— The Foundation

A house for
slow looking.

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Identity

Hafnia Foundation is an independent contemporary art gallery established in 2018, working at the intersection of Nordic, European and East-Asian artistic practice.

The gallery operates as a sustained editorial project: long-form representation of a small roster, three principal exhibitions per year, and a slow, deliberate publishing programme that accompanies every exhibition cycle.

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History

Founded in Aarhus following a decade of curatorial collaboration between the founders and the Stedelijk Museum, Hafnia Foundation opened its first space in a former corn silo refit by the studio of architect Lars Vinge.

Since then the gallery has staged thirty-two solo exhibitions, four institutional retrospectives and a continuous residency programme between Aarhus, Xiamen and Reykjavík.

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Value Proposition

We invest in patient, multi-year representation rather than the fair-driven turnover that defines much of the current market.

Every artist on the roster is given a permanent room within the gallery's curatorial archive — a slow accumulation of installation views, working notes, press, and printed matter that compounds in value over time, for the artist and the collector both.

— Team

Eight permanent staff,
across three offices.

Helena Lund
Director, Curator
Marko Aris
Senior Curator
Sofie Kjeldsen
Head of Sales
Lin Wei
Head of Asia Office
Daniel Bekker
Registrar
Eva Pálsdóttir
Editorial
Anders Holm
Operations
Mei Tanaka
Studio Liaison
— Visit

Address

Hafnia Foundation

Mejlgade 47 · DK-8000 Aarhus

Denmark

56°09′N · 10°12′E

Hours

Tuesday — Friday · 11.00 — 18.00

Saturday · 12.00 — 17.00

Sunday & Monday · By appointment

Private viewings can be arranged with the front desk.