Niklas Asker presents his second solo show with the gallery.

Niklas Asker (b. 1979, Nordingrå, Sweden) lives and works in Malmö. Having previously spent ten years as an illustrator of comics, Asker’s absorption into painting was prompted by seeing sculptor Rodin’s maquettes at the Musée d’Orsay, namely his miniature studies of converging bodies in plaster and clay. This abstraction evident in Rodin’s forms, merged with Asker’s intuition as a comic book raconteur, has continued to sharpen his focus ever since. Almost always painted in the same washed out muddy greens and umbers, their initial downcast allure quickly morphs into one of vibrance, as if a torch looms from beyond the frame, casting a spotlight onto the subjects. Whether it’s a painted portrait, or a statue from antiquity, Asker’s mark-making attends to the tiniest details on the surface. William Blake wrote of ‘paying attention to the minute particulars’ in our world, which, in Asker’s case prevails through many deft, hardly decipherable lines to render phantom shadows or wrinkles of skin.

Selected solo exhibitions include: Other artefacts, Union Pacific, London, United Kingdom (2023), The shroud, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, US (2023), Every branch is a memory, Galleri Cora Hillebrand, Gothenburg (2022) and Filling the broken mold, Galleri Ping-Pong, Malmö (2020). Selected group exhibitions include: Soft stratum, Cylinder two, Seoul (2025), Nicodim Gallery, New York (2024), Bucharest: 10 years, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, US (2023), Emotional rescue, Galleria Annarumma, Napoli (2023), The intouchables, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen (2021) and Highly toxic, Digitaliseum, Malmö (2021).