Four Boxes Gallery presents the exhibition Within The Wall by artist Kaja Lahoda, with an opening on April 14, 2026. The exhibition is a new version and installation of the originally commissioned show for Tranen in Gentofte, curated by Toke Lykkeberg.

In Kaja Lahoda’s exhibition Within The Wall, the building’s masonry is turned inside out. Her works do not simply hang on the wall. What she presents within the building’s walls points to what lies inside them. Lahoda is not concerned with bricks, concrete, wood, and drywall. Instead, she investigates, cuts into, shapes, and works with the stone wool hidden behind them. From this lifeless material, figures emerge to the surface. In Within The Wall, insulation—normally unnoticed—moves to the foreground, and the inert material is animated by spirit and all manner of creeping life. The wall takes on a life of its own, moving in and out of itself.

All the technical installations, including rockwool, that serve humanity’s arrangement of its own small world at a comfortable distance from the larger world are hidden away in walls, ceilings, and floors. When the outside world breaks in, the discomfort is therefore all the greater. A mouse, fungus, or puddle that might be a minor curiosity outdoors is received on the other side of the wall with a shiver, as an inappropriate intrusion. Lahoda stages this discomfort through misplaced organisms and pests.

Lahoda is drawn to a sense of gothic horror in the realization that even we modern humans inhabit houses that host uninvited guests. The walls become breeding grounds for creatures—and not least for the imagination. The walls that were meant to separate inside life from outside life become porous in her work, signaling a shift in the supporting structure. What Lahoda digs into beyond the stone wool is also humanity’s new uncertainty at a time when our buildings and cities are threatened by more water, storms, and fire. For the so-called “indoor human,” who spends 90% of their time inside, it is our entire culture, society, and civilization that begins to waver when the interior is under threat.

The project is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, Statens Værksteder for Kunst, Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond, and Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse.

Text: Toke Lykkeberg

Photo: David Stjernholm