Nils Erik Gjerdevik – Spaces of Possibilities
9 November 2025 – 31 May 2026
CLAY Ceramic Museum presents its largest exhibition to date featuring the artist Nils Erik Gjerdevik (1962–2016).
The exhibition Spaces of Possibilities focuses on Gjerdevik’s ceramic works – an area of his artistic practice driven by experimentation and curiosity.
In clay, Gjerdevik explored the borderland between utopia and dystopia. His sculptures move in a formal language where space can collapse, but also open up to new worlds. The works combine the spontaneous with the carefully planned and testify to a deep understanding of both the history of art and architecture.
Gjerdevik worked across media such as painting, paper and ceramics, but it is in his ceramic sculptures that his special energy and immersion are most evident.
‘He was an artist who insisted on exploring the spatial possibilities of form and colour in clay – in a complex and playful idiom that still speaks directly to our time,’ says curator Anders Kolt Rasmussen.
The exhibition presents over 50 works and gives the audience a rare insight into Gjerdevik’s artistic universe, where humour, seriousness, poetry and precision meet.
With Nils Erik Gjerdevik – Space of Possibilities, CLAY focuses on an artist who renewed the sculptural language of ceramics – and who continues to inspire us to think and shape the world in new ways.
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NILS STÆRK
The exhibition is kindly supported by:
Den Faberske Fond
Middelfart Kommune
Kvadrat
Jotun