Biography

Frederik Næblerød (b. 1988) works across painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, and large-scale installations, creating a visceral, immersive world where material, gesture, and emotion collide. His practice engages with questions of survival, transformation, and the human condition, exploring tensions between chaos and control, spontaneity and deliberation, the grotesque and the beautiful.

Næblerød draws endless inspiration from the physical and psychological landscapes he encounters, shaped by people, places, and experiences marked by contrast. His figures and forms emerge from layers of paint and clay like restless spirits, distorted, humorous, and haunting. Every mark, scratch, and stain embodies a process that is both intuitive and rigorous, charged with emotion and physical intensity. His studio becomes a stage for psychological excavation, a space where materials are pushed to their limits, experiments unfold, and the human condition is laid bare.

He graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2018, after first emerging from Copenhagen’s graffiti scene, an influence still visible in the immediacy and scale of his work. He has exhibited widely across Denmark and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions at ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Gl. Holtegaard and Horsens Art Museum. His works are represented in collections including the Danish Arts Foundation, Ny Carlsberg Foundation, Horsens Art Museum, Vejle Art Museum, Kastrupgårdsamlingen, Skovgaard Museum, and Museum Jorn.

He lives and works in Copenhagen.

C.V.

Solo exhibitions

2025

  • All Walks of Life, ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark

2024

  • Family Affair, Alice Folker Gallery, Denmark

2023

  • Masquerade, Gl. Holtegaard, Denmark

2022

  • Work in Progress, Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark

  • Time to Move, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Denmark

2021

  • Mental Make-Up, Alice Folker Gallery, Denmark

2019

  • Monsters and Politics, Kunsthal for Maritim Æstetik, Denmark

2018

  • Flying Away from Society, Alice Folker Gallery, Denmark

2017

  • Addicted to Sex, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Denmark

Group exhibitions

2025

  • Smittet af Bacillen, HEART - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark

  • Timeline (duo with Casper Aguila), Odsherreds Kunstmuseum, Denmark

2024

  • FEEL ME, Trapholt Museum, Danmark

2024

  • Places Like This (duo med Casper Aguila), Odsherreds Kunstmuseum, Denmark

  • Kunstnerkolonien i Italien & Gensyn, Sophienholm Kunsthal, Denmark

  • Hot Hands, Skovgaard Museet, Denmark

2022

  • Lazy 8 (duo with Farshad Farzankia), The Telegraph, Czech Republic

  • Seriously Fun (duo with Jeppe Hein), Jeppe Hein Studio, Germany

2021

  • MISA VAN HAM, powered by König Gallery, Germany

2020

  • Fed Ler – Krukker i Kunsten Nu, Gl. Holtegaard Museum, Denmark

  • Little Island, Haverkampf Gallery, Germany

  • Dependance x Brussels, Alice Folker Gallery, Denmark

2019

  • CoBrA and Some Consequences, Collaborations, Denmark

  • Protection from Bad Weather (duo with Casper Aguila), Politikens Forhal, Denmark

  • Contemporary Figuration in the Post-Digital Age, Superzoom, France

  • OFF GRID (duo with Casper Aguila), Alice Folker Gallery, Danmark

2018

  • Hypnagogia, Nevven Gallery, Sweden

  • New “Bad” Painting, V1 Gallery, Denmark

  • Worshiping Sticks and Stones, Anat Ebgi, USA

2017

  • Brask Collection Meets Willumsen, J.F. Willumsens Museum, Denmark

  • NADA Art Fair, Canada Gallery (New York), USA

  • We Are the Ones Doing Works on Canvas Painting (with Robert Nava), CGK, Denmark

2016

  • Texas Contemporary, The Second Bedroom, USA

Collections

  • Statens Kunstfond

  • Ny Carlsbergfondet

  • Skovgaard Museet

  • Horsens Kunstmuseum

  • Vejle Kunstmuseum

  • Kastrupgårdsamlingen

  • Museum Jorn

Awards and grants

  • 2019: OFF-GRID (with Casper Aguila), Statens Kunstfond

  • 2020: Silkeborg Kunstnerlegat

  • 2024: Niels Wessel Bagges Kunstfond

Catalogues and Monographs

  • Næblerød, Frederik Clement, Friis Publications, 2025

  • Frederik Næblerød - All Walks of Life, Ed. Marie Nipper and Christian Kortegaard Madsen, Strandberg Publishing, 2025

  • Casper Aguila and Frederik Næblerød: Odsherred Projects, Britta Tøndborg, Museum Vest Sjælland

  • Time to Move. Claus Hagedorn-Olsen (ed.), Horsens Kunstmuseum, 2022

  • New Neighbours: Introducing Frederik Næblerød, Casper Aguila, Line Rosenvinge Ed., Frederiksberg, Tender Task, 2021

All photos: ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Odsherred Museum, Fredrik Clement