Galeria 18 presents How to Be Human, a solo exhibition by Danish artist Iris Bendt-Hedal. With bold colours, layered figures, and expressive brushwork, Bendt-Hedal explores how we live within social structures (the norms, expectations, and hierarchies) that shape us, and beyond them, as we try to break free or find our own expression.
Bendt-Hedals paintings are playful, ironic, and embody both the wild and the restrained, the delicate and the raw — the many selves we shift between in our attempt to belong.
How to Be Human invites viewers to reflect on what it means to be human — to navigate emotion, connection, and the need to be seen in an increasingly self-centred society.
Iris Bendt-Hedal is a Danish artist whose practice revolves around the social and cultural structures that shape human behaviour. Through contrasts of beauty and rawness, she explores how emotion, power, and vulnerability coexist in contemporary life. Her work has been exhibited in several galleries across Denmark and in New York.
Meet the artist: October 18–28 — Iris Bendt-Hedal will be present at Galeria 18 for informal conversations about her work and process.
Kilde: Galeria 18