Gammel Strand presents the ambitious group exhibition After the Sun this fall. The exhibition portrays a groundbreaking depiction of a younger generation of Nordic artists, all born after 1980, for whom artistic practice and the climate crisis are inseparably connected.

After the Sun takes its title from Jonas Eika's award-winning short story collection Efter Solen, which won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2019. The exhibition showcases a wide range of works, spanning from the analytical to the speculative, from the poetic to the political, including painting, sculpture, video, installation, and performance. In a time when the climate crisis is omnipresent, the exhibition offers an existential insight into how we, as humans, relate to nature.

After the Sun is presented in close collaboration with the American Buffalo AKG Art Museum and is curated by Helga Christoffersen.

Throughout the fall, the exhibition's themes and broader cultural perspectives will be explored in a series of talks and events. The complete program will be presented in early September. In October, an exhibition publication will be launched, featuring new texts by, among others, Professor Minik Rosing, author Ulrikke Bak, Artistic Director at Wanås Milena Høgsberg, and Senior Curator at Bonniers Konsthall Yuvinka Medina.

Participating artists:

Sigurður Ámundason (IS), Felipe de Ávila Franco (BR/FI), Á. Birna Björnsdóttir (IS), Ragna Bley (SE), Sara-Vide Ericson (SE), Carola Grahn (SE/SAPMI), Alma Heikkilä (FI), Jane Jin Kaisen (KR/DK), Juha Pekka Matias Laakkonen (FI), Linda Lamignan (NO), Timimie Märak (SE/SAPMI), Olof Marsja (SE/SAPMI), Santiago Mostyn (US/SE), Lea Porsager (DK), Amitai Romm (IL/DK), Vidha Saumya (IN/FI), Inuuteq Storch (GL), Jenna Sutela (FI), Apichaya Wanthiang (TH/NO), Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel (DE/NO).

Installation view of Apichaya Wanthiang's, Some Body Else, 2022 at Munch Museum. Photo: Ove Kvavik

Jane Jin Kaisen, Dokkaebi, 2024 Courtesy of the artist and Martin Asbæk Gallery.

Inuuteq Storch, Keepers of The Ocean, 2019 Courtesy the artist, Wilson Saplana Gallery.