Group Exhibition at Rademakers Gallery

11 April - 27 June 2026 

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On April 11th 2026, Rademakers Gallery will open a new exhibition — The Garden Remembers — a group show inspired by nature in its blooming, vibrant, and ever-changing form. 

The new exhibition invites visitors into a world shaped by growth, color, and organic transformation. Guided by themes of blossoming landscapes, lush greens, and the quiet poetry of the natural world, The Garden Remembers explores how artists interpret the rhythms and vitality of nature. Rather than depicting nature directly, the works evoke its presence — its energy, softness, and constant renewal.

Featuring creations by Kim Simonsson, Kiki van Eijk, Poppykalas, Stefan Gross, Hilde Trip, Simone Post, Alfhild Sarah Külper, Frits Achten, Beppe Kessler and Sofie Aaldering, the exhibition brings together diverse artistic voices connected by a shared sensitivity to natural forms and sensations. Their approaches range from playful to contemplative, weaving a collective portrait of nature as both theme and inspiration.

The Garden Remembers invites viewers to step into a space where art feels alive — blooming, unfolding, and quietly transforming, just like nature itself.

The exhibition is open until June 27th 2026.

A nine meter long, hanging garden inspired by the flower garden of Henri Matisse for SMK - The national Gallery of Denmark.

The installation was created for the exhibition ‘Matisse: The Red Studio’ in collaboration with MomA in New York. .

PROGRAM AND NICE TO KNOW

16.00: Celebration begins

Poppykalas is one of many partners who are expanding and challenging the idea of the traditional gift shop. In addition to a forest of giant Poppykalas Organza Poppies, several products from the Poppykalas collection will be available in the store.
Including her unique oil paintings.

17.00 – 18.00: Singing, reading and rituals by Di Garbi and Thilde Maria Kristenstens aka Poppykalas.

Poppykalas can be experienced during CC Shop opening hours.

Poppykalas Colab in CC Shop from 08.05.2024 to 30.06.2024

About Poppykalas

Thilde Maria Haukohl Kristensen, also known as Poppykalas, is a visual artist, floral designer and author. She is internationally recognized for her paintings, original floral designs, installations, editorials for Vogue and more. In Denmark, she has exhibited at SMK, Glyptoteket, Thorvaldsens, Arden Asbæk Gallery, Galerie Wolfsen and others. She has written the book Poppykalas and the Magic Flowers, which is a personal and sensuous story about finding peace and beauty in nature, in the changing seasons and in the language of flowers.

Composer, musician and singer Di Garbi opens Poppykalas’ sensory universe with spring and summer works from the show “The Secret Garden”.

Poppykalas has created the costumes and scenography for the show, which will be revived in a new interpretation for the collaboration with CC Shop.

Thilde aka Poppykalas will read aloud from her book “Poppykalas and the Magic Flowers” and together with the guests, she will perform rituals from the book that take us all the way into spring.

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The Magical Flowers
Solo Exhibition in Tivoli by Poppykalas

August 31st – September 15th, 2024

As part of Tivoli’s Garden and Flower Festival, Thilde was invited to create a solo exhibition in the Rotunda.

In a sensorial and magical universe, you can experience oil paintings by Thilde Maria Haukohl Kristensen (also known as Poppykalas), inspired by Tivoli’s floral world. Dreamlike, large-scale, and vibrant textile flowers invite you to reconnect with a childlike sense of wonder.

The Magical Flowers is the red thread throughout the exhibition, where flowers unfold across a variety of materials and forms — from their visual presence to their scent and even their sound.

The exhibition is created in collaboration with @tivolicph @galeriewolfsen and @marie_louise_sandberg_collabs

U CAN’T TOUCH THIS
Exhibition at Arden Asbæk Gallery -
Martin Asbaek Gallery

March 11 - April 23 2022

A part of PLATFORM Arden Asbæk Gallery is excited to present its fourth exhibition under the title PLATFORM.

This time focusing on both craftsmanship and tactility, the exhibition U CAN’T TOUCH THIS presents the works of three emerging artists: Signe Emdal, Aya Simone and Thilde Maria Kristensen.

Each representing a different sense of tactility. From the glossy to the fluffy, from the watery to the rich, these four artists work within vastly different media; epoxy, textile, ceramics and painting. But what they have in common is just how hard they make keeping your hands to yourself.

Thilde Maria Kristensen is a visual artist and a floral designer working under the pseudonym Poppykalas.

Her oil paintings are soft and smooth enough to eat. Both the technique and motive is inspired by her grandmother, and while floral paintings were traditionally seen as a ‘woman’s work’ (and therefore less important), these pieces invite you to enter a world, where femininity, sensitivity and softness is pronounced with pride.

For commission work contact hej@poppykalas.dk

Photos by Kevin Josias and Poppykalas

‘It's like fairytale. From this moment arises a special pocket of time of flowers, sounds of beauty and bodies.’ - Anne Middelboe, Teateravisen

DEN HEMMELIGE HAVE
Glyptoteket
February 12 - 27 2022.

It is a healing performance about friendship and the marvelous power of nature with inspiration from Frances Hodgson Burnett's fantastic novel The Secret Garden. In a fast, digital age, we let the slowness, the soft and present grow.

Set & Costume Design by Poppykalas.

Choreographers @myka & @mymarienilsson.

Composer, singer and live performance by the one and only @digarbi-

Dancers @mymarienilsson @birgittelundtoft @daniescarleth @sofibellucci.

Costume Design assistant @fievonveer

Scenography & Costume Design assistant @ida.marie.hoejris

Produced by @zangenbergs_teater @kulavig in collaboration with @glyptoteket council by @jenschristian64 PR @kristofferdalsgard supported by @statenskunstfond.

Photos by Sarah Buthmann

Exhibition at Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen with floral installation and oil painting.

The oil painting by Thilde, the founder of Poppykalas, was projected outside on the building and insiden by Mads Vegas.

The exhibition took place during the Autumn Holiday and at At ‘Kulturnatten’, where PhilipISchneider performed Soil-Water-Sun in the floral installation with a choir of eight women.

First Solo exhibition ‘Dagenes Skum’ at Galerie Wolfsen in Aalborg, Denmark 04. - 25. November 2023.

Josephine Philip and Hannah Schneider have come together as the performance duo Philip | Schneider to create seductive spatial compositions that engage the body, ears, and mind.

During CHART 2019 is their performance Soil – Water – Sun, a new choral composition comprised of eight female voices and a growth laboratory developed by Poppykalas, a Copenhagen-based design studio.

The result is a sensuous, immersive installation that examines our implicit relationship with, or the lack of thereof, the cycle of nature, cultivating a space for contemplation and reflection.

Video: Malind Green & Thomas Jessen

Inspired by the untamed sea of Denmark's West Coast, where she grew up, Thilde created The Sea Table, thereby combining her two favourite natural elements: flowers and water.

Channeling their calming energies, the table catches the light and creates organic water-like shadows, and brings forth a new perspective on our natural world.

The organically shaped tabletop resembles a piece of cracked ice. The firm polished epoxy cubic base creates a contrast between the solid form and hand-picked flowers like oceanic moss, helichrysum, amaranthus and roses.

Exhibited at Arden Asbark Gallery in Copenhagen as at part of Martin Asbark Gallery within the exhibition:

U Can’t Touch This
March-April 2022

Arden Asbæk Gallery is presenting three contemporary artists, who each represent a different form of tactility. From the glossy to the fluffy, from the watery to the rich. The artist are Signe Emdal, Aya Simone Schmidt and Thilde Maria Haukohl Kristensen/Poppykalas. These four artists work within vastly different media, photography, textile, ceramics, painting and epoxy, but what they have in common is how hard they make keeping your hands to yourself.

Editorial movie *Dance of a Blooming Flower’ by photographer Henriette Ebbesen and Poppykalas.

CREDITS:

Director and photographer: Henriette Sabroe Ebbesen @henrietteebbesen

Floral Artist: Thilde Maria Haukohl Kristensen, founder of Poppykalas Floral Design Studio @poppykalas

Cinematographer: André Hansen @_andrehansen

Stylist: Hanna MW @hanmamw

Assistant stylist: Sidsel Alling @sidselalling

Hair stylist: Marianne Jensen @mariannejensenhair

Assistant hair stylist: Amalie Holmquist @amaliesofieholmqvist

Makeup artist: Louise Kaspersen using Tromborg @louisekaspersenartist

Dancers: Faithfull Destiny @faithfull.destiny // Fiiri Agency @fiiriagency, Maren Bjørneseth @marenbjorneseth and Sandra Liaklev Andersen @sandirita

Music: Peter Sabroe @m4gicpete

Film editor: Roni Selovuo @rsvuo

Assistant photographer: Frederik Sivertsen @den070494

Direct link for the editorial here

Window and interior decoration for Magasin in Copenhagen made with giant textile flowers.

The Save My Sister photo exhibition aims not only to increase awareness of violence against women, but also, importantly, to empower survivors of domestic abuse to create new narratives for themselves.

The campaign features portraits of both survivors and activist-allies in stunning floral surroundings—the idea being that the moment a survivor tells their story, they plant the seeds for a new life.

The project is a collaboration between floral design studio Poppykalas, photographer Sarah Buthmann, and women’s rights organization Danner. The show will tour Denmark all summer 2021 and is accompanied by talks and events in each city.

“Flowers are my language. In Save My Sister, the act of sharing one’s brutal story gives root to new floral universes, new beginnings. This has been one of the most touching and meaningful projects for me ever.” —Thilde Maria Haukohl Kristensen, Founder of Poppykalas

In collaboration with Danner

Photographer: Sarah Buthmann

Floral Design: Poppykalas

Brave women:

Louise Makkonen
Geeti Amiri
Signe Lindkvist
Iben Hjejle
Mary Consolada Namagambe
Anonymous women

All flowers sponsored by Multflora A/S

Floral Bath 20.08 - 30.09 2020.

A sensuous exhibition, that invites you to enter a new, soft world.

Take someone you love in your hand and step into a slow world and forget everything about the coronavirus for a while.

Flower artist Poppykalas invites you to a hyper-sensory exhibition that reminds us of what makes life worth living, even when it feels like it have stopped.

“Inspired by Georges Bataille's call: "Be an ocean!" we use the Coronas eradication of everything we know and take for granted as a starting point for creating a new and soft world. Here a pronounced sensitivity reigns, and we place emphasis on community rather than prejudice,” - says Thilde Maria Haukohl Kristensen, the founder and creative director of Poppykalas.

Floral installations, oil paintings and scent composition by Poppykalas.

Sound installation by the performance art duo Philip I Schneider and violinist Kirstine Schneider.

Video projection by video artist Teresa Freitas.

The exhibition will take place in Poppykalas Floral Design Studio, Frederiksberg Allé 12 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Floral Bath is kindly supported by &Drape, Greenflor Inspiration & Thursd.

Photos by Petra Kleis and Anders Bendixen.

Commission for The Wall Street Hotel in New York.

180 x 140 x 3 CM.

Featured in Travel and Leisure, T Magazine and Forbes.

For commission work contact hej@poppykalas.dk

An exhibition with spatial dried flower installations, moss and sand together with floral oil paintings by Thildes, the founder and creative director of Poppykalas, grandmother Laura Krogsgaard.

The exhibition Blomsterøjne took place at Hanstholm Lighthouse in Thy close by the wild North Sea and the moonlike moor. Thilde origins from Thy.

‘Poppykalas and the magical flowers’ is a deeply personal story about releasing your inner child and finding peace in the flowers that have always been here.

Thilde Maria Kristensen's work is a visual and hyper-sensory story about being a human in close connection with nature. Throughout a year and changing seasons, we follow Thilde's experiments, from wild wildflowers and small potpourri to sumptuous floral compositions and scents.

She shares her experiences of expressing herself through the language of flowers and finding pauses, meaning and beauty in nature.

The book is a beautiful coffee table book with book design by L.A. Graphic Design and photos by Sarah Buthmann.

The book is out April 27 2023 at the danish publishing house Gyldendal.

PURCHASE SIGNED EDITION HERE

Client: Louis Vuitton

Creative development of visual merchandise SS20 Men’s Pop Up with faux flowers in selected world wide stores: Poppykalas

Pictures: Poppykalas work in progress pictures.

Bespoke Floral Nike Swoosh made with dried flowers by Poppykalas.

In an age where the concept of beauty is consistently challenged and redefined, it seems absurd that Kicki Yang Zhang ever thought of herself as unpretty. Known as @kickiyangz on Instagram, the multihyphenate model-influencer-artist has curated a color-coordinated feed that’s an art lover’s dream.

Here, see Kicki kick it in the women’s-only Nike ZoomX Vista Grind, as we talk growing up across two continents, messing around with makeup, and encouraging fellow East Asian women to feel at home in their own skin – wherever they happen to live.

Client: Naked & Nike

Styling: Maya Soul Paustian

Makeup: Marie Thomsen

Hair: Donna Marie Thyrrestrup

Model: Kicki Yang Zhang

Words: Lakeisha Goedluck

Floral Design: Poppykalas

Read more here.

Video about the floral work of Poppykalas for the Bloom Festival in Copenhagen.

Layered oil painting with polyfilla from the exhibition Floral Bath by Thilde hanging in Holly Golightly - a highly curated multi-brand store in Copenhagen.

Space 10 is a research and design lab on a mission to create a better everyday life for people on the planet.

Space10 has launched Bee Home — a free and open-source design that enables anyone, anywhere, to support their local pollinators and take action in preserving the world’s biodiversity.

For people and the planet
Bees and the service they provide are essential to life on this planet. These animals are a vital part of our ecosystem and have been shaping our natural environment for millions of years. But now, because of human impact, their place in this world is threatened.

Bee Home explores how we can inspire people to solve this global challenge in a playful and accessible way. Through a digital platform that allows anyone to design, customise and download their own Bee Home, we hope to offer a vision of how democratic design can help rebalance our relationship with the planet.

Client: Space10
Designers: Tanita Klein & Bakken & Bæck.
Set Design: Poppykalas
Photo: Niklas Adrian Vindelev

Editorial in Børsen Pleasure.

Floral Styling: Poppykalas
Art Direction: Lea Holm Grønning
Words: Marie Kaufholz
Photo: Frederik Lindholm Studio

Layered Oil Painting by Thilde.

180 x 140 x 3 CM.

Exhibited at Thorvaldsens Museum.

For more info contact hej@poppykalas.dk

Flora in situ is a collaborative exhibition between photographer and Rosalina Serup and Poppykalas.

It consists of eight photographs of flowers. Flowers are used to express feelings between sender and recipient, and can therefore be thought of as performative.

Flora in situ plays with the symbolic flowers in contrasting contexts, whereby new meanings might emerge.

Flora in situ is thus an attempt to let novel meanings arise between the symbolic flowers and the viewers.

Exhibition: October - September 2017 in Poppykalas’ Studio

Floral Styling: Poppykalas
Photo: Rosalina Serup

Read more here Politiken

Vulva is a floral Installation made of dried flowers, crystals, sand and a strong natural scent of lavender. Vulva was made for the Dawn Exhibition during 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen 2018.

Dive In is a creative collaboration between photographer Mariya Pepelanova and Poppykalas.

Selected oil paintings by Thilde, the founder of Poppykalas.

For more info write hej@poppykalas.dk

Frontpage and editorial in Politiken - Ibyen about the exhibition Flora in Situ.

Photo: Marie Hald
Floral Styling: Poppykalas

A creative collaboration between talented photographer Mariya Pepelanova and Poppykalas with pressed flowers.

Client: Georg Jensen
Flora Design & Art Direction: Poppykalas
Photographer: Rasmus Dengsøe

Art Nouveau – La Belle Époque – is characterized by an intense aspiration to beauty. A desire to create artistic design based on magnificent craftsmanship while being very much inspired by the shapes of nature and wildlife. This is where Georg Jensen found his inspiration and where he felt at home.

April 19, 2019 marks the 115th anniversary of the company Georg Jensen, and to pay tribute to their founding father’s love for nature, the Tureen 270 was the obvious choice. The Tureen 270 is an elegant one-of-a-kind piece, which showcases the incredible level of creativity, heritage and artisanship that has infused the house of Georg Jensen since its foundation in 1904.

The floral top of the lid is the most demanding element of the tureen. Each element is handmade and recreated from archive sketches and photos. It has been an incredibly demanding job for the most skilled silversmiths at Georg Jensen. Besides these decorative details the generous size and the voluminous curves made the Tureen a very complex object to handle and create

Floral Set Design for the movie Venuseffekten by Anna Emma Haudal premiered in 2021.

Winner of Elle Decoration Design Award Sweden in the category Interior Accessory of The Year with the motivation: "Coluorful happiness from the floral world and a spot-on instinct for trends make these rugs the most wanted interior item of the year."

The Secret Garden Collection is a collaboration between Layered and renowned Danish Floral Design Studio Poppykalas. For this exclusive capsule collection, Poppykalas explored the theme of a flourishing garden and translated it into an abstract floral composition. 

The two limited edition rugs are made from a mixture of recycled wool and Tencel, which lends texture and a sheen finish to the design. Tencel is a high-quality version of viscose, and just like the wool used, it is environmentally friendly and very hard-wearing. The rugs are handwoven, which makes every one of them unique. It may also result in small variations in size and colour.

The flowers, colors, textures, and sensuousness of a garden have a calming, relaxing and recharging effect on the human body. The overall inspiration for The Secret Garden Collection is the prodigious garden, and all the benefits it has on the body and mind. Inspired by the traditional way of creating a garden design with abstract - often round and oval forms, Poppykalas has created the unique designs of the collection.

The Flower Field rug is inspired by an atmospheric, wild rose garden with colors of pink, lilac and yellow. The Secret Garden rug has taken its inspiration from a mysterious hidden place, with a small, rippling stream and tons of wild flowers.

Purchase The Secret Garden Collection here.

Floral Design for Fritz Hansen at Milan Design Week .

Fritz Hansens furniture, lighting and interior accessories of exceptional quality are curated in a series of immersive environments inspired by moments in life — from the final minutes getting ready before guests arrive for dinner to the contemplative calm of late nights alone with a good book. The result is imaginative spaces created to give room for imagination.

Advertisement for 1664 Blanc
Outdoor Campaign for 1664 Blanc

Client: Carlsberg
Art Direction: Poppykalas
Bureau: Uncle Grey
Photographer: Oliver Knauer

Editorial in Eurowoman.

Photo: Rasmus Weng Karlsen
Models: Zelma Lewerissa & Christine Sofie
Styling: Emili Sindlev
Floral Styling Poppykalas

BUY THE WALLPAPER HERE AT TIGRON & FLOYD

Collab: Poppykalas X Tigron & Floyd
Product: Pompadour Wallpaper Collection
Photography: Mariya Pepelanova 
Styling & Art Direction: Poppykalas 

Poppykalas explores new depths in the sensual universe of flowers in collaboration with Swedish wallpaper manufacturer Tigron & Floyd.

"I still clearly remember my grandmother's wallpaper and curtains  - pink flowers all over. As long as I can remember, I have loved the flower print.
It feels amazing to be surrounded by flowers whatever it is in the vase, on the wall or in the garden. And imagine falling asleep with a wall full of flowers and waking up to it again in the morning. I am very excited about the idea of being able to share my passion in a new way”. - Thilde Maria Kristensen, Poppykalas

The wallpaper collection conveys an universal languages in a new interesting format that sets a mood and or a feeling. Poppykalas’s new interpretation of the "grandmother wallpaper" invites a convincing and eclectic staging of the home. 

The result is a beautiful example of magic that can occur when two different professionals collaborate.

"We became acquainted with Thildes flower art via Instagram and were instantly taken. She has that special talent and sees angles, shades and flower textures in a completely unique way. We like the way in which Thilde sets her own limits for what is possible and does not dictate unwritten rules. It appeals to us and fits well with how we work with pattern design. " - Eveline Johnsson, one half of the design duo at Tigron & Floyd.

With great inspiration from the 18th century French Madame de Pompadour, her intellectuality and lavish lifestyle. "More is more". A francophile cornucopia of colors and flowers with a modern touch is common denominator for both wallpapers.

"As a stylist working with flowers, I design moods and expressions. I have also done this wallpaper collection. The Pompadour Poppy wallpaper cultivates the poppy, underwater aesthetics of the poppies salmon poppies up against a dark opal green background, whereas Pompadour Rose goes all the way with a more light ultra-feminine wallpaper in pink and light-colored tones."  - Thilde Maria Kristensen, Poppykalas   

The flowers illustrated in patterns are photographed by Tigron & Floyd's design duo Hanna Richter and Eveline Johnsson. Subsequently, the patterns were created digitally in close collaboration with Poppykalas.

For any sales requests please contact hej@poppykalas.dk

Here you have the joy of life: Eternal flowers and alcohol in one poster.

By placing flowers in a new context this Poppykalas print will take your perception of flowers to the next level. You can decorate your fridge with it by attaching the four magnets or you can frame it. The Poppykalas Fridge Poster is a very popular poster distributed to the whole world.

Floral Image & Styling: Poppykalas
Photo: Columbus Leth

Order in The Poppykalas Webshop here.

The Flower market Series is cultivating the mystique behind the Flower market in the middle of the night, when the light of day slowly approaches. It depicts the travel of the flowers - from the raw carriage to the plastic wrapped car ride in water buckles as an attempt to extent their precious and fragile lifes, before they are being delivered to weddings, funerals, birthdays and lovers. 

Photographer: Katrine Møbius
Floral Styling: Poppykalas

Purchase the prints in the webshop here.

Visuel Artist Chris Calmer created the photo with a selection of flowers by Poppykalas exhibited at Christoffer Egelund Gallery in Copenhagen.

Chris Calmer also created the exhibition ‘Læske’ at Buddenbooks Gallery with dried flowers by Poppykalas.

Flowers: Poppkalas
Photo: Chris Calmer