Last year, Galerie Mikael Andersen celebrated its 35th anniversary. The gallery opened in the summer of 1989 and has since exhibited at the same address: Bredgade 63 in Copenhagen.A large exhibition of works by Jørgen Haugen Sørensen, organized by Mikael Andersen at Kunsthallen in the spring of 1989, became a success and led to his desire to open his own new gallery in Copenhagen. Galerie Mikael Andersen's first exhibition in 1989 featured the artists: Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Jørgen HaugenSørensen, Søren Georg Jensen, Erik Thommesen, Søren Jensen, Erik A. Frandsen, and Claus Carstensen, and as reviewer Øystein Hjort wrote in leading Danish newspaper Politiken: "The ambition and quality level hasbeen set high, [...] Mikael Andersen's opening exhibition indicates the gallery's direction. It bravely – and convincingly – blends three generations in Danish art." Since then, over 250 exhibitions have been shown in the gallery, featuring both Danish and international contemporary art.The gallery's profile is based on a group of artists who made their breakthroughs in the 1980s and 1990s, but it also includes artists from older and younger generations. The youngest generation is particularly represented by several artists from England and Germany.Galerie Mikael Andersen has also curated a number of exhibition projects outside the gallery: Fairy Tales Forever at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum (2005), Display, Charlottenborg (1997), and City Space, Copenhagen(1996), as well as the art commissions of Frederik VIII's Palace at Amalienborg (2010).