A KASSEN
Christian Bretton-Meyer
Morten Steen Hebsgaard
Søren Petersen
Tommy Petersen
Live and work in Copenhagen, Denmark and Berlin, Germany
Collaborating since 2004
Education
| The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| AbdK Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Munich, Germany | |
| Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main |
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
| 2026 | Public Domain, Skissernas Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art, Lund, Sweden Twenty Minutes Past Two, Maisterra, Madrid, Spain |
| 2025 | JORD (Ornament), Ved skoven, Horbelev, Denmark Composition / Hostile, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2024 | Bronze Pours, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2023 | Bronzes & Views From Below, CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden Farola, Gallery Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, Spain Bronze Pour, Galerie Mitterand, Paris, France |
| 2022 | Lost & Found, Ringsted Galleriet, Ringsted, DenmarkInstant Sculpture, Domaine Du Muy, Le Muy, France 30.10 – 21.11 2021, Bærum Kunsthall, Fornebu, Norway A Kassen, Stereo Exchange, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2021 | Vanishing Point, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2020 | Intervention, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2019 | Mother & Child, Kling & Bang, Reykjavik, Iceland Pinturas de bronce, Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, Spain |
| 2018 | Nexus Building, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2017 | O, Maisterravalbuena Gallery, Madrid, Spain Instant Sculpture, KØS – Museum for Kunst i Det Offentlige Rum, Køge, Denmark |
| 2016 | Aluminium Pours, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel, Switzerland Esposizione personale, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome, Italy EXTERIOR, Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark Heartland Festival, Egeskov Slot, Egeskov, Denmark (with Brian Eno) |
| 2015 | A Kassen – Carnegie Art Award, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland Exposition personnelle, Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, France Naked Photographer, Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, Spain OT’JO, alexanderlevy, Berlin, Germany |
| 2014 | A KASSEN, Den Frie Exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark Paper Works, Officin, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2013 | ABC Berlin, Berlin Germany |
| Another Space, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| Bananas, Skaftfell, Seythisfjorthur, Iceland | |
| Komplex, Siggen, Germany | |
| Mirror, New Galerie, New York, USA | |
| New Works, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| Skaftfell, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland | |
| 2012 | 17A Riding House Street, Nettie Horn, London, UK |
| Encirclement, Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, Spain | |
| The Color of Things, Reykjavik Arts Festival, Kling & Bang Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland | |
| 2011 | Auto Nivelant, New Galerie, Paris, France |
| Opus incertum, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway | |
| THE TITLE IS A PILE OF LETTERS, IMO, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| 2010 | Gefion High School, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2010 | Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2009 | Heavens Above, Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, Spain |
| Window to the World, MUSAC – Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon, Spain | |
| 2008 | Fredensborg School, Fredensborg, Denmark |
| 2008 | 40 grader +, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| A Kassen, Gammelgaard, Herlev, Denmark | |
| Kirkhoff – Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| 2007 | KBH Kunsthal, Krabbesholm, Skive, Denmark |
Group Exhibitions (selected)
| 2026 | IMPERMANENCE, Each Modern, Taiwan |
| 2022 | MARMOR, Kunsten, Aalborg, Denmark |
| 2021 | Public Art Project, TODAY’S WEATHER, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2020 | Perpetual Dawn, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Om å bøye virkeligheten, Bærum Kunsthall, Fornebu, Norway |
| 2019 | I Would Love Just One Flower, I Don’t Need the Whole Bouquet, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Memento Mons, Cabinet de Curiosités, Mons, France Summer Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2018 | BIG ART, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark Forvandlinger i gips, KØS – Museum for Kunst i Det Offentlige Rum, Køge, Denmark Real Estate, Huset for Kunst og designs, Holstebro, Denmark |
| 2017 | Ex Situ. Samples of Lifeforms, The City of Basel, the Swiss ambassador in Denmark, CHART and Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark JUMP, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Cool, calm and collected, ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark |
| 2016 | Inhabited by Objects, CAB ART CENTER, Brussels, Belgium INSIDE OUT, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2015 | 132,54 m2, Schleicher/Lange Gallery Space, Berlin, Germany Art Zone – Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark Bring Naturen Ind, Faaborg Museum, Faaborg, Denmark Forårsudstillingen, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark Percussive Hunter, Akbank Sanat Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey THE MONOCHROME SYMPHONY, ARTIPELAG, Gustavsberg, Sweden Timisoara Art Encounters, Timisoara, Romania TRUST, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark Urban Lights Festival, Hagen, Germany White Energy, Kant Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2014 | Backward/ forward, New Galerie, Paris, France Bikuben, Umoca, Salt Lake City, USA Contemporary Art from Denmark, ECB, Frankfurt, Germany Drawing Biennale, Oslo, Norway La reference d’objet n’est pas definie a une instance d’objet, Ecole Municipale des Beaux Arts – Galerie Edouard Manet Grennevilliers, Grennevilliers, France Object matter, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark Pencil / Line / Eraser – Carroll / Fletcher, London, UK Secret garden III, Gl. Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark Skulptur Odense 14: Still Waters Run Deep, Brandts, Odense, Denmark |
| 2013 | Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium Backa in i framtiden, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden Carnegie Art Award Exhibition, touring Stockholm, Copenhagen and Oslo Central heating furniture / Ventilation slide projection, Another Space, Copenhagen, Denmark Display, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France Hiper Realismo y sus Consecuencias – Galeria Impakto, Lima, Peru Komplex, Siggen, Germany Le peril vert, Zoo Galerie, Paris, France Secret garden II, Gl. Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark Shapes in the making, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden The democracy of objects. Nettie Horn, London, UK |
| 2012 | Centrefold, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK Facetime, On Stellar Rays, New York, USA Raw Material Company, New Galerie, Paris, France Secret garden, Gl. Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark Verbo, Vermelho Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brazil Vexed Endings, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireleand Vores Kunst, KØS, Køge, Denmark |
| 2011 | Facetime, IMO, Copenhagen, Denmark Fetiches criticos, Museum of Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico I feel like I’m disappearing, getting smaller every day / but when I look in the mirror, I’m bigger in every way, West, Den Haag, The Netherlands La Vie Mode d’Emploi, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium Make Yourself at Home: Contemporary hospitality in a changed world, Raw Material Company, Dakar, Senegal On the thresholds of privacy, Bruck, Germany Opus incertum, Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway Pist Protta, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Aarhus, Denmark Pist Protta, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark |
| 2010 | Best of Wonderland, WAS, Copenhagen, Denmark Facon; Plads & Kulor, Rundetaarn, Copenhagen, Denmark Fetiches criticos. Resduos de la economia general I, Centre de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain Fra Hebsgaards skattekiste, Glasmuseet, Ebeltoft, Denmark Make Yourself at Home, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark Mowgli’s Waterfall, Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen, Denmark Pastiche – When a tree falls in the Forest…, Solyst Castle Park, Jyderup, Denmark Rauma Biennale Balticum 2010, Rauma Art Museum, Finland Tumult, Lolland/Falster, Denmark |
| 2009 | Minus roof, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK Momentum, Moss, Norway Perspektiv – konst i stadsrummet, Malmo, Sweden Presque Rien III, Gallery Laure Genillard, London, UK Sculpture by the Sea, Aarhus, Denmark The Lake, Soro, Denmark Update, Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg, Denmark |
| 2008 | Blacklight, Basement, Copenhagen, Denmark Danske Grafikeres Hus, Copenhagen, Denmark Enter, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark Meget kunne vaere anderledes… en hilsen til Storm P., Brondsalen, Frederiksberg, Denmark Overdragelse, Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark Overkill, Wonderland Art Space, Copenhagen, Denmark U-TURN Kvadriennale for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2007 | 21 dage – 21 aar, Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark Black and White Show, Gallery Fung Sway, Copenhagen, Denmark Bling, Galleri Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark EXIT, Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark Jens Nielsen og Olivia Holm-Moller Museet, Holstebro, Denmark Rundgang, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark SALON #1 – Dansk Kunst NU!, Museumsbygningen, Copenhagen, Denmark The Tent Show, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark Wir sind woanders, Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2006 | Cherry Feet, Q, Copenhagen, Denmark Forarsundstillingen, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark Rundgang, Stadelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany The Known and the Unknown, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2005 | Lulea Summer Biennale, Lulea, Sweden |
| 2004 | Køge Skitsesamling, Køge, Denmark |
Catalogue/Publications (selected)
| 2024 | A Kassen: Works in Architecture, With an introduction and interview by Kristoffer Lindhardt Weiss, Danish Architectural Press |
| 2022 | Dimensions Variable, Mousse Publishing |
| 2017 | Instant Sculpture, Køs – Museum of art in public spaces |
| 2014 | A Kassen Carnegie Art Award 2014, Space Poetry, Copenhagen Secret Garden, Gl. Holtegaard, Holte 2014 |
| 2012 | This title is an artwork of mine : a group exhibition in a book, Revolver, Space Poetry, Copenhagen 2012 |
| 2008 | Damaged by water, financed by insurance, A Kassen, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2006 | Malbuch, A Kassen, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Articles/Reviews (selected)
| 2026 | A Kassen + Lund = sant, Gubbig men sympatisk utställning om vad som gått förlorat i stadsbilden. by Christine Antaya for Kunstritikk, June 16, 2026 |
| 2017 | “DA A KASSEN HÆLDTE FLYDENDE BRONZE I KØGES HAVN”, Albæk, Matias B. & Filipsen, Rikke Luna. idoart.dk. February 12, 2017. |
| 2016 | “Af havet skal kunsten komme”, Tina Bryld, Jyllands-Posten, April 8, 2016 “Med naturen som formgiver – interview med A Kassen”, Louise Steiwer, Kopenhagen Magasin, April 13, 2016 “Kunst i A K(l)assen”, Michael Solgaard, Børsen, WEEKEND, August 26, 2016 |
| 2015 | “Guide: Syv danske kunstnere du bør kende”, Mathias Kryger, Politiken, August 25, 2015 “A Kassens ‘skjulte’ dagsorden”, Stine Nørgaard Lykkebo, kunsten.nu, May 30, 2015 “A Kassen: OT’JO @ alexander levy, Berlin”, Kopenhagen Magazine, May 25, 2015 “A KASSEN NAKED PHOTOGRAPHER”, Francisco Carpio, ABC CULTURAL, January 31, 2015 “A Kassen ‘Cuestionamos el principio de la genialidad’”, Guillermo Espinosa, Smoda, February 14, 2015 “A Kassen MAISTERRAVALBUENA GALERIA”, Javier Hontoria, Artforum, February 2015 ”La référence d’objet n’est pas définie á une instance d’un objet” (in English), Jo-ey Tang, Artforum, January 7, 2015 |
| 2014 | “Aflyst kunstudstilling genopstaar I kinesisk kopi”, Peter Michael Hornung, politiken.dk, Copenhagen, Denmark “Carnegies kunstkapital og global kinesisk oliemalingsindustri : I anledning af udstillingen A Kassen Carnegie Art Award 2014 paa Den Frie, 18. januar-23. februar 2014”, Joern Erslev Andersen, Passepartout, aarg. 19. nr. 35, s. 142-161 “Carnegie Copycat”, Ditte Vilstrup Holm, kunsten.nu, January 31, 2014 “Review: A Kassen”, Olga Stefan, Art in America, June 5, 2014 |
| 2013 | “Display. Gallerie Hussenot, Paris”, Timothee Chaillou, Flash Art, October, Milan, Italy “Titlen siger det bedst: Permanent refleksion”, Rikke Mulvad Mortensen, Kopenhagen Magazine, April 19, 2013 |
| 2012 | “Ugens Kunstner: A Kassen”, kunsten.nu, May 23, 2012 |
| 2011 | “Den fuldendte banalitet”, Maria Kjær Themsen, Kunstkritikk, September 07 2011 |
| 2009 | ”Flying over Wysing”, Laura Allsop, ArtReview, August 20, 2009 |
Awards
| 2013 | The CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain Awarded Third Prize at the Carnegie Art Award |
Permanent Installations
| 2024 | Interference, Sundbyskolan, Stockholm, Sweden Nykredit HQ, Copenhagen, Denmark ECHO, Hudiksvall Hospital, Hudiksvall, Sweden Vannspeil, Nannestad, Norway |
| 2023 | Landskab, Fylkeshuset, Bergen 2023 Endless Lamppost, Herning, Danmark 2023 |
| 2022 | IMORGEN OG NU, Karlstad, Sweden 2022 |
| 2021 | UCV, Police Academy, Vejle 2021 Shaped by Nature, Seoul, South Korea 2021 |
| 2018 | Bronze Pour, Danish embassy India, New Delhi, India Nexus Building, Banestyrelsen, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2017 | Poseidon, Urban Media Space, Aarhus, Denmark |
| 2012 | Gefion Gymnasium, Copenhagen, Denmark Swap, Gymnasieskolan Spykens, Lund, Sweden |
Collections
Malmø Kunstmuseum, Malmø, Sweden
Kunsten Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark
r/e Collection, Madrid, Spain
The CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway
Brandts Museum, Odense, Denmark
Soro Kunstmuseum, Soro, Denmark
