We welcome spring and the returning light with a solo exhibition by Danish

artist Frederik Erfurt (b. 1990).

With Color of Crisis, Erfurt makes his debut at VÆG. The works move in the

field between photography and painting, where the image is understood not as

representation, but as a spatial and perceptual situation.

Erfurt experiments. In the studio, shifts and loss of control are allowed to

happen. Intuition and coincidence play along – sometimes against each other.

The materials are given space to interrupt and destabilise intention. He works

in the tension between control and contingency – opposing forces held within

the same object.

Through analogue film exposures, pigment prints, and successive layers of oil

and acrylic, hybrid images emerge. Earlier stages are not concealed but remain

visible as traces. Ruptures and resistance are sustained as active elements in

the composition.

Erfurt involves us. In the glass-mounted works, reflection becomes a

constitutive part of the image. The surrounding space and the viewer are

integrated into the surface, which appears as an open and situated structure.

As we move, the work shifts. Perception remains conditional; the image never

settles into a fixed state. The works position themselves between opacity and

transparency, control and dependency.

Erfurt challenges colour – and us. Our understanding of colour is put into

play, both as physical material and as psychological condition. What do we

associate, for instance, with yellow? The sun, warmth, daffodils, the arrival

of spring? Or global warming, extreme heat, human decline?

The exhibition is on view until Saturday, 4 April 2026.