An auction house in Lyngby has handed its rooms over to the next generation. Bruun Rasmussen is hosting ÅRGANG 2026, a show of work by 16 artists who have recently finished their studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, the Funen Art Academy and the Jutland Art Academy. The exhibition runs from 23 October to 6 November and is staged with Kunst På Arbejde, the organisation that places art in workplaces.

The participants work across painting, photography, sculpture, installation and video, and their subjects range across identity, relationships, technology, climate, consumption, history and the natural world. Among them are Adrian Cadan, Agnes Karl Åxman, Amanda Brix Kolstrup, Anastasia Karkazis, Ba Bladh, Carl Otto Linde, Emma Bojsen and Femja Haack, alongside Isaac, Magnus Fisker-Andersen, Magnus Gitt-Henderson, Marielle Göthberg, Peter Palluth, Sidsel Winther, Simona Popovic and Ulf Stubbe Teglbjærg. The show is framed as a chance to see, at first hand, how a new cohort of Danish artists looks at the world they have inherited.

The project has a practical second life. The works were donated to Kunst På Arbejde's collection by Trine and Gunnar Kjems, and once the Lyngby display closes they will travel to workplaces around Denmark, where employees will live and work alongside them. The organisers present this as a deliberate meeting point between artists, audiences and business, and argue that art matters for a lively democratic society because it unsettles habit and opens up reflection.

The display is presented with support from Danish Industry and Polestar. For the graduates, the show offers visibility at the very start of their careers; for the auction house, it is a departure from the saleroom routine, turning a commercial space into a public showcase for artists who are only just emerging.