ONLY FOR THE WICKED
(2025)
Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, 12-15 June.
Thursday 16-21, Friday Private Viewings only, Saturday - Sunday 10-18
Description
Only for the Wicked is a meticulously composed experience by Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg — a cycle of seven animated films that together shape a dreamlike realm where identities blur, roles dissolve, and nothing is as it first seems. The victim becomes the perpetrator, the perpetrator a child — all depending on which narrative unfolds in the moment.
Each film follows its own dark logic, where power, desire, and vulnerability merge and shift in a continuous state of transformation.
The familiar slips into the unfamiliar. The disturbing carries a trace of beauty.
Each animation is accompanied by a bespoke composition for pipe organ — distinct yet intrinsically part of a larger, breathing system. The music drifts and mutates from film to film like a sentient presence: alert, evolving, alive. At HAS – Helix Art Space, this interplay of image and sound creates a curated encounter — where the soft, luminous architecture contrasts with the darker emotional undercurrents.
Together, the films form a fractured drama where nothing stays fixed, and where the notion of evil cannot be defined without also turning inward.
Date
Artists
Nathalie Djurberg
Hans Berg
Theme
This exhibition explores the interplay between space and identity, where each piece invites reflection on presence, perception, and the boundaries we create — both visible and invisible.
Credits
Courtesy the artists; Lisson Gallery, London, New York, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Beijing; Gio Marconi, Milan; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, Los Angeles.