Magnus Frederik Clausen: Flowers
Untitled painting (Flowerpot#4), 2025
Oil on found painting
50 x 35.5 cm
19¾ x 14 inches
We’re pleased to present Flowers, a series of new paintings by Magnus Frederik Clausen. Known for his collaborative approach to painting, Clausen continues his exploration of authorship, repetition, and orchestration on the genre of the still life. In these new works, layers of overpainting and shifting gestures reveal both the immediacy and history of the painting itself.
Each work in this series has been conducted by Clausen and executed by an assistant following his directions. The assistants not only realize the painting but also develop and apply a ‘Clausen’ signature on the front, while signing the back with their own names — reflecting the collaborative authorship central to the work.
Magnus Frederik Clausen
Untitled painting (Flowerpot#4), 2025
Oil on found painting
50 x 35.5 cm
19¾ x 14 inches
€3.800 (excl. tax)
"Asger Jorn once wrote, “A painting’s favourite food is painting.” Like many of his peers, Jorn painted over flea market finds, showing that all art builds on the past, drawing on motifs, ideas, and stylistic elements from elsewhere. He wanted to shift the focus away from the individual and onto a cultural process. He often signed his modifications alongside the original author’s signature, creating a dialogue between artists across time."
– Magnus Frederik Clausen
Untitled painting (Flowerpot#6), 2025 (detail)
Magnus Frederik Clausen
Untitled painting (Flowerpot#6), 2025
Oil on found painting
30 x 24 cm
11⅞ x 9½ inches
€3.200 (excl. tax)
Magnus Frederik Clausen (b. 1981 in Denmark) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Recent solo and duo exhibitions include Super Super Markt, Berlin (2025); CASTLE, Los Angeles (2024 with Yu Nishimura); Gauli Zitter, CFA, Milan (2024); CANTINA, Aarhus (2023 with Kaare Ruud); Billytown (2023 with Jason Hirata); C.C.C., Copenhagen; Freddy, Harris (with Mads Lindberg); Claas Reiss, London; BRAUNSFELDER, Cologne (all 2022); Spazio Orr, Brescia (2021 with David Ostrowski); and JIR SANDEL, Copenhagen (2020 with Claus Haxholm).
Magnus Frederik Clausen
Untitled painting (Flower#3), 2025
Oil on found painting
36 x 30 cm
14⅛ x 11⅞ inches
€3.200 (excl. tax)
"The involvement of the assistants helps me sharpen my investigation into painting. If I had to occupy myself with compositional questions and how to treat the canvas, I wouldn't observe the works in the same way I do now. By stepping back from the canvas and giving the brush to somebody else, I become the observer to my own work and I can see it much more clearly. Like it is always easier finding flaws on other people than yourself."
– Magnus Frederik Clausen
Magnus Frederik Clausen
Magnus Frederik Clausen is an artist whose practice has been questioning the medium of painting for several years. His work, sometimes hidden or covered, reconsiders the place of the commodity and its related display. More recently, he started delegating the making of his paintings.