Troels Wörsel
Danish artist Troels Wörsel (1950 – 2018) was based in Cologne, Germany from the late 1970’s, and he played an important part on the Scandinavian and European art scene until his untimely death in 2018. Wörsel was a painter concerned with the constructive problems and aspects of the medium, and of its limitless possibilities. He sampled and adapted picturemaking fragments and reintroduced them onto the paintings’ surfaces. His works are characterized by various experiments in execution, ex. the application of paint with the help of an electric drill, and in compositions where taut geometric patterns incorporate both personal and found imagery.
Wörsel is represented in the collections of among others Kunstmuseum in Bonn, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Centre Pompidou in Paris and MoMA in New York. In 2002, Wörsel was the first prize winner of the Carnegie Art Award and represented Denmark at the Venice Biennial in 2007. He lived and worked in Cologne, Germany and Pietrasanta, Italy.
Exhibitions
Biography
Troels Wörsel (b. 1950) in Aarhus, Denmark (d. 2018)
He lived and worked in Pietrasanta, Italy and Cologne, Germany
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Mirepoix / Important paintings from the 1980’s and 90’s, Galleri Riis, Oslo
2020 Troels Wörsel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
2019 Untitled – Works by Troels Wörsel, HEART Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
2019 Paintings from the 1980’s, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2025 In colour, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 In The New Space, Galleri Riis, Oslo
2016 La pittura, HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
2016 La pittura, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 Trial and Error and Other New Works, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 Maleri. Udvalg II, Kunstmuseet i Tønder, Denmark
2012 Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
2012 Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
2009 Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
2008 Galleri Riis, Oslo
2008 Troels Wörsel – Paintings, ScheiblerMitte, Berlin, Germany
2008 Troels Wörsel – The Venice Biennale 2007, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007 The Venice Biennale, Den Danish Pavilion, Venice, Italy
2007 Troels Wörsel – akvareller, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark
2005 Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
1997 Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
1996 Musée des Beaux-Art de Nantes, Nantes, France
1996 Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
1996 Galleri Riis, Oslo
1990 David Nolan Gallery, New York, USA
1987 Galerie Klein im Syndikat, Bonn, Germany
1986 Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Grønningen 2017, Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 Horses, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 Summer Days, Serlachius Museum Götsa, Mäntä, Finland
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Louisiana, Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
FRAC Auvergne, France