Category: Photography

Salomon Thomas Nicolai Drejer The series draws on a book by the Danish botanist Salomon Thomas Nicolai Drejer (born February 15th, 1813, Eveldrup; died April 21th, 1842, Copenhagen), published in 1838, at which point Drejer was 25 years old. Flora Danica From 1841 to 1842, Drejer served as editor of Flora Danica. He did not… Continue reading ‘Flora Excursoria Hafniensis’

The ‘Objects for an Ideal Home’ series is inspired by a 1999 music album, in the electronica genre, as it was labeled in the mid-90s, by that name. ‘Objects for an Ideal Home’ was produced and released by the Danish musician Opiate (Thomas Knak) on the record label April Records. In 2009, a 20th anniversary… Continue reading ‘Objects for an Ideal Home’

August 12th 2026, a total solar eclipse crossed continental Europe, the first visible here since August 11th 1999. The word eclipse comes from the Greek ekleipsis, “a leaving out.” Against that omission stands phaínesthai: to come into appearance. Sun is a triptych consisting of a system poem, which regularises the noun column of a 2011… Continue reading Sun: Triptychs for Solar Eclipses

The oldest light we can observe, the cosmic microwave background radiation, is nearly 14 billion years old. D defining trait of light is that it cannot be owned, at least not yet. In a sense, trees can archive light temporarily through photosynthesis and transform it into chemical energy. A line can be said to span… Continue reading Art & Degas’ Obsession

This started out as a photo of the coastline of Sweden seen from Hellerup, Denmark, in a somewhat dystopian light punctuated by the distant silhouette of the Barsebäck nuclear power plant. Initially, the photo was titled ‘Last Day of March,’ after someone nearby said, ‘This looks like the end of everything.’ While reading Jacques Derrida’s… Continue reading “The Time Is Out of Joint” in Shakespeare’s Hamlet

In 2011 I wrote a system poem. In 2024 I inscribed it into the Bitcoin blockchain. In 2025 I finished a photography-based work, ICE | July | 1982, built around the idea of William Gibson’s Black ICE: the cryptographic membrane that, in Neuromancer, wraps data against intrusion. In 2026 I returned to the same poetic… Continue reading System Poetry: Gibson, Wordsworth, Shakespeare (3 x Williams)

I’m Kasper Bergholt, a Danish artist, photographer, and poet based in Copenhagen. In 2023, I picked up a vintage Nikon camera for a minor photography project, which led to more visual work. I’m interested in poetry, time, triptychs, flowers, and chronotopes. I hold an MA and a gold medal from the University of Copenhagen. Exhibitions… Continue reading Danish Artist ~ Kasper Bergholt