Gallery Franz Pedersen, DK

Gallery Franz Pedersen will present a curated encounter between Michael Kvium’s uncompromising figurative paintings and Christian Lemmerz’s sculptural investigations of the body. Rather than a mere juxtaposition of mediums, the presentation stages a dialogue between two artists whose often nihilistic reflections probe the individual, society, morality, and the psyche. Both emerged from the Danish “De Unge Vilde”-movement in the early 1980s – a generation that reasserted expressive, figurative, and frequently confrontational art.

Kvium and Lemmerz continue this legacy, each ina distinct yet resonant voice: Kvium’s canvases expose grotesque human truths and existential unease, often laced with biting irony, while Lemmerz’s sculptures embody those tensions in material form with uncompromising force, drawing on religious and classical iconography. Together, their works create not just a visual dialogue but a space of confrontation and reflection, engaging viewers psychologically and emotionally.