18.08.25
We are very pleased to welcome Jóhan Martin Christiansen as our next Nordic Artist in Residence at Trykkeriet. During his stay he will create a new series of copper etchings, to be presented in an exhibition opening October 4th in our main gallery. More details on this soon!
Christiansen (b. 1987, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands) is a Copenhagen-based artist who works mainly with installations and sculpture. His practice also includes plaster reliefs, video, printmaking, and writing. He received his MFA from Malmö Art Academy in 2014 and, in 2023–24, joined the year-long interdisciplinary course Of Public Interest at the Royal Institute of Art.
Over the last decade, Christiansen has developed a practice marked by a sensitivity to materiality and with theoretical depth, drawing inspiration from architecture, industrial sites, public ornaments, queer-body experiences, pop music, landscapes, literature and art history. In works that balance intimacy and roughness, he examines how objects, materials, signs etc. continuously shift in meaning as they slide from one context to another. His graphic pieces, with their layers of abrasions and textures, act like afterimages—appearing solid one moment, dissolving the next.
Christiansen has exhibited widely in the Nordic region and internationally, with recent solo and group shows at Alice Folker Gallery (Copenhagen, 2025), Kohta (Helsinki, 2024), Kongegaarden (Korsør, 2024), Scandinavia House (New York City, 2024), and the North Atlantic Triennial – Down North at Portland Museum of Art, Reykjavik Art Museum and Bildmuseet (2021 – 2024). He has received several grants including the Faroese Art Foundation’s three-year scholarship, the Danish Art Foundation grants, and the 2021 Talent Award from the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Foundation. His work is part of public collections such as the National Gallery of the Faroe Islands, Nuuk Art Museum, and the Danish Art Foundation.
In 2023 he founded the artist-run project space Bonne Espérance in Copenhagen.