Art in a Day 2022
24 hours of performance art across Copenhagen
On 24 June, from 00.01 to 23.59, Copenhagen’s six contemporary art institutions are going to turn the city into a stage for performance art when Art in a Day kicks off with a programme buzzing with free art experiences.
Join us on an urban art tour through Copenhagen with performances of all kinds taking place in the contemporary art institutions and outside in the city’s spaces – in its streets and backyards, outside the department store Magasin du Nord, in the garden of Restaurant Noma, on bridges, in church towers and on the water.
The star-studded programme features international artists such as Peaches, VALIE EXPORT, Baby Dee, Martin Creed, Tosh Basco, Arvida Byström, and Monster Chetwynd as well as Danish Maja Malou Lyse and Esben Weile Kjær, Sophie Dupont, KasperSophie, Jules Fischer, Jacob Kirkegaard and Henrik Vibskov.
> Everyone is welcome and participation is free – just as it’s free to visit the contemporary art institutions.
> Follow the route from one contemporary art institution to the next or be surprised by the performances popping up all over the city around the clock.
ART PERFORMANCES ON AN URBAN ROUTE
Art in a Day kicks off already on 23 June with the Turner Prize winner Martin Creed’s performance All the Bells in front of Kunstforeningen GL STRAND in the inner city at 11.22. There the programme will be launched with a large sound work performed by churches in Copenhagen, primary school bells, children’s voices and the city’s own soundscape.
Just after midnight on 24 June, at 00.01, the 24-hour programme starts in earnest when the internationally renowned musician and visual artist Peaches gives a nocturnal music performance at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art.
In the morning and in the course of the day you can follow a band of musicians wearing costumes by the designer Henrik Vibskov marching through the streets of Copenhagen – mapping out the route from the performances of one contemporary art institution to the next. As you make your way through the streets and canals of Copenhagen, art performances will be popping up continuously until Art in a Day concludes at Copenhagen Contemporary on Refshaleøen – where Peaches will end this year’s 24-hour performance programme with an awesome after-party.
Please note that the opening times of the six contemporary art institutions are listed on their respective websites and may vary during these 24 hours.
VIEW THE FULL PROGRAMME HERE
23 June
11.22: Kunstforeningen GL STRAND
Martin Creed, All the Bells
Experience the Turner Prize-winning artist’s work All the Bells. Here, Martin Creed, the churches of Copenhagen and primary school pupils create a cacophonous 3-minute soundtrack of church bells, children’s shouts and the city’s soundscape.
Opening speech at 11.00 by Mia Nyegaard, Mayor of Culture and Recreation
23.00 – 23.59: Den Frie Udstillingsbygning
There are a limited number of places which will be allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis Jules Fischer, Vanitas
Vanitas is performed by professional dancers, performers and singers to a poetic sound collage of pop music. The performance Vanitas will take you into a dark and dreamy world of queer bodies and symbols ruled by change.
24 June
00.00 – 01.00: Den Frie Udstillingsbygning
Peaches
The internationally renowned musician initiates the program for Art in a Day with a musical performance.
For Art in a Day, she will stage two performances on 24 June: an explosive concert at Den Frie at 00.01 and an intense music performance at CC, Copenhagen Contemporary, in the evening. She has collaborated with everyone from Iggy Pop and Daft Punk to Kim Gordon and Major Lazer, had her music featured in cultural beacons like Lost In Translation, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Broad City among others
00.01 – 23.59: The Grand Hall, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Kunsthal Charlottenborg)
VALIE EXPORT, Ping Pong – Ein Film Zum Spielen, Ein Spielfilm
Art in a Day proudly announces the collaboration with performance artist VALIE EXPORT for a 24-hour continuous performance, which can only be activated by the audience. The artist will stage Ping Pong, a continuous interactive performance staged in the form of an art installation from 1968.
09.00 – 10.00: Den Frie Udstillingsbygning to Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Henrik Vibskov, Parade
Vibskov creates a parade where music, art, and fashion meet people directly. It connects the various performances that takes place during the day. The parade invites the people of Copenhagen to tag along, observe, or simply enjoy the magic ghostly presence that the theatrical costumes and melodies create around them.
10.00 – 20.00: Magasin, Kongens Nytorv, ground floor
KasperSophie, Peuple
Peuple is an interactive art experience, an exclusive clothing brand and a functioning pop-up store. Utilising playful seriousness and seductive visuality, the work pushes for reflection around the production of national identity and culture.
11.00 – 18.00: Kunsthal Charlottenborg, upper foyer
Sophie Dupont, I Breathe You Do You Breathe Me?
Dupont connects physical longing with a spiritual connection to the world through corporeality and recalls the primordial power of the body and the connectedness of everything . Dupont invites the audience to focus on breathing by asking them to pay attention to their breathing, creating a relationship between performers and visitors.
12.00: from Kunsthal Charlottenborg to Nikolaj Kunsthal and on to Kunstforeningen GL STRAND
Henrik Vibskov, Parade
Vibskov creates a parade where music, art, and fashion meet people directly. It connects the various performances that takes place during the day It connects the various performances that take place during the day and accompanies the audience from one place to the next.
13.00 – 18.00: O – Overgaden
Arvida Byström, A Cybernetic Doll’s House
With A Cybernetic Doll’s House, Byström develops a performance staging a conversation with an A. I. sex doll. The artist examines digitally feminized objects, such as Apple’s Siri and asks herself, how complex conversations you are able to have with these machine learning protocols?
14.00 – 14.15: The Grand Hall, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Kunsthal Charlottenborg)
VALIE EXPORT interacts with the audience VALIE EXPORT, Ping Pong – Ein Film Zum Spielen, Ein Spielfilm
Art in a Day proudly announces the collaboration with performance artist VALIE EXPORT for a 24-hour continuous performance, which can only be activated by the audience. The artist will stage Ping Pong, a continuous interactive performance staged in the form of an art installation from 1968. From 14.00 – 14.15 VALIE EXPORT will be present in her installation and play ping pong with the audience.
15.00 – 15.45: Nikolaj Kunsthal
Baby Dee – Where Oceans Know Us A sui generis musician and artist, Baby Dee will present a unique concert conceptualised and performed for the very special organ at the Nikolaj Kunsthal. Here the majestic sound of the organ is mixed and combined with the electronic sounds of Mabe Fratti’s cello and Hector’s guitar.
16.00 – 17.00: Boat trip starting and ending at Holmen’s Church (Only available with pre-ordered tickects) Jacob Kirkegaard, Riverbed
For Art in a Day, Kirkegaard has developed Riverbed, a performance composed by a score that collects and remixes the underwater sounds recorded along Copenhagen’s canals and harbour. It will be performed during a boat trip in a tourist boat, sailing around in the harbour of Copenhagen.
16.15: Kunstforeningen GL STRAND
Martin Creed – Live in Copenhagen Martin Creed, Turner prize-winning artist performer composer anti-war warm-hearted heart-warming head-scratching hair-combing talk songs cabaret feelings spoken-word love jokes tricks friendly loneliness experimental piano juggling clothes, including socks, ideas thoughts bums how to live spelling mistakes hard-hitting easy-going.
18.00 – 18.45: Nikolaj Kunsthal
Baby Dee – Where Oceans Know Us A sui generis musician and artist, Baby Dee will present a unique concert conceptualised and performed for the very special organ at the Nikolaj Kunsthal. Here the majestic sound of the organ is mixed and combined with the electronic sounds of Mabe Fratti’s cello and Hector’s guitar.
18.00: Copenhagen Contemporary
DJ and foodtrucks.
19.00 – 20.45: Refshalevej 96, 1432 København K
Wu Tsang & Tosh Basco – Moved by Motion Moved by the Motion is a performance rooted in the eight-year collaboration between Tosh Basco and Wu Tsang. The two artists stage a performance that works as a poetic call and response between movement, language, and storytelling. For Art in a Day, this site-specific performance brings their concentration to themes of solitude and connectedness, inviting the audience into a space of intimacy where movement of form completes what remains impenetrable in language.
Only available with pre-ordered tickets. Get your free ticket here.
19.30 to 20.15 Boat sailing from O – Overgaden to Copenhagen Contemporary Henrik Vibskov, Parade For Art in a Day Vibskov creates a parade where music, art and fashion meet the citizens at once. The last part of the parade takes place on a boat, sailing from O – Overgaden to Copenhagen Contemporary.
20.30: Copenhagen Contemporary
Speeches by the directors of the six art centres: Helene Nyborg Bay, Dina Vester Feilberg, Marie Nipper, Michael Thouber, Anne Hagen Kielgast and Aukje Lepoutre Ravn.
21.00 – 22.00: Near Copenhagen Contemporary (Beddingen)
Monster Cheytwynd, Tears
Tears is a large-scale installation and performance created by the artist Monster Chetwynd for Art Basel 2021. Chetwynd’s sculptural installation and performance Tears is inspired by Salvador Dalí’s jewel in the form of a crying eye and is a continuation of her artistic practice. In the spaces outside CC, Chetwynd will transform Dali’s precious object into a disrupted sculptural space, where so-called Zorbs will roll around and ballet dancers will partake in the performance.
23.10 to 23.35 Close to Copenhagen Contemporary Maja Malou Lyse & Esben Weile Kjær, The Big Gang Bang Theory For Art in a Day, Weile Kjær and Lyse invites you to witness a firework’s identity crisis. The Big Gang Bang Theory is an experimental firework display developed in collaboration with Nian Fireworks. It plays with the audience’s expectations of this codified form of special-occasion entertainment, normally built as an ongoing crescendo moving towards a climax, emotionally staged and controlled
23.49 – 23.59: Copenhagen Contemporary
Peaches once again takes the stage during Art in a Day, where she ends the programme with an intense concert at CC.
00.00 – 01.00: Afterparty with DJ at Copenhagen Contemporary. Special DJ guests: Maja Malou Lyse & Esben Weile Kjær from 00.00 to 01.00
Please note: minor changes might be made to the programme.
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Art in a Day is created by Copenhagen’s six art centres, which have joined forces to create this annual celebration of performance art. Art in a Day moves art into public space, giving everyone a chance to experience star performance artists and new talents during a 24-hour period packed with diverse, extraordinary, and interactive art experiences.
We look forward to seeing you!
Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen Contemporary, Nikolaj Kunsthal, O – Overgaden, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, and Kunstforeningen GL STRAND.
The program is curated by Creator Projects in close collaboration with the art centres.
Supported by Festivalpuljen v. Københavns Kommune, Statens Kunstfond, Spar Nord Fonden, Augustinus Fonden, Ny Carlsbergfondet, Københavns Kommune.