• Wilson Saplana Gallery's mission is to exhibit visionary artists and present high-quality experimental exhibitions that they believe in uncompromisingly. The...
    Wilson Saplana Gallery's mission is to exhibit visionary artists and present high-quality experimental exhibitions that they believe in uncompromisingly. The gallery’s foundation is international both in the way of working and thinking. The represented artists work with multiple medias and are not tied to one generation. Wilson Saplana value the meeting of artists across generations as the artists benefit from sharing knowledge and collaboration. Wilson Saplana have shown a strong ability to spot younger artistic talents and support their professional artistic careers. In only a few years’ time, the gallery’s exhibitions have led to multiple institutional sales and many of the artists are currently working towards museum exhibitions in Denmark and abroad.
     
    Wilson Saplana Gallery work very closely with the artists through artistic development processes. The gallery emphasize a safe development space, with a genuine equal collaboration between the gallery and the artist. Wilson Saplana strive to be as much a community as an art gallery, highly valuing the artistic conversation with artists, clients, colleagues and other professionals. It is Wilson Saplana’s goal to continue to work closely with Danish and international curators, museums and institutions.
     
    Founded (as Gas9Gallery) in January 2022 by gallerist Christina Wilson, art advisor and former owner of Gallery Christina Wilson (2000-2012) and curator Nanna Saplana the gallery has already come a long way. On October 1, 2023, they moved to bigger premises right at the center of Copenhagen, changing name to Wilson Saplana.
  • Christina Wilson, Owner

    Christina Wilson has a long-standing career working in the art world. Being a former museum curator she opened her first art gallery Gallery Christina Wilson in 2002 representing a long list of artists, who had their debut show at the gallery and is now-established: Jesper Just, Alicja Kwade, Vanessa Billy, John Kørner, FOS, Kirstine Roepstorff, Michael Williams and Katherine Bernhardt. Also blue chip artist such as Sophie Calle was represented. During the 10 years the gallery existed it was active at international art fairs such as: Art Basel, LISTE Basel, Frieze London, Armory Show, NADA Miami, Art Bruxelles, Market Stockholm a.o. After closing the gallery in 2012, Wilson became an art advisor.

     

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    Christina Wilson, Owner
  • Nanna Saplana, Partner and director

    Nanna Saplana has a double master’s degree from Goldsmiths University of London and the University of Copenhagen MA in Visual Anthropology and Modern Culture with a thesis on Artistic Research & Posthumanism. She has extensive experience with art writing, communication, and has worked with many young contemporary artists and artistic development programs in Denmark through her previous work at Copenhagen Contemporary, Art Hub Copenhagen, and Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, in addition to curating freelance at Nikolaj Kunsthal, ALL ALL ALL at GL Strand@Læderstræde, and Villa Kultur.

     

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    Nanna Saplana, Partner and director
  • Jannie Hagemann, Assistant director and curator

    Jannie Haagemann is an experienced curator of both younger and internationally renowned artists. She has in the past ten years been involved in the strategy, fundraising, and opening of Copenhagen Contemporary, where she has been Senior Curator and Head of Exhibitions until 2024. She has worked in various art institutions in Denmark among them Gl. Strand, Danish Contemporary Art Foundation, and the Faurschou Foundation. She has extensive experience with communication and art writing, and a large network within the Danish and International art world. She has a MA in Modern Culture from the University of Copenhagen with a thesis on globalization and the new internationalism in the art world, and a Diploma in Culture and Cultural Management. 

     

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    Jannie Hagemann, Assistant director and curator
  • Cathrine Harriet, Gallery assistant and architect
    Cathrine Harriet holds a Bachelor's as well as a Master's degree in Architecture from the Royal Danish Academy. At Wilson Saplana Cathrine works on exhibition design, presentation material and various print media available at the gallery's booth at art fairs.
  • Laura Næsby, Gallery assistant

    Laura Næsby is currently finishing her Master's degree in Visual Culture from the University of Copenhagen. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Art History from the University of Copenhagen and interned at the art agency Creator Projects as part of her education. Her essay I Love My Machine was published in the art magazine Sexualia Vol. 2 in 2022 based on her bachelor's thesis on artificial intelligence and the female body. Before working at the gallery, Laura worked as a curatorial assistant at ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art. 

     

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