2025
In colorful canvases, Cecilie Norgaard鈥檚 conceptual oil paintings humorously tease out the hierarchical highs and lows produced by contemporary society.
Cecilie Norgaard at O-Overgaden is painting about painting in the best possible sense.
Established as a kunsthalle for artists by artists back in 1986, O鈥擮vergaden聽continues to be one of the few large-scale art institutions in Denmark with a focus on supporting emerging practices, local and international.
2024
Queering familiar logistics鈥攆rom transport industries to public toilets or pawnshop business鈥攊s core to Villiam Miklos Andersen鈥檚 sculptural and relational artistic work.
Panteha Abareshi鈥檚 inimitable exhibition focuses on bodies with disabilities. However, we have to bypass a didactic aesthetic to get to the radical material.
In Denmark, the International Women鈥檚 Day was about women of the nation cast in bronze and women of the desert of flesh and blood.
The vilified stereotype of the trans woman鈥攃lad in a shiny trench coat, blonde wig, nylon stockings, fierce make-up鈥攊s unpicked in the young Danish artist Cassie Augusta J酶rgensen鈥檚 first large-scale exhibition.
The quest to translate questions of mental and environmental health into animation, drawing, and sculpture sits at the core of the young Danish artist Anna Sofie Mathiasen鈥檚 exhibition at O鈥擮vergaden.
2023
The young Swedish artist Melanie Kitti鈥檚 writing and visual arts practice stems from a place of disruption, fragmentation, and discontinuity.
With playful and diligent material detail, Tora Schultz鈥檚 sculptural practice reworks objects that are direct products of our current standardizations and supposedly unambiguous narratives...
2022
From crash test dummies to pitchfork stilettos, Tora Schultz鈥檚 show 鈥楤itch on Wheels鈥� at Copenhagen鈥檚 O鈥揙vergaden is a tragic comedy exploring gender bias, stereotypes, and the surrealism of everyday life
Thirty-five years after her participation in O鈥擮vergaden鈥檚 opening exhibition in 1987, visual artist and weaver Annette Holdensen returns to the kunsthalle with a retrospective exhibition of textile works and sculptural wickerwork.
2021
Artist: S贸ley Ragnarsd贸ttir Exhibition title: Organizing Principles Venue: Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark Date: November 6 鈥� December 31, 2021 Photography: Anders Sune Berg / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Overgaden, Copenhagen.
鈥淎ll men are gay,鈥� reads the cover of a newspaper from B酶ssehuset (The Gay House).
Artist: Ida S酶nder ThourhaugeExhibition title: Between Eternity and Time Venue: Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark Date: August 13 鈥� October 10, 2021.