Kaspar Oppen Samuelsen

Inquiry

Bio

2023 Out of the Box, Newport Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom Kaspar Oppen Samuelsen (b. 1977) lives and works in Kalundborg, Denmark. He holds a BFA with honors from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Drawing on a broad and erudite cultural register, Oppen Samuelsen creates painterly worlds in which imagination becomes a generous lens for both the tragic and the comic. His practice is shaped by close affinities with cinema, theatre, and art history, and is finely attuned to the performative conditions of lived experience. Through gentle yet precise processes of disintegration and reassembly, drawing and color unfold into fluid, rhythmic compositions. Each element exists in an attentive dialogue with the others, producing a visual language marked by openness, transformation, and a quiet elegance, where meaning remains relational and continuously in the making. Humans, animals, and landscapes converge in mutable, hybrid forms, where the boundaries between the physical and metaphysical dissolve. Local environments are reimagined as dreamlike tableaux, populated by creatures that seem both familiar and timeless, inhabiting a world that flows according to its own subtle, poetic logic.

Exhibitions

2023

I Warp and I Wait

2022

V1 XX - Twenty years of V1 Gallery

2021

2020

2017

Born 1977 in Denmark
Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark

EDUCATION

2008 – 2011
MFA. Fine art. Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Copenhagen, Denmark.

2000 – 2003
BFA. (Hons.) Fine art and contemporary critical theory. Goldsmiths College, University of London, United Kingdom

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023
I Warp and I Wait, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2021
Goodbye Horses, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2019
Te med Vand fra Den Varme Hane, Jacob Bjørn, Aarhus, Denmark

2018
While the Others got Composed, the Foot and the Dial went for a Stroll, Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg, Denmark

2017
Fugl på Line, Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen, Denmark

2016
Broken Dial, Bendixen Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ants play man to sleep in soft concerts, with Marie-Louise Vittrup, Treignac Projet, Treignac, France
Primavera Exoskeleton, Jacob Bjørn, Aarhus, Denmark

2015
Hvad gør vi, når vi lander?, LARM, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Commissioned work for VIA University College, Aarhus, Denmark.

2014
Commissioned work for The Court of Western Denmark, Viborg, Denmark

2013
Luring a Giant, LARM, Copenhagen, Denmark

2012
Mænd og ænder, Tranen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

2011
Village Paradise, LARM, Copenhagen, Denmark

2010
I begyndelsen var der noget og i slutningen var der noget andet, men kyllingen har en flot mave, så vi går en god tid i møde, BKS Garage, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009
Rytterknas, Galleri Esplanaden, Copenhagen, Denmark

2006
Body-Double, Koh-I-Noor and Lokale 20, EDB Erindring, Copenhagen, Denmark
Greengrass display, Bingohallen, Vestergågades Passage, Copenhagen, Denmark

2004
Fedex Young Contemporaries, House Gallery, Camberwell, London, United Kingdom
Nth Art Exhibit 001, OLS&CO, Arsenal, London, United Kingdom

2003
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, House Gallery, Camberwell, London, United Kingdom
Squat, Sales des Fetes, Avenue Charlotte, Oberkorn, Luxemburg
Goldsmiths Degree Show, Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London, United Kingdom

2002
Art Below Zero, Notting Hills Arts Club, Notting Hill, London, United Kingdom
Restoration, The Crypt, Deptford, London, United Kingdom

2001
Blinkered, Goldsmiths College, London, New Cross, United Kingdom

1998
Killing Fields, Spray Exhibition, The Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Galleri 12, Danmarks Radio, Aarhus, Denmark

SELECTED GROUP EXIHIBITONS

2023
Business in the Front, Party in the back. Sculptures by Klara Lilja, Dan Mandelbaum, Rose Eken & Kaspar Oppen Samuelsen. V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2022
V1 XX - Twenty years of V1 Gallery, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2021
Lampadephoria, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2020
Today’s Special #5, curated by Mikkel Grønnebæk, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2017
The Liquid Sheep feat. Peninsula Extras, with Marie-Louise Vittrup, in They Call Us The Screamers, 15th edition of TULCA
Festival of Visual Arts, curated by Matt Packer, Connacht Tribune Print Works, Galway, Ireland
Horses, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2008
The [weit], NLH space, with Marie-Louise Vittrup, Copenhagen, Denmark

2000
Forårsudstillingen, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

1999
Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark
Forårsudstillingen, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

1998
Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark

SELECTED ART FAIRS

2025
Art Herning represented by V1 Gallery, Herning, Denmark

2024
Art Herning represented by V1 Gallery, Herning, Denmark
CHART Art Fair represented by V1 Gallery, Denmark
Market Art Fair represented by V1 Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2022
Art Herning represented by V1 Gallery, Herning, Denmark

2021
Market Art Fair represented by V1 Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2018
Art Herning, (1. Feb. – 3. Feb.) represented by Jacob Bjørn, Copenhagen, Denmark

2017
CODE Art Fair, (31. Aug. – 3. Sep.) represented by Printers Proof, Copenhagen, Denmark
Art Herning, (27. Jan. – 29. Jan.) represented by Printers Proof, Copenhagen, Denmark

2016
CODE Art Fair, (26. Aug. – 28. Aug.) represented by Printers Proof, Copenhagen, Denmark
Volta12, (13. June – 18. June), LARM (DK) and Pablo´s Birthday (US), Basel, Switzerland

2015
Solo presentation at Market, (17. April – 19. April), represented by LARM, Stockholm, Sweden

2013
Volta9, (10. June – 15. June) represented by LARM, Basel, Switzerland
Art Herning, (Jan. 25. – Jan. 27.) represented by LARM, Herning, Denmark

2012
Art Copenhagen, The Nordic Art Fair, (14. Sept. – 16. Sept.) represented by LARM, Copenhagen, Denmark
Volta8, (11. June – 16. June) represented by LARM, Basel, Switzerland
Art Brussels, (19. April – 22. April) represented by LARM, Brussels, Belgium
Art Herning, (27. Jan. – 29 Jan.) represented by LARM, Herning, Denmark

2011
Art Copenhagen, The Nordic Art Fair, (15. Sept. – 18. Sept.) represented by LARM, Copenhagen, Denmark
Solopresentation at Volta7, (13. June – 18. June) represented by LARM, Basel, Switzerland

2010
Art Copenhagen, The Nordic Art Fair, (17. Sept. – 19. Sept.) represented by LARM, Copenhagen, Denmark
AWARDS

2013
The Rockwool Prize

2011
Nordic Art Talents

2010
Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse rejselegat

2009
Tegneinspektør Søren Chr. Jensen og Hustrus Hæderslegat

GRANTS

2018
Dronning Ingrids Romerske Fond
Danish Arts Council (Production)

2017
Danish Arts Council (Production)

2016
Danish Arts Council (Production)

2013
Danish Arts Council (Production)
Ragnvald og Ida Blix’ Fond

2012
Dronning Ingrids Romerske Fond

PUBLIC REPRESENTATION

VIA University College, Århus, Denmark
The Court of Western Denmark, Viborg, Denmark
VIA University College, Holstebro, Denmark
Nykredit Bank, Copenhagen, Denmark
Nordvangskolen, Glostrup, Denmark
University of Copenhagen, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Denmark

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Ny Carlsbergfondet
Statens Kunstfond
Vejen Kunstmuseum
Ole Faarup Collection

COLLABORATIONS

2012
Collaboration with designer Stine Goya. Artist print on silk dress. “Flowerheaded rider on pink and turquoise horse”. The Carla dress.

RESIDENCIES

2019
Ludvig Preetzmann-Aggerholm og Hustrus Stiftelse, 3 Rue de la Perle, 75003 Paris, France. (1. Dec. – 31. Dec.)

2018
The Danish Institute in Rome, VIA OMERO 18, 00197 ROMA, Italy. (1. Sep. – 30. Sep.)
Danish Art Workshops (1. Jan. – 28. Feb.)

2016
Treignac Projetc, 2 rue Ignace Dumergue, 19260 Treignac, France. (1. July. – 31. July.)

2012
The Danish Institute in Rome, VIA OMERO 18, 00197 ROMA, Italy. (1. Oct. – 30. Nov.)

2010
The Danish Institute at Athens, Herefondos 14 – Plaka – GR-105 58 Athens, Greece. (1. March – 30. March.)