Thomas Bang
Thomas Bang (b. 1938) lives close to Copenhagen. He is a central figure in Danish sculpture and installation art, with a career that bridges the Danish and international avant-garde and has influenced generations of artists.
His work explores themes of fragility, vulnerability, and existential tension. With roots in American minimalism, Bang creates precise yet open-ended objects from modest materials like fabric and metal. Often placed directly on the floor, his sculptures establish a quiet, spatial presence—evoking architecture, machinery, or abstract portraits without settling into fixed meanings.
Thomas Bang has held three major solo exhibitions at Stalke Gallery, in the late 1980s and again in the 2000s. He has also been a regular presence in the gallery’s group exhibitions. Alongside artists such as Torben Ebbesen, Margrete Sørensen, and Thorbjørn Lausten, he played a key role in shaping Stalke’s engagement with conceptual and minimalist practices in Denmark.
Bang has exhibited widely in Europe and the US. In 2013, he took part in the restaging of “When Attitudes Become Form”(Bern 1969 / Venice 2013) at Fondazione Prada. His work is represented in numerous major collections, and he studied at The Cleveland Institute of Art, Yale University, and the University of Southern California.
