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Video Tour | Erik Olson: In the Garden

Erik Olson: In the Garden September 25, 2025—February 15, 2026 In the Garden is a series of large-scale oil paintings begun by Erik Olson in Düsseldorf, Germany during the early, uncertain months of the pandemic in 2020. The works draw on the historic Hofgarten—Germany’s oldest public park—as both a physical site and a psychological landscape. Thinking of the liminal space between order and freedom, Olson expanded the series this year to include imaginative, dreamlike explorations, removed from specificities of place. Olson’s canvases teem with narrative potential: animals stalk, waters reflect, solitary figures lie in moments of reflection or doubt. These are pauses between the familiar and the unknown that conjure the garden as a threshold—at the city’s edge or just around the corner—a surreal space between anxiety and longing. In more recent works, the garden becomes increasingly theatrical, a site for performance, memory, and projection. Olson positions the garden as a communal mind-space: a place implicitly understood as a site of memory, reflection, and social change. It is a space where personal myth meets collective transformation, where the imagined and the observed intertwine. Formally, Olson deploys the visual language of landscape—tree lines, paved paths, and open skies. Colour functions with intent: sharp contrasts, radiant hues, and atmospheric light evoke a world that feels vivid and surreal. Scale and perspective place the viewer on uncertain ground—never fully inside the scene, nor fully outside it. We stand on the brink of the garden’s illusion, where every path leads inward as well as outward. The works reflect the complexities we bring into them. The garden becomes a site of reckoning—a space where internal landscapes are externalized and where desire, unease, and recollection shift and merge. Curated by Kanika Anand. Video by ‪‪@ddg_yyc‬