Morten Knudsen
E is for Everything
January 11, 2025 to February 22, 2025
Leipziger Straße 56-58, Berlin, Germany
Exhibition Text
A.
It feels like I am running out of titles,
or maybe I’m just beginning to give up on language.
B.
Of all things in this world, E’s are the motif I love the most.
Landscapes and flowers and O’s and S’s and H’s and N’s are all things I love too.
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Artist Biography
Morten Knudsen employs a wide range of formal approaches in his multifaceted painting practice. A consistent vocabulary of Es, numbers, spirals, and comma-like flowers permeates his works; some are laden with layers of oil paint, wax, and glue, while others are minimalist renderings in graphite on blank canvas or paper. Knudsen’s paintings, drawings, and collages serve as memories and monuments, saturated with melancholy and grief alongside tenderness and optimism.
Knudsen (*1985, Denmark) lives and works in Copenhagen. His first solo exhibition with Sweetwater, E is for Everything, took place in 2025. His first institutional solo exhibiton, STICKY EYES (paintings, collages, drawings, and monuments) at Overgaden, Copenhagen, opened in May 2026. His work has also been exhibited at Huset for Kunst og Design, Gauli Zitter, Den Frie, and SMK, National Gallery of Denmark, among others, and is featured in the permanent collections of the SMK, National Gallery of Denmark and the New Carlsberg Foundation.