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Christian Vind: Somnambulus

27. September 2025 - 14. December 2025

“Allow the carefully arranged images – the remelted reality – to come to you. Use your imagination to perceive the invisible.”

So reads Christian Vind’s invitation in the pocket-sized book that accompanies the exhibition Somnambulus.

Somnambulus means “sleepwalker” – someone who moves within both the realm of dreams and the world of reality at the same time.

Vind works with objects and facts, images and text, arranging them in constellations that give rise to layered and open-ended narratives. Meaning emerges in the space between the indisputable and the enigmatic. One might call it a form of poetic archaeology.

A fragment of a folding ruler, when viewed through Christian Vind’s eyes, becomes the beginning of a story pointing toward the new and the unpredictable. To truly see, the artist insists, requires association and curiosity as essential tools.

Somnambulus is an exhibition unafraid to play with the conventions of the museum space – using them to challenge both our habits of thought and the scope of our imagination.

Christian Vind (b. 1969) is a visual artist and writer, educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. His practice spans collage, printmaking, painting, video, and writing. He has been awarded the Eckersberg Medal and the Danish Arts Foundation’s three-year working grant, and his works are represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Denmark, Museum Jorn, and Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, among others.

This exhibition is made possible through the support of the Beckett Foundation, the Grosserer L. F. Foght Foundation, the Poul Johansen Foundation, Det Obelske Familiefond, the Danish Arts Foundation, the Municipality of Frederiksberg, and Arbejdernes Landsbank.

_{Photo: Anders Sune Berg}