Stepping into Friborg’s pictorial world is like walking through life’s most delicate everyday moments. His paintings and drawings depict spaces shaped by personal memories, sensations and imaginings, filled with romanticized glimpses of daily life that resonate widely. 

There is something classical and familiar about these works, many of which are rooted in the long tradition of still life painting. At the same time, through his distinctive palette and line, Friborg creates a universe entirely his own. For him, painting is about aesthetics, about transforming life into small, intense moments of beauty. His practice grows from a profound love of the physical world and its forms, colors and light.

 

Born in Copenhagen in 1996, Isak Friborg is self-taught and works primarily in oil on canvas and oil pastel on paper. His artistic practice is deeply rooted in a childhood immersed in art and culture, where colors, objects and visual impressions filled every room:

 

“My sense of aesthetics is, at its core, a longing for my childhood home, where art, color and fantastic objects filled every space.” 

The objects of that home now find their place in his paintings. Like amulets, recurring figures appear again and again: animals and rugs, furniture and wires, souvenirs, lamps and chess pieces. Together they form the building blocks of Friborg’s universe.

 

With his first exhibition at Hans Alf Gallery, Domestic Animals, Isak Friborg opens the door to his vision of the world around us. His works share a deep devotion to the essence of painting, with aesthetics as their driving force.