1. Group exhibition
2. 06.2025
3. Nicolai Howalt

Is sport art or can there be elements of art in the world of sport?
Why are we so fascinated by the world of sport and its practitioners in modern times?

For some, sport is simply a form of exercise and for some perhaps even an intolerable environment of competition and performance that takes up far too much of the media image and our daily lives.

But for many, sport is passion, enthusiasm and fanaticism.

Athletes and scientists continue to push people and materials to the limit in order to achieve the small percentages that can be decisive for success or failure, whether you are a hero or a villain.

Very few places in Denmark have attempted to combine art with the world of sport. Most recently seen in 2021 at Copenhagen Contemporary. Now Gimsinghoved is making the attempt and will focus on the sports of football, rowing and boxing in this exhibition.

Nicolai Howalt is a Danish-born artist who works with photography. He graduated from the Danish School of Photography, Fatamorgana, in 1992. Howalt’s work has been exhibited at several important institutions in both Denmark and abroad, including ARoS – Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Foam Museum, Amsterdam and C/O Berlin. His work is also represented in a large number of Danish and foreign museum collections such as The J. Paul Getty Museum, USA; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; and Musée d’Elysée, Lausanne.

At Gimsinghoved you can experience Nicolai’s works under the name “Boxer”. In the years 2000-03 Nicolai Howalt followed young Danish boys in boxing and their first fight. Through double portraits before and after the fight, Howalt conveys boyhood, puberty and the loss of innocence. Within the framework of boxing, Howalt examines the personal struggle between fear and courage, dream and reality, boy and man. In boxing, the boys are left to themselves, when for the first time and quite literally they are on their own.

Exhibition period 20.06.2025 – 07.09.2025