Exhibition Opening: Anna Stahn, Ragnhild May & Sophie Z. S. Suaning
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17.00-19.00
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the exhibition opening of three solo exhibitions by Anna Stahn, Ragnhild May & Sophie Z.S. Suaning on Friday 20th March at 17.00-19.00.
Anna Stahn (b. 1994, Denmark) graduated with an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen and Parsons Fine Art, The New School, New York. Stahn works with formats on paper, in text or sculpturally in metals, ceramics, and textiles. Throughout her practice, she is concerned with women's lives, exchanges, and modernity. Her works examine the aspects of human existence that are controlled by desires, economies, and the power of the imaginary in a way that points to the strong human attachment to the material world.
Stahn has exhibited solo at Heerup Museum (2025), Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2023);Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen (2023) and Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen (2022). Group exhibitions include Kastrupgårdsamlingen, Kastrup (2025); Sophienholm, Kgs. Lyngby (2025); Skovgaard Museum, Viborg (2024); Gl. Holtegaard Museum, Holte (2022 & 2021); BORCH Editions, Copenhagen (2021) and dépendance Bruxelles x Alice Folker (2020).
In addition to her visual art practice, Stahn works as a writer of texts for books, magazines, and exhibitions, and she is founder and editor of the publishing house Longetti. She was awarded by Statens Kunstfond for her first solo exhibition Stars in the hair at Alice Folker Gallery (2021). Her works can be found in the collection of the Kastrupgaard Collection, New Carlsberg Foundation and Skovgaard Museum.
Ragnhild May (b. 1988, Denmark) graduated with an MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York and is completing her Ph.D in Artist Research at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Sound sits at the core of the Danish multidisciplinary artist and composer Ragnhild May’s work, which draws upon sculpture, installation, and performance to inquire into the cultural and social history of musical instruments. Her work encompasses technology, science fiction, feminism, and sound theory with conceptual rigor, sensitivity and humor, as her work draws on the specificity and history of sound.
May has exhibited with solo shows at Kunsthal 6100, Haderslev (2025); SPOR Festival, Aarhus (2025);Regelbau 411, Thyholm (2023); Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2022); Tabakalera - International Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastián (2022); SOL, Nexø (2021); VEGA Arts, Copenhagen (2019) and Die Raum, Berlin (2018).
Her works has been shown in group exhibitions at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen (2025); OTP Gallery, Copenhagen (2025); Landscape, Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2024); Urban Sound Art, Kråkerøy (2023); Vizura Aperta Festival (2023); Rønnebæksholm, Næstved (2021) and Gammelgaard Museum, Herlev (2020). Furthermore, May has performed at several venues including Sonic Acts Biennial, Amsterdam (2026); Organ Sound Art Festival, Copenhagen (2025); Festival d'Automne, France (2025); MAPS Museum For Art in Public Spaces, Copenhagen (2025); Museum of Copenhagen (2025); Arken Museum for Contemporary Art, Ishøj (2025); Église Saint-Eustache, Paris (2025); SMK - the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2023 and 2015); Bauhaus Museum, Berlin (2022); Gl. Holtegaard Museum, Holte (2021); The New Museum, New York (2020); Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen (2019); Roulette, New York (2019); Hopkins Center For the Arts, Hopkins (2018); Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Arts, Copenhagen (2018); SuperDeluxe, Tokyo (2017) and SMK - the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2023 and 2015).
She is a recipient of the Carl Nielsen Talent Award and scholarships from the Danish Art Foundation and Fulbright. She was selected by the Danish Arts Foundation to take part in their career development program ‘The Young Artistic Elite’ from 2020-2022. In 2022, she created the work Lutter Ører for public commission of Helsingør Health Center. Her works can be found in public collections including Odense Municipality Art Collection, Fuglsang Art Museum, Copenhagen Municipality Art Collection, 1000 Scores (digital collection), Museum for Contemporary Art Roskilde (digital collection), Horsens Art Museum, and the New Carlsberg Foundation.
Sophie Z. S. Suaning (b. 1992) is a painter, composer and musician. She holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Suaning’s practice treats painting as a panpsychist, hypersensory, almost alchemical space. Her works are stylistically loose, effortless and insistently vital. Her paintings become subjects that themselves experience, in addition to being maps of the movements of the brush.
Suaning’s paintings are built up through many semi-transparent layers – commonly the historical rabbit-skin glue mixed with pigments, graphite, ink and strange self-invented media, sometimes supplemented with materials such as snow, make-up, dried flowers, butterfly wings, blood, tattoo ink, chemical powder and metals, often finished with traditional oil paint and resin varnish. The surfaces appear equally porous and saturated, equally dense and pop-inflected, with a drawing-like lightness in which the motif seems to vibrate between dissolution and emergence. A recurring thread in her painting is an interest in painting as an etymological, mythological, sensuous preservation of memory.
Solo exhibitions include Skjulested, Hallen, Copenhagen (2025) and Mystic Fuel, Svendborg (2024). Her works have been shown in group exhibitions at, among other venues, Museum Sønderjylland (2023); Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen (2022); Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo (2022); MUNCH Museum, Oslo (2022); The Round Tower, Copenhagen (2019); Arcway, Copenhagen (2019); Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen (2019); Coyote, Stockholm (2019); Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen (2018); ALT_CPH, Copenhagen (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (2018); and SMK Fridays, Copenhagen (2017).
Parallel to her painting, Suaning works as a musician and composer, and her musical works have been performed at, among other venues, Ribe Cathedral, The Round Tower, the MUNCH Museum and Kunsthall Oslo. In 2024 she was a lecturer during the summer semester at the Jutland Art Academy and regularly teaches painting as well as painterly and musical compositional strategies. She has been involved in running the music venue Mayhem in Copenhagen since 2019.
Anna Stahn (b. 1994, Denmark) graduated with an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen and Parsons Fine Art, The New School, New York. Stahn works with formats on paper, in text or sculpturally in metals, ceramics, and textiles. Throughout her practice, she is concerned with women's lives, exchanges, and modernity. Her works examine the aspects of human existence that are controlled by desires, economies, and the power of the imaginary in a way that points to the strong human attachment to the material world.
Stahn has exhibited solo at Heerup Museum (2025), Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2023);Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen (2023) and Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen (2022). Group exhibitions include Kastrupgårdsamlingen, Kastrup (2025); Sophienholm, Kgs. Lyngby (2025); Skovgaard Museum, Viborg (2024); Gl. Holtegaard Museum, Holte (2022 & 2021); BORCH Editions, Copenhagen (2021) and dépendance Bruxelles x Alice Folker (2020).
In addition to her visual art practice, Stahn works as a writer of texts for books, magazines, and exhibitions, and she is founder and editor of the publishing house Longetti. She was awarded by Statens Kunstfond for her first solo exhibition Stars in the hair at Alice Folker Gallery (2021). Her works can be found in the collection of the Kastrupgaard Collection, New Carlsberg Foundation and Skovgaard Museum.
Ragnhild May (b. 1988, Denmark) graduated with an MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York and is completing her Ph.D in Artist Research at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Sound sits at the core of the Danish multidisciplinary artist and composer Ragnhild May’s work, which draws upon sculpture, installation, and performance to inquire into the cultural and social history of musical instruments. Her work encompasses technology, science fiction, feminism, and sound theory with conceptual rigor, sensitivity and humor, as her work draws on the specificity and history of sound.
May has exhibited with solo shows at Kunsthal 6100, Haderslev (2025); SPOR Festival, Aarhus (2025);Regelbau 411, Thyholm (2023); Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2022); Tabakalera - International Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastián (2022); SOL, Nexø (2021); VEGA Arts, Copenhagen (2019) and Die Raum, Berlin (2018).
Her works has been shown in group exhibitions at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen (2025); OTP Gallery, Copenhagen (2025); Landscape, Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2024); Urban Sound Art, Kråkerøy (2023); Vizura Aperta Festival (2023); Rønnebæksholm, Næstved (2021) and Gammelgaard Museum, Herlev (2020). Furthermore, May has performed at several venues including Sonic Acts Biennial, Amsterdam (2026); Organ Sound Art Festival, Copenhagen (2025); Festival d'Automne, France (2025); MAPS Museum For Art in Public Spaces, Copenhagen (2025); Museum of Copenhagen (2025); Arken Museum for Contemporary Art, Ishøj (2025); Église Saint-Eustache, Paris (2025); SMK - the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2023 and 2015); Bauhaus Museum, Berlin (2022); Gl. Holtegaard Museum, Holte (2021); The New Museum, New York (2020); Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen (2019); Roulette, New York (2019); Hopkins Center For the Arts, Hopkins (2018); Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Arts, Copenhagen (2018); SuperDeluxe, Tokyo (2017) and SMK - the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2023 and 2015).
She is a recipient of the Carl Nielsen Talent Award and scholarships from the Danish Art Foundation and Fulbright. She was selected by the Danish Arts Foundation to take part in their career development program ‘The Young Artistic Elite’ from 2020-2022. In 2022, she created the work Lutter Ører for public commission of Helsingør Health Center. Her works can be found in public collections including Odense Municipality Art Collection, Fuglsang Art Museum, Copenhagen Municipality Art Collection, 1000 Scores (digital collection), Museum for Contemporary Art Roskilde (digital collection), Horsens Art Museum, and the New Carlsberg Foundation.
Sophie Z. S. Suaning (b. 1992) is a painter, composer and musician. She holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Suaning’s practice treats painting as a panpsychist, hypersensory, almost alchemical space. Her works are stylistically loose, effortless and insistently vital. Her paintings become subjects that themselves experience, in addition to being maps of the movements of the brush.
Suaning’s paintings are built up through many semi-transparent layers – commonly the historical rabbit-skin glue mixed with pigments, graphite, ink and strange self-invented media, sometimes supplemented with materials such as snow, make-up, dried flowers, butterfly wings, blood, tattoo ink, chemical powder and metals, often finished with traditional oil paint and resin varnish. The surfaces appear equally porous and saturated, equally dense and pop-inflected, with a drawing-like lightness in which the motif seems to vibrate between dissolution and emergence. A recurring thread in her painting is an interest in painting as an etymological, mythological, sensuous preservation of memory.
Solo exhibitions include Skjulested, Hallen, Copenhagen (2025) and Mystic Fuel, Svendborg (2024). Her works have been shown in group exhibitions at, among other venues, Museum Sønderjylland (2023); Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen (2022); Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo (2022); MUNCH Museum, Oslo (2022); The Round Tower, Copenhagen (2019); Arcway, Copenhagen (2019); Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen (2019); Coyote, Stockholm (2019); Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen (2018); ALT_CPH, Copenhagen (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (2018); and SMK Fridays, Copenhagen (2017).
Parallel to her painting, Suaning works as a musician and composer, and her musical works have been performed at, among other venues, Ribe Cathedral, The Round Tower, the MUNCH Museum and Kunsthall Oslo. In 2024 she was a lecturer during the summer semester at the Jutland Art Academy and regularly teaches painting as well as painterly and musical compositional strategies. She has been involved in running the music venue Mayhem in Copenhagen since 2019.
