Ivan Andersen (b.1969) is a Danish artist who lives and works in Copenhagen. Andersen graduated from Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts) (2005). His work is represented in collections including ARKEN – Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj; KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg; Musée National d’HIstoire et d’Art, Luxembourg; New Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen; Skive Kunstmuseum, Skive.

Andersen’s work, There Goes the Neighbourhood (2024) (mixed media) is represented at Augustenborg Collection.

Iker García Barrenetxea (b. 1979) is a Basque painter. With a background in Fine Arts, he blends traditional and contemporary techniques in drawing, painting and printing to create original pieces. Barrenetxea spent two transformative decades in East London, a period crucial to his personal and artistic growth. Early in his career, he showcased his work in a collective at the prestigious Mall Galleries. In 2010, Barrenetxea established The Vyner Studio, an artist-run space in East London, fostering a vibrant creative community. In 2017, he returned to San Sebastian. His work is held by Gordailua, the Center for Heritage Collections of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, and by the Danish art fund, where he also created an installation. Currently, Barrenetxea is engaged in new projects at his atelier in San Sebastián: La Droguería.

Barrenetxea’s work, Balls Pond Road (2005) (oil on canvas) is represented at Augustenborg Collection.

Rune Bering (b.1984) is a Danish artist educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He has exhibited extensively both solo and in group shows in Austria, Belgium, Cuba and Denmark.

Bering’s works Harddisk Archive 1+2 (2020) (graphite, plaster, pigments, gravel, cable tray, heavy duty (trolley) wheels) are represented in Augustenborg Collection. The large disks are archives of an alternative past. Their surface is covered in the imprints of the physical components of discarded digital devices, and future butterfly fossils. The artist understands nature as an ecosystem that is infiltrated by the effects of technology. Here, all technical and organic lifeforms leave cues and traces for their successors to decipher.

Rune Bering is interested in connections between the physical and digital worlds. In addition to their immediate function, media affect our perception of physical nature. If we want to understand the structural changes that are happening in our time and the directions in which we are heading, we must relate to the media that surround us and the underlying logic, which sneaks in through the back door, impacting connections between people, nature and technology. Attempting to understand these correlations can lead to a less black-and-white picture of the concept of sustainability.

In his work, the artist renegotiates established notions of the things with which we surround ourselves inviting us to take a long, hard look at the prevailing ideas about boundaries and divisions between technology and nature. Everything around us is connected and part of nature’s cycle.

Giada Biagioni (b. 1993) is an Italian sculptor. Biagioni was educated at The Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy.

Biagioni’s work, I Cinque Sensi – Vista / Five Senses – Sight  (2021) (plaster, tow, wax) is represented at Augustenborg Collection.

Julien Deiss (b. 1983) is a French-German artist who lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. He holds a Master of Fine Arts, having studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, École supérieure d’arts de Brest and The University of Lund. Deiss has exhibited at galleries across Europe and Australia. His works have been shown at Von Fraunberg Gallery, bb-Contemporary, FFFZ Kulturforum and Galerie Schloss Neersen. His works feature in the art foundation Stiftung Kleine Kunstdialog West/Ost’s collection. In 2019 Deiss co-authored the book Undervejs med mennesker. Skitser til en æstetisk inspireret samtalepraksis (People in process. Sketches for an aesthetically inspired conversational practice) together with psychotherapist Tina Lauritzen. Most recently, his works have been exhibited at the parliament in Düsseldorf at the exhibition „resonance; conversations with a statue“.

Deiss’s work, Schiller in Augustenborg (2024) (mixed media on canvas), a duo of a painting and its miniature, is represented at Augustenborg Collection.

Martina Enevold is a Danish artist educated as a fashion designer at the The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Enevold holds an MA in Fashion from the Royal College of Art, London.                                                                    

Enevold’s work, The Trees Declared War (2022) (aluminium mounted on tree, on site outside installation) is represented at Augustenborg Collection. The sculpture is part of a larger project, placing weapon-like structures on trees in various locations of ancient woodland, parks and forests, to allow for personal encounters and interactions for those who may discover them. The weapon is gently wrapped around the tree to serve as protection against potential threats and left there to invite the tree to eventually grow around the object and hold on to the weapon.

Through this work, the artist aims to give agency to the trees, as representatives of nature, and allow them to fight back against the violence performed on them by humans. The artist positions herself as an ally to the trees, against humanity, in a speculative war between species. The goal is not to inflict physical violence, but to use the imagery of violence to pose as a quiet threat, inviting the viewer to consider their own position. The aim of the project is to question assumptions concerning violence, control and ownership over other species as well as the idea of civilised><savage and us><other.

Cosimo Ermini is a Florentine artist and illustrator with a solid background in visual arts and a specialization in printmaking and engraving. After graduating from the Leon Battista Alberti Art High School in Florence (2013), he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, earning a First-Level Degree in Painting (2017) and, later, a Second-Level Degree in Illustration (2023). In 2018, Ermini completed a specialization program at the Il Bisonte Foundation, an international school dedicated to fine art printmaking.

Ermini’s professional experience includes working as an assistant at the Il Bisonte Foundation with masters Manuel Ortega and Luis Pardo (2018–2019), and at Armadillo Atelier in Florence (2019–2021), where he refined his skills in engraving and printmaking. In 2024, Ermini led a Cyanotype workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.

Over the years, he has taken part in several international artist residencies, including Here as Them at Augustenborg Project in Denmark (2022), Esperantina Pingendi in Brazil (2018), and various projects in Italy such as Lo spirito del Lago (2016) and Carda (2015).

Ermini’s work has been exhibited in internationlly, in both solo and group shows across Italy, Denmark, Turkey, and Brazil. Notable exhibitions include Prognostizieren (Augustenborg, 2022), Il mio nome è incisione (Ankara, 2022), Di Passaggio (Florence, 2021), and participation in the Ilaria Ciardi Prize (Ravenna, 2021). Ermini has been featured in significant events such as Young Artists and Mosaic (Ravenna, 2023), and Komorebi: playing with light (Denmark, 2023).

Ermini’s works have been published in volumes such as Divine Illustrazioni (Edizioni Nuages, 2021) and Il Segno del Sacro (Tipografia Rossi, 2019), reflecting an artistic path that blends visual research with technical experimentation.

Ermini’s practice is distinguished by refined graphic sensitivity and a constant exploration of artistic languages, combining tradition and modernity.

Ermini’s works Rimesse 1,2 and 3 (2020) as well as Vento e Chuva (2018) (mixed media on paper) are represented at Augustenborg Collection.

Emily Gernild (b. 1985) is a Danish artist who works in Copenhagen.  Gernild graduated from Funen Art Academy (2016) and Düsseldorf Kunstakademie (2014). Gernild’s work is held in public and private collections, among which Canica Art Collection (NO), Danish Arts Foundation (DK), Kastrupgårdsamlingen (DK), The Carlsberg Foundation (DK), and Trapholt Museum (DK).

Gernild’s work, Chalice (2020) (rabbit glue on canvas) is represented at Augustenborg Collection.

Billie Maya Johansen (b. 1986) is a Danish artist. Johansen was educated at Ærø College Art School, Funen Art Academy, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule and HFBK Hamburg. Johansen is a recipient of the Danish Art Foundation grant and has exhibited extensively throughout Europe. Her work, Big Fatigue, represented at Augustenborg_Project, two inquisitive eyes, is an outdoor installation of stainless steel, aluminium, and oracal foil.

Esben Weile Kjær (b. 1992) is a Danish artist who lives and works in Copenhagen, DK. Weile Kjær graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2022. His work spans sculpture and performance, drawing on the history of pop culture to investigate themes of nostalgia, authenticity and generational anxiety. In his performances, installations and sculptures, Weile Kjær examines identity among his own generation and explores the role of popular culture and technology in shaping experiences of community and freedom.

In 2020, Weile Kjær held solo exhibitions in Denmark at Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand and Copenhagen Contemporary. In 2023, he curated the exhibition BUTTERFLY! at Arken Museum of Contemporary Art, which primarily consisted of works from the museum’s own collection staged in an immersive scenography. In 2024, his largest solo exhibition to date, Solar System, opened at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg.

Weile Kjær has previously staged performances at institutions such as Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, the National Gallery of Denmark, and Overgaden (all in Copenhagen), as well as internationally at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, MMCA in South Korea, mumok in Vienna, Berghain in Berlin, Museum Tinguely in Basel, and Museum der Moderne in Salzburg.

In 2022, Weile Kjær was awarded the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Talent Award, and in 2023 he received the Aage and Yelva Nimb Foundation’s honorary grant. His works can be found in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Denmark, Kunsten, Malmö Art Museum, Brandts Museum, Arken, the Danish Arts Foundation and the New Carlsberg Foundation.

Weile Kjær’s sculpture composition The Poodle’s Core (2025) (bronze) is represented at Augustenborg Collection as a permanent installation at Augustenborg_Project Sculpture Park.

Nina Kleivan works in various artistic media such as photography, painting, video, sculpture and installation. She examines and challenges existential themes such as identity and belonging often using family members as models. Elements from very different contexts and spheres of meaning – realities – appear side by side, objects are scaled up and down in size and unexpected displacements of time and space challenge our accustomed idea of reality. One moment Kleivan zooms in on the smallest detail and the next moment she gives us a bird’s-eye view of the world. Part and whole are intertwined and Kleivan gives the impression that the story can be told and understood in innumerable ways, because meaning, history and identity are constantly changing and can be seen from an infinite number of perspectives. Kleivan was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Kleivan’s work, Unheimlich Swimming (2022) (video and installation) is represented in Augustenborg Collection.

Laura Konttinen (b. 1987) is a Helsinki-based visual artist best known for her surreal photographs created with delicate handwork. Laura Konttinen’s work has been featured in various exhibitions and photo festivals both in Finland and internationally. Her work has been acquired by several art collections including the State art collection of Finland, Jyväskylä Art Museum and Augustenborg Collection in Denmark. Konttinen holds a Master of Arts in Photography from Aalto University, Finland and a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Finland.

Konttinen’s works represented in Augustenborg Collection are: Becoming a Tree (2012), Creature of Treasure (2012), The Land of Turning Luck (2014), The Meeting Point of the Lost Ones (2014), After the Gate (2016), Old Sepia Rock (2016) and Phoenix Tree (2016) (each pigment print, mounted diasec style (glossy acrylic surface, dibond aluminium backing)).

Konttinen’s outside works represented in Augustenborg Collection are The Gate, Leather Fields, The House, Witch Cave, The Great Fire, Cemetery and Blackbirds.

Freja Niemann Lundrup (b.1990) is a Danish sculptor. Niemann Lundrup was educated at Det Jyske Kunstakademi (Jutland Art Academy), Aarhus, DK and Hochschule für Künste, Bremen, DE. She is the recipient of the 2021 Carl Nielsen og Anne Marie Carl Nielsens Sculpture Talent Prize and the 2022 Tycho Foundation’s Prize.

Niemann Lundrup’s work Instrument Core. Compass Brain / Instrument Kerne. Kompas Hjerne (2019) (Greenlandic marble, granite plinth) is represented at Augustenborg Collection.

Jonas Pihl (b. 1978) lives and work in Denmark.  Pihl was educated at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Centre for Psychoanalysis / Psychosynthesis of Panagiotis Charbis.

Jonas Pihl has exhibited in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Liverpool, Luxembourg, and widely in Denmark. His work is represented in public collections such as The Art Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg; Jens Peter Brask’s Art Collection; Martin Nielsens Art Collection and The Copenhagen Municipal Culture Committee’s art collection etc.

Pihl’s work, Floating Reflection I (2024) (acrylic on canvas) is represented at Augustenborg Collection.

Francesco Pirazzi (b. 1994) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, at the Painting School of the Master Adriano Bimbi in 2018. Pirazzi’s has been shown, among others, at The Cob Gallery and The Artist Room (London); The Hole Gallery (New York); Castello di Grotti (Italy); Foyer of theatre Giacomo Puccini (Italy), Museo Civico Archeologico (Fiesole).

Pirazzi’s works Giacchetto Giallo (2019) (oil on panel) and Attraverso La Notte (2019) (oil on canvas) are represented at Augustenborg Collection.

Sergei Prokofiev was born in 1983 in Moscow, Russia. The artist lives and works in Paris, France. In 2013, Prokofiev graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Moscow. In 2022 he received the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition Solo Award, Denmark. In mid-2022 he became an artist in exile because of his stance against Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. Prokofiev is a participant and curator of exhibitions in Russia, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Norway and Denmark. His current work includes graphics, sculpture and installations.

Prokofiev’s works, Invader 7, 11 and 12 (2023) (3D pen, graphite plastic) are represented in Augustenborg Collection.

David Risley (b. 1972) is an artist, writer and curator. Risley was educated at the Bath School of Art in England. For 20 years he ran the David Risley gallery and did not make art. In Risley’s own words,

“I spent my time with artists, curators, writers – looking, listening, learning. I had presumed that subject matter drives meaning; that the content of a work leads us to its meaning. The more I learned, the less true this appeared to be. My favourite artists, Chardin, Morandi, Neel, Katz, Hammershøi, made paintings almost devoid of content but heavy with meaning. They painted family and friends, the things on their table, everyday life. Contrary to logic, the lack of overt subject matter in these paintings produced the most meaning. I began making watercolour paintings of the things I care about, things I love: family, friends, my surroundings. I remain hopeful that meaning can find its way into these paintings. I am interested in the ontological realm of painting, where and when is the painting happening?”

Risley’s works, Head Store (2021) (oil on linen, artist’s frame, magnetite) and Einer, Tomb of the Diver (2023) (watercolours on silk) are represented at Augustenborg Collection.

Charlie Roberts (b. 1983) receives his creative inspiration from traditional art, pop culture, hiphop, comics, folk art, and artists such as Matisse, Ensor, Florine Stettheimer, etc. He explores across different media, blurring the boundaries of forms, breaking established models for art and creation, with the courage to try to create with new materials, styles and techniques he fills his work with energy and unique expression. Roberts elongates his figures, making them slimmer and giving them seemingly impossibly long limbs; featuring a cast of humans, animals, and hybrid creatures enacting bizarre, surreal scenarios.

Educated from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada and Kansas University, he has held more than 40 individual exhibitions and participated in more than 30 group exhibitions around the world. Recent group and solo exhibitions include: “Nature’s bounty,” Galerie Pact, (2024) “Possible Worlds,” Nino Mier, Brussels (2024) “Pathways to Unknown Worlds,” Woaw Gallery, Kiaf Seoul (2024) “Vibrant Escape: An Ode to Summer,” Woaw Gallery, Hong Kong (2023), “Short Stories,” Anna Zorina Gallery, Los Angeles (2023, solo), “Light Sleeper,” Allouche Benias, Athens (2022, solo), “Good to See You,” Golsa, Oslo (2022), Bleeding Edge, Ojiri Gallery, London (2022, solo), “Angels with Dirty Faces,” Ojiri Gallery, London (2022), “Romancing Relevance,” Woaw Gallery, Hong Kong (2022), “Dream Chasers,” Woaw Gallery, Beijing (2021, solo), Sandworm, Woaw Gallery, Wan Chai (2020, solo), Cosmic Hedge, Golsa, Oslo (2019, solo).

Roberts’ painting Ancient Evenings (2024) (oil on linen) and the A Thousand Eyes totem converted from a storm-stricken tree trunk are represented at Augustenborg Collection.

Evren Tekinoktay (b. 1972) is a Danish artist. Tekinoktay graduated from Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Holland (BA), Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Holland (MA), and The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark. Her work incorporates a variety of media, mosaic shapes and colourful neon lights, video animation, and satin quilts mounted on porthole mirrors.

Chainsmoker (2023) (neon, acrylic, aluminium & plexiglass) is represented at Augustenborg Collection.