Alice Folker Gallery
Copenhagen
Alice Folker Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in the centre of Copenhagen.
The gallery prioritizes emerging artists and has organized a series of innovative exhibitions across diverse mediums, emphasizing its dedication to exploration. Additionally, the gallery regularly collaborates with international galleries, creating a dynamic exhibition program. The gallery represents both national and international artists, who consistently exhibit their work at prominent institutions.
Featured artists
Asger Harbou Gjerdevik
Asger Harbou Gjerdevik (b. 1986, Denmark) graduated with an MFA in Painting from Royal College of Art, London and BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. Gjerdevik works with various media such as painting, sculpture, collage, and drawing. His works are created in a process that involves continuous additions of materials, interposed references, transformations and overlays. Often the results are both complex and boundless pictorial spaces or structures, with potential for perpetual change.
Gjerdevik has exhibited with solo shows at Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2023 and 2020); CCA, Andratx (2021); Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen (2021) and Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen (2019). Recent group exhibitions include shows at Skovgaard Museum, Viborg (2024); Quantum oddity gallery, Berlin (2023); Studio Schreck Gustafsson, Borrby (2023); Alma Pearl Gallery, London (2023); Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen (2023); Art Brussels, Brussels (2022); Philipp Haverkampf, Berlin (2020); dépendance Bruxelles x Alice Folker (2020) and Kunsthalle E-werk, Schwerin (2019).
Gjerdevik has created public commissions to the Western High Court (2021) and the Eastern High Court (2022) in Denmark. His works can be found in several public collections, including the City Council of Copenhagen, Politikens Hus, and the court in Lyngby.
Asger Harbou Gjerdevik. Image courtesy of Alice Folker Gallery and the artist.
Asger Harbou Gjerdevik, 'Hood famous', (2023). Acrylic and oil on canvas, 180 x 180 x 3,5 cm. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist.
Asger Harbou Gjerdevik, 'The Dilemma', (2023). Acrylic and oil on canvas, 230 x 190 x 4 cm. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist.
Maria Zahle
Maria Zahle (b. 1979, Denmark) received her Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from the Royal Academy Schools, London and BA in Fine Art from Slade School of Fine Art, London. Zahle works with sculpture, textile, collage, performance, and poetry. Her practice is interdisciplinary and characterised by an insistence on the body and the process of making as unavoidable prerequisites of her works. In recent years, sculptural weaving and plant dyeing have become central to her practice.
Zahle has exhibited with solo shows at Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2023); Arcade, Bruxelles (2022); Rønnebæksholm, Næstved (2022); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2021); Arcade, London (2018) and Sophienholm, Kongens Lyngby (2018). Recent duo and group exhibitions include shows at Fraktal Ventesal, Skørping (2024); Skovgaard Museet, Viborg (2024); Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen (2023); Violet Art Space, Antwerpen (2022); Hillerød Library, Hillerød (2021); Frise Kunsthal, Hamburg (2021); CCA, Andratx (2019) and Kettles Yard, Cambridge (2018).
Zahle has created public commissions in Copenhagen (2016-2019), the Department of Energy Technology, at Aalborg University, Aalborg (2016), and the New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester (2014). Zahle is also represented in the New Carlsberg Foundation’s collection.
Maria Zahle in her studio. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist.
Maria Zahle, 'Day (7)' (2021). Plant dyed linen, wool, and silk handwoven with hand spun wool, wire and cast bronze on stainless steel hanging system, 50 x 50 cm. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist.
Maria Zahle, 'SOLO (Illegal Fires)', (2023). Raw linen, plant dye, charcoal, bookbinders' wire, cast bronze. 190 x 120 x 8 cm
Maria Zahle, Artist Portrait. Courtesy of the artist and the gallery.
