FEELING SMALL, BUG PIRATES - FRANS NYBACKA

FEELING SMALL, BUG pirates, 8.5 - 6.6.2026

BRICKS GALLERY, Copenhagen

Bricks Gallery presents the exhibition Feeling Small, Bug Pirates by Frans Nybacka. Feeling Small, Bug Pirates is Nybacka’s debut exhibition in Denmark. t’s the third chapter in the narrative “Wind is Rising”, an ongoing theme 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?

Frans Nybacka is a visual artists whose practice centers around worldbuilding through painting. In his works, Nybacka combines poetic visual storytelling and imaginative juxtaposition in the creation of personifying places, objects, and environments. His characteristic works, which often resemble loose storyboards or stills from imagined video games, are a wonderful combination of ethereality, chaos, childlike innocence and mysticity. Working from imagery sourced from films, photographs, children’s books, etc., Nybacka develops his compositions through a collage-based process. Images are first arranged digitally before being translated into painting, where elements are removed from their original context and placed within new settings.

The exhibition is supported by the Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark.

Established in 2019, Bricks Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in the lively Nørrebro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. Representing and collaborating with a select group of emerging and established artists, the gallery is dedicated to fostering an engaging platform for contemporary art. Showcasing works across various media, Bricks Gallery aims to create a welcoming, shared space where both intimate and collective art experiences can unfold.