S4E4. Nicolai Wallner

From his home in Charlottenlund in Copenhagen, Danish founder of his namesake art gallery NICOLAI WALLNER describes his passion, activated when a high schooler, for artists and for representing artists, and his efforts in the 1990s to open his gallery on Store Kongensgade, which pushed forward the paradigm shift in the development of Copenhagen's contemporary art scene. Nicolai recalls his first art fair in New York, and explains why Kermit the Frog is his hero.----------For today's episode, Nicolai Wallner chose Andrea Mantegna's Kristus som den lidende freiser, or Christ as the Suffering Redeemer, from 1495–1500 from the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark.https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMSsp69----------Private photograph----------This conversation with Tina Jøhnk Christensen occurred on June 4, 2024.----------We invite you to subscribe to Danish Originals for weekly episodes. You can also find us at:website: https://danishoriginals.com/           email: [email protected]