This summer, Arden Asbæk Gallery is delighted to host our “big brother” gallery’s annual exhibition, Summer in the City. Now in its 20th edition, the show spans all three floors of the gallery, offering a vibrant and diverse celebration of contemporary art.

The two artists do not only share an interest in the forces of nature, but also in the poetry of the physical world, and balance what can best be described as fleeting lightness and material substance in their respective media.

Vases, pitchers and reliefs are embedded with life and stories about humanity; stories that are not without complications, but which are emblematic of who we are.

Shattered plexiglass shards embedded in pigmented resin appear as if frozen in time, caught mid-act. The pieces raise questions about the relationship between destruction and creation—whether we can destroy or criticize something when the very act of destruction transforms into an act of beautification.

In the exhibition, visual artist Caroline H. Thon examines the influence of light and shadow on how we perceive the world. The exhibition consists of a series of paintings whose motifs center around the meeting between the shadows of a tree and a person.

Gain insight into the artist’s process and get the chance to acquire original sketches, when Arden Asbæk Gallery invites you inside the artist studio through a wide variety of sketches by artists from Martin Asbæk Gallery as well as from artists, who have previously exhibited in the project space.

Rose City takes its starting point in Petra, known the Rose City, a historic and archaeological city, which is characterized by its rock-cut architecture and rose-colored sandstone.

The work is based on childhood memories connected to hospital visits and medical examinations, a recurring theme in Scales’ practice that is informed by ableism and an ideological exploration of the relationship between doctor and patient, both from a personal and larger cultural historical angle.