> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Michael Kærgaard: Repetition as Creature Logic - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/michael-kaergaard-repetition-as-creature-logic/ - Published: 2026-02-16T05:00:22.000Z - Updated: 2026-02-16T05:00:21.000Z - Description: Michael Kærgaard works with glazed stoneware to stage friction between tenderness and threat through repetition and porous surfaces. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Artist in Focus, HAGD Contemporary on This is Catapult ## Multiplicity without Exception ### Michael Kærgaard – Ceramic Sculpture [**Michael Kærgaard**](https://michaelkaergaard.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art)**,** born 1980 in Aalborg, is a self-taught Danish ceramic artist whose practice has gained increasing visibility since 2023 through collaborations with the gallery [**HAGD Contemporary**](https://hagd.dk/?ref=catapult-platform.art). Working primarily in glazed stoneware, he has developed a material language that merges figuration with abstraction, humor with unease, and tenderness with threat. Kærgaard’s sculptures do not present monsters as singular events. They appear in clusters, sequences, constellations. Heads sprout horns, spikes pierce porous surfaces, small openings puncture rounded bodies. Gold tips emerge like signals. The forms oscillate between vessel and figure, relic and organism. What drives the work is not narrative but multiplication. The creature repeats, shifts, mutates. It is never an exception but a condition. ![Michael Kærgaard: Repetition as Creature Logic - ceramic in the making](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/Michael-K--rgaard-1.jpg) ****Michael Kærgaard:** Making of Mother of many Exhibition - Hagd Contemporary Image Courtesy of the artist Surface is central. Rough, cratered textures absorb glaze unevenly, producing porous skins that feel eroded rather than finished. The objects often evoke artifacts or archaeological remnants, yet their immediacy resists nostalgia. Kærgaard situates his practice between abstraction, expressionism, and figuration without committing fully to any one of them. The tension lies in attraction and discomfort coexisting in the same object. --- [HAGD Contemporary: Michael Kærgaard and the Logic of MonstersHAGD Contemporary presents Michael Kærgaard’s Mother of Many, an exhibition of stoneware figures where monstrosity, tenderness, and material force collide.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/catapult-7.png)This is CatapultDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/Hagd-contemporary-exhibition--artist-michael-kaergaard--monther-of-many.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/hagd-contemporary-michael-kaergaard-and-the-logic-of-monsters/) ****Michael Kærgaard** \- Monster of many at Hagd Contemporary curated by Rasmus Peterfischer --- This Artist Focus complements our exhibition article on *Mother of Many*, currently on view at[ **HAGD Contemporary**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/hagd-contemporary-michael-kaergaard-and-the-logic-of-monsters/) in Aalborg, where Kærgaard’s largest presentation to date unfolds as a dense constellation of these recurring beings. --- [**Instagram Michael Kærgaard**](https://www.instagram.com/michaelkaergaard/?hl=en&ref=catapult-platform.art) [**Hagd contemporary on Instagram** ](https://www.instagram.com/hagd%5Fcontemporary/?ref=catapult-platform.art) --- ## Notable Artworks and insight in **Michael Kærgaard** Studio process ## ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/hagd-contemporary.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/new-ceramic-artist--Michael-K--rgaard-.webp) ****Michael Kærgaard** \- Artist Studio - Making of Mother of Many for HAGD Contemporary . Image Courtesy of the Artist ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/hagd-contemporary-preview.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/Michael-K--rgaard--artist.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/Michael-K--rgaard--catapult--the-new-munchies-art-club.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/Michael-K--rgaard--new-ceramic-artists.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/new-voices-in-contemporary-art.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/hagd-contemporary--Michael-K--rgaard.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/Michael-K--rgaard-ceramic-artist-.jpg) Michael Kærgaard: Impressions from his Studio - Image Courtesy of the artist --- ## **More to discover on Catapult:** ### **Exhibitions** [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/telegraph--gallery-exhibition--za-pultem-behind-the-counter-1.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/paulina-olowska-caroline-walker-adela-janska-za-pultem-behind-the-counter-at-telegraph-gallery-olomouc/) ****Za Pultem (Behind the Counter)**, exhibition view featuring works by ****Paulina Olowska, Caroline Walker, and Adéla Janská**, ****Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc**. Photography: Vendula Burgrová - Image courtesy and provided by the gallery --- ### Long form article - Spotlight Liz Hernández [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/Liz-Hernandez-artist-feature.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/liz-hernandez-can-a-painted-mask-tell-the-truth/) What We Hide, What We Perform, and What Painting Still Knows! Artist Spotlight ****Liz Hernández.** Image courtesy of the artist ---