At SIC (Sharing is Caring), the longest day of the year is marked with Summer Solstice Salon: an exhibition where light, body, and consciousness merge in a sensory space on Vesterbro.
Three freelance curators, Malou Solfjeld, Josephine Fity, and Anna Fernsten Nilén, have each invited one artist to this group exhibition. Their collaboration began with the first Solstice Salon in December, where works by more than 25 artists were installed within just 24 hours. With Summer Solstice Salon, the dialogue continues in a more concentrated format, allowing three distinct artistic practices to unfold.
The three artists—Bolatta Silis-Høegh, Helga Páley Friðþjófsdóttir, and Lasse Bech Martinussen—all approach painting as a space for exploring colour, form, and inner states. Across their practices, the exhibition revolves around the body, being, and the subconscious.
In the work of Bolatta Silis-Høegh, the body is both sender and receiver. Her paintings emerge from emotion, held through repetition and gesture, where warm, earthy tones and circular movements create a rhythm between vulnerability, care, and strength—between body and nature. Helga Páley Friðþjófsdóttir unfolds a vibrant, fluid universe in which light moves through organic forms, and the recognizable dissolves into dreamlike abstraction. Her works appear as sensory landscapes, balancing between memory and imagination. In the paintings of Lasse Bech Martinussen, the male figure emerges in intense colours and quiet reflection. Through his series Thinking Men, he explores the nuances of masculinity and the tension between the masculine and feminine within introspective states.
Summer Solstice Salon reflects the energy of the sun as both an external and internal phenomenon, a moment of stillness and intensity, where perception and presence are heightened.
The exhibition is part of Gå Kunsten i Møde at Art Matter Festival, which works to make contemporary art accessible to a broader audience through open events and encounters between artists and the public. Here, art steps out of traditional institutional frameworks and into the city—closer to people.
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