frieze art fair london
adam christensen,
magnus andersen
14–18 october 2026
education
2004–2007 BA Hons Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
2002–2003 The European Film College, Ebeltoft, DK
upcoming
2026 palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK (solo)
solo exhibitions
*catalog
2025 LISTE art fair, Basel, CH
2025 Is That All You’ve Got?, Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro, DK
2024 I’ve got a bad feeling about this, Horsens Art Museum, Horsens, DK
2024 why don’t you shut it?, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2023 Bedtime, Tønder Art Museum, Tønder, DK*
2023 Lise, Haus N Off-Site, Athens, GRE
2022 The Wind Swallowed My Words, Hunt Kastner, Prague, CZ
2022 You Might Wanna Stay Over, w/ Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, DK
2021 Küss mich, bevor du gehst, Kunstverein Harbuger Bahnhof, Hamborg, DE
2020 The beauty about antisocial behaviour is that it takes you away from other people, however briefly, Futura, Prague, CZ
2019 I’m not done with you yet, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK
2019 Criminal Longing 3, Almanac Projects, London, UK
2018 Shitty Heartbreaker, O–Overgaden Kunsthalle, Copenhagen, DK
2017 You Don’t Treat Me Like You Should, Almanac Projects, OuterSpace, Milan, IT
2016 2 Late 2 Talk part two, OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich, UK
2016 If He’s Innocent, He’s Really Fucked, Queen Adelaide, London, UK
2015 Art Show, Maison Maca, Athens, GRE
2015 Why can’t we just enjoy it the wat it is?, Artes, Porto, PT
2014 Its raining btw x, Southard Reid, London, UK
2010 My heart forgot to leap when you looked at me, Rachmanioff’s, London, UK
group exhibitions
2026 Daddy Issues, Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, DK
2025 Grønningen, Den Frie, Copenhagen, DK
2025 Needle & Thread, Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum, Hjørring, DK
2025 Needle & Thread, Sorø Art Museum, Sorø, DK
2025 Denne Nye Verden – overvejende Tekstil, Lundsgaard Gods, Kerteminde, DK
2024 Needle & Thread, Art Museum Brandts, Odense, DK
2024 25, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, DE
2024 The Vejen Way To Art, Vejen Art Museum, Vejen, DE
2023 Forms of The Surrounding Futures, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg, SE
2023 X A CAPUTAL DESIRE, Le Bicolore, Paris, FR
2023 Woke Up Feeling Better, Staffordshire St, London, UK
2022 Kunstnerkolonien På Sydfyn, Faaborg Kunstmuseum, Faaborg, DK
2021 Too Much (too little, too late), Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK
2021 Valentine Special, Romika TV, (online)
2020 Ghosthouse, Den Frie, Copenhagen, DK
2020 Underneath, The Nordic House, Reykjavik, IS
2020 Máscaras (Masks), Galaria Minicipal do Porto, Porto, PT
2020 Sets and Scenarios, Royal College of Art, Nottingham Comtemporary, (online)
2019 You’re In My Veins, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, DK
2018 Give Up The Ghost, Baltic Triennial 13, Vilnius/Tallin/Riga
2018 We Are Having A Little Flirt, Pump House Gallery, London, UK
2018 Cryptopian States, Cycle Music and Art Festival, Berlin, DE
2018 Staging Realities 1, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
2017 When My Eyes Saw And When My Ears Heard, Hollybush Gardens, London, UK
2017 Beauty and Room, Palp Festival, Sion, CH
2017 56 Artillery Lane, w/ Keira Fox, Raven Row, London, UK
2016 Planned Obsolescence, Muscovite Gymnasium, Moscow, RF
2015 I am here, but you’ve gone, Fiorucci Art Trust and Creative Perfumers, London, UK
2014 Feeling Queezy, EKKM, Tallinn, EE
2014 Forget Amnesia, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli, IT
2014 Je suis Féministre, Unit 21, Penarth Centre, London, UK
2014 Terminos, LimaZulu, London, UK
2013 One Day the Day Will Come When the Day Will Not Come, Futura, Prague, CZ
2013 Lutz Kinoy’s Loose Bodies, Elain, MGK, Basel, CH
2013 Nestbeschmutzer, Southard Reid, London, UK
2012 Soundworks, ICA, London, UK (online)
2012 She Doesn’t Care, EB&Flow Gallery, London, UK
2012 Artist Urban Action, Enclave, London, UK
2012 Group Show, Rachmaninoff’s Smith/Arnett, London, UK
2011 Film i Samtidskonsten, Bio Rio, Stockholm, SE
2011 Facts and Systems: A Science Fair, 120 East Road, London, UK
2010 i modi, Benderspace, Bermonsey, London, UK
2009 Sexually Motivated, South London Cultural Centre, London, UK
2008 Think Again, Rachmanioff’s London, UK
2008 Annual Members’ Exhibition, Studio Voltaire, London, UK
performances
2025 Taxi Club, Copenhagen, DK
2025 GARGLE, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
2025 Interval #1, La Fabra Centre d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, ES
2025 Screening, Christiania Biennale, Copenhagen, DK
2025 Cafe OTO, London, UK
2025 Augend&Addend, Vienna, AT
2025 Liste Art Fair, Basel, CH
2024 Home Live Art, Shoreditch Town Hall, UK
2024 Performissima, Le Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles / Paris, Paris, FR
2024 Somerset House, London, UK
2023 September Sessions, Stockholm, SE
2023 Damascus Copenhagen, Fetish Shop, Vilnius Biennial, Vilnius, LT
2023 10 Year Party, Almanac, Turin, IT
2023 Subset 2, SET Woolwich, London, UK
2023 Kulturpris, Kulturpriser, Vordingborg, DK
2022 Lyra Pramuk and Adam Christensen, Valby Kulturhus, Valby, DK
2022 NIGHTHAWKS: A G.L.I.T.S. Fundraiser on International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, Ormside Projects, London, UK
2022 Feature, iklektik, London, UK
2022 Warm Little Pond x Sans Souci, Salon 75, Copenhagen, DK
2022 The Ladies Club, w/ Keira Fox, Sodas 2123, Vilnius, LT
2022 Stranger Gentle presents… Two Nights of Unlearning, Horse Hospital, London, UK
2022 FuturShock, Fold, London, UK
2022 FRIEND, Pfeil Magazine 16 Launch, Montez Press, London, UK
2022 Iconoclast, Todmorden, UK
2022 Yaga Gathering, Varėna, LT
2022 S_ex_Clu_b, Wharf Chambers, Leeds, UK
2022 Cars don’t talk back, Institut Funder Bakke, Silkeborg, DK
2022 Earth Hackney, London, UK
2021 Performance Festival: Resonance & Wonder, with Deniz Unal, O–Overgarden Kunsthalle, Copenhagen, DK
2021 Adam Christensen & Deniz Unal, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2021 Badesøen Festival, Albertslund, DK
2021 Mo.Co., Montpelier, US
2020 Confessions: Making a Performance of Yourself, Jerwood Art Space, London, UK
2020 Anarchy 99+ XCRSWX + Adam Christensen, Café Otto, London, UK
2019 Sweet Surrender, OGR, Torino, IT
2019 I wanna be lonely, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmunder, DE
2019 It’s a lot like life, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2019 Beatrice Gibson/Crone Music, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
2019 Reacción A Islandia, Pavilion Nordico, Buenos Aires, AR
2018 DRAG, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2018 ERROR, Pfeil Magazine 9, Montez Press, Hamburg, DE
public collections
Horsens Art Museum, Horsens, DK
Museum Sønderjylland, Tønder, DK
The New Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, DK
Danish Arts Foundation, DK
awards & grants
2023 Inger Goldmanns Fond, DK
2022 Aage & Yelva Nimbs Foundation honorary scholarship, DK
2021 Work scholarship (3 years), the Danish Arts Foundation, DK
2020 Work scholarship, the Danish Arts Foundation, DK
2019 Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Artist Award, London, UK
2006 Hamad Butt Fine Art Award, Goldsmiths College, UK
projects
2022 Kunstnerkolonien, television, season 3, DRTV, DK
2012 Ectopia, music project with Jack Brennan and Vicky Steiri
2011 Hotel Garderobe, cinema club and event space, George Tingle House, London, UK
2008 Eyes Of Blood, erotic thriller video project with Sidsel Christensen
2008–2009 South London Cultural Centre in association with Spartacus Chetwynd, Vicky Steiri, Aki Ilomaki and Urara Tsuchiya
bio
Born 1979, Vejen, Denmark
Lives and works in London, UK
Adam Christensen is a multidisciplinary artist based in London, whose work is primarily realized through textiles, music, and installation, blurring the boundaries between everyday life and fiction. Based on his immediate experiences, colored by the theatricality of every day, the spectacle of domesticity, chance encounters, and emotional and physical dramas, Christensen conveys these experiences through his performances. A primary concern of Christensen’s practice is the construction and representation of space, and what ‘activates’ that space – the unfolding narrative of heartbreak, desire, memory, and identity. He forms a ‘stage’ from which he interacts with the audience and can edit the narrative, often by singing with the accordion and reading short stories, adding layers to a story in a process of continuous development.
education
2013–2016 Städelschule, (Prof. Judith Hopf), Frankfurt am Main, DE
2010–2016 Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, DK
upcoming
2026 Hvis en Gädde dukker up, er det ikke altid bedst at være Først, Issues, Stockholm, SE (solo)
solo exhibitions
2025 Damdramaer, Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, DK
2024 L’Atlantique, profil_paris, Paris, FR
2024 Whisk d’or, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2024 LISTE art fair, Basel, CH
2023 Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, DE
2022 Copenhagen, page (NYC), New York, US
2022 Mogens and Other Stories, palace enterprise, Copenhagen, DK
2022 Readers Remedy, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, BE
2022 Royaume Des Clowns, Le Bicolore, Maison du Danemark, Paris, FR
2021 Vocals and Lyrics, Huset For Kunst og Design, Holstebro, DK
2021 Agrication, Tranen, Gentofte, DK
2020 NIGHT CALL, Bizarro, Copenhagen, DK
2020 Stockholm Syndrome, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, DE
2019 Orchard of Sensibilities, Éclair, Berlin, DE
2018 Danzanti Militanti, Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, IT
2017 L’éducation régionale, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, DE
2016 Seedless_Grapes <3, Shoot The Lobster, New York, US
2015 Agrimundo, Bianca D’Alessandro, Copenhagen, DK
2015 Spazzacamini, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, DE
2014 Magnus Andersen, VeSch, Vienna, AU
2012 Commerz Transsaharian, Peinture et Sculpture, Copenhagen, DK
group exhibitions
2026 Daddy Issues, Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, DK
2025 Syndens Blomster, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, DK
2024 Koloristerne, Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2024 Milky Ways, The Nivågaard Collection, Nivå, DK
2024 Two Weekends, YEAH, Brussels, BE
2023 ANOTHER SURREALISM, Museum Sønderjylland, DK
2023 Downtown Issues II, Issues, Stockholm, SE
2022 ANOTHER SURRELIASM, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2022 Royaume Des Clowns, Le Bicolore, Maison du Danemark, Paris, FR
2021 Page at Petzel, Petzel Gallery, New York, US
2019 Metamorphosos. Art in Europe Now, Foundation Cartier, Paris, FR
2019 Salon de Peinture Muhka, Antwerpen, BE
2019 Ford Every Stream, Museo Apprente, Naples, IT
2018 Painting: Now & Forever, Part III. Greene Naftali, Matthew Marks, New York, US
2018 Helvedet opløser sig, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, DK
2018 Weeping, Dreaming, Fucking, Laughing, Wschod, Warsaw, PL
2017 Mystification of the Everyday, Delmes and Sander, Cologne, DE
2016 The Squatter, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris, FR
2016 To Lie in the Cheese, to Smile in the Butter, Kunstsaele, Berlin, DE
2016 Croissant, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, DE
2016 Afgang, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2016 Hüttendasein, 15 Orient Ave., New York, US
2016 Cold Society No. 2, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, AU
2015 Natural Instincts, Foundation Les Urbaines, Lausanne, CH
2015 Ajolly, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt/Main, DE
2015 Ancient Carriers, Galerie Markus Lüttgen, Cologne, DE
2015 Times, Gallery Christian Andersen, Copenhagen, DK
2015 Six possibilities in painting, Galerie Bernhard, Zürich, CH
2014 Late European Decadence, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt/Main, DE
2014 Im Frühling, Darling, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
2013 Crema di Mente, Sala del Lazzaretto, Naples, IT
2013 Ligegyldigt hvorhen blot udenfor denne verden, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, DK
public collections
Collection European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Danish Arts Foundation, Copenhagen, DK
Fuglsang Art Museum, Toreby, DK
Lab’Bel, Suresnes, FR
Museum Sønderjylland, Tønder, DK
The New Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, DK
SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK
bio
Born Elsinore, Denmark 1987
Lives and works in Copenhagen
Magnus Andersen draws abundantly from a wide range of art historical and popular cultural references, spanning Flemish still lifes,17th-century baroque and classical music, to color field painting and advertising aesthetics. Andersen renegotiates mundane and easily recognizable signifiers of contemporary visual culture and deliberately exaggerates them to a point of uncanniness. Cultivating humor and seriousness equally, his work engages with an accelerated nostalgia emblematic of post-industrial consumerism.