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Theodor Nymark
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Trapez Raum, Zurich , CH - April 2025
Danish Institute in Rome, IT  - May 2025
ECK Museum of Art, Brunico, IT - June 2025
Hectare Gallery, Tokyo, JP - August 2025
Temple Gallery,  New York - August 2025
Woonhuis, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL - September 2025
SWAB Art fair with Nikhil Vettukattil for Pachinko, Barcelona, Spain - October 2025
Solo exhibition at Pachinko - Oslo, Norway - 2026 TBA
Danish Institute in Rome
2025

During my month-long residency in May 2025 at the Danish Institute in Rome, I have been interested in investigating, through writing, photography, video, sculpture and gestural arrangements installed in and around the institute by Kay Fisker, how Arte Povera meets ecological and post-human theory, and how questions of ephemerality, authorship, economic instability and cultural precarity thread through both. I read the city itself as a living archive: a palimpsest where myth, ruin, and behavioural patterns overlap. Following Aldo Rossi’s idea of urban artefacts, façades, arcades, and demolition scars become active agents that keep identity in motion, mediating between innovation and authenticity.

Through the prism of Pier Paolo Calzolari’s work La Casa Ideale (1968), I seek to develop the notion of an “ecological object”: a sort of materialised spherical mirror that reflects the spiritual, cultural, political, and environmental strata of its surroundings. Field trips to industrial zones and heritage sites—along with conversations with important figures such as curator and L’Attico founder Fabio Sargentini—test this concept against Arte Povera’s material poetics and current debates on agency, materiality, and place. Whether I point the focus towards the ornamental flourish of a façade or the blunt violence of demolition, I am interested in showcasing how both infrastructure and narrative might script the conditions of life in the city. 







Chapel (after Calzolari) 2025
Foam board, reflective vinyl, textured vinyl, lemon-scented mosquito-repellent candles.

Location: The living room



“lucciola” 2025
1-channel Iphone video of a firefly on the terrace, inverted.
r/t 01:12 no sound
Location: The Archeological laboratory






Satyrus Bar, Villa Borghese (2025)
Inkjet on coloured paper

Academia di Dinamarca (2025)
Inkjet on coloured paper

Untitled (2025)
Algae pigment on cotton paper and transparent colour foil

Colosseu (2025)
Photograph edited with artificial intelligence, inkjet on coloured paper

Untitled (Survivor) (2025)
Plastic bag, wildflowers, LED light

Location: The Archeological Labratory



Untitled (after Aldo Rossi) (2025)
Wooden architectural model of the Danish Academy in Rome by Kay Fisker, ancient Roman archaeological fragments, LED light chain
Location: The Archeological Labratory




Untitled (resurrectionaries) 1–5 (2025)
Biodegradable bag, wildflowers, LED light
Location: The Basement





Milieu
Transit Art space
Elisnore, Denmark
28.02.25 — 04.04.25

My exhibition, Milieu, at Transit Art Space, located in the historic Customs House in Helsingør, continues my
interest in recording and responding to environmental conditions. The works build upon and redevelop the
methodology I have employed in former works, focusing on the integration of environmental and spatial
registrations and signifiers. Inspired by Pier Paolo Calzolari’s La Casa Ideale — a text and installation from
1968 that reimagines the house as a dynamic sensory and intellectual experience, where space is shaped not
by walls but by atmosphere, perception, and poetic engagement — Milieu explores similar connections, both
physical and metaphorical, between architecture, mythology, and the mental landscape.

Villa Sommariva, located on Nordre Strandvej in Helsingør, Denmark, was built around 1865 for consul and
merchant Schack Sommer. It has functioned as a site of leisure and civic importance and was later acquired
by Helsingør Municipality in 1913. The villa was known for its gardens, which featured exotic trees imported
from Hamburg’s botanical garden. Its history continues to be reflected in local developments, including the
construction of a playground and the ongoing Sommariva Development project by Pension Danmark on the
abandoned stadium field.

Arguably inspired by the Italian coastline—given its name and function as a site of bourgeois leisure—the
villa exemplifies how architecture and monuments construct memory through cultural signifiers. Now
awaiting transformation into a sustainable village, its shifting function reflects the ongoing reconfiguration of
urban space and the memories such places create, erase, and sustain. To highlight this conflict and the
dissolution of historical awareness, I am presenting an archival photograph of the Sommariva Hotel and
Restaurant, altered using Artificial Intelligence, alongside a patinated, eroded, stone-looking plastic chair that
I found at the abandoned stadium on the former Sommariva site. Atop the chair, my grandmother’s old
frosted mini-decor apples are arranged like relics, both chair and apples, loaded with collective memory and
shaped by their immediate environment.

In conjunction with the remaining components of the exhibition, including a video depicting an abandoned
nightclub and blurred, inverted iPhone photographs of flowers inspired by early American Pictorialist
photography, my objective is to investigate environmental registration and ephemerality through a range of
strategies. To further emphasize the different ways of underlining the sensory navigation of the environment,
I am using hygrometers, infrared bulbs, humidifiers, and a solar-powered LED parasol alongside framed
graphic and photographic imagery that I hope alters and decodes the experience of the exhibition space.

At its core, the presentation of works and interventions seeks to establish and examine what I term ecological
objects (inspired by numerous thinkers before me, such as Latour, Morton, Bennett, Harman, and Guattari).
These multi-dimensional objects are ontologically charged, embedded with remnants of their environment,
and function like a spherical mirror—reflecting everything around them. To illustrate this, I draw a parallel to
the FM radio, an essentially hollow device that transmits signals from its immediate surroundings, relaying
local radio stations based on its placement. The content of the radio, therefore, is both urgent and inherently
unstable, demonstrating the unpredictable, malleable nature of environmental influence.

I am particularly interested in how collective memory is shaped through urban artefacts inspired by artist,
architect, and writer Aldo Rossi’s concepts of cities as repositories of cultural identity. This perspective
informs my approach to landscape, where cities become palimpsests of history, mythology, and lived
experiences. I'm curious as to how shifting environments and architectural remnants mediate personal and
communal narratives. The directive of the ecological object offers me a lens through which to examine not only
the city’s ongoing negotiation between innovation and authenticity but also broader questions of historical
and political navigation. It presents a way to consider how narratives and ornaments shape environments just
as much as flooding, demolition, and the construction of new glass high-rises.

The exhibition is kindly supported by Statens Kunsfond.


Untitled (Gl. Hellebækvej), 2025
Stadium plastic seat, decorative frosted apples


Allegade, 2025
Single-channel inverted HD iPhone video, loop 00:29 sec.
No sound.


Untitled (Ambient), 2025
Infrared bulbs, humidifier with lily-of-the-valley essence,
hygrometers, parasol with solar-powered LED.
Variable dimensions



Untitled (after Maeterlinck), 2025
Inkjet on Hahnemühle paper in aluminium frame
with custom passe-partout



Untitled (Nivagaard), 2025
Inkjet on Hahnemühle paper in aluminium frame
with custom passe-partout



Sommariva Hotel and Restaurant, 2025
Laser print on colored paper in aluminium frame
with custom passe-partout



Untitled (after Maeterlinck), 2025
Inkjet on Hahnemühle paper in aluminium frame
´with custom passe-partout



Customs house, 2025
Laser print on colored paper in aluminium frame

Impressionisms


AAAA Nordhavn
09.08.24 - 16.09.24
Gl. kalkbrænderi vej 68
Copenhagen, Denmark

The show Impressionisms reintroduces the tradition of French landscape painting from the late 18th century and into the present by employing literal methods of impressions and marks of pigment from fresh wildflowers gathered in the urban space of Copenhagen and acetone printing on birch plywood panels. French Impressionist landscape paintings namely of flower fields act as a prospect of the very place they were conceived and not only address the environmental awareness of the time but likewise, embrace the political and aesthetic gaze constituted in which the minimal impression and fleeting images were congratulated in contrast to the predecessor of fixed and representational painterly practices.

These ephemeral images represent not only a shifted turn in art history but also a time when photography and various new industrial innovations were part of changing the narrative arts representation and literal role into a merely abstracted and sensible experience embraced by all artistic fields across the Western art world, among other; composers, the arts and crafts movement and the literary circles. More than a decade later, as technological and industrial innovations continue to evolve rapidly within an interconnected global context, the prevalence of fleeting images persists and new techniques may arise from this constantly changing physical and digital environment.

An environment that both globally and locally is confronted with an urgent crisis of a decreasing biodiversity, destruction of landscapes in favour of big agriculture and an increasingly evolving city where local communities are threatened and where real estate industries defines the politics of land and the fields that they occupy. To encompass and emphasise this notion and the definition of fields and categorisation of land, various speculative grid-like figurations are transferred onto the panels with acetone, a formerly by-product material used as a solvent, to emphasise the territorial qualities and the similar speculative notion of maps, fields and land.

The gathering of flowers takes place from newly established flower meadows in Copenhagen initiated by the municipality in which new seed mixtures at 11 different locations are intended to create food and shelter for insects and birds as part of a new plan to enrich local biodiversity.The collected flowers are then stamped onto the panel for their pigment to absorb into the plywood and thus create and underline the geographical mark from where they were gathered and similarly an abstraction of that very field.

The series of 11 panels seeks to function as a revised flower field painting in which the flowers aren’t painted but rather, used for their pigment. The work intends to represent that very field, following the trajectories and traditions of Land art where the land or field as a place, concept and philosophical notion is represented in various ways as a means; to understand, contemplate and partake in our common fleeing environment. 


Untitled (water body) 2024 plywood, vinyl foil, ball chain.

Champ De Fleur Sauvage No.1 (Vigerslevsparken) 2024
Acetone print and field flower impression on birch plywood.

Champ De Fleur Sauvage No.2 (Grøndalsparken) 2024
Acetone print and field flower impression on birch plywood.

Champ De Fleur Sauvage No.3 (Rødkildepark) 2024
Acetone print and field flower impression on birch plywood.

Champ De Fleur Sauvage No.4 (Bellahøj) 2024
Acetone print and field flower impression on birch plywood.

Champ De Fleur Sauvage No.5 (Tingbjerg) 2024
Acetone print and field flower impression on birch plywood.

Champ De Fleur Sauvage No.6 (Utterslev Mose) 2024
Acetone print and field flower impression on birch plywood.

Field (water body) 2024
Acetone print and vinyl foil on birch plywood.

Champ De Fleur Sauvage No.7 (Rørsøstien) 2024
Acetone print and field flower impression on birch plywood.

Champ De Fleur Sauvage No.8 (Nørrebros Runddel) 2024
Acetone print and field flower impression on birch plywood.

Champ De Fleur Sauvage No.9 (Lergravsparken) 2024
Acetone print and field flower impression on birch plywood.

Champ De Fleur Sauvage No.10 (Assistens kirkegården) 2024 Acetone print and field flower impression on birch plywood.

Champ De Fleur Sauvage No.11 (Fredenspark) 2024
Acetone print and field flower impression on birch plywood.

Untitled (Ambience) 2024
FM radio, oxidized copper, ceramic vase, road median flowers.
Theodor Nymark
Artist & curator (b. 1997) Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Founder and curator of Salon 75 

Biography
Theodor Nymark (b. 1997) is a Danish artist, filmmaker, and curator based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He holds a Master’s degree from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Simon Dybbroe Møller’s class. Selected exhibitions include Nivaagaard’s Malerisamling, AAAA Nordhavn, RAINRAIN Gallery (New York), Servando Gallery (Havana, Cuba), Kerka Gallery (St. Petersburg), Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art (Copenhagen), Magma Maria (Offenbach), Deutsche Film Institut (Düsseldorf), Zirka.Space (Munich), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), Kur Space (Vienna), Garage 9 Gallery (Bologna), the International  Biennale of Tashkent (Uzbekistan), and Partara Gallery (Tbilisi).

Since 2017, Nymark has founded and curated the exhibition space Salon 75, located in Copenhagen. Recent notable curatorial projects include exhibitions at RAINRAIN Gallery (New York), The Balcony (The Hague), Berlinskej Model (Prague), Fabrika CCI (Moscow), and Spazio Orr (Brescia).

As an artist and curator, Theodor Nymark systematically examines the metaphorical and physical conceptions of the environment, engaging with it by exploring the role of spirituality in a post-industrial world. Through a narrative and research-based approach, Nymark addresses the landscape by investigating themes such as art history, national identity, land politics, collective memory, and local architecture, while exploring their interconnections and impact on ecological thinking and governance.


Education
MFA, Sculpture Department (Prof. Simon Dybbroe Møller), Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 2021-2024.
BFA, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Jakob Kolding, Luca Frei, Hannah Heilmann, Rolf Nowotny, Henriette Heise), 2018-2021.


Solo Exhibitions
2026: Milieu @ Transit Art Space. Helsingør, Denmark
2024: Impressionisms @ AAAA. Copenhagen, Denmark
2023: Ètudes De Paysage @ Ping Pong, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2023: Domaine De Ètudes @ Spread Museum, Visual Arts Agency France Residency, Entrevaux, France.
2022: Bigag & The Bando @ aaaa Nordhavn, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2022: Drafts of Ecology: Dear Landscape, @ RainRain Gallery, New York, USA.
2022: Drafts of Ecology/Thought & Memory: Interior & Exterior @ Kerka Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2021: Drafts of Ecology: SIRENIA, Servando Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
2021: Drafts of Ecology/Psyche Interior, Udstillingsstedet Q, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2020: Dream Structures @ Ta-Da space, Østerbro Copenhagen - Curated by Anne-Louise Knudsen.
2020: Beastial Fantasy/Drafts of Ecology @ Patara Gallery Tbilisi, Georgia - Curated by Gvantsa Jishkariani.
2019: CRITS’ Duo solo-show w/ Sofus Keiding @ Brigade Gallery Vesterbro, Copenhagen - Curated by Michael Bank Christoffersen.
2018: The Legend of the Larynx Metamorphosis @ Garage 9 Bologna, Italy. Made in collaboration with Sofus Keiding Agger.
2018: Roaming Away On The Pillars Of Consensus @ CGK (Carlsbergbyens kunstgalleri & salon), Copenhagen, Denmark.



Selected Group Exhibitions
2024: Land & History @ Magma Maria. Frankfurt, Germany
2024: Spritiual World @ RAINRAIN Gallery. New York, USA
2024: Mælkeveje @ Nivaagaard Malerisamling. Nivaa, Denmark
2024: AFGANG @ Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Copenhagen, Denmark
2024: A Little Bit of Solidarity Goes a Long Way @ Zirka.Space, Munich, Germany. Curated by Kay Yoon.
2023: Radical Technology @ Norrecco ressourcestation, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Platform.dk.
2023: Anthology of the Field @ Basecamp, Locarno Film Festival 2023, Locarno, Switzerland. Curated by Justine Stella Knuchel.
2022: Little shop of extraordinary personal beauty @ Alice Folker, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Anna Stahn.
2021: Sweet To Tongue — Sound To Eye @ Augustiana, Sønderborg, Denmark. Curated by Sophia Luna Portra.
2021: Christmas Salon @ Alice Folker, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2020: Make Friend Not Art: Underbellies @ Bundesallee 213-214, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Caroline Marie Ballegaard.
2019: Sevens Sages Laid Its Foundation @ Kur-Space, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Thor Tao Hansen.
2019: Online live Conference-Performance for students of Paideia — School of Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg. Curated by Valentina Makarova Sekisova.
2018: Zoom With Your Feet (Make Friends) @ Overgaden, Institut for samtidskunst Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Louse Lyngh Bjerregaard.



Curatorial Work
Quay Quinn Wolf @ Salon 75
Dominic Michel @ Salon 75
Vijay Masharani @ Salon 75
Laurits Honoré Rønne @ Grave Dwellers
Dog, No Leash @ Spazio Orr, Brescia, Italy.
Floral & Machine @ Voskhod Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
The Loading @ The Balcony, Den Haag, Netherlands.
Curiosity as Helmsmen @ Berlinskej Model, Prague, Czech Republic.
Drafts of Ecology/ URD @ CCI Fabrika, Moscow, Russia.
Gravedwellers #4 @ Birkehøj Jættestue.
Gravedwellers #2 @ Møllehøj Jættestue.
Paul Barsch @ Salon 75.
Juxtapose Art Fair 2021 — Warm Little Pond (Performance stage and program).
Gravedwellers #1 @ Øm Jættestue.
EVER GROWN by Claus Haxholm @ Salon 75.
Im Drunk And I Want To Sleep In The Bog Tonight! @ Salon 75.
The Tired Mask of Spring by MARTIN AAGAARD HANSEN @ Salon 75.
From Green to Grey by Nushan Rose Roshiani @ Salon 75.
State of Affairs by Bob Bicknell-Knight (UK) @ Salon 75.
Fantastic Sunny Apartment And 10 Min To Manhattan @ Homesick Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.



Writing & Radio
Exhibition text for Samara Sallam at Overgaden, Copenhagen. 2025
Exhibition text for Antoine Felix Bürher at Temple Gallery, New York. 2024
Kritikklassen — host and organizer of art critique radioshow for Absalon Radio Copenhagen, Denmark. 2021
Guestwriter and consultant for Et Hul I Markedet art newsletter, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2020
Guestwriter for Passive/Aggressive blog, Copenhagen. 2016-2017

Residencies
The Danish Institute in Rome, Italy, 2025
Spread Museum, Entrevaux, France, 2023
Brigade Gallery, Havana, Cuba, 2021

Publications
2024 Drafts of Ecology, Salon 75 Publishing, 2024
2022 Mesh Magazine, København, 2022
2021 Amulet Magasin — The Picturesque Beast screenplay
2019 A Massive Weight Of Air, Soft Power Press, København
2018 ’Love/Peace: Mountain’, Palmspree, København (music release)
2018 Båndmagasinet no. 2, The Lake Radio, København (music release)
2017 TRTLNCK002, Turtleneck Records, København (music release)
2016 Hanoi Love Affair, København.(music release)
2015 R.E.C, Batch 0000, SM-LL, London (music release)

Films
The Picturesque Beast, CPH DOX Official Selection 2021.
SIRENIA @ Brigade Gallery, Havana Cuba
Bakken, CPH DOX Official Selection 2021, in collaboration with John Skoog.

Performance
Sun & Sea (extra in art performance) @ Lithuanian Pavillion, Venice Biennale, Italy. 2019
’Salvation of the Beast’ In collaboration w/ Frej Volander @ Honeyland festival, Bornholm. 2018
”Performing the Concept of Dualism in a Modern World” @  Odense Musikbibliotek. 2016
Concert & DJ gigs: Kunstforeningen Gammelstrand, Distortion Festival, Cocktail Box,Magasin Du Nord, Kayak Bar, Pumpehuset, Lille Vega, Støberiet: Blågårdsplads & Kapelvej 44, Stengade, KB18, DRONE, Bolsjefabrikken, Flerdagesdrøm Festival, Honeyland Festival, Bakken, Jolene, 48-timers festival, Palmspree, Papirøen. 2010-2018

Press
Cult Bytes
Art Spiel
Art Now Shanghai
Imma Giannaira
Kristlig Dagblad
Børsen Pleasure
Tv2 Danish Televison
Radio 4
Politiken 
Information

Teaching
2023 The Royal Danish Architecure School — lecture in land art and passage-graves
2023 BGK (Billedkunsterisk Grundkursus) Helsingør — lecture and prepatory course for art school application
2020 Paideia — School of Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg.
2020 - 2023 Private prepatory courses and consultancy for art school applications and portfolios.

Assistance
Resarch assistant for artist Tarik Kiswanson 2025 -
Production assistant for artist Tue Greenfort 2022-2023 

Grants
Danish Arts Council - working grant
Grosser LF Foghts Fond - working grant
Danish Arts Council - production grant



Contact
Tpnj@icloud.com
0045 40 57 18 04
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Sound and music
Writings

Curatorial Projects


Founder and curator of Salon 75 
Founder and curator of GraveDwellers
Co-founder and curator of Feld Pavilion 


2025
Quay Quinn Wolf @ Salon 75

2024
Land & History - group show for Salon 75 @ Magma Maria, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Spiritual World -  group show @ RAINRAIN Gallery, New York, USA.
Vijay Masharani @ Salon 75
Laurits Honoré Rønne @ Grave Dwellers

2023
Dog, No Leash w/ Abbas Akhavan, Nanna Abell, Joe Bun Keo Marie Søndergaard Lolk, Jessica Olausson, Noah Barker @ Spazio Orr, Brescia
Positions w/Jan Domicz, Francesco De Prezzo, Frederica Francesconi @ Salon 75, Copenhagen
Floral & Machine @ Voskhod Gallery, Basel

2022
Curiosity as Helmsmen w/ Martin Brandt Hansen & Rasmus Lyberth @ Berlinskej Model, Prague 
The Loading w/ Lina Viste Grønli, Finn Reinbothe, Runo B, Tom Bachtell and Jia Jia Zhang @ The Balcony, Den Haag, Netherlands
Rundgang 2022 INT. — EXT. @ Sculpture School BILC, Copenhagen, Demar
Drafts of Ecology/ URD @ CCI Fabrika, Moscow, Russia

2021
Paul Barsch @ Salon 75
GraveDwellers #2 Møllehøj Jættestue

2020
Claus Haxholm. @ Salon 75
Im Drunk And I Want To Sleep In The Bog Tonight! @ Salon 75
Martin Aaagard Hansen @ Salon 75
GraveDwellers 1# @ Øm Jættestue

2019
State of Affairs by Bob Bicknell-Knight (UK) @ Salon 75
New, Other, Odd https://newotherodd.com (film festival) @ CGK (Carlsbergbyens kunstgalleri & salon)
Emilie Viktoria KJÆR & SóLEY RAGNARSDóTTIR @ Salon 75
PINE SLEEVES (IL/DK) @ Salon 75
Shape shifting, brow lifting, block kitchen @ CGK (Carlsbergbyens kunstgalleri & salon)

2018
Honeyland festival http://honeyland.dk/ (art & music festival) @ Bornholm
Figures Of Speech @ Salon 75
Nye Rør! @ Salon 75
DON'T FEED THE TROLL @ Salon 75

2017
Compression by OK_Dog Collective (GER) @ Salon 75
IN BETWEEN AND AFTER @ Salon 75
Squinting at what appears to be almost there @ Salon 75
INGEN JURY, INGEN PRÆMIER @ Salon 75
I am responsible for all living beings' happiness @ Salon 75

2016
10 Timer I Aktivt Tomrum (art & music festival) @ Villakultur (Krausesvej 3)