Summer show

Galleri Susanne Ottesen is pleased to present our summer group show featuring both new and archival works from gallery artists: Nanna Abell, Ragna Braase, Morten Buch, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Richard Deacon, Andreas Eriksson, Olav Christopher Jenssen and Pernille With Madsen.

Nanna Abell’s sculptures operate in the tension between use and residue. Net- and grid-forms recur through her practice – often sandblasted and powder-coated in stylised hues – hovering somewhere between ornament and infrastructure. There’s a sensuality to these works, in the worn shine or small imprint on the surface. Elsewhere, Olav Christopher Jenssen’s ceramic sculptures introduce mass and colour. These sculptures proudly display the unmistakable marks and gestures of making: strata of accumulating clay, compacted mounds shaped by hand, scrapes and indentations, all emphasising the creation process, with their shiny glazed surfaces celebrating this processual state.

In Morten Buch’s abstract paintings, domestic and design-like forms flicker in and out – a lonely shoe, a tilting vase, a tent glimpsed just as it begins to disappear. Objects become gestures, and gestures become objects in a cycle of recognition and abstraction. Sharing the same wall, a weaving and a gouache on paper—both from the 1970s—offer a charming glimpse into the rich and varied world of Ragna Braase’s work.

Richard Deacon contributes with precise pastel-hued ceramics which seem to float just above the surface they rest on, gently tilting side to side. Their richly textured glazed surfaces look teasingly like the crispy outer coating of candy, their apparent edible quality furthered by their pill-like form. His framed textile prints navigate the space between digital imagery and tactile materiality.

Pernille With Madsen’s photographic works destabilise architectural spaces – bending visual logic to create impossible perspectives. The resulting views become layered, unstable, and performative lenses, examining the areas we inhabit and blindly move through. This sense of disorientation echoes Jean-Marc Bustamante’s photographic window works, which open outwards onto landscapes that feel at once familiar and eerily uncanny. Andreas Eriksson’s quiet, earthy photograph of a landscape featuring a large dug-out hole – a portal, perhaps -, a large abstract landscape painting, and three meditative woodcut Shoji prints further the investigation into marginal spaces and blurs the boundary between positive and negative forms.