21 June – 04 August 2018

The artistic practice of Lise Johansson unfolds somewhere between the conscious and unconscious mind – it exists both in the realms of reality and fantasy.

Johansson investigates notions of authenticity and challenges the classical order and structures with which photos are usually constructed. In her studio she edits and merges different photographic elements into final compositions depicting worlds of dreams and emotions, association and longing. These sceneries hold atmospheres as light and breezy as Hockney’s pastel paintings or as gloomy as Tarkovsky’s filmic universe. They make us question not only how we perceive each other and the world, which surrounds us, but also how we connect with the self, the mind and its various inherent potentials.

In all of Johansson’s work themes of identity and belonging come up, take for example the series Hearth, where photos of doll-like humans are superimposed into environments consisting of architecture models, planning future homes to come.

25 April – 16 June 2018.

In The Gallery presents Lukas Roth – a Collector’s Choice, a re-visit with some of the works from past exhibitions at our home base in Copenhagen.

Over the past years we have had the joy to work with some of our most favourite artists, and bring them into the homes of many collectors all over the world. This exhibition showcases a selection of works aquired by one of these collectors. The show provides an interesting glimpse into the range of what fine art photograpy can be today, and how a private collection can come together over time.

Artists in the show:

Lukas Roth, Andrew Moore, Julien Mauve, Stephan Schnedler, Pontus Kjermann, Jacob Gils, Katsutoshi Yuasa, George Barris.

10 March – 14 April 2018

In The Gallery is proud to present Transference, a show concept presenting works by the two artists Stephan Schnedler and Jørgen Johansson. The works of both artists tackle the concept of recreating a place, which may never have existed, addressing the notion of “the unsaid” and challenge the perception of the viewer.

In the late 1990’s Jørgen Johansson took his polaroid series Urban Jungle at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Two decades later he found the series in his archives. The images, which had slowly started to erode, had taken on a new visual quality. Before they disappeared entirely Johansson decided to scan the series and re-activate it in its colourful and poetic juxtapositions. By nature photography as a medium is an instant moment frozen in time – likewise these stiff and stuffed animals are positioned, as were they still out in nature living the life they left behind over a hundred years ago. Johansson’s series examines the endeavour to conserve a long gone instance, and the haunted feeling that comes through reliving it.