Galerie Mikael Andersen would like to welcome you to the opening of ANALOG INTELLIGENCE, an exhibition featuring new works by German artist Tjorg Douglas Beer, on Friday 21 August 2026, 17:00-19:00.

The exhibition features new paintings and ceramic sculptures. Working with stencils, repetition, patterns, and sampling, Beer creates layered compositions that transform the visual noise of contemporary life into vibrant, abstract works.

In his paintings, the artist seeks to distance himself from narrative elements and connect with painting in a freer and more direct way. Beer uses stencils and disposable materials such as coffee capsules, headphone wrappers, and vinyl records to begin painting through an automatic action, almost like an analog computer program. The starting point is a simplified human figure or robot, which is transformed through repeated patterns, structures, and superimpositions. Combined with aerosol, acrylics, and oils, these layers create a visual dissonance reminiscent of 1980s computer game graphics and the sampling process in music. Although the human figure is the starting point, the compositions remain abstract. The works are titled with letter-number codes corresponding to the gallery’s inventory codes.

The ceramic sculptures are columns, pipes, or cylinders. Beer produces them together with a Greek ceramicist on a wheel. During the production process, he stamps the ceramics with letter-number codes and uses stencils to apply glaze to the objects. The glazes are applied in overlapping layers, creating dissonances like those found in the paintings.

The show’s title refers to Analog Intelligence, the idea of re-establishing the value of human skills in an age of digital tools and artificial intelligence.

Beer has been exhibited internationally, including at Palais de Tokyo in Paris and Kunstverein Hamburg. His work is currently on view at the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City and Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr in Germany.

For more information on the exhibition and for press photographs please contact the gallery on tel. 33 33 05 12 or email: cph@mikaelandersen.com. The exhibition ends 3 October, 2026. Daily opening hours: Tuesday–Friday 12–18, Saturday 11–15.

Sincerely, Galerie Mikael Andersen