GALLERI NYBRO

SANKT PEDERS STRÆDE 21

COPENHAGEN

5 FEBRUARY TO 16 FEBRUARY 2025

OPEN 12 DAYS

11 – 18

AND BY APPOINTMENT

Ege Arp-Hansen always has a clear starting point when creating a work, it can be a colour which inspire, a form, a mood, a state of mind, but he never makes sketches. And yet: Central to the exhibition is a number of paintings in a small format, 30 cm x 32 cm, created continuously since 2019 as independent works, where he experiments with colour, mediums and techniques. Some of these very different pictures has subsequently inspired him in the development of series in other formats, for instance the large group of folded works which were exhibited several places in and around Copenhagen in 2024 and of which Ole Schwander, curator at Kunstvinduet (The Art Window), wrote:

“In the works there is a balance between the predictable and the spontaneous, where planning meets artistic intuition. It is this duality that makes the works so attractive and invites the spectator to reflect on the many dimensions of reality and our way of experiencing the world. At a time when art is constantly challenging and reinventing itself, Ege’s works stand as a significant example of how traditional media can be transformed and given new life through innovative techniques. By forming folds in the canvas, he not only creates a visually impressive work, but also a deeper connection between art, light, shadow and shape – a tribute to both the simple and the complex in art.”

Folded paintings from the above mentioned exhibitions is seen here in new constellations. Some of the small works forms part of his own collection, where they serve as inspiration for new series. This exhibition, distributed over the three levels of the gallery, in this way gives an insight into his artistic process. It reaches back and points forward. Time will show in which directions…

& JUULAGER

VEDBÆK STATIONSVEJ 18

VEDBÆK

SOLO WINDOW EXHIBITS

CHANGING MONTHLY THROUGHOUT 2025

OPEN 24/7

LIGHTS GO OFF ABOUT MIDNIGHT

KULTURSTATIONEN HUMLEBÆK

HUMLEBÆK CENTER 44

HUMLEBÆK

PERMANENT INSTALLATION OF THREE LARGE PAINTINGS

IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM AND CHANGING SOLO EXHIBITS IN THE LONG CORRIDOR

OPEN FOR FREE TO ALL VISITORS OF THE HOUSE

more coming up…

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FIVE SOLOS IN DENMARK

2024

NB: EXHIBITION AT

GALLERI KULTURSTATIONEN HUMLEBÆK

EXTENDED

TO 15 DECEMBER 2024

“The impact is almost hypnotic, meditative and joy-inducing at the same time.“

scroll to read the full review by editor-in-chief Tom Jørgensen, KunstAvisen (The Art Newspaper) Nov/Dec 2024

GALLERI KULTURSTATIONEN HUMLEBÆK

HUMLEBÆK CENTER 44

HUMLEBÆK

5 OCTOBER TO 15 DECEMBER (EXTENDED) 2024

OPEN SATURDAY AND SUNDAY

12 – 17

AND BY APPOINTMENT

OPENING RECEPTION 5 OCTOBER 13-16

About 40 works have been installed in different spaces at KulturStationen. It’s my biggest exhibition to date.

Some paintings are spanking new, created in my studio in Humlebaek this summer, others have been on a tour of Greater Copenhagen since New Years: Copenhagen City, Tåstrup, Vedbæk, Havneholmen and now two months in Humlebæk.

Works from different series and techniques have been installed in The Long Corridor, the permanent installation in The Conference Room, new works in the stair well and folded paintings in the Gallery space itself.

Ole Schwander, curator of Kunstvinduet (the Art Window), Copenhagen, wrote in connection with my two month solo there July/August 2024 among other things this about my Folded Works:

VERY FINE REVIEW

by editor-in-chief Tom Jørgensen, KunstAvisen (The Art Newspaper) Nov/Dec 2024

IN ALL THE COLOURS OF THE RAINBOW

Ege Arp-Hansen exhibits glowing paintings at KulturStationen in Humlebæk

“A couple of elderly gentlemen are engaged in a round of table tennis, three women of the same age group talk together, while they’re arranging flowers. The place is the multi-purpose venue KulturStationen (The Culture Station) in Humlebæk right next to the station, and you instantly feel that things happen here. Throughout the white painted premises from the room with the table tennis to the basement rooms downstairs the walls brightens up with paintings in all the colours of the rainbow. Wow, is the immediate feeling. This is precisely, what one needs on a Danish autumn day.

PAINTERLY ORIGAMI

The artist behind the vibrant works is Ege Arp-Hansen. When you’ve recovered from the agreeable chock, you quickly realise, that these are not normal paintings. The canvases are folded in a kind of painterly origami. Both literally and in a figurative meaning this gives a totally new dimension to the monochrome canvases. Refined light/shadow effects makes the surface alive and vibrant. Any change of the light in the rooms instantly changes the paintings, and the colours change character like the reflections in a forest lake. Contributing to this effect is Ege Arp-Hansens use of the palette knife in making structure on the canvases. As is his idea of letting the canvas shine through in selected areas. This way colour as well as the base material become ever-changing.

SOUTHEAST ASIAN INSPIRATION

Ege Arp-Hansen explains how he is very inspired by the minimalistic art, one finds in Southeast Asia, in China, Korea and Japan. A minimalism which originates in a spiritual approach towards creating art, where each brushstroke ideally should be an extension of the artists breath and an expression of harmony with the Cosmos. Equally Japanese and Chinese landscape art plays a big role.

An exhibition visitor once told him, how she came to think of the sea, when she saw his folded paintings. If you get this impulse, it’s difficult not to see the meandering folds as waves on the sea or a lake. The impact is almost hypnotic, meditative and joy-inducing at the same time.

The just about 40 works created over 10 years each shine with their particular colour from the deepest violet over radiating sun yellow to a sparkling emerald green with a small intermezzo of leaf gold.

It is quite simply a wonderful exhibition.“

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SOUND OF SILENCE

GALLERI NYBRO

SANKT PEDERS STRÆDE 21

COPENHAGEN

26 JANUARY TO 4 FEBRUARY 2024

OPEN EVERY DAY

12 – 18

AND BY APPOINTMENT

OPENING RECEPTION 25 JANUARY 16-20

“It’s a great pleasure to present Ege Arp-Hansen’s first solo exhibition in our beautiful, new premises in Sankt Peders Stræde 21, in the very heart of the old town in Copenhagen. It’s his fourth solo with the gallery.

“sound of silence” focuses on Ege Arp-Hansens unique folded paintings, “ripples”, a group of work he’s been developing and working with over the past 10 years. 30 works will be shown, primarily brand new from two series created within the past year.

He’s deeply fascinated by all the colours of the rainbow and also uses them here, but the individual works are often monochromatic, regularly with the application of only one pigment.

The canvas, its structure and other physical qualities are always an integrated part of his paintings expression. Most clearly in these folded works, where the canvas is explored as a manipulatable material, cloth, matter, which is folded and worked rhythmically into something which reminds many people of the surface of water.

The stretchers profile, form and spatial presence under the canvas is an essential part of the work, not just a hidden necessity. They’re sourced and constructed with great care, before the finished pieces of canvas are mounted around them.

The works hereby moves into a three dimensional space, somewhere between painting and sculpture.

Their expression change radically according to the light, its intensity, quality and the angle from which you look. When you move, you experience how colour, patterns, and glistening reflections arise, change, disappear and new constellations emerge. There is no golden cut. The centre is everywhere. The works seem to exist in constant transformation, but still remain as they were created. They’re all untitled, and thereby don’t lead- or mislead the spectator in relation to an interpretation. In Ege Arp-Hansen’s art choices and possibilities are offered, not one dimensional answers.

Ege Arp-Hansen is fascinated by the small in the large and the immense in the minute, by subtle nuances, modulations and rhythms evenly distributed over the whole surface of the canvas, moving from the totally soft, whispering, over the sizzling, to the very sensual. He’s working to attain an inherent, meditative peace and balance, also in the most intense and colour-packed works.

This peace and balance is at the very heart of his working process. It’s here he finds his inspiration. Going about his daily work in the studio between the forest and the sea. To the sound of silence…”

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GALLERI KINGO

KINGOSVEJ 1A

TAASTRUP

4 APRIL TO 30 APRIL 2024

OPEN

TUESDAY TO FRIDAY 13-16

SUNDAYS 7 and 28 APRIL 13-16

OPENING RECEPTION

4 APRIL 18-20

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& JUULAGER

VEDBÆK STATIONSVEJ 18

VEDBÆK

6 JUNE TO MID SEPTEMBER 2024

OPEN

TUESDAY TO THURSDAY 9-17.30

FRIDAY 9-18

SATURDAY 8-13

SUNDAY AND MONDAY CLOSED

KUNSTVINDUET

HAVNEHOLMEN 80

COPENHAGEN V

30 JUNE TO 28 AUGUST 2024

OPEN

24/7

OPENING RECEPTION

30 JUNE 15-17

Ole Schwander, curator of Kunstvinduet (the Art Window), writes:

THE ARTIST WHO FOLDS THE CANVAS TO LIFE

With an innovative approach that blends traditional painting techniques with sculptural measures, Ege Arp-Hansen manages to create works that play with light and shadow. He starts the work like any other painter with a blank canvas. But what sets him apart from others is the transformative process that follows the painting process. He selects few pigments for each canvas, often only one that, in dilutions of varying degrees, is applied in many transparent layers.

When the painting is complete, he embarks on a careful folding of the canvas, which is done to highlight certain elements of the painted image and create a depth, which it otherwise would be impossible to achieve on a flat and even surface. This technique creates a relief effect where parts of the painting emerge while others step back. Light and shadow play on the folded surfaces, giving the work a dynamic and vibrant character.

In the works there is a balance between the predictable and the spontaneous, where planning meets artistic intuition. It is this duality that makes the works so attractive and invites the spectator to reflect on the many dimensions of reality and our way of experiencing the world. At a time when art is constantly challenging and reinventing itself, Ege’s works stand as a significant example of how traditional media can be transformed and given new life through innovative techniques. By forming folds in the canvas, he not only creates a visually impressive work, but also a deeper connection between art, light, shadow and shape – a tribute to both the simple and the complex in art.

SOLO IN DENMARK

2023

FOREVER AND A DAY

GALLERI NYBRO

NYBROGADE 30

COPENHAGEN

24 FEBRUARY TO 5 MARCH 2023

OPEN EVERY DAY

12 – 18

DESIGN SHANGHAI

WITH YUDIAN ART

8 – 11 JUNE 2023

I will be participating in Design Shanghai from 8 – 11 June 2023 through my representative for China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, Yudian Art. They will exhibit “at the end of the universe – right here” 145 x 115 cm (seen below) from 2018. With about 70.000 visitors this fair is concidered one of the most important design fairs in Asia in witch many art galleries also participate.

GROUP SHOW

UFT – UFT – UFT – UFT

UDSTILLINGSSTED FOR TEKSTIL

COPENHAGEN

29 JULY – 2 SEPTEMBER 2023

UFT – UFT – UFT – UFT handler om det upåagtede allestedsnærværende tekstil og remedierne
i vores omgivelser, det oversete, det brugte, det anonyme, det tekniske, det verbale, det unavngivne, det undselige tekstil – Og der er rigtig meget af det.

Stofbæreposer i varmestuen med firmaprint som erstatning for plastikposer.
Spørgsmålet er, om det er den rette vej rent miljømæssigt?

Anette Jensen

Chris Liljenberg Halstrøm

Væveværkstedet 52D

Metha Stuart Wallace

Karina Nielsen Rios

Ege Arp-Hansen

Lisbeth Nielsen Lyrstrand

Anders Bonnesen

Kvadrat

Annette Juel

Ane Henriksen

Marianne Just

Julie Behaegel

Udstillingens stol: Jørgen Carlo Larsen

Udstillingens vase: Bettina Schori

Udstillingens gæstehåndklæde: Væveskolen i Greve

Udstillingens bøllehat: Blå Form

Udstillingens grafik: Alma Gade

GROUP SHOW

ANNABORG ART CENTRE

HILLEROD, DK

17 AUGUST TO 10 SEPTEMBER 2023

THURSDAY TO SUNDAY 12 – 16

OPEN DOORS

AT 100 ARTISTS IN NORTH ZEALAND

SATURDAY 2 AND SUNDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2023

EVERY DAY 11 – 17

PAST 2022 SELECTED

EXHIBITION IN CHINA

YUDIAN ART GALLERY

HANGZHOU

“INFINITY ETERNITY”

PRESENTING 4 ARTISTS

26 APRIL TO 30 JUNE 2022

(extended)

I’m very happy to announce that my new representative for China is Yudian Art Gallery in Hangzhou, not far from Shanghai.

Capital during the Southern Song Dynasty, then and now one of the world’s most prosperous and sophisticated cities. Since ancient times home to numerous philosophers, artists and men of literature who were attracted to and inspired by the beauty of its mythic West Lake.

Yudian Art, with galleries in downtown and in the brand new Tian Muli Centre designed by Renso Piano, who’s probably most famous for having co-designed Centre Pompidou in Paris, will from now on be my exclusive representative in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

SHENZHEN CREATIVE WEEK

WITH YUDIAN GALLERY

25 – 28 JULY 2022

I will be participating in Shenzhen Creative Week from 25 – 28 July 2022 through my representative for China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, Yudian Gallery, with the painting above: “foundation of everything and nothing”, measuring 145 cm x 115 cm.

Shenzhen, immediate neighbour to Hong Kong, is with about 17 million inhabitants the fourth largest city in China.

GROUP SHOW

IN

DENMARK

MARIENLYST CASTLE

ELSINORE

27 AUGUST TO 11 SEPTEMBER 2022

EVERY DAY 12 – 17

OPEN DOORS AT 100 ARTISTS IN NORTH ZEALAND

SATURDAY 3 AND SUNDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2022

EVERY DAY 11 – 17

ART TALK

KULTURSTATIONEN

HUMLEBÆK

INFINITY

ETERNITY

BEGINNING

END

MEET THE VICAR AND THE ARTIST

27 OCTOBER 2022

PAST SOLOS IN DENMARK 2022

GALLERI NYBRO

NYBROGADE 30

COPENHAGEN

1 APRIL TO 10 APRIL 2022

OPEN EVERY DAY

12 – 18

LIBRARY EXHIBITION HALL

HUMLEBÆK

5 MARCH TO 19 MARCH 2022

PAST 2021 SELECTED

SOLO

GALLERI NYBRO

COPENHAGEN

27 JULY TO 22 AUGUST 2021

GROUP SHOW

ANNABORG ART CENTRE

HILLEROD, DK

21 OCTOBER TO 21 NOVEMBER 2021

THURSDAY TO SUNDAY 12 – 16

PAST 2020

Interesting review of this 3 month solo exhibition in “KunstAvisen” No. 9 October/November 2020 (i.e. “The Art Magazine”, the oldest Danish art magazine, original text further down)

“origin” – Ege Arp-Hansen solo exhibition at KulturStationen, Humlebæk, Denmark

By Lis Engel

If the experience of the show should be described with two words they could be Silence and Beauty. Moving into this sublime exhibition is quite an extraordinary experience which I warmly recommend.

ABSTRACT PAINTING

Ege Arp-Hansen is an abstract painter who art historically can be seen in continuation of Minimalism, but with his totally own way of exploring and unfolding the possibilities of modern abstract painting, possessing an intense curiosity for colour and media. He creates a host of sublime qualities, which are often absent in contemporary painting. What qualities then characterize the exhibition?

This can’t be answered conclusively, but there is an intensity and sensuality in the way Ege Arp-Hansen unfolds his serial work. He often works in series, often monochromatically, and at the same time with a sensitivity for subtle nuances and rhythms, which can be seen both in the modulation of colour and in the tactility of colour as quality and composition.

THE NUMINOUS AND THE EROTIC

At times paintings hover in a series of transparent apparitions, for instance unfolded in the completely light wall, where you are invited to disappear into the white light and the delicately modulated pastel tones from cool to warm in a tender transformation of light.

Other pictures investigate intensively the tactile and can reinforce the experience of rhythm as a physical quality. This can for instance be seen in the folded paintings and their deep sense of rhythm and movement through folding, and also in works with more pastose application of colour. Here the colour scale span from intense, strong reds, rose and apricot, through metallic, dark and violet in different smaller series and solo works. These are works which might open up the possibility of experiencing the fantastic, the erotic and at the same time voluptuous and totally transgressive. An enormous span and at the same time with a wonderful wholeness and coherence.

Perhaps the qualities can be described as limitless, the eternal, without beginning and end, but also filled with a sensuality and intensity, creating a sensation of bliss, of the wonderful.

TOTAL INSTALLATION

The exhibition itself, experienced as a whole in the raw space, is totally unique in the way it’s succeeded to create a symphony of colour, rhythm, which transcends the individual work, into a totality, where the serially hung paintings create gentle shifts and layers of meaning, which at the same time are totally abstract, but also tuned – like visual music. It is exiting to immerse oneself and experience the span, which goes from the completely gentle, whispering, to intensely passionate – not as qualities, which are separate, but as qualities which are present in the individual work and in the whole as an omnipresent tone.

Begejstret anmeldelse af “origin” i KunstAvisen No. 9 Oktober/November 2020:

Ege Arp-Hansen origin Review in KunstAvisen 2020