Bricks Gallery is pleased to present ‘Feeling Small, Bug Pirates’, a solo exhibition by Frans Nybacka, with an opening reception on Friday, May 8, from 5-8 PM. This presents Nybacka’s debut exhibition in Denmark and with the gallery, featuring works on canvas in various sizes, all framed in the artist’s signature frames. The exhibition forms the third chapter in the ‘Wind is Rising’, an ongoing narrative across Nybacka’s solo exhibitions, tracing an imagined world in stages of decay.
Nybacka’s work exists in a space between nature and science fiction. His practice explores the construction of visual worlds through painting, where elements of nature appear in contrasting contexts. Rendered in soft, faded tones and warm light, and often with an almost childlike sensibility, the works carry an underlying dystopian atmosphere. Figures seem suspended in time, as if waiting for an event that never arrives. Within these scenes, questions emerge: what will the world look like in the future, what constitutes power, and who holds it?
The exhibition is kindly supported by
@finindk and
@norrebrew
Read more at www.bricksgallery.dk.
Frans Nybacka (b. 1993) is a Finnish artist who lives and works in Helsinki (FI). Nybacka’s practice centers on world-building through painting. Recent exhibitions include Crisis Galore, Wings Petite at tm•galleria, Helsinki (FI), Borrowed Time at Pori Art Museum, Poriginal Gallery, Pori (FI), and Beyond Matter at Gaa Gallery, New York (US). Nybacka’s work is represented in collections such as Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art and the Finnish National Gallery / State Art Deposit Collection. In 2026, he was awarded a working grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
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Frans Nybacka
Hornet’s Egg, 2026
Oil on canvas
Artist frame
142 x 128 cm
(FN 7)
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Photos courtesy of Bricks Gallery and the artist.
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