Andréhn-Schiptjenko at CHART 2026: Art Fair
At CHART 2026, we are delighted to present works by Cornelia Baltes, Carin Ellberg, Sally von Rosen and Martín Soto Climént, reflecting the diversity of the gallery programme. External presentations also include screenings of Katarina Löfström's The Elements at CHART Cinema Programme, and presentations of Löfström's Mesh-Up in the main staircase of Charlottenborg.
Cornelia Baltes (b. 1978, Germany; lives and works in Berlin, DE)
Built from airbrushed gradients, bold gestural marks, and meticulous brushwork, Cornelia Baltes' work dwell in the delicate threshold between deliberation and spontaneity, figuration and abstraction, intimacy and universality. Her painterly process distills traces of the everyday into vibrant, ambiguous forms that opens up for interpretation. The tension between simplicity and depth, between the comic exuberance and the painterly precision, animates Baltes' entire œuvre. She challenges the weight of modernist painting's history by engaging humour as a serious artistic strategy and rework its visual codes with wit and irreverence.
Her works are currently presented in ibid. 30 Positionen aktueller Malerei at Institut für moderne Kunst, Kunsthalle Nürnberg and the Kunstverein Nürnberg - Albrecht Dürer Society. In spring 2025, Baltes had a major solo exhibition at Fuhrwerkswaage in Cologne and an extensive monograph on her work was released in 2024 by DVC books. Other institutional exhibitions include Hamburger Kunsthalle, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum Wiesbaden and the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz - Museum Gunzenhauser to name a few. Her practice also includes murals and permanent installations, notably at SOSU Silkeborg and Aarhus, Denmark
Carin Ellberg (b. 1959, Sweden; lives and works in Stockholm, SE)
Featuring softly coloured mounds and cloud shapes, Carin Ellberg's paintings resemble gentle, dream-like pastorals. The sea often acts as a generative metaphor: mutable, reflective, and infinite. Its presence is not only thematic but structural - a rhythm that informs the undulating lines, soft transitions, and fluidity. The works oscillate between the abstract and the figurative, between the surface layer and the hidden depth, billowing back and forth much like the ebb and flow of the tide itself.
Carin Ellberg has been represented by Andréhn-Schiptjenko since the start of the gallery in 1991 and is a major fixture on the Swedish art scene. Her work is represented in numerous collections including ARKEN Museum of Modern Art; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art; Malmö Museum; Uppsala Konstmuseum; Borås Konstmuseum; Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung; Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium; as well as in numerous public commissions.
Sally von Rosen (b. 1994, Sweden; lives and works in Berlin, DE)
Berlin-based Sally von Rosen is rapidly gaining international attention. Through her sculpture and performance-based practice, von Rosen challenges the conventional relationship between subject and object, fostering a visceral dialogue with viewers. Between the recognisable and the unknown, her hybrid and enigmatic sculptures seem caught in a state of fluid transformation.
In recent years, her work has been exhibited at institutions such as Bonniers Konsthall, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen; Kunsthal Aarhus; and Schinkel Pavillon. Her first institutional solo exhibition will be presented in June 2027 at Kunstverein Göttingen in Germany. This year, her work has been presented in group-exhibitions at Gothenburg Art Museum, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, and at Pace Gallery, Berlin. In June, her large-scale sculpture Asta inaugurated Plinten - a new space for public art in the Stockholm city centre.
Martín Soto Climént (b. 1977, Mexico; lives and works in Tepoztlán, MX)
Martín Soto Climént's practice refers to the forms of the body and the psychology of desire embedded within an economy of consumption. In his series of silkscreen prints on silk fabric, colours shift as light travel over the canvases and create a visual effect reminiscent of blushing - this bodily reaction entwined with contrasting states such as intimacy, shyness, or anticipation. They balance on the edge between abstraction and figuration, and let the mind associate to the soft folds of the body, or to cloudy, shifting skies. This embedded desire also comes forth in his works where ripped stockings substitute the paint applied on a canvas, reflecting both on temporality and non-intervention, as well as the associations contained within the material in itself.
An extensive monograph on his work was published by Mousse Publishing in 2021. His works are included in numerous collections, such as the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA; the Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA; the Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico; the Loewe Foundation; the MCA Chicago, USA; the Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland; the MOCA, Miami, USA; and the François Pinault Foundation.
CHART Cinema Programme & Special Projects
Katarina Löfström (b. 1970, Sweden; lives and works in Stockholm, SE)
The Elements, screened at CHART Cinema Programme, is a deconstruction and visual remix inspired by the weave The Four Elements by Swedish artist and designer Karin Larsson (1859-1928). The elements of the tapestry are taken apart and rewoven in video form and merges with a Morse code loop reciting Narcissus' declaration of love to his own reflection from Ovid's Metamorphoses: 'I cannot escape'. By forging together an image which in many respects are part of a collective "Swedish" identity, with the myth of Narcissus and his inability to escape his own reflection, Löfström uses the code to examine the collective self-image of our time. Her series Mesh-Up, expands The Elements into physical form as the formations weave in and out of each other as threads in a loom.
Since the early 2000s, Katarina Löfström has made significant contributions to Swedish video art and created iconic works, for which she was awarded the Filmform Prize in 2019. In 2024, she presented an extensive solo exhibition at the Thiel Gallery in Stockholm. Her works can be found in the collections of Moderna Museet and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, among others, and the work Open Source (Cinemascope), 2018, is now a well-known work in the Wanås Konst sculpture park. Her work has previously been shown in exhibitions at Blickachsen, Wanås Konst, Bonniers Konsthall, Witte de With, Kiasma and Kunsthaus Graz.
