BERLIN.- KÖNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT is presenting NACHTSCHWÄRMEN by Rasmus Eckhardt, the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery.

In NACHTSCHWÄRMEN, Eckhardt turns to Berlin, his adopted city, as both stage and labyrinth. Across fifteen new works, figures drift through the half-light of streets and rooms, guided by the quiet rhythm of the night. Within this wandering, a presence returns again and again—sometimes near, sometimes lost—sensed in the faces of strangers, in the scent of the city, in the fog that softens its outlines. The search continues through encounters and silences, dreams and fragments of memory, as if love itself were a path with no clear destination. Seen through sleepless eyes, the city becomes a silent confidant, echoing the pulse of longing that moves through its empty streets and shadowed corners, when the world feels both infinite and intimately close.

There is something cinematic yet deeply private in these works, as though each image were captured on the edge of forgetting. The figures linger, neither arriving nor leaving, suspended between a dream that refuses to fade and a day that has not yet begun. Eckhardt paints as if tracing the afterglow of a memory, a world poised between wakefulness and reverie. Through his distinct handling of color and light, he evokes moments that seem both distant and deeply familiar, as though recalled through the soft blur of recollection.

His technique, combining pastel, chalk, and sandpaper, lends the paintings their hazy luminosity. These surfaces hum with a quiet tension, balancing tenderness and unease, reality and the realm of dreams.

Rasmus Eckhardt (b. 1982 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish painter known for his atmospheric works that explore the space between memory, dream, and intimacy. Using pastel, chalk, and sandpaper, he creates soft, luminous surfaces that convey both fragility and depth.

Eckhardt was mentored by Jesper Christiansen, professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and has exhibited extensively across Europe and the United States.

Recent solo exhibitions include Manhattan Fall at SHRINE, Los Angeles (2024); Solitude at CCA Andratx, Illes Balears (2023); and Dandy at The Plant CPH, Copenhagen (2022). His work has also been shown at institutions such as Nino Mier Gallery (Brussels), Albert Contemporary (Odense), and Sandberg Gallery (Hamburg). Eckhardt’s practice is rooted in personal experience, focusing on themes of solitude, desire, and the passage of time.