Larissa Sansour

This autumn’s major exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg is an extensive solo exhibition by the Palestinian-Danish video and installation artist Larissa Sansour, who represented Denmark at the 58th Venice Biennale. The past, the present and possible futures meet in Sansour’s darkly expressive exhibition, opening up a space for new ways of thinking about history, loss and trauma.

Larissa Sansour was born in East Jerusalem, and her own heritage and lived experience influence her artistic practice. In her carefully considered and aesthetically refined video works and installations, she addresses the Palestine issue that has lasted for nearly a century, reframing the history of a people and a homeland on the brink of erasure.

Central to the artist’s work is her capacity to create new spaces for contemplation and give voice to silenced narratives. Using an experimental and imaginative visual language, and drawing on the narrative methods of documentary, opera, and the science fiction genre, she weaves together historical and contemporary politics with imagined realities.

The exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg is Sansour’s largest exhibition in Denmark to date and features existing works created between 2009 and 2023, as well as a brand-new commission.

Larissa Sansour (b. 1973, East Jerusalem) is based in London and has a long-standing artistic partnership with the Danish visual artist and author Søren Lind. Sansour’s work has been exhibited in numerous art institutions around the world, and she has participated in group exhibitions and shown her films at MoMA in New York and Tate Modern in London, among others. In 2019, Sansour represented Denmark at the Venice Biennale.

The exhibition is initiated by Amos Rex, Helsinki and curated by Terhi Tuomi. The exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg is supported by the Augustinus Foundation, Beckett Foundation, Danish Arts Foundation, Knud Højgaard Foundation, Obel Family Foundation and the William Demant Foundation.