Fall exhibitions

A comprehensive program, which consists of socially engaged art, alternative art history and art sent by mail, is to be expected, when Kunsthal Charlottenborg September 15th opens the doors to nothing less than three fall exhibitions exploring the structure and role of the arts.

A comprehensive program, which consists of socially engaged art, alternative art history and art sent by mail, is to be expected, when Kunsthal Charlottenborg September 15^th opens the doors to nothing less than three fall exhibitions exploring the structure and role of the arts.

This fall’s huge, international exhibition, An Age of Our Own Making, presents five artists from the Third World, who all put focus on our role as co-creators of the society we’re part of. Museum Pist Protta is an unpredictable and different tribute exhibition to the art journal Pist Protta, while the exhibition Keep Art Flat! illustrates, how Mail Art reflected and influenced the political scene of the 1970s.

All three exhibitions open on Thursday September 15^th from 7pm – 10pm.

An Age of Our Own Making
September 16^th – January 15^th / Opening: September 15^th from 7pm – 10pm

An impressive covering of Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s façade, created from cast-off jute sacks from Ghana, and a floating island of trash are among some of the experiences, the IMAGES16 project An Age of Our Own Making offers. Through sculptures, performance, installations, movies, and collages the artists, Ibrahim Mahama (Ghana), Kamal Aljafari (Palestine), Moshekwa Langa (South Africa), Tita Salina & Irwan Ahmett (Indonesia) put focus on the possibilities of creating, claiming or using spaces as part of our practice as citizens in a society. The exhibition follows artistic research upon the politics of a space and explores the importance of us participating in the creation of the values, that shape the society we’re part of.

The works offer systemic research upon world views and inspire to new ways of being co-creators and citizens of the world. Read more about the exhibition

Museum Pist Protta
September 16^th – January 15^th / Opening: September 15^th from 7pm – 10pm

The art journal Pist Protta is a very special institution in Danish arts. Through 35 years the art journal, which is one of the oldest in Denmark, has mediated an alternative art history in more than 70 original art journals with contributions from hundreds of Danish and international artists. The editors are always experimenting with format, layout, paper quality, print methods, and graphic effects as part of an effort to give every issue its own original expression – as an art exhibition in itself . The exhibition is about and evolves around Pist Protta, but it doesn’t only present the art journal itself – it’s a wild and unpredictable museum installation full of sculptures, artifacts, pictures, and videos by a long number of artists, who, through the ages, have contributed to the art journal. The exhibitions is staged in close collaboration with Pist Protta’s editors artists Jesper Fabricius and Jesper Rasmussen and graphic designer Åse Eg Jørgensen.
Read more about the exhibition.

Keep Art Flat!
16. september – 6. november / Fernisering: 15. september kl. 19-22

The exhibition Keep Art Flat! is dedicated to artworks shared by mail between artists in a network that blossomed in the 1970s. Almost 250 artworks are from Lomholt Mail Art Archive are exhibited and illustrate how Mail Art reflected and designed the politics of the 1970s. Especially for South American and Eastern European artists Mail Art became a way of sharing their artworks with the rest of the world. South American artists mediated their views on the military dictatorship in their countries through Mail Art, while Eastern European artists shared their hopes for international solidarity, and all over artists shared their anxiety and dreams through their art works. The East-West conflict, the nuclear threat, capitalism, and communism figure as Mail Art themes, but so do dreams of equal opportunities, sexual liberation and environmental hopes.
Read more about the exhibition.

The exhibitions officially open on September 16^th. An Age of Our Own Making is a tripartite exhibitions project that develops from May 2016 until January 2017 in, respectively, Holbæk, Roskilde and Copenhagen. The exhibition project is curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and is realized by Holbæk Municipality. Museum Pist Protta is organized in close collaboration with the editors behind the art journal Jesper Fabricius, Jesper Rasmussen and Åse Eg Jørgensen. Keep Art Flat! is realized in collaboration with Niels Lomholt and Golden Days.