Hannah Heilmann
HORSESHOE SHAPED POINT OF NO RETURN
20 September—20 October 2025

Look, I’ll spare you the manifold details, but our child has not been well in the world, and so neither were we. He stopped going to “school” and I stopped going to “work”, and we put our home masks on and try to get through to another side.

Minecraft mom non-counting all the days in bed w. processed bread and added texture packs, golden apples.

Jeg elsker dig H.

Hannah Heilmann (b. 1978, DK) lives and works in Copenhagen. She holds an MA in Art History from the University of Copenhagen and is an Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Heilmann co-founded the artist-run exhibition space TOVES (2010–2017) and the artist collective Ingen Frygt (2001–2010). She has received awards from the Danish Arts Foundation and has exhibited and performed at numerous institutions in Denmark and internationally, including Esbjerg Art Museum, Kunsthal Aarhus, HEART in Herning, and Manifesta 11 in Zurich

The exhibition was supported by Arts Council Norway

Press release: Link (pdf)

Press:

• Sliten dans, Line Ulekleiv, Kunstkritikk.no, 9 October 2025 (Norwegian)
  
  “Black tops (jumpers turned inside out, a shirt), black jeans and other trousers—empty, discarded, slightly frayed garments—are hung using clothes pegs and metal fixtures. […] The clothes, in both adult and children’s sizes, are fixed in place yet carry a certain dramaturgical momentum, as if dancing. Here, our era’s persistent appetite for effortless, orderly Scandinavian minimalism is mixed with something more murky and frayed.”

• 5 December, Jari Malta, Kunstkritikk.no, 5 December 2025 (English/Swedish)
  
  “Winter long, hope and stubborn; hey the worst that can happen is we just don’t sleep all night; that’s ok (bedless noob); AuDHDs blessings. These were some of the work titles in Danish artist Hannah Heilmann’s highly-evocative show at the artist-run gallery Pachinko, which I can’t get out of my mind. The artist presented sculptural compositions made out of clothing and daily objects, outlining an intimate journal. In that atmosphere, the plastic twist bands from bread packages served as testaments to the passage of time. I love when small (and ambitious) independent spaces allow us to engage with art in such a touching way!”