spatial archetypes: the museum, the institution, and the gallery. Spread across the three rooms of Carl Kostyál, London, the presentation stages a self-reflective critique, with the exhibition space itself mirroring the very typologies under examination.
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Courtesy of Carl Kostyál
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.