10 artists to discover at Enter Art Fair 2026

Enter Art Fair returns to Copenhagen from 27–30 August, bringing 88 galleries from 20 countries and 43 cities to Lokomotivværkstedet. Founded in 2019 by Julie Leopold, the fair has become an important fixture on Copenhagen’s contemporary art calendar, with galleries from across Scandinavia joined by international exhibitors from cities including Amsterdam, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Cape Town, Tokyo and New York. Alongside the gallery stands, this year’s programme includes performances, a Sculpture Garden, talks and curated presentations.

This year’s programme presents some particularly good discoveries. There are artists transforming discarded textiles into imagined landscapes, painters building figures through layers of memory, sculptures that make the natural world feel slightly unreal, and performances that ask the audience to become part of the work. Familiar objects are also given unexpected new lives, from melting ceramic plates to denim transformed into intricate gardens. Here are ten artists to look out for at this year’s fair.

Lydia Roberts

Homecoming Gallery

Installation view Lydia Roberts, Homecoming Gallery, Booth 57, Enter Art Fair, 2026, Copenhagen. Image credit MTotoe/FLO London

There is something immediately eye-catching about Lydia Roberts’ work. Her images draw you in through their colour, composition and her use of objects, figures and surroundings. Born in England in 1994 and now based in the Occitanie region of France, Roberts describes the root of her interest as image-making that remains unaffected by time. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, T: The New York Times Style Magazine China, The Financial Times, Le Journal du Dimanche and True Photo Journal, most recently featuring in The New York Times Opinion in August 2026. At Enter, Roberts is being presented by Amsterdam-based Homecoming Gallery. The gallery, a space for discovering emerging artists, also works with an international roster of artists, with photography, painting and sculpture all represented across its programme.

Find her at: Homecoming Gallery, Booth 57.

Lydia Roberts: lydia-roberts.com; @lydiarobertsphoto. Homecoming Gallery: homecoming.gallery;@homecoming.gallery

André Lundquist

Galleri Ramfjord

Når lyset bryder frem Villi, André Lundquist, Galleri Ramfjord, Booth 92. Enter Art Fair, 2026, Copenhagen. Image credit MTotoe/FLO London

Look at an André Lundquist painting for long enough and the figure begins to shift. Faces appear through layers of paint, disappear beneath charcoal and ink, then surface again alongside fragments of colour. When looking at the paintings, the surface never quite feels settled. Born in Copenhagen in 1972, Lundquist works with oil, ink, charcoal and pencil, building his paintings up and working back into them until the surface becomes almost as important as the figures themselves. It is this sense of depth that makes his work stand out. The paintings catch your attention from a distance, but the closer you get, the more there is to find. Lundquist is presented by Oslo-based Galleri Ramfjord at Enter Art Fair 2026.

Find him at: Galleri Ramfjord, Booth 92.

André Lundquist: @lundquist72⁠. Galleri Ramfjord: galleriramfjord.no⁠; @galleriramfjord⁠

Moa Israelsson

Galleri Flach

Installation view Moa Israelsson, Galleri Flach, Booth 36. Enter Art Fair, 2026, Copenhagen. Image credit MTotoe/FLO London

Moa Israelsson makes sculpture that seems to have wandered in from somewhere between a Swedish forest, a science-fiction film and a particularly strange dream. Born in Ljungby, Sweden, in 1982 and now working in Åkers Styckebruk, Israelsson is interested in the countryside, wilderness and the unstable territory between reality and fiction. Her sculptures can look remarkably naturalistic before revealing themselves as something stranger. Paper, watercolour, epoxy, hemp, nylon, latex and padding become plants, fragments and organic forms. At Enter, works from A Horizon (2024) and De levande och döda (2026) are being presented by the Stockholm gallery Galleri Flach. The works include plants and sweetcorn, recreated with a level of detail that makes them appear almost real at first glance.

This is one booth where we would advise against rushing. Israelsson’s work tends to become more intriguing the longer you look at it.

Find her at: Galleri Flach, Booth 36.

Moa Israelsson: moaisraelsson; @moaelisra. Galleri Flach: galleriflach.com; @galleriflach

Sisters Hope

The Sculpture Park

Sisters Hope, The Sculpture Park, Enter Art Fair, 2026, Copenhagen. Image credit MTotoe/FLO London

And then there is Sisters Hope, who make the slightly absurd proposition that an art fair might actually require you to participate. The Danish performance collective is bringing The Bunkbed, a work first developed in 2017 and now appearing in a new 2026 version. At the centre of the performance is the bunk bed itself, surrounded by objects including Egg Totem Life and Egg Totem Death, as well as other artefacts used for poetic interventions.

The work is part of Sisters Hope’s broader practice of creating what they call a “Sensuous Society”: environments in which audiences do not simply look at art but enter it, inhabit it and become part of the situation. For Enter, the collective have created a site-specific performance in the Culture Park. Vistors are  invited to lie down and experience a poetic interventions in the garden. It is indeed a surreal expeirence. If you are going to see only one performance at Enter, this is the one to experience.

Find them at: The Sculpture Park / Enter Art Fair performance programme.

Sister Hope: @sistershope

Simone Post

Rademakers Gallery

Installation view Simone Post, Rademakers Gallery, Booth 52. Enter Art Fair, 2026, Copenhagen. Image credit MTotoe/FLO London

Simone Post knows how to make discarded materials look anything but discarded. The Rotterdam-based artist and designer, born in 1990, trained at Design Academy Eindhoven and has built a practice around textiles, colour, experimentation and reuse. Discarded materials are cut, layered, rearranged and given new lives. The results are bold, tactile and impressive.

Post is particularly good at making sustainability feel like a creative problem rather than a lecture. Her work does not arrive announcing that it is made from waste and therefore morally superior. Instead, the material transformation is part of the pleasure.At Enter, Amsterdam-based Rademakers Gallery is showing Post as part of a wider presentation devoted to material-led practices, craftsmanship, textiles and sustainability.

Just after Enter, Rademakers will open Where The Wild Things Are, Post’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, built around her continuing fascination with transforming textile remnants into landscapes, plants and imaginary worlds.

Find her at: Rademakers Gallery, Booth 52.

Simone Post: simonepost.nl; @simone_post_. Rademakers Gallery: rademakersgallery.com; @rademakersgallery

Ian Berry

Galleri Duerr

Installation view Ian Berry, Galleri Duerr, Booth 44. Enter Art Fair, 2026, Copenhagen. Image credit MTotoe/FLO London

Ian Berry has taken over an entire booth at Enter with his denim works, creating a scene that is hard to miss as you walk through the fair. The British artist has made a career out of showing that denim is not merely something to wear. Known for working exclusively with reclaimed denim, Berry cuts and layers the familiar blue material until it becomes remarkably illusionistic. At Enter, Munich-based Galleri Duerr is presenting works created specifically for the fair, building on the visual language of Berry’s Secret Garden installation.

The title refers to Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, with its themes of hidden spaces and change. Berry uses the garden as a framework rather than a literal subject, bringing together flowers, colour and composition to create a world with its own atmosphere. Familiar objects and motifs appear throughout, giving the works more to discover beyond the garden itself. The presentation continues an idea Berry has developed over the past decade.

Find him at: Galleri Duerr, Booth 44.

Ian Berry: ianberry.org; @ianberry.art. Galleri Duerr: galleriduerr.com; @galleriduerr

Alejandro Sánchez

Adrián Ibáñez Galería

Installation view Alejandro Sánchez, Adrián Ibáñez Galería. Booth 86. Enter Art Fair, 2026, Copenhagen. Image credit MTotoe/FLO London

Alejandro Sánchez’s sculptures are an imposing addition to Enter Art Fair this year. Born in Bogotá in 1981, the Colombian artist works across sculpture, painting, video and public art, often looking at the structures behind global commerce and the way they shape everyday life.

At Enter, Sánchez is showing City Envelope K, 2026, continuing his interest in the shipping container as one of the defining symbols of global commerce, an object designed to move goods around the world, but one that also carries much larger economic, environmental and social consequences. Sánchez is represented by Bogotá-based Adrián Ibáñez Galería, which is bringing his work to Denmark for the first time as part of its debut at Enter.

Sánchez gives a familiar symbol of global trade a new context, making this one of the presentations we will be looking out for at the fair.

Find him at: Adrián Ibáñez Galería, Booth 86. Adrián Ibáñez Galería: @adrianibanezgaleria.com; @adrianibanezgaleria

Jacob Rantzau

Galleri Franz Pedersen

Installation view Jacob Rantzau, Galleri Franz Pedersen, Booth 91 & 94. Enter Art Fair, 2026, Copenhagen. Image credit MTotoe/FLO London

Jacob Rantzau’s paintings are populated by people who appear to be doing something, although exactly what they are doing, and why, is another question. The Danish artist works with figurative scenes in which people become caught in repeated actions and strange psychological loops. His subjects can feel absorbed in tasks, games or rituals, creating a slightly unsettling distance between what is happening and what we understand about it. Galleri Franz Pedersen, based in Horsens, Denmark, has represented Rantzau for years and represents him at Enter.

Perhaps the most imposing work on their stand is the painting Floating on the Currents of Resisted Temptations, which depicts a weightless human figure drifting through a dark, water-like space, surrounded by detached female heads.

Find him at: Galleri Franz Pedersen, Booth 91 & 94.

Jacob Rantzau: jacobrantzau.dk; @jacobrantzau Galleri Franz Pedersen: gfranzp.dk

Manuel A. Fernandez

Quimera Galería

Manuel A. Fernandez, Quimera Galería, Booth 79. Enter Art Fair, 2026, Copenhagen. Image credit MTotoe/FLO London

A ceramic piece suspended over a framed collage was one of the first things to catch our attention at Quimera Galería, leading us to Buenos Aires-based visual artist Manuel A. Fernández, who works mainly with photographs.

Fernández takes existing and archival images and cuts, alters and recombines them, turning photographs into something between document and invention. His work brings different moments together, creating what he calls a kind of “non-time”, where memories of the past and imagined futures can occupy the same image

Based in Buenos Aires, Quimera has a longstanding focus on contemporary Argentine artists and has worked to introduce their practices to international audiences and collections. Its presence at Enter gives a wider audience a chance to encounter a strand of contemporary Argentine art that is still relatively underrepresented on the international fair circuit.

Find him at: Quimera Galería, Booth 79.

Manuel A. Fernández: fernandezmanuel.com; @manolox. Quimera Galería: quimeragaleria.com; @quimeragaleria.

Helena Hafemann

NEUDEUTSCH ART

Helena Hafemann, NEUDEUTSCH ART. Enter Art Fair, 2026, Copenhagen. Image credit MTotoe/FLO London

Yet again, it was another ceramic piece that caught our eye, this time a plate that appeared to be melting. Look closer and the illusion becomes clear: the ceramic has been broken into fragments and separated by fine threads. The work is by Helena Hafemann, a German artist whose practice often takes ordinary objects and shifts them just enough to make them strange.

The piece belongs to her Fadenschein series, where broken porcelain is held together, or perhaps deliberately kept apart, by yarn. Rather than hiding the break, Hafemann makes it the central feature of the work. What first looks like an object collapsing is actually something carefully constructed, turning a familiar household object into a quietly uncanny sculpture.

At Enter Art Fair, Hafemann is presented by Berlin gallery Jarmuschek + Partner as part of NEUDEUTSCH ART, the fair’s curated focus on contemporary German art, conceived by Julian Daynov. The project is not simply a showcase of German artists. Instead, it brings together a generation of artists whose work considers how materials are used, who gets to make and shape art, questions of cultural identity, and new ways of experimenting with artistic practice.

Find her at: NEUDEUTSCH ART.

Helena Hafemann: helenahafemann.de; @helena_hafemann