Public Domain

A Kassen

11 June 2026–25 October 2026

The art group A Kassen formed in Copenhagen in 2004. They like to start from given circumstances that already exist in the place where the art is created. A Kassen often uses strategies of sabotage or altering details in public spaces, on buildings or in the functional infrastructure of architecture. Many works are based on repetition, reflection, displacement or change of scale. These discreet but tangible interventions in everyday life can sometimes go unnoticed.

The viewer plays a crucial role in A Kassen’s artworks, especially in public environments, where encounters with art often happen unplanned. Their choice of materials and method can vary from one artwork to another, depending on the circumstances. At times they create spatial installations or interventions in landscapes, sometimes they work with photography or sculpture.

Skissernas Museum presents the first major presentation of A Kassen’s art to a Swedish audience. The exhibition Public Domain provides a retrospective survey where the art group’s significant public artworks are presented. In parallel, a large newly created installation is shown where pieces and fragments of the urban space enter the museum’s exhibition halls.

For Skissernas Museum, A Kassen has created a series of portraits in which pixels become mosaics, revealing anonymised faces taken from digital map services. By placing these in an exhibition environment, disjointed parts of the city’s street life are portioned out into the controlled rooms. Together with actual objects from street environments such as lampposts, trash cans and bollards, a fragmented city walk is created.

A Kassen consists of Christian Bretton-Meyer, Morten Steen Hebsgaard, Søren Petersen and Tommy Petersen.


^{Image above: A Kassen, installation view Public Domain, 2026. Photo: Emma Krantz/Skissernas Museum}