OPENING TODAY 5PM - 7PM
Etage Projects is pleased to present a group exhibition at Lovaas Projects on the occasion of Various Others, Munich.
Freddy Tuppen • FOS • Minjae Kim · Soft Baroque · · Tomoya Matsuzaki
Five practices working across sculpture, light, and the applied object, gathered around a shared preoccupation with the object as a site of thought, where material decisions carry the weight of meaning and where utility and sculpture are held in productive tension.
With works including FOS’s Petite Street Lamp, Den Frie Wall Lamp, Diamond Table and Mountain Vases; Minjae Kim’s Crusader Table, Bionic Chair and Wrong Chair; Soft Baroque’s Soft Metal Table and Soft Metal Light; a new body of floor, wall and pendant lamps by Freddy Tuppen; and a series of pastels on found paper by Tomoya Matsuzaki.
With thanks to Lovaas Projects for the generous invitation to their space, and to Various Others for hosting us within the wider program.
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Soft Metal Table and Soft Metal Light by Soft Baroque. Produced as part of the Presentation of Contemporary Slovenian Design at Milan Design Week 2026, organized by Center for Creativity (CZK), MAO. Co-funded by the European Union and the Republic of Slovenia.
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📷 Ulrich Gerbert
At the intersection of sculpture, furniture, and material experiment, Soft Metal Shelf by Soft Baroque challenges our perception of metal as something rigid, fixed, and industrial. With an almost liquid elegance, the work transforms steel into a gesture - fluid, tactile, and unexpectedly sensual.
Presented as part of ELEMENT : METAL at Schloss Hollenegg, the piece embodies a new contemporary dialogue between craftsmanship and conceptual design, where material becomes narrative. Soft Baroque’s practice continuously blurs the boundaries between utility and art object, and here the shelf becomes more than a functional structure: it is an exploration of tension, illusion, and softness within permanence itself.
Set against the historic architecture of Schloss Hollenegg, Soft Metal Shelf enters into a compelling conversation between past and present - a reflection on how contemporary collectible design can reinterpret traditional materials through wit, precision, and poetic distortion.
📷 @byjuhi & @yannbohac
Between the Fields
Tomoya Matsuzaki and Freddy Tuppen.
On view at Etage Projects, Copenhagen until 6 June 2026.
“The British landscape as a place shaped as much by memory and perception as by physical form, where land is not only seen, but felt”
Two practices in the same room. Tuppen’s luminous lights and Matsuzaki’s paintings and drawings hold the gallery as one slow conversation about light, time, and place.
Curated by Naja Rantorp
📷 @r.damisch
Freddy Tuppen
Between the Fields.
On view now at Etage Projects, Copenhagen. 11 April – 6 June 2026.
“Freddy Tuppen’s luminous lights emerge as contemporary monoliths: atmospheric objects that seem to glow from within. Through coloured veils and layered diffusion, they inhabit a threshold between visibility and obscurity, inviting reflection on time, perception, and the unseen.” -
Between the Fields, Naja Rantorp
A visit to the studio. Tuppen builds in sapele, London plane, aluminium and painted calico - humble, honest materials arranged into stacked shade modules and slender lattices. The work is process driven: a timber frame before the veil, a palette of painted calico strips, a collected shelf of stones and driftwood that the lamps quietly echo.
Freddy Tuppen is a London-based artist and designer who embraces the plural and the process-driven. His work moves between architecture, furniture, lighting and small objects - guided by constraints as possibilities, and by the physical experience of making. Presented alongside Tomoya Matsuzaki.
DM for viewings and the full price list.
📷 @freddytuppen@r.damisch
Tomoya Matsuzaki
Between the Fields
11 April - 6 June
Etage Projects, Copenhagen
Tomoya Matsuzaki works on hand-formed plaster slabs and torn paper, laying pastel into surfaces that already carry the memory of a hand. The paintings are not of landscape so much as from it: a walked distance, a returning light, a field after the weather has passed through.
In the artist’s words: “My landscapes are not places, they are emotions - what remains when the event has gone.”
Born in Fukuoka in 1977, Matsuzaki moved to the UK in 1997. He studied at Central Saint Martins (BA, 2002) and Chelsea (MA, 2004), and lives and works in London.
Swipe through the studio - the wall where the works are tested against one another, the plaster drying on the floor, the pastels within reach - and then into the exhibition itself.
Visit: Etage Projects, Copenhagen
Works @t_mat_k
📷 @r.damisch & @t_mat_k
A study in structure and illumination.
Freddy Tuppen’s Pendant (2026) moves between object and atmosphere - vertical form dissolving into warm, shifting light.
Aluminium, sapele, painted calico.
W 50 × L 110 × H 10 cm.
On view now. Between the Fields, Etage Projects, Copenhagen. April - June 2026.
Available upon request.
📷 @r.damisch
Between the Fields
Landscape as sensation - shaped by memory, atmosphere, and the persistence of time.
Drawing on a lineage within British painting, the exhibition moves from observation to perception, finding resonance in the work of Paul Nash, where terrain becomes both real and imagined - a site of presence, absence, and quiet dislocation.
Freddy Tuppen’s luminous forms emerge as contemporary monoliths, hovering between visibility and obscurity.
Tomoya Matsuzaki’s works unfold as both surface and space - layered, unstable, and quietly psychological.
Curated by Naja Rantorp
On view now
📷 Robert Damisch
Bascule (low light) by Tomoya Matsuzaki
Tomoya Matsuzaki’s paintings and drawings operate as both material objects and spatial constructs. Working on irregular hand-formed plaster slabs or torn pieces of paper, he layers conscious and subconscious gestures to produce unstable, shifting rhythms in which opposing forces coexist. Shaped by his experience of living in the UK, his work draws on the subdued tonalities of British painting, where landscape is understood less as a fixed view than as a sensation - muted, overcast, and quietly psychological
As Matsuzaki himself reflects,
The world, illuminated by the light that reaches through the thin filter of clouds, is pale and faint…
Landscapes are a manifestation of one’s emotion. The landscape you are looking at is the place where you now find yourself…
Ph Robert Damisch & Alastair Levy
Between the Fields opened Saturday at Etage Projects, Copenhagen.
“In my beginning is my end. Now the light falls / Across the open field, leaving the deep lane / Shuttered with branches, dark in the afternoon, / Where you lean against a bank while a van passes, / And the deep lane insists on the direction / Into the village, in the electric heat / Hypnotized. In a warm haze the sultry light / Is absorbed, not reflected, by grey stone. / The dahlias sleep in the empty silence. / Wait for the early owl.”
- T. S. Eliot, East Coker, 1940
Works by Tomoya Matsuzaki and Freddy Tuppen, curated by Naja Rantorp.
On view through June 2026.
Photography: Robert Damisch
Between the Fields is now open.
Bringing together works by Tomoya Matsuzaki and Freddy Tuppen, the exhibition unfolds a landscape shaped as much by memory and perception as by physical form. Drawing on a lineage from Paul Nash, it moves between the real and the imagined - where the familiar becomes quietly strange.
Curated by Naja Rantorp
Now on view.
Ph by @r.damisch
OPENING TOMORROW
Between the Fields
Tomoya Matsuzaki & Freddy Tuppen
Dear all,
A gentle reminder that we open Between the Fields with Tomoya Matsuzaki and Freddy Tuppen tomorrow.
The exhibition explores the British landscape as a place shaped as much by memory and perception as by physical form - a terrain not only seen, but felt, carrying traces of time, absence, and a quiet, uncanny presence.
We look forward to welcoming you.
Saturday 11 April, 4–7 pm Etage Projects, Copenhagen
