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Photography Now! | Asger Carlsen, Fryd Frydendahl, Jacob Holdt and Peter Funch | The Black Diamond, Royal Danish Library
We are pleased to announce our participation in the exhibition Photography Now!, at the Black Diamond.
V1 Gallery and four other Danish galleries — Martin Asbæk Gallery, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Galleri Image, Oblong — have been invited to present their perspectives on what characterises photography in contemporary art today. The exhibition will feature works by Asger Carlsen, Fryd Frydendahl, Jacob Holdt, and Peter Funch.
We hope to see you September 10, for the opening of the exhibition, where we will also participate in a panel discussion exploring what characterises contemporary art photography.
Please direct all inquiries to mail@v1gallery.com
"Photography plays a crucial role in how we understand the world today. It shapes our gaze, our memories and our ways of communicating. In this reflective medium, the relationship between reality, representation and construction is constantly being negotiated. In contemporary art, photography is increasingly used to explore precisely these relationships. Artists work with staging and manipulation, with historical photographic archives and digital image flows, and photography often serves as a medium that simultaneously reveals and calls into question the ways in which we see.
With the exhibition Photography Now!, The Royal Danish Library takes the measure of photography in contemporary art in 2026. The exhibition has been created in collaboration with five Danish galleries, inviting them to select artists and works that, in their view, represent the currents stirring within photography in contemporary art today."
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Asger Carlsen
Asger Carlsen’s (DK, 1973) works are inquisitive and experimental. He creates surrealist sculptures by combining analogue objects with digital editing. Speculative and grotesque aspects take over. In terms of technique, Carlsen is one of the first artists to bend and manipulate photography using digital image processing, causing it to assume new formal configurations.
Asger Carlsen, Eraser, 2026
Enhanced archival matte paper, 160 x 111.5 cm
Fryd Frydendahl
A particular sense of presence pervades Fryd Frydendahl’s (DK, 1984) works. She stages and plans her motifs with great care. Yet it is small, fleeting things – a distinct moment, a tiny movement or a distinctive gaze – that give the works their character. Frydendahl works conceptually and sensuously with people, materials, objects and tableaux. Taking the personal as her point of departure, she explores universal human themes in a practice infused by a wonderfully inquisitive spirit.
Fryd Frydendahl, I got two phones, one for the bitches and one for the dough, 2025
Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Luster 260 g, 71 x 56 cm
Jacob Holdt
Jacob Holdt’s (DK, 1949) life’s work is driven by curiosity, empathy and a deeply held activist humanism. He is not a classic fly-on-the-wall documentarist. Holdt lives and breathes alongside the people he depicts, often in highly personal works. Holdt has been groundbreaking and at times polarising, and has inspired several generations of artists and activists around the world.
Jacob Holdt, IF YOUR JOB PUTS YOU TO SLEEP, TRY ONE OF OURS. TODAY'S ARMY WANTS TO JOIN YOU" – Liberty St, Berkley, Norfolk, VA – October 25th, 1973, 2026
Digital C-print on crystal archive paper, 36 x 25 cm
Peter Funch
Time often feels suspended in Peter Funch’s (DK, 1974) works. Funch consistently explores the interplay between human behaviour, narrative and temporality in his visually varied series. His works are often conceptual and operate in several registers at once, creating images that feel both contemporary and timeless.
