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Exhibition

Daniel Kruger: Fragments of the Future

Dates

21 August 2026 – 24 October 2026

Location

Gallery GAo ShAn

Snellmaninkatu 15
00170 Helsinki
Finland

Born in South Africa in 1951 and raised on a farm in Namibia, Kruger studied goldsmithing, graphic design, painting and sculpture in South Africa before continuing his education under Hermann Jünger at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. This multidisciplinary background has shaped a practice that moves freely between jewellery, ceramics and the decorative arts.

Kruger combines natural forms, historical artefacts, cultural references and personal experience in richly layered compositions. Precious metals, gemstones and pearls may appear alongside glass, textiles, pigments, seeds and found objects. Rather than establishing a fixed hierarchy between materials, he gives familiar things unexpected meanings through new relationships of colour, form and context.