Our ninth PUBLICS COUPLING with Danish artists Aske Olsen and Cai Ulrich Von Platen comprises a public event and an exhibition pairing selected works by the two artists at PUBLICS from August 13th – September 11th, 2026.
Initiated in 2021, Coupling is an expanding series of curatorial projects, collaborations, or pairings, where two artists/practitioners are introduced to one another for the first time and show together because of some common concerns within their work.
This Coupling exhibition is the result of a new collaboration project called Scales between PUBLICS and All all all, Copenhagen, KonstahallC, Stockholm and Oslo Konsthall.
All all all (DK), Konsthall C (SE), Kunsthall Oslo (NO), and PUBLICS (FI) come together to present Scales , a rotating exhibition initiative connecting and exchanging programs across four Nordic art platforms. Scales is initiated by All all all and launches on May 1, 2026, and culminates in January 2027.
COUPLING Exhibition is open at PUBLICS Wednesdays – Friday between 12–4pm and by appointment until September 11th 2026.
Read more about Scales at HERE. Scales is generously supported by Nordic Culture Point.
ARTIST BIOS
Aske Olsen
Aske Olsen (b. 1997) is a visual artist who lives and works in Copenhagen. Olsen graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2023 and has previously exhibited in venues including Forma (2025), Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art (2023), W.M.P. Hamburg (2023), inter.pblc (2022) and Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art (2022).
Cai Von Platen
Cai Von Platen (b. 1955) is a visual artist who lives and works in Copenhagen. Von Platen attended Copenhagen Art Academy in Copenhagen 1973-78 and is a member of BKF (Visual Artists’ Union) and Kunstnersamfundet (Artists’ Society). Von Platen has shown extensively in Denmark and beyond including Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Københavns Bymuseum, SAK (Svendborg Amts Kunstforening) and Banja Rathnov, Copenhagen.
ALL all all
All all all is a Copenhagen-based exhibition platform curated by Klara Li and Sif Lindblad. Founded in 2022, the platform’s core lies in its facilitation of processual exhibition formats, challenging the notion of the finished art product and activating interdisciplinary artistic practices by inviting artists to investigate artistic gestures, rather than themes. Centered around the idea of an “open-source” archive, All all all is continuously shaped and reshaped by past projects, ongoing collaborations, envisioned futures, and, as such, is an unfinished experiment.