All images are seen from a specific point of view that is never neutral. But how does a given point of view actually affect our way of looking at the world? The new VR experience The Female Gaze lets audiences create their own version of an iconic artwork. The Female Gaze can be experienced during Golden Days Festival 3 - 18 September 2022.
This year Golden Days marks the 50 years anniversary of HM The Queen of Denmark’s accession to the throne with the festival QUEENS – an occasion to celebrate the role of women in Denmark, from past to present.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to present this autumn’s major exhibition Post-Capital. The exhibition takes its starting point at the inherent paradox within a capitalist system that is both dependent upon and threatened by technological progress. The official opening takes place on 16 September 2022.
Taking place from 26 – 28 August 2022, Kunsthal Charlottenborg will once again house CHART Art Fair. The program comprises a rich offering of talks, performances, music, film screenings, public art installations as well as the second edition of the art book fair.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is temporarily closed until CHART 2022, which this year will be held on 26-28 August.
Art Week 2022 takes place 9 – 19 June and at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, you can experience a packed program of exhibition openings, performances, talks, film screenings and guided tours.
This summer, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents an exhibition that moves out of the galleries and on to selected locations in the city of Copenhagen. Intensity and intimacy are in focus, and audience can look forward to great art experiences when a number of internationally leading video and performance artists create works for the city's scenic spaces and halls.
The full program for the first annual Art in a Day is ready. On June 24, a plethora of artistic performances will take place throughout Copenhagen. Renowned international artists, such as VALIE EXPORT, Peaches, Wu Tsang, and Martin Creed, are set to participate in this spectacular celebration of performance art.
In recent years, Jeannette Ehlers has taken on a key role in the Danish art world by raising awareness of Denmark’s past as a colonial power. She is particularly known as the co-creator of the monument I Am Queen Mary in the Port of Copenhagen. Over the summer, Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s visitors can explore her insistently powerful works, in which she points to connections that reach across continents, oceans, and human destinies.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg has invited New Red Order to curate an international group exhibition and a brand new film programme on the occasion of CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival. The exhibition occupies the entire north wing from March 23 - August 7 2022 and connects artists, works and experiences from different places around the world including California, Canada, Greenland, Hawaii and Scandinavia.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is closed 14 – 22 March during the installation of CPH:DOX 2022 that begins 23 March.
After two years of pandemic, Kunsthal Charlottenborg turns as tradition into the headquarter of CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, 23 March – 3 April 2022.
Six contemporary art institutions in Copenhagen have joined forces to create the 24-hour performance art festival, Art in a Day. On June 24 the Danish capital will be transformed into a cornucopia of performance art with original showings by prominent artists like Arvida Byström, Henrik Vibskov, Monster Chetwynd, and Tosh Basco (formerly known as boychild).
Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition opened February 5th with an opening that made more than 2600 people come to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. 3 prizes are awarded each year, and the award winners were announced at the opening. The three prizes are the Talentaward, the Solo Award and the Deep Forrest Art Land Award.
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OPEN CALL: In 2023, Kunsthal Charlottenborg will celebrate its 140th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Kunsthal Charlottenborg now launch a competition to find the right curator(s) to arrange an upcoming exhibition that will tell the story and history of the exhibition building.
In 2022, visitors at Kunsthal Charlottenborg can look forward to exhibitions with New Red Order, Jeannette Ehlers and Cao Fei.
From 29 November – 19 December 2021, the Charlottenborg Foundation is accepting submissions for the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2022 for the 165. time.
Beginning next week, Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s first biennale Poet Slash Artist will be presented in streets, train stations and bus stops throughout Denmark. In these outdoor locations, works by 36 visual artists and poets will bring different cultures, continents, languages and generations together, forming a new sense of community. To celebrate the opening of the exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents talks and readings on Saturday 20 November at 2pm – 5pm in the Festival Hall at Charlottenborg.
Charlottenborg Art Cinema presents WHY PLASTIC? is a three-part investigative documentary series about the causes, consequences and possible solutions to plastic pollution.
In close collaboration with Manchester International Festival and the curators Hans Ulrich Obrist & Lemn Sissay, Kunsthal Charlottenborg launches its first biennale titled Poet Slash Artist. The international art exhibition is shown in the streets, train stations and bus stops all over Denmark.
Does your body know what time it is? Are you affected by what you grandparents ate? How is your bacteria today? Hvad will you wear, when you go on your first spacetrip? Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Medical Museion put full spotlight on our major exhibition this fall 'The World is in You' for the whole family on Culture Night Friday 15. October from 6 pm - 12 am.
Art Week takes place from 28. Sep - 3. Oct, and at Kunsthal Charlottenborg you can experience a program with both guided art tours at Christiania, opening of a new exhibition, talk, and filmscreening.
In a few weeks, Kunsthal Charlottenborg will present a solo exhibition featuring French-Algerian artist Mohamed Bourouissa. Working in the field where documentary and fiction intersect, Bourouissa uses photography, rap music and other modes of expression to call attention to the peripheries of society and challenge the mainstream media’s portrayals of young people from ethnic minority backgrounds. Widely exhibited around the world, the artist was awarded the British Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize last year.
The Medical Museion joins forces with Kunsthal Charlottenborg to present this autumn’s major exhibition The World is in You. Blending science, contemporary art, science and historical objects, the exhibition explores how our bodies are connected to the world in and around us.
BIENNALE is an all-new art exhibition shown in streets, train stations and bus stops all over Denmark, arranged by Kunsthal Charlottenborg in collaboration with AFA JCDecaux. BIENNALE will be held every other year, and its first instalment is launched this year, beginning on 15 November 2021.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to present this fall's exhibitions: Christiania's 50th anniversary is marked with a poster exhibition in the foyer of Kunsthal Charlottenborg, a new exhibition in collaboration with Medical Museion investigates what the changes of world do to the human body and Mohammed Bourouissa narrates with his work about the heritage of colonialism and the derived racial and socio-economical inequality.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is closed from 31 August – 20 September during the installation of this autumn's three exhibitions.
From the 27th – 29th of August CHART once again take over Kunsthal Charlottenborg, presenting a broad program including anart fair, events, talks and performances. The program presents several new initiatives, which strengthen the collaboration and development across the art scene.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to announce the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia with the French-Algerian artist Mohamed Bourouissa. The charged legacies of colonialism, and contemporary realities of racial and socioeconomic inequality, are present throughout Bourouissa’s work.