DJURBERG AND BERG

In the spring of 2025, we proudly present an installation by Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg in the greenhouse in the Art Park of Ordrupgaard. The Swedish duo has been exhibiting around the world, and they have received great recognition for their experimental installations, which combine animation, sculpture and sound. Now Djurberg and Berg present their new installation created for the greenhouse, which draws inspiration from the origin of the house and its former use for the growing plants. With symbolic references to fertility, conception, growth and decay the duo humorously points out dilemmas concerning inequality between people and the future green transition.

Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg began working closely together as a duo to create transgressive narratives rich in symbolic meaning and emotional reach, mining allegorical myths and grotesque, nightmarish visions in pieces. Mixing animation, sculpture and sound, Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg create psychologically charged scenarios dealing with human and animalistic desires.

Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg both live and work in Sweden. Born in Lysekil, Sweden in 1978, Nathalie Djurberg received her MFA from Malmö Art Academy, Sweden in 2002. Hans Berg was born in Rättvik, Sweden in 1978 and is a musician, producer and composer, working mainly with electronic music. The artists’ interdisciplinary collaborations increasingly blur the cinematic, the sculptural and the performative in immersive environments that pair moving images and musical compositions with related set pieces or built objects.

The Greenhouse exhibitions 

In 2023 Ordrupgaard’s greenhouse dating from 1921 re-emerged as an exhibition space for contemporary art. Each year we present a new contemporary artist who creates a temporary installation in dialogue with the park and the art collection at Ordrupgaard.

The original greenhouse from 1921 was part of a larger greenhouse complex in the extensive household garden and ornamental garden established by the Chief Officer Landscape Gardener Valdemar Fabricius Hansen when the manor house was originally build in 1916-18. When Ordrupgaard transitioned from private home to art museum in the 1950s the greenhouse lost its functionality. However, in the 1980s it reopened with as an exhibition space with installations by the artists Susanne Ussing and Gun Gordillo among others.

The newly renovated house will open as a hothouse for contemporary art that focuses on climate and sustainability issues.

The Greenhouse exhibitions are generously supported by:

Ny Carlsbergfondet

15. Juni Fonden

William Demant Fonden

Inge og Asker Larsens Fond til støtte af almennyttige formål

Dansk Tennis Fond

Ernst B. Sund Fonden