Past
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THE LAST HUMAN MOTHER AND CHILD
WORKS OF ARTISTS FROM UKRAINE 9 Mar 2022 - 10 Mar 2023 We are deeply concerned by the military action in Ukraine, which has forcibly displaced more than 11 million people so far. Some decide to stay and stand their ground in Ukraine and help in any way they can, others seek refuge. Families are dispersed, homes and businesses lost. In this... Read more -
POPPIES MUTATE INTO BATS
URSULA REUTER CHRISTIANSEN 7 May 2021 - 12 Feb 2022 Marking the release of the book on Danish-German artist Ursula Reuter Christiansen titled Poppies Mutate into Bats. A 60-year Expanse of Paintings, the pop-up exhibition at Faurschou Foundation in Copenhagen explores the artist's approach to painting throughout her life-long career. The exhibition comprises a selection of Reuter Christiansen's paintings from... Read more -
ENTER ART FAIR 2020
JES 27 - 30 Aug 2020 SABSAY is excited to present the works of former museum director Jens Erik Sørensen at Enter Art Fair 2020. Under the alias JES, the artist explores and challenges the modernism of the 20th century with the ambition to expand and renew the artistic movement with new imagery of today. The result is a 'new modernism' - a modern, simple, and including artistic language that seeks to stimulate the viewer's own imagination. Read more -
NÅR JEG SER PÅ ØRKENEN, SER JEG HAVET
KAARE GOLLES 13 Mar - 25 Jun 2020 When I Look at the Dessert I See the Sea
The exhibition presents a new series of paintings and masks, by Danish artist Kaare Golles which together paint a picture of modern man’s existence between power and powerlessness. Read more -
BODY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 6 Dec 2019 - 1 Feb 2020 The group exhibition presents works by Hazem Harb, Kaare Golles, Kinder Album, Nikita Shalenny and Ursula Reuter Christiansen, offering various perspectives on the representation of the human body. As a leading Danish feminist artist Ursula Reuter Christiansen depicts the female figure to break with women’s roles in history, using her... Read more -
ASIA NOW 2019
LIU WA 16 - 20 Oct 2019 Solo show by Chinese artist Liu Wa, curated by Michael Xufu Huang, presented by SABSAY at booth U 01. Having entered a dark space, through an interaction with EEG headset, the viewer illuminates the room with different color light. Accordingly, depending on the protagonist’s attention level the figures in the... Read more -
VOLCANO WOMAN
URSULA REUTER CHRISTIANSEN 20 Sep - 2 Nov 2019 Ursula Reuter Christiansen was inspired to make the exhibition while traveling the lunar landscape of Lanzarote – a Spanish island of volcanic origin. Shaded in colours of ash grey and ochre, the island emerged about 15 million years ago through fiery eruptions and has solidified lava streams and dramatic rock... Read more -
ENTER ART FAIR 2019
GROUP EXHIBITION 29 Aug - 1 Sep 2019 SABSAY are exctied to present a group exhibition with works by Liu Wa, Hazem Harb and Nikita Shalenny at booth 17. Read more -
TOO LATE
THIERRY GEOFFROY 26 Apr - 15 Jun 2019 The solo exhibition confronts the urgent sociopolitical issues and climate crises of our age. Entrusting the artist the sensibility and role of predicting and preventing accidents, Geoffroy reflects upon the artist’s ability of being in advance of coming emergencies in society. Read more -
POWER DOES NOT DEFEAT MEMORY
HAZEM HARB 1 Feb - 13 Apr 2019 Power Does Not Defeat Memory was the first exhibition of Palestinian artist Hazem Harb in Denmark. In the exhibition Harb recovers otherwise forgotten moments of Palestine’s past from oblivion, reintroducing them as collages of symbolic imagery and architectural shapes shoved in the face of the present. Read more -
WUNDKANAL
KAARE GOLLES 1 Nov 2018 - 26 Jan 2019 In WUNDKANAL Golles traces recent traumas in European history through sculptural representations of disfigured fragments of the human body. Comprising of sculpture in bronze and resin as well as glass and wood installations, the solo exhibition is the result of the artist’s ongoing research into the horrors of the 20th... Read more -
CODE ART FAIR 2018
GROUP EXHIBITION 30 Aug - 2 Sep 2018 The gallery is thrilled to bring Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Kaare Golles, Nikita Shalenny and Thierry Geoffroy to the 2018 edition of Code Art Fair. We look forward seeing you at booth 11. Read more -
COPENHAGEN
ZACHARY ARMSTRONG 25 Aug - 20 Oct 2018 Featuring collage, pottery, ceramic masks, and paintings of faces and fish, the exhibition explores the recurring and ever-evolving lives and transformations of materials and motives in the artist’s practice. Read more -
KYIV ART FAIR 2018
GROUP EXHIBITION 23 - 27 May 2018 SABSAY is thrilled to present artworks by Thierry Geoffroy and Nikita Shalenny at booth B16 during Kyiv Art Fair 2018. Tents have been part of Thierry Geoffroy/COLONEL’s oeuvre since 1991. Using the sides of the tents as a canvas for painted statements, the artist transforms the tents into mobile sculptural... Read more -
GLIMPSE: A PASSING LOOK
LIU WA 4 May - 30 Jun 2018 Adapting the time-honoured Chinese painting tradition, Liu Wa merges silky brushstrokes with of-the-minute technology. Realized via neurotechnology, the immersive installation senses and reflects the viewer’s changing attention levels, tracked by an electroencephalogram headband. Read more -
NEW WORKS
URSULA REUTER CHRISTIANSEN 22 Feb - 21 Apr 2018 The exhibition features several new paintings by Ursula Reuter Christiansen, exploring the concept of process and time in relation to the artist’s oeuvre. Taking up the image as narrative and as a way of depicting the woman’s universe, the paintings expressively unfold the perpetual story of death, renewal, and life in a new context. Read more -
IDANTITY
JENS HAANING 30 Nov 2017 - 3 Feb 2018 Since the 1990s Jens Haaning has produced a body of conceptual artworks, which – when seen together – offers an acute reflection of a complex and changing society in the West. The exhibition acts as an insight into some of the complexities relating to Danish culture and how the Danes... Read more -
EFFECTIVE REFLECTION
KINDER ALBUM 24 Aug - 28 Oct 2017 The exhibition revolves around the negotiation of female identity and self-understanding as it takes place in the mundane encounter between woman, mirror and the world. Through drawing, painting and video, Kinder Album explores this interaction, providing an insight into how female identity is maintained and generated through representation and social relations. Read more -
ALWAYS QUESTION THE STRUCTURE #DOCUMENTASCEPTIC
THIERRY GEOFFROY 30 Mar - 1 Jul 2017 #DocumentaSceptic unfolds as a converging project by the former projects of the artist, Biennalist, and Emergency Room, as it questions the two art events, namely, Documenta and Venice Biennale 2017 before and while they happen. Read more -
THE MOST DELICIOUS AMERICAN MUSHROOMS
NIKITA SHALENNY 1 Dec 2016 - 4 Mar 2017 The solo exhibition by Nikita Shalenny consists of more than 40 impressively detailed watercolors and a large painting. Through a surreal and fabled depiction, the exhibited works touch upon the subject of people’s inanity and absurd irrationality. Read more -
KHLŌRA
GEORG JAGUNOV 29 Oct - 29 Nov 2016 The exhibition takes its starting point in the transformative characteristics of the nymph, which the artist compares to the ability of orchids to imitate and manipulate their surroundings. Read more -
TRUST ME IF YOU CAN'T
GROUP EXHIBITION 20 May - 10 Sep 2016 SABSAY, the new art space in the heart of Copenhagen, is opening the exhibition of contemporary female portraits presented in diverse media: video, photography, painting, animated drawing, participative live installation, virtual reality and sculpture. The group show features artworks from a mix of established and emerging artists. The focus revolves... Read more
