Galerie Mikael Andersen 35 Year Anniversary

28 aug 202411 okt 2024

This year, Galerie Mikael Andersen celebrates its 35th anniversary with an exhibition opening Wednesday 28 August, 18:00-20:00.

The gallery opened in the summer of 1989 and has since exhibited at the same address: Bredgade 63 in Copenhagen.
The anniversary will be marked with a spatial collage of works and stories from all the years, where the life of the gallery unfolds in a multitude of perspectives on past and present times.

Looking Back

A large exhibition of works by Jørgen Haugen Sørensen, organized by Mikael Andersen at Kunsthallen in the spring of 1989, became a success and led to his desire to open his own new gallery in Copenhagen. It was important to find a place with atmosphere and good settings for people and art, and the choice fell on the premises at Bredgade 63.

Galerie Mikael Andersen’s first exhibition in 1989 featured the artists: Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Jørgen Haugen Sørensen, Søren Georg Jensen, Erik Thommesen, Søren Jensen, Erik A. Frandsen, and Claus Carstensen, and as reviewer Øystein Hjort wrote in Politiken: “The ambition and quality level has been set high, and there has been no hesitation during the renovation […] Mikael Andersen’s opening exhibition indicates the gallery’s direction. It bravely – and convincingly – blends three generations in Danish art.” Since then, over 250 exhibitions have been shown in the gallery, featuring both Danish and international contemporary art. The gallery’s profile is based on a group of artists who made their breakthroughs in the 1980s and 1990s, but it also includes artists from younger generations. The youngest generation is particularly represented by several artists from England and Germany.

Galerie Mikael Andersen has also curated a number of exhibition projects outside the gallery: Fairy Tales Forever at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum (2005), Display, Charlottenborg (1997), and City Space, Copenhagen (1996), as well as the art commissions of Frederik VIII’s Palace at Amalienborg (2010).

A Bit About the Building at Bredgade 63

The building at Bredgade was constructed in 1886-1887 based on designs by architect Ferdinand Wilhelm Jensen. The lavish facade is filled with decorations, and the building is an important example of historicism’s stucco architecture, which was the new style in the 1880s.

The exhibition is curated by art historian Annette Rosenvold Hvidt and graphic designer Peter Folkmar.

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Galerie Mikael Andersen