Galleri Nicolai Wallner

Profil

Galleri Nicolai Wallner opened in the fall of 1993 with a selection of artists that includes the majority of our program today. As such, the inauguration of the gallery not only captured the spirit of that particular time but also sets the pace and agenda for what we do today.

The gallery works with a diverse group of artists all working in different media. Accordingly, the artists are defined as a group not as much by a shared aesthetic but more by a common wish to express a content, tell a story and set a mark in an otherwise fluctuating world.
Even though the gallery has primarily been built on the ideals of what it means to represent a specific generation of artists over a very long period of time, we have also in several instances shown works by older, more established artists.
This has been done not only to contextualise our program but also to introduce the Danish art scene to some of the most seminal artists of latter half of the 20th century.

We see the responsibility of the gallery as wide reaching; a personal collaboration with each artist, helping with production and acting as their connection to international galleries and museums, also managing both a written and a visual archive for each artist, and not at least acting as an open public space that presents the highest level of contemporary art to the general public. During the years we have also published prints and catalogues with several of our artists.

Much like our artists, Galleri Nicolai Wallner has experienced an extraordinary development. In 1999, the gallery moved from its city location to Islands Brygge, a then rundown area of Copenhagen that for some years became the contemporary gallery centre of Scandinavia. The move meant a vast increase in our gallery space.

Today, eleven years later, we wish to create new possibilities for our artists, our guests, and ourselves which is why we during the last year have been working hard on creating the old area of the factory of Carlsberg into a new area for art in Copenhagen. With this initiative it is our hope to redefine the the art scene of Copenhagen.

Galleri Nicolai Wallner is the one behind the initiative to gather four individual galleries in a 2000 m2 large garage, which during the last couple of months has been created into a new centre of contemporary art.

Galleri Nicolai Wallner shares the building with Nils Stærk, Kopenhagen.dk, as well as two galleries; IMO - an artist run space, and BKS Garage , run by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
Our new gallery space is 800 m2 and we are able to show three individual exhibitions. The project to gather various galleries under the same roof is rather exceptional in Scandinavia especially due to the exquisite constellation of exhibition activities.
We are certain that this visionary project will set new standards for exhibitions and at the same time, that it will have influences on a local, national, and international basis.

Galleri Nicolai Wallner welcomes all private and professional inquiries, and consultations are available by appointment. For more information about Galleri Nicolai Wallner and the exhibition programme please do contact us.

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