Niklas Asker

Niklas Asker, Sweden (1979-) Spares (2025) Follow @niklasasker #niklasasker #painting#paintings #oilpaintings#instaart #art #artoftheday#artofinstagram #dailyart #arte #kunst#konst #americanrealism #creative#inspiration #artist #artwork #museum#impressionist #portrait #arthistory#arthistorynerd #paint #artdaily#artoninstagram #instagramart #artagram#igart

Inheritance, oil on wood, 30x40 cm Part of the @union_pacific_london presentation at Frieze New York.

Frieze New York is now open! Visit Union Pacific at Booth D13, until 17 May 2026. We are presenting work by Mathilde Albouy, Niklas Asker, Sebastián Espejo, Jin Han Lee, Aya Higuchi, Imogen Brent, Soumya Netrabile, and Koak. @friezeofficial ⁠ ⁠⁠ Pictured:⁠ ⁠ Union Pacific, Booth D13, installation view, Frieze New York 2026. Photograph: Yosuke Kojima

Frieze New York opens today and I’m showing several new works with @union_pacific_london in booth D13. Do stop by if you’re in town! Mortar Oil on canvas 75x55 cm 2026

Why do you create art? “Art for me is about creating meaning and distilling the experience of being alive. I don’t call myself religious, maybe spiritual. But I guess in a way art serves the same purpose as religion in my life. It’s a connection between spirit and the physical world.” — Niklas Asker, Malmö, Sweden @niklasasker @artistsoncouches #NiklasAsker #artistsoncouches #onthecouch #artistarchive #creativeconsciousness

A closer look at Protection, one of several new works of mine that will be on view during Frieze New York as part of the @union_pacific_london presentation in booth D13. Opening May 13! Protection Oil on canvas, 40x30 cm 2026

Visit us at Booth D13 from 13-17 May 2026 at Frieze New York. Our presentation brings together works by Mathilde Albouy, Niklas Asker, Sebastián Espejo, Jin Han Lee, Aya Higuchi, Soumya Netrabile, and Koak. In the coming days and throughout the fair, we will be sharing a selection of works from the presentation. @niklasasker @friezeofficial ⁠ ⁠ Pictured: ⁠ ⁠ Niklas Asker, Protection, 2026, Oil on canvas, 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in (40 x 30 cm)

Installation view, 'The Midden of Time'. Niklas Asker, Ferdinand Evaldsson, Justin Fitzpatrick, Tanja Nis-Hansen and Cezary Poniatowski. @justinfitzpatr1ck @niklasasker @hejtanja @cezaryponiatowski @ferdinandevaldsson Middens are archaeological sites characterised by the accumulation of debris, composed of deep, rich soil punctuated with the refuse of previous lives: artefacts, broken shells, bones, pottery shards, and botanical remains. These layered deposits are critical capsules for reconstructing human and ecological presence throughout time. To access the stratified information, archaeologists carefully excavate and contextualise the layers of matter; precisely reassembling and analysing the midden in a laboratory is an essential secondary process in which, fragment by fragment, the details of another era reveal themselves. The group exhibition The Midden of Time brings together five contemporary practices that explore what occurs through the sifting, digging, collecting, layering, and transforming of symbols, genres, and embodied experiences. Embracing rigorous material-focused processes, the exhibition is a site for witnessing the artistic, bodily, and historic fieldwork held in the presented works.’ Like the midden’s material properties, the practices each approach time as a layered, living thing, ruled by accretion and punctuated by memories and objects. Words by Michaela Yarmol-Matusiak @michaelayarmz Photographed by Anja Furrer @anjakarolina_ Artists pictured: Niklas Asker, Ferdinand Evaldsson

Detail of my painting Reverence (Pietà) that will be part of the group exhibition Midden of Time, opening tomorrow @coulisse_gallery in Stockholm, 5-8pm. Please pop by if you’re in town! Reverence (Pietà) Oil on canvas, 80x65 cm 2026

Niklas Asker Reverence (Pietà) 2026 oil on canvas 85 x 60 cm 'The Midden of Time', opens this Thursday, the 19th of February, 5 - 8 PM. Participating artists are: Niklas Asker, Justin Fitzpatrick, Ferdinand Evaldsson, Tanja Nis-Hansen, and Cezary Poniatowski. Niklas considers the traditional, time-consuming painting techniques he uses as a form of ritual. It is a conversation with history, but also a tool for carefully digging into the subconscious—painting as a kind of excavation. During the last few years, his focus has been on studying certain traditions and expressions from art history, applying them to his own lived experience, and using them in his work. Through this process, he examines how elements from the past are read today and how they can be used to forge new visual expressions in contemporary painting. The group exhibition The Midden of Time brings together five contemporary practices that explore what occurs through the sifting, digging, collecting, layering, and transforming of symbols, genres, and embodied experiences. Embracing rigorous material-focused processes, the exhibition is a site for witnessing the artistic, bodily, and historic fieldwork held in the presented works.’ Like the midden’s material properties, the practices each approach time as a layered, living thing, ruled by accretion and punctuated by memories and objects. Words by Michaela Yarmol-Matusiak @michaelayarmz Image courtesy of the artist.

Introducing Niklas Asker, who lives and works in Malmö, Sweden. Niklas will exhibit as part of our upcoming group exhibition 'The Midden Of Time', which opens on the 19th of February. Niklas considers the traditional, time-consuming painting techniques he uses as a form of ritual. It is a conversation with history, but also a tool for carefully digging into the subconscious—painting as a kind of excavation. During the last few years, his focus has been on studying certain traditions and expressions from art history, applying them to his own lived experience, and using them in his work. Through this process, he examines how elements from the past are read today and how they can be used to forge new visual expressions in contemporary painting. Special thanks to Union Pacific Gallery. Images courtesy of the artist. @niklasasker @union_pacific_london

We are proud to announce our upcoming group exhibition 'The Midden of Time' with Niklas Asker, Justin Fitzpatrick, Ferdinand Evaldsson, Tanja Nis-Hansen and Cezary Poniatowski. The exhibition opens on Thursday, the 19th of February, 5 - 8 PM. There will be a concert by H.C. Fell at 7 PM. @justinfitzpatr1ck @niklasasker @hejtanja @cezaryponiatowski @ferdinandevaldsson concert @hannes_ferm Middens are archeological sites characterised by the accumulation of debris, composed of deep, rich soil punctuated with the refuse of previous lives: artifacts, broken shells, bones, pottery shards, and botanical remains. These layered deposits are critical capsules for reconstructing human and ecological presence throughout time. To access the stratified information, archaeologists carefully excavate and contextualise the layers of matter; precisely reassembling and analysing the midden in a laboratory is an essential secondary process in which, fragment by fragment, the details of another era reveal themselves. The group exhibition The Midden of Time brings together five contemporary practices that explore what occurs through the sifting, digging, collecting, layering, and transforming of symbols, genres, and embodied experiences. Embracing rigorous material-focused processes, the exhibition is a site for witnessing the artistic, bodily, and historic fieldwork held in the presented works.’ Like the midden’s material properties, the practices each approach time as a layered, living thing, ruled by accretion and punctuated by memories and objects. Words by Michaela Yarmol-Matusiak @michaelayarmz