Group Exhibition

For Scale Only

V1 SALON is pleased to present

For Scale Only
A group exhibition with Fryd Frydendahl, Joline Kwakkenbos, Max Lamb, Kwangho Lee, Frederik Nystrup-Larsen, Rick Owens, Jesse Pollock, George Rouy, Nick Ross, Soft Baroque, Su Su, and Jesse Zuo
June 12 – July 4, 2026

Opening reception: June 12, 16.00 - 21.00

A chair is perhaps the most familiar object through which we understand human proportion. In For Scale Only, it’s used not primarily for sitting, nor exactly as an object of design, but as a tool for reading scale. In the exhibition, a chair is placed beside each painting as a point of reference. This is a familiar device within art, yet one that has taken on renewed urgency in our digital age: when artworks are most often encountered within the small rectangle of a screen, their true dimensions are easily lost. Here, the chair anchors the work in the physical world, situating it in relation to the body and to space, while turning one of culture’s most charged objects into a purely illustrative tool.

The absurdity is twofold. In this relationship, the design of the chair is often overlooked, just as the artwork itself is reduced to something secondary. What matters is how the work functions in relation to furniture — scaled to a room, absorbed into an interior, and read as decoration. In this exhibition, that logic is made deliberately explicit. The chair does not support the painting so much as expose the strange system through which art is measured, positioned, and domesticated. The exhibition consists of six chairs and six artworks, in dialogue with each other across the exhibition space. In all these works, scale is treated as something active: not simply a dimension, but a way of seeing.

The concept of the exhibition is developed by Frederik Nystrup-Larsen and Nick Ross.

Fryd Frydendahl (b. 1984) is a Danish photo artist who has marked herself as one of her generation’s most important photo artists, dedicated to a repertoire of intimate photography. Her work is included in the collections of the National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen; National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen; and Brandts Museum of Art, Odense.

Joline Kwakkenbos (b. 1997) is a Dutch painter whose deeply personal self-portraits explore queer identity, femininity, and the complexity of lived experience. Kwakkenbos has exhibited with Galerie Sardine and TKE STUDIOS.

Max Lamb (b. 1980) is a British furniture designer who combines traditional, often primitive, design methods with experimental processes. Lamb’s works are collected by numerous public institutions including the Smithsonian Design Museum, US; the Design Museum Gent, Belgium; and the San Francisco Museum Modern of Art, US.

Kwangho Lee (b. 1981) is a South Korean artist and designer who seeks to give new meaning and function to the most ordinary. He’s recently collaborated with Bottega Veneta for Milan Design Week 2026. His work is held in several permanent collections including Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, US.

Frederik Nystrup-Larsen (b. 1992) is a Danish visual artist whose practice is rooted in a sculptural approach, in recent years, Nystrup-Larsen has focused on plant blindness through oil painting, investigating how plant species that constitute our everyday environments increasingly go unnoticed and undervalued. 

Rick Owens (b. 1962) is an American designer who is widely recognised as one of the most influential voices in contemporary fashion and design. The furniture from Rick Owen’s Studio has been exhibited at multiple institutions including, Musée d’art Moderne, Paris; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Jesse Pollock (b. 1993) is a British artist who works predominantly in cast or sheet aluminium producing distorted versions of familiar objects, from flowers to bodily forms. He has been featured by several noteworthy London galleries such as GROVE; Hannah Barry Gallery; and Brooke Bennington. 

George Rouy (b. 1994) is a British painter who’s dynamic and signature use of the human figure, vexed with desire, freedom, alienation and crisis, speaks to the extremities of our time. He exhibits with Hannah Barry Gallery and Hauser & Wirth. His work is found in numerous public collections including SFMoMA, San Francisco; LACMA, Los Angeles; and the Albertina, Vienna.

Nick Ross (b. 1986) is a Scottish Swedish designer his work revolves around themes of origin, place and time, creating visually restrained works that have a strong emphasis on materiality and context. He has showed his creations globally and has collaborated with numerous international brands including +Halle, Rimowa, Audo, Lintex, Contem, NIKO JUNE, and Louis Vuitton.

Soft Baroque (e. 2013) is a London based design duo (Nicholas Gardner and Saša Štucin) that create work with conflicting functions and imagery, blurring the boundaries between acceptable furniture typologies and conceptual representative objects. They have exhibited at the V&A, London; the Design Museum in London; Swiss Institute, New York; and the Venice Art Biennale, Venice.

Su Su (b. 1988) is a Chinese artist who create scenes where figures and objects act as vessels, carrying spirit, memory, morality, and feeling. Work by Su Su is held in the permanent collections of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas; the Lunar Codex Project (NASA); and the Bennett Collection of Women Figurative Realists.

Jesse Zuo (b. 2000) is a Chinese New York-based figurative painter. Zuo adheres to the roots of traditional realism, yet injects a modern twist with chromatic colours, providing the audience with greater freedom to interpret the time and place of the depicted moments.