The Great Spring Show / Market Art Fair: Isabella Ducrot, Sally J. Han, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg and Mirja Bozarth Fornell

The Great Spring Show

Isabella Ducrot
Sally J. Han
Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg
Mirja Bozarth Fornell – BOZ ART

Market Art Fair
23.04 – 26.04.2026

For Market Art Fair 2026, Belenius draws a playful parallel between an art fair and London’s Chelsea Flower Show: both are social gatherings and competitions of aesthetic taste. The gallery’s presentation brings this idea to life, allowing art to flourish like a carefully curated garden.

Each May, the Chelsea Flower Show in London attracts visitors from around the world. Established in 1913 at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, it features more than 400 horticultural exhibits. For this year’s edition of the fair, Belenius highlights the comparison between the flower show and an art fair, presenting a booth that unfolds like a cultivated landscape, with works by Italian artist Isabella Ducrot, Chinese-born, US-based Sally J. Han, and Swedish duo Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg.

Isabella Ducrot’s practice is shaped by personal experience, particularly her extensive collection of textiles gathered over decades of travel across Turkey, India, China, Tibet, and Afghanistan. Beginning her artistic career later in life, she has spent almost four decades developing a practice in which fabrics are central, considered artworks in their own right. Ducrot combines these textiles with pencil, pastel, ink, and watercolour, often on rare or unusual papers, creating works that carry cultural, historical, and philosophical references. Influenced by her background as a writer, she integrates fragments of text as she does fabrics, weaving narratives that mirror the layering, stitching, and composition of her materials. Her works encourage viewers to continually question and uncover new layers of meaning, highlighting the interplay between memory, material, and imagination.

Sally J. Han’s techniques draw on centuries-old painterly traditions, yet her scenes of everyday life feel contemporary and immediate. Subtle details reference her Korean and Chinese American heritage, giving her work a perspective where quiet intimacy intersects with cultural commentary. Heavily informed by her lived experiences, Han often recontextualises traditional Korean aesthetics within modern settings, exploring both personal and collective experience through a reflective, culturally aware lens.

Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg are known for psychologically charged, darkly humorous works that explore human and animalistic desires. In their films, clay animation brings to life scenarios of jealousy, revenge, lust, and submission, while Berg’s soundscapes heighten the emotional and sensory impact.

Their practice draws on folklore, animist traditions, and psychoanalytic ideas, revealing hidden drives beneath everyday behaviour. With a balance of theatricality and intimacy, they create worlds that are unsettling yet captivating, where exaggerated narratives and grotesque humour expose the tension between social norms and instinctive impulses. Their work investigates how desire, power, and vulnerability shape experience, engaging viewers on psychological, emotional, and sensory levels.

Both the Chelsea Flower Show and an art fair occupy a space between exhibition and commerce, balancing attention to detail with presentation. Belenius’ presentation at Market Art Fair 2026 reflects this balance, presenting art as both an aesthetic experience and a thoughtful engagement with the world.

– Market Art Fair, 2026

Isabella Ducrot (b. 1931) in Naples, Italy. Lives and works in Rome, Italy.

Ducrot is known for her distinctive use of woven textiles as the foundation of her paintings. Coming to art later in life, the Italian artist has built an impressive collection of antique fabrics through her travels across Asia, particularly in Turkey, India, China, Tibet, and Afghanistan. She sees these textiles as works of art in their own right, something she has studied deeply and considers central to her artistic development. Working with a range of media, including pencil, pastel, ink, and watercolor on carefully chosen papers, Ducrot creates layered compositions that bring together a wide range of cultural influences. Her work draws on everything from philosophy and folklore to the long traditions of textile making, resulting in pieces that feel both intimate and richly connected to history.

Ducrot’s work was the subject of a recent solo exhibition, Profusione at Le Consortium Museum, Dijon, and her installation Big Aura was featured at the Dior Haute Couture SS 2024 runway show at the Musée Rodin, Paris. She has presented solo exhibitions at Petzel, New York; Gisela Capitain, Cologne; Sadie Coles, London; and Standard (Oslo), Oslo. Her works are held in numerous public collections, including the Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo; Cranford Collection, London; EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; Le Consortium, Dijon; MAMCO, Geneva; MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Ludovico Corrao, Gibellina; and Munchmuseet, Oslo.

Sally J. Han (b. 1993) in Shenyang, China. Lives and works in New York, US.

Han has cultivated a distinctive artistic practice that merges the quiet intimacy of everyday life with subtle yet incisive cultural commentary. Her work explores the intersections of personal memory, diasporic identity, and the timelessness of human ritual, often recontextualizing traditional Korean aesthetics within contemporary settings. Through her meticulously rendered paintings, Han invites viewers into moments of stillness, where the ordinary – whether a solitary moment on a park bench or gazing into a mirror – becomes a site of poetic resonance. She earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (2016) as a Silas H. Rhodes Scholar and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art (2019). Han currently lives and works in New York.

Han’s work has been exhibited widely in solo and group presentations, including solo exhibitions at Fortnight Institute, New York (2020); Gallery Belenius, Stockholm (2023); and a solo presentation at Independent Art Fair, New York (2021). Her paintings have also been featured in significant group exhibitions at the Flag Art Foundation, New York; Jeffrey Deitch (Wonder Women, curated by Kathy Huang); and the Aïshti Foundation (Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths, curated by Massimiliano Gioni), among others. Her works are held in the permanent collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; and the Museu Inimá de Paula, Brazil.

Nathalie Djurberg (b. 1978) in Lysekil, Sweden and Hans Berg (b. 1978) in Rättvik, Sweden. Currently live and work in Sweden. 

Djurberg received her MFA from Malmö Art Academy, Sweden in 2002. Berg is a musician, producer and composer, working mainly with electronic music. Mixing animation, sculpture and sound, Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg create psychologically charged scenarios dealing with human and animalistic desires. Since 2001, Djurberg has developed a distinctive style of filmmaking, using clay animation to dramatise the basest of natural instincts from jealousy, revenge and greed, to submission and lust. Her partner, the musician and composer Hans Berg, conjures up the atmospheric sound effects and scores the hypnotic music for Djurberg’s animations and installations. In 2004 they began working closely together as a duo to create transgressive narratives rich in symbolic meaning and emotional reach, mining allegorical myths and grotesque, nightmarish visions in pieces, such as Tiger Licking Girl’s Butt (2004), We Are Not Two, We Are One (2008), and more recently, Worship (2016) and Dark Side of the Moon(2017). The artists’ interdisciplinary collaborations increasingly blur the cinematic, the sculptural and the performative in immersive environments that pair moving images and musical compositions with related set pieces or built objects.

Select solo exhibitions include ‘Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: Death or Eternal Delight’ at Gelleri F15, Moss, Norway (2025); SONGEUN Art Space, Seoul, South Korea (2024); National Nordic Museum, Seattle, USA (2024); Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden (2023); Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany (2023); Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (2023); Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai, China (2021); the Baltimore Museum of Art, USA (2018); Modern Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2018), touring to Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Italy (2018) and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany (2019). They won the Silver Lion for their presentation at the 53rd Venice Biennale, Italy in 2009, and their work is featured in a number of collections around the world, including the Prada Foundation in Milan, Italy and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, USA. In 2025, they were named Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry.

Mirja Bozarth Fornell (b. 1976) in Stockholm. Lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.

Bozarth Fornell’s journey into the world of floral artistry was as organic as the materials she works with. Drawn to the infinite colors and textures formed by nature, she creates striking floral sculptures and installations that evoke deep emotional resonance.

Her diverse background spans ballet, literature, scenography, organic farming and architecture - experiences that shape her distinctive artistic approach. Having spent her life in Stockholm, LA, Lake Tahoe, New York and now Zurich, Mirja’s work is infused with a global perspective and a deep appreciation for "natural" beauty.

Mirja has been published in Rakes Progress, interviewed for Swedish Public Radio as well as numerous Swedish interior design magazines (New Era Magazine, Elle Decor etc) and is featured in a children’s book about art and artists (Konstigt, 2021). Her floral design work has taken her to Paris, Copenhagen, Milan, Stockholm and Zurich.

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Artwork photos courtesy of the artists, Capitain Petzel, Galerie Gisela Capitain and Lisson Gallery. Sally J. Han artwork photo by Jason Mandella.