CHART in Tivoli 2026

Cry Me A River transforms a familiar phrase into a striking public artwork. Inspired by the illuminated commercial signs that crown urban buildings, the work consists of glowing ocean-blue LED letters mounted on a floating raft. The phrase is commonly used as a sarcastic response to complaints, but here it takes on a new meaning. Imagined as a message from the planet itself, it becomes a reflection on climate change, rising sea levels and humanity’s impact on the environment.

Art group SUPERFLEX, founded by Danish artists Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Rosengren Nielsen and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen, is known for its playful exploration of economic and social structures through installations, sculptures, films and long-term projects. More recently, the group has developed a new approach to urbanism that embraces the perspectives of plants and animals, imagining a future of interspecies living.

Gallery: von Bartha, DK 

Flux is a sculpture that captures a sense of movement and transformation. Crafted from aluminium and bronze-metabolized steel, its reflective surface responds to changing light and surroundings, creating a work that appears in constant motion. While abstract in form, the sculpture evokes the image of a figure striding forward, recalling the dynamism of early modernist sculpture.

Signe Solberg (b. 1985) is a Norwegian artist working across sculpture, installation and public art. Using industrial materials, she creates works that engage with landscape, architecture and space, unfolding new narratives as they interact with their environment over time.

Gallery: ISCA Gallery, NO

The works shown in Tivoli draw inspiration from a nature reserve in Kattvik on Sweden’s Bjäre Peninsula, where Ulf Jevin has developed a long-term practice of observation and attention. For seven years, the artist returned daily to the same location, recording its inhabitants through sketches shaped by intuition and close looking. The resulting works become portraits of presence, movement and individual character, capturing subtle moments that might otherwise go unnoticed.

Ulf Jevin (b. 1978) is a Swedish artist living and working on the Bjäre Peninsula. His practice explores the relationship between observation, memory and place, transforming everyday encounters into poetic visual narratives.

Gallery: Arnstedt Östra Karup, SE

Reach is a new sculpture created for The Parterre Gardens in Tivoli. Inspired by the surrounding flowers, colourful lights and playful atmosphere, the work continues Maria Zahle’s exploration of the relationship between nature and sculpture. Cast in polished bronze with vivid painted details, the sculpture unfolds into organic, flower-like forms that emerge from a central base. Standing at approximately human height, it invites the guests to consider their connection to both the artwork and the garden landscape around it.

Maria Zahle (b. 1979) is a Danish artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans sculpture, textiles, performance and poetry, often exploring the body, material transformation and humanity’s relationship with the natural world.

Gallery: Alice Folker Gallery, DK

The work Sunny Day In New York depicts a female figure in a dress walking with a small butterfly boy seated on her head. The woman is based on a mythological German angel figure, though without wings, and her draped dress subtly references the Statue of Liberty. The boy is modeled after the artist himself, creating a layered relationship between self, memory and fiction.

Yves Scherer (b. 1987) is a visual artist based in New York City, working across figurative sculpture, painting and lenticular prints. His practice blends personal narratives with elements of fan fiction and celebrity culture, forming immersive works that explore intimacy, identity and everyday life.

Gallery: Isaak Fangel, DK

Admiral is a powder-coated aluminum sculpture by Anna Fasshauer. Its title, colour and silhouette subtly reference to the admiral butterfly, while remaining resolutely abstract. Through bending and shaping industrial aluminum, Fasshauer transforms a rigid material into a form that appears light, animated and in motion. The work hovers between recognition and abstraction, weight and buoyancy, evoking a sense of movement and quiet humour.

Anna Fasshauer (b. 1975) is a German sculptor based in Berlin, known for her explorations of aluminum as a flexible expressive material. Her practice balances material tension, physical transformation and a distinctly human sensibility.

Gallery: Galerie Forsblom, FI

Created for CHART in Tivoli, If I Have You, I Have the Whole Universe is a ceramic sculpture by Klara Lilja. The work draws inspiration from the cosmos and the interconnected system of matter and energy that surrounds all living beings, seeking to condense this vast universe into a single form. In continuity with Klara Lilja’s practice, which centres on vegetation and the natural world, the sculpture’s colours resonate with Tivoli’s living environment. Working in clay and self-developed glazes, she creates organic figures that appear to blossom, evoking inner worlds and the unseen
emotional landscapes of the viewer.

Klara Lilja (b. 1989) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. She graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2021.

Gallery: V1 Gallery, DK

Gråspurv emerges from the collaborative project Conversations (If I Were You), developed through an intergenerational dialogue between Kiyoshi Yamamoto and Kari Aasen. The work explores how artistic languages, materials and experiences can intertwine, drawing inspiration from Norwegian flowers and bird motifs. Themes of fragility, transformation and human connection run through the piece. Combining ceramic, metal and textile elements, the sculpture creates a poetic tension between the organic and the constructed, the delicate and the enduring.

Kiyoshi Yamamoto (b. 1982) is a Japanese-Brazilian artist working across textiles and installation, while Kari Aasen (b. 1950) is a Norwegian ceramicist with a long-established practice in contemporary craft and sculpture.

Gallery: Northing Space, NO

Constructed from hundreds of welded metal fragments, Kristian Dahlgaard’s sculptures form looping, drawn-like contours that resemble spontaneous sketches in space. Through a meticulous process, rigid industrial material is transformed into fluid compositions that suggest movement and immediacy. Balancing heaviness with lightness, and precision with gesture, the works evoke natural rhythms, recalling flowing water or serpentine roots while creating a striking tension between mass and weightlessness.

Kristian Dahlgaard (b. 1958) is a Danish sculptor whose practice explores the paradox of sculpture’s physical weight and its potential to appear almost immaterial. Through persistent investigations of form, he transforms industrial materials into unexpectedly organic and dynamic structures.

Gallery: Martin Asbæk Gallery, DK

Plug and Play engages with the spaces and structures that shape childhood-physically, mentally and culturally. Inspired by the abacus as both a learning tool and a play object, the work reflects how systems of education and play form frameworks through which norms and values are internalised. The sculpture appears as a quiet monument to the processes of teaching, learning and becoming.

Sofie Winther (b. 1991) is a Danish interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, performance and video. Her practice examines how systems of kinship, labour and power are embedded in everyday life, often exploring care, control and interdependence within institutional and capitalist structures.

Gallery: Matteo Cantarella, DK

Announcements extend Olav Christopher Jenssen’s long-standing use of signs within his everyday life and artistic practise. In his studio and home, signs function as markers for events, new series of works and shifts in his process, shaping both daily rhythm and artistic orientation. In this work, the gesture is transferred into public space, where the artist’s paintings are inserted into Tivoli’s existing visual environment of attractions, directions and The Gardens signage. The installation playfully engages with systems of display and communication, blurring the line between image
and information.

Olav Christopher Jenssen (b. 1954) lives between Berlin and Sweden and is internationally recognised, with works represented in major collections including MoMA, Centre Pompidou and Moderna Museet.

Gallery: Galleri Susanne Ottesen, DK

With Asiaq, Martin Brandt Hansen elaborates on the myth of Asiaq - Inuit deity of rain and western winds. In Inuit mythology, it is said that Asiaq lives in the sky. When the climate turns too harsh for humans, the shaman embarks on a spiritual journey to meet her - pleading for gentler skies and calmer winds. Asiaq’s face is said to appear distorted, mirroring the constant changing weather.

Martin Brandt Hansen (b. 1990) is a Greenlandic artist based in Copenhagen. His practice draws on Inuit mythology, anthropology, and Western mass culture.

Gallery: Andersen’s Contemporary, DK