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27 Mar
18.00 - 19.00

Transforming films

Reincarnations of Shadows

17.00-20.00: Free admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg
18.00-19.00: Reincarnations of Shadows – Transforming films (Danish)

2 Apr
10.00 - 13.00

Art with your baby

Incl. guided tour in the exhibition Reincarnations of Shadows

Experience contemporary art in a baby-friendly pace at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg before our usual opening hours and get the opportunity to experience the art gallery’s current exhibitions in a calm pace with space for babies and toddlers and focus on them also having a good experience.

The event takes place on the first Tuesday of each month at 10.00-13.00 unless the gallery is closed during the installation of exhibitions. The guided tour takes place between 11.00-12.00. The guided tour will be in Danish.

Guided tours spring/summer 2024:
2 April: Thao Nguyen Phan, Reincarnations of Shadows
7 May: MFA Degree Show 2024
4 June: Thao Nguyen Phan, Reincarnations of Shadows
2 July: Simon Dybbroe Møller
6 August: Simon Dybbroe Møller

Entrance: It is not necessary to register for the event in advance. The tour is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Children up to and including 15 years of age enter free. Free for season pass holders.

Practical information:

We recommend that you bring your baby carrier. It is also possible to take a stroller around, unless the current exhibitions physically prevents this.

In the upper foyer, it is possible to park strollers, and there is seating and a soft floor with furniture and toys for infants.

In the lower foyer there are changing facilities as well as the possibility to breastfeed in a more private setting for those who prefer that, and to feed your child. The Kunsthal provides an electric kettle and a microwave.

In Apollo Bar you can buy other snacks as well as coffee and cake and here there is also plenty of space for strollers in the art gallery’s courtyard.

Art with your baby is sponsored by bObles

20 Apr
13.00 - 14.00

Family tour

Reincarnations of Shadows

24 Apr
19.00 - 19.30

Painting coming alive

Reincarnations of Shadows

17.00-20.00: Free admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg
19.00-19.30: Reincarnations of Shadows – Painting coming alive (Danish)

7 May
10.00 - 13.00

Art with your baby

Incl. guided tour in the MFA Degree Show 2024

Experience contemporary art in a baby-friendly pace at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg before our usual opening hours and get the opportunity to experience the art gallery’s current exhibitions in a calm pace with space for babies and toddlers and focus on them also having a good experience.

The event takes place on the first Tuesday of each month at 10.00-13.00 unless the gallery is closed during the installation of exhibitions. The guided tour takes place between 11.00-12.00. The guided tour will be in Danish.

Guided tours spring/summer 2024:
2 April: Thao Nguyen Phan
7 May: MFA Degree Show 2024
4 June: Thao Nguyen Phan
2 July: Simon Dybbroe Møller
6 August: Simon Dybbroe Møller

Entrance: It is not necessary to register for the event in advance. The tour is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Children up to and including 15 years of age enter free. Free for season pass holders.

Practical information:

We recommend that you bring your baby carrier. It is also possible to take a stroller around, unless the current exhibitions physically prevents this.

In the upper foyer, it is possible to park strollers, and there is seating and a soft floor with furniture and toys for infants.

In the lower foyer there are changing facilities as well as the possibility to breastfeed in a more private setting for those who prefer that, and to feed your child. The Kunsthal provides an electric kettle and a microwave.

In Apollo Bar you can buy other snacks as well as coffee and cake and here there is also plenty of space for strollers in the art gallery’s courtyard.

Art with your baby is sponsored by bObles

29 May
17.30 - 18.30

‘The Shadows of Sound’ by Nguyen Thanh Thuy

Reincarnations of Shadows

This evening you can experience a very special live performance with the title The Shadows of Sound in the exhibition Reincarnations of Shadows.

Here, musician, artist and performer Nguyen Thanh Thuy will create a sound intervention in direct dialogue with the exhibition’s works by playing the đàn tranh, a traditional Vietnamese musical instrument, which the artist reinterprets in a new way with a modern voice.

Nguyen Thanh Thuy has created the music for Thao Nguyen Phan’s latest work Reincarnations of Shadows (moving-image-poem), 2023, from which the exhibition takes its title.

The event is free to attend and no reservation is required.

17.00-20.00: Free admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg
17.30-18.30: Nguyen Thanh Thuy, The Shadows of Sound

About Nguyen Thanh Thuy:
Nguyen Thanh Thuy was raised with traditional Vietnamese music from an early age in Hanoi, Vietnam. She studied at the Hanoi Conservatory of Music where she received her diploma in 1998, followed by a Master of Arts at the Institute of Cultural Studies in 2003. She has toured in Asia, Europe and has recorded several albums, both solo and with orchestras. Thuy’s artistic research project, funded by the Swedish Research Council, focuses on the role of music in identity formation in Vietnamese diaspora. Between 2021-22 she was an international postdoctoral research fellow at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and at the Institute of Arts, Faculty of Education Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

About the exhibition:
Experience the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia with world-renowned artist Thao Nguyen Phan. Recognized for her combined use of moving image, painting, and sculpture, the artist creates dreamlike and poetic narratives that trace the history of her country in relation to contemporary environmental and social changes.

The exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg introduces a deep layering of audio, visual and tactile references. Through more than 100 works from the past 10 years, the exhibition will present the artist’s delicate and captivating oeuvre to the visitors including poetic film installations, meticulously executed silk and lacquer paintings, light sculptures, delicate watercolours and architectural interventions. Further info here.

 

4 Jun
10.00 - 13.00

Art with your baby

Incl. guided tour in the exhibition Reincarnations of Shadows

Experience contemporary art in a baby-friendly pace at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg before our usual opening hours and get the opportunity to experience the art gallery’s current exhibitions in a calm pace with space for babies and toddlers and focus on them also having a good experience.

The event takes place on the first Tuesday of each month at 10.00-13.00 unless the gallery is closed during the installation of exhibitions. The guided tour takes place between 11.00-12.00. The guided tour will be in Danish.

Guided tours spring/summer 2024:
2 April: Thao Nguyen Phan, Reincarnations of Shadows
7 May: MFA Degree Show 2024
4 June: Thao Nguyen Phan, Reincarnations of Shadows
2 July: Simon Dybbroe Møller
6 August: Simon Dybbroe Møller

Entrance: It is not necessary to register for the event in advance. The tour is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Children up to and including 15 years of age enter free. Free for season pass holders.

Practical information:

We recommend that you bring your baby carrier. It is also possible to take a stroller around, unless the current exhibitions physically prevents this.

In the upper foyer, it is possible to park strollers, and there is seating and a soft floor with furniture and toys for infants.

In the lower foyer there are changing facilities as well as the possibility to breastfeed in a more private setting for those who prefer that, and to feed your child. The Kunsthal provides an electric kettle and a microwave.

In Apollo Bar you can buy other snacks as well as coffee and cake and here there is also plenty of space for strollers in the art gallery’s courtyard.

Art with your baby is sponsored by bObles

2 Jul
10.00 - 13.00

Art with your baby

Incl. guided tour in the exhibition by Simon Dybbroe Møller

Experience contemporary art in a baby-friendly pace at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg before our usual opening hours and get the opportunity to experience the art gallery’s current exhibitions in a calm pace with space for babies and toddlers and focus on them also having a good experience.

The event takes place on the first Tuesday of each month at 10.00-13.00 unless the gallery is closed during the installation of exhibitions. The guided tour takes place between 11.00-12.00. The guided tour will be in Danish.

Guided tours spring/summer 2024:
2 April: Thao Nguyen Phan
7 May: MFA Degree Show 2024
4 June: Thao Nguyen Phan
2 July: Simon Dybbroe Møller
6 August: Simon Dybbroe Møller

Entrance: It is not necessary to register for the event in advance. The tour is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Children up to and including 15 years of age enter free. Free for season pass holders.

Practical information:

We recommend that you bring your baby carrier. It is also possible to take a stroller around, unless the current exhibitions physically prevents this.

In the upper foyer, it is possible to park strollers, and there is seating and a soft floor with furniture and toys for infants.

In the lower foyer there are changing facilities as well as the possibility to breastfeed in a more private setting for those who prefer that, and to feed your child. The Kunsthal provides an electric kettle and a microwave.

In Apollo Bar you can buy other snacks as well as coffee and cake and here there is also plenty of space for strollers in the art gallery’s courtyard.

Art with your baby is sponsored by bObles

6 Aug
10.00 - 13.00

Art with your baby

Incl. guided tour in the exhibition by Simon Dybbroe Møller

Experience contemporary art in a baby-friendly pace at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg before our usual opening hours and get the opportunity to experience the art gallery’s current exhibitions in a calm pace with space for babies and toddlers and focus on them also having a good experience.

The event takes place on the first Tuesday of each month at 10.00-13.00 unless the gallery is closed during the installation of exhibitions. The guided tour takes place between 11.00-12.00. The guided tour will be in Danish.

Guided tours spring/summer 2024:
2 April: Thao Nguyen Phan
7 May: MFA Degree Show 2024
4 June: Thao Nguyen Phan
2 July: Simon Dybbroe Møller
6 August: Simon Dybbroe Møller

Entrance: It is not necessary to register for the event in advance. The tour is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Children up to and including 15 years of age enter free. Free for season pass holders.

Practical information:

We recommend that you bring your baby carrier. It is also possible to take a stroller around, unless the current exhibitions physically prevents this.

In the upper foyer, it is possible to park strollers, and there is seating and a soft floor with furniture and toys for infants.

In the lower foyer there are changing facilities as well as the possibility to breastfeed in a more private setting for those who prefer that, and to feed your child. The Kunsthal provides an electric kettle and a microwave.

In Apollo Bar you can buy other snacks as well as coffee and cake and here there is also plenty of space for strollers in the art gallery’s courtyard.

Art with your baby is sponsored by bObles

13 Mar
17.00 - 18.00

Thao Nguyen Phan

Reincarnations of Shadows

Just before the opening of the solo exhibition with Thao Nguyen Phan curator Henriette Bretton-Meyer and the internationally renowned artist will engage in a conversation about the exhibition, the works and the creative process behind them.

The talk takes place in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema. The event is in English and the admission is free, first come, first served.

After the talk, at 18.00-20.00 we invite you to join us for the opening of the exhibition Reincarnations of Shadows by Thao Nguyen Phan. DJ Aida Mai will play and the bar will be open.

About the exhibition:
Experience the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia with world-renowned artist Thao Nguyen Phan. Recognized for her combined use of moving image, painting, and sculpture, the artist creates dreamlike and poetic narratives that trace the history of her country in relation to contemporary environmental and social changes.

The exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg introduces a deep layering of audio, visual and tactile references. Through more than 100 works from the past 10 years, the exhibition will present the artist’s delicate and captivating oeuvre to the visitors including poetic film installations, meticulously executed silk and lacquer paintings, light sculptures, delicate watercolours and architectural interventions.

 

13 Mar
16.00 - 20.00
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Charlottenborg Live x Thao Nguyen Phan

Join us for the exhibition opening with the world-renowned artist

Experience the first solo exhibition with the world-renowned artist Thao Nguyen Phan.

The exhibition opens on the same day as one of the world’s largest documentary film festivals, CPH:DOX, which again has its festival center at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. This is celebrated with the year’s first edition of Charlottenborg Live:

Wednesday 13 March, 17.00-20.00

PROGRAM
16.00-17.30: Drinks in Apollo Bar, Negroni DKK 60
17.00-20.00: Free admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg
17.00-18.00: Talk with Thao Nguyen Phan
18.00-20.00: Exhibition opening of Reincarnations of Shadows
18.00-20.00: DJ Aida Mai, the bar is open

About the exhibition:
Through more than 100 works from the past 10 years, the solo exhibition with the Vietnamese artist Thao Nguyen Phan will present the artist’s delicate and captivating oeuvre to the visitors including poetic film installations, meticulously executed silk and lacquer paintings, light sculptures, delicate watercolours and architectural interventions.

In her videos, painting comes alive, creating a dreamlike imagery in which folk traditions, fairytale narratives, literature, philosophy, and everyday life merge. The artist traces Vietnam’s turbulent historical events, reflecting on environmental and social changes related to human impact, such as the exploitation of natural resources and the destruction and colonization of the landscape. Further info about the exhibition here.

Thao Nguyen Phan (b. 1987, Ho Chi Minh City; lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City) has latest exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in international institutions including Pirelli HangarBicocca (2023), 59. Venice Art Biennale (2022), Tate St Ives (2022). In 2016-17, she was included among the Protegée Rolex, accompanied by Joan Jonas as a mentor, among the most recognized living artists and performers, and won the Han Nefkens Foundation – LOOP Barcelona Video Art Award 2018. In addition, she is co-founder of the Art Labor collective in Ho Chi Minh City, which explores interdisciplinary practices and develops art projects to benefit the local Vietnamese community.

28 Feb
17.00 - 20.00
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Sorcerer by Ed Atkins and Steven Zultanski

Film screening and book launch

Join us for the Copenhagen premiere of the film Sorcerer and a celebration of the accompanying book, just out from Prototype Publishing. After the film, the authors will have a short conversation about the work, followed by an opportunity to buy the book and have a drink.

Sorcerer is a book, a film, and a theatre project about the pleasures of being together and of being alone. The characters find contentment in each other’s company, conversing in the placid, eerie rhythms of a sitcom in which conflict never arises. Unease is exported to furniture, gadgets, and bodily movements. The result is a counterintuitive kind of realism, lying somewhere between the procedural and the miraculous.

‘I once compared Sorcerer to a Harold Pinter play. But Pinter never instructed you on how to dismantle your face, amplify your house plumbing, levitate your computer, dance with your sofa, or place a penknife on a bed so that it appears as if no one put it there. Atkins and Zultanski’s play redesigns the contemporary home as a machine for comedy, sadness, and anxiety. Sorcerer is a unique work of theatre and literature, beautiful and unsettling. I can only relate it to the words of the late, great Angela Lansbury: “My family always said I’d travel anywhere to put on a false nose.”’ – Dan Fox

Sorcerer was originally commissioned by Rikke Hedeager and staged at Copenhagen’s Teater Revolver from 19 March to 9 April 2022. It stars Lotte Andersen, Peter Christoffersen, and Ida Cæcilie Rasmussen, with choreography by Nønne Mai Svalholm.

The event is in English. The admission is free and seats are given on a first come, first served basis.

BIOS

Ed Atkins (b. 1982, UK) lives in Copenhagen. Recent solo shows include The New Museum, New York; Tank, Shanghai; Kunsthaus Bregenz; K21 Düsseldorf; and MMK Frankfurt. Next year, Tate Britain will present a survey of Atkins’ work.

Steven Zultanski (b. 1981, US) is the author of several books, most recently Relief (Make Now), On the Literary Means of Representing the Powerful as Powerless (Information as Material), Honestly (Book*hug) and Bribery (Ugly Duckling Press). His critical writing has appeared in FriezeKunstkritikkSpike, and elsewhere. He lives in Copenhagen.

21 Feb
17.00 - 20.00
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Performances and introduction

The Spring Exhibition 2024

17.15-17.45 Guided tour with curators and jury members Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology
17.45 Performance: Elmer Blåvarg
18.15 Performance: Cakes of Despair
18.45-20.00 Introduction to the works by the artists

21 Feb
17.00 - 20.00

Hannibal Andersen

Finissage and book launch: The Abstract Expression of Privatization

Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you to a celebration of Hannibal Andersen’s new publication, The Abstract Expression of Privatization, which also marks the end of Andersen’s exhibition of the same name, which has been on view in Kunsthal Charlottenborgs foyer and as a mural at Gothersgade 54 since September 2022.

On 21 February 17.00-20.00 you can buy the publication and get a glass of wine in our bookshop.

At the same time, you can see the artwork in the foyer, as well as participate in a competition to win the publication, signed prints and an annual pass to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

About the publication:
The book documents the exhibition The Abstract Expression of Privatization and unfolds the question of colors as private property through three essays each by Lilian Munk Rösing, Max Haiven and the artist himself. In addition, the book functions as an exhibition platform for the “colour marks” that form the basis of the project – the colors that a number of companies have succeeded in registering as trademarks. Further info here.

Practical information:
There is free admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg every Wednesday 17.00-20.00. The book launch takes place in Kunsthal Charlotteborg’s bookshop in the foyer.

14 Feb
17.00 - 20.00

Introduction to the works

The Spring Exhibition 2024

17.00-20.00 Introduction to the works by a selection of the participating artists

8 Feb
17.00 - 19.00

Awarding of the Solo Award

The Spring Exhibition 2024

17.00-19.00 Awarding of the Solo Award in collaboration with Politikens Forhal

6 Feb
10.00 - 13.00

Art with your baby

Incl. guided tour in the exhibition Seeds and Souls

Experience contemporary art in a baby-friendly pace at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg before our usual opening hours and get the opportunity to experience the art gallery’s current exhibitions in a calm pace with space for babies and toddlers and focus on them also having a good experience.

The event takes place on the first Tuesday of each month at 10.00-13.00 unless the gallery is closed during the installation of exhibitions. The guided tour takes place between 11.00-12.00. The guided tour will be in Danish.

Guided tours autumn/winter:
3 October: Full of Days
7 November: Seeds and Souls
5 December: Full of Days
2 January: Full of Days
6 February: Seeds and Souls

Entrance: It is not necessary to register for the event in advance. The tour is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Children up to and including 15 years of age enter free. Free for season pass holders.

Practical information:

We recommend that you bring your baby carrier. It is also possible to take a stroller around, unless the current exhibitions physically prevents this.

In the upper foyer, it is possible to park strollers, and there is seating and a soft floor with furniture and toys for infants.

In the lower foyer there are changing facilities as well as the possibility to breastfeed in a more private setting for those who prefer that, and to feed your child. The Kunsthal provides an electric kettle and a microwave.

In Apollo Bar you can buy other snacks as well as coffee and cake and here there is also plenty of space for strollers in the art gallery’s courtyard.

Art with your baby is sponsored by bObles

1 Feb
17.00 - 21.00

The Spring Exhibition 2024

For the 167th time the annual exhibition opens at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

17.00 Vernissage
17.00 DJ Amici Lenti
17.00 Performance: Noah Umur Kanber
18.00 Performance: Elmer Blåvarg
19.00 Performance: Cakes of Despair
21.00 The exhibition closes, thank you for tonight!

24 Jan
17.00 - 18.30

Colonialism in the Histories of Botanical Collecting

Conversation between Christine Eyene and Martha Fleming

Join Christine Eyene, art historian and curator, and Martha Fleming, museologist and historian, for an important conversation on the stories behind the kinds of botanical collecting that have informed the exhibition ‘Seeds and Souls’ currently presented at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Eyene and Fleming will discuss their respective research around plants and their contexts and methods of collection. Examining their places of origin and destination, they’ll invite us to consider the meeting point of two geographies: Central Africa where Eyene focuses on a forest region bordering the semi-rural town of Lolodorf in Cameroon, and Northern Europe where Fleming has been researching evidence of Danish colonialism in the histories of the botanical collections of the Natural History Museum of Denmark.

The conversation will unpack overlooked histories and lived experiences in those sites of extraction. It will also address new decolonial approaches to Western botanical collections.

Through an interactive discussion, the public is invited to reflect collectively and participate in drawing a new mapping of these connections and their wider social and ecological implications both here and across different geographies.

The talk will be in English and is free of admission. No reservation required to attend the talk, seats are given on a first come, first served basis. Free entrance to all exhibitions at Kunsthal Charlottenborg every Wednesday 17.00-20.00.

Biographies:

Christine Eyene is an art historian, critic, and curator and has just completed a PhD in History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London. She is a Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Liverpool John Moores University and Research Curator at Tate Liverpool. Her curatorial practice encompasses contemporary art, with a particular interest in African and Diaspora arts, feminism, photography, and sound art. Since 2021, Eyene has been developing independent research on the theme of ‘Botanical Histories and Colonial Legacies’ connecting ancestral and collective knowledge and histories around plants in Lolodorf (Cameroon). More recently she has been examining links between Liverpool and the central African country through the city’s maritime and trade histories.

Martha Fleming is a museologist, an historian of collections, and an historian of science with a particular focus on natural historical and correlative scientific collections and archives. Her current research investigates the creation and management of natural history collections as significant forms of knowledge producing practices embedded in globalised colonial contexts. She is currently the Principal Investigator of ‘Field/Work in the Archive: Herbaria as Sites of Cultural Exchange’, which is an Augustinus Foundation supported research project at the Natural History Museum of Denmark.  Fleming has worked in leadership, research, teaching and creative capacities across museums, universities and scientific institutions internationally. 

 

17 Jan - 18 Feb
12.00

Let us Flow

Moving image programme from Central Asia and South Caucasus

The film program borrows its title from Sophio Medoidze’s Let us Flow from her triology developed in the Tusheti region in the northeastern Georgia. It is a direct translation of ’vidinot’ – a common greeting in Tushetian dialect, suggesting a constant flow. The idea of a flow, a movement, served as inspiration to invite Medoidze and Ismailova from the regions of South Caucasus and Central Asia whose works deal with mobility and borders, states of transition, and social and political flows.

In collaboration with Collega, Charlottenborg Cinema presents a film programme curated by Lotte Løvholm and Inga Lāce. Lotte Løvholm is the founder of the exhibition space Collega, and Inga Lāce us a curator at the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art and researcher from MoMa C-MAP. The film proram, which presents works by Sophio Medoidze and Saodat Ismailova, is accompanied by an exhibition at Collega featuring Danish artist Rikke Diemer and Latvian artist Anna Malicka.

The film program is looping during our opening hours from 17 January to 18 February unless there are events in the cinema. It is free to see the films with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Sophio Medoidze:

LET US FLOW (ვიდინოთ), 63min, 4K color, sound, 2023. CPH premiere.
Language: Georgian with English subtitles.

A long poem to the mountains, Let us Flow is a two-part feature that explores the isolated mountainous region of Tusheti, in North-east Georgia. It considers the importance of ritual, the maintenance of community ties, and how modernisation and migration are transforming rural landscapes. Shot over several years, Let us Flow uses innovative audio-visual techniques to make visible the symbolic and physical division of sacred spaces within the community and offers a nuanced perspective on a culture where ancestral shrines are only accessible to men.

Medoidze is interested in linguistic parallels between Tushetian dialect and filmmaking jargon, between ‘hunting’ and ‘shooting’: Tushetians believe that odd years are governed by Goddess Dali, the protector of wild animals, and even years are St George’s years. Let us Flow follows this structure as its two parts are shot in 2021 and 2022 respectively.

Saodat Ismailova:

Zukhra, 29 min, HDV, color 16:9, sound: stereo, 2013, Uzbekistan.
Language: Uzbek with English subtitles

Zukhra (uzb) – Venus, women in Central Asia believe that the planet grants sacred wishes, following a local myth that tells a story of a young woman who disappears and transforms herself into the planet. Zukhra portrays a young woman at her deathbed or in a lethargic dream, revealing memories that grow from personal and intimate to collective and historical. The sounds unveil history of the last century of Uzbekistan touching question of the delimitation of the national borders in Central Asia, emancipation of women in juxtaposition to the sounds of sacred female spiritual rituals that are routed in animalism. Zukhra embodies fates of Uzbek women waiting for awakening.

14 Jan
12.00 - 16.00

On Kawara

One Million Years: Past and Future (1993-)

In connection with the exhibition Full of Days celebrating Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s 140-year anniversary, you can take part in- or experience On Kawara’s monumental performance piece One Million Years: Past and Future.

On Kawara’s One Million Years: Past and Future consists of 20 volumes containing columns of years dated between 998,031 B.C. to year 1,001,992. Future was produced during 1970-1971 and Past from 1980 to 1998. The piece has since 1993 visited more than 42 art galleries and museums internationally.

The performances consist of volunteers reading in pairs, and each performance continues where the previous left off. The work moves slowly towards the present and into the future in an attempt to complete the reading of all twenty volumes. The readings are done in English and last for half an hour per pairing. With the permission of the volunteers, parts of the readings will be sound-recorded and sent to the One Million Years Foundation as documentation of the performance.

The readings take place at Kunsthal Charlottenborg on the following dates:

1 October 12.00 – 16.00 (BC)
1 November 17.00 – 20.00 (AD)
6 December 17.00 – 20.00 (BC)
14 January 12.00 – 16.00 (AD)

We are looking for volunteers for all dates. Feel free to contact booking@kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk if you wish to participate. Please add which days you wish to read. Readings must take place in pairs with a masculine-identifying person and a feminine-identifying person. Non-binary people choose themselves which part of the reading, they want to do.

On Kawara (1932-2016) is a Japanese conceptual artist who worked internationally – especially in Paris and New York. Kawara’s works are often based on the documentation of time and the function of time in human existence. He is particularly known for his date paintings from 1966-2013 in which he continuously painted the specific place, time and date of the day as an attempt to encapsulate the fleeting and paradoxical existence of time. One Million Years: Past and Future is also a conceptual attempt to make us aware of two central elements in human life: our place in the world and the passage of time.

9 Jan
17.00 - 18.00

Asger Jorn and his comparative method

by Teresa Østergaard

Join us in the Kunsthal’s cinema as Asger Jorn specialist Teresa Østergaard introduces to the comparative method of Asger Jorn and his artistic oeuvre.

Asger Jorn’s profound artistic legacy and his perspective on images as both adaptable and resistant over time has inspired the curation of Full of Days, which is applauded in the exhibition through selections from his and his companion Gérard Franceschis’ project 10,000 Years of Nordic Folk Art which holds a defiance against established artistic norms and traditional approaches to art history.

This event is in Danish.

Teresa Østergaard Pedersen is collection and research inspector at Holstebro Art Museum (2018-).

About Full of Days
This year, 140 years have gone by since Kunsthal Charlottenborg – or Charlottenborg Exhibition Building as its was called in 1883 – was completed. Ever since its inception, the venue has hosted exhibitions featuring many of the leading contemporary artists of the given times, accommodating many different types of shows and activities.

Charlottenborg now celebrates its long history with a large-scale exhibition featuring all-new and older works alike. Together, they will evoke and add nuance to the history of Kunsthal Charlottenborg, a venue without a collection or a historical archive. Embracing chaos, affinities and time glitches, the exhibition Full of Days forges intuitive connections between historical moments and less-remembered shows, stories and events. Through a cacophony of voices, contemporary and historical artists are framed into a reflection on the elusiveness of time and the multiplicity of its representations, offering a non-linear account of one the Kunsthal’s possible histories.

2 Jan
10.00 - 13.00

Art with your baby

Incl. guided tour in the exhibition Full of Days

Experience contemporary art in a baby-friendly pace at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg before our usual opening hours and get the opportunity to experience the art gallery’s current exhibitions in a calm pace with space for babies and toddlers and focus on them also having a good experience.

The event takes place on the first Tuesday of each month at 10.00-13.00 unless the gallery is closed during the installation of exhibitions. The guided tour takes place between 11.00-12.00. The guided tour will be in Danish.

Guided tours autumn/winter:
3 October: Full of Days
7 November: Seeds and Souls
5 December: Full of Days
2 January: Full of Days
6 February: Seeds and Souls

Entrance: It is not necessary to register for the event in advance. The tour is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Children up to and including 15 years of age enter free. Free for season pass holders.

Practical information:

We recommend that you bring your baby carrier. It is also possible to take a stroller around, unless the current exhibitions physically prevents this.

In the upper foyer, it is possible to park strollers, and there is seating and a soft floor with furniture and toys for infants.

In the lower foyer there are changing facilities as well as the possibility to breastfeed in a more private setting for those who prefer that, and to feed your child. The Kunsthal provides an electric kettle and a microwave.

In Apollo Bar you can buy other snacks as well as coffee and cake and here there is also plenty of space for strollers in the art gallery’s courtyard.

Art with your baby is sponsored by bObles

17 Dec
11.00 - 17.00

The Art Academy’s Christmas Market 2023

The students' Christmas market at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

On 13 and 17 December, the students of the Academy of Fine Arts invites you to join their Christmas market at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Here you can stop by and support the art students by buying art for yourself or your loved ones. There will also be the opportunity to buy homemade gløgg from Apollo Bar and Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s bookstore will also take part in the Christmas market, where they will sell published works at a great price.

On Wednesday 13 December the Christmas market takes place in the upper foyer of the Kunsthal, while on Sunday 17 December it takes place in the lower foyer.

Facts:
The Art Academy’s Christmas market
Wednesday 13 & Sunday 17 December
17.00 – 20.00 & 11.00 – 17.00
Free entrance

13 Dec
17.00 - 20.00

The Art Academy’s Christmas market 2023

The students' Christmas market at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

On 13 and 17 December, the students of the Academy of Fine Arts invites you to join their Christmas market at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Here you can stop by and support the art students by buying art for yourself or your loved ones. There will also be the opportunity to buy homemade gløgg from Apollo Bar and Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s bookstore will also take part in the Christmas market, where they will sell published works at a great price.

On Wednesday 13 December the Christmas market takes place in the upper foyer of the Kunsthal, while on Sunday 17 December it takes place in the lower foyer.

Facts:
The Art Academy’s Christmas market
Wednesday 13 & Sunday 17 December
17.00 – 20.00 & 11.00 – 17.00
Free entrance

10 Dec - 14 Jan
11.00

Harun Farocki

Three films by the German-Czech film artist

Experience a selection of German filmmaker Harun Farocki’s films:

Serious Games I-IV (2009-2010)
The work consists of four short films, originally created as an installation for the Biennale in Sao Paulo in 2010. Through the four films, Farocki follows a group of American soldiers who, before and after being deployed to the Iraq war, use Virtual Reality war games to train combat actions and treat their war trauma. The films are shown in a double perspective, which allows the viewer to dwell on the soldiers while they play through the simulations, and at the same time immerse themselves in the VR game. By establishing a place that is both inside and outside the VR game, the films reveal what the simulations hide.

Inextinguishable Fire (1969)
The film focuses on the production of napalm, used in napalm bombs by the Americans during the Vietnam War. As narrator, Farocki rolls up his sleeve and puts out a cigarette on his own arm. He notes that napalm burns at seven times the temperature. The film is a caricature of a well-known napalm-producing company, and depicts the employees in their acceptance of their own role in the production of a painful death. The film can be seen as a critique of the Vietnam War and debates how artistic production can contribute to political action.

War at a Distance (2003)
The film is based on images from the Gulf Wars and treats a large number of technical, ‘operational’ images from several different wars. The viewer is presented with images produced by machines that read objects without human intervention – e.g. bombs that find their targets by themselves. Images not intended for the human eye, but created by machines for machines. The film asks the question what happens to our understanding of the war and its consequences when we see the war through the lens of the machine, devoid of anything other than what the machine is trained to see.

The films are free with paid admission and will play from 3 November – 3 December 2023 during our opening hours, except when other events take place in the Art Cinema.

Background for the film program:
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the war returned to the European continent. Since then, several wars have arisen around the world, most recently the situation in Israel and Palestine is on the threshold of developing into a regular war, just as the Nagorno-Karabakh region again became the scene of hostilities in the late summer.

What these wars and conflicts have in common is that the vast majority experience them mediated through a myriad of different images. We see the war through live reports, drone images and private recordings from mobile phones on various platforms. In this endless stream of images, we quickly forget that all these images are mediations of the war, just as all images are always mediations of what they purport to show.

The German-Czech film artist Harun Farocki (1944-2014) worked throughout his large production with images and mediation as central themes. A large number of his films are about the images of war, how they work and what effect they have on us. If we want to better understand the images of today’s wars, it is interesting to delve into Farocki’s films and their distinctive mix of art, fiction and documentary. The films’ unique mixed form and depreciation of traditional categories make them in themselves experiments in mediation.

6 Dec
17.00 - 20.00

On Kawara

One Million Years: Past and Future (1993-)

In connection with the exhibition Full of Days celebrating Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s 140-year anniversary, you can take part in- or experience On Kawara’s monumental performance piece One Million Years: Past and Future.

On Kawara’s One Million Years: Past and Future consists of 20 volumes containing columns of years dated between 998,031 B.C. to year 1,001,992. Future was produced during 1970-1971 and Past from 1980 to 1998. The piece has since 1993 visited more than 42 art galleries and museums internationally.

The performances consist of volunteers reading in pairs, and each performance continues where the previous left off. The work moves slowly towards the present and into the future in an attempt to complete the reading of all twenty volumes. The readings are done in English and last for half an hour per pairing. With the permission of the volunteers, parts of the readings will be sound-recorded and sent to the One Million Years Foundation as documentation of the performance.

The readings take place at Kunsthal Charlottenborg on the following dates:

1 October 12.00 – 16.00 (BC)

1 November 17.00 – 20.00 (AD)

6 December 17.00 – 20.00 (BC)

14 January 12.00 – 16.00 (AD)

We are looking for volunteers for all dates. Feel free to contact booking@kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk if you wish to participate. Please add which days you wish to read. Readings must take place in pairs with a masculine-identifying person and a feminine-identifying person. Non-binary people choose themselves which part of the reading, they want to do.

On Kawara (1932-2016) is a Japanese conceptual artist who worked internationally – especially in Paris and New York. Kawara’s works are often based on the documentation of time and the function of time in human existence. He is particularly known for his date paintings from 1966-2013 in which he continuously painted the specific place, time and date of the day as an attempt to encapsulate the fleeting and paradoxical existence of time. One Million Years: Past and Future is also a conceptual attempt to make us aware of two central elements in human life: our place in the world and the passage of time.

6 Dec
17.00 - 18.30
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Charlottenborg stories

with Line Ellegaard og Eva la Cour

Join us in the Kunsthal’s cinema as specialist in exhibition histories Line Ellegaard introduces to some of Charlottenborg’s stories based on the themes in the current anniversary exhibition Full of Days.

Visual artist Eva la Cour shows her current film The Artist as Editor? (A Proposal for a Story about Emilie Demant Hatt), which takes about 20 min. Followed by a conversation between Eva la Cour and Line Ellegaard about the work and the stories.

This event is in Danish.

About the participants
Line Ellegaard researches exhibition histories and is a Ph.D. student at Art as Forum at Department of Art and Cultural Studies.

Eva la Cour is a visual artist and postdoc at the research centre Art as Forum at Department of Art and Cultural Studies.

About Full of Days
This year, 140 years have gone by since Kunsthal Charlottenborg – or Charlottenborg Exhibition Building as its was called in 1883 – was completed. Ever since its inception, the venue has hosted exhibitions featuring many of the leading contemporary artists of the given times, accommodating many different types of shows and activities.

Charlottenborg now celebrates its long history with a large-scale exhibition featuring all-new and older works alike. Together, they will evoke and add nuance to the history of Kunsthal Charlottenborg, a venue without a collection or a historical archive. Embracing chaos, affinities and time glitches, the exhibition Full of Days forges intuitive connections between historical moments and less-remembered shows, stories and events. Through a cacophony of voices, contemporary and historical artists are framed into a reflection on the elusiveness of time and the multiplicity of its representations, offering a non-linear account of one the Kunsthal’s possible histories.

5 Dec - 9 Dec
12.00

Luna Scales

Minder ved berøring (2023)

Experience the film Minder ved berøring by Luna Scales in the Kunsthal’s cinema.

The video work Minder ved berøring takes its point of departure from childhood memories linked to hospital visits and medical examinations, a recurring theme in Luna Scales’ practice, which is inspired by ableism and an ideological exploration of the relationship between doctor and patient, both from a personal and a larger cultural historical perspective.

In the film, Scales has interviewed four women, all of whom have a congenital muscular or neurological disease. Which is why the four women have been closely followed by doctors throughout their lives. In her interviews, Scales has been particularly concerned with creating the language that is used to describe a life condition in which the world is preoccupied with your body. This has resulted in a story that goes beyond the examination room itself, and which touches on grief and vulnerability in the family, confrontational meetings with other children and attempts to live on the same terms as others.

The work is screened in collaboration with Arden Asbæk Galleri in connection with the artist’s solo exhibition Do no Harm (3.11-9.12) 2023 and is supported by the Statens Kunstfond and Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse.

The film lasts approx. 18 minutes and loops during the Kunsthal’s opening hours unless there are events.

The Kunsthal’s cinema is on the first floor and is accessible for wheelchair users, as there is a lift.

Biography
Luna Scales (b. 1992) graduated as a visual artist from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2020. Scales’ works have been exhibited at several group exhibitions both nationally and internationally, and in 2019, she had a solo exhibition at Bonnierne Konsthall in Stockholm, Sweden. Her artistic practice is primarily video, through which she works with the medical language and the body. She explores both the poetic dimension of diagnostics and the concrete encounter as well as the relationship between doctor and patient to create a language that reaches beyond the objective science of the medical field.

5 Dec
10.00 - 13.00

Art with your baby

Incl. guided tour in the exhibition Full of Days

Art lovers on parental leave can now experience contemporary art in a baby-friendly pace at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg before our usual opening hours and get the opportunity to experience the art gallery’s current exhibitions in a calm pace with space for babies and toddlers and focus on them also having a good experience.

The event takes place on the first Tuesday of each month at 10.00-13.00 unless the gallery is closed during the installation of exhibitions. The guided tour takes place between 11.00-12.00. The guided tour will be in Danish.

Guided tours autumn/winter:
3 October: Full of Days
7 November: Seeds and Souls
5 December: Full of Days
2 January: Full of Days
6 February: Seeds and Souls

Entrance: It is not necessary to register for the event in advance. The tour is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Children up to and including 15 years of age enter free. Free for season pass holders.

Practical information:

We recommend that you bring your baby carrier. It is also possible to take a stroller around, unless the current exhibitions physically prevents this.

In the upper foyer, it is possible to park strollers, and there is seating and a soft floor with furniture and toys for infants.

In the lower foyer there are changing facilities as well as the possibility to breastfeed in a more private setting for those who prefer that, and to feed your child. The Kunsthal provides an electric kettle and a microwave.

In Apollo Bar you can buy other snacks as well as coffee and cake and here there is also plenty of space for strollers in the art gallery’s courtyard.

Art with your baby is sponsored by bObles

30 Nov
17.00 - 19.00
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Nye krige, nye billeder

Nye billeder – mennesket og den intelligente maskine

During November you can attend the event series Nye krige, nye billeder, which will try to create new perspectives on war by showing works by the German filmmaker Harun Farocki.

The talks are in Danish, but the films are in English. The films will also be screened from Nov 3 to Dec 3 in Charlottenborg Art Cinema.

Each evening we focus on one of Farocki’s films and discuss a selected theme through conversations between different professionals and researchers. With the event series Nye krige, nye billeder, the focus is on how images of war risk changing our perception of reality.

2. november kl. 17.00-19.00
Nye traumer – slagmarken og den menneskelige psyke
Harun Farocki: Serious Games I-IV (2009-2010)
Panel participants: Anders Engberg-Pedersen & Ulrik Nykjær Jeppesen

16. november kl. 17.00-19.00
Nye modstandsformer – kunsten og den politisk aktivisme
Harun Farocki: Inextinguishable Fire (1969)
Panel participants: Anna Gregersen & Mikkel Bolt

30. november kl. 17.00-19.00
Nye billeder – mennesket og den intelligente maskine
Harun Farocki: War at a Distance (2003)
Panel participants: Andreas Graae & Lene Hansen

Harun Farocki’s (1944-2014) unique blend of fiction and documentary and essayistic approach to filmmaking has made him one of documentarism’s most original artists. Characterized by the student protest movement and the environment surrounding New German Cinema. At the end of the 1960s, and with an attention firmly focused on the technological and political developments of the time, over the years he took a position as one of Europe’s most significant and interesting contemporary artists. Today, it is difficult to underestimate Farocki’s influence on European film art, and he has among other things, been celebrated with a retrospective exhibition at Tate Modern (2009) and a collective solo exhibition at MoMa (2011).

Nye krige, nye billeder is created by MA in Philosophy Morten Bønke Pedersen and Art Historian Philip Pihl. The events are supported by the Beckett-Foundation and The Goethe-Institut.

FACTS
Nye krige, nye billeder
Screening & talk (in Danish)
Charlottenborg Art Cinema
2, 16 and 30 November at 17.00

28 Nov
18.00 - 19.00

Seeds and Souls & Full of Days

In Danish

Join our guided tours every Tuesday during the autumn season, where one of our art guides will introduce our current exhibitions: Seeds and Souls & Full of Days.
The guided tours are in Danish.
21 Nov
18.00 - 19.00

(Cancelled due to illness) Seeds and Souls & Full of Days

In Danish

Join our guided tours every Tuesday during the autumn season, where one of our art guides will introduce our current exhibitions: Seeds and Souls & Full of Days.
The guided tours are in Danish.
21 Nov
17.00 - 18.00

Yvette Brackman

General Assembly with Medium (2023)

Yvette Brackman performs her performative piece General Assembly with Medium from 2023, as part of the exhibition Full of Days on occasion of the Kunsthal’s 140th anniversary.

The performance takes place on 21 November at 17.00 – 18.00 in the exhibition Full of Days.

Here Brackman takes on the role of medium and invites twelve of her colleagues to take on roles to commemorate twelve former members of the artist association Den Frie Udstilling from the establishment of Den Frie. Twelve people who have been important for a wider representation in art, but who have not all been remembered in posterity.

The performance lasts approx. 40 min., and there is free entry with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

The artwork Medium which will be activated during the performance can be seen in the exhibition throughout the exhibition period.

FACTS
Performance
Yvette Brackman: General Assembly with Medium
21 November 17.00 – 18.00
Free with paid admission to the kunsthal

16 Nov
17.00 - 19.00
,

Nye krige, nye billeder

Nye modstandsformer – kunsten og den politisk aktivisme

During November you can attend the event series Nye krige, nye billeder, which will try to create new perspectives on war by showing works by the German filmmaker Harun Farocki.

The talks are in Danish, but the films are in English. The films will also be screened from Nov 3 to Dec 3 in Charlottenborg Art Cinema.

Each evening we focus on one of Farocki’s films and discuss a selected theme through conversations between different professionals and researchers. With the event series Nye krige, nye billeder, the focus is on how images of war risk changing our perception of reality.

2. november kl. 17.00-19.00
Nye traumer – slagmarken og den menneskelige psyke
Harun Farocki: Serious Games I-IV (2009-2010)
Panel participants: Anders Engberg-Pedersen & Ulrik Nykjær Jeppesen

16. november kl. 17.00-19.00
Nye modstandsformer – kunsten og den politisk aktivisme
Harun Farocki: Inextinguishable Fire (1969)
Panel participants: Frederikke Hansen & Mikkel Bolt

30. november kl. 17.00-19.00
Nye billeder – mennesket og den intelligente maskine
Harun Farocki: War at a Distance (2003)
Panel participants: Andreas Graae & Lene Hansen

Harun Farocki’s (1944-2014) unique blend of fiction and documentary and essayistic approach to filmmaking has made him one of documentarism’s most original artists. Characterized by the student protest movement and the environment surrounding New German Cinema. At the end of the 1960s, and with an attention firmly focused on the technological and political developments of the time, over the years he took a position as one of Europe’s most significant and interesting contemporary artists. Today, it is difficult to underestimate Farocki’s influence on European film art, and he has among other things, been celebrated with a retrospective exhibition at Tate Modern (2009) and a collective solo exhibition at MoMa (2011).

Nye krige, nye billeder is created by MA in Philosophy Morten Bønke Pedersen and Art Historian Philip Pihl. The events are supported by the Beckett-Foundation and The Goethe-Institut.

FACTS
Nye krige, nye billeder
Screening & talk (in Danish)
Charlottenborg Art Cinema
2, 16 and 30 November at 17.00

14 Nov
18.00 - 19.00

Seeds and Souls & Full of Days

In Danish

Join our guided tours every Tuesday during the autumn season, where one of our art guides will introduce our current exhibitions: Seeds and Souls & Full of Days.
The guided tours are in Danish.
7 Nov
18.00 - 19.00

Seeds and Souls & Full of Days

In Danish

Join our guided tours every Tuesday during the autumn season, where one of our art guides will introduce our current exhibitions: Seeds and Souls & Full of Days.
The guided tours are in Danish.
7 Nov
17.00 - 18.00

Why Words Now presents Alex Wissel

Single

In collaboration with the lecture series Why Words Now you can experience a screening of the film Single by Alex Wissel in our cinema on Tuesday 7 November at 17.00.

The film screening will be followed by a talk with Alex Wissel, which takes place in the Sculpture School at 18.00.

Alex Wissel (1983) is a German painter, sculptor, performance artist, actor and film director. Trained at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Lyon and as a master student of Rosemarie Trockel at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Wissel now lives and works in Düsseldorf. Wissel’s event series “Single Club” (2011/2012) in an Albanian gambling bar in Düsseldorf became legendary in party and artist circles. The experimental film “single”, made in collaboration with film director Jan Bonny, was made at the same time as a sort of extension of the club in a different medium.

The event is free and no registration is needed. The screening and talk will be in English.

Why Words Now is curated by artist and academy professor Simon Dybbroe Møller.

Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation

7 Nov
10.00 - 13.00

Art with your baby

Incl. guided tour in the exhibition Seeds and Souls

Art lovers on parental leave can now experience contemporary art in a baby-friendly pace at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg before our usual opening hours and get the opportunity to experience the art gallery’s current exhibitions in a calm pace with space for babies and toddlers and focus on them also having a good experience.

The event takes place on the first Tuesday of each month at 10.00-13.00 unless the gallery is closed during the installation of exhibitions. The guided tour takes place between 11.00-12.00. The guided tour will be in Danish.

Guided tours autumn/winter:
3 October: Full of Days
7 November: Seeds and Souls
5 December: Full of Days
2 January: Full of Days
6 February: Seeds and Souls

Entrance: It is not necessary to register for the event in advance. The tour is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Children up to and including 15 years of age enter free. Free for season pass holders.

Practical information:

We recommend that you bring your baby carrier. It is also possible to take a stroller around, unless the current exhibitions physically prevents this.

In the upper foyer, it is possible to park strollers, and there is seating and a soft floor with furniture and toys for infants.

In the lower foyer there are changing facilities as well as the possibility to breastfeed in a more private setting for those who prefer that, and to feed your child. The Kunsthal provides an electric kettle and a microwave.

In Apollo Bar you can buy other snacks as well as coffee and cake and here there is also plenty of space for strollers in the art gallery’s courtyard.

Art with your baby is sponsored by bObles

3 Nov - 3 Dec
12.00

Harun Farocki

Three films by the German-Czech film artist

Experience a selection of German filmmaker Harun Farocki’s films:

Serious Games I-IV (2009-2010)
The work consists of four short films, originally created as an installation for the Biennale in Sao Paulo in 2010. Through the four films, Farocki follows a group of American soldiers who, before and after being deployed to the Iraq war, use Virtual Reality war games to train combat actions and treat their war trauma. The films are shown in a double perspective, which allows the viewer to dwell on the soldiers while they play through the simulations, and at the same time immerse themselves in the VR game. By establishing a place that is both inside and outside the VR game, the films reveal what the simulations hide.

Inextinguishable Fire (1969)
The film focuses on the production of napalm, used in napalm bombs by the Americans during the Vietnam War. As narrator, Farocki rolls up his sleeve and puts out a cigarette on his own arm. He notes that napalm burns at seven times the temperature. The film is a caricature of a well-known napalm-producing company, and depicts the employees in their acceptance of their own role in the production of a painful death. The film can be seen as a critique of the Vietnam War and debates how artistic production can contribute to political action.

War at a Distance (2003)
The film is based on images from the Gulf Wars and treats a large number of technical, ‘operational’ images from several different wars. The viewer is presented with images produced by machines that read objects without human intervention – e.g. bombs that find their targets by themselves. Images not intended for the human eye, but created by machines for machines. The film asks the question what happens to our understanding of the war and its consequences when we see the war through the lens of the machine, devoid of anything other than what the machine is trained to see.

The films are free with paid admission and will play from 3 November – 3 December 2023 during our opening hours, except when other events take place in the Art Cinema.

Background for the film program:
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the war returned to the European continent. Since then, several wars have arisen around the world, most recently the situation in Israel and Palestine is on the threshold of developing into a regular war, just as the Nagorno-Karabakh region again became the scene of hostilities in the late summer.

What these wars and conflicts have in common is that the vast majority experience them mediated through a myriad of different images. We see the war through live reports, drone images and private recordings from mobile phones on various platforms. In this endless stream of images, we quickly forget that all these images are mediations of the war, just as all images are always mediations of what they purport to show.

The German-Czech film artist Harun Farocki (1944-2014) worked throughout his large production with images and mediation as central themes. A large number of his films are about the images of war, how they work and what effect they have on us. If we want to better understand the images of today’s wars, it is interesting to delve into Farocki’s films and their distinctive mix of art, fiction and documentary. The films’ unique mixed form and depreciation of traditional categories make them in themselves experiments in mediation.

The film program is an addition to the series of events Nye krige, nye billeder, which will take place on 2., 16. and 30. November 2023 and which is based on Farocki’s film followed by talks with a number of professionals and researchers. The talks will be in Danish.

Read more about the event series here.

Nye krige, nye billeder is created by MA in Philosophy Morten Bønke Pedersen and Art Historian Philip Pihl. The events are supported by the Beckett-Foundation and The Goethe-Institut.

 

 

2 Nov
17.00 - 19.00
,

Nye krige, nye billeder

Nye traumer – slagmarken og den menneskelige psyke

During November you can attend the event series Nye krige, nye billeder, which will try to create new perspectives on war by showing works by the German filmmaker Harun Farocki.

The talks are in Danish, but the films are in English. The films will also be screened from Nov 3 to Dec 3 in Charlottenborg Art Cinema.

Each evening we focus on one of Farocki’s films and discuss a selected theme through conversations between different professionals and researchers. With the event series Nye krige, nye billeder, the focus is on how images of war risk changing our perception of reality.

2. november kl. 17.00-19.00
Nye traumer – slagmarken og den menneskelige psyke
Harun Farocki: Serious Games I-IV (2009-2010)
Panel participants: Anders Engberg-Pedersen & Ulrik Nykjær Jeppesen

16. november kl. 17.00-19.00
Nye modstandsformer – kunsten og den politisk aktivisme
Harun Farocki: Inextinguishable Fire (1969)
Panel participants: Frederikke Hansen & Mikkel Bolt

30. november kl. 17.00-19.00
Nye billeder – mennesket og den intelligente maskine
Harun Farocki: War at a Distance (2003)
Panel participants: Andreas Graae & Lene Hansen

Harun Farocki’s (1944-2014) unique blend of fiction and documentary and essayistic approach to filmmaking has made him one of documentarism’s most original artists. Characterized by the student protest movement and the environment surrounding New German Cinema. At the end of the 1960s, and with an attention firmly focused on the technological and political developments of the time, over the years he took a position as one of Europe’s most significant and interesting contemporary artists. Today, it is difficult to underestimate Farocki’s influence on European film art, and he has among other things, been celebrated with a retrospective exhibition at Tate Modern (2009) and a collective solo exhibition at MoMa (2011).

Nye krige, nye billeder is created by MA in Philosophy Morten Bønke Pedersen and Art Historian Philip Pihl. The events are supported by the Beckett-Foundation and The Goethe-Institut.

FACTS
Nye krige, nye billeder
Screening & talk (in Danish)
Charlottenborg Art Cinema
2, 16 and 30 November at 17.00

1 Nov
17.00 - 20.00

On Kawara

One Million Years: Past and Future (1993-)

In connection with the exhibition Full of Days celebrating Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s 140-year anniversary, you can take part in- or experience On Kawara’s monumental performance piece One Million Years: Past and Future.

On Kawara’s One Million Years: Past and Future consists of 20 volumes containing columns of years dated between 998,031 B.C. to year 1,001,992. Future was produced during 1970-1971 and Past from 1980 to 1998. The piece has since 1993 visited more than 42 art galleries and museums internationally.

The performances consist of volunteers reading in pairs, and each performance continues where the previous left off. The work moves slowly towards the present and into the future in an attempt to complete the reading of all twenty volumes. The readings are done in English and last for half an hour per pairing. With the permission of the volunteers, parts of the readings will be sound-recorded and sent to the One Million Years Foundation as documentation of the performance.

The readings take place at Kunsthal Charlottenborg on the following dates:

1 October 12.00 – 16.00 (BC)

1 November 17.00 – 20.00 (AD)

6 December 17.00 – 20.00 (BC)

14 January 12.00 – 16.00 (AD)

We are looking for volunteers for all dates. Feel free to contact booking@kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk if you wish to participate. Please add which days you wish to read. Readings must take place in pairs with a masculine-identifying person and a feminine-identifying person. Non-binary people choose themselves which part of the reading, they want to do.

On Kawara (1932-2016) is a Japanese conceptual artist who worked internationally – especially in Paris and New York. Kawara’s works are often based on the documentation of time and the function of time in human existence. He is particularly known for his date paintings from 1966-2013 in which he continuously painted the specific place, time and date of the day as an attempt to encapsulate the fleeting and paradoxical existence of time. One Million Years: Past and Future is also a conceptual attempt to make us aware of two central elements in human life: our place in the world and the passage of time.

31 Oct
18.00 - 19.00

Seeds and Souls & Full of Days

In Danish

Join our guided tours every Tuesday during the autumn season, where one of our art guides will introduce our current exhibitions: Seeds and Souls & Full of Days.
The guided tours are in Danish.
25 Oct
17.00 - 19.00

Stateless Mind #5 – ‘Calling it home’

Artist talk with Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Thuy Nguyen and Amir Zainorin

Artist talk – ‘Calling it Home’
Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Wednesday 25 October 2023 at 17.00-19.00

Join us for an artist talk with three artists in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema, which is the starting point of the performance festival Stateless Mind #5 – ‘Calling it home’. This artist talk will start a conversation about the themes that this year’s festival thematizes. The starting point of the talk will therefore be to discuss the concept of ‘home’ in a globalized world, where cultures meet and negotiate, and identities intersect.

Panelists of the forum:
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (Denmark/Philippines)
Thuy Nguyen (Sweden/Vietnam)
Amir Zainorin (Denmark/Malaysia)

Moderator:
Pia Lund Poulsen (Denmark)

 

Theme of the festival
Stateless Mind #5 – Calling it Home focuses on the concepts of home, materially and metaphorically in relation to the given environment and surroundings. It brings together artistic practices that explore the idea of home as an ideal place, identity, and a sense of belonging. For some people home is a house, connected to a particular place. For others, it is the city- or landscape, the color of the sky, or a sense of belonging to a certain group of people or community who shares the same values, beliefs, or way of life.

The festival will feature around 20 artists with different backgrounds in Scandinavia, Asia and USA. The majority of them are based in Europe as migrants. The participating artists are invited to create works in response to their exploration and experiences of the hybridity that exist in a multicultural society. They will create performances that reflect and investigate the concept of home, while contributing to a Nordic attribution on cultural diversity and potentially reclaiming their own history and narratives in response to dominant discourses.

Stateless Mind #5 – Calling it Home seeks to contribute to a bigger public awareness of the work of intercultural artists. It offers nuances about what home means and adds to the dialogue of the global movements or migration. It wishes to stimulate an interest in art, that enables a transnational connectedness between people in the local communities and internationally concerning the multi-cultural society we are living in. Diaspora refers to a group of people living outside their ancestral homeland, and in the context of this festival, it pertains to artists who discuss and respond to their exploration and experiences of hybridity resulting from multiple cultural heritages.

The festival aims to raise public awareness about the work of performance artists and artists of diaspora, offering nuanced perspectives on the concept of home and contributing to the global dialogue on diaspora movements. Diaspora individuals often navigate the complexities of their intertwined cultural identities in the northern context, and this festival seeks to stimulate an interest in art that promotes transnational connectedness among local and international communities, especially in the context of our multicultural society.

It is our hope that the festival also will reach new audience groups, and create opportunity for new network and cooperations.

 

BIOGRAPHIES

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (Born in Philippines, based in Copenhagen)
Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen is a Danish/Philippine international acclaimed performance artist, who has done exhibitions and performances internationally, among others at KIASMA Art Museum in Helsinki, Brooklyn Museum in New York, Tate Modern in London, Performa (performance festival) in New York, Venice Biennale, Thessaloniki biennale, Busan Biennale, The Drawing Room in Manila, Röda Sten in Gothenburg, and National Gallery in Singapore.
In Denmark where she is also in the collection at AROS Art Museum in Aarhus, SMK/National Gallery in Copenhagen, Nikolaj Kunsthal and Copenhagen Contemporary.
Cuenca Rasmussen is a professor in The Art Academy in Bergen, Norway.
www.lilibethcuenca.com

Nguyễn Thanh Thủy (Born in Vietnam, based in Stockholm)
Nguyễn Thanh Thủy was born into a theatre family and was raised with traditional Vietnamese music from an early age in Hà Nội, Vietnam. She studied at the Hanoi Conservatory of Music where she received her diploma in 1998, followed by a Master of Arts at the Institute of Cultural Studies in 2003. She has received many distinctions including the First Prize and the Outstanding Traditional Music Performer Prize in the National Competition of Zither Talents in 1998. She has toured in Asia, Europe and the USA. Nguyễn Thanh Thủy has recorded several CD’s as soloist with orchestra and solo CDs. Between 2021-22 Nguyễn was an international postdoctoral research fellow at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and at the Institute of Arts, Faculty of Education Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Her artistic research project Music and identity in diaspora was funded by the Swedish Research Council.
www.thesixtones.net

Amir Zainorin (Born in Malaysia, based in Copenhagen)
Amir is an interdisciplinary artist working with performance, video, installation, prints, paintings and text with recurring themes on identity and belonging. His art projects are often interactive and participative and his artistic practice is informed by extensive interdisciplinary research and engagement with diverse communities which includes migrants and indigenous people.
He originally studied Business at University of Conway Arkansas and University of Missouri Kansas City, USA and worked with advertisement before he changed his path into art. He has exhibited his work at Kuala Lumpur Biennale, National Art Gallery Malaysia, Museum of Contemporary art in Roskilde and National Art Gallery Singapore among others.
Amir has been based in Denmark since 2002, and is the co- founder of artist association Jambatan. He has organized and curated several exhibitions, which includes Port Perak’s  Pera+Flora+Fauna at the 59th Biennale di Venezia 2022.

Pia Lund Poulsen (Born in Denmark, based in Copenhagen)
She studied cultural anthropology and Indonesian at Copenhagen University and University Gajah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She did her field studies in the Malaysian art society in Kuala Lumpur.
She has worked within the field of global education, museology, migration, tourism and cross-cultural communication. Among others she has collaborated with the Danish Immigrant museum, Mundu – Center for Global Education, the Danish Refuge Council and the Danish Red Cross.
As an independent public speaker, she gives talks on wide aspects of cultural history and works as a freelance tour leader in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Nordic countries.
www.pialundpoulsen.dk

 

FACTS
Artist talk
Introduction to the performance festival Stateless Mind # 5 – ‘Calling it home’
Wednesday 25 October 2023 17.00-19.00
Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s Cinema
Free

24 Oct
18.00 - 19.00

Seeds and Souls & Full of Days

In Danish

Join our guided tours every Tuesday during the autumn season, where one of our art guides will introduce our current exhibitions: Seeds and Souls & Full of Days.
The guided tours are in Danish.
16 Oct - 20 Oct
13.00

Autumn holiday 2023

Explore history writing, belonging and botany

During week 42 you can bring your family to Kunsthal Charlottenborg and go on an art treasure hunt, rewrite Art History as well as create new plant species through two workshops dealing with themes from the newly opened exhibitions Seeds and Souls and Full of Days. The two workshops invite children and adults to reflect on themes such as history writing, belonging and botany. It is free to participate after paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Children and young people under the age of 15 are free of charge, and registration is not necessary.

PROGRAM

Monday 16 October 12.00 – 20.00
Specially open
Guided tour in both exhibitions at 18.00

Tuesday 17 October 13.00 – 15.00
Workshop: Who gets to write Art History?

Wednesday 18 October 13.00 – 15.00
Workshop: What can the plants tell us?

Friday 20 October
Guided tour in both exhibitions at 18.00

Our art treasure hunt is open to children and adults all week during the Kunsthal’s opening hours.

Participation in the workshops is possible in both Danish and English
The art treasure hunt and the guided tours are in Danish

WORKSHOP: What can the plants tell us?
In the group exhibition Seeds and Souls, the artists examine the connections between botanical histories, colonial legacies and diasporic experiences. Read more about the exhibition here: kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/en/exhibitions/seeds-and-souls/

In the workshop, inspired by Ishita Chakraborty’s installation, children and adults get to create or recreate new plant species, listen to their stories and inquire what we can learn from them.

WORKSHOP: Who gets to write Art History?
The second workshop of the autumn holidays is inspired by the exhibition Full of Days on occasion of Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s 140th anniversary, which presents a range of all-new, specially commissioned works that respond directly to Charlottenborg’s history as an exhibition venue with no collection and no historical archive. Read more about the exhibition here: kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/en/exhibitions/full-of-days/
In this mixed-media workshop, you get to rewrite Art History by acting as both curator and artist in your own exhibition. What would Art History look like if you wrote it?

In Full of Days you can also go on an art treasure hunt to look for details in different artworks varying from an old inverted column, an installation of shower cubicles, objects from Charlottenborg’s attic as well as transportable canvases and the building’s horoscope.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Autumn holiday at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Guided tours:
Monday 16 October at 18.00
Friday 20 October at 18.00

Workshops:
Tuesday 17 October at 13.00-15.00: Full of Days
Wednesday 18 October at 13.00-15.00: Seeds and Souls

There is a lift, so it is possible to bring wheelchairs and prams etc.

13 Oct
18.00 - 00.00

Culture Night 2023

Treasure hunting and creative workshops

On Culture Night 2023 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, you can experience our newly opened exhibitions, go treasure hunting and participate in creative workshops for children.

Culture Night takes place Friday the 13th of October at 18.00-24.00.⁠

Program:
18.00 – 00.00: Treasure hunt: Find the detail from the artwork
18.00 – 00.00: Exhibitions: Seeds and Souls and Full of Days
18.00 – 22.00: Workshop: Who gets to write our Art History?
18.00 – 22.00: Workshop: What can plants tell us?

Treasure hunt: Find the detail from the artwork
From age 5
Go treasure hunting in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s jubilee exhibition Full of Days and discover new and old works of art.

Workshop: Who gets to write our Art History?
From age 5
In this mixed-media workshop, you get the opportunity to become curator of your own art exhibition.

Workshop: What can plants tell us?
From age 5
This workshop is inspired by Ishita Chakraborty’s installation from the exhibition Seeds and Souls. Here you get to create or recreate new plant species, listen to their stories and inquire what we can learn from them.

In Apollo Bar’s Cantina on the ground floor, it will be possible to buy the dish-of-the-day and drinks.

Further info:

Culture Night at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Friday 13 October at 18.00-24.00
Admission: Only admission with culture pass, free admission for children up to 12 years.

The Culture Pass costs 110 DKK and can be purchased in the Culture Night’s webshop.

 

4 Oct
17.00 - 19.30
,

Rosas Reality Radio 2

Pis & Papir & Deadline-værten

Join us as Rosa Marie Frang records the second season of her autobiographical soundpiece Rosas Reality Radio 2 – Pis & Papir. 

This event is in Danish.

Rosa Marie Frang will talk to former Deadline host Lotte Folke Kaarsholm to discuss the difficulty of interviewing media trained people. They feel confident, know what they sound and look like, and therefore risk the interview becoming too polished and uninteresting.

Rosas Reality Radio was first published in 2020. The 7 episodes of the autobiographical sound artwork addresses the question of artists’ work conditions: performance anxiety, precarious working conditions, class affiliation, rejections, gender bias, culture of silence, and the neoliberal project implementation of art. Kunsthal Charlottenborg has invited Rosa Marie Frang to record new episodes for the second season – with a live audience. The night ends with questions from the audience. The recordings will be published as a part of Rosas Reality Radion 2 – Pis & Papir. You can listen to the first season where you listen to podcasts or at www.rosasreality.com.

Contributor: Lotte Folke Kaarsholm, opinion editor and podcast host at Politiken, former studio host at Deadline, DR2.

Rosa Marie Frang (b. 1975), visual artist graduated from the Funen Art Academy and the Umeå Art Academy in Sweden. Frang’s work primarily consists of self-published audio documentaries which, with informative, entertaining and self-revealing stories, both critically and self-reflectively, investigate structural power relations in our society. She has been nominated as Radio Personality of the Year by Prix Radio and, among other things, won the Prix Radio award as Innovation of the Year in 2020, Niels Wessel Bagge’s Honorary Scholarship and AICA’s Art Critics Award as Art Event of the Year 2021.

Co-organizer: Brit Jensen. Consultant: Nanna Gro Henningsen. Supported by Billedkunstnernes Fagforbund, The Danish Arts Foundation.

3 Oct
10.00 - 13.00

Art with your baby

Incl. guided tour in the exhibition Full of Days

Art lovers on parental leave can now experience contemporary art in a baby-friendly pace at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg before our usual opening hours and get the opportunity to experience the art gallery’s current exhibitions in a calm pace with space for babies and toddlers and focus on them also having a good experience.

The event takes place on the first Tuesday of each month at 10.00-13.00 unless the gallery is closed during the installation of exhibitions. The guided tour takes place between 11.00-12.00. The guided tour will be in Danish.

Guided tours autumn/winter:
3 October: Full of Days
7 November: Seeds and Souls
5 December: Full of Days
2 January: Full of Days
6 February: Seeds and Souls

Entrance: It is not necessary to register for the event in advance. The tour is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Children up to and including 15 years of age enter free. Free for season pass holders.

Practical information:

We recommend that you bring your baby carrier. It is also possible to take a stroller around, unless the current exhibitions physically prevents this.

In the upper foyer, it is possible to park strollers, and there is seating and a soft floor with furniture and toys for infants.

In the lower foyer there are changing facilities as well as the possibility to breastfeed in a more private setting for those who prefer that, and to feed your child. The Kunsthal provides an electric kettle and a microwave.

In Apollo Bar you can buy other snacks as well as coffee and cake and here there is also plenty of space for strollers in the art gallery’s courtyard.

Art with your baby is sponsored by bObles

1 Oct
12.00 - 16.00

On Kawara

One Million Years: Past and Future (1993-)

In connection with the exhibition Full of Days celebrating Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s 140-year anniversary, you can take part in- or experience On Kawara’s monumental performance piece One Million Years: Past and Future.

On Kawara’s One Million Years: Past and Future consists of 20 volumes containing columns of years dated between 998,031 B.C. to year 1,001,992. Future was produced during 1970-1971 and Past from 1980 to 1998. The piece has since 1993 visited more than 42 art galleries and museums internationally.

The performances consist of volunteers reading in pairs, and each performance continues where the previous left off. The work moves slowly towards the present and into the future in an attempt to complete the reading of all twenty volumes. The readings are done in English and last for half an hour per pairing. With the permission of the volunteers, parts of the readings will be sound-recorded and sent to the One Million Years Foundation as documentation of the performance.

The readings take place at Kunsthal Charlottenborg on the following dates:

1 October 12.00 – 16.00 (BC)

1 November 17.00 – 20.00 (AD)

6 December 17.00 – 20.00 (BC)

14 January 12.00 – 16.00 (AD)

We are looking for volunteers for all dates. Feel free to contact booking@kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk if you wish to participate. Please add which days you wish to read. Readings must take place in pairs with a masculine-identifying person and a feminine-identifying person. Non-binary people choose themselves which part of the reading, they want to do.

On Kawara (1932-2016) is a Japanese conceptual artist who worked internationally – especially in Paris and New York. Kawara’s works are often based on the documentation of time and the function of time in human existence. He is particularly known for his date paintings from 1966-2013 in which he continuously painted the specific place, time and date of the day as an attempt to encapsulate the fleeting and paradoxical existence of time. One Million Years: Past and Future is also a conceptual attempt to make us aware of two central elements in human life: our place in the world and the passage of time.

29 Sep
17.00 - 22.00

Full of Days

Charlottenborg Jubilee

Kunsthal Charlottenborg turns 140 years in 2023. We celebrate this in this autumn’s major exhibition Full of Days, which presents a series of completely new works by fourteen contemporary artists who has been inspired by the history of Kunsthal Charlottenborg – or Charlottenborg Exhibition Building as its was called in 1883 – to honor what the building originally was built for at Kongens Nytorv; to show the art of the time. Now, we invite you to the opening of the exhibition:

Friday 29 September 17.00-22.00 
The admission is free to the opening and everyone is welcome.

Program
16.00: Preview for season pass holders
17.00: The exhibition opens
17.10: Opening speeches in the upper foyer
17.30: Music, food, drinks
22.00: Thank you for tonight

About the exhibition
When the exhibition Full of Days opens at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, it will be with a series of completely new works by Danish and international artists that relate to the history of the place, an exhibition building without a collection or historical archive.

The new commissions are presented side by side with a selection of carefully curated historical works as well as images from Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s past. This interweaving of different voices and temporalities emphasises how history writing always depends on the narrator. At the same time, it creates the starting point for an exhibition that embraces the disordered accumulation, shifts and cyclic returns that define the exhibition building’s 140 years of history. The show forges intuitive links and connections, and traces affinities and idiosyncrasies between art, people and events from different times, to outline one among many possible portraits of the venue – one which eschews a straightforward linear narrative. Further info here.

Participating artists: Louise Alenius, Benedikte Bjerre, Valentina Desideri & Denise Ferreira da Silva, Jason Dodge, Emil Elg, Maryam Jafri, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Sahar Jamili, Eva la Cour, Isabel Lewis in romance with Dirk Bell, Asta Lynge, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Finn Reinbothe, Åbäke, in company with Gunnar Aagaard Andersen, Pia Arke, Nina Beier, Yvette Brackman, Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, Claus Carstensen, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Inge Ellegaard, Olivia Holm-Møller, Asger Jorn, On Kawara, Per Kirkeby, Arthur Köpcke, Marie Luplau, Susanne Mertz, Lee Miller, Ursula Munch-Petersen, Emilie Mundt, Palle Nielsen, Astrid Noack, Lene Adler Petersen, Franka Rasmussen, Nina Sten-Knudsen, Susanne Ussing, and more.

Full of Days is curated by Julia Rodrigues and Francesca Astesani from South into North.

The exhibition is supported by the 15 Juni Foundation, the Augustinus Foundation, the Axel Muusfeldt’s Foundation, the Beckett Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation, the Knud Højgaard’s Foundation, the Obel Family Foundation, the William Demant Foundation, the Aage & Johanne Louis-Hansen’s Foundation.

27 Sep
17.00 - 19.30
,

Rosas Reality Radio 2

Pis & Papir & New Public Management

Join us as Rosa Marie Frang records the second season of her autobiographical sound artwork Rosas Reality Radio 2 – Pis & Papir. 

This event is in Danish.

Rosa Marie Frang will talk with writer Steen Nepper Larsen and composer John Frandsen about New Public Management’s influence on artists’ work conditions in their work as committee members at The Danish Arts Foundation.

Rosas Reality Radio was first published in 2020. The 7 episodes of the autobiographical sound artwork addresses the question of artists’ work conditions: performance anxiety, precarious working conditions, class affiliation, rejections, gender bias, culture of silence, and the neoliberal project implementation of art. Kunsthal Charlottenborg has invited Rosa Marie Frang to record new episodes for the second season – with a live audience. The night ends with questions from the audience. The recordings will be published as a part of Rosas Reality Radion 2 – Pis & Papir. You can listen to the first season where you listen to podcasts or at www.rosasreality.com.

Contributor:
Steen Nepper Larsen, critic, writer and Lecturer at DPU, Århus.
John Frandsen, composer, organist and conducter. Former chair of Dansk Komponistforening and The Danish Arts Foundation.

Rosa Marie Frang (b. 1975), visual artist graduated from the Funen Art Academy and the Umeå Art Academy in Sweden. Frang’s work primarily consists of self-published audio documentaries which, with informative, entertaining and self-revealing stories, both critically and self-reflectively, investigate structural power relations in our society. She has been nominated as Radio Personality of the Year by Prix Radio and, among other things, won the Prix Radio award as Innovation of the Year in 2020, Niels Wessel Bagge’s Honorary Scholarship and AICA’s Art Critics Award as Art Event of the Year 2021.

Co-organizer: Brit Jensen. Consultant: Nanna Gro Henningsen. Supported by Billedkunstnernes Fagforbund, The Danish Arts Foundation.

20 Sep
17.00 - 19.30
,

Rosas Reality Radio 2

Pis & Papir & Psykoterapeuten

Join us as Rosa Marie Frang records the second season of her autobiographical sound artwork Rosas Reality Radio 2 – Pis & Papir. 

This event is in Danish.

Rosa Marie Frang will talk with her former psychotherapist Vibeke Hertz and discuss the visibility that the first season of Rosas Reality Radio got overnight.

Rosas Reality Radio was first published in 2020. The 7 episodes of the autobiographical sound artwork addresses the question of artists’ work conditions: performance anxiety, precarious working conditions, class affiliation, rejections, gender bias, culture of silence, and the neoliberal project implementation of art. Kunsthal Charlottenborg has invited Rosa Marie Frang to record new episodes for the second season – with a live audience. The night ends with questions from the audience. The recordings will be published as a part of Rosas Reality Radion 2 – Pis & Papir. You can listen to the first season where you listen to podcasts or at www.rosasreality.com.

Contributor: Vibeke Hertz, psychotherapist.

Rosa Marie Frang (b. 1975), visual artist graduated from the Funen Art Academy and the Umeå Art Academy in Sweden. Frang’s work primarily consists of self-published audio documentaries which, with informative, entertaining and self-revealing stories, both critically and self-reflectively, investigate structural power relations in our society. She has been nominated as Radio Personality of the Year by Prix Radio and, among other things, won the Prix Radio award as Innovation of the Year in 2020, Niels Wessel Bagge’s Honorary Scholarship and AICA’s Art Critics Award as Art Event of the Year 2021.

Co-organizer: Brit Jensen. Consultant: Nanna Gro Henningsen. Supported by Billedkunstnernes Fagforbund, The Danish Arts Foundation.

 

 

15 Sep
17.00 - 20.00

Seeds and Souls

Curated by Christine Eyene

Kunsthal Charlottenborg will soon open the doors for the autumn season presenting the international group exhibition Seeds and Souls curated by Christine Eyene featuring artists from Australia, Barbados, Cameroon, India, Mauritius, United Kingdom, Venezuela and more. Now, we invite you to the opening of the exhibition:

FRIDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 17.00-20.00

The admission is free to the opening and everyone is welcome. At 16.00, just before the opening, curator Christine Eyene will introduce the exhibition, where the participating artists will be present: Shiraz Bayjoo, Ishita Chakraborty, Annalee Davis, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Linda Lamignan, Yvon Ngassam.

Program:
16.00: Introduction to the exhibition in the cinema
17.00: The exhibition opens
17.10: Opening speeches in the upper foyer
17.30: DJ Aida Mai, the bar is open
20.00: Thank you for tonight

About the exhibition:
The exhibition Seeds and Souls proposes new explorations into the connections between botanical histories, colonial legacies and diasporic experiences. Presented at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, which was built in the late 19th century on the grounds of Copenhagen’s then botanical garden, the exhibition draws parallels between original soil and vegetation – their extraction, consumption, transplantation, and mutation into new environments – and the phenomena of cultural dispersions anchored within histories that continue to impact us today. Further info here.

Participating artists: Brook Andrew, Shiraz Bayjoo, Sonia Boyce, Ishita Chakraborty, Annalee Davis, Michelle Eistrup, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Linda Lamignan, Yvon Ngassam.

Seeds and Souls is curated by Christine Eyene, Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Liverpool John Moores University and Research Curator at Tate Liverpool.

The exhibition is supported by the Augustinus Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation, the Obel Family Foundation, the William Demant Foundation, the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen’s Foundation.

15 Sep
16.00 - 17.00

Seeds and Souls

Introduction by curator Christine Eyene

Before the opening of the exhibition ‘Seeds and Souls’ curator Christine Eyene together with several of the participating artists will make an introduction to the exhibition, the works and the creative processes behind them.

The introduction takes place at 4pm in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema and the following artists will be present: Shiraz Bayjoo, Ishita Chakraborty, Annalee Davis, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Linda Lamignan, Yvon Ngassam.

The event is in in English and the admission is free, first come, first served (the doors open at 3.30pm).

Afterwards you can experience Seeds and Souls, when the exhibition opens from 5pm-8pm.

3 Aug
17.00 - 18.30

Guided summer tours at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Join us on a guided tour every Thursday during the summer, where one of our art hosts will introduce our current exhibitions: Alexander Tovborg, The Church and Jeremy Deller, Welcome to the Shitshow!.

The five tours during the summer holidays will take place: 6 July, 13 July, 20 July, 27 July and 3 August.

The tours will take place at 5pm in English and 6pm in Danish. The tour lasts approx. 45 minutes and is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Alexander Tovborg, The Church:
Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the Danish artist Alexander Tovborg in his most comprehensive solo show to date. The entire south wing is transformed into an immersive installation which uses the idea of the church space as its architectural and conceptual framework.

Alexander Tovborg has distinguished himself as an acclaimed, innovative and sensational artist on the Danish and international art scene alike. Tovborg’s oeuvre testifies to a consistent artistic project, being permeated by a strong vision of the return of humanity and benevolence in a time characterized by global crises. Further info here.

Jeremy Deller, Welcome to the Shitshow!:
Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia with the award-winning British artist Jeremy Deller. Through film, photography, graphic works and sculptural installations the exhibition will accentuate documentary aspects of Deller’s practice, which records extraordinary moments of our time and brings together a wide range of works created over the course of the last twenty years. Further info here.

1 Aug
10.00 - 13.00

Art with your baby

Experience contemporary art in a calm pace before regular opening hours

Art lovers on parental leave can now experience contemporary art in a baby-friendly pace at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg before our usual opening hours and get the opportunity to experience the art gallery’s current exhibitions in a calm pace with space for babies and toddlers and focus on them also having a good experience.

The event takes place on the first Tuesday of each month at 10.00-13.00 unless the gallery is closed during the installation of exhibitions. The guided tour takes place between 11.00-12.00. The guided tour will be in Danish.

Guided tours spring/summer:
2 May: MFA Degree Show 2023
6 Jun: Jeremy Deller, Welcome to the Shitshow!
4 Jul: Alexander Tovborg, The Church
1 Aug: Alexander Tovborg, The Church

Entrance: It is not necessary to register for the event in advance. The tour is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Children up to and including 15 years of age enter free. Free for season pass holders.

Practical information:

We recommend that you bring your baby carrier. It is also possible to take a stroller around, unless the current exhibitions physically prevents this.

In the upper foyer, it is possible to park strollers, and there is seating and a soft floor with furniture and toys for infants.

In the lower foyer there are changing facilities as well as the possibility to breastfeed in a more private setting for those who prefer that, and to feed your child. The Kunsthal provides an electric kettle and a microwave.

In Apollo Bar you can buy other snacks as well as coffee and cake and here there is also plenty of space for strollers in the art gallery’s courtyard.

Art with your baby is sponsored by bObles.

27 Jul
17.00 - 18.30

Guided summer tours at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Join us on a guided tour every Thursday during the summer, where one of our art hosts will introduce our current exhibitions: Alexander Tovborg, The Church and Jeremy Deller, Welcome to the Shitshow!.

The five tours during the summer holidays will take place: 6 July, 13 July, 20 July, 27 July and 3 August.

The tours will take place at 5pm in English and 6pm in Danish. The tour lasts approx. 45 minutes and is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Alexander Tovborg, The Church:
Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the Danish artist Alexander Tovborg in his most comprehensive solo show to date. The entire south wing is transformed into an immersive installation which uses the idea of the church space as its architectural and conceptual framework.

Alexander Tovborg has distinguished himself as an acclaimed, innovative and sensational artist on the Danish and international art scene alike. Tovborg’s oeuvre testifies to a consistent artistic project, being permeated by a strong vision of the return of humanity and benevolence in a time characterized by global crises. Further info here.

Jeremy Deller, Welcome to the Shitshow!:
Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia with the award-winning British artist Jeremy Deller. Through film, photography, graphic works and sculptural installations the exhibition will accentuate documentary aspects of Deller’s practice, which records extraordinary moments of our time and brings together a wide range of works created over the course of the last twenty years. Further info here.

20 Jul
17.00 - 18.30

Guided summer tours at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Join us on a guided tour every Thursday during the summer, where one of our art hosts will introduce our current exhibitions: Alexander Tovborg, The Church and Jeremy Deller, Welcome to the Shitshow!.

The five tours during the summer holidays will take place: 6 July, 13 July, 20 July, 27 July and 3 August.

The tours will take place at 5pm in English and 6pm in Danish. The tour lasts approx. 45 minutes and is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Alexander Tovborg, The Church:
Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the Danish artist Alexander Tovborg in his most comprehensive solo show to date. The entire south wing is transformed into an immersive installation which uses the idea of the church space as its architectural and conceptual framework.

Alexander Tovborg has distinguished himself as an acclaimed, innovative and sensational artist on the Danish and international art scene alike. Tovborg’s oeuvre testifies to a consistent artistic project, being permeated by a strong vision of the return of humanity and benevolence in a time characterized by global crises. Further info here.

Jeremy Deller, Welcome to the Shitshow!:
Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia with the award-winning British artist Jeremy Deller. Through film, photography, graphic works and sculptural installations the exhibition will accentuate documentary aspects of Deller’s practice, which records extraordinary moments of our time and brings together a wide range of works created over the course of the last twenty years. Further info here.

13 Jul
17.00 - 18.30

Guided summer tours at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Join us on a guided tour every Thursday during the summer, where one of our art hosts will introduce our current exhibitions: Alexander Tovborg, The Church and Jeremy Deller, Welcome to the Shitshow!.

The five tours during the summer holidays will take place: 6 July, 13 July, 20 July, 27 July and 3 August.

The tours will take place at 5pm in English and 6pm in Danish. The tour lasts approx. 45 minutes and is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Alexander Tovborg, The Church:
Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the Danish artist Alexander Tovborg in his most comprehensive solo show to date. The entire south wing is transformed into an immersive installation which uses the idea of the church space as its architectural and conceptual framework.

Alexander Tovborg has distinguished himself as an acclaimed, innovative and sensational artist on the Danish and international art scene alike. Tovborg’s oeuvre testifies to a consistent artistic project, being permeated by a strong vision of the return of humanity and benevolence in a time characterized by global crises. Further info here.

Jeremy Deller, Welcome to the Shitshow!:
Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia with the award-winning British artist Jeremy Deller. Through film, photography, graphic works and sculptural installations the exhibition will accentuate documentary aspects of Deller’s practice, which records extraordinary moments of our time and brings together a wide range of works created over the course of the last twenty years. Further info here.

6 Jul
17.00 - 18.30

Guided summer tours at Kunsthal Charlottenborg – cancelled

Join us on a guided tour every Thursday during the summer, where one of our art hosts will introduce our current exhibitions: Alexander Tovborg, The Church and Jeremy Deller, Welcome to the Shitshow!.

The five tours during the summer holidays will take place: 6 July, 13 July, 20 July, 27 July and 3 August.

The tours will take place at 5pm in English and 6pm in Danish. The tour lasts approx. 45 minutes and is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Alexander Tovborg, The Church:
Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the Danish artist Alexander Tovborg in his most comprehensive solo show to date. The entire south wing is transformed into an immersive installation which uses the idea of the church space as its architectural and conceptual framework.

Alexander Tovborg has distinguished himself as an acclaimed, innovative and sensational artist on the Danish and international art scene alike. Tovborg’s oeuvre testifies to a consistent artistic project, being permeated by a strong vision of the return of humanity and benevolence in a time characterized by global crises. Further info here.

Jeremy Deller, Welcome to the Shitshow!:
Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia with the award-winning British artist Jeremy Deller. Through film, photography, graphic works and sculptural installations the exhibition will accentuate documentary aspects of Deller’s practice, which records extraordinary moments of our time and brings together a wide range of works created over the course of the last twenty years. Further info here.

4 Jul - 6 Aug
12.00

Alexander Tovborg & Jeremy Deller

The Knight of Faith (2019) + Battle of Orgreave (2001)

As part of our two current exhibitions Charlottenborg Art Cinema show two films over the summer; a documentary about the artist Alexander Tovborg and a documentary of a major performance work created by Jeremy Deller.

Battle of Orgreave (2001) by Jeremy Deller, 63min:
Battle of Orgreave is a documentation of the re-enactment of a confrontation that Jeremy Deller had witnessed as a young person on TV, where striking miners were chased up a hill and pursued through a village. It has since become an iconic image of the 1984 strike – having the quality of a war scene rather than a labour dispute. For this performance Deller asked eg former miners to participate in the staging of a battle that occurred within living memory, alongside veterans of the campaign. About eight-hundred historical re-enactors and two-hundred former miners who had been part of the original conflict performed in this event which is documented in this filmwhich Deller describes as “digging up a corpse and giving it a proper post-mortem, or as a thousand-person crime re-enactment.”

Alexander Tovborg: The Knight of Faith (2019) by Andreas Johnsen, 96 min:
The director Andreas Johnsen has followed Alexander Tovborg for 4 1/2 years and created a documentary in which both the artist’s doubts, faith and ecstasy are captured. The film starts with the creation of the work ‘The Knight of Faith’, which depicts Noah’s Ark as a bouncy castle. It follows Tovborg as a creative artist in a search for faith and the religious – but also to the birth of his own child. The film reflects the fluid boundary between the artist and the private person, Alexander tovborg – a difficult balancing act that has led to ups and downs and difficulties in eg. handling the pressure of the outside world’s expectations.

The films are looping during our opening hours and the the entry is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

4 Jul
10.00 - 13.00

Art with your baby

Experience contemporary art in a calm pace before regular opening hours

Art lovers on parental leave can now experience contemporary art in a baby-friendly pace at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg before our usual opening hours and get the opportunity to experience the art gallery’s current exhibitions in a calm pace with space for babies and toddlers and focus on them also having a good experience.

The event takes place on the first Tuesday of each month at 10.00-13.00 unless the gallery is closed during the installation of exhibitions. The guided tour takes place between 11.00-12.00. The guided tour will be in Danish.

Guided tours spring/summer:
2 May: MFA Degree Show 2023
6 Jun: Jeremy Deller, Welcome to the Shitshow!
4 Jul: Alexander Tovborg, The Church
1 Aug: Alexander Tovborg, The Church

Admission: It is not necessary to register for the event in advance. The tour is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Children up to and including 15 years of age enter free. Free for season pass holders.

Practical information:

We recommend that you bring your baby carrier. It is also possible to take a stroller around, unless the current exhibitions physically prevents this.

In the upper foyer, it is possible to park strollers, and there is seating and a soft floor with furniture and toys for infants.

In the lower foyer there are changing facilities as well as the possibility to breastfeed in a more private setting for those who prefer that, and to feed your child. The Kunsthal provides an electric kettle and a microwave.

In the Apollo Bar you can buy other snacks as well as coffee and cake and here there is also plenty of space for strollers in the art gallery’s courtyard.

Art with your baby is sponsored by bObles.

23 Jun
11.00 - 16.00
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Public Structures

Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale

In close collaboration with the curators Hans Ulrich Obrist and Jeppe Ugelvig, Kunsthal Charlottenborg launches its third biennale, Public Structures. The international art exhibition is shown over the summer in the streets, train stations and bus stops all over Denmark. Now we invite you to the opening of the exhibition:

FRIDAY 23 JUNE 11.00-16.00

Program:

11.00-12.00: Opening of the exhibition Public Structures
Place: Copenhagen Central Station, under the clock

12.30-13.30: Artist talk with the curators Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeppe Ugelvig and Herbert Hans, Maja Malou Lyse, Esben Weile Kjær, among others (in English)
Place: Art Hub Copenhagen, Halmtorvet 27
Tickets: Book your ticket here (free)

14.00-16.00: Opening of special exhibition by General Idea
Place: In a shop, Værnedamsvej 6

About the exhibition:
What would it mean for an artwork to be mistaken for an ad? When art steps outside its own institutional context, it enters a sprawling media ecology with a plethora of critical and economic possibilities. This strategy, which holds a long history in modern and contemporary art, has been the guiding principle for Public Structures, the third edition of the Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale, which revives the critical tradition of artistic distribution through commercial media.

Participating artists in the Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale 2023:
Akeem Smith, Bless (Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag), CATPC (Congolese Plantation Workers), Eric Andersen, General Idea, Hans-Peter Feldmann, KAWS, Koo Jeong A, Luki von der Gracht, Maja Malou Lyse & Esben Weile Kjær, Martine Syms, Minerva Cuevas, Michael Rakowitz, Pippa Garner, Rasheed Araeen, Rosemarie Trockel, Serapis Maritime, Shuang Li, Sungsil Ryu, SUPERFLEX, Tromarama, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Yugoexport/Irena Haiduk.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale is an international art exhibition presented in streets, train stations, and bus stops throughout almost all of Denmark. The biennale is held every other year with the express intention of bringing contemporary art out across the nation.

The Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale 2023 is curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Jeppe Ugelvig. The exhibition is produced in collaboration with AFA JCDecaux, e-Types with support from the Augustinus Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation, and the Obel Family Foundatio

21 Jun
17.00 - 18.00

Alexander Tovborg & Aksel Haaning

The Church

In connection with the opening of the exhibition The Church at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, artist Alexander Tovborg and author and lecturer in philosophy and Christian mysticism Aksel Haaning will explore the exhibition’s perspectives on the Christian-rooted myths, mysteries and symbols that the church represents. In which intersection does the church and art move? How does the power of the image emerge in the church space – and in our everyday life – and how can we disrupt this through art?

The church as symbol and paradox unfolds in this conversation, where mystery and art meet each other, as it also does in The Church. The talk is in Danish.

Time: 21 June at 17.00-18.00
Place: Charlottenborg Art Cinema
Admission: Free but seats are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis

Alexander Tovborg has his degree from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2004-10) and Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe, Germany (2007-09). He has had solo exhibitions at e.g. Overgaden, GL Strand, Rudolph Tegner Museum and State of Concept in Athens. His works have been exhibited both at home and abroad, i.a. at Camden Art Center in London, IMMA Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, ARKEN, ARoS, Holstebro Art Museum and KØS. He has created numerous art projects in the public space e.g. to the Eastern High Court, Copenhagen Airport as well as Jelling Church, Tejn Church and Trekroner Church. He is also represented in the collections at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Kunsthalle Bremen, ARKEN, ARoS and the Museum of Religious Art. Tovborg is represented by Galleri Nicolai Wallner and Blum & Poe.

Aksel Haaning primarily researches the history of philosophy and the sciences in the period between Late Antiquity and early modern times, with an emphasis on overlooked and misrepresented traditions such as contemplation, medieval and Renaissance natural philosophy, alchemy and the history of medicine, including cosmology and worldviews and the human views they contain. A unifying element in his work is therefore critical historiography and a constructive uncovering of how the often forgotten and overlooked traditions and worlds of thought are connected to our own time and challenge ourselves, our culture and self-understanding. Educated as Master in Classical Philology (Greek and Latin) from the University of Copenhagen with medieval Latin as the main area; completed with a silver medal thesis on the concept of nature in the Middle Ages. Guest lecturer at C.G. Jung Institute Zurich; member of the Pontoppidan Society; Member of the Archive for Research of Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS) International Advisory Board.

17 Jun
12.00 - 13.00

Guided tour by curator Naja Rasmussen

The Church

Experience a unique insight in the process of creating The Church, when curator Naja Rasmussen invites you on a special tour of the newly opened solo exhibition by the Danish artist Alexander Tovborg. Naja Rasmussen will present the exhibition, which examines the mystery of the church, the paradoxes of faith and the power of images.

The guided tour takes place at Kunsthal Charlottenborg Saturday 17 June 12.00-13.00. The tour will be in Danish and is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Naja Rasmussen (b.1980) is Artistic Director at Kunstmuseum Brandts. She has curated exhibitions with, among others, Leonora Carrington, Niki de Saint Phalle, Frida Kahlo, J.F. Willumsen, Pablo Picasso and Ugo Rondinone. Most recently, in 2023 she curated an Ovartaci exhibition for the Cobra Museum in Amsterdam, and she is currently working on a publication about Alexander Tovborg.

About the exhibition:

The exhibition The Church heralds a new direction in Tovborg’s work. Religious tenets are juxtaposed with liberating counter-narratives about faith and superstition, myths and rituals in the artist’s simultaneously stringent and labyrinthine works. The brightly coloured compositions in his paintings strike a tranquil note, offering scope for contemplation while illuminating universal themes such as sorrow and joy, anxiety and zest for life.

The immersive installation at Kunsthal Charlottenborg consists exclusively of newly produced works. Here, visitors will encounter fresco-inspired murals, stained-glass windows and monumental paintings with biblical narratives and subversive undertones. The galleries will transform into a sacred space that sets the stage for new thoughts, ideas and actions. Further info.

16 Jun - 18 Jun
15.00
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Rundgang

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Visual Arts

Experience The Schools of Visual Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from the inside at Rundgang Friday 16 – Sunday 18 June 2023.

The school exhibition gives an insight into what students and teachers have been working on in the past year around the Art Academy’s studios and workshops. Come and experience new artistic projects, exhibitions, installations, performances and film screenings.

The Academy of Fine Arts’ students organize the exhibitions, and the doors are open at Charlottenborg Castle and in Peder Skrams Gade 2 – just as there will be works in yards, alleys and gardens around the Academy of Fine Arts.

Opening hours:
Friday 16 June: 15-20
Saturday 17 June: 12-18
Sunday 18 June: 12-17

Address:
The Royal Danish Academy of Art Schools of Visual Arts
Kgs. Nytorv 1
Peder Skramsgade 2
1050 Copenhagen K

15 Jun
17.00

Art Critic Prize

AICA Denmark

True to tradition, AICA awards the Art Critic Prize for activities in the year 2022.

Prizes will be awarded this year in the following categories: Exhibition of the Year 2022, Art Publication of the Year 2022, and Art Event of the Year. In addition, 15. Juni Fondens prize for Art Critic of the Year is awarded – a special prize awarded by 15. Juni Fonden itself.

The celebration of the Danish art scene will take place with a ceremony and a reception held at Kunsthal Charlottenborg on 15 June 2023 at 17.00. This event is in Danish.

The Art Critic Prize is made possible thanks to a generous donation from 15 Juni Fonden.

9 Jun
17.00 - 22.00

Alexander Tovborg

The Church

Over the summer, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the most comprehensive solo exhibition to date with the Danish artist Alexander Tovborg.

With the exhibition The Church he transforms the entire south wing into an immersive installation which uses the idea of the church space as its architectural and conceptual framework. Now, we invite you to the opening of the exhibition:

Friday 9 June 17.00-22.00
The admission is free to the opening and everyone is welcome

Program:
16.00: Preview for season pass holders
17.00: The exhibition opens
17.10: Opening speeches
17.30-22.00: Opening party in the courtyard with food from Apollo Bar, beer and wine. Music by Jesus Crisis, Cæcilie Trier, Angel & Atusa. Sponsored by Apollo Bar, Rosforth, Galleri Nicolai Wallner and Blum & Poe
20.00: The exhibition closes
22.00: Thank you for tonight

About the exhibition:
Alexander Tovborg has distinguished himself as an acclaimed, innovative and sensational artist on the Danish and international art scene alike. The exhibition The Church heralds a new direction in the artist’s work. The galleries will transform into a sacred space that sets the stage for new thoughts, ideas and actions. Further info here.

The Church is curated by Naja Rasmussen, Artistic Director at Kunstmuseum Brandts, and Simon Friese, Director at Creator Projects.

The exhibition is supported by A.P. Møller og Hustru Chastine Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond til almene Formaal, Augustinus Fonden, Beckett-Fonden, Lemvigh-Müller Fonden, Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond, Det Obelske Familiefond, Spar Nord Fonden, Statens Kunstfond, Aage Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond.

Preview for season pass holders:
If you have a season pass for Kunsthal Charlottenborg, you can experience the exhibition before the public opening on the same day at 16.00-17.00, where we serve a glass of bubbles. If you do not have an annual pass, you can buy it in our front desk or online here.

8 Jun
08.30 - 09.30

Guided tour: Welcome to the Shitshow!

Kunsthal Charlottenborg x Art Week

During Art Week, Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you to a special guided morning tour in the exhibition Welcome to the Shitshow! by the award-winning British artist Jeremy Deller, together with curator Henriette Bretton-Meyer.

Included in the ticket price is access to the tour and a cup of coffee. Buy your ticket here.

About the exhibition:

Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia with the award-winning British artist Jeremy Deller. Through film, photography, graphic works and sculptural installations the exhibition will accentuate documentary aspects of Deller’s practice, which records extraordinary moments of our time and brings together a wide range of works created over the course of the last fifteen years.

Art Week is a festival for contemporary art that invites locals as well as our tourists to new and different meetings with the art and artists. This year’s program consists of a variety of new exhibitions, performances, concerts, debates, industry activities, art tours and meetings with the artists themselves.

6 Jun
10.00 - 13.00

Art with your baby

Experience contemporary art in a calm pace before regular opening hours

Art lovers on parental leave can now experience contemporary art in a baby-friendly pace at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg before our usual opening hours and get the opportunity to experience the art gallery’s current exhibitions in a calm pace with space for babies and toddlers and focus on them also having a good experience.

The event takes place on the first Tuesday of each month at 10.00-13.00 unless the gallery is closed during the installation of exhibitions. The guided tour takes place between 11.00-12.00. The guided tour will be in Danish.

Guided tours spring/summer:
2 May: MFA Degree Show 2023
6 Jun: Jeremy Deller, Welcome to the Shitshow!
4 Jul: Alexander Tovborg, The Church
1 Aug: Alexander Tovborg, The Church

Entrance: It is not necessary to register for the event in advance. The tour is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Children up to and including 15 years of age enter free. Free for season pass holders.

Practical information:

We recommend that you bring your baby carrier. It is also possible to take a stroller around, unless the current exhibitions physically prevents this.

In the upper foyer, it is possible to park strollers, and there is seating and a soft floor with furniture and toys for infants.

In the lower foyer there are changing facilities as well as the possibility to breastfeed in a more private setting for those who prefer that, and to feed your child. The Kunsthal provides an electric kettle and a microwave.

In the Apollo Canteen you can get lunch at 12.00-14.00, where the vegetarian dish of the day is served for DKK 80. In the Apollo Bar you can buy other snacks as well as coffee and cake and here there is also plenty of space for strollers in the art gallery’s courtyard.

Art with your baby is sponsored by bObles.

31 May
18.00 - 21.00
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Retfærdig Naturbevarelse

Den Grønne Ungdomsbevægelse

The Green Youth Movement invites you to a night in the name of biodiversity, utopia and dreams in the cinema of Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

On the 17th of May, The Green Youth Movement released their book Retfærdig Naturbevarelse – et manifest in collaboration with the publisher Økotopia. The book presents an in-depth and holistic narrative about a new nature conservation policy. A policy that paves the way for a green, fair future teeming with diverse life.

Retfærdig Naturbevarelse is the Green Youth Movement’s attempt to give a strong push to the diversity agenda in Denmark. After decades of political downgrading of biodiversity policy in favor of biodiversity-damaging business interests, the species and ecosystems are crying out for care and protection like never before.

During the evening there will be readings from the book, and a talk about biodiversity and utopias will be facilitated.

About The Green Youth Movement:

The Green Youth Movement is an initiative started in spring 2018 by students from various education institutions. The movement is a community for everyone who fights for a green, just future through far-reaching structural changes in society.

The event takes place in the Art Cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg 31 May 18-21, the admission is free.

25 May
19.00 - 21.00
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Donnimaar. O Tilli (postponed)

Release

Kunsthal Charlottenborg and ((O)) Gong Tomorrow present Donnimaar. O Tilli:

The Danish queen Dagmar captures a mermaid. She wants the mermaid to tell her fortune. The mermaid concedes, but throws a curse in revenge: The Dane will mother three sons, but will soon die for them. The first will be the Danish king, the second wear a crown. The third become the wisest man, receiving news from distant towns. Now Dagmar begs the Danish king to let the mermaid live. But he rejects her plea: “She has sunk my seven ships!”

Dagmar faints, the king gives in. They return her to the sea. The mermaid sits atop a wave, the queen is crying woefully. The mermaid says: “Don’t cry for me. I have opened heaven’s gates for thee. The bells of heaven are ringing for thee, and my little children are longing for me. The angels of heaven are longing for thee, and the depths of the sea are open for me.” *

On May 25, Marie Kølbæk Iversen performs songs from her upcoming album Donnimaar. O Tilli to the accompaniment of Katinka Fogh Vindelev. The album engages the idea of merpeople as humans’ ontological others: Dwellers of those natural environments that are uninhabitable to humans—underwater, underground—and ciphers of cultures and peoples that have been barred from entering the present.

In this latter modality, merpeople represent the spirits of the physically or culturally ‘dead,’ who—from their subjugated position in the netherworlds—continue to haunt the living in their desire for life and revenge.

Kølbæk Iversen’s Donnimaar-project is based on mythic narratives from her Midwest Jutlandic home region. The material was gathered by Evald Tang Kristensen in the late 19th century, among others from Marie Kølbæk Iversen’s great-great-great-great-grandmother Johanne Thygesdatter.

The album title, Donnimaar. O Tilli, is drawn from the above-referenced song about the mermaid, who, having been abducted from the water by Danish royalty, is dancing ‘o tilli,’ that is: Wriggling on the floor like a fish.

Time: Thursday May 25 19.00-21.00
Place: Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 København K
Tickets: Buy your ticket in advance on Billetto for 50 DKK, which is the price of a ticket to visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Your ticket to the event is also an entrance ticket to Kunsthal Charlottenborg during opening hours on May 25. Buy your ticket here: https://billetto.dk/…/performance-pladerelease…

Bio: As Donnimaar, Kølbæk Iversen (*1981, Herning, DK) has performed in exhibitions and at venues such as PS/Y at LUX London; TEDtalks on Acid at Kunsthal Charlottenborg; Soil. Sickness. Society at Kunsthal Rønnebæksholm, and O – Overgaden. In 2021, she launched her first album, Donnimaar. Vredens Børn, on MoBC Records.

She is a 2008-graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art and her work has been shown in national and international exhibitions including Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo; Kai Art Centre, Tallinn; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; the 11th Gwangju Biennial: The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?), Gwangju; Biennale de l’image en movement at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, and the MONA, Tasmania. She is represented in private and public collections, among them the Danish National Gallery, Malmö Art Museum, Arken Museum, AROS Museum, and the Danish Arts Foundation.

About ((O)) Gong Tomorrow

Gong Tomorrow is a festival for contemporary music. The festival presents a wildly growing program of experimental music, sound art and newly written works that show ways to feel connected to complex presents. Further info here.

* “Æ hawwfrååw hon danser o tilli” (“Havfruen hun danser o tilli”). Sammenfatning ved Marie Kølbæk Iversen på baggrund af version nedskrevet af Evald Tang Kristensen. Tilbageoversættelse til Ørre-jysk ved Michael Ejstrup.

10 May
17.00 - 20.00
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Afgang Live

Afgang 2023

True to tradition, the annual MFA Degree Show is accompanied by Afgang Live, which this year takes place on May 3 and 10. A number of the graduating artists will participate, and the evening consists of performances and introductions by the artists themselves.

At Afgang Live on May 3, you can experience performances, readings, introductions and more from the following artists: Maja Li Härdelin, Hannah Amalie Nielsen, Amber Green, Ida Raselli, Aske Stærmose Thiberg, Ayesha Ghaoul, Ville Laurinkoski, Rebekka Hilmer Heltoft & Simin Stine Ramezanali.

At Afgang Live on May 10, you can experience the following artists: Hannah Amalie Nielsen, Hollie Solvild, Ville Laurinkoski, Rebekka Hilmer Heltoft, Simin Stine Ramezanali, Maja Li Härdelin.

Afgang Live will take place by the works in the exhibition and in the cinema.

There is free entry to Kunsthal Charlottenborg on Wednesday May 3 and Wednesday May 10 at 17-20.

About the exhibition:

Afgang is the MFA Degree Show presented by this year’s graduates from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Schools of Visual Arts. Curated by Natalia Sielewicz from the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the 2023 instalment contains everything from performance, film and painting to text statements and sculptural objects that spread out across the floor, walls and ceiling.

The participating artists are: Johannes Arvidsson, C Clement, Anders Davidsen, Helene Norup Due, Ayesha Ghaoul, Amber Green, Maja Li Härdelin, Niels Holk Hartnack, Rebekka Hilmer Heltoft, Emil Krog, Kaja Lahoda, Ville Laurinkoski, Nellie Lindquist, Kristian Alexander Norden Minthe, Charley Mortensen, Anton Munar, Niels Østergaard Munk, Hannah Amalie Nielsen, Mads Hyldgaard Nielsen, Jessica Olausson, Aske Olsen, Simon Persson, Søren Frederik Petersen, Simin Stine Ramezanli, Adele Marie Rannes, Ida Raselli, Marine Morel Sanati, Ida Schrader, Hollie Solvild, Andreas Tang, Aske Thiberg, Sophia Yoma Vanhala, Mira Winding, Sofie Winther

The exhibition is presented in a setting steeped in tradition and history, specifically the large skylight halls at Kunsthal Charlottenborg – a building which opened in 1883 with the vision of showing the very latest art. MFA Degree Show 2023 is accompanied by an ambitious event that includes performances, guided tours and more.

Supported by the 15. Juni Fonden, Augustinus Fonden, Birgit Vibeke Tofts Mindefond, Det Obelske Familiefond, William Demant Fonden.

3 May
17.00 - 20.00
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Afgang Live

Afgang 2023

True to tradition, the annual MFA Degree Show is accompanied by Afgang Live, which this year takes place on May 3 and 10. A number of the graduating artists will participate, and the evening consists of performances and introductions by the artists themselves.

At Afgang Live on May 3, you can experience performances, readings, introductions and more from the following artists: Maja Li Härdelin, Hannah Amalie Nielsen, Amber Green, Ida Raselli, Aske Stærmose Thiberg, Ayesha Ghaoul, Ville Laurinkoski, Rebekka Hilmer Heltoft & Simin Stine Ramezanali.

At Afgang Live on May 10, you can experience the following artists: Hannah Amalie Nielsen, Hollie Solvild, Ville Laurinkoski, Rebekka Hilmer Heltoft, Simin Stine Ramezanali, Maja Li Härdelin.

Afgang Live will take place by the works in the exhibition and in the cinema.

There is free entry to Kunsthal Charlottenborg on Wednesday May 3 and Wednesday May 10 at 17-20.

About the exhibition:

Afgang is the MFA Degree Show presented by this year’s graduates from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Schools of Visual Arts. Curated by Natalia Sielewicz from the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the 2023 instalment contains everything from performance, film and painting to text statements and sculptural objects that spread out across the floor, walls and ceiling.

The participating artists are: Johannes Arvidsson, C Clement, Anders Davidsen, Helene Norup Due, Ayesha Ghaoul, Amber Green, Maja Li Härdelin, Niels Holk Hartnack, Rebekka Hilmer Heltoft, Emil Krog, Kaja Lahoda, Ville Laurinkoski, Nellie Lindquist, Kristian Alexander Norden Minthe, Charley Mortensen, Anton Munar, Niels Østergaard Munk, Hannah Amalie Nielsen, Mads Hyldgaard Nielsen, Jessica Olausson, Aske Olsen, Simon Persson, Søren Frederik Petersen, Simin Stine Ramezanli, Adele Marie Rannes, Ida Raselli, Marine Morel Sanati, Ida Schrader, Hollie Solvild, Andreas Tang, Aske Thiberg, Sophia Yoma Vanhala, Mira Winding, Sofie Winther

The exhibition is presented in a setting steeped in tradition and history, specifically the large skylight halls at Kunsthal Charlottenborg – a building which opened in 1883 with the vision of showing the very latest art. MFA Degree Show 2023 is accompanied by an ambitious event that includes performances, guided tours and more.

Supported by the 15. Juni Fonden, Augustinus Fonden, Birgit Vibeke Tofts Mindefond, Det Obelske Familiefond, William Demant Fonden.

2 May
10.00 - 13.00

Art with your baby

Experience contemporary art in a baby-friendly pace

Art lovers on parental leave can now experience contemporary art in a baby-friendly pace at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg before our usual opening hours and get the opportunity to experience the art gallery’s current exhibitions in a calm pace with space for babies and toddlers and focus on them also having a good experience.

The event takes place on the first Tuesday of each month at 10.00-13.00 unless the gallery is closed during the installation of exhibitions. The guided tour takes place between 11.00-12.00. The guided tour will be in Danish.

Guided tours spring/summer:
2 May: MFA Degree Show 2023
6 Jun: Jeremy Deller, Welcome to the Shitshow!
4 Jul: Alexander Tovborg, The Church
1 Aug: Alexander Tovborg, The Church

Entrance: It is not necessary to register for the event in advance. The tour is free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Children up to and including 15 years of age enter free. Free for season pass holders.

Practical information:

We recommend that you bring your baby carrier. It is also possible to take a stroller around, unless the current exhibitions physically prevents this.

In the upper foyer, it is possible to park strollers, and there is seating and a soft floor with furniture and toys for infants.

In the lower foyer there are changing facilities as well as the possibility to breastfeed in a more private setting for those who prefer that, and to feed your child. The Kunsthal provides an electric kettle and a microwave.

In the Apollo Canteen you can get lunch at 12.00-14.00, where the vegetarian dish of the day is served for DKK 80. In the Apollo Bar you can buy other snacks as well as coffee and cake and here there is also plenty of space for strollers in the art gallery’s courtyard.

Art with your baby is sponsored by bObles.

20 Apr
17.00 - 20.00

MFA Degree Show 2023

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts' School of Visual Arts

This year, 34 artists graduate from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Visual Arts and present their works at the annual MFA Degree Show, this time curated by Natalia Sielewicz from the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Now we invite you to the opening of Afgang 2023:

Thursday 20 April 17.00-20.00 
The admission is free to the opening and everyone is welcome.

Program:
17.00 – 20.00: Afgang 2023
The exhibition is open. Free admission. Music by Hasfeldt and drinks from Apollo Bar

17.10 – 17.20: Welcome by Lars Bent Petersen, Rector at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Visual Arts, and Natalia Sielewicz, curator from Museum of Modern Art in Warszawa

18.30 – 18.45: Performance
Aske Thiberg, T-shirts, eyelids and elbows
Dancers: Julie Guldmaj, Konstantin Babayan, Casper Preisler, Amalie Leisin

About the exhibition:
Afgang is the MFA Degree Show presented by this year’s graduates from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Schools of Visual Arts. The exhibition contains everything from performance, film and painting to text statements and sculptural objects that spread out across the floor, walls and ceiling.

The participating artists are: Johannes Arvidsson, C Clement, Anders Davidsen, Helene Norup Due, Ayesha Ghaoul, Amber Green, Maja Li Härdelin, Niels Holk Hartnack, Rebekka Hilmer Heltoft, Emil Krog, Kaja Lahoda, Ville Laurinkoski, Nellie Lindquist, Kristian Alexander Norden Minthe, Charley Mortensen, Anton Munar, Niels Østergaard Munk, Hannah Amalie Nielsen, Mads Hyldgaard Nielsen, Jessica Olausson, Aske Olsen, Simon Persson, Søren Frederik Petersen, Simin Stine Ramezanli, Adele Marie Rannes, Ida Raselli, Marine Morel Sanati, Ida Schrader, Hollie Solvild, Andreas Tang, Aske Thiberg, Sophia Yoma Vanhala, Mira Winding, Sofie Winther

Afgang 2023 is presented in a setting steeped in tradition and history, specifically the large skylight halls at Kunsthal Charlottenborg – a building which opened in 1883 with the vision of showing the very latest art. The exhibition is accompanied by Afgang Live on 3 and 10 May at 17.00-20.00, offering performances, guided tours etc. Further info here.

Supported by the 15. Juni Fonden, Augustinus Fonden, Birgit Vibeke Tofts Mindefond, Det Obelske Familiefond, William Demant Fonden.

12 Apr
17.00 - 18.30

Sidsel Meineche Hansen (Cancelled)

Reading Group #3

This event has unfortunately been cancelled. You are still welcome to visit the gallery, where there will be free admission from 17.00.

Join us for Reading Group at Kunsthal Charlottenborg – a conversation about a text or book that has been important to a practicing artist or curator.

For Reading Group #3 artists Sidsel Meiniche Hansen talks with art historian Philip Pihl about the text “The Book of Machines” part of English writer Samuel Butler’s novel “Erewhon” from 1872. In his text Butler speculates over the possibility of machines ability to reproduce themselves and the fear of a mechanical empire, where humans are reduced to assisting the reproduction of machines and their diversity. Another work where machines or robots reproduce is in the stop-motion film “The Sex Life of Robots” by Michael Sullivan from 2006, where robots are seen having automatized sex and breed robot babies. Both Sullivan’s film and Butler’s novel mix sexuality, horror, and the compelling and chilling danger of the machines’ power and takeover. Together the two works are both sci-fi, analytic, and pornographic.

Meineche Hansen has in a number of diverse works and exhibitions worked with questions related to pornography and technology. Meiniche Hansen is educated form the art academy in Copenhagen and Goldsmiths in London. She has exhibited at Chisenhale, London, the National Museum of Art of Denmark, Århus Kunsthal and KW Institute for Comtemporary Art in Berlin. In 2022 she participated in the Venice Biennale “The Milk of Dreams” curated by Cecilia Alemani.

INFO
Time: Wednesday 12 April at 17.00-18.30
Place: Kunsthal Charlottenborg Art Cinema
Language: The talk is in Danish
Entrance: It is free to participate in this event, and it is not necessary to book in advance.

Photo: Maintenancer, 2018. Sidsel Meineche Hansen & Therese Henningsen. Courtesy the artists and Rodeo, London and Piraeus

6 Apr
17.00 - 18.00

Jeremy Deller

Welcome to the Shitshow!

Join us on a guided tour of Jeremy Deller’s newly opened exhibition Welcome to the Shitshow!, where one of our art hosts will introduce the exhibition.

There are two tours during Easter:

Tuesday 4 April at 17.00
Thursday 6 April at 17.00

The tour lasts 1 hour. The tour is for free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

5 Apr
12.00 - 18.00

The Art Academy’s Easter market

Buy unique art and crafts from the students

The Art Academy students are having an Easter market in the foyer at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, where you have the opportunity to buy unique art and crafts for you and your loved ones.

Sunday 2 April at 11.00-17.00
Wednesday 5 April at 12.00-20.00

4 Apr
17.00 - 18.00

Jeremy Deller

Welcome to the Shitshow!

Join us on a guided tour of Jeremy Deller’s newly opened exhibition Welcome to the Shitshow!, where one of our art hosts will introduce the exhibition.

There are two tours during Easter:

Tuesday 4 April at 17.00
Thursday 6 April at 17.00

The tour lasts 1 hour. The tour is for free with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

2 Apr
11.00 - 17.00

The Art Academy’s Easter market

Buy unique art and crafts from the students

The Art Academy students are having an Easter market in the foyer at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, where you have the opportunity to buy unique art and crafts for you and your loved ones.

Sunday 2 April at 11.00-17.00
Wednesday 5 April at 12.00-20.00

 

2 Apr - 10 Apr
11.00
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EASTER AT KUNSTHAL CHARLOTTENBORG

Incl. Easter Monday 10 April

At Easter, you can join a guided tour in the newly opened exhibition Welcome to the Shitshow! by award winning British artist Jeremy Deller. In addition, experience a special screening of Deller’s critically acclaimed film Everybody in the Place in our cinema, enjoy lunch at the Apollo Bar, and feel the spring vibe in our courtyard. A selection of spring novelties is available in the bookshop and remember that children and young people under the age of 16 have free admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Exhibiton:
Jeremy Deller, Welcome to the Shitshow!
Further info here

Guided tours:
Tuesday 4 April at 17.00
Thursday 6 April at 17.00
The guided tour lasts 1 hour. Free entry with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
Further info here

Film screening:
Jeremy Deller: Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992 (2018, 61 min.)
Tuesday-Friday at 12.00-20.00
Saturday-Sunday at 11.00-17.00
Easter Monday at 12.00-20.00
Free entry with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
Further info here

Market:
The Art Academy’s Easter market in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s foyer
Sunday 2 April at 11.00-17.00
Wednesday 5 April at 12.00-20.00

Café:
Reserve a table and see the menu at apollobar.dk

Note:
We are extraordinary open Easter Monday 10 April at 12.00-20.00. Closed on Monday 3 April.
Free admission Wednesdays from 17.00-20.00.

29 Mar - 16 Apr
12.00

Everybody in the Place

Jeremy Deller

As a supplement to the solo exhibition Welcome to the Shitshow! by Jeremy Deller his film Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992 (2019, 60 min.) is screened on March 29 – April 16, 2023.

The film loops in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema during opening hours. There is free access to the film with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Further information follows.

17 Mar
20.00 - 22.00

Depeche Mode, my part in their Downfall, and other stories

CPH:DOX x Jeremy Deller

17 March 20.00-22.00: Depeche Mode, my part in their Downfall, and other stories
Artist talk with Jeremy Deller
CPH:DOX Social Cinema, Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Tickets at cphdox.dk

Kunsthal Charlottenborg and CPH:DOX present a special evening with one of the most renowned contemporary artists on the occasion of the opening of his exhibition Welcome to the Shit Show!.

Join Jeremy Deller in a celebration of the rich legacy of live music and club culture. Experience a performative talk as he explores the music films and subcultures that have inspired his personal and professional journey. After a deep dive into the world of music, get ready to dance the night away with a series of captivating DJ sets. Make sure not to miss Deller’s Eight Hour Rock Show, a non-stop, all-day screening of music films.

17 Mar
17.00 - 21.00
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Opening of Jeremy Deller

In collaboration with CPH:DOX

Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to present the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia with the British artist Jeremy Deller on the occasion of CPH:DOX. In connection with the opening of the exhibition we invite you to a special day in company with Jeremy Deller:

FRIDAY 17 MARCH

The admission is free to the opening and everyone is welcome. Note: A ticket must be purchased for the talk with Jeremy Deller.

Program:
10.00 – 21.00: Welcome to the Shitshow!
The exhibition is open. Free admission. Further info here.

11.30 – 19.30: Eight Hour Rock Show
Film program curated by Jeremy Deller. Free admission. Further info here.

17.00-21.00: Opening reception and drinks for the first visitors.

17.00 – 20.00: Mira Campau plays music in the upper foyer and the bar is open.

17.10 – 17.20: Welcome by Niklas Engstrøm, Artistic Director at CPH:DOX, and Henriette Bretton-Meyer, Curator at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

20.00 – 21.00: Depeche Mode, my part in their downfall, and other stories
Artist talk with Jeremy Deller followed by a party and DJ sets. Further info here.
Tickets at cphdox.dk.

About the exhibition:
The exhibition Welcome to the Shitshow! will accentuate documentary aspects of Deller’s practice and brings together a wide range of works created over the course of the last fifteen years: One film documents dedicated Depeche Mode fans from around the world, another shows passionate protesters fighting for and against Brexit in front of Parliament in London. Other works go further back in history, for example to the Battle of the Somme during World War I, where the British army suffered heavy losses, or to archaeological finds from prehistoric times.

Through film, photography, graphic works and sculptural installations, Deller draws a multifaceted and at times humorous portrait of British culture, examining a range of different communities and groupings where people are united by a common cause. Further info here.

Jeremy Deller (b. 1966, London) is one of Britain’s most recognized contemporary artists. He was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize in 2004 and represented Great Britain at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. He has had countless solo exhibitions and film screenings, and has exhibited all over the world including Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Mexico City, New York City, Moscow, Singapore, and Tokyo.

The exhibition is curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer and realised in collaboration with CPH:DOX with support from the Augustinus Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation, and the Obel Family Foundation.

17 Mar
11.30 - 19.30

Eight Hour Rock Show

CPH:DOX x Jeremy Deller

17 March 11.30-19.30: Eight Hour Rock Show
Film program curated by Jeremy Deller
CPH:DOX Mezzanine Cinema, Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Free admission

Kunsthal Charlottenborg and CPH:DOX present a special evening with one of the most renowned contemporary artists on the occasion of the opening of his exhibition Welcome to the Shit Show!.

Join Jeremy Deller in a celebration of the rich legacy of live music and club culture. Experience a performative talk as he explores the music films and subcultures that have inspired his personal and professional journey. After a deep dive into the world of music, get ready to dance the night away with a series of captivating DJ sets. Make sure not to miss Deller’s Eight Hour Rock Show, a non-stop, all-day screening of music films.

5 Mar
11.00 - 17.00

Finissage

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2023

Don’t miss the last day of Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2023. Sunday March 5 is the final day to experience the exhibition.

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition is among the most important open, censored exhibitions in Europe and has been an annual recurring show at Kunsthal Charlottenborg since 1857. Further info here.

22 Feb
17.00 - 18.00

Performances in the exhibition

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2023

On Wednesday February 22, Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2023 presents the performance works in the exhibition.

More information to follow.

Programme:
17.00 Performances in the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2023 (meeting point in front of the exhibition)
17.30 Performance: Ivan Nylander
18.30 Performance: Zoumer

The admission is free to Kunsthal Charlottenborg every Wednesday between 17-20. Seats for events are on a first-come, first-served basis.

About Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition:
Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition is among the most important open, censored exhibitions in Europe and has been an annual recurring show at Kunsthal Charlottenborg since 1857. Further info here.

8 Feb
17.00 - 18.00

Guided tour

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2023

On Wednesday February 8, join us on a guided tour of the newly opened Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2023.

Programme:
17.00 Tour of Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2023 (meeting point in front of the exhibition)

The admission is free to Kunsthal Charlottenborg every Wednesday between 17-20. Seats for events are on a first-come, first-served basis.

About Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition:
Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition is among the most important open, censored exhibitions in Europe and has been an annual recurring show at Kunsthal Charlottenborg since 1857. Further info here.

8 Feb
17.00 - 19.00

Guided tour and award ceremony

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2023

On Wednesday February 8, join us for a guided tour in the newly opened Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2023. After the tour, the Solo prize will be awarded in collaboration with Politiken’s Forhal and the Deep Forest Art Land-prize.

More information to follow.

Program:
17.00 Tour of Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2023 (meeting point in front of the exhibition)
18.00 Award ceremony of the Solo prize in collaboration with Politiken Forhal and the Deep Forest Art Land-prize

The admission is free to Kunsthal Charlottenborg every Wednesday between 17-20.

About Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition:
Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition is among the most important open, censored exhibitions in Europe and has been an annual recurring show at Kunsthal Charlottenborg since 1857. Further info here.

2 Feb - 19 Feb
14.30

Whose Utopia?

Cao Fei

The film Whose Utopia? by Cao Fei has been presented at the leading art museums Tate in London as well as MoMA and Guggenheim in New York and can now be experienced at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in connection with the end of the exhibition of one of the most acclaimed contemporary Chinese artists.

The film work centers on the lives of workers at the Osram lighting factory in China’s Pearl River Delta region, an area outside Hong Kong that is a site of nationwide migration by people seeking expanded work opportunities in the country’s blossoming economy. Over the course of six months, Cao Fei filmed daily life at the factory, highlighting the mechanized tasks performed by employees, while also interviewing them about their motivations for working there. Based on their responses, she then collaborated with the workers to develop the performances that comprise the central section of the video. In costumes or street clothes, these anonymous figures dance and play music while other employees, unnoticing, continue to work around them. The poetic, dreamlike vision of individualism within the constraints of industrialization illuminates the otherwise invisible emotions, desires, and dreams that permeate the lives of an entire populace in contemporary Chinese society.

Cao Fei’s current exhibition Asia One is on view until 19 February. Further info about the exhibition here: kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/en/exhibitions/cao-fei/

Film screening: Whose Utopia? by Cao Fei
2 – 19 February 2023
Tue-Sun at 14.30-17.00
Free admission with payed entrance to Kunsthal Charlottenborg

1 Feb
17.00 - 21.00

Opening of the annual Spring Exhibition

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2023

For the 166th time the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition is presented at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

More than 944 artists have applied to participate in this year’s edition of the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition. With this record-high number, the jury reviewed more than four thousand works. The field has now been narrowed down to 36 admitted artists and artist groups that can be experienced at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2023.

The opening of the exhibition takes place on February 1 at 17.00-21.00. The admission is free and everyone is invited.

Further information about the exhibition and the participating artists here.

Program:
17.00 – 21.00 Opening at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
17.30 DJ Adagio for Things
18.00 Performance in the exhibition space

11 Jan
17.00 - 18.30

Gathering: Anabela Veloso – circled, around

[This event is for participants that attended the first performance circled at “Afgang 2022” exhibition April-May 2022]

Circled, around is the last part of the participatory-266-days durational performance initiated in circled. circled was an installation at “Afgang 2022” on April-May 2022 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, where visitors were invited to scoop some soil into a bag, take it and nurture it temporarily. circled, around is the moment that gathers the artist and the participants that took this score forward.

Speculating on possible relations created during this period and the meanings that soil might have gained, this gathering appears as a collective sharing of known, dreamt, or unthinkable ways of relating. Holding a fragment of soil, upholding the responsibilities that the gesture might request in the best way one knows, and returning it in a closing ceremony.

Anabela Veloso is an artist relocated from Portugal, living in Copenhagen/Malmö. Her current practice and research delve into relationality and the responsibilities within it – understanding where and how something lives to suggestively create, speak, and listen together. Anabela explores the self, the human, and the more-than-human as ecologies that expand circles of relations.

The admission is free to the event that takes place Wednesday 11 January 2023 at 17.00-18.30.

6 Jan
17.00 - 19.00
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The aesthetics of music videos

– an evening with iomfro's visual practice

Do you experience music videos as works of art? Do you perceive the music videos less as works of art when musicians are senders versus visual artists? And what thoughts lie behind a musician’s choice to make a music video today?

On Friday 6 January musician iomfro and dancer Ida Hørlyck visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg. iomfro, artist alias for musician and songwriter Alma Kjær Agergaard, and Ida Hørlyck, iomfro’s dancer and visual collaboration partner, will join for a conversation about music videos as works of art based on iomfro’s own practice and visual universe.

iomfro’s music videos exist in a pastel-coloured, youthful universe and appear in everything from a swimming pool, candy shop, creative space, shawarma bar and youth room, where dancer Ida Hørlyck figures with a lively and redemptive dance that, in combination with lyrics and music, has created a characteristic expression of iomfro’s videos.

The conversation will revolve around the aesthetics of music videos with a focus on iomfro’s visuality as a large part of her work, both in music videos and at concerts, and what function music videos as well as dance and performance have for the music experience and the textual universe. The talk ends with a performative element to make the visuality present to the audience.

The event will be in Danish and the admission is free.

14 Dec
17.00 - 18.00

Reading Group #2 – Andreas Albrectsen

Join us for the Reading Group #2 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg – a conversation about a text or book that has been important to a practicing artist or curator.

For Reading Group #2, artist Andreas Albrectsen talks to art historian Philip Pihl about Russian-American writer and theorist Svetlana Boym’s book The Future of Nostalgia. The work contains several texts that Andreas Albrectsen has long found interesting in relation to his artistic work. The conversation will be particularly based on the book’s last chapter, “Nostalgia and Global Culture: From Outer Space to Cyberspace”, where Boym examines the two-sided relationship between globalization, digitization and nostalgic longing.

Andreas Albrectsen is a Danish-Brazilian artist living in Copenhagen and educated from Malmö Art Academy and Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Albrectsen’s primary medium is drawing, in which he often reproduces other images: weather maps, screensavers or film strips. His art is both analog and digital, as well as both hyper-material and meta-art. His works can currently be experienced at the group exhibition Are We There Yet at the gallery Nils Stærk and at the Statens Museum for Art, where two works from the museum’s collection are part of the display of contemporary Danish art.

Philip Pihl has a master’s degree in art history from the University of Copenhagen and works freelance.

Reading group #1 was the first in the series and took place on May 11, 2022 and was with the artist Kinga Bartis in a conversation with Philip Pihl about the essay collection On the Origin of Species and Other Stories by the South Korean writer Bo-Young Kim.

The admission is free to the talk and to Kunsthal Charlottenborg at 17-20.

7 Dec
17.00 - 19.00
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Krabstadt Education Center

Online-On-Site teaching

Join in for a multimedia event with the Krabstadt Education Center project at Kunsthal Charlottenborg and experience a different teaching method, where an online teaching format transforms into an on-site event.

Ewa Einhorn and Jeuno JE Kim are the creators behind the transmedia project Krabstadt.and together with Karolin Meunier they present their most recent collaboration, the Krabstadt Education Center (KEC).

At the event in Kunsthal Charlottenborg the audience will be students of KEC. The audience will be served Indonesian Coffee and German well-being tea from Stuck Cafeteria, a cafeteria in Krabstadt. This is followed by a musical classroom with a performance by Henritte Sennenvaldt and her band.

Krabstadt is a fictitious town in the Arctic where all the Nordic countries send their unwanted people and problems – different demographics, such as feminists, artists, retired teachers, emotionally stuck creatures, the long-term unemployed and architects.

Krabstadt has been developed by Ewa Einhorn and Jeuno JE Kim and consists of animated films, a digital game, online as well as onsite performances, sculptures in public space, academic texts, and an art school. Krabstadt has now animated its Education Center (KEC) which traverses between being a drawn element in an animated fictional universe and an actual context hosting educational time.

For further reading: krabstadt.com

KEC seeks to exchange ideas on teaching methods and attitudes, learning outcomes and activities that are informed by performance, translation, digital and non-digital games.
Krabstadt Education Center (KEC) was initiated in 2020 and participated in the Jakarta Biennale 2021: ESOK and guest-edited the Spring 2022 issue of PARSE Journal for Artistic Research.

The event is supported by the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme and the Swedish Research Council

The event will be in English and the admission is free.

BIO
Karolin Meunier is an artist and writer. Her performance, text and video works observe how access to individual experience is accomplished through cultural techniques. Her research is oriented towards feminist writing strategies, translation processes, learning methods, and the politics of dialogue. She is part of the collective book shop and publisher b_books in Berlin; her artist book on the work of Italian feminist Carla Lonzi is forthcoming in 2023.

Ewa Einhorn is a visual artist and filmmaker working with animation, satirical drawing and documentary formats. She currently teaches at HDK-Valand, Gothenburg University (SE). Influenced by popular culture, her work seeks to unhinge everyday assumptions by misusing language and images. The topics relate to the construction of societies, more specifically the relations between political rhetoric and nations as brands in the Nordic context. Since 2009 she has been working together with Jeuno JE Kim.

Jeuno JE Kim is an artist with a background in feminist theology, music, and radio. Kim’s artistic practice and research focus on sound, performance, video, and text. Her work is influenced by the ongoing modernization in Korea and the Pacific East region, and the urgency of the political, sociological, and cultural issues that permeate this reality such as nationalism, identity construction, and historical narration. Currently, she is the study leader of the BFA School at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Henriette Sennenvaldt is a musician and former frontwoman of the band Under Byen, who with their debut album in 1999 became part of a new wave in European rock music. With a wild text universe and a different approach to instrumentation, the band created compositions that explored the borderland between Nordic folk music, pop, jazz, post-punk and rock. Sennenvaldt released her solo debut Something Wonderful, which earned Sennenvald the Danish Steppeulven award for Composer of the Year. Sennenvaldt’s solo work delves into new territory in the outer reaches of pop and is, in her own words, tender, campy, delicate, intricate and disturbing like few.

Sennenvaldt performs with Bjørn Heebøll (drums); Daniel Honore (sax/clarinet); Jeppe Skovbakke (bass); Johan Wieth (guitar).

30 Nov
17.00 - 20.00

Bladr artist’s book pop-up sale

On Wednesday 30 November, Kunsthal Charlottenborg will host a pop-up sale by the artist’s book platform Bladr, who will sell a number of their publications at 17.00 -20.00.

Bladr is a non-profit platform dedicated to the communication, appreciation and distribution of artist’s books. They are based in Nørrebro, where they have exhibitions, talks and events, as well as they sell their collection of artist books by both Danish and international artists.

An artist’s book is an artistic manifestation in the form of, for example, drawing, photography, collage, graphics and text. A work of art in its own right that takes the form of a book. Bladr examines artist’s books as an independent art medium and its overlap with several different artistic disciplines.

The publications are by artists such as Nanna Debois Buhl, Fryd Drydendahl, Elisabeth Molin, Gloria Glitzer, Absalon Kirkeby, Ida Nissen, and Nicolai Howalt.

Members of Bladr will be present during the evening and can answer questions and there will be a glass of wine for our first guests.

The admission is free to the event and to Kunsthal Charlottenborg at 17.00-20.00

16 Nov
00.00 - 02.00

Weaver by Bona Fide

Premiere and screening

On Wednesday 16 November at 18.00-20.00, join us for the premiere of Weaver at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Weaver is an audiovisual work with music by Bona Fide, created by Sophia Luna Portra. The videos circle around the feminine, ancient, dangerous, lazy and hazy. Through time and space characters of strength and vulnerability lounge and walk together in the videos. Performing rituals in the early autumn, these women harvest what is theirs: Solidarity, beauty, revenge.

Bona Fide operates at the intersection of music and contemporary art, using old and new myths as both object and lens. Their visual work involves costumes that have been exhibited at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, where they now also for the first time will show the first part of the video project Weaver.

Bona Fide is gothic folk, and their work ranges from iPhone recordings on the debut album YIELD to the 45 min. long symphonic work DAWN. Characteristic of Bona Fide is a minimalist, romantic and fragile sound that evokes a nostalgic mood. Their work has been taught as part of the curriculum at the Royal College of Art in London. Bona Fide is published by Copenhagen-based Escho.

Come and join us for a glass of bubbles before the screening.

The event takes place 16 November at 18.00-20.00. The admission is free at 17.00-20.00 to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Teaser: https://youtu.be/TqB-COJXRTA

2 Nov
19.00 - 20.00

Finissage

Den Grønne Ungdomsbevægelse: NÅR JEG STOPPER OP OG MÆRKER EFTER

In connection with the Danish General Election 2022, you can experience an exhibition by Den Grønne Undomsbevægelse in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s stairwell.

The exhibited works consist of 30 classic landscape paintings overpainted with dystopian future scenarios, as part of an artistic climate action.

Wednesday 2 November at 19.00-20.00 join us for a finissage of the exhibition incl. free admission.

The exhibition NÅR JEG STOPPER OP OG MÆRKER EFTER can be experienced until 6 November 2022.

2 Nov
17.00 - 19.00
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Honey Biba Beckerlee

Digital Matters

On 2 November, join artist Honey Biba Beckerlee on a guided tour and an artist talk in connection with the current exhibition Digital Matters at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Program:

17.10 – Guided tour of the exhibition Digital Matters v. Honey Biba Beckerlee (in Danish). Meeting place: Upper foyer.

17.45-18.45 – Artist talk: Conversation between Honey Biba Beckerlee, Ida Bencke and Mikkel Krause Frantzen (in Danish). Meeting place: Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema.

Honey Biba Beckerlee (b. 1978) is the artist behind the current exhibition Digital Matters, where she investigates connections and entanglements across geology, technology and biology, and maps the movement of elements from nature into the computer and further into the human body.

Ida Bencke (b. 1984) is co-founder of the curatorial collective Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology. She is currently working on the slow movement exhibition Hosting Lands, Between the Ruin, The Forest and the Fields, and is starting a PhD project on care work and curatorial method in the new year.

Mikkel Krause Frantzen (b. 1983) is postdoc and Deputy Center Manager at the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, literary reviewer at Politiken, and author of books such as Going Nowhere, Slow (2019) and Klodens Fald (2021). He is currently researching ecological grief, waste and the relationship between climate crisis and care crisis.

The conversation will unfold around lines of connection between bodies, technologies and landscapes, between waste and (in)visibility, between materialities and temporalities.

The admission, guided tour and talk are free.

27 Oct - 28 Oct
15.00

Transformative Futures

Re-Imaginations of Time, Space and Materiality in Artistic Research

Thursday 27 October at 15.00-17.00

Friday 28 October at 10.00-17.00

For its fourth annual symposium, The International Center for Knowledge in the Arts emphasizes the urgency of Artistic Research in a two-day program of talks, exhibition tours, workshops and performances at Kunsthal Charlottenborg and the Rhythmic Music Conservatory. Under the banner of Transformative Futures, the symposium explores how artistic research can generate new knowledge in the face of planetary crises, through practices that re-imagine the relationships between time, space and materiality.

In the program you will encounter artists and thinkers that challenge notions of linear development in technology, ecology and knowledge cultures in order to simultaneously learn from the past, present and future. In the work of Honey Biba Beckerlee, the idea of the digital as a clean virtual site is challenged through close material investigations of the processes of natural resource extraction at the basis of contemporary technology. Information networks, and the humans that develop and use them, are, as Beckerlee have argued, deeply embedded in the biological and geological cycles of the earth.

The symposium further explores how a change in our perceptions of the borders between human and non-human worlds needs to come in place, not the least in order to understand the terms of the planetary climate crisis. Such terms are explored in the work of the collective Diakron, who in collaboration with artist Emil Rønn Andersen and writer Elvia Wilk are speculating on the relations between data, knowledge and storytelling within the context of climate science.

Our environmental and infrastructural crises, also mean that living space becomes a commodity and privilege for the few. In a session exploring this issue, two presentations feature artistic projects that discuss the political imagination of the future in different cases of living precariously. In the film and research project Good Life, Viktorija Šiaulytė and Marta Dauliūtė enters into the world of corporate co-living/working spaces and engage in a process of producing knowledge across seemingly irreconcilable political positions. The work of the collective Trampolinhuset, also engages fields outside of art in order to enact change, and in their case, collectively imagine a better asylum system.

These and other contributions resonate with the position of the symposium’s opening keynote by musician-researcher Lucia D’Errico. She emphasizes the “power of divergence” between a system or a model, such as that between a written score and its performance, in which the performance, through its irreducible materiality opens up to difference. Along these lines, the symposium will be brought to a close at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory, where the artistic research project Traversing Sonic Territories by Søren Kjærgaard & Torben Snekkestad will play out with an array of sonic collaborators.

The urgency of artistic research for bringing about transformative futures is not that of envisioning utopias or dystopias, it lies rather in arranging the composition, playing the tune, performing the choreography or telling the story, differently.

See program schedule and registration here: https://artisticresearch.dk/en/?po=4307

Selected parts of the program will also be available as a live stream: https://www.youtube.com/…/InternationalCenterforKnowled…

Participants: Lucia D’Errico, Ole Lützow Holm, Honey Biba Beckerlee, Jussi Parikka, Aslak Aamot Helm (Diakron), Elvia Wilk, Emil Rønn Andersen, Viktorija Šiaulytė and Marta Dauliūtė, Joachim Hamou & Shakira Kasigwa Mukamusoni (Trampolinhuset), Søren Kjærgaard & Torben Snekkestad, David Toop among others.

14 Oct
18.00 - 00.00

Culture Night 2022

Experience the Digital Age at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Explore the digital age at Copenhagen’s annual Culture Night.

Experience our newly opened exhibitions and take part in a series of creative workshops, which revolve around technology and utopian futures.⁠

On this special evening, you can go on treasure hunts in our exhibitions, weave with cables and fabric, make your own artworks and experiment with making robots.⁠

Culture Night takes place Friday 14 October at 18.00-24.00.⁠

Program:
18.00 – 00.00: Interactive art tour
18.00 – 19.30: Weaving workshop – make your own art work
18.00 – 21.00: Frottage workshop with artist Arendse Krabbe
18.00 – 22.00: Laminate collage workshop
18.00 – 22.00: Build your own robot

13 Oct
17.00 - 18.30

Hanan Benammar: This is Our Body

Movie premiere with introduction and Q&A

Can art facilitate a space for dialogue and healing while confronting history? What do monuments signify both in history and as art objects with their potential inherent traumatic narratives? How can rituals be based on a conflicted legacy?

Join us for the premiere of Hanan Benammar’s new film This is Our Body which documents a performance that was part of the Arctic Moving Image & Film Festival in 2021. The performance marked the 300th anniversary of Hans Egede’s arrival to Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland and Hanan Benammar will introduce the film herself.

Hans Egede grew up in the northern Norwegian town Harstad, and the spectacular performance took place in and around the church Trondenes Kirke where he was baptized. To this day, Harstad Church remembers him with an altarpiece that shows him in Greenland and a statue outside the church.

According to Benammar, Hans Egede is recognized in Norway to this day as a fearless adventurer and a wise man. At the same time, his violations of the indigenous population are well documented as it has been pointed out that he banned several local traditions among the Inuit such as tattooing, shamanism and throat singing.

With This is Our Body Hanan Benammar seeks to strengthen the collective awareness of our common history and form a point of view that can create space for knowledge and criticism.

The event is part of Art in a Day, Copenhagen’s new one-day festival that focuses on performance art. The festival took place on 24th of June this year, but the six art centres behind it continuously host events that examine the potential of performance art today.

The talk is in English and admission is free.

12 Oct
17.00 - 20.00

Honey Biba Beckerlee

Digital Matters

Honey Biba Beckerlee examines connections and entanglements across the spheres of geology, technology and biology, mapping the movement of material elements from nature into the computer and onwards into the human body. Now we invite you to the opening of her exhibition Digital Matters:

Wednesday 12 October at 17.00-20.00
The admission is free and everyone is welcome.

About the exhibition:
Through her works, Honey Biba Beckerlee calls attention to the huge demand for materials generated by the digital age while also pointing to the complex connections between minerals, humans and technology.

Cable drums, microchip waste, wires and server racks are among the materials used in the exhibition Digital Matters, which consists of a series of sculptural installations done as ceramic mosaics made out of waste products from a microchip factory and as woven algorithms made of optical fibre cables and copper wire.

The works delve into our relationships with the digital realm and inquire into our knowledge of how specific elements from our computer find their ways into our circuits. At the same time, Biba Beckerlee challenges the various materials, exploring what they are actually capable of and how they are generally perceived in order to create new ways of viewing their material and cultural impact – and, thus, of understanding the context and design of technology.

Further info here: http://kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/…/honey-biba-beckerlee/

The exhibition is supported by the Augustinus Foundation, Beckett Foundation, the Danish Art Workshops (SVFK), Dreyers Foundation, Grosserer L. F. Foght’s Foundation, Novo Nordisk Foundation, Obel Family Foundation, the Danish Arts Council, William Demant Foundation. Sponsored by JD-Contractor A/S, Roblon, Topsil.

7 Oct
18.00

Kunstsalon VISION // Linda Lamignan will be meeting with Cédric Fauq

In collaboration with Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Bikubenfonden is extending an invitation to Kunstsalon VISION, where visual artist Linda Lamignan will be meeting with Cédric Fauq, Chief Curator at Capc – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, for a conversation about Lindas practice.
This conversation will be taking place from 5.00 to 6.00 P.M in the screening room at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Friday, October 7.
Linda Lamignan has been singled out for Bikubenfonden’s Artistic Practice program for particularly promising artistic practices. The aim of the interview salon, which is one aspect of the program, is to examine one Danish artist’s singular approach to art and the potential that is seated within this. In connection with the interview salons, it is the artists themselves who choose their interview partners.
5 Oct
17.00 - 19.00

Curating sense of place with Raimundas MalaIšauskas

Copenhagen Architecture Festival x Kunsthal Charlottenborg

In connection with Copenhagen Architechture Festival 2022, which this year has the theme “Sense of Place”, Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you to a talk from a curatorial point of view about ‘Sense of Place’ in the contemporary art exhibition. The Lithuanian curator Raimundas Malašauskas, one of the biggest names on the international art scene, talks about his curatorial experiments. Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s curator Henriette Bretton-Meyer and curator Charlotte Sprogøe, who curated the Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s off-site summer exhibition Copenhagen, talk about their curatorial view of how art today plays together with the places it occupies and the contemporary times it is a part of.
The event is free and the talk will be in english.
Raimundas Malašauskas is a curator and writer. His curatorial work is shaped by the belief in the natural creativity of the public. He has presented art exhibitions through hypnosis séances —his ongoing Hypnotic Show—and variety performances, such as in his ongoing Clifford Irving Show. His writing combines his interest in contemporary art, music, doubling, food, history, science, his native Lithuania and time travel, among other subjects.
Malašauskas recently worked as one of the agents of dOCUMENTA(13), this summer in Kassel. Previous to this, he was curator of the Satellite exhibition series at the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris in 2010-2011; a curator at Artists Space, New York in 2007-2009; and, visiting curator at California College of the Arts, San Francisco in 2007 to 2008. Since 2011, he teaches at the Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam. From 1995 to 2006, Malašauskas worked at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, where he curated numerous exhibitions, including the IX Baltic Triennial, Black Market Worlds (2005). There, he also produced the first two seasons of the weekly television show CAC TV, an experimental merger of commercial television and contemporary art, which ran under the slogan: “Every program is a pilot, every program is the final episode.
28 Sep
17.00 - 19.00

CARE PROTESTING CARE PROSTESTING CARE

Join Artist Azadeh Ghavamrad and Experience Designer Andy Sontag in a talk that seeks to challenge the “talk format” and the way we communicate with other people both in life and our work.

The point of departure will be the concept of care where the experience “The Conversational Monster” will be introduced as a method and a non judgemental way to obtain a sincere and caring form of communication.

The talk will take place 28 September at Kunsthal Charlottenborg Art Cinema.

21 Sep
17.00 - 18.00

documenta fifteen x Trampolinhuset

The Trampoline House is this year part of the upcoming documenta exhibition ‘documenta fifteen’. One of the most important, international contemporary art exhibitions, which has previously had close to a million visitors.

This year, it is the Indonesian artist collective ruangrupa, which curates the exhibition and whose starting point is the concept of ‘lumbung’, the Indonesian term for collectively managed rice barns, where the year’s harvest is stored for the common good of the village community.
The exhibition uses Lumbung’s core values; collectivity, generosity, solidarity, trust, independence, sustainability, transparency, and connectedness, to develop and practice new artistic and economic models. Trampoline House was invited to the exhibition because the house was created by a collective of people with asylum seeker background and people with artistic backgrounds. The collective authorship and responsibility of Trampoline House have been the main force in the house’s fight for a more inclusive democracy, which will come to its senses and shut down the asylum centres.

Now documenta fifteen is almost over, with the last opening day on the 25th of September, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Trampoline House are therefore inviting you to an evening about documenta fifteen, where the focus is on the Danish contribution to the exhibition for all those who did not make it to Kassel, or who would like to will have more in-depth knowledge about the project.
This evening you can hear Morten Goll and Dady de Maximo Mwicira-Mitali from The Trampoline House give an introduction to their experiences from documenta fifteen and the work leading up to the opening, as well as you can hear more about The Trampoline House.

The talk is in English and the admission is free.

About the Trampoline House:
In the Weekend Trampoline House, asylum seekers, rejected asylum seekers, and refugees with a residence permit can get counseling, develop capacities, find community, and bear witness to the shadowy sides of Danish refugee policy – all under one roof!
The house is a gathering place for displaced people as well as Danish citizens and international residents, who think that the Danish asylum and refugee policy has become too tight, and who work for a more humane and inclusive refugee policy in Denmark together.

Bios:
Morten Goll (born 1964) is an artist, who began his career in painting, video and drawing. Since 2000 his interest in the sociopolitical has drawn him towards a bigger social engagement aiming at effecting social change. He is, since 2010, a co-founder and executive director of Trampoline House, an independent community center in Copenhagen programming activities for vulnerable citizens with minority background, refugees, asylum seekers and Danes. Morten holds an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (1999, interdisciplinary arts) and an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen Denmark (1993, painting).

Dady de Maximo Mwicira-Mitali is a survivor of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda. 12 years old at the time, raped and mutilated, he lost his father, younger brother and more than 100 family members who were all assassinated. As a young survivor, his suffering became key to his involvement as a motivational speaker, a human rights activist, a social and cultural entrepreneur, a journalist, a filmmaker, an artivist and an author. He created a number of innovative radio shows in which conflict management and trauma councilors helped people identify and achieve personal goals thinking positively about the future. Furthermore, he wrote, directed and produced the documentary film By the Shortcut (2009) about the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda and specifically the victims who were drowned in rivers and lakes, he was able to find remains of more than 17.000 bodies near the shores of lake Victoria in Uganda.

As a fashion designer, the founder-director of Rwanda Fashion Festival, he fuses art and fashion to talk about disaster management, conflicts, migration politics such as in the 2010 collection Haiti Earthquake, Benghazi Coalition (2010 Libya) and the collection If the Sea Could Talk from 2014. From December 2015 to December 2020 he was the youngest member of the board of directors of Center of Art on Migration Politics (CAMP-Denmark). With the support of Rwanda Ministry of Sports and Culture, SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst/Danish National Gallery), Statens Kunstfond/Danish Arts Foundation, Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development/The Netherlands, La Mairie de Nantes in France, Amnesty International Switzerland. Dady de Maximo has shown his work in numerous countries throughout Africa and Europe As an author, he published « Rwanda, an impossible mourning – Erasure and Traces » April 7, 2021 – Classique Garnier Paris.
December 2021, Dady de Maximo Mwicira-Mitali was elected by the Board of Directors of Copenhagen’s Refugee Justice Community Center “Trampoline House of 2021” as board Chair. In July 2022, he presented his new collection 2022 “In Closed World – Visible and Invisible Walls at Documenta 15/Germany, accompanied by a poet-singer, who recounted the silent suffering, and a contemporary dancer who interpreted with his body the physical and moral suffering of the refugees; a collection of 40 outfits inspired by the life and suffering of refugees.

16 Sep
17.00 - 20.00

Cao Fei

Asia One

Cao Fei is known for her ambitious multimedia installations, which reflect on the extensive changes and developments taking place in Chinese society today, shaping her generation. Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to present Cao Fei’s forceful film installation Asia One in the north wing, and invites you to the opening:

Friday 16 September at 17.00-20.00

The admission is free and everyone is welcome. At the same day, we also open the major group exhibition, Post-Capital.

Program for the evening:
17.00: Welcome + bubbles for the first 100 visitors
17.10: Opening speach by curator Henriette Bretton-Meyer and curator Michelle Cotton
17.20-20.00: DJ Tjiquita + Apollo Bar serves draft beer in the lower foyer
20.00: Kunsthal CHarlottenborg closes

About the exhibition:
Cao Fei (b. 1978) is regarded a pioneer of a generation of artists for whom digital media and network technology are an integrated part of everyday life. She mixes social commentary, popular aesthetics, and references to Surrealism and documentary elements in a distinctive artistic idiom that has resonated around the world in recent years. In her carefully staged films, Cao Fei portrays a China divided between past and present, between its history and a yearning for all things new.

The exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the film installation Asia One (2018) which includes two film works, Asia One and 11.11 (63 and 60 mins, respectively). The two remarkable films are part of an immersive installation, which points to highly current topics such as consumerism, technology and precarious work and asks how we might be affected – now and in the future – in an accelerated, globalized world.

Asia One is curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer and is presented as a part of the group exhibition Post-Capital: Art and the Economics of the Digital Age produced by Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean in close collaboration with Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

The exhibition is supported by the Augustinus Foundation, the Beckett Foundation, the Obel Family Foundation, Knud Højgaard’s Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation, William Demant Foundation, Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen’s Foundation.

Further info here.

16 Sep
17.00 - 20.00

Post-Capital

Art and the Economics of the Digital Age

Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to present this autumn’s major exhibition in close collaboration with Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean. Now we invite you to the opening of Post-Capital:

Friday 16 September at 17.00-20.00

The admission is free and everyone is welcome. At the same day, we also open the solo exhibition Asia One by the Chinese artist Cao Fei.

Program for the evening:
17.00: Welcome + bubbles for the first 100 visitors
17.10: Opening speach by curator Henriette Bretton-Meyer and curator Michelle Cotton
17.20-20.00: DJ Tjiquita + Apollo Bar serves draft beer in the lower foyer
20.00: Kunsthal CHarlottenborg closes

About the exhibition:
The exhibition Post-Capital takes as its starting point the inherent paradox within a capitalist system that is both dependent upon and threatened by technological progress. Installed in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s grand south wing, the exhibition brings together works of sculpture, painting, photography, video and performance by 21 artists:

Ei Arakawa, Mohamed Bourouissa, Cao Fei, Simon Denny, Lara Favaretto, GCC, Guan Xiao, Shadi Habib Allah, Roger Hiorns, Oliver Laric, Liz Magic Laser, Katja Novitskova, Laura Owens, Yuri Pattison, Sondra Perry, Josephine Pryde, Nick Relph, Cameron Rowland, Hito Steyerl, Martine Syms, Nora Turato.

Post-Capital: Art and the Economics of the Digital Age is curated by Michelle Cotton and produced by Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean in close collaboration with Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

The exhibition is supported by the Augustinus Foundation, the Beckett Foundation, Knud Højgaard’s Foundation, the Obel Family Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation, the William Demant Foundation, Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen’s Foundation.

Further info here.

3 Sep - 18 Sep
12.00

The Female Gaze

Create your own version of historic painting in unique VR experience at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

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 the iconic artwork A Young Girl Preparing Chantarelles (1892) by Danish artist Peter Ilsted. The experience is intended to raise awareness of and facilitate reinterpretations of how women have been portrayed in art history.

Inside the VR experience, visitors can change and reinvent the work, thereby creating the narrative they wish to convey. The Female Gaze gives visitors access to a virtual photo studio where they can change the cropping, the position of the woman, her facial expression, the background and the lighting. The experience offers an opportunity to change our perspective and the way we perceive the model, thereby completely changing how we interpret the image.

The Female Gaze is launched by Kunsthal Charlottenborg in collaboration with Meta and Make Me Pulse.

Details
The Female Gaze
VR experience in the cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
3 September – 18 September 2022
Tuesday–Sunday 12.00–17.00
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen K
Free admission

2 Sep
16.00
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Opening Golden Days

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.

During the festival, an installation of 50 pedestals will be showcased at Kongens Nytorv, temporarily renamed Dronningens Nytorv – The Queen’s Square. A jury dedicated to this selection process have chosen 49 women who have had a great impact on Danish history.

The exhibition will both tell stories about the women and their achievements and accentuate the profound absence of statues depicting women in the public space. One pedestal will be left unnamed, and a digital platform will allow the public to contribute to an infinite list of women and their untold stories.

The exhibition will be showcased in Copenhagen from 2.–18. September and is designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, curated by Kunsthal Charlottenborg and developed in partnership with meta and Accenture Song. The exhibition is built by Arkitekturministeriet.

29 Jun
14.30 - 18.00

The Tightest Mesh

FORUM The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

Seminar: The Tightest Mesh

The Tightest Mesh is an afternoon seminar on the nature of the manufacturing and

instrumentalization of intimacies in digital space. It sets out to investigate what happens when online intimacies are redefined as spatial relations, with contributions from Bogna Konior and artist and writer Anna Engelhardt, who will present new work around notions of technologies of intimacy, digital topologies and cyberwar. The seminar spans performance, video and lecture formats and is organized by Mandus Ridefelt and Nellie Lindquist together with FORUM from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts: https://www.forumarchive.site/

PROGRAM

Part 1

14:30

Introduction: The Tightest Mesh, presentation by Mandus Ridefelt & Nellie Lindquist

Unlike historical media technologies such as the cinema or the loudspeakers, online interfaces are designed for one person and one set of eyes only. Intimacy resists scaling, yet it is what fuels these ubiquitous large-scale systems of online sociality. In the tension of this paradox, can we undo the weaponization of digital intimacy, by defining it as a spatial relation?

Part 2

15:00

Bogna Konior: ‘The Dark Forest’ (Screening) + ‘Exonet’

Bogna Konior is Assistant Professor at the Interactive Media Arts department at NYU Shanghai. After a screening of ‘The Dark Forest’ she will do a presentation via zoom on her work-in-progress ‘Exonet’, a book about the internet as an existential, deterministic technology, informed by her research into posthumanist theories of new media and genealogies and possible futures of cyberculture across Eastern Europe and East Asia.

BREAK

Part 3

17:00

Anna Engelhardt: Electronic Terraforming: how to unfold cyberwar (Performance-Lecture + Q & A)

Anna Engelhardt is the alias of a research-based media artist and writer. Her performance will treat the web as a sticky matter, showing space as a weapon of capture in cyberwar. Enacting the topology of a cyber domain, her work-in-progress invites a user to sneak into the folds of cyber territories, warped and fictionalised by cyberwarfare. Engelhardt theorises these violent disturbances in space as a powerful military capability that she calls ‘electronic terraforming’, used in the Russian invasion of Ukraine through electronic guns, fake cellular towers, and GPS jammers.

BIOS

BOGNA KONIOR

Bogna Konior is Assistant Professor at the Interactive Media Arts department at NYU Shanghai, where she teaches classes on emerging technologies, philosophy, humanities and the arts. She is currently working on two books, one about the internet as an existential technology, and the other about cyberfeminism, mysticism and emerging technologies of intimacy and reproduction. She has presented her work internationally, including at the University of Cambridge, the New School in New York, the Goethe Institute, e-flux, and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

https://www.bognamk.com/

ANNA ENGELHARDT

Anna Engelhardt is the alias of a research-based media artist and writer. She examines

infrastructures of post-Soviet cyberspace through a decolonial lens, with an overarching aim of dismantling Russian imperialism. Pursuing writing, lecturing, and publishing to promote decolonial approaches to cyberspace and to situate digital conflicts within a broader colonial enterprise, her work has been featured at transmediale 2022, Venice Biennale Architettura 2021, Strelka Magazine, and Kyiv Biennial 2021.

https://machinic.info/

MANDUS RIDEFELT

Mandus Ridefelt is a researcher and writer. His work deals with the construction of functional aesthetic objects across art, science, popular music and propaganda.

NELLIE LINDQUIST

Nellie Lindquist is a MFA student at the School for Media Arts at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Most recently she has co-curated SCREENINGS, a series of lectures and film screenings on digital intimacies.

FORUM

Forum is founded and run by students since 2016 at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts to make available situations for learning and sharing practices. https://www.forumarchive.site/ @forum_charlottenborg

24 Jun - 24 Jun
00.01

Art in a Day 2022

24 HOURS OF PERFORMANCE ART 

On 24 June from 00:01 until 23:59, Copenhagen’s six contemporary art institutions open their doors and fill the city with a buzzing programme of free art experiences created by a string of Danish and international performance artists.

Henrik Vibskov’s evocative parade will march through the streets, dancers in zorbs make Monster Chetwynd’s giant eye cry, Arvida Byström invites you along for a date with a sex doll, a canal touring boat takes you on a water-borne performance trip, and the event culminates with an art fest at Refshaleøen.

Art in a Day is an annual public event featuring performance art across the spectrum in the art institutions themselves and at venues across the city – from courtyards and shop fronts to bridges, church towers, and on the water.

  • It is free of charge and everyone is welcome – admission to the art institutions is also free.
  • Follow the route from art institution to art institution or let yourself be surprised by the performances popping up across the city during the 24-hour period.

Names released: Henrik Vibskov l Monster Chetwynd l Arvida Byström l Tosh Basco (fka boychild) l See updates during the spring when the full programme will be announced l 

GREATER THAN ANYTHING WE COULD HAVE DONE ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS 

Art in a Day is created by Copenhagen’s six contemporary art institutions, 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. 

Art in a Day will take place for the first time on 24 June 2022: save the date!

We look forward to seeing you!The programme is curated by Creator Projects in close collaboration with the contemporary art institution

22 Jun
17.00 - 19.00

Jeannette Ehlers, Awa Konaté & Lotte Løvholm

Archives in the Tongue: A Litany of Freedoms

On Wednesday 22 June at 17.00-19.00, Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you to a talk with artist Jeannette Ehlers and the curators Awa Konaté and Lotte Løvholm to a conversation about the newly opened exhibition Archives in the Tongue: A Litany of Freedom.

The talk will be in Danish and the admission is free.

About the exhibition:

In this summer’s major solo show at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Jeannette Ehlers forges a spiritual and meditative space that sheds light on Afro-Caribbean relations through large and new installations as well as existing works that combine film, performance and photography.

Through the years, Jeannette Ehlers’ practice has given careful attention to Danish colonial history, collectivity and the activist potential of art. Central themes include the representations and boundaries of Blackness, as well as in-depth reflections on kinship, solidarity, and colonial afterlives. Her works fuse different narratives and legacies, forging links between the personal, the historical, and wider socio-political temporalities. Accordingly, this exhibition will point to trans-geographical connections and counter-histories that still need to find their place in our collective memories to uniting the past and future.

17 Jun
08.00 - 09.00

Jeannette Ehlers, Worksongs

Archives in the Tongue: A Litany of Freedoms

As part of the current exhibition, Archives in the Tongue: A Litany of Freedoms, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the performance work Worksongs. 

Worksongs is an interactive performance that addresses the conditions of working life with stress and burnout caused by an ever-increasing work pressure that poses a growing public health problem.

The performance references the song of enslaved Africans as they worked to keep the rhythm and courage up, in line with African tradition. The music was often improvised during the work, and the way of singing was closely linked to the spoken language.
To a playlist that consists exclusively of songs from the Black music culture, where the word “work” is included, we invite you to join the dance before the working day begins.

Between each song, the artist reads texts that problematize the conditions of the labor market, institutional racism and the destructive effects of capitalism on people.

Everyone is welcome to come by and start the day with dancing!

15 Jun
17.00 - 20.00

Art Week x Kunsthal Charlottenborg – Guided Art Week tours

Archives in the Tongue: A Litany of Freedoms

Art Week x Kunsthal Charlottenborg – Guided Art Week tours

Guided Art Week Tours with artist Jeannette Ehlers and curator Awa Konaté in our newly opened exhibition: Jeannette Ehlers, Archives in the Tongue: A Litany of Freedoms

Guided artist and curator tour with Jeannette Ehlers and Awa Konaté in Danish at 17.15 & 18.45
Guided artist and curator tour with Jeannette Ehlers and Awa Konaté in English at 18.00 & 19.30

It is free to participate and requires no registration.

15 Jun
17.00 - 20.00

Film screening: Echoes in the Frame

Art Week x Kunsthal Charlottenborg x Culture Art Society (CAS)

Echoes in the Frame is a film program curated by the curatorial platform Culture Art Society (CAS) which shows a short selection of experimental films by Black women and non-binary moving image artists and filmmakers from the African continent and the diaspora.

 

The selection of films in Echoes in the Frame point to similar themes in Jeannette Ehlers’solo exhibition Archives in the Tongue: A Litany of Freedoms. In this program a range of expressions and interventions are highlighted with each offering significant confrontations with the filmic apparatus and forms of representation in order to rethink both the cinematic form and its purpose. Here, the camera collides with abstract techniques for uncompromising and sharp-toothed meditations that interweave memories, joins, and other streams of being to reflect upon Black lives across time and space.

 

The screening on June 15 begins with a brief introduction by CAS’s founder Awa Konaté. She will share more about the films and the themes that the program intends to address.

 

It is free to participate and requires no registration.

Programme

Barbara McCullough, Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification, 1979. 6 min

Zeinabu Irene Davis, Cycles, 1989. 17 mins

Ufuoma Essi, Bodies in Dissent, 2021. 6 min

Myriam Charles, Drei Atlas (Three Atlas), 2018. 7 min

Nuotama Bodomo, Boneshaker, 2013. 12 min

14 Jun - 7 Aug

Echoes in the Frame

Film programme curated by Culture Art Society (CAS)

As part of the current exhibition, Archives in the Tongue: A Litany of Freedoms, Charlottenborg Art Cinema presents Echoes in the Frame. Curated by Culture Art Society (CAS) it is a discursive strand to Jeannette Ehlers solo exhibition, with a total of thirteen short films screening over the exhibition’s period.

The programme is a gathering of works that provide a brief chronological insight into the trajectory of Ehlers’ filmic praxis as well as their central paradigms through seven videoworks from 2007 to 2020. In widening both artistic and thematic exchanges, Ehlers works are positioned in dialogue with five experimental short films by other moving image artists of African descent, who similarly seek to restructure positionalities and shed light on counterhistories that unite our past, present, and future.

A range of expressions and interventions are highlighted with each offering significant confrontations with the filmic apparatus and forms of representation in order to rethink both the cinematic form and its purpose. Here, the camera collides with the abstract and various audiovisual techniques –including sound and found footage– for uncompromising and sharp  meditations that interweave memories, and other streams of being to reflect upon Black lives across time and space.

Programme

Jeannette Ehlers, Ventilate, 2007. 4 mins

Jeannette Ehlers, Black Magic at the White House, 2009. 4 mins

Jeannette Ehlers, Black Bullets, 2012. 5 mins

Jeannette Ehlers, Speed Up that Day, 2014. 4 mins

Jeannette Ehlers, How do you talk about three hundred years in four minutes, 2014. 5 mins

Jeannette Ehlers, This Open Grave, 2016. 9 mins

Jeannette Ehlers, The Gaze, 2020. 6 mins

Barbara McCullough, Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification, 1979. 6 min

Zeinabu Irene Davis, Cycles, 1989. 17 mins

Ufuoma Essi, Bodies in Dissent, 2021. 6 min

Myriam Charles, Drei Atlas (Three Atlas), 2018. 7 min

Nuotama Bodomo, Boneshaker, 2013. 12 min

 

The filmprogram can be experienced in Charlottenborg Art Cinema 14 June – 7 August 2022.

The cinema will however be used for other events on June 29 and June 30.

 

13 Jun
08.00 - 09.00

Jeanette Ehlers, Worksongs

Archives in the Tongue: A Litany of Freedoms

As part of the current exhibition, Archives in the Tongue: A Litany of Freedoms, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the performance work Worksongs. 

Worksongs is an interactive performance that addresses the conditions of working life with stress and burnout caused by an ever-increasing work pressure that poses a growing public health problem.

The performance references the song of enslaved Africans as they worked to keep the rhythm and courage up, in line with African tradition. The music was often improvised during the work, and the way of singing was closely linked to the spoken language.
To a playlist that consists exclusively of songs from the Black music culture, where the word “work” is included, we invite you to join the dance before the working day begins.

Between each song, the artist reads texts that problematize the conditions of the labor market, institutional racism and the destructive effects of capitalism on people.

Everyone is welcome to come by and start the day with dancing!

11 Jun
12.00 - 15.00

Jeannette Ehlers, We’re Magic. We’re Real #3 (These Walls) – long durational performance

Archives in the Tongue: A Litany of Freedoms

Jeannette Ehlers, We’re Magic. We’re Real #3 (These Walls) – long durational performance

The constellation of the braids that mix with the climbing plant along the front of the building creates a poetic metaphor for the relationship between culture and nature, body and landscape, history and the present.
To the sound of the Atlantic Ocean’s roar, the performers move slowly back and forth in the square in front of the building. Quietly but insistently, they call on the attention of the passers-by. The bodies that follow the rhythm of the waves and the joined hair point to a shared existence and by their repeated movements take the form of a ritual within the African diaspora.
Equal parts of grief and strength are present in the performance, which expresses a longing for life outside the plantation system, and for the forest as a literal and symbolic free space.
Jeannette Ehlers began her work series We’re Magic. We’re Real in 2020.
The entire series of works makes use of hair as an important marker of identity across communities of African descent, as a simple but powerful gesture.
We’re Magic. We’re Real # 3 (These Walls) was first commissioned by Mads Nørgaard in November 2021.
10 Jun
17.00 - 21.00

Jeannette Ehlers, Archives in the Tongue: A Litany of Freedoms

 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. Over the summer, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents her insistently powerful works, in which she points to connections that reach across continents, oceans, and human destinies. Now we invite you to the opening:

Friday 10 June at 17.00-21.00

 

The admission is free and everyone is welcome. At the same day, we also open the exhibition Copenhagen. Red Light Green Light (In the Realm of the Senses), and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Visual Arts presents the annual edition of Rundgang.

10 Jun
17.00 - 21.00

Copenhagen. Red Light Green Light (In the Realm of the Senses)

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. Now we invite you to the opening:
Friday 10 June
17-21 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
18-20 at The Lapidarium of Kings
The admission is free and everyone is welcome. At the same day, we also open a solo exhibition with Jeannette Ehlers, and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Visual Arts presents the annual edition of Rundgang.
7 Jun
17.00 - 20.00
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New Red Order Presents: An evening with PAUL CHAAT SMITH and LAURA ORTMAN

New Red Order Presents: One if by Land, Two if by Sea.

NEW RED ORDER PRESENTS:
an evening with PAUL CHAAT SMITH and LAURA ORTMAN

June 7th, 2022
17.00-20.00

PAUL CHAAT SMITH
Lecture: Spectacular Optimism: Inside New Red Order’s Fight for the Future

Location: Charlottenborg Art Cinema, Kunsthal Charlottenborg at 17-18.

Taking the friendly yet incendiary tone of the New Red Order’s practice as a point of departure, Paul Chaat Smith, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, discusses aspects that make New Red Order a unique apparatus, unlike anything or anyone else, ever. Their provocative tone is at the same time incredibly constructive, offering an alternative to dead-end identity politics and discourses in which Native people are always in the past and always victims. In this way, NRO’s practice constructs a new way forward for realizing Indigenous’ futures.
The talk will be in English.

LAURA ORTMAN CONCERT
Location: Upper Foyer, Kunsthal Charlottenborg at 19-20.

From the rosined-out beast of Ortman’s tough stained violin emerges deranged crumpled wings twirling in starlight and oil slickness and shininess; bearing heavy use of amplification and effects, she also incorporates over-rosining to add smoke, dust, wind and slow-motion grittiness in her scored / improvised compositions for amplified violin, Apache violin, whistles, tree branches, slides, guitar picks, bells, field recordings, and tuning fork.

BIOS

Paul Chaat Smith is a Comanche author, essayist, and curator. His work explores the contemporary landscape of American Indian art and politics.
With Robert Warrior, he is the author of Like a Hurricane: the Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee(New Press, 1996), a standard text in Native studies and American history courses. His second book, Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong, was published in 2009 by the University of Minnesota Press.
Smith joined the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in 2001, where he serves as Curator. His projects include performance artist James Luna’s Emendatio at the 2005 Venice Biennial, Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian (2008), and Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort (2009).

Appointed Critic in Residence three times in galleries in the U.S. and Canada, Smith’s exhibitions and essays have explored the work of Richard Ray Whitman, Baco Ohama, Faye HeavyShield, Shelley Niro, Erica Lord, Maggie Michael and Kent Monkman. He has lectured at the National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Los Angeles. In 2017, he was selected to deliver the Eleventh Distinguished Critic Lecture by the Association of International Art Critics – USA. His most recent exhibition, Americans, opened in Washington in 2018 to wide acclaim.

A soloist musician, composer and vibrant collaborator, Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) creates across multiple platforms, including recorded albums, live performances, and filmic and artistic soundtracks. She has collaborated with artists such as Tony Conrad, Jock Soto, Raven Chacon, Nanobah Becker, Okkyung Lee, Martin Bisi, Jeffrey Gibson, Caroline Monnet, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Martha Colburn, and In Defense of Memory. An inquisitive and exquisite violinist, Ortman is versed in Apache violin, piano, electric guitar, keyboards, and amplified violin, often sings through a megaphone, and is a producer of capacious field recordings.

She has performed at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, The Stone residency, The New Museum, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, The Toronto Biennial, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, among countless established and DIY venues in the US, Canada, and Europe. In 2008 Ortman founded the Coast Orchestra, an all-Native American orchestral ensemble that performed a live soundtrack to Edward Curtis’s film In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914), the first silent feature film to star an all-Native American cast. Ortman is the recipient of the 2022 Forge Project Fellowship, 2022 United States Artists Fellowship, 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists, 2020 Jerome@Camargo Residency in Cassis, France, 2017 Jerome Foundation Composer and Sound Artist Fellowship, 2016 Art Matters Grant, 2016 Native Arts and Culture Foundation Fellowship, 2015 IAIA’s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Social Engagement Residency, 2014-15 Rauschenberg Residency, and 2010 Artist-in-Residence at Issue Project Room. She was also a participating artist in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Ortman lives in Brooklyn, New York.

2 Jun
17.30 - 20.00

Legacy – Slow Show opening and concert with TS Høeg, Charlotte Munck, Simon Toldam og Oliver Laumann

For the past decade BAFTA nominated film-maker and video artist Doug Aubrey has – as a result of a thyroid cancer diagnosis – been making short films and exploring a personal archive, dating back to the 1970s punk era.

From June 2nd – 5th Charlottenborg Art Cinema will screen the 170 films that make up Aubrey’s pocket cinema slow show “Legacy of an Invisible Bullet”.

The show is kicked off by a premiere performance concert Thursday June  2nd  at 17.30 in the cinema, where Legacy’s composer TS Høeg further explores the musical themes and soundtrack from the films – showing in extracts before, during and after the concert – together with Charlotte Munck, Oliver Laumann and Simon Toldam.

About Legacy of an Invisible Bullet

The 170 films that make up the experience, aren’t just “about what we see when we look out at the world. They’re also an attempt to manifest things that can’t be filmed. The things we find when we turn a camera’s gaze around and starts looking in…”

To this end Aubrey has collaborated with the Danish actress Charlotte Munck, who becomes not just the voice of a subconscious but also: “An Avatar – a physical presence, that’s expressing things I don’t or can’t…”

This idea of manifesting the unseen is further developed with illustrations by the award-winning graphic artist Halfdan Pisket, an evocative sound score by Danish punk/avant-garde jazz legend Dane TS Hawk, and complemented by re-mixes from the equally legendary Scottish composer Jim Sutherland.

Taking the experience beyond the cinema installation, an interactive prototype is exclusively available to the Charlottenborg audience. The app allows viewers to further explore the work on their mobile devices, tablets and TV screens.

 

Check outwww.kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk and www.northernsouls.dk for the full programme.

2 Jun - 5 Jun
12.00

Filmprogramme: LEGACY OF AN INVISIBLE BULLET – THE SLOW SHOW

Legacy of an Invisible Bullet

For the past decade BAFTA nominated film-maker and video artist Doug Aubrey has – as a result of a thyroid cancer diagnosis – been making short films and exploring a personal archive, dating back to the 1970s punk era.

For the first time a Danish audience will get the opportunity to immerse themselves in the 10 ½ hr cycle of all 170 films that make up “Legacy of an Invisible Bullet” when they screen as a programmed cinematic “slow show” at Charlottenborg Art Cinema between 2nd – 5th June.

But the 170 films aren’t just “about what we see when we look out at the world. They’re also an attempt to manifest things that can’t be filmed. The things we find when we turn a camera’s gaze around and starts looking in…”

To this end Aubrey has collaborated with the Danish actress Charlotte Munck, who becomes not just the voice of a subconscious but also: “An Avatar – a physical presence, that’s expressing things I don’t or can’t…”

This idea of manifesting the unseen is further developed with illustrations by the award-winning graphic artist Halfdan Pisket, an evocative sound score by Danish punk/avant-garde jazz legend Dane TS Hawk, and complemented by re-mixes from the equally legendary Scottish composer Jim Sutherland.

Taking the experience beyond the cinema installation, an interactive prototype is exclusively available to the Charlottenborg audience. The app allows viewers to further explore the work on their mobile devices, tablets and TV screens.

The show is kicked off by a performance concert Thursday June 2nd 5.30pm, where the films’ composer TS Høeg live premieres compositions from the films together with Charlotte Munck, Simon Toldam and Oliver Laumann.

Check www.kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk and www.northernsouls.dk for full programme.

 

LEGACY OF AN INVISIBLE BULLET – THE SLOW SHOW

SCREENING PROGRAMME:

Thursday June 2:

12-17 :                                       FILMSCREENING

CHAPTER #1:                             THE MIRROR

CHAPTER #2:                             A FILM-MAKER STRIPPED BARE

CHAPTER #3:                             A BAD SURFERS SEARCH FOR WISDOM

PAUSE

CHAPTER #4:                             NORDIC SOUL MUSIC

CHAPTER #5:                             SOMEWHERE IS A PLACE

CHAPTER #6:                             A COPENHAGEN CYCLE GEOGRAPHY

CHAPTER #7:                             WALKING WITH GHOSTS

 

17-20                                    POP-UP FILMKONCERT M UROPFØRELSE AF KOMPOSITIONER

 

Friday June 3: 

12 – 20   FILMVISNING

CHAPTER #8:         LEARN DANISH IN 60 MINUTES

CHAPTER #9:         A MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART

CHAPTER #10:                            LEARNING HOW TO WALK ON WATER.

PAUSE

CHAPTER #11:                            KIERKEGAARD’S SURF LESSONS

CHAPTER #12:     THE THOUGHTS OF CITIZEN NOWHERE

PAUSE

CHAPTER #13:      BLOOD AND FIRE

CHAPTER #14:      UNFINISHED BUSINESS

PAUSE

CHAPTER #15:      5 YEARS

CHAPTER #16:     SWAN SONGS

 

Saturday June 4: 

11 – 17            FILMVISNING

CHAPTER #1:          THE MIRROR

CHAPTER #2:          A FILM-MAKER STRIPPED BARE

PAUSE

CHAPTER #3:          A BAD SURFERS SEARCH FOR WISDOM

CHAPTER #4:         NORDIC SOUL MUSIC

PAUSE

CHAPTER #5:         SOMEWHERE IS A PLACE

CHAPTER #6:         A COPENHAGEN CYCLE GEOGRAPHY

PAUSE

CHAPTER #7:         WALKING WITH GHOSTS

CHAPTER #8:                             LEARN DANISH IN 60 MINUTES

 

Sunday June 5: 

11 – 17                                  FILMVISNING

CHAPTER #9:     A MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART

CHAPTER #10:                           LEARNING HOW TO WALK ON WATER.

PAUSE

CHAPTER #11:                           KIERKEGAARD’S SURF LESSONS

CHAPTER #12:    THE THOUGHTS OF CITIZEN NOWHERE

PAUSE

CHAPTER #13:    BLOOD AND FIRE

CHAPTER #14:    UNFINISHED BUSINESS

PAUSE

CHAPTER #15:    5 YEARS

CHAPTER #16:    SWAN SONGS

1 Jun
17.00 - 18.00

Conversation between visual artist Marie Munk and curator Hendrik Folkerts.

Kunstsalon VISION

In collaboration with Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Bikubenfonden hereby invites you to Kunstsalon VISION, where visual artist Marie Munk will be meeting with Hendrik Folkerts, who is the curator of International Contemporary Art at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, for a conversation about Munk’s practice.
The conversation will take place in the screening room at Kunsthal Charlottenborg on Wednesday June 1st, 2022. From 5:00 PM until 6:00 PM.
Marie Munk has been singled out for inclusion in Bikubenfonden’s Artistic Practice program for particularly promising artistic practices.
The objective of the interview salon, which is one aspect of this program, is to examine a practicing Danish artist’s special approach to art and the potential that is seated in this. In connection with setting up the salon, it is the artist herself who chooses her interview partner.
25 May
17.00 - 18.00

Uffe Isolotto and Jacob Lillemose about the Danish Pavilion in Venice

[THE TALK WILL BE IN DANISH]

One of the world’s most prestigious art exhibitions is the Venice Biennale, which this year officially opened on April 23 with more than 80 participating countries. Each country presents a national pavilion, which represents them at this great international art event. To represent Denmark, The Danish Art Foundation this year has appointed artist Uffe Isolotto and curator Jacob Lillemose with the installation We Walked the Earth.

On May 25, we welcome you to join us with Uffe Isolotto and Jacob Lillemose for a conversation about the work with the biennial and about We Walked the Earth, which is described as a post-apocalyptic total installation that combines mythological references, social realistic drama, farm idyll and future visions.

The conversation is moderated by Iben Bach Elmstrøm, who is a curator at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning.

She has previously curated the exhibition The Object is To Change The Soul at the Heartland Festival in 2018, Ars Memoria with Helene Nymann in Rundetårn in 2017, and been leader of SixtyEight Art Institute from 2011 to 2018. Most recently, she has worked for CHART design – a commercial platform for art and design and is the curator behind Det Æstetiske Øre – a sound-based and performative project at Rønnebæksholm kunsthal.

Read more about Uffe Isolotto and the project in Kunstkritikk’s interview here: https://kunstkritikk.com/cottagecore-centaurs/

More information and background for the selection can also be read at the Statens Kunstfond: https://www.kunst.dk/…/art…/visual-arts/danish-pavilion

The conversation will be in Danish. It is free to praticipate and no registration is needed.

Uffe Isolotto (b. 1976) is educated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Uffe Isolotto has had solo exhibitions at Tranen, O – Overgaden, and in 2020 he participated in the 14th Media Arts Biennial in Santiago, Chile. In recent years, he has curated exhibitions and produced works in the collaborative project Age of Aquarius, which is located on a roof garden in Copenhagen. Uffe Isolotto is also a co-founder and former member of the art organization TOVES, which in the period 2010-2017 produced exhibitions and works both in Denmark and abroad.

Uffe Isolotto has prepared his proposal in collaboration with Jacob Lillemose, who has also been appointed curator of the exhibition in the Danish pavilion.

Jacob Lillemose (b. 1974) is a curator, researcher and author.

Jacob Lillemose works as a curator at Medical Museion. He has previously run the project room X AND BEYOND, during the interdisciplinary research project Changing Disasters at the University of Copenhagen. Lillemose just published his first novel Architecture Zero, which has just been published in 2022 on A Mock Book.

21 May
15.00

Maria Lepistö – The Animals Were Never Alone II

Afgang 2022

Maria Lepistö: The Animals Were Never Alone II (2022)
The Animals Were Never Alone II, is a semi-interactive Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-Lecture-Performance about The Animal Sound Archive, by Maria Lepistö.
Duration: 30 min
The Animal Sound Archive is a scientific archive of animal voice recordings, based in Berlin. Its online database is open to the public through the website www.tierstimmenarchiv.de. However, unless you are a scientist or enthusiast in the field of bio-acoustics, we doubt that you have ever heard about it. Fortunately, we have taken it upon ourselves to introduce it to you.
You don’t have time to listen to all the 120 000 recordings, but we will let you hear some of our favorites. What we will offer you is a narrative. In fact, we will offer several. This essay is written in the format of a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure.
The choose-your-own-adventure books were popular in the 80-90s, but then storytelling role-play computer games took over and the publishing of our favorite series, Lone Wolf, stopped. Now, the latest Virtual Reality games allow us to step into the body of another. The experience is impressively immersive. But it is a body that lacks a history, and in many cases, also a voice.
We believe that the comeback of the Choose-Your-Own Adventure-books lies in their strength to force the player to embody a psyche. Perhaps one can say that it strives to create empathy. What we aim for is a combination of control and intimacy. We will put thoughts and feelings into your head and use you as a vessel to navigate through the Animal Sound Archive. We hope you don’t mind!
We want to hint towards a potential connection between bodies separated by technologies. We also want to hint towards a potential connection between bodies brought together by technology. The theme of this story is death and loneliness as a collective human state of mind. It is set against the extinction of animals, as well as the history of sound production, and voice recordings in particular.
It starts with the handheld recorders of the 50s and ends with automated recording stations and algorithmic voice detection. There is the improving storing capacity of sound, the digitalization of the archive, and the promise of eternal memory. There is a changing focus of research from the study of individual animals, to monitoring whole populations. There is the story of the dead founder of the archive, Günter Tembrock, and his predecessor Karl Heinz Frommolt, whom we have turned into a fictional character. You are about to meet him soon.
11 May
19.00

Maria Lepistö – The Animals Were Never Alone II

Afgang 2022

Maria Lepistö – The Animals Were Never Alone II

The Animals Were Never Alone II, is a semi-interactive Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-Lecture-Performance about The Animal Sound Archive, by Maria Lepistö.
Duration: 30 min.

The Animal Sound Archive is a scientific archive of animal voice recordings, based in Berlin. Its online database is open to the public through the website www.tierstimmenarchiv.de. However, unless you are a scientist or enthusiast in the field of bio-acoustics, we doubt that you have ever heard about it. Fortunately, we have taken it upon ourselves to introduce it to you.
You don’t have time to listen to all the 120 000 recordings, but we will let you hear some of our favorites. What we will offer you is a narrative. In fact, we will offer several. This essay is written in the format of a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure.
The choose-your-own-adventure books were popular in the 80-90s, but then storytelling role-play computer games took over and the publishing of our favorite series, Lone Wolf, stopped. Now, the latest Virtual Reality games allow us to step into the body of another. The experience is impressively immersive. But it is a body that lacks a history, and in many cases, also a voice.
We believe that the comeback of the Choose-Your-Own Adventure-books lies in their strength to force the player to embody a psyche. Perhaps one can say that it strives to create empathy. What we aim for is a combination of control and intimacy. We will put thoughts and feelings into your head and use you as a vessel to navigate through the Animal Sound Archive. We hope you don’t mind!
We want to hint towards a potential connection between bodies separated by technologies. We also want to hint towards a potential connection between bodies brought together by technology. The theme of this story is death and loneliness as a collective human state of mind. It is set against the extinction of animals, as well as the history of sound production, and voice recordings in particular.
It starts with the handheld recorders of the 50s and ends with automated recording stations and algorithmic voice detection. There is the improving storing capacity of sound, the digitalization of the archive, and the promise of eternal memory. There is a changing focus of research from the study of individual animals, to monitoring whole populations. There is the story of the dead founder of the archive, Günter Tembrock, and his predecessor Karl Heinz Frommolt, whom we have turned into a fictional character. You are about to meet him soon.
11 May
17.00 - 18.00

Reading Group #1 – Kinga Bartis

Reading Group #1 – Kinga Bartis

Reading Group is a conversation about a specific text or book, which has had a significance for an artist or curator. The first Reading Group conversation is with artist Kinga Bartis. Bartis will talk with Art Historian Philip Pihl about the essay collection On the Origin of Species and Other Stories by South Korean author Bo-Young Kim. The conversation will be based on two of the book’s texts: “An Evolutionary Myth” and “Stars Shine in Earth’s Sky”. Kim’s literature is difficult to categorize and mixes several genres, which from different angles tell about the relationship between man and the world today, a theme that is also found in Bartis ’art.

The event is free and the seats are distributed after a first come, first serve principle.

29 Apr
17.00 - 20.00

New Red Order x Sami Girl Gang

In connection with our current exhibition New Red Order Presents: One if by Land, Two if by Sea, we are very pleased to invite Sami Girl Gang to take over one of the public program events at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Sami Girl Gang operates as a platform for promoting the art of Indigenous women as well as a space for collaboration and experimentation between different art praxes. The event at Kunsthal Charlottenborg will be a cacophonic evening featuring video, music and performance lectures , including multidisciplinary artist and musician Elina Waage Mikalsen from Tromsø, Sápmi/Norway, visual artist Lada Suomenrinne from Njuorggán and performance artist Jessie Kleeman who is originally from Upernavik in northern Kalaallit Nunaat.

In correlation to the celebration of Tråante 2017 – a celebration marking the centennial of the Sámi Assembly of 1917 , in Trondheim in Norway, artist Carola Grahn and Silje Figenschou Thoresen started “Sami Girl Gang” to celebrate the female driving force behind the Sámi Assembly 1917, particularly led by the Sami activist Elsa Laula.

Sami Girl Gang was constituted with the vision of highlighting and bringing Sami women at the forefront of ‘the ‘postcolonial’ discussion. Vibrantly supported by a number of Instagram followers, the ‘gang’ started following the work of Sami women to act as a platform for Sami and Indigenous narratives driven by feminist values. They have since popped up in various occasions calling attention to innovative doudji (Sami handicraft), and have organized talks on queerness within Indigenous communities.  In Tråante with five different Sami Girl Gang t-shirts including ‘Decolonize,’ ‘Elsa Laula for president’ Reindeer <3 Unicorns,’ Sami Girl Gang has appeared playing with forms of commodities.

We hope to see you for an amazing evening in Charlottenborg Art Cinema!

The event is free and will be held in English. No need for registration but the seats will be filled by a first come first serve principle.

About the artists:

Jessie Kleemann

She is a poet and visual, performance, and theater artist based in Copenhagen. Born in Upernavik in the northwest of Kalaallit Nunaat, Kleemann regularly explores Kalaallit identity, tradition, and relationships to land and language in her work

Known for her provocative performance art, she has developed a form of ‘body art’ using her body as a living canvas, and re-enacting actions coming from ancient masque performances.

Elina Waage Mikalsen

A multidisciplinary artist and musician from Tromsø, Sápmi/Norway, she is currently based in Oslo, Norway, working within the fields of sound, video, performance, installation and text-based mediums. Her core source of material is the body, in its physical, remembering, sounding and acting capacity. She explores the woman’s body in particular, most notably in her sound work, where the possibilities and limitations of the female voice is explored in a physical, historical and gendered context. Based on this investigation, she explores the frictions and connections between the female body and the female voice, which are so often separated.

Lada Suomenrinne

Lada Suomenrinne (1995) was born in Northern Russia, but she lived most of her life in the northernmost point of Finland, Sápmi. There she was adopted by his step father into a Sámi family. Her artwork takes roots in cultural identity and belonging. She explores her strangeness in the landscape of heritage. Her inspiration comes from her curiosity about the borderland where the unseen lakes of Sáminess are. She’s having a dialogue with nature with whom she searches for the place of security as an adopted indigenous woman in the middle of Anthropocene. Currently she’s doing her Master degree in photography at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, in Helsinki.

Carola Grahn

Carola Grahn, b. 1982 in Jokkmokk, is a Sami visual artist. She does thematic, idea-based work, in large scale projects, mainly involving the materialization of text, installation strategies, and sculpture. In 2021 Grahn was awarded Asmund and Lizzie Arles Sculpture Prize and she has received several grants. Grahn is represented in the collection of Moderna Museet and Daimler Art Collection Berlin amongst other collections. She has written about Sami art for Afterall Magazine, edited the Hjärnstorm special issue about Sápmi, and self- published her novel Lo & Professorn [’Lo and the Professor’] in 2013. Her works have been shown at IAIA Museum Of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in Santa Fe, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery in Montreal, Southbank Centre in London, Moderna Museet Stockholm and elsewhere.

27 Apr
19.00

Maria Lepistö – The Animals Were Never Alone II

Afgang 2022

The Animals Were Never Alone II, a semi-interactive Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-Lecture-Performance about The Animal Sound Archive, by Maria Lepistö.
Duration: 30 min.

The Animal Sound Archive is a scientific archive of animal voice recordings, based in Berlin. Its online database is open to the public through the website www.tierstimmenarchiv.de. However, unless you are a scientist or enthusiast in the field of bio-acoustics, we doubt that you have ever heard about it. Fortunately, we have taken it upon ourselves to introduce it to you.
You don’t have time to listen to all the 120 000 recordings, but we will let you hear some of our favorites. What we will offer you is a narrative. In fact, we will offer several. This essay is written in the format of a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure.
The choose-your-own-adventure books were popular in the 80-90s, but then storytelling role-play computer games took over and the publishing of our favorite series, Lone Wolf, stopped. Now, the latest Virtual Reality games allow us to step into the body of another. The experience is impressively immersive. But it is a body that lacks a history, and in many cases, also a voice.
We believe that the comeback of the Choose-Your-Own Adventure-books lies in their strength to force the player to embody a psyche. Perhaps one can say that it strives to create empathy. What we aim for is a combination of control and intimacy. We will put thoughts and feelings into your head and use you as a vessel to navigate through the Animal Sound Archive. We hope you don’t mind!
We want to hint towards a potential connection between bodies separated by technologies. We also want to hint towards a potential connection between bodies brought together by technology. The theme of this story is death and loneliness as a collective human state of mind. It is set against the extinction of animals, as well as the history of sound production, and voice recordings in particular.
It starts with the handheld recorders of the 50s and ends with automated recording stations and algorithmic voice detection. There is the improving storing capacity of sound, the digitalization of the archive, and the promise of eternal memory. There is a changing focus of research from the study of individual animals, to monitoring whole populations. There is the story of the dead founder of the archive, Günter Tembrock, and his predecessor Karl Heinz Frommolt, whom we have turned into a fictional character. You are about to meet him soon.
19 Apr
12.00 - 20.00

MFA Degree Show 2022

Kunstakademiets Billedskoler & Kunsthal Charlottenborg

This year, 25 artists graduate from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Schools of Visual Arts and in this connection present their works at the annual MFA Degree Show. Now we invite you to the opening:
Tuesday 19 April at 12.00-20.00
The admission is free and everyone is welcome.
Programme:
12.00: Welcome, free bubbles for the first visitors.
12.10: Welcome speech by the Rector of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Schools of Visual Arts, Lars Bent Petersen, and the curator group INDEX.
13.00: Performance by Maria Lepistö, The Animals Were Never Alone ll.
17.20: Performance by Rasmus Niclas Rose Nielsen, Right in the feels. Closing the call of the void together – series 2022.  Performed by Stine Kjær Lefèvre
17:30-20:00: You can buy a Dish of the Day at Apollo Kantine for 125 DKK.
18.00: Performance by Søren K. Rye, Hearsay.
16.00-20.00: KUCHULU plays music in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s lower foyer, and Apollo Bar serves draft beer.
About the exhibition:
Afgang 2022 celebrates and presents works created by 25 new talents from the Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Fine Arts and is both an insight into a 6-year educational process as well as a final presentation that points into the future.
The exhibition is a presentation of the individual artists’ practice and at the same time it provides a unique overall picture of what is moving on the stage of contemporary art right now. The visitors can encounter everything from painting over complex media installations and performances to text statements and sculptural objects. Further info: https://bit.ly/afgang2022
The participating artists are: Madeleine Andersson, Ember Blooming, Clara Busch, Niels Christensen, Paula Duvå, Martin Brandt Hansen, Emilie Imán, Simon G Jakobsson, Anna Munk Johansen, Agne˙ Jokše˙, Cassie Augusta Jørgensen, Esben Weile Kjær, Maria Lepistö, Gurli-Marie Lindum, Maja Malou Lyse, Rasmus Niclas Rose Nielsen, Anna Kristine Hvid Petersen, Kristine Karlshøj Leopold, Søren K. Rye, Samara Sallam, Bertram von Undall, Anabela Veloso, Christian Vindelev, Vic West, Mike Mac-Leod Worning.
On 27 April, Afgang Live will be held at 17.00-20.00. A number of the graduating artists participate and the evening consists of performances and guided tours. The event is free, more information will follow.
Afgang 2022 is curated by Index and supported by the 15. Juni Foundation, Augustinus Foundation, and the Obel Family Foundation.
8 Apr
18.00 - 19.00

Postponed: Linda Lamignan in conversation with Cédric Fauq (F)

Kunstsalon VISION

In collaboration with Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Bikubenfonden is extending an invitation to Kunstsalon VISION, where visual artist Linda Lamignan will be meeting with Cédric Fauq, Chief Curator at Capc – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, for a conversation about Lindas practice This conversation will be taking place from 1.30 to 2.30 P.M in the screening room at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, on Friday, December 10.
Linda Lamignan has been singled out for Bikubenfonden’s Artistic Practice program for particularly promising artistic practices. The aim of the interview salon, which is one aspect of the program, is to examine one Danish artist’s singular approach to art and the potential that is seated within this. In connection with the interview salons, it is the artists themselves who choose their interview partners.
About Linda Lamignan
The works of visual and performance artist Linda Lamignan convey the sensation of being alien and of floating between dissimilar worlds. Through video, music, objects and performance, Lamignan explores notions related to wandering and diaspora, transformation and love. Taking an animistic approach, they are working with materials that are associated with industries in West Africa and Scandinavia. And by conjoining the history of these materials/raw articles to bodies with comparable experiences, Lamignan seeks to visualize new alternative frames of mind.
Lamignan received their MFA degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 2019 and their BFA degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. Lamignan has had a busy autumn, with several exhibition openings, including their solo exhibition, ‘those who do not travel never arrive: Carry Your Home’ at Rogaland Kunstsenter.
About Cédric Fauq
In recent years, the French curator Cédriq Fauq has made an impressive showing on the international art scene – both as curator at Palais de Tokyo in Paris and, even more recently, as chief curator of Capc – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux.
From 2020-2021, he worked as a curator at Palais de Tokyo, where he developed the exhibitions, ‘Antibodies’ and ‘Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema’. Previously, Cédriq Fauq was working as an exhibition curator at Nottingham Contemporary, where he set up a number of shows (Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance; Sung Tieu: In Cold Print; Grace Before Jones: and Camera, Disco, Studio), performances (Okwui Okpokwasili; Steffani Jemison; and Lou Lou Lou Sainsbury) and publications. Moreover, he is working as a writer and developing freelance projects [DOC, Paris (2018); Sophie Tappeiner, Wien (2018); Nir Altman, München (2019); Atlantis, Marseille (2020); Futura, Prag (2021); VEDA, Firenze (2021); and Frieze London (2021)].
From 2017-2018, Cédric Fauq was a member of the Baltic Triennal XIII curatorial team and from 2016-2018, he took part in leading clearview.ltd in London.
The central core of Cédric Fauq’s practice is the reassessment of contemporary art’s values as a specialized and cultural field, a reassessment that is being carried out together with curator Anne Colin, and this has led, in turn, to collaborations with the networks BOTOX(s) and Mécènes du Sud – Montpellier.
Place and time of interview:
The live conversation is going to take place from 6 to 7 P.M on Friday, April 8, in the screening room at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Kongens Nytorv 1,1050 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Participation in the salon costs DKK 10 + fee. (60 seats). You can buy your ticket: https://billetto.dk/…/kunstsalon-vision-billedkunstner…
About the Interview Salon
In the interview salon, Bikubenfonden zooms in on a single or two artists’ practice, with a focus on the artist’s/artists’ promising and innovative approach to art. Typically, the artist is currently making exhibitions or performances and has distinguished her/himself as being groundbreaking and innovative in the span of a short time. The interview salon is a “close-up study” and offers an investigative insight into the artist’s specific practice and potentials: an oeuvre-interview as well as a close-to-the-subject interview. The artist chooses her/his own interview partner in this conversational format.
Kunstsalon VISION is Bikubenfonden’s conversational format in the field of art.
A video interview from the interview salon is going to be made for eventual use in Bikubenfonden’s portrait series, “Artistic Practice”. See more about “Artistic Practice” here: https://vimeo.com/user100347497
6 Apr
17.00 - 18.00

Cross Fire – the sound of war with Jacob Kirkegaard

In collaboration with Klang Festival

About the event

On Wednesday April 6th, Kunsthal Charlottenborg in collaboration with Klang Festival invites you to a talk with composer and sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard about his new work Cross Fire.
Cross Fire is a work composed with sound recordings of firearms and artillery. The work imitates the sound of a war situation, which is instrumented for an orchestra and premiered by the Royal Life Guards Music Corps at Klang Festival on June 18, 2022.
The so-called muzzleloading rifle was invented in the early 17th century. Today, firearms – and artillery in general – are widespread throughout the world, both as an object of fascination and the idea of security and freedom, and at the same time an object of force, fear and death.
The world order is dictated by physical weapons. The current situation in Ukraine is living proof of this. But what do weapons and war really sound like? How does the sound move through an open landscape or in a forest? Can a military orchestra play the sound of an explosion or imitate the sound of war? Is it possible to penetrate a weapon in sound; separate it with the ears?
Through a year of research and several visits to amateur shooters, as well as to the Danish military, Jacob Kirkegaard has made sound recordings with sensitive sensors as well as with acoustic measuring microphones. He has listened all the way into the mechanics of the weapon, the cutting of projectiles through the air and the deep echo of grenades.
The conversation will take place between Jacob Kirkegaard and artistic director of KLANG-Festival Christian Winther Christensen.
No registration is needed, and seats are given after a first come first serve principle. The event is free of charge. Please note that the event will be in Danish.
About Jacob Kirkegaard
The sound art of Jacob Kirkegaard explores ways to reflect on complex, unnoticed or unapproachable conditions and environments. The core element and method of his work derive from the use of sound recordings of the tangible aspects of intangible themes.
At the age of six, Kirkegaard made his first sound recordings, and in 1994 he began to create compositions based on recordings he was making. His works have since treated themes such as radioactivity in Chernobyl and Fukushima, border walls, actual and metaphorical, and melting ice in the Arctic. Since 2006 Kirkegaard has also been extensively researching, recording, and creating works using otoacoustic emissions: tones generated by the human ear. Two of his recent works are immersive acoustic explorations of global waste management and of processes that unfold when a human being dies.
Kirkegaard has presented his works at galleries, museums, biennales and concert spaces throughout the world, including MoMA in New York, LOUISIANA – Museum of Modern Art and ARoS in Denmark, The Menil Collection and at the Rothko Chapel in Houston, The Sydney Biennale in Australia, Aichi Triennale in Nagoya and at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan. Jacob Kirkegaard has gallery representation through Fridman Gallery (New York, USA) and Galleri Tom Christoffersen (Copenhagen, DK).
His work is in the collections of LOUISIANA – Museum of Modern Art and ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Museum Sønderjylland in Denmark, and Bell Gallery at Brown University, USA. Kirkegaard’s sound works have been released on record labels such as Important Records (USA), Touch (UK) and Posh Isolation (DK). He is a founding member of the sound art collective freq_out as well as the not-for-profit arts organisation TOPOS. In 2016 Kirkegaard was the sound-artist-in-residency at St. John’s College, University of Oxford, U.K.
About Klang Festival
Klang Festival is the largest, international festival for contemporary musik in Denmark. Since 2009, Klang has been a permanent bastion in Danish cultural life. Every year, Klang is visited by thousands of audiences, volunteers, artists and other interested people who share the fascination for contemporary music.
Klang presens some of the largest and best orchestras, ensembles and soloists from Denmark and abroad. Ensembles such as The DR Symphony Orchestra, Tivoli Copenhagen Phil, The Royal Life Guard Music Corps, Klangforum Wien (A), Ensemble Modern (D) and many more have visited KLANG in recent years. The festival takes place from 9-18 June 2022.
6 Apr - 29 May

The Informants

Filmprogramme curated by New Red Order

The filmprogramme is curated by the artist group New Red Order who has a big group exhibition, ‘ New Red Order Presents: One if by Land, Two if by Sea’, at Kunsthal Charlottenborg from March 23- August 7.

For Indigenous people, the camera is a dangerous weapon, one that has been wielded against them since the device’s inception.

Anthropology’s obsession with preserving images of so-called vanishing cultures, through ethnographic films or, relatedly, archives filled with boxes of ancestral remains, has long been a tool used to colonize and oppress Indigenous peoples.

In the works assembled for this film programme, the power of Indigenous people claiming the camera for themselves is explored.

Programme:
Chris Spotted Eagle, Do Indians Shave?, 1975. 10 min.
New Red Order, Never Settle: Calling In, 2020. 4 min.
Erica Lord & Noelle Mason, Redman, 2005. 4 min.
Caroline Monnet, Mobilize, 2015. 3 min.
Sean Connelly, A Justice-Advancing Architecture Tour, 2021. 14 min.
Thirza Jean Cuthand, Reclamation, 2018. 13 min.
Pia Arke, Tupilakosaurus, 1999. 9 min.
Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco, The Couple in the Cage, 1993. 32 min.

The film programme can be experienced during Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s opening hours, except other events take place in our cinema. The admission is free to the film programme with paid entrance to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

25 Mar
21.30
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TED Talks on Acid

New Red Order x CPH:DOX x Kunsthal Charlottenborg

TED Talks on Acid (TToA) is an innovative live event format that weaves between public assembly, academic symposium, music and film festival and artists talk. Artists, activists and academics share the line-up with rappers and noise musicians in order to present a discursive and hopefully hallucinatory trip to questioning the ongoing legacy of Danish colonialism in all of its forms. Contributors in alphabetical order: Sean Connelly, Mathias Danbolt, Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Marie Kølbæk Iversen, Lars Jensen, Lars Bang Larsen, Asmund Mikkelsen, Virgil B/G Taylor, Uyarakq, and others.

TED Talks on Acid takes place Friday March 25th from 9:30pm in CPH:DOX’s Social Cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Buy ticket here. 

New Red Order are exhibiting during CPH:DOX with the exhibition New Red Order Presents: One if by Land, Two if by Sea, taht they have curatered in relation to CPH:DOX. Read about the exhibition here.

 

23 Mar
17.00 - 20.00

Opening: New Red Order Presents: One if by Land, Two if by Sea

Kunsthal Charlottenborg has invited New Red Order to curate an international group exhibition on the occasion of CPH:DOX, Copenhagen’s international documentary film festival. The exhibition connects artists, works and experiences from different places around the world including California, Canada, Greenland, Hawaii and Scandinavia.
Wednesday 23 March at 17.00-20.00.
The admission is free to the exhibition during CPH:DOX, 23 March – 3 April.
About the exhibition:
New Red Order is an unusual institution: a public secret society of rotating and expanding membership, including core contributors Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, and Jackson Polys, who deploy sculpture, performance and video to confront colonial structures with incisive humour, to promote Indigenous futures.
The participating artists are: Asinnajaq, Hanan Benammar & Uyarakq, Minik Bidstrup, Sean Connelly, Carola Grahn, Julie Edel Hardenberg, Inuk Silis Høegh & Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Fox Maxy, Joar Nango, New Red Order, Laura Ortman, Solvognen, Krista Belle Stewart, Tanya Tagaq, Tarrak, Uvagut TV.
The exhibition is accompanied by an ambitious programme of public events at Kunsthal Charlottenborg including:
> 25 March 2022 at 21.30-23.30: TED Talks on Acid – event in CPH:DOX’s Social Cinema. Further info: bit.ly/tedtalkonacid
> 6 April – 15 May 2022: The Informants, film programme curated by New Red Order. Further info: bit.ly/theinformants
11 Mar - 11 Mar
16.00 - 17.00

Visual artist Jens Settergren in conversation with curator Marianna Vecellio (IT)

Kunstsalon VISION // Bikubenfonden & Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Bikubenfonden hereby invite you to Kunstsalon VISION, which is slated to be held on Friday, March 11, from 4:00-5:00 PM, in the screening room at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Here, visual artist Jens Settergren will be meeting with Marianna Vecellio, curator at Castello di Rivoli in Turin, to engage in conversation about Settergren’s artistic practice. 

How do the objects and images that we are surrounded by play a part in evoking and shaping particular distinctive ideas about the world? What is it that happens with the fundamental substance of being human, in an accelerating technological world, where the relationship between technology and mankind is being investigated to its utmost implications? And how is the human being expressing fear, desire and dreams while we are busy developing new technologies and machines?

These are questions that Jens Settergren seeks to answer via his art, where he is making use of materials that span the gamut from glass mosaics to computer animations. He is attempting to understand and also wants to render visible the human being’s capacity to – and need for – designing and constructing complex worldviews.

Settergren has already built up a network on the international art scene, and he is an artist that we expect to see much more of.

Jens Settergren has been singled out for Bikubenfonden’s Artistic Practice program for particularly promising artistic practices. As one aspect of this program, Bikubenfonden arranges an ‘interview salon’, which has the objective of examining the selected artist’s singular approach to art and the potential seated within this. In connection with the interview salons, it is the artist him/herself who chooses his/her interview partner.

 

The event will be in English and will cost 10 DKK. It is necessary to buy your ticket online: https://billetto.dk/…/kunstsalon-vision-billedkunstner…

 

ABOUT JENS SETTERGREN 

Jens Settergren (born in 1989) graduated from the Jutland Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. Collective pictorial formations, science fiction and contemporary mythologies are focal points in visual artist Jens Settergren’s art practice. He frequently makes use of ‘ready-mades’ (article of everyday use), such as existing 3D figures from online archives, mass-produced objects and advertising stills, which he reworks and processes – in his sculptures, installations and video works – and manages to set into new situational contexts. By working in this way, Settergren explores underlying meanings encoded in pictures, objects, and languages.

In large-scale total installations, he treats of themes like nature, escapism and technology. He is especially preoccupied with the radical notions and pictorial formations that the accelerating technology in our Western society gives rise to.

You can read more about Settergren’s practice here: jenssettergren.com

 

ABOUT MARIANNA VECELLIO

Marianna Vecellio is a curator and art historian. She has been educated in art history, with a concentration on modern art and contemporary art, at La Sapienza University in Rome. She was employed at The Castle of Rivoli in Turin in 2007, and since 2012, she has been Curator of its museum, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. Vecellio is creating exhibitions and publications for Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, where she places special emphasis on studies of subjectivity in the digital society – including a focus on ecology, the posthuman, an exploration of new forms of coexistence, and the transformation of the living.

9 Mar - 9 Mar
17.15
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Free tour and artist talk at Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition

Talk with Sofie Flinth and Søren Rønholt

On Wednesday March 9, daily leader of the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition Isabella Hemmersbach will make a short introduction and guided tour in the exhibition. The tour will be followed with an artist talk between artist Sofie Flinth and photographer and jury member in the Charlottenborg Foundation Søren Rønholt. The talk will revolve around Flinth’s work “Når Solen Går Ned”

The tour and talk will be in Danish. There is free entrance to Kunsthal Charlottenborg every Wednesday between 5-8 pm.

Afterwards it will be possible to view a selection of video works from the exhibition in Charlottenborg Art Cinema on the first floor.

 

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition is among the most important open, censored exhibitions in Europe and has been an annual recurring show at Kunsthal Charlottenborg since 1857. An international jury selects works from Danish as well as international artists from all over the world within the genres of visual art, architecture, crafts and design for the comprehensive exhibition. This year you can e.g. explore a range of video works unfold in the stunning space of Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s south wing. The works are chosen by an international jury, which this year consists of the artist duo Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, visual artist David Risley, architect Peter Bertram, textile artist Grethe Wittrock and visual artist Sophie Suaning.

 

This year’s three award winners are Solo Award winner Sergei Prokofiev (RU), Deep Forest Art Land Award winner Eugenia LIm (AU) and Talent Award winner Eva Rocco Kenell (SE).

The participating artists are: Selina Rom Andersen (DK), Felix Badman (SE) & Kristine Møller (DK) Elina Birkehag (SE), Emilie Bobek (DK), Emilie Bobek & Josephine Rán Andredottir (DK), Alex Bunn (GB), Pernille Enoch (DK), Sofie Flinth (DK), Erik Fredens (DK), Mette Genet (DK), Marta Badenska Hammarberg (SE), Marianne Johnstad-Møller (DK), Christian Sønderby Jepsen (DK), Kim Kartholm (DK), Märta König (SE), Eva Rocco Kenell (SE), Tomoko Konae (JP), Helena Lagerqvist Kuoljok (SE), Anne Langgaard (DK), Eugenia Lim (AU), Minna Långström (FI), Tina Menore (DK / US), Veronika Nielsen (DK), Vibeke Nødskov (DK), Karl Persson (SE), Sophia Luna Portra (DK), Sergei Prokofiev (RU), Skjold Rambow (DK), Davide Ronco (IT), Raúl Rebolledo (MX), LA Ceramica. Louise Gaarmann & Alex Soza (DK), Philipp Spillman (NO), Valdemar Bisgaard (DK), Simo Tse (NL), Rexy Tseng (TW), Victor Vidal (DK),
Serine Sinding Yde (DK), Micke Zych (PL)

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2022 is curated by Hesselholdt & Mejlvang.

9 Mar
17.00 - 20.00

Screening of selected video works

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2022

As a part of Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2022, a selection of works will be shown on the big screen in Charlottenborg Art Cinema. The screenings will take place on Feb 16 and March 9 between 5-8 pm. Entrance is free and no sign-up required.

The selected works are:

Talent Award Winner,
Eva Rocco Kenell (SE)
Territo Reell (2021)
HD video. 04:59 min.

Solo Award Winner,
Sergei Prokofiev (RU)
FAN OF THE LAND (2021)
The work has unfortunately been excluded from the exhibition due to the conflict in Ukraine.

FIREWORKS ON THE SWAMP (2020)
The work has unfortunately been excluded from the exhibition due to the conflict in Ukraine.

Minna Långström (FI)
Photosphere (2020)
HD video.16:40 min.

Selina Rom Andersen (DK)
ÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅHHHH!!!! (2019)
Video. 04:42 min.

Christian Sønderby Jepsen (DK)
Eyelinematch (2020)
HD video. 02:58 min.

Christian Sønderby Jepsen (DK)
Skyd dig selv (2020)
HD video. 03:12 min.

Christian Sønderby Jepsen (DK)
Vi har mange sider (2020)
HD video. 04:28 min.

Christian Sønderby Jepsen (DK)
We repeat (2020)
HD video. 02:04 min.

Mette Genet (DK)
Eskista (2021)
HD video. 02:58 min.

8 Mar
17.00
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Literary reactions to the SCUM Manifest

Talk with Ida Marie Hede og Liv Nimand Duvå, moderated by Zissel Astrid Kjertum-Mohr.

On the  International Women’s Day on March 8th 2022, Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Forlaget Harpyie presents an evening about Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifest from 1967 with Danish authors Ida Marie Hede and Liv Nimand Duvå. The talk will be moderated by Zissel Astrid Kjertum-Mohr.

 

The publiciation Manifestationer – Litterære reaktioner på Valerie Solanas’ SCUM Manifest has recently been published on Forlaget Hapyie. In the book, authors Glenn Bech, Ida Marie Hede, Liv Nimand Duvå and Amalie Langballe have written their take and reaction on Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifest from 1967.

 

The talk will be in Danish and no sign-up is required, seats will be given after first come, first served. The event is free.

2 Mar
17.15 - 17.45

Free tour of Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2022

On Wednesday March 2, daily leader of the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition Isabella Hemmersbach will make a short introduction and guided tour in the exhibition. The tour will be in Danish.

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition is among the most important open, censored exhibitions in Europe and has been an annual recurring show at Kunsthal Charlottenborg since 1857. An international jury selects works from Danish as well as international artists from all over the world within the genres of visual art, architecture, crafts and design for the comprehensive exhibition. This year you can e.g. explore a range of video works unfold in the stunning space of Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s south wing. The works are chosen by an international jury, which this year consists of the artist duo Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, visual artist David Risley, architect Peter Bertram, textile artist Grethe Wittrock and visual artist Sophie Suaning.

 

This year’s three award winners are Solo Award winner Sergei Prokofiev (RU), Deep Forest Art Land Award winner Eugenia LIm (AU) and Talent Award winner Eva Rocco Kenell (SE).

The participating artists are: Selina Rom Andersen (DK), Felix Badman (SE) & Kristine Møller (DK) Elina Birkehag (SE), Emilie Bobek (DK), Emilie Bobek & Josephine Rán Andredottir (DK), Alex Bunn (GB), Pernille Enoch (DK), Sofie Flinth (DK), Erik Fredens (DK), Mette Genet (DK), Marta Badenska Hammarberg (SE), Marianne Johnstad-Møller (DK), Christian Sønderby Jepsen (DK), Kim Kartholm (DK), Märta König (SE), Eva Rocco Kenell (SE), Tomoko Konae (JP), Helena Lagerqvist Kuoljok (SE), Anne Langgaard (DK), Eugenia Lim (AU), Minna Långström (FI), Tina Menore (DK / US), Veronika Nielsen (DK), Vibeke Nødskov (DK), Karl Persson (SE), Sophia Luna Portra (DK), Sergei Prokofiev (RU), Skjold Rambow (DK), Davide Ronco (IT), Raúl Rebolledo (MX), LA Ceramica. Louise Gaarmann & Alex Soza (DK), Philipp Spillman (NO), Valdemar Bisgaard (DK), Simo Tse (NL), Rexy Tseng (TW), Victor Vidal (DK),
Serine Sinding Yde (DK), Micke Zych (PL)

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2022 is curated by Hesselholdt & Mejlvang.

23 Feb
17.00
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Launch of Kim Hyesoon’s AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DEATH

Terrapolis

NB! This is the second part of the launch of ‘Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon.

Zoom link for the event:  https://kunstakademiet.zoom.us/j/65901377311

Terrapolis is publishing the awardwinning poetry collection ‘Autobiography of Death’ by one of South Korea’s most prominent poets KIM HYESOON. It is the first poetry collection directly translated from Korean to Danish.

This second symposia will revolve around the works of Kim Hyesoon and her poetics. Hyesoon is joining the symposia to read from her ‘Autobiography of Death’ and answers questions concerning her work.
Subsequently, poet Maja Lee Langvad and artist Jane Jin Kaisen will discuss Hyesoon’s
influence on their artistic practises.  Participants: Kim Hyesoon, Jane Jin Kaisen and Maja Lee Langvad. The event will be in English and Korean and will be held in the cinema in Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The event will also take place live online, on Zoom. Link for Zoom event will be published on Facebook before the event.

The symposia is free but with limited seats.

The publishing and symposia’s are realized with support from Statens Kunstfond, Overseas Koreans Foundation og LTI Korea.

22 Feb
17.00

Artists’ Talk: Voices in the Shadows of Monuments

Online on Zoom

Please note: The talk will be in English and will be online. 

Zoom link for the talk: https://kunstakademiet.zoom.us/j/68509296167

 

As part of Voices in the Shadows of Monuments, we are honoured to be hosting an artists’ conversation with the artists Bernard Akoi-Jackson, La Vaughn Belle, Jupiter J. Child, Julie Edel Hardenberg, Oceana James, Sabitha Söderholm, who have all contributed with sound and voice pieces to the audio-visual guide. Departing from the artists sharing their individual practices, the talk will evolve around developing artistic methods for intervening in memorialization and historical legacies of colonialism today. Aiming at fostering collaboration and conversations between different geographies and experiences, the talk will address some of the questions that arose during the creative process.

 

The talk is arranged in connection with the audio-visual walk Voices in the Shadows of the Monuments, which will take place on 10, 17 and 24 Feb (registration is required via Billetto) and the art film program, Whose Gold is This?, which can be seen in Charlottenborg Art Cinema until 13 March (during opening hours).

Participating artists:

Bernard Akoi-Jackson, La Vaughn Belle, Jupiter J. Child, Julie Edel Hardenberg, Oceana James, Sabitha Sofia Söderholm.

Co-facilitated by Barly Tshibanda, Nanna Hansen & Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld.

 

Bios of the artists

 

Bernard Akoi-Jackson (PhD), is a contemporary Ghanaian artist who works from Kumasi. His multi-disciplinary, audience-implicating installations and performative “pseudo-rituals”, have featured in exhibitions across the world. He has curated exhibitions with blaxTARLINES KUMASI, Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) in Tamale, Ghana and co-curated the Stellenbosch Triennale in South Africa. He is a member of the Exit Frame Collective and holds a PhD in Painting and Sculpture from KNUST, Kumasi where he lectures with particular interest in disruption and the revolutionary potential in contemporary art.

 

La Vaughn Belle makes visible the unremembered. She is a visual artist working in a variety of disciplines that include: video, performance, painting, installation and public art. She explores the material culture of coloniality and her art presents countervisualities and narratives that challenge colonial hierarchies and invisibility. She has exhibited in the Caribbean, the USA and Europe. She is the co-creator together with Jeannette Ehlers of the large scale public monument I AM QUEEN MARY. Her work has been featured in a wide range of media including: the NY Times, Politiken, VICE, The Guardian, Caribbean Beat, the BBC and Le Monde. She holds an MFA from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba, an MA and a BA from Columbia University in NY. Her studio is based in the Virgin Islands.

 

Jupiter Child is a Mozambican-born queer artist residing in Copenhagen, Denmark. They are a multifaceted performer and a visual artist, drawing inspiration from Black history, their Makonde ancestry and the Black arts movement. By combining theatre, dance, song, spoken word, creative writing and storytelling, Jupiter describes their art as an anti-colonial intervention, resistance, Black feminism, migration, queerness and empowerment

 

Julie Edel Hardenberg (Paneeraq) was born and raised in Nuuk, Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland. She is educated through the art academies in Finland, Norway, England and gained her MA degree in Art-Theory and Communication at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark. Her works problematize the unequal power structures that exist between Greenland and Denmark. With roots in both cultures, she has an insight into the identity and self-understanding of different Greenlandic people – nonetheless the economic and social dependency that exists between the two countries and its impact on the Greenlandic people; entangled or trapped in a shared or divided identity, between power and powerlessness.

 

Oceana James is a St. Croix-born interdisciplinary artist.  Her work is an examination/a re-telling/ a re-imagining of her Caribbean indigeneity. It is a commentary on the socio-political, cultural, and economic realities of peoples of African descent.  In her work James deconstructs the idea of language as one’s sole means of communication and experiments with the use of time, space, non-linear form and movement to do this.  Additionally, she uses her Caribbean “Nation Language” to further explore the mythologies and stories that she grew up hearing.  Right now, her research is centered on epigenetics, trees, (the biology and mythology), the intersection of science, spirituality, agriculture; and the use of the body to embody and then exorcise the traumas of colonialism.

 

Sabitha Sofia Söderholm is a Danish/Indian author and artist, currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and with a practice that revolves around rituals, ceremonies, inquiries and letters. Always with the writing as a starting point or bearing element.

16 Feb
17.00 - 20.00

Screening of selected video works

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2022

As a part of Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2022, a selection of works will be shown on the big screen in Charlottenborg Art Cinema. The screenings will take place on Feb 16 and March 9 between 5-8 pm. Entrance is free and no sign-up required.

The selected works are:

Talent Award winner,
Eva Rocco Kenell (SE)
Territo Reell (2021)
HD video. 04:59 min.

Solo Award winner,
Sergei Prokofiev (RU)
FAN OF THE LAND (2021)
HD video. 03:13 min.

FIREWORKS ONTHE SWAMP (2020)
HD video. 06:40 min.

Minna Långström (FI)
Photosphere (2020)
HD video.16:40 min.

Selina Rom Andersen (DK)
ÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅHHHH!!!! (2019)
Video. 04:42 min.

 

Christian Sønderby Jepsen (DK)
Eyelinematch (2020)
HD video. 02:58 min.
Christian Sønderby Jepsen (DK)
Skyd dig selv (2020)
HD video. 03:12 min.
Christian Sønderby Jepsen (DK)
Vi har mange sider (2020)
HD video. 04:28 min.
Christian Sønderby Jepsen (DK)
We repeat (2020)
HD video. 02:04 min.
Mette Genet (DK)
Eskista (2021)
HD video. 02:58 min.
10 Feb - 24 Feb
17.30
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Voices in the Shadows of Monuments – an audio-visual walk

Copenhagen Light Festival

In the wake of the major Black Lives Matter demonstrations world-wide, there has been a growing international attention to the issue of monuments commemorating the colonial era and their impact in public spaces today.

Voices in the Shadows of Monuments is an audio-visual city walk that examines material traces from the colonial era embedded in buildings and monuments in the centre of Copenhagen, from the time when the Port of Copenhagen was the centre of Danish colonial trade.

The walk takes participants from Christianshavns Torv to Kongens Nytorv, creating a polyphonic soundscape accompanied by graphic light projections. The artists create narratives that intertwine different geographies and times: past and present interweave and testify to how colonialism is not a closed chapter, but still has strong reverberations in the present. During the walk, the audience is invited to assemble the
fragments they are presented with into new narratives about the city.

The walk ends at Kgs Nytorv, after which audiences are invited to visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg. To accompany the tour In the Shadows of Monuments, the Kunsthal presents a video-art programme in the Charlottenborg Art Cinema, curated by the artist group, featuring video art by some of the artists, who have made contributions to the walk, as well as other artists, who explore the legacies of colonialism today.

Voices in the Shadows of Monuments is created by artists Barly Tshibanda, Nanna Katrine Hansen and Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld in collaboration with Jupiter J. Child, La Vaughn Belle, Sabitha Söderholm, Oceana James,  Bernard Akoi-Jackson, Julie Edel Hardenberg,
and Arash Pandi.

To further contextualize the walk Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s bookstore will offer a selection of literature as picked by the artist group behind the audio-visual walk.

The audio-visual walks are created in collaboration with the Copenhagen Light Festival and will take place as follows:
February 10: 17:30 – 19:00, tickets
February 17: 18:00 – 19:30, tickets
February 24: 18:00 – 19:30, tickets

Participation is free. Remember to sign up via billetto (links above).

The walk starts at: Christianshavns Torv
Language: English with Danish, Greenlandic, Portuguese, Sanskrit and more.
Duration: 1 hour and 30 min.

Sound transmitters and headphones are provided at the beginning of the walk. We encourage participants to bring their own headphones with minijack for an improved sound experience.

The project is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, Copenhagen Light Festival and Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

9 Feb
17.00 - 19.00

Jury member Grethe Wittrock in conversation with four artists and artists groups.

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2022

In connection with The Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition, we will host a talk between artist and jury member Grethe Wittrock and four artists and artist groups. The talk will be on Wednesday February 9, at 5 pm. The participating artists are Felix Badman (SE) & Kristine Møller (DK), Marianne Johnstad-Møller (DK), Sophia Luna Portra (DK) and Serine Yde (DK). The talk will take place in the exhibition.

Between 6-6.45 pm there will also be a screening of selected artworks from The Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition in Charlottenborg Art Cinema.

Grethe Wittrock holds a graduate degree from The Danish Design School and Kyoto Seika University,College of Fine Art,Japan. She is an internationally renowned fiber artist and has won numerous international awards. She received the presitigious 3-year grant from the Danish Art Foundation and has been Artist in Residence in New York and at the Halcyon Arts Studio Program in Washington DC. Her work has been exhibited throughout the world in solo and group exhibitions and she is being represented by Browngrotta Arts Gallery in the USA. Her large scale works impresses with a fusion of roughness and poetry

The event will be in Danish. There is no registration required and the entrance is free. We will meet in front of the entrance of the Spring Exhibition

8 Feb
10.30 - 11.00

Virtual tour

Mohamed Bourouissa: HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!

Join us for a virtual tour with curator Henriette Bretton-Meyer in the exhibition HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!! by French-Algerian artist Mohamed Bourouissa.

The exhibition’s curator Henriette Bretton-Meyer will show a selection of her favorite works in the exhibition, which includes photography, sound, installation and video.

The virtual tour will take place live on the Instagram profile of Kunsthal Charlottenborg and will afterwards be available as video on:
facebook.com/charlottenborg.kunsthal
instagram.com/kunsthalcharlottenborg/
youtube.com/c/KunsthalCharlottenborg

The livestream will start at 10.30 am and last about 30 min. The tour will be in English.

The exhibition is on view until 20 February, so it will still be possible to come and experience the exhibition after the tour.

About the exhibition:
Mohamed Bourouissa works in the field where documentary and fiction intersect, and 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 and will next year create a big solo exhibition at Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

5 Feb
12.00 - 17.00

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2022

It is with great pleasure that the Charlottenborg Foundation and Kunsthal Charlottenborg invite to the opening of the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2022, one of the most important open, censored exhibitions in Europe since 1857. The opening will take place on:

Saturday 5 February at 12-17
Admission is free and everyone is welcome!

Welcome speech at 12.15 by John Kørner, Chairman of the Board at the Charlottenborg Foundation. Following, opening speech on behalf of this year’s jury by Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, where this year’s winners of the Solo Award in collaboration with Politikens Forhal, Deep Forest Art Land Award and the Talent Award is also announced.

The participating artists are:
Selina Rom Andersen (DK), Felix Badman (SE) & Kristine Møller (DK), Elina Birkehag (SE), Emilie Bobek (DK), Emilie Bobek & Josephine Rán Andredottir (DK), Alex Bunn (GB), Pernille Enoch (DK), Sofie Flinth (DK), Erik Fredens (DK), Mette Genet (DK), Marta Badenska Hammarberg (SE), Marianne Johnstad-Møller (DK), Christian Sønderby Jepsen (DK), Kim Kartholm (DK), Märta König (SE), Eva Rocco Kenell (SE), Tomoko Konae (JP), Helena Lagerqvist Kuoljok (SE), Anne Langgaard (DK), Eugenia Lim (AU), Minna Långström (FI), Tina Menore (DK /US), Veronika Nielsen (DK), Vibeke Nødskov (DK), Karl Persson (SE), Sophia Luna Portra (DK), Sergei Prokofiev (RU), Skjold Rambow (DK), Davide Ronco (IT), Raúl Rebolledo (MX), LA Ceramica. Louise Gaarmann & Alex Soza (DK), Philipp Spillmann (NO), Valdemar Bisgaard (DK), Simo Tse (NL), Rexy Tseng (TW), Victor Vidal (DK), Serine Sinding Yde (DK) & Micke Zych (PL).

The 2022 jury consists of visual artist David Risley, architect Peter Bertram, textile artist Grethe Wittrock, visual artist Sophie Suaning and the artist duo Hesselholdt & Mejlvang that also curates this year’s exhibition. With their artistic practice and background as well as their international experience the jury has not only selected the works for the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2022 but also nominated the artists to this year’s Solo Award and elected the winners of the Solo Award, Deep Art Land Award and the Talent Award, where the winners are announced at the opening night.

We look forward to celebrate the opening of the exhibition with you!

Talk programme:
In connection to the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2022 visitors can meet some of the participating artists and hear about their artistic practice on Wednesday 9 February 17-19. There will also be the possibility to view select videoworks in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema on Wednesday 16 February from 5-20 pm. There will also be arranged two guided tours in the exhibition.
All events are free. More information will follow.

Thank you to our supporters:
Augustinus Fonden, Axel Muusfeldts Fond, Apollo, Beckett-Fonden, Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond af 1968, Det Obelske Familiefond, Dreyers Fond, Knud Højgaards Fond, Konsul George Jorck og Hustru Emma Jorck’s Fond, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Statens Kunstfond, Tuborg, 1664 Blanc and Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond.

1 Feb - 13 Mar
12.00

Whose Gold is This?

Curated by Barly Tshibanda, Nanna Katrine Hansen, Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld

Lending its title from Hugh Masekela’s seminal song “Gold”, that provides the underlying soundtrack for artist Bernard Akoi-Jackson’s performance “A_GOLDEN[R]AGE…(?)”, we ask this question in relation to the colonial legacies inscribed in the built environment and the monuments in Copenhagen.

Gathering the work of artists, who work across geographies the video programme presents a selection of video essays and documentation of performances that dig into the material traces of colonialism and its reverberations today: with forced displacement, deportation of people, racism, violations of Indegenous rights, removal of cultural heritage, extraction, land-grabbing and destruction of bio-diversity as some of the most tangible effects.

By deploying situated, artistic strategies, that attune to the lower frequencies and the willfully forgotten histories in the cultural archive of colonialism, the artists find new ways to reflect on the continuities of colonialism in the presents:

In the video essay “In the Place of Shadows”, La Vaughn Belle employs critical fabulation to wonder about Alberta Viola Roberts and Victor Cornelius, who were taken as children from the Danish West Indies to be displayed in the 1905 colonial exhibition at Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, in an attempt to create a space of care and regard for the memories of the children’s early life in St. Croix.

Covered in gold and pseudo-royal regalia, Bernard Akoi-Jackson’s mythical character in the performance A_GOLDEN[R]AGE…(?) saunters through some ceremonial streets of Amsterdam, with an entourage clad in lime green safety jackets. The route that he takes is the very same one that was taken by the Dutch Royal Golden Carriage (De Gouden Koets) which has in recent years, come under a great deal of criticism due to the grave colonial history it represents.  The walk is a composite part of the work that Akoi-Jackson contributed to the Gouden Koets exhibition in the Amsterdam Museum from 18th June 2021to 27th February, 2022.

Linda Lamignan’s video work proposes a new value system with images and symbols that connect us to each other and to the planet, while exploring the linked histories of extraction and mining of crude oil and other minerals and products between Gabon, Nigeria and Norway.

In a series of video landscapes from Nuuk, Greenland Julie Edel Hardenberg problematizes the unequal power structures that exist between Greenland and Denmark. With roots in both cultures, Edel Hardenberg remaps the economic and social dependencies that exist between the two countries from within.

Tabita Rezaire’s video installation Deep Down Tidal enquires into the intricate cosmological, spiritual, political and technological entangled narratives sprung from water as an interface to understand the legacies of colonialism.

Together the artists’ works summon different kinds of knowledges to envision futures different from the present.

 

The film programme

La Vaughn Belle: In the Place of Shadows, 2021 (7:00 min.)

Bernard Akoi-Jackson:A_GOLDEN[R]AGE…(?), 2021 (4:52 min.)

Linda Lamignan: Between our Bodies and the Breathing Earth Pt.1, 2020 (10:37 min.)

Julie Edel Hardenberg: My First Coin, 2022 (13:00 min.)

Tabita Rezaire: Deep Down Tidal, 2017 (18:44 min.)

 

The screening program is curated by artists Barly Tshibanda, Nanna Katrine Hansen og Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld in conjunction with the audio-visual city walk Voices in the Shadow of the Monuments as part of Copenhagen Light Festival 2022. More: https://copenhagenlightfestival.org and tickets can be purchased here: https://llk.dk/j8pobw

 

On Tuesday 22nd of February 5:00 – 6:30 pm (CET) there will be an online public talk via zoom where the artists contributing to Voices in the Shadow of the Monuments will present their work via. ZOOM. The talk is free and open to everyone.

 

Descriptions of the videos

La Vaughn Belle: “In the place of shadows” (2021) 

Working with the gaps in knowledge about the lives of the two children Victor and Alberta before they were taken to Denmark, the video work “In the place of shadows” (2021) employs critical fabulation to wonder about Alberta and Victor’s childhood memories on the Danish West Indies. Shot in St. Croix, the work explores traces of history lodged in the landscape to surface the continual haunting of past presences on the island. Turning away from the violence of archival records, the video is conceived as an offering to Alberta and Victor, an attempt to create a space of care and regard for the memories of their early life.

 

Bernard Akoi-Jackson: A_GOLDEN[R]AGE…(?), 2021

Covered in gold and pseudo-royal regalia, Bernard Akoi-Jackson’s mythical character in the performance A_GOLDEN[R]AGE…(?) saunters through some ceremonial streets of Amsterdam, with an entourage clad in lime green safety jackets. The route that he takes is the very same one that was taken by the Dutch Royal Golden Carriage (De Gouden Koets) which has in recent years, come under a great deal of criticism due to the grave colonial history it represents.  The walk is a composite part of the work that Akoi-Jackson contributed to the Gouden Koets exhibition in the Amsterdam Museum from 18th June, 2021 27th February, 2022.

 

Linda Lamignan: Between our Bodies and the Breathing Earth Pt.1 is video work that is part of a larger series of work from the project A New Value System With Images and Symbols That Connect Us to Each Other and to The Planet. By inviting the viewer into a state of meditation, the video explores the notion of in-betweenness, belonging and borders. Singing as a way of storytelling. Channeling ancient memories and imagining alternative futures. Words and stories being told draws inspiration from two literary sources, the first from Gloria Anzaldua’s book: Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza – a book that challenges the ideas around diaspora, race and identity; addresses the invisible boundaries that exist between different cultures, genders and sexualities. Anzaldua uses Borderlands as a term to identify a growing population that cannot distinguish between these invisible borders, which instead have learned to become part of several worlds. The second source of inspiration is from David Abram’s book “Becoming Animal”. The book explores the relationship between humans and the other species with whom we share the planet. Opening up other ways of understanding our own place in the world.

 

Julie Edel Hardenberg: My First Coin, 2022

Gennem en række videolandskaber fra Nuuk i Grønland, undersøger Julie Edel Hardenbergs video “My First Coin” følelsen af ambivalens som altid er ærværende i relationen Grønland-Danmark: det at vi ikke kan undslå os historien og at vi er formet af den;  det at vi har været en Dansk koloni og til dels lider under de gamle koloniale magt/ strukturer. Ud fra sine rødder i begge kulturer kortlægger Julie Edel Hardenberg de sociale, økonomiske og politiske genbyrdes afhængigheder, der eksisterer mellem de to lande indefra.

 

Tabira Rezaire: DEEP DOWN TIDAL (2017)           

Deep Down Tidal excavates the power of water as a conductive interface for communication. From submarine cables to sunken cities, drowned bodies, hidden histories of navigations and sacred signal transmissions, the ocean is home to a complex set of communication networks. As modern information and communication technologies become omnipresent in our industrialized realities, we urgently need to understand the cultural, political and environmental forces that have shaped them.

Looking at the infrastructure of submarine fibre optic cables that transfers our digital data, it is striking to realize that the cables are layered onto colonial shipping routes. Once again the bottom of the sea becomes the interface of painful yet celebrated advancements masking the violent deeds of modernity.

Deep Down Tidal navigates the ocean as a graveyard for Black knowledge and technologies.

From Atlantis, to the ‘Middle passage’, or refuge seekers presently drowning in the Mediterranean, the ocean abyss carries lost histories and broken lineages while simultaneously providing the global infrastructure for our current telecommunications. Could the violence of the Internet lie in its physical architecture?

Like countless African and indigenous traditional sciences, research in physics now suggest that water has the ability to memorize and copy information, disseminating it through its streams. What data is our world’s water holding? What messages are we encoding into our waters? Beyond historical sorrow, water is a portal to other realities as its mysterious sea life of mermaids, water deities, and serpent spirits celebrated in many cosmologies remind us.

Deep Down Tidal enquires the intrictate cosmological, spiritual, political and technological entangled narratives sprung from water as an interface to understand the legacies of colonialism.

 

Bios of the artists

Bernard Akoi-Jackson (PhD), is a contemporary Ghanaian artist who works from Kumasi. His multi-disciplinary, audience-implicating installations and performative “pseudo-rituals”, have featured in exhibitions across the world. He has curated exhibitions with blaxTARLINES KUMASI, Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) in Tamale, Ghana and co-curated the Stellenbosch Triennale in South Africa. He is a member of the Exit Frame Collective and holds a PhD in Painting and Sculpture from KNUST, Kumasi where he lectures with particular interest in disruption and the revolutionary potential in contemporary art.

La Vaughn Belle makes visible the unremembered. She is a visual artist working in a variety of disciplines that include: video, performance, painting, installation and public art. She explores the material culture of coloniality and her art presents countervisualities and narratives that challenge colonial hierarchies and invisibility. She has exhibited in the Caribbean, the USA and Europe. She is the co-creator together with Jeannette Ehlers of the large scale public monument I AM QUEEN MARY. Her work has been featured in a wide range of media including: the NY Times, Politiken, VICE, The Guardian, Caribbean Beat, the BBC and Le Monde. She holds an MFA from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba, an MA and a BA from Columbia University in NY. Her studio is based in the Virgin Islands.

Linda Lamignan The works of visual and performance artist Linda Lamignan convey the sensation of being alien and of floating between dissimilar worlds. Through video, music, objects and performance, Lamignan explores notions related to wandering and diaspora, transformation and love. Lamignan received their MFA degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and their BFA degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo.

Julie Edel Hardenberg (Paneeraq) was born and raised in Nuuk, Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland. She is educated through the art academies in Finland, Norway, England and gained her MA degree in Art-Theory and Communication at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark. Her works problematize the unequal power structures that exist between Greenland and Denmark. With roots in both cultures, she has an insight into the identity and self-understanding of different Greenlandic people – nonetheless the economic and social dependency that exists between the two countries and its impact on the Greenlandic people; entangled or trapped in a shared or divided identity, between power and powerlessness.

Tabita Rezaire is infinity longing to experience itself. As an eternal seeker, her path as an artist, devotee, yogi, doula, and farmer apprentice weaves healing arts and scientific systems through connections to the land, the ancestors, the songs.

Her cross-dimensional practices envision network sciences – organic, electronic and spiritual – as healing technologies to serve the shift towards heart consciousness. Embracing digital, corporeal and ancestral memory, she digs into scientific imaginaries and mystical realms to tackle the colonial wounds and energetic imbalances that affect the songs of our body-mind-spirits.

18 Jan - 23 Jan
12.00

Masculinity

A film program curated by Mohamed Bourouissa

To coincide with his solo exhibition, Mohamed Bourouissa has curated a film programme featuring works by Laura Henno, David de Beyter, Tarek Lakhrissi, Sara Sadik, Rayane Mcirdi and Yasmina Benabderrahmane.

In their own distinct visual idioms, each of these artists further unfold the theme of masculinity which also constitutes one of the focal points of Bourouissa’s solo exhibition HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!! that is on view until 20 February.

The film program will be screened in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema from 18 to 23 January 2022 during our usual opening hours.

Films:
Mohamed Bourouissa: LINK (2021), 25 min.
David de Beyter: Just a good Crash (2016), 6 min.
Laura Henno: Koropa (2018), 19 min.
Tarek Lakhrissi: Out of the Blue (2019), 13 min.
Sara Sadik: Khtobtogone (2021), 16 min.
Rayane Mcridi: Love will come later (2019), 6 min.
Yasmina Benabderrahman: La Renardière (2016), 14 min.

11 Jan - 11 Jan
10.00 - 11.00

Virtual guided tour of The World is in You

With curators Adam Bencard and Jacob Lillemose from Medical Museion

“Science and art in a wonderful union” Politiken | “Cleverly captivates the zeitgeist” Weekendavisen | “Fascinating and thought-provoking exhibition” Kristeligt Dagblad |

Did you miss out on the exhibition The World is in You before the lockdown of cultural institutions in December?

Join us on Tuesday 11 January, when curator Jacob Lillemose from Medical Museion will walk you through the exhibition on a virtual tour from a closed Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Unfortunately, the exhibition will not reopen once we open our doors to the public again. Therefore, the virtual tour will be the last opportunity to be introduced to the exhibition.

The virtual tour will take place live on Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s Instagram profile, and will afterwards be available as video on Instagram, Facebook and Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s YouTube channel. The livestream will start at 10 am with a Danish tour for approximately 30 minutes, followed by a tour in English.

About the exhibition:
The Medical Museion has joined forces with Kunsthal Charlottenborg to present the major exhibition The World is in You. Blending science, contemporary art and historical objects, the exhibition explores how our bodies are connected to the world in and around us.
What are we doing to the world? It is arguably the leading question of our time. Life in the Anthropocene means we are constantly confronted with how we affect and change the world around us. But this entanglement of bodies and world flows in both directions. Our environment also shapes our bodies and our lives, for good and for ill.

The World is in You is curated by the Medical Museion (part of the Department of Public Health and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research – CBMR) at the University of Copenhagen. Produced in collaboration with Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

5 Jan
17.00 - 20.30
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Cancelled: Masculinity

A filmprogramme curated by Mohamed Bourouissa

NOTE: Cancelled due to the current covid-19 restrictions.
Masculinity – a filmprogramme curated by Mohamed Bourouissa
Screenings and talks
5 January 17.00 – 20.30To coincide with his solo exhibition, Mohamed Bourouissa has curated a film programme featuring works by Laura Henno, David de Better, Tarek Lakrissi, Sara Sadik, Rayane Mcridi and Yasmina Benabderrahmane. In their own distinct visual idioms, each of these artists further unfold the theme of masculinity which also constitutes one of the focal points of Bourouissa’s solo exhibition HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!.
To mark the occasion, Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you to attend an evening featuring the six film artists as well as Mohamed Bourouissa himself, who will also contribute a film work to the evening’s proceedings. Here you will have the opportunity to watch the entire film programme and meet the artists behind it. Mads Mikkelsen, programme manager at CPH: DOX, will act as moderator on this special evening.
Program Wednesday 5 January
17.00: Introduction
17.15: Film screening of the curated programme Masculinity
18.30: Artists in conversation with Mads Mikkelsen
19.00: Break & drinks
19.15: Introduction to and screening of Mohamed Bourouissa’s film Link
19.45: Converstaion between Mads Mikkelsen and Mohamed Bourouissa
20.30: event ends
Film programme curated by Mohammed Bourouissa:
David de Better: Just a good Crash (2016), 6 min.
Laura Henno: Koropa (2018), 19 min.
Tarek Lakrissi: Out of the Blue (2019), 13 min.
Sara Sadik: Khtobtogone (2021), 16 min.
Rayane Mcridi: Love will come later (2019), 6 min.
Yasmina Benabderrahman: La Renardière (2016), 14 min.The film programme will be screened in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema from 4 to 23 January 2022 during the venue’s usual opening hours.
The admission is free. The event will be in English and is supported by Institut français du Danemark.
15 Dec
17.00 - 21.00
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Charlottenborg Live

Terrapolis - about the translation of Kim Hyesoon's Autobiography of Death

Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you, in collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, to join Charlottenborg Live every Wednesday between the 27 Oct – 15 Dec 2021.

Program of the evening
17.00 − 19.00 Symposium: Terrapolis – about the translation of Kim Hyesoon’s Autobiography of Death with Maja Lee Langvad, Jeuno Kim and Don Mee Choi
18.00 − 18.45 Guided tour: The World is in You, Mohamed Bourouissa HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!
19.00 − 21.00 Dinner: Long table dinner in Apollo Kantine
19.45 − 20.05 Author meeting: Bente Scavenius, Mit livs billeder

Tickets for the long table dinner and the author meeting can be bought on Billetto.dk here

Kim Hyesoon is one of the most important Koran poets. Autobiography of Death, a main work in contemporary South Korean literature, is the first of her works every to appear in Danish. To celebrate this publication, Terrapolis are launching two symposia. In the first, the translators of the work into Danish and English, both poets themselves, will discuss the translation process as well as translation in their own writing. Participants: Maja Lee Langvad, Jeuno JE Kim and Don Mee Choi.

The second symposia, in January 2022, will revolve around the works of Kim Hyesoon and her poetics. Participants: Kim Hyesoon and Jane Jin Kaisen.

Kim Hyesoon, born 1955, is one of the most influential contemporary poets of South Korea. She is the first female poet to receive the prestigious Midang and Kim Su-yong awards. Also, Hyesoon has received the prestigious international Griffin Poetry Award. According to her English translator Don Mee Choi, “Kim’s poetics are rooted in her attempt to resist conventional literary forms and language long defined by men in Korea.” Kim lives in Seoul and teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.

Maja Lee Langvad, born 1980, is a Danish writer and translator. Her 2006 debut Finding Holger Dane, which addressed issues of adoption, nationalism and racism, was awarded the prestigious Bodil og Jorgen Munch-Christensens Debutant Prize. From 2007 to 2010, she stayed in Seoul and worked on her book She is Angry that was published in 2014 and won her wide acclaim. Maja Lee Langvad has received numerous grants and is strong voice on the literary scene in Denmark. Autobiography of Death is her first translation from Korean.

Jane Jin Kaisen, born 1980, is a visual artist and Professor at the School of Media Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Working with video installation, experimental film, photographic installation, performance, and text, Kaisen is known for her visually striking, poetic, and multi-voiced feminist works through which past and present are brought into relation. Engaging topics such as memory, migration, borders, and translation, and drawing on the works of Kim Hyesoon, she activates the field where subjective experience and embodied knowledge intersect with larger political histories.

Jeuno JE Kim, born 1977, is a visual artist and writer working with animation, sound, performance, video and text. With a background in theology, economics, music and radio, she has been engaged with topics such as the relations between politcal rhetoric, assumptions of national territory, and nations as brands in the Nordic context. For the Danish edition of Autobiography of Death, Kim has contributed to the translation as well as done the cover art.

Don Mee Choi, born 1962, is the author of DMZ Colony, Hardly War, The Morning News Is Exciting and several chapbooks and pamphlets of poems and essays. She has received a Whiting Award, Lannan Literary Fellowship, Lucien Stryk Translation Prize, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship, and National Book Award for Poetry. She has translated several collections of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry, including Autobiography of Death, which received the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize.

10 Dec - 10 Dec
16.00

The Forest Curriculum: How To Not Build A Nation

Public lecture

Friday 10 Dec at 16-18
Free after regular admission
The event is in English

The Forest Curriculum will talk about their research stream and collective art practice on “How To Not Build A Nation”. How to Not Build a Nation is based on an understanding of the modes in which nation-states (as both conceptual configurations and empirical realities) reproduce and perpetuate colonial and pre-colonial violences, and on the role of non-human agencies through these historical and contemporary processes.

The project grounds itself in the terrain of Zomia, as conceptualised by Wilhelm van Schendel and James C. Scott, the upland swathe of forests that connect Eastern South Asia, Southern China and mainland and parts of archipelagic Southeast Asia, and that has been the territory of indigenous communities, fugitive and guerrilla groups, and spirits, and more recently violently pierced by transnational infrastructure projects. The project reminds us of the many ways in which nation states weaponize ideas of national unity to continuously impoverish those at the margins, often through brutal military occupations.

These other and often dismissed forms of agencies are displayed on the flags draw on figures such weretigers and manananggals, as well opium, and plant species, and symbols of resistance, allowing us other ways to think through and from these territories.weretigers and manananggals, as well opium, and plant species, and symbols of resistance, allowing us other ways to think through and from these territories.weretigers and manananggals, as well opium, and plant species, and symbols of resistance, allowing us other ways to think through and from these territories.
Biography: The Forest Curriculum (Bangkok/Yogyakarta/Manila/Seoul/Berlin/Santa Barbara) is an itinerant and nomadic platform for indisciplinary research and mutual co-learning, based in Southeast Asia, and operating internationally. Founded and co-directed by curators Abhijan Toto and Pujita Guha, and with Rosalia Namsai Engchuan, it works with artists, collectives, researchers, indigenous organizations and thinkers, musicians, and activists, to assemble a located critique of the Anthropocene via the naturecultures of Zomia, the forested belt that connects South and Southeast Asia. The Forest Curriculum organizes exhibitions, public programs, performances, video and multimedia projects, as well as an annual intensive in a different location around the region, which gathers practitioners from all over the world to engage in collective research and shared methodologies: The Forest And The School, Bangkok (2019); The Forest Is In The City Is In The Forest I, Manila (2020) and II, Online (2020-2021). The platform collaborates with institutions and organizations internationally, including Savvy Contemporary, Berlin; Ideas City, the New Museum, NTU CCA, Singapore, Nomina Nuda, Los Baños, and GAMeC, Bergamo among others. The collective has also exhibited in Nonhuman Assemblages, Busan Sea Art Festival, South Korea (2021), and Nation, Narration, Narcosis, Nationalgalerie – Hamburger Bahnhof, Germany (2021).

10 Dec
13.30 - 14.30

Postponed – Linda Lamignan in conversation with Cédric Fauq (F)

Kunstsalon VISION

Practical information
10 Dec at 13.30-14.30
Kunsthal Charlottenborg Cinema
Entrance: 10 DKK + fee. Buy your ticket here: https://billetto.dk/…/kunstsalon-vision-billedkunstner…
The conversation is in English

In the interview salon, Bikubenfonden zooms in on a single or two artists’ practice, with a focus on the artist’s/artists’ promising and innovative approach to art. Typically, the artist is currently making exhibitions or performances and has distinguished her/himself as being groundbreaking and innovative in the span of a short time. The interview salon is a “close-up study” and offers an investigative insight into the artist’s specific practice and potentials: an oeuvre-interview as well as a close-to-the-subject interview. The artist chooses her/his own interview partner in this conversational format.

Kunstsalon VISION is Bikubenfonden’s conversational format in the field of art.
In collaboration with Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Bikubenfonden is extending an invitation to Kunstsalon VISION, where visual artist Linda Lamignan will be meeting with Cédric Fauq, Chief Curator at Capc – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, for a conversation about Lindas practice This conversation will be taking place from 1.30 to 2.30 P.M in the screening room at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, on Friday, December 10.
Linda Lamignan has been singled out for Bikubenfonden’s Artistic Practice program for particularly promising artistic practices. The aim of the interview salon, which is one aspect of the program, is to examine one Danish artist’s singular approach to art and the potential that is seated within this. In connection with the interview salons, it is the artists themselves who choose their interview partners.

About Linda Lamignan
The works of visual and performance artist Linda Lamignan convey the sensation of being alien and of floating between dissimilar worlds. Through video, music, objects and performance, Lamignan explores notions related to wandering and diaspora, transformation and love. Taking an animistic approach, they are working with materials that are associated with industries in West Africa and Scandinavia. And by conjoining the history of these materials/raw articles to bodies with comparable experiences, Lamignan seeks to visualize new alternative frames of mind.
Lamignan received their MFA degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 2019 and their BFA degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. Lamignan has had a busy autumn, with several exhibition openings, including their solo exhibition, ‘those who do not travel never arrive: Carry Your Home’ at Rogaland Kunstsenter.

About Cédric Fauq
In recent years, the French curator Cédriq Fauq has made an impressive showing on the international art scene – both as curator at Palais de Tokyo in Paris and, even more recently, as chief curator of Capc – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux. From 2020-2021, he worked as a curator at Palais de Tokyo, where he developed the exhibitions, ‘Antibodies’ and ‘Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema’. Previously, Cédriq Fauq was working as an exhibition curator at Nottingham Contemporary, where he set up a number of shows (Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance; Sung Tieu: In Cold Print; Grace Before Jones: and Camera, Disco, Studio), performances (Okwui Okpokwasili; Steffani Jemison; and Lou Lou Lou Sainsbury) and publications. Moreover, he is working as a writer and developing freelance projects [DOC, Paris (2018); Sophie Tappeiner, Wien (2018); Nir Altman, München (2019); Atlantis, Marseille (2020); Futura, Prag (2021); VEDA, Firenze (2021); and Frieze London (2021)]. From 2017-2018, Cédric Fauq was a member of the Baltic Triennal XIII curatorial team and from 2016-2018, he took part in leading clearview.ltd in London.
9 Dec
15.00 - 16.30
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QUANTUM SOCIETY

by Sara Gebran

Book launch, talk & performance

9 Dec 2021 at 15:00 – 16:30

Talk / moderator: Adam Bencard
Performance by Sara Gebran
Reading-Listening with the audience.
Launching and book signing

In QUANTUM SOCIETY, like in the first publication ANOTHER HOLE, Sara Gebran continues developing a speculative-writing style to avoid a genre categorization. In this publication she makes categorization even harder by including more genres styles: Read-J (DJ for readers), song lyrics, poetry, journalist, cinematic and street language, personal notes, political manifesto, performance essay, visual essay, practices, theories, and more. Her trance-writing style uses delirium and hallucination to access new imaginaries.
Sara proposes a new world without representation called: NOTHING, BIG EMPTY, BIG NOTHING, during her 550 micro chapters in the book. She uses the page as a stage to continue her choreographic and dancing practices, and as a public space where readers meet (in a quantic time) and experience new imaginaries. The emotions by colors, emotions by spacing, and how to sing this book on the first page are instructions on how to read the book. These instructions gives the reader agency to put together their own matrix of feelings and imaginaries. The uncanny intimacy, which Sara develops with the reader is a tool and a concept she calls Social Intimacy. This is part of her last 5 years investigation on how to achieve a more open, inclusive and solidary society, a QUANTUM SOCIETY, which is a concept that is unfolded slowly throughout the book.

Book facts:
Publ. Errant Bodies Press & MaMa Multimedia Institute.
Edited: Michael Langan.
Graphic Design: Wilfred Wagner.
Support: Sara Gebran / Public Eye

8 Dec
17.00 - 21.00
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Charlottenborg Live

Dea Trier Mørch 80 years - an evening in Dea's universe

Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you, in collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, to join Charlottenborg Live every Wednesday between the 27 Oct – 15 Dec 2021.

Program of the evening
17.00 − 19.00 Walk and talk: Dea Trier Mørch 80 years
18.00 − 18.45 Guided tour: The World is in You, Mohamed Bourouissa HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!
19.00 − 21.00 Dinner: Long table dinner in Apollo Kantine
19.45 − 20.05 Author meeting: about Dea Trier Mørch by Maja Lykketoft and Sara Trier, Vinterbørn and Om Barsel
Tickets for the long table dinner and the author meeting can be bought on Billetto.dk here

Meeting point: We meet by the reception in Kunsthal Charlottenborg at 17 pm. There is a maximum of 40 participants. First come, first served.
On December 8, Charlottenborg will celebrate one of the most significant danish female artists from the 1970s. Dea Trier Mørch would have turned 80 this year, and on that occasion we will spend an evening in her universe.

First we will go for a walk in the deceased artist’s childhood neighborhood in Nyhavn and see where she was shaped as a visual artist at the Art Academy at Charlottenborg.
Dea Trier Mørch was known as an author of many books and a visual artist with a strong political motivation. She also became a feminist icon with a poetic side. After the walk there will be a talk about this topic: the poetic side of her production in the cinema.

Afterwards there will be dinner in Apollo Kantine while listening to readings from Gyldendals latest collection of texts from her authorship Om Barsel. During the dinner we will also talk about some of the eternal themes that occupied her, such as life balance with children, family and politics and a life as an artist?

7 Dec - 7 Nov
17.00

Visualizing the Rhythm – Body Time between art and science

The World is in You

7 December at 17:00-18:00.
Free with gallery entrance
Please note this event will be in English

We live our lives in a rhythm. We wake and sleep, move and rest, eat and fast. The ups and downs of our days can be masked by the regular ticking of the clock. So how can we capture the rhythmic nature of life? In different ways, both artists and scientists have been interested in recording and communicating the rhythms of the body.
Scientists gather data in the lab which must be transformed in to compelling visual arguments for science journals, while artists experiment with methods for recording and visualizing the routines of everyday life in a highly artificial world.
In this conversation inspired by The World is in You, artist Susan Morris and scientist Zach Gerhart-Hines will discuss how they attempt to capture and share rhythmicity – and what this means for how we understand ourselves in the world.

Panel lists:
Susan Morris is an artist who also writes. Her work engages with periodicity and the involuntary mark, through a diaristic form of writing or by diagrammatic works generated from data recorded by devices worn on the body. Morris has won various arts council awards including, in 2010, a Wellcome Trust grant to produce a series of tapestries from data recording her sleep/wake patterns, for the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. She is a member of the Düsseldorf-based artist’s group Darktaxa, and is represented by Bartha Contemporary, London.

Zach Gerhart Hines is an Associate Professor at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR) at the University of Copenhagen. He is one of the frontrunners in current circadian rhythm research, also known as chronobiology. In his research, Gerhart-Hines looks in particular at the significance of circadian rhythm disorders for adipose tissue and metabolism. He is a scientific advisor for The World is in You/ Verden er i Dig exhibition.
Image: Susan Morris, NightWatch_Light Exposure 2010-2012, 2014. Installation view, Verden er i dig, Medicinsk Museion og Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2021. Photo by David Stjernholm. Courtesy of Bartha Contemporary, London.

4 Dec
14.00 - 15.30

The poetics of anatomy with Adam Dickinson

The World is in You

4 December at 14:00-15:30.
Free with gallery entrance
Please note this event will be in English.

The exhibition The World is in You welcomes the Canadian poet and researcher Adam Dickinson. In his award-winning poem Anatomic, he uses scientific studies of his body as a starting point for reflections on the body’s connection with its surroundings.

Adam Dickinson had analyzes made of his blood, his urine and feces, and of microorganisms on and in his body. In the samples, he found traces of our industrial culture – pesticides, flame-retardants, mercury – and of the whole microbial life that plays a part in our daily life.
In his poems, he mixes the results with biographical elements and reflections on what it means to have a porous, permeable body in this Anthropocene age. About how the outer writes the inner. It creates a unique poetry that thinks across body, culture, politics, molecules, microorganisms, about toxic worlds and exposed bodies.
The presentation will be in English, and consist of a talk and readings of poems.

2 Dec - 13 Jan
16.00
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Cancelled: Walk’n’talk with curators + guests

The World is in You

NOTE: Cancelled in January due to the current covid-19 restrictions.

Our cells detect shifts from day to night, created by the movement of the planet. Things we touch affect the trillions of microbes that live in and on us, which determine how we feel. We exist, for better or worse, within networks of connections – from the microscopic to the planetary.
Join in when the curators of the exhibition The World is in You and guests do a Walk’n’talk from 16-17 every Thursday in October. There is a very limited number of spots available per Walk’n’talk. Registration at the front desk – first come, first served:

2nd December kl 16-17:
About electronic art and curating with curator Malthe K. Bjerregaard and artist Mogens Jacobsen (in Danish)

9th December kl 16-17:
Walk’n’talk with curator Jacob Lillemose (in Danish)

16th December kl 16-17:
About life in the body, from microbial research to art with curator Adam Bencard and Associate Professor Mani Arumugam (in English)

6th January kl. 16-17:
Art in the laboratory with curator Kristin Hussey and artist Isabella Martin (in English)

13th January kl 16-17:
Walk’n’talk with curator Jacob Lillemose (in Danish)

1 Dec
17.00 - 21.00
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Charlottenborg Live

Reading Group #1 with Lea Guldditte Hestelund

Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you, in collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, to join Charlottenborg Live every Wednesday between the 27 Oct – 15 Dec 2021.

We regret to inform that Reading Group #1 has been cancelled, but you can still get a guided tour in the two exhibitions and buy tickets for the dinner with Mikkel Braginsky and Kristoffer Zøllner.

Program of the evening:
17.30 − 19.00 Talk: Reading Group #1 – Lea Guldditte Hestelund – CANCELLED
18.00 − 18.45 Guided tours: The World is in You, Mohamed Bourouissa HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!
19.00 − 21.00 Dinner: Long table dinner in Apollo Kantine
19.45 − 20.05 Author meeting: Mikkel Braginsky and Kristoffer Zøllner, HANKØN
Tickets for the long table dinner and the author meeting can be bought on Biletto.dk here

Reading Group #1 – Lea Guldditte Hestelund
The talk will be in Danish

Reading Group is a conversation about a specific text or book, which has had a significance for an artist or curator.
The first Reading Group conversation is with artist Lea Guldditte Hestelund. Hestelund works with sculpture, space and performance. The relation between body and sculpture is often central in her works, which also will function as one of the starting points for the conversation. Hestelund will be having the talk with Art Historian Philip Pihl.

26 Nov
17.00 - 19.00

Kirstine Roepstorff: The Archive of Dark

book launch

The book is a collaborative project between Kirstine Roepstorff and the London based design duo OK-RM.
The reception is arranged with Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
Come and toast with us to the sound of DJ FOS.
A spectacle, a theatre, a multi dimensional document. An effort to merge language and formlessness in a yearn for a cyclic work. A stage for these merges to play out. A reminder that when we grow we don’t only grow upwards. The already porous membrane seemingly separating dark from light, pain from joy, active from passive becomes intensely insignificant when we occasionally get a chance to observe ourselves from the other side of the mirror.

The Archive of Dark is a book project acting as an epilogue to a body of work investigating darkness that included three separate yet coherent exhibitions; Influenza, Theatre of Glowing Darkness, 2017; Renaissance of the Night, 2018 and EX CAVE, 2019. These three exhibitions were together a symbolic walk through the transformative dark. The book weaves together a dense collection of historic imagery into an organic and emotive narrative. It features a series of letters from a variety of contributors that include perceptual, intellectual, spiritual, scientific and artistic reflections. The book is case-bound with a linen cloth and has four cover variations, each with a different combination of key images.
25 Nov
17.00 - 20.00

Invitation to a dialogue meeting on issues faced by disabled art workers

UKK - Organisation for Kunstnere, Kuratorer og Kunstformidlere

UKK warmly invites you to a dialogue meeting to address issues faced by disabled artists, curators, and art workers. The meeting is organized in a collaboration with artist and writer Anthony Dexter Giannelli and art student Victor Vejle.

As we’ve returned again to a physically centered art world, we want to ensure that these spaces are accessible to all; that we work to create a better environment for the physically disabled, who face greater obstacles and barriers to gaining resources, opportunities and navigating the art scene here in Denmark. The meeting is the first step to gather artists and art workers facing the same and/or similar issues, to get a better understanding of relevant questions and focus areas, and also interested participants to work together within a future working group.
During the meeting we will discuss and reflect on the current state and needs of the disabled within the Danish art field through increased opportunities and resources available to disabled artists, better accessibility to the local cultural community both in physical terms and network building, adequacy of work rights and social benefits (i.e. flex job as a disabled artist with freelance work), advocating for public understanding and visibility of disabled issues.

We invite artists and art workers with disabilities/physical limitations/chronic illness to attend. Non-disabled persons are also welcome to join but we ask for a short specification of your connection/motivation in working with this topic.

Our mission is to create better opportunities for artists and art workers to have access to opportunities and be able to take part in cultural life at the many inaccessible spaces that still exist in private gallery spaces and publicly funded art institutions that should cater to all. We need to address the outdated and insufficient guidelines (new guidelines or audits from the cultural ministry have not been done since 1997) that govern accessibility and dictate whether or not we as disabled persons have a right to a successful life in the arts. This needs to be done through changes to both physically access these spaces and having the freedom to operate our precarious careers without putting our needed accommodations such as flex jobs in jeopardy.

Programme:
17.00 – Welcome and introduction
17.15 – Talk by Anthony Dexter Giannelli
17.30 – Talk by Victor Vejle
17.45 – Shared discussion moderated by Scott William Raby
18.45 – What can UKK offer a future working group?
19.00 – 20.00 – Drinks

Please sign up to: info@ukk.dk no later than 23th November.

You are also welcome to contact us if you are unable to attend the meeting but are interested in learning more or perhaps want to join the working group.

Access Note:
– Please contact us if you require sign language interpretation or other accommodations to be able to attend, then we will try to accommodate it.
– If you need to rest, move around, or not make eye contact, know that you are welcome here.
– The meeting will be held in English.

Bios:
Anthony Dexter Giannelli is a visual artist and writer exploring themes of mobility, visibility, and otherness, taken from his own position in society as physically disabled and non-majority. His visual practice is centered on a deeply personal journey battling to be seen and to find strength and resilience through an immobilizing physical condition. In recent efforts, he is especially motivated by the explosion of accessible resources in the arts during the pandemic while ensuring these efforts continue in the post-pandemic environment, as expressed in his article, A World of Barriers: Questioning Access for Disabled Artists and Audiences.

Victor Vejle is currently studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts,his work is based on ongoing research of how, or if disability and injuries can be linked to changes in the contemporary art scene and in society in general. Victor uses his own experiences to question the structural downgrading of disabled and injured bodies and their existences in modern-day society. Through various media including installation and video, Victor questions if it is possible to change the social and institutional placement of bodies between normal functioning or broken, and how these categories should be erased and replaced with the diverse shades of what we consider as normality or functionality.

Scott William Raby is an artist, researcher, and arts organizer. His artistic practice utilizes self-organization, art-as-soft-infrastructure, and community focused public engagement, a.o. to create new interactions between artists and society. Themes such as socio-political amelioration, existential social crises (e.g. economy, climate, gentrification, etc.), and reconfiguring operations of power are often explored through performativity, social installations, public interventions, and dialogical exchanges. He co-organizes various platforms and projects such as f.eks in Aalborg, Danmark.

24 Nov
17.00 - 21.00
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Charlottenborg Live

Art & science meet again

Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you, in collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, to join Charlottenborg Live every Wednesday between the 27 Oct – 15 Dec 2021.

Program of the evening
17.00 − 18.00 Tour: Curator tour in The World is in You
18.00 − 20.00 Talk & performances: Ken Arnold, Dødstrompeterne and Eduardo Abrantes The World is in You
18.00 − 18.45 Guided tour: The World is in You, Mohamed Bourouissa HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!
19.00 − 21.00 Dinner: in Apollo Kantine
19.45 − 20.05 Author meeting: Caspar Eric and Christina Thiemer, VI KAN GØRE MEGET
Tickets for the dinner and reading can be bought on Billetto.dk here

Guided tour: The World is in You (with curator Jacob Lillemose) (in Danish)
One of the curators of the exhibition The World is in You, Jacob Lillemose, gives an introduction to the show and tells about his favorite objects/artworks.

Talk: Art and Science Meet Again with director of Medical Museion, Ken Arnold (In English)
On future perspectives of bringing art and science together in an institutional context.

Performance: worm-whole (there is a clue in the first letter) by Eduardo Abrantes
If the world is in you, you might as well come as you are. w-w is a sound-driven performance-lecture for portable technologies and those who bear them daily. While worms sing, digest and re-cycle the world, we unfold group tingling, tangling and meshing.
Designed and performed by Eduardo Abrantes.

Performance: (us((we(((are))them) by Dødstrompeterne
The mutant group Dødstrompeterne enacts a sonic ritual to process how we are all seemingly separate yet deeply entangled in fungal spores, auditory vibrations and wild meshworks of life.
The performance is a part of the project The Living Room at the Medical Museum, where experiments are made with the life course of objects from hibernation to accelerated decay.
Dødstrompeterne is founded by Claus Otto, Maria Brænder, Simon Skjødt Jensen og Stephen McEvoy

23 Nov - 2 Jan
12.00

Filmprogram: Microbes and humans

The World is in You

23 November 2021 – 2 January 2022
Free with paid admission
Duration: 1 hour, the film program loops during opening hours

In connection with the exhibition ‘The World is In You’, we will screen two films which, each in their own way, address the relationship between the human body and microbes.
The microbes on our bodies are tiny, so small that we can only see them through a microscope. So what do they look like? Who are they? How do they behave?
In the silent film ‘The Merry Microbes’, a doctor takes hair and skin samples from a patient and subsequently invites him to see the microbes he is ‘made of’. The insight into this otherwise invisible world makes the patient believe he is ill, prompting him to desperately rush out of the doctor’s office.

Anyone thinking that earth belongs to humans has another thing coming. It belongs to the bacteria. They are everywhere. In droves. In the darkness of the deep sea and the arid stretches of the mountain desert. On humans and animals. Fortunately, only a small proportion of them are dangerous, and new science has shown that they are crucial to the continued existence of life, including man. In ‘Bacterial World’, a range of researchers speak about our symbiotic coexistence with bacteria.

The Merry Microbes (1909) by Émile Cohl (3:38 min.)
Bacterial World. Microbes that Rule Our World (2016) by Stéphane Bégoin (54:00 min.)

The film program is curated by Jacob Lillemose.
The films are looping during opening hours, and are paused during special events in the cinema.

20 Nov
14.00 - 17.00
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Poet Slash Artist, Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale

Opening

Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to present its first biennial in all of Denmark under the title Poet Slash Artist in close collaboration with Manchester International Festival and the curators Hans Ulrich Obrist & Lemn Sissay.

To celebrate the opening of the exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you to talks and readings in the Festival Hall at Charlottenborg. Afterwards, a selection of the works will be on display in the courtyard at Kunsthal Charlottenborg:

Saturday 20 November at 2-5pm

Participate: The admission is free but requires booking in advance at Billetto here. 

The event can also be experienced live-streamed here, and can subsequently be seen on Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s Youtube channel here.

Program:
2pm Opening speech by Michael Thouber, director of Kunsthal Charlottenborg
2.10pm Author reading by Lemn Sissay
2.20pm Curator talk with Hans Ulrich Obrist & Lemn Sissay
2.40pm Author reading by Amalie Smith
2.50pm Artist talk with Jeannette Ehlers, Miriam Kongstad, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Amalie Smith
3.15pm Author reading by Jakob Jakobsen
3.25pm Artist talk with Lea Porsager, Lea Guldditte Hestelund & Olga Ravn, Jakob Jakobsen
3.50pm Author reading by Olga Ravn
4pm Wine and display of works in the courtyard at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

About the exhibition:
Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Lemn Sissay, Poet Slash Artist constitutes an exploration of poets working with visual art and visual artists working with poetry. Poet Slash Artist was originally shown and produced by Manchester International Festival and HOME in July 2021. The Danish version is supplemented with new works by Danish artists.
The participating artists are: Etel Adnan, Adonis, Jay Bernard, Anne Boyer, Julien Creuzet, Imtiaz Dharker, Jimmie Durham, Jeannette Ehlers, Inua Ellams, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Tracey Emin, Renee Gladman, Vivienne Griffin, Lubaina Himid, Sky Hopinka, Isaiah Hull, Jakob Jakobsen, Cassie Augusta Jørgensen, Miriam Kongstad, Tarek Lakhrissi, Lebogang Mashifane, Friederike Mayröcker, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Jota Mombaça, Precious Okoyomon, Heather Phillipson, Lea Porsager, Lea Guldditte Hestelund & Olga Ravn, Tabita Rezaire, Tiffany Sia, Amalie Smith, Cecilia Vicuña, Xu Bing, Gozo Yoshimasu.

The Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale is produced in collaboration with AFA JCDecaux and is shown on AFA JCDecaux’s outdoor advertising panels nationwide.
The Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale is supported by the Obel Family Foundation, the Augustinus Foundation and the Danish Arts Foundation.

17 Nov
17.00 - 21.00
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Charlottenborg Live

Screening and introduction to Mohamed Bourouissa

Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you, in collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, to join Charlottenborg Live every Wednesday between the 27 Oct – 15 Dec 2021.

Program of the evening
17.00 − 19.00 Introduction and screening: Curator Henriette Bretton-Meyer about Mohamed Bourouissa
18.00 − 18.45 Guided tour: The World is in You, Mohamed Bourouissa HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!
19.00 − 21.00 Dinner: Long table dinner in Apollo Kantine
19.45 − 20.05 Author meeting: Nynne Hein Møller and Elise Ligaard, Generation Spice Girls

Tickets for the long table dinner and the author meeting can be bought on Billetto.dk here

Mohamed Bourouissa’s solo exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents a selection of early and recent works and spans many media: photography, sound, installation and video, including the video Temps Mort (2008­–09), in which the artist exchanges messages and grainy smartphone images with an imprisoned friend. Also featured are portraits of youth culture in central Paris, Nous Sommes Halles (2003–05), and staged depictions of French suburban ghetto street life inspired by canonical art-historical references in the series Périphéries (2006-08). These works challenge contemporary image culture and the media’s portrayals of young people with minority backgrounds.

Mohamed Bourouissa (b. 1978 in Blida, Algera) lives in Paris. He has exhibited widely – solo exhibitions include Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Haus der Kunst in Munich and most recently Goldsmiths CCA in London. He has participated in a large number of group exhibitions including the biennials in Sydney, Sharjah, Havana, Lyon, Venice, Algeria, Liverpool and Berlin. In 2018 he was nominated for the prestigious French art award Le Prix Marcel Duchamp and in 2020 he was awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Award.

10 Nov
17.00 - 21.00
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Charlottenborg Live

Vandtrapper - a conceptual sound piece

Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you, in collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, to join Charlottenborg Live every Wednesday between the 27 Oct – 15 Dec 2021.

Program of the evening
17.00 − 19.00 Launch: Vandtrapper – a conceptual sound piece with Ragnhild May, Kristoffer Raasted and Morten Winther Nielsen
18.00 − 18.45 Guided tour: The World is in You, Mohamed Bourouissa HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!
19.00 − 21.00 Dinner: Long table dinner in Apollo Kantine
19.45 − 20.05 Author meeting: Cecilie Nørgaard, Han hun hen

Tickets for the long table dinner and the author meeting can be bought on Billetto.dk here

Vandtrapper – a conceptual sound piece
Ragnhild May, Kristoffer Raasted & Morten Winther Nielsen

The sound piece Vandtrapper was made in an interdisciplinary collaboration that has consisted of both visual and compositional work. During a two month long residency at the Danish Institute in Rome in 2019 we’ve been researching the water supply system of Rome with special attention given to the fountains and with a starting point in Inger Christensens essayistic poem Vandtrapper. Through a succession of conceptual movements, we have transferred this research to sound that we release physically as a vinyl record. The composition is based upon five Roman fountains that figure in the poem.

In working with the material, we have related rather freely to the poem, and thought forward in a more general reflection on hydrology and urban infrastructure.
In our research phase, we have found out, that during different historical periods, carbonated water has been running in some of the fountains. The function of the fountains in public space has been to establish a quiet frame around intimate conversations, where the sound of the water drowns the low-key conversations. Analogue photography and digital video recording has played an important role in our research phase.

In the composition we make use of graphic notation, where the music is represented by symbols that do not belong to a traditional way of notating music. These symbols/emblems are brought in from the figurative ornamentation of the fountains – an architectural ornamentation task that was sponsored by the noble families of Rome. In this way every motif symbolizes the house that has partaken in the financing of the fountain. The work with the graphic scores has been equally much a work with visual as well as auditive expression. Methodologically we have attributed musical value to the architecture of the fountains, as a starting point for making the graphic scores, that contain the music in the same way that the fountains contain the water. But like with the water you can only attempt to contain the sound, it is not completely controllable. It waves, fails or floats across its banks. During our research stay in Rome there were severe flooding in Italy, and the roof of the Danish Institute was leaking, as it could not keep the water out during cloudburst. The systematization and attempt to control the water, that the fountains are the most flashy example of, turns out to be a more an more impossible task.

In the vinyl release the string quartet Halvcirkel perform the graphic scores, that are open to interpretation. In that way we have let go of the full control over the sound and the music, like it is the case with the uncontrollable water.
The piece is composed for string quartet and choir, and involves an electronic layer with hydrophone recordings (underwater microphones) from the five fountains among other things. In the vinyl release there are 2 posters with printouts of the graphic scores as well as Inger Christensens poem Vandtrapper, in danish and in an Italian translation by Bruno Berni.
The choir section of the piece can be performed by trained and untrained voice types alike. At the publishing reception, the choral part of the piece will be performed, and white wine and strawberries will be served. The release is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation.

4 Nov - 25 Nov
16.00

Walk’n’talk with curators + guests

The World is in You

Our cells detect shifts from day to night, created by the movement of the planet. Things we touch affect the trillions of microbes that live in and on us, which determine how we feel. We exist, for better or worse, within networks of connections – from the microscopic to the planetary.

Join in when the curators of the exhibition The World is in You and guests do a Walk’n’talk from 16-17 every Thursday in November. There is a very limited number of spots available per Walk’n’talk. Registration at the front desk – first come, first served:

4. November: CANCELLED
About microorganisms, human bodies and outer space with curator Jacob Lillemose and author Peter Adolphsen. (In Danish)

11. November:
About epigenetics, scientific research and art with curator Malthe K. Bjerregaard and PhD Jessica M. Preston. (In English)

18. November:
About the body in biomedicin with curator Adam Bencard and PhD Jessica M. Preston. (In English)

25. november:
About generations and heritage with curator Malthe Bjerregaard and artist Maya Sialuk Andersen. (In Danish)

Read more about the exhibition The World is in You

3 Nov
17.00 - 21.00
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Charlottenborg Live

Book launch and performance: The Toe The Horse The Sister

Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you, in collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, to join Charlottenborg Live every Wednesday between the 27 Oct – 15 Dec 2021.
Program of the evening
17.00 − 19.00 Book launch and performance: Maria Zahle, The Toe The Horse The Sister
18.00 − 18.45 Guided tour: The World is in You, Mohamed Bourouissa HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!
19.00 − 21.00 Dinner: Long table dinner in Apollo Kantine
19.45-20.05 Author meeting: Rachel Röst, Grundvold
Tickets for the long table dinner and the author meeting can be bought on Billetto.dk here
The Toe The Horse The Sister is a new book of visual poetry by artist Maria Zahle. This collection of 25 poems reflects on her life as an artist, mother, sister, daughter and lover. Many of the poems describe small but vivid events retold and refracted through language. The book is an exploration of the ways in which experience and memory collide, fragment, and overlap within our consciousness. The poetry shape-shifts between words and visual marks: insistent groupings of punctuation, drawn shapes and repeating patterns. Each page is a tactile space, with language and image vibrating in tension with each other. The poetry’s dance between lived experience and formal experimentation is described through memories and intimate speculations.
The Toe The Horse The Sister is to me an art object in the shape of a book. It is a sculpture that you can touch and take home with you” says Maria Zahle
At Charlottenborg Kunsthal Maria Zahle will read and sing the poems from The Toe The Horse The Sister. The performance will be accompanied by keyboard and stripes of colour. The audience will get a chance to experience the poems live and purchase a limited edition book.
Maria Zahle is an artist based in Copenhagen. The Toe The Horse The Sister is published by Akerman Daly, London. Zahle’s first book of poetry, 8 Poems, was published by AkermanDaly in 2017. Maria Zahle’s solo exhibition No Stranger or Lover to Me will open at Kunsthal Rønnebæksholm in March 2022. Maria Zahle is represented by Arcade, London/Bruxelles.
27 Oct
17.00 - 21.00
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Charlottenborg Live

Conversation: Connected to nature with Jacob Lillemose, Helene Johanne Christensen and Siri Ravna Hjelm Jacobsen

Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you, in collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, to join Charlottenborg Live every Wednesday between the 27 Oct – 15 Dec 2021.

Program of the evening
17.00 − 18.00 Guided tour: Curator tour and listening cinema in The World is in You
18.00 − 19.00 Conversation: Connected to nature with Jacob Lillemose, Helene Johanne Christensen and Siri Ravna Hjelm Jacobsen
18.00 − 18.45 Guided tour: The World is in You, Mohamed Bourouissa HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!
19.00 − 21.00 Dinner: Long table dinner in Apollo Kantine
19.45 − 20.05 Author meeting: Anne Lise Marstrand-Jørgensen, Margrete I

Tickets for the long table dinner and the author meeting can be bought on Billetto.dk here

Guided tour: The World is in You (with curator Adam Bencard) (in Danish)
One of the curators of the exhibition The World is in You gives an introduction to the show and tells about his favorite objects/artworks.

Sonic cinema: About microbes and food (in Danish)
Everything you eat contains bacteria. If you’re unlucky, you will die from food poisoning. But the tiny beings in your food make up for much more than a health risk. In this podcast we investigate our complex relations to foods with microbes with the help of sound art, features and interviews with, among others, fermentation guru and chef David Zilber. You will be guided through the podcast by the two hosts, Cecilie Glerup and Marie Degnbol from Medical Museion. They will also be present on the day, where they introduce the podcast and reply to questions from the audience.

Conversation: Connected to Nature. (In Danish)
A conversation between curator Jacob Lillemose and authors Helene Johanne Christensen and Siri Ravna Hjelm Jacobsen about how the body – across science and poetry, art, and materiality – is part of nature.

26 Oct - 21 Nov
12.00

THE WHY

WHY PLASTIC?

Charlottenborg Art Cinema presents WHY PLASTIC? a three-part investigative documentary series about the causes, consequences and possible solutions to plastic pollution.

Plastic is a topic surrounded by a lot of confusion and misleading information. The series will bust the myths and misinformation and take a closer look at what is fact and what is fiction. After a year of researching, following the money together with financial experts at PWC and talking to the leading experts, we are ready to present three cutting-edge documentary films, unlike any plastic documentaries made before.

Each of the three one-hour documentaries will cover a different angle, namely: Health, Recycling and Industry. The films will dig deep into the recycling industry, confront the plastic producers as well as unveil the local and global effects our plastic use has on the environment – and on our health.

Filmed across the globe and featuring the latest scientific research, the series will bring hard facts to the table, confronting the audience with findings that may come as complete surprises. Powerful narratives of the human lived experience will be told in accessible and exciting ways.

Plastic is a revolutionary material. It’s durable, affordable and has numerous applications. But what makes plastic so great has also pushed our planet to the brink of one of the worst environmental crises in modern history.

Along with the three one-hour documentaries, the WHY PLASTIC? series will also include short films, educational material and social media content. The series is scheduled for delivery autumn 2021.

 

American Plastic by Laura Mulholland (52min.)

We the Gunea Pigs by Louise Unmack Kjeldsen (52 min.)

The Recycling Scam by Tom Costello (52 min.)

The films are looping during opening hours in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema (The film program is stopped when events are taking place in the cinema)

 

THE WHY FOUNDATION is a Danish multi award-winning non-profit mediaorganisation. We support sustainable development by securing free access to reliable,fact based information for millions of people around the world.

As a charitable organisation, we produce and distribute documentaries about humanrights and environmental issues that support the UN’s Sustainable DevelopmentGoals. We give access to our documentaries free of charge to broadcasters andorganisations in underserved regions, to combat censorship and aid under financedmedia landscapes.

THE WHY’s documentaries are distributed through our growing network of more than70 public service television stations and 50 partner organisations, reaching 200countries and territories, as well as at the UN General Assembly in New York and theEuropean Parliament (amongst others).

THE WHY’s previous series include WHY DEMOCRACY? (2007), WHY POVERTY? (2012),WHY WOMEN? (2016), and WHY SLAVERY? (2018) .

13 Oct - 13 Oct
17.00

Christiania – 1971–2021 – as seen from the inside

Christiania 50 years

Christiania’s chief archivist Ole Lykke, who has lived and worked in the Freetown since 1979, presents a slide show and speaks about Christiania’s eventful 50-year history from an insider’s point of view.

Against the backdrop of the ‘original ideals’ from the 1970s, the subjects addressed include daily life in Christiania, how the Freetown is organised internally and externally, the theatre troupe Solvognen, the trials, hash and hard drugs, PusherStreet, the biker gang wars, the police, tourists and visitors, cultural life, the physical set-up of housing and jobs in Christiania, the establishment of infrastructure, the recurring threats of closure and the eight years of negotiations in the 00s that led to Christiania’s current status as a foundation-owned and leased district operating under the same rules as the rest of Denmark.

Ole Lykke is a trained teacher specialising in Danish and History. He taught at the Danish Higher Prepartory Examination Programme (HF) for eight years before his participation in the Blockade against Hard Drugs in December 1979 marked the start of his life in Christiania. Ole Lykke has worked as a photographer, lecturer, editor of the CA newspaper Ugespejlet, been a spokesman for Christiania in the media and taken part in Christiania’s internal organisation and in negotiations with the Danish state, the City of Copenhagen and other external authorities. Since 2010 he has been head of Christiania’s Local History Archive.

Sign up: Free. First come, first served.
Lokation: The cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
The event is in Danish

12 Oct - 12 Oct
18.30

Book launch: CAT COW – Nina Beier

On 12 October, Billedkunstskolernes Forlag and Kunsthal Rønnebæksholm invite you to the launch of the research-based art publication CAT COW – Nina Beier.

Location: The bookshop at Kunsthal Charlottenborg/ Lower Foyer.
Entry: Free

The catalogue originates from the internationally renowned artist Nina Beier’s performance commission CAT COW from 2021, an exhibition created for Kunsthal Rønnebæksholm, curated by Charlotte Sprogøe, who has written the opening essay of the book.

The marble egg moves through CAT COW as a conceptual primordial form that generates exhibition, texts and book. CAT COW explores the field of tension between the living and the dead, the organic and the aesthetic – and the performative and the sculptural. In CAT COW, artistic concept, aesthetic and mental tone are transferred from the exhibition as form to the book as a whole. In Nina Beier’s art, meaning is never finished and finally, things always hold layers of baggage and potentials to be produced, distributed, traded and reused. In the same way, the text by Sprogøe is wrapped in a background text by the artist written in collaboration with Nanna Friis, who comments on and complicates the concepts, and places them in a context of Nina Beier’s extensive exhibition back catalog.

The CAT COW publication is generously supported by the Bikuben Foundation. The CAT COW exhibition was created as an independent curatorial part of the Bikuben Foundation exhibition prize Vision 2020 Soil.Sickness.Society, and was commissioned for Kunsthal Rønnebæksholm’s massive industrial barn as part of Sprogøe Phd’s curatorial research project in the exhibition as a form – and backdrop as character.

Thanks to: Novo Nordisk, Bikubenfonden, University of Copenhagen.

8 Oct
17.00 - 20.00

Mohamed Bourouissa, HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!

Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to present the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia with the internationally renowned artist Mohamed Bourouissa.

Now we welcome you to the opening of the exhibition:

Friday 8 October from 17-20

There is free entry at the opening.

Talk with Mohamed Bourouissa From 16.00 there will be a talk with Mohamed Bourouissa and curator Henriette Bretton-Meyer about the exhibition, the works and the creative process behind them.

At the opening Christian d’Or will DJ from 17.00 and you can purchase drinks from Apollo Bar.

The French-Algerian artist Mohamed Bourouissa works 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 exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents a selection of early and recent works and spans many media: photography, sound, installation and video. A major highlight is Bourouissa’s critically acclaimed film installation Horse Day (2014–15). Bourouissa moved to a run-down low-income area in Philadelphia, USA with the intention of making an alternative kind of cowboy film – set in the big city and with African-American protagonists – but, after living there for eight months, he ended up doing something else instead. He portrayed the local community in a film documenting Horse Day; an event initiated by Bourouissa, where riders collaborated with local artists on decorating the horses for a show.

The exhibition HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!! with Mohamed Bourouissa at Kunsthal Charlottenborg is curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer and created in close collaboration with Goldsmiths CCA in London, where it was shown earlier this year. The exhibition is supported by the Augustinus Foundation, the Obel Family Foundation and the Danish Arts Foundation.

8 Oct
16.00 - 17.00

Charlottenborg Art Talk: Mohamed Bourouissa

Just before the opening of the solo exhibition with Mohamed Bourouissa, curator Henriette Bretton-Meyer and the French-Algerian artist engage in a conversation about the exhibition, the works and the creative process behind them.

The talk takes place at 16.00 in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema.

The event is in in English and the admission is free, first come, first served.

After the talk, at 17.00-20.00 we invite you to join us for the opening of the exhibition ’HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!’ by Mohamed Bourouissa. There will be a DJ from 17.00 and you can purchase drinks from Apollo Bar.

The internationally acclaimed artist Mohamed Bourouissa works 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 exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents a selection of early and recent works and spans many media: photography, sound, installation and video. A major highlight is Bourouissa’s critically acclaimed film installation ‘Horse Day’ (2014–15). Bourouissa moved to a run-down low-income area in Philadelphia, USA with the intention of making an alternative kind of cowboy film – set in the big city and with African-American protagonists – but, after living there for eight months, he ended up doing something else instead. He portrayed the local community in a film documenting Horse Day; an event initiated by Bourouissa, where riders collaborated with local artists on decorating the horses for a show.

The exhibition ‘HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!!’ with Mohamed Bourouissa at Kunsthal Charlottenborg is curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer and created in close collaboration with Goldsmiths CCA in London, where it was shown earlier this year. The exhibition is supported by the Augustinus Foundation, the Obel Family Foundation and the Danish Arts Foundation.

7 Oct - 28 Oct
16.00 - 17.00

Walk’n’talk with curators + guests

The World is in You

Our cells detect shifts from day to night, created by the movement of the planet. Things we touch affect the trillions of microbes that live in and on us, which determine how we feel. We exist, for better or worse, within networks of connections – from the microscopic to the planetary.

Join in when the curators of the exhibition The World is in You and guests do a Walk’n’talk from 16-17 every Thursday in October. There is a very limited number of spots available per Walk’n’talk. Registration at the front desk – first come, first served:

7. October with curator Jacob Lillemose and PhD Line Marie Thorsen about The Anthropocene (in Danish).

14. October with curator Adam Bencard and Ida Bencka, curator, from Labratory of Aesthetics and Ecology about taking care of the body in the world (in Danish)

21. October with curator Kristin Hussey and scientist Zach Gerhart-Hines  about chronobiology (in English)

28. October with curator Jacob Lillemose and professor Uffe Gråe Jørgensen about life in space (in Danish)

Read more about the exhibition The World is in You

6 Oct
18.30 - 20.00

Short film by Gabriele Stötzer

Copenhagen Short Film Festival

Join us for an evening with East German poet, painter, filmmaker and feminist activist Gabriele Stötzer, when we, as the first country in Scandinavia, present a selection of her short films. Before the screening we invite you for a reception to celebrate the opening of the Copenhagen Short Film Festival 2021.

Gabriele Stötzer is an East German poet, painter, filmmaker and feminist activist who started her artistic work in the early 1980s. She was part of the non-conformist art movement that gained more and more importance in the last phase of GDR socialism. Artists like her were no longer interested in becoming part of the official scene. Completely independent of government support and acceptance, they created their own audience – with galleries, magazines or festivals. A small movement in underground filmmaking also became part of this scene. Shot on Super 8 and 16mm, these cheap films were the exact opposite of official film production. For the first time, Stötzer films will be presented in Scandinavia – works that are characterized by oppression, resistance and self-expression at the same time. Gabriele Stötzer will be present in person to discuss her work with the curator Claus Löser.

This event is made in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Dänemark

It is free to participate.
Location: The cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

5 Oct - 26 Oct
16.00 - 17.00

Walk’n’talk with curators

The World is in You

Our cells detect shifts from day to night, created by the movement of the planet. Things we touch affect the trillions of microbes that live in and on us, which determine how we feel. We exist, for better or worse, within networks of connections – from the microscopic to the planetary.

Join in when the curators of the exhibition The World is in You do a Walk’n’talk from 16-17 every Tuesday in October. There is a very limited number of spots available per Walk’n’talk. Registration at the front desk – first come, first served:

5. October with Jacob Lillemose in Danish

12. October with Jacob Lillemose in Danish

19. October with Kristin Hussey in English

CANCELLED 26. October with Kristin Hussey in English

Read more about the exhibition The World is in You

30 Sep
17.00 - 19.00
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Solvognen

Christiania 50 years

As a part of Art Week 2021 and Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s exhibition Christiania 50 years. VAR-ER-BLIR we invite you to join us for an evening about the Danish political theater group Solvognen.

Solvognen was a Christiania-based political theater group, which was active between 1969-1982. The group performed a series of happenings in different parts of Denmark. The most famous was the ‘Julemandshæren’ from 1974, where a group of activists dressed as Santa Claus took over the department store Magasin.

This evening, you can experience a talk with some of the central members of the group, who will tell about their experiences and time in the group. We will start the evening by showing a series of video-clips from some of the groups happenings. The event is in Danish.

Sign-up:
First come, first served. The event is in in Danish and the admission is free.

30 Sep
11.00 - 13.30

Guided art tour in Freetown Christiania

Christiania 50 years

As a part of Art Week 2021 and Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s exhibition Christiania 50 years. VAR-ER-BLIR we invite you to join us for two guided art tours on Christiania on 28 and 30 September.

The tours will be in Danish and held by Ole Lykke, who has curated the exhibition Christiania 50 years. VAR-ER-BLIR at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, and who lives in Christiania and runs Christiania’s Local Historic Archive. The tour will be around 2 ½ hours and will show different Christiania galleries, workshops and the green areas.

Sign up:
The admission for the guided tours is free but requires booking at Billetto.dk here.

Date:
Thursday 30 Sep at 11-13.30

Place:
Christiania. By the main entrance at Prinsessegade.

29 Sep
12.00 - 20.00

The World is in You

Medical Museion moves into Kunsthal Charlottenborg and presents this autumn’s major exhibition ‘The World is in You’. Through science, contemporary art and historical objects, the exhibition explores how our bodies are connected to the world in and around us.

Now, we welcome you to the opening of the exhibition:

Wednesday 29 September at 12-20pm.
Admission is free all day.

Speeches from 12.30pm:

Theis Lange, Professor and Head of Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen

Michael Thouber, Director of Kunsthal Charlottenborg

The curators: Adam Bencard, Jacob Lillemose, Kristin Hussey, Malthe Kouassi Bjerregaard

In the exhibition ‘The World is in You’, experience new bio-art, historical objects from Medical Museion’s collections, paintings and video installations, meteorites, the scent of cherries, water pipes from the 18th century, and a 7-meter diameter rotating globe. Each in their own way, these works and objects will bring them back to a core question: what does the world do to us?

Participating artists: Mediated Matter Group/Neri Oxman, Ralo Mayer, Katie Paterson, Bradley Pitts, Lucy McRae, Kathy High, Jiwon Woo, Sonja Bäumel, Baum & Leahy, Guston Sondin-Kung, Marcus Coates, Susan Morris, Till Rabus, Heath Bunting, Isabella Martin, Maya Sialuk Jacobsen, Kaitlynn Redell, Mary Maggic, Pinar Yoldas, Mogens Jacobsen, Anna Dumitriu, Andrew Carnie, Jenna Sutela, Luke Jerram, Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Tine Friis & Eduardo Abrantes.

The World is in You is curated by Medical Museion (part of the Department of Public Health and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research – CBMR) at the University of Copenhagen. Produced in collaboration with Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The exhibition has been made possible through generous support from The Novo Nordisk Foundation Thematic Programme in Education and Outreach, The Velux Foundations, The Bikuben Foundation, The Beckett Foundation, Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Foundation, Direktør Espen og Hustru Tanja Neergaard Dinesens Foundation.Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s exhibition program is supported by The Augustinus Foundation, The Danish Arts Foundation, The Obel Family Foundation.

28 Sep
17.15 - 19.45

Guided art tour in Freetown Christiania

Christiania 50 years

As a part of Art Week 2021 and Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s exhibition Christiania 50 years. VAR-ER-BLIR we invite you to join us for two guided art tours on Christiania on 28 and 30 September.

The tours will be in Danish and held by Ole Lykke, who has curated the exhibition Christiania 50 years. VAR-ER-BLIR at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, and who lives in Christiania and runs Christiania’s Local Historic Archive. The tour will be around 2 ½ hours and will show different Christiania galleries, workshops and the green areas.

Sign up:
The admission for the guided tours is free but requires booking at Billetto.dk here.

Date:
Tuesday 28 Sep at 17.15-19.45

Place:
Christiania. By the main entrance at Prinsessegade.

23 Sep
17.00 - 19.00

Book Signing: Frederik Næblerød & Casper Aguila

It’s our pleasure to host the book signing event of the new publication ‘New Neighbours’ by Frederik Næblerød & Casper Aguila.

Frederik Næblerød & Casper Aguila allow themselves to do art in unlikely locations such as a sea-and-weather ravaged beach house, an ancient landmark, and an out-of-the-way former pig farm. With text by art historian Line Rosenvinge and extensive visual material, the book New Neighbours introduces seven original projects that Frederik Næblerød & Casper Aguila created in the countryside around Copenhagen between 2015 and 2020. Along the way, we learn how the two young artists, who in the beginning worked almost in secret, ended up with art critics’ appreciation and a TV-show of their own. We also learn how they took some knocks as well.

Frederik Næblerød & Casper Aguila make a good team: together they dare do things. Including things they aren’t supposed to. But they do it out of a generosity of spirit, a certain longing, a utopian idea of how painting and architecture can be turned into a kind of party that can happen anywhere, any time, and never outstay its welcome. The book is a document of the artists’ perseverance and resolution.

Facts:
Foreword by Mikkel Bogh, director of SMK – The National Gallery of Denmark. The book is illustrated throughout and English language only. It is possible to buy the Special Edition at the book signing

Entry: Free
Location: The bookshop at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

20 Sep
17.00 - 20.00

Christiania 50 years. VAR-ER-BLIR

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Freetown Christiania in 2021, Kunsthal Charlottenborg exhibits a wide selection posters created by the commune through the years – a medium that offers idiosyncratic, thought-provoking and artistic visual testimonies to the Freetown’s history, ideologies and creative forms of expression.

Now, we welcome you to the opening of the exhibition Christiania 50 years. VAR-ER-BLIR: Monday 20 September at 17-20pm

Admission is free to the opening. We look forward to celebrate the exhibition with you!
The exhibition is on view until 14 November 2021.

Further info about the exhibition here.

17 Sep
17.30 - 19.00
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The evil mother/murderer with Nazila Kivi incl. screening of Lars Von Trier’s ’Medea’

Kunsthal Charlottenborg x Golden Days

Few characters throughout history have been through as much as mothers. Especially in fairytales, but also in film and literature, which are build on our common classical myths, the mother always is depicted as a problematic figure. It is even said, that the witch and the evil stepmother in reality are mothers in disguises.

In this presentation before the screening of Lars Von Trier’s Medea from 1988, critic and author Nazila Kivi will make a short historic overview of topics about the mother, the murderer and the woman as the not-quite-human “Other”.

The event will be in Danish and is organized in collaboration with Golden Days.

All film and picture credits: Preben Trunshøj, DR

8 Aug
15.00 - 17.00

Tarot

STRIPPED

Stig Sjölund, artist and instructor at Academy of the Unknown in Stockholm, reads tarot cards for visitors to the exhibition.

7 Aug
20.00 - 21.00

Talk with the feminist theorist and quantum physicist Karen Barad

On Touching the Stranger Within — Material Wanderings / Wonderings

Online lecture with the feminist theorist and quantum physicist Karen Barad. With an introduction by Lea Porsager and Lars Bang Larsen, who will also moderate the subsequent Q&A session.

With their book Meeting the Universe Halfway (2007) Karen Barad created a seminal new reading of Niels Bohr’s idea of quantum physics as a challenge to Western philosophy and our ethical practices. Barad’s proposition for a new type of materialist thinking – an ’agential realism’ in which matter and meaning are entangled – is a great inspiration for the work of Lea Porsager. Karen Barad is Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California in Santa Cruz.

The lecture will take place online at www.arthubcopenhagen.net.

Joining the online talk does not require signing up beforehand.

The talk will be in English and is organised in a collaboration between Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Art Hub Copenhagen.

The event is generously supported by: Novo Nordisk Fonden.

4 Aug
17.00 - 19.00

Charity Flea Market

STRIPPED

Supporting Flea Market among the wind blades arranged by Ulrikke Bak og Melanie Kitti. Further information will follow.

6 Jul - 8 Aug
12.00

A Wretch Like Me – curated by Aviva Silverman

Copenhagen 2021

In August our capital will launch Copenhagen 2021. Copenhagen 2021 is the most significant LGBTI+ event in 2021 combining WorldPride, EuroGames, an eclectic arts and culture program, and an historic LGBTI+ human rights forum. Kunsthal Charlottenborg contribution to the event is a film and audio-program that focuses on norms, visibility and diversity. The program, A Wretch Like Me, is curated by American visual artist and activist Aviva Silverman.

“The ties that bind us are fragile and often imaginary. Any words available to us are woefully inadequate, produced as they are by centuries of hidden selves and forthright violence. Each individual creature revolts in some way against its taxonomy. Even so we name ourselves — in order to find each other, imperfectly.

As the spectres of corporate Pride and pinkwashing continue to misconstrue the intentions of our revolutionary ancestors, it is all the more crucial to trouble the contemporary forms of “visibility” upon which a greater violence is ultimately enacted. To that end, the films selected here weave through notions of self, community, transparency and opacity — all through a queer lens.”  Written by Aviva Silverman and Matty Kodat.

The film program A Wretch Like Me is timelessly important, but especially relevant in Copenhagen this summer, due to the city is hosting Copenhagen 2021. During the summer, several exhibitions have placed extra focus on LBGTI+’s current and historical situation – eg Psychopatia Sexualis on Overgaden and Fairy Tales on Nikolaj Kunsthal – each with its own specific angles and focus areas.

#YouAreIncluded!

Cinema Programme 6th of July – 8th of August
A Wretch Like Me – curated by Aviva Silverman

Cheryl Dunye: Vanilla Sex, 1992.  Video, 3:00 Min.
Marlene Dietrich: Get away young men, 1952. Audio, 2:20 min.
Yva Las Vegass, Oral History Interview with Aviva Silverman, 2020, 15:00 min.
Matt Wolf: Bayard & Me, 2016. HD film, 16 min.
Matty Kodat, Oral History Interview with Aviva Silverman, 2019. 15 min.
Cheryl Dunye: Greetings from Africa, 1995.  Short film, 8:00 min.
Hazel Katz in collaboration with Mx. Je’Jae Cleopatra Daniels: Bubby and Them, 2017. Short film, 20:00 min.
Sophie: It’s Ok to cry, 2017. Audio, 4:00 min.

→ Further info about the works here.

23 Jun
15.00 - 16.00

Alexander Tillegreen in conversation with Vanessa Joan Müller

The Bikuben Foundation’s Artistic Practice-programme for especially promising artists

The sensory space of listening, experiential spaces, and sound illusions are the central elements in Alexander Tillegreen’s recent installation works.

Both conceptually and formally, sound is the focal point in Alexander Tillegreen’s artistic work. With sound as the frame of reference, he is working in an investigative way that spans across different mediums and different forms of expression, like sculpture, graphic arts, painting, installation and performance art.

A recurring part of Alexander Tillegreen’s work is the exploration of various layers of meaning and interconnections among the visual, the sculptural and the sonic. In his investigations of how we consciously unconsciously perceive sound in the interfaces between space, body, language and memory, he conjoins his own artistic approach with a number of scientific approaches, through collaborations and dialogue with scholars working at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt who are in the fields of psychology, musicology, neuroscience, vocal aesthetics and linguistics.

Tillegreen uses the elements of his investigation both as subject matter and as knowledge-gathering in his artistic practice, as is evident in his work, ‘Phantom Streams’ (2020-). This piece is based on phantom words: wording that the listener him/herself gestalts in an illusory way through the experience of the artwork. Words that really are not necessarily audibly present.

Depending on the visiting public’s individual physical placement and movement inside the room, the listening experience changes markedly. The listener’s own linguistic references and subconscious mind generate further bases for the word streams issuing from speakers placed in the room to be sensed and perceived in very different ways. The visiting public accordingly gets a chance to experience hearing passing illusions of pronounced words and sentences.

This consequently gives rise to a distinctive spatial complicity in the work, on the part of the audience, where members of the visiting public, through the empathy of the body and the psyche, take part in an immersive sensuality which is only going to occur in the individual specific listening moment.

With these works, Tillegreen aims to investigate the relation between these sound phenomena and to make the listener aware of his/her/their own linguistic, psychological and cultural embedding: an essential component in our way of sensing the outside world.

This transpires by shifting our perception of reality and the way in which we distinguish between what we imagine, what we hear, and the actual acoustic signal – the sound that comes out of the speaker.

For the time being, Alexander Tillegreen is working on a number of new projects, including an upcoming museum exhibition, and series of performative listening sessions and a solo album that also has sprouted forth from his research.

“It is very interesting when one, as a visual artist, casts himself out over sound as material, in combination with a whole lot of well-thought-out artistic approaches, as Alexander Tillegreen is doing. Alexander Tillegreen’s practice examines, among other things, the relations between two ostensibly separate areas – scientific research and visual art. And he is very curious and inquisitive about the importance of the sense of hearing for us as one aspect of our sensory apparatus, training his focus on the bodily, psychological experience’s potential that is seated in the listening experience. Alexander’s ability to conduct research on the auditory sense, through approaches that are native to visual art, is particularly interesting. His interdisciplinary work and research in the fields of art history, psychology, musicology, neuroscience, vocal aesthetics and linguistics is in possession of a great artistic potential, with an intrinsically international scope, which not only focuses on the art’s being in the world but also operates in experimental interaction with it,” says Mette Marcus, director of the Bikuben Foundation.

Alexander Tillegreen (born 1991, Copenhagen) was educated at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany and at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, in New York City. Concurrently with this training, he has been studying art history and sound studies at the University of Copenhagen.

His works have been exhibited and have been performed at festivals and at solo exhibitions as well as at group exhibitions, internationally, including: Basis, Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, CTM Transmediale Festival Berlin, fffriedrich Frankfurt, Kunstverein Wiesen, Agnes Maybach Köln, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Roskilde Festival, STRØM Festival, CPH DOX, Eufonia Festival Berlin, Galerie Jean Claude Maier, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Fotografisk Center, Code Art Fair and Statens Museum for Kunst.

Upcoming projects include a solo album; a solo exhibition at FuturDome, in Milan; and an exhibition and residency at I:Projects in Beijing, in 2022.

Place and time for interview:
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, film-viewing room, Kgs. Nytorv 1, on June 23, from 3:00-4:00 P.M.
You can sign up via the link here.

Interviewer:
Vanessa Joan Müller is an art historian, curator and writer based in Vienna. She studied art history and film theory at the Ruhr University Bochum and holds a PhD in art history. From 2000 to 2006, she was curator at the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt am Main, and from 2006 to 2007, she was Head of Research at the European Kunsthalle in Cologne. From 2007 to 2011, she was director of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf, and in 2011/12 she was lecturer at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in the “Exhibition Design and Curatorial Practice” department. From 2013 to 2000, she was Head of Dramaturgy at Kunsthalle Wien. She has curated numerous exhibitions in various institutions, amongst others, the Albanian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. She has also published numerous essays and articles on contemporary art and theory.

26 May
17.00
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Davide Hjort Di Fabio & Theo Nymark

BFA Exhibition

Two of the works at this year’s BFA exhibition are shown in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema:
Davide Hjort Di Fabio, Interphase, 2021 (7 min).
Theo Nymarks, Det Pittoreske Bæst – The Picturesque Beast, 2018-2021 (37:25 min).
This evening the two film artists will present their works and show their films – with a subsequent opportunity to ask questions. The event is in English, and the admission is free.
Due to Covid-19 there are limited seats in the cinema (first-come, first-served).
ABOUT THE FILMS:
Davide Hjort Di Fabio, Interphase (7 min):
“the fetters, or in a showery drops anon
dissolve and vanish,
more straitlier clench the clinging bands until
his body’s shape return to that you saw
what more?
when now the golden sun has put winter to headlong fight beneath the world*”
*Virgil, The Georgics, book IV, 29 BC
Filmed inside frozen waterfalls and rivers in Iceland, this video is connected to three ceramic sculptures exposed at the Bachelor exhibition in Festsalen.
In his Bachelor project Davide Hjort Di Fabio researches the pastoral art movement, started over two thousand years ago by the latin poet Virgil, who wrote several collections of poems about young men fleeing Rome in a period of crisis, to become shepherds in the beautiful rural landscapes of Arcadia.
In january 2021, Hjort Di Fabio travelled to Iceland for two months, living an imaginary life as a modern shepherd. With the video “Interphase”, that almost feels like a journey inside a body, Hjort Di Fabio tries to give the pastoral movement a queer voice and a more enviromental perspective, exploring the relationship between internal and external sensitivity.
Theodor Nymark, Det Pittoreske Bæst (37:25 min):
‘The Picturesque Beast’ is a multi-narrative film that follows an anthropomorphic wolf-like figure whose purpose is to capture the sublime nature. Set in two parallel worlds, the early Danish Golden Age (romantic era) and in a not so distant hyper-technological future.
In his studio at Charlottenborg Kunsthal, the young painter Christopher FenDweller – a figure loosely based on the Fenrir wolf of Norse mythology and the Danish Golden Age painter C.W. Eckersberg” – works on mastering the motifs of nature. It’s not going so well. Therefore, he embarks on an educational journey to the island of Møn, where a transformation begins. Ancient folk tales and figures borrowed freely from Norse mythology meet hypermodern high-tech in a lavishly baroque adventure.
25 May - 30 May
12.00

Davide Hjort Di Fabio & Theo Nymark

BFA Exhibition

Two of the works at this year’s BFA exhibition are shown in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema:
Davide Hjort Di Fabio, Interphase, 2021 (7 min).
Theo Nymarks, Det Pittoreske Bæst – The Picturesque Beast, 2018-2021 (37:25 min).
PRACTICAL INFO
25-30 May
Admission with ticket to Kunsthal Charlottenborg or BFA-exhibition.
The film programme is looped during Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s opening hours, Tue-Fri 12-20, Sat-Sun 11-17.
ABOUT THE FILMS:
Davide Hjort Di Fabio, Interphase (7 min):
“the fetters, or in a showery drops anon
dissolve and vanish,
more straitlier clench the clinging bands until
his body’s shape return to that you saw
what more?
when now the golden sun has put winter to headlong fight beneath the world*”
*Virgil, The Georgics, book IV, 29 BC
Filmed inside frozen waterfalls and rivers in Iceland, this video is connected to three ceramic sculptures exposed at the Bachelor exhibition in Festsalen.
In his Bachelor project Davide Hjort Di Fabio researches the pastoral art movement, started over two thousand years ago by the latin poet Virgil, who wrote several collections of poems about young men fleeing Rome in a period of crisis, to become shepherds in the beautiful rural landscapes of Arcadia.
In january 2021, Hjort Di Fabio travelled to Iceland for two months, living an imaginary life as a modern shepherd. With the video “Interphase”, that almost feels like a journey inside a body, Hjort Di Fabio tries to give the pastoral movement a queer voice and a more enviromental perspective, exploring the relationship between internal and external sensitivity.
Theodor Nymark, Det Pittoreske Bæst (37:25 min):
‘The Picturesque Beast’ is a multi-narrative film that follows an anthropomorphic wolf-like figure whose purpose is to capture the sublime nature. Set in two parallel worlds, the early Danish Golden Age (romantic era) and in a not so distant hyper-technological future.
In his studio at Charlottenborg Kunsthal, the young painter Christopher FenDweller – a figure loosely based on the Fenrir wolf of Norse mythology and the Danish Golden Age painter C.W. Eckersberg” – works on mastering the motifs of nature. It’s not going so well. Therefore, he embarks on an educational journey to the island of Møn, where a transformation begins. Ancient folk tales and figures borrowed freely from Norse mythology meet hypermodern high-tech in a lavishly baroque adventure.
NOTE
On Wednesday 26 May 5PM, the two film artists will present their works and show their films – with a subsequent opportunity to ask questions. The event is in English, and the admission is free.
Due to Covid-19 there are limited seats in the cinema (first-come, first-served).
5 May
17.00 - 20.00
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Afgang Live Vol. 1

Afgang 2021

Every year we celebrate and go into further exploration of the annual MFA Degree Show, by hosting a series of events, ‘Afgang LIVE’.
The events will this year be held on May 5th, May 12th and May 19th, and contains introductions, performances and readings by some of the exhibiting artists. This year we will both have events happening in the exhibition and online here in this event. The events and digital contributions will mostly be in Danish, and some will be in English and Swedish.
Programme:
In the exhibition/Kunsthal:
17-19: Marina Dubia, ‘the margins of my limit’ (performance) – for further info: www.facebook.com/events/796996924534238/
17.05: Kajsa Karlsson (introduction + reading in the exhibition)
17.25: Laurits Malthe Gulløv (introduction in the exhibition)
Digital events:
18.30-19: We will share digital introductions by Marina Dubia (ENG), Laurits Malthe Gulløv (ENG), Svend Sømod, Kajsa Karlsson, Alma Ulrikke Bille Stræde and Mathieu J. H. Hansen. Stay updated by following this event. The digital events will be online until 20.00.
19-20: School of Re-Membering will show their work ‘Den Hvide Skulptur’, which will be held on Zoom and in English. Everyone is welcome to sign up for the event, and the zoom-link will be shared in this event during the evening. More info about this soon.
COVID-restrictions:
On May 5th, it is possible to gather max. 10 people inside. Therefore registration for the events in the exhibition is mandatory. This is done by getting registered in our reception, who will give access to the first 10 people who are interested in each event. First come, first serve.
Attending in Afgang LIVE is free of charge, and there is free access to all of Kunsthal Charlottenborg on Wednesdays between 17-19.

Se mindre
11 Mar - 2 Apr
12.00
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Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition

Digital Live Programme 2021

Experience Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2021 digitally while we wait for the reopening!

Join a tour of the exhibition, experience the opening speech by the Charlottenborg Foundation’s Chairman John Kørner and a presentation of the exhibition by this year’s curator A Kassen. In addition, we present a digital live program, where the audience can experience the launch of this year’s catalogue, live stream performance from Norway, online screenings of video works, and audio presentations by a number of the artists in the art gallery’s app ‘Kunsthal Charlottenborg’. It’s free and can be downloaded from App Store or Google Play. Further info about the programme below:

CHARLOTTENBORG SPRING EXHIBITION / DIGITAL LIVE PROGRAMME 2021
11 March, 12.00: digital launch of this year’s catalogue

11 March, 20.00: screening of digital version of the solo exhibitition Lige efter krigen var jeg sikker på, at jeg kunne finde stedet by Niels Østergaard Munk (DK), 2020-2021

12 March, 20.00: screening of Talent Award video work Ingen problemer by Aske Thiberg (SE/DK), 2020

15 March, 20.00: podcast at The Lake with solo exhibitor Niels Østergaard Munk (DK) and Thorbjørn Saugmann Andersen (DK)

17  March, 20.00: screening of A HOUSE PLACED IN BETWEEN – Poetry in the comfortable grey zone by Toshie Takeuchi (JP/DK), 2020

18 March, 20.00: screening of My father has a gun by Ana Mendes (PT), 2019

20 March, 14.00: timelapse of rehanging by this year’s exhibition with the curator A Kassen

22 March, 20.00: podcast at The Lake with Talent Award winner Aske Thiberg (SE/DK) and Thorbjørn Saugmann Andersen (DK)

24 March, 20.00: live stream performance Resting Bitch Face by Mina Paasche (NO), 2020

25 March, 20.00: screening of Simón Perplejo by Cristobal Cea S. (CL), 2020

31 March, 20.00: screening of f(Silence Song) by Annett Stenzel (DE), 2020

1 April, 20.00: screening of Stories from a Twelfth-Floor Hotel Room by Zheqiang Zhang (US), 2020

2 April, 20.00: screening of Water and blood by Juan Hein (AR/DK), 2020

8 Mar
14.00

Miriam Cahn ME AS HAPPENING

Guided tour by curator Henriette Bretton-Meyer

The fight for equal rights, unlike an art institution, cannot be shut down or put on pause. On the International Women’s Day on the 8th of March, we therefore invite you to a digital tour of the critically acclaimed solo exhibition ME AS HAPPENING by Swiss artist Miriam Cahn ( b. 1949).
An uncompromising artist, Miriam Cahn has applied a feminist perspective throughout her career. An insistence on equality has always been a fundamental value for her. Anger and dissatisfaction become driving forces behind her creativity, impelling her to challenge centuries of male-dominated art history – for example by assigning a new, active role to the women depicted in art.
Join curator Henriette Bretton-Meyer live on Instagram, as she guides through the exhibition and gives an introduction to ME AS HAPPENING. The tour will be in English and takes place on March 8th 2021 at 2pm on Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s Instagram. A recorded version of the tour will later be available on Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s Facebook page.
27 Feb
17.00

Witch Hunt – Virtual Closing Program: Commission Artist Talks

On the occasion of the closing of Witch Hunt, join us for an online event. The program will focus on the exhibition’s seven newly commissioned artworks, and explore artistic approaches to historical research that in various ways connect the social, gendered, and geopolitical aspects of the witchcraft trials to the present.

Artists La Vaughn Belle, Youmna Chlala, Sidsel Meineche Hansen + Reba Maybury, Rasmus Myrup, New Noveta, Aviva Silverman, and Carmen Winant will join curators Alison Karasyk and Jeppe Ugelvig for this live-stream event. The program will begin with short opening remarks from the curators, followed by brief artist presentations and q&a’s. To attend this live-streamed event, visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s Facebook page.  The event will be in English.

To submit questions to the artists or curators in advance e-mail booking@kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk

Schedule (All times CET)
5:00 – Curator Introduction
5:10 – Carmen Winant
5:30 – La Vaughn Belle
5:50 – Youmna Chlala
6:10 – Aviva Silverman
6:30 – Sidsel Meineche Hansen & Reba Maybury
6:50 – New Noveta
7:10 – Rasmus Myrup

20 Oct - 29 Nov
15.10

Radar Contemporary

Extensions vol 2: Kosmologier

Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to present the film programme: Extensions vol 2: Kosmologier created by the digital exhibition platform Radar Contemporary.

How did it all begin, and what will the future look like? Cosmology deals with the past evolution of the universe to answer these exact questions. But humans cannot repeat the big explosions of the past to know for sure. Instead, we must dig up extragalactic fossils and put them together into never fully provable hypotheses, as a reminder of human’s the eternally limited knowledge. From when Galileo Galilei discovered that we are not the center of the universe to Einstein’s theory of relativity perceiving time and space as interdependent. The way we imagine the origin and structure of the universe is crucial to our self-perception and worldview, which is reflected further into science and art. Radar Contemporary is an exhibition platform for artists working with technology. Thus, they have created the exhibition Cosmologies to reflect on whether our digital present is changing our whole conception of the cosmos and how the technologies we use determine our knowledge of the universe. Through intuition, shamanism, esotericism, decolonial tools, and mnemonic techniques, the artists in the exhibition present approaches to the universe, breaking with the Western traditions of science. Thus, they expand not only our narratives about the cosmos but our understanding of ourselves in relation to the rest of the universe.  

Radar Contemporary is an artist-run exhibition platform for artists working in the intersection between technology and art. Radar Contemporary was founded by Ida Kvetny and Diana Velasco, and Cosmologies is their second exhibition in the exhibition series Extensions, investigating technologies as extensions of the human. 

Film programme:

BQF: Black Quantum Futurism, 2015 (04:08 min.)

Ida Kvetny: EOS, 2020 (06:00) 

Helene Nymann: M.O.L., 2017 (11:22 min.)

Lea Porsager: SPIN Φ, 2015 (3:00 min.) og Telepurrtations: #Merkel #Bohr #Besant #Blavatsky (25:00 min.)

Marie Kølbæk Iversen: Star Messenger, 2017 (11:52 min.)

 

(The film programme is looping – unless the cinema is hosting an event) 

23 Sep - 30 Sep
17.00
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Afgang LIVE

MFA Degree Show

The annual MFA Degree Show (afgang 2020) is accompanied by Afgang LIVE, which takes place on Sept 23 and Sept 30 at 5pm.
At Afgang LIVE you can experience an introduction by curator Helga Just Christoffersen as well as performances, guided tours, film screenings, etc.
Due to Covid-19 the event is organized in order to ensure a safe distance between the audience.
Admission is free and everyone is welcome.
16 Sep - 10 Oct
17.00

Performance: Monia Sander

Break

In the participatory performance, Break, the audience is asked to deal with questions about violence, privilege, power dynamics, racism and care through the activation of a script. Appearing in the space between fiction and reality, the performance situation is used to investigate and question the distribution of roles and positions in our daily lives. It is not necessarily safe and comfortable, on the contrary.

Note that there will be a max. of 9 participants for each performance – if necessary, more performances will be scheduled in the same day.

In order to participate, book a seat in advance at booking@kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk or show up in the reception at the day of the performance, where you will be assigned a time.

Trigger warning: Racial violence.
As the work contains racial violence, the script will be available for racialized participants at least two hours before every performance in a temporary separatist space at Charlottenborg. A non-white person will administer the access to the space. For racialized participants it is also possible to talk to the artist prior to or after the performance.

For a broader conversation about the performance, there will be a discussion scheduled at one or both of the Charlottenborg Live events.

The performance will be in English. The admission for the event is the normal Kunsthal Charlottenborg entry fee.

11 Sep
17.00

Performance: Monia Sander

Break

In the participatory performance, Break, the audience is asked to deal with questions about violence, privilege, power dynamics, racism and care through the activation of a script. Appearing in the space between fiction and reality, the performance situation is used to investigate and question the distribution of roles and positions in our daily lives. It is not necessarily safe and comfortable, on the contrary.

Note that there will be a max. of 9 participants for each performance – if necessary, more performances will be scheduled in the same day.

In order to participate, book a seat in advance at booking@kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk or show up in the reception at the day of the performance, where you will be assigned a time.

Trigger warning: Racial violence.
As the work contains racial violence, the script will be available for racialized participants at least two hours before every performance in a temporary separatist space at Charlottenborg. A non-white person will administer the access to the space. For racialized participants it is also possible to talk to the artist prior to or after the performance.

For a broader conversation about the performance, there will be a discussion scheduled at one or both of the Charlottenborg Live events.

The performance will be in English. The admission for the event is the normal Kunsthal Charlottenborg entry fee.

11 Sep - 11 Sep
14.00

Opening: MFA Degree Show 2020

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Schools of Visual Arts

Friday 11 September is the opening day for MFA Degree Show 2020 – the annual exhibition for the graduates from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Schools of Visual Arts.
Due to covid-19, we open the doors already at 14.00. There must be a total of 217 people distributed throughout the exhibition at the same time but with an opening day of six hours, we believe that everyone will have the opportunity to see this year’s graduation exhibition.

The exhibition celebrates and presents works created by the new talents from The Art Academy and is the culmination of their education and an insight into the latest six years working process.

This year’s 28 graduates contribute individually to the exhibition, and all the works have different expressions and are a presentation of the individual artists’ work. The audience can therefore encounter everything from painting over complex media installations to text statements and sculptural objects. At the same time, the exhibition present a very unique image of what is happening on the stage of contemporary art.

The artists featured are:
Bodil Krogh Andersen, Sara Annsofidotter, Daniel Mølholt Bülow, Nina D’hautcourt, Kåre Frang, Jonas Handskemager, Unn Aurell Hansson, Lina Hashim, Amr Hatem, Sofia Olsson Erik Hällman, Alida Mølgaard Jensen, Siska Katrine Jørgensen, Anne-Mai Sønderborg Keldsen, Steffen Kvåle, Anton Lind, Toke Højby Lorentzen, Martin Christoffer Lund, Anne Sofie Skjold Møller, Carl Plum, Maja Qvarnström, Monia Sander, Luna Emilie Printz Scales, Andreas Rønholt Schmidt, Astrid Sonne, Anna Stahn, Tina Wulff, Mikkel Ørsted.

The exhibition is accompanied by two events presenting performances, guided tours, film screenings and more. Afgang Live takes place on Sep 23 and Sep 30. The admission is free and everyone is welcome.

The exhibition is curated by Helga Just Christoffersen.

Supported by Det Obelske Familiefond and 15. Juni Fonden

28 Aug
16.30
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Charlottenborg Art Cinema: John Skoog x Filmskolen x Forum

En passant: rushes

Charlottenborg Art Cinema presents ’En passant: rushes’ by John Skoog in collaboration with Filmskolen and Forum (Kunstakademiet). The film screening takes place Friday Aug 28 at 4.30 PM.

There will be a glass of bubbles followed by an introduction by John Skoog.

The film will also be screened Saturday from 11 AM – 5 PM.

Due to Covid-19 the cinema can host a maximum of 25 people (first come first serve)

’En passant: rushes’:
Within the conceptual framework of a documentary-style one-take, students of the National Filmschool of Denmark and the student-run department Forum of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts merged their practices in a collaborative exploration of the fictional, architectural and aesthetic landscape of Dyrehavsbakken. Through the artistic and film-based practice of John Skoog, students of the two schools inserted themselves directly into the environment of Dyrehavsbakken in an experiment both amplifying and accelerating the narratives of the amusement park and the process of the film production itself.

Participating students:
Sofus Agger
Theodor Nymark
Amin Zouiten
Yujin Jung
Niels Østergaard
Mary Cvathe
Amr Hatem
Signe Raunkjær
Andreas Tang
Anna Rettl
Mikkeline Daa Natorp
Bertram von Undall
Ömer Sami
Rikke Norgaard Hansen
Thomas Dyrholm
Claes Hedlund
Louis Franscisco Vernal

26 Aug
17.00
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Charlottenborg Art Talk: Manifestations of Black Disobedience

Mai Takawira in conversation Jupiter Child, Jeannette Ehlers and Emil Elg

On Wednesday Aug 26, you can experience curator Mai Takawira in conversation with the artists Jupiter Child, Jeannette Ehlers and Emil Elg.

The focus of the conversation will be the three artists’ practices, which in different ways challenge coloniality and anti-blackness, historically and in a contemporary Danish reality. Together they will discuss issues related to an African diasporic experience, issues such as; how has silence historically been imposed on people of African descent? What violence is the silence trying to hide? And how does one confront it in an attempt to provide redress for the lives that have perished and continue to do so as a result of a white colonial logic?

The event starts at 5 pm with a short welcome by director of Kunsthal Charlottenborg Michael Thouber and spokeswoman for Black Lives Matter, Denmark, Bwalya Sørensen.

There is room for 35 and registration is done by sending an email to booking@kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk (according to the first-come, first-served principle)

The event is livestreamed on Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s Instagram profile.

14 Aug - 14 Aug
16.00 - 18.00
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Book launch + Q&A: Jane Jin Kaisen

Community of Parting

Join us for the launch of Jane Jin Kaisen’s new publication, ‘Community of Parting’ Friday 14/8 4pm – 6pm.

We will celebrate the new book, and the last weekend of Kaisens exhibition ‘Community of Parting’ at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, with refreshments and introductions by Anne Kølbæk Iversen, Guston Sondin-Kung and Jane Jin Kaisen.

There’ll be free admission to the exhibition when you purchase a copy of the publication (offer applies all weekend).

The entrance to the book launch is free.

Refreshments kindly supported by The Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Denmark.

About the publication:

Presenting a selection of Kaisen’s artworks realized between 2010-2020, this new book is the most comprehensive introduction to the artist’s work. Kaisen brings past and present, the eternal and the temporal into play through performative, feminist works.

The book is composed of several interwoven voices: Poetics by Kim Hyesoon, poetry by Mara Lee, and shamanic ritual chants by Koh Sunahn, accompanied by essay contributions by Heidi Ballet, Anselm Franke, Pujita Guha and Abhijan Toto for the Forest Curriculum, Anne Kølbæk Iversen, Jane Jin Kaisen, Hyunjin Kim, Soyi Kim, Yongwoo Lee, and conversations with Mary Kelly and Kim Seongnae.

Published by Archive Books and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Publishing in cooperation with Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

 

12 Aug
17.00 - 20.00
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Book Launch: Jeppe Ugelvig

Fashion Work 1993-2018, 25 Years of Art in Fashion

Coinciding with Copenhagen Fashion Week, we are pleased to invite you to the official book launch and signing of “Fashion Work 1993-2018, 25 Years of Art in Fashion” by Jeppe Ugelvig. In this unprecedented volume, the Danish New York-based critic and curator recounts a little-explored history of art/fashion hybridity through the genre-defying practices of Bernadette Corporation, Susan Cianciolo, BLESS and DIS (whose solo exhibition DIS presents: What Do People Do All Day?  at Kunsthal Charlottenborg runs until 13. September 2020), exploring their experimental approaches to fashion production between the art and fashion worlds in a time of radical societal change.

Featuring never-before seen archival material from the artists, “Fashion Work” is an exhilarating scrapbook of the millenial fashion-art scenes in New York, Paris, and Berlin—and an urgent call for new models of fashion practice in the contemporary. Signed books will be available to purchase. There is free entrance to Kunsthal Charlottenborg every Wednesday between 17-20 pm.

7 Jul - 23 Aug
12.00

Aftershocks

Curated by Mai Takawira

Christina Sharpe describes In The Wake: On Blackness and Being how Black being is still unfolding within and up against the aftermath of slavery. The transatlantic slave trade has left the Black body in a state of turmoil, a continuing shock and tremor, oscillating between emergence and disintegration. Life and death. It is like the “the track left on the water’s surface by a ship; the disturbance caused by a body swimming or moved, in water”, she writes. The struggle to breathe, the struggle against disappearing in the wake continues.

Christina Sharpe hails from an African-American background, but the murder of George Floyd has sent shockwaves through the global landscape because anti-blackness exists globally. Because the colonialist and enslaving patterns embedded in the past continue to make themselves felt, making the value of Black people unclear in the Western dominant optics. Because the wake extends from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean.

This film programme presents a number of selected documentaries, records and video works which call attention to aftershocks that are local in nature and/or connected to ‘a Danish reality.’ The series launches interventions into the museum space, the written word, the archives, the asylum system and the EU border control policy. An accumulation of disobedience manifests itself as past and contemporary practices are questioned and challenged, pointing towards their impact on Black lives. At the same time, something is stirring, a counter-pressure, an insistence on existing; that Black Lives Matter.

Text by Mai Takawira

Photo: still from Cast Away Soul by Stanley Edward, Nanna Katrine Hansen, Thomas Elsted, Markus Fiedler.

Film Programme:

Emil Elg: Hvis du er hvid er du min fjende / Når jer ser et rødt flag smælde. 2016. 21.16 min.

Stanley Edward, Nanna Katrine Hansen, Thomas Elsted, Markus Fiedler: Cast Away Souls, 2019 (34.00 min.)

Forensic Architecture: Pushbacks at the Melilla Border Fence: N.D and N.T. V Spain, 2014-17 (14.00 min.)

Grada Kilomba: WHILE I WRITE: Act III of The Desire Project, 2016. (2,34 min.)

Jeannette Ehlers: Black is a Beautiful Word. I & I (encountering the Danish colonial archive), 2019. (4.47 min.)

For further film descriptions see Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s app.

8 Jun
12.00

CHARLOTTENBORG ART CINEMA PRESENTS CHRIS KRAUS

Experience Chris Kraus' complete film production, created between 1982 and 1995.

Chris Kraus is a renowned American writer, editor, and art critic who started her career as a film director. Kraus was part of New York’s philosophical circles and art scene in the ’80s and’ 90s, addressing issues such as desire, desperation, and self-awareness, spiraling out of this environment. The formats and styles of the films alternate between long, short, experimental, funny, and awkward, and like in her books, the method is often auto-ethnographic. Through this personal approach, she combines emotional connections with intellectual reflections in sharp and sometimes absurd analyzes of the surrounding society. Today the films stand as iconic examples of alternative storytelling as well as they have become references on how to combine subjective experiences with theory and art.

Chris Kraus: Gravity and Grace, 1995. 16mm film transferred to video 1:29:00 hour
Chris Kraus: Voyage to Rodez, 1986. 16mm film transferred to video 13:58 min.
Chris Kraus: How to Shoot a Crime, 1987. Digital video 28:50 min.
Chris Kraus: Sadness at Leaving, 1992. Super-8 film transferred to video 26:54 min.
Chris Kraus: The Golden Bowl or Repression, 1984-88. 16mm film transferred to video 12:23 min.
Chris Kraus: Foolproof Illusion, 1986. Digital video 17:41 min.
Chris Kraus: Terrorists in Love, 1983. Super-8 film transferred to video 5:20 min.
Chris Kraus: In Order to Pass, 1982.) Super-8 film transferred to video 26:54 min.
Chris Kraus: Traveling at Night, 1990. Digital video 11:54 min.

The film program starts when the doors open and the above sequence is looped during the opening hours of Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

19 Mar
17.00 - 22.00

DIS presents: What Do People Do All Day?

ATTENTION: Postponed due to COVID19

ATTENTION:

Kunsthal Charlottenborg is closed until further notice. This happens based on the Danish government’s declaration that all public cultural institutions with indoor spaces are to close down for at least two weeks to minimise the spread of corona virus (COVID-19).

The closing of Kunsthal Charlottenborg means that all events that should have taken place during the period 12 March – 27 March are canceled or postponed, inclusive the opening of the exhibition ‘DIS presents: What Do People Do All Day?’. Further information about the opening will follow.

Instead, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, in collaboration with DIS, Tranen and CPH:DOX, will make all films and series on the streaming platform Dis.art available free of charge to all Danes until September 1, 2020. Further info here:
kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/en/aktuelt/2020/03/13/kunsthal-charlottenborg-launches-platform-in-denmark-that-turns-learning-into-a-netflix-like-experience/
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It is with great pleasure that Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you to the opening of our new exhibition ‘DIS presents: What Do People Do All Day?’ curated by DIS in collaboration with Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Tranen and CPH:DOX. We celebrate this with an opening reception taking place on:

THURSDAY 19 MARCH 5-10PM
The admission is free and everyone is welcome.

Meet a number of the participating artists such as: Hannah Black (Great Brittain), Derek Larson (USA), Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman (USA), Ilana Harris-Babou (USA), Will Benedict (USA) & Steffen Jørgensen (Denmark), Olivia Erlanger (USA) & Luis Ortega Govela (Mexico), Simon Dybbroe Møller (Denmark) og DIS (USA).

PROGRAM FOR THE OPENING
5.00-6.00pm: Book launch and talk: Jeppe Ugelvig in conversation with DIS.
In connection with the opening, the audience can experience a conversation between DIS and the Danish curator and writer Jeppe Ugelvig, who launches the book ‘Fashion Work 1993-2018: 25 Years of Art in Fashion’. The publication is the result of a multi-year research project on the relationship between art and fashion over the past 25 years, and is also the first in-depth treatment of DIS’s practices across publishing, art, fashion and video. The talk is in English.

6.00-8.00pm: Reception. Kunsthal Charlottenborg serves a glass of wine for the first arrivals.

8.00-10.00pm: DJ. Natal Zaks.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The internationally renowned artists’ collective DIS, who curated the 9th Berlin Biennale, are now coming to Copenhagen. The exhibition DIS presents: What Do People Do All Day? shows a selection of spectacular video works from the newly developed video platform dis.art as well as cinematic settings and installations that question the future of society – and what we humans do in our everyday lives to influence that future. More about the exhibition: kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/en/exhibitions/dis/

PART OF CPH:DOX
The exhibition ‘DIS presents: What Do People Do All Day?’ is presented in collaboration with CPH:DOX which will, for the fourth time, transform Kunsthal Charlottenborg into a festival mansion and headquarters for this year’s edition of one of the world’s most acclaimed documentary film festivals, taking place from 18 to 29 March 2020. In addition to the opening of the exhibition, the festival will present screenings, debates, concerts, business forums and a virtual reality cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. More about CPH:DOX: en.cphdox.dk

7 Mar
11.00 - 17.00
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Litteraturen samler ind

No less than 180 volunteers, writers, actors, journalists and organizers have chosen to host Denmark’s most beloved literary event, which this year takes place on March 7 in Odense and Copenhagen.

In Copenhagen you can experience music, readings and conversations (in Danish) from the scenes at Johan Borup’s Højskole, BRØG Literature Bar and Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Program of the year here.

This year, there will be collected money to build and operate five schools on the Syrian border, so that children in the refugee camps also will have the opportunity to attend school.

In addition to readings and conversations, there will be book sales, stalls with food, drinks and more.

Tickets DKK 100 (+ fee)
Children free admission
The ticket is valid all day for all scenes in Odense and Copenhagen.

5 Mar
17.00 - 19.00

Unintended Beauty by Alastair Philip Wiper

Book launch

Join us on March 5 at the launch of Alastair Philip Wiper’s new book Unintended Beauty.

The book offers a rare insight into places of work, knowledge and power that are normally kept behind closed doors. A photographic exploration of industrial iconography and scientific symbolism found in technical facilities in around the world.

”The human mind is capable of extraordinary things. We create systems, structures and machines that allow us to provide for our lives and answer our questions about the universe. Machines tell the story of our needs and desires, our hopes and follies, our visions for the future.”
– Alastair Philip Wiper

The book launch takes place in Charlottenborg Art Books Thursday March 5, 5-7pm at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

4 Mar
17.00 - 18.00

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition

Søren Rønholt and Trine Søndergaard

In relation to the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2020 you can experience a talk Wednesday March 4 with photographer and board member of the Charlottenborg Foundation Søren Rønholt and one of this year’s jury members and visual artist Trine Søndergaard. They will discuss current trends within photography based on their respective practices and on the basis of selected works at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2020.

About Trine Søndergaard
Trine Søndergaard (born 1972) is a Danish photography-based visual artist. She lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Trine Søndergaard’s work is marked by a precision and a sensibility that co-exist with an investigation of the medium of photography, its boundaries and what constitutes an image. Layered with meaning and quiet emotion, her works are highly acclaimed for their visual intensification of our perception of reality.  In 2000 she was awarded The Albert Renger-Patzsch Prize and has since received numerous grants and fellowships, including a three-year working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions around the world, and is represented in major public collections. Trine Søndergaard is represented by Martin Asbæk Gallery in Copenhagen and Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York.

About Søren Rønholt
Søren Rønholt (b. 1969) is a visual artist having photography as his principal media. Thematically, Rønholt´s work is characterized by a fascination with the immanent drama. A trait and a trademark you notice in both his person portraits and his photographic tableaus of landscapes and urban Badlands. As a portrait photographer, Rønholt is highly appreciated. He is acknowledged for his ability to fashion a presence in each portrait that encapsulates the object´s distinct and matchless details and creates an almost sculptural and iconic expression of the portrayed. Consequently, Søren Rønholt is a preferred photographer of actors, authors, artists and musicians throughout Scandinavia.

This evening’s Charlottenborg Art Talk takes place from 17-18 in the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2020. Meeting spot: Upper foyer. The admission is free. The talk will be held in Danish.

 

13 Feb
17.00 - 20.00

Boni Fide

Release of debut album YIELD

Bona Fide’s debut album ‘YIELD’ is released in collaboration with Copenhagen based label Escho; A limited edition vinyl with silkprint covers handmade by Sofia Luna.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg will host the release on February 13th from 5pm-8pm. Free entrance. Music video screenings throughout the evening. Free beers for firstcomers. We are looking forward seeing you!

”Bona Fide is minimalistic gothic folk by Sofia Luna (vocals, guitar) and Emil Palme (guitar). Equally in love with the tradition and future potential of folk music, Bona Fide sets out to be a romantic catalyst for the epic tales of our time.
Deep hollow guitars meet in minimalistic arrangements while Sofia Lunas enticing voice carries the listener through a raw and frail landscape made of different sonic perspectives.
Recorded exclusively on telephones, Bona Fides sound presents the paradox of 2020 dystopia: Contemporary mythology, fear of ecological collapse and comfort of changing seasons all carefully captivated through modern day technology like the fossils of tomorrow.”

Debut album ’YIELD’ is out on all digital platforms on February 14th. Listen to Bona Fides first singles here.

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11 Feb - 8 Mar
12.00

Animation films for the whole family

In collaboration with VOID International Animation Film Festival

Enter the wonderful world of animation films, when Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents an exclusive film programme for the whole family in collaboration with VOID International Animation Film Festival.

The program is a hand-picked selection of animated short films from all over the world. Each film has been carefully chosen in its duration and theme to suit the taste of kids and grown-ups alike.  At times poetic, at times magical, the compilation is a colorful feast for the eyes that touches the heart. Prepare to smile, laugh, and shed a tear.

Film programme:
‘o28’ by Otalia Caussé (2019), 5:18, France
‘Dandelion in the Wind’ by Do Thi Ngan Giang (2018), 3:33, Singapore
‘Island’ by Max Mörtl, Robert Löbel (2017), 2:30, Germany
‘To & Kyo’ by Tsuneo Goda (2017), 4:04, Japan
‘JellyPimple’ by Tao Zhang (2019), 1:00, Germany
‘Amenti’ by Kaméla Bentouati, Amandine Dazin (2018), 3:15, France
‘Stray Cats’ by Han Xiao (2016), 4:00, China
‘CORKY’ by Ty Primosch (2017), 5:45, USA
‘Forglemmegei’ by Katarina Lundquist (2019), 8:00, Denmark
‘Stuffed’ by Élise Simoulin, Édouard Heutte, Clotilde Bonnotte, Anna Komaromi, Marisa Di Vora Peixoto, Helena Bastioni (2018), 6:34, France
‘The Kite’ by Martin Smatana (2019), 13:10, Czech Republic.

The program is wordless, lasts around 60 min. and is screened in our cinema during opening hours except Wednesdays after 3pm and Saturday 7 March. Everyone is welcome with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg (0-15 years – free admission).

4 Feb - 8 Mar
17.00

The Children of Deportation Center Sjælsmark Move Out

Opening 4 February

In the winter of 2019, visual artist Camilla Blachmann started a workshop at Deportation Center Sjælsmark where children and young people have been able to immerse themselves, and have been challenged and encouraged to let their imaginations run free.

Working with the children, they discovered that art gave them a language to talk about their chaotic stories, hopes and dreams. What started out as decorating a single wall at Sjælsmark has now become a wealth of drawings, paintings and entire rooms, all documenting and bearing witness to one of the most serious problems of our time: the story of the abandoned refugee children at Sjælsmark.

In collaboration with journalist Liv Krasnik, we present the story of Sjælsmark’s children at Kunsthal Charlottenborg on 4 February 2020, where the children from Sjælsmark will paint directly on the walls and display the works they’ve created throughout 2019. On being trapped at Sjælsmark, the joy of the center closing, the fear of ending up somewhere worse. On hope, love, and community. What it’s like to be a child in a prison.

4 February, we invite to the opening of the exhibition with talks, food and music. More information will follow.

The exhibition is on view 4 Februrary – 8 March 2020 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

 

4 Feb
17.00 - 21.00

The Children of Deportation Center Sjælsmark Move Out

The exhibition is created by artist Camilla Blachmann in collaboration with journalist Liv Krasnik

In the winter of 2019, visual artist Camilla Blachmann started a workshop at Deportation Center Sjælsmark where children and young people have been able to immerse themselves, and have been challenged and encouraged to let their imaginations run free.

Working with the children, we discovered that art gave them a language to talk about their chaotic stories, hopes and dreams. What started out as decorating a single wall at Sjælsmark has now become a wealth of drawings, paintings and entire rooms, all documenting and bearing witness to one of the most serious problems of our time: the story of the abandoned refugee children at Sjælsmark.

In collaboration with journalist Liv Krasnik, we’re exhibiting the story of Sjælsmark’s children at Kunsthal Charlottenborg from the 4th of February 2019, where the children from Sjælsmark will paint directly on the walls and display the works they’ve created throughout 2019. On being trapped at Sjælsmark, the joy of the center closing, the fear of ending up somewhere worse. On hope, love, and community. What it’s like to be a child in a prison.

The opening takes place Tuesday 4 February 5-9pm. The exhibition is on view 4 February — 8 March 2020 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

1 Feb
19.00 - 00.00
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Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2020

Exhibition closes at 10pm

It is with great pleasure that the Charlottenborg Foundation and Kunsthal Charlottenborg invite to the opening of the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2020, one of the most important open, censored exhibitions in Europe since 1857. The opening will take place on:

Saturday February 1, 7pm-12am
The exhibition closes at 10pm

Welcome speech at 7.30pm by Thomas Lindvig, Chairman of the Board, the Charlottenborg Foundation. Following, opening speech on behalf of this year’s jury by Director at Malmö Art Museum Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg, where this year’s winners of the Solo Award and the Talent Award is also announced. At 8.30pm the artist Silke Xenia Juul (DK) will perform ‘BEDWRITTEN: A One Woman Show’ (2018). The performance lasts approx. 37 min. and will only be performed at the opening night

DJ Christian d’Or provides music all night and Apollo Kantine serves the dish of the day for 85 DKK. Admission is free and everyone is welcome!

This year’s participants are:
Marie Agnild (DK), Selin Akin (TR) & Alexander Papakonstandinou (GR), Katja Angeli (DK), Shimon Attie (US), Bianca Barandun (CH), Anders Bendixen (DK), Stine Bidstrup (DK), BLUE TIT Production (Helle Pagter, Amia Miang & Pernille Koch) (DK), Silke Brandes (DK), Bue Bredsdorff (DK), Andreas Brunner (CH), Kasper Christiansen (DK), Valerie Collart (FR), Bjørn Colstrup (DK), Hilde Dramstad (NO), Frans Drewniak (DK), Ellen Dynebrink (SE), AnneMette Elmelund (DK), Signe Emdal (DK), Simone Fezer (DE), Lauge Groes (DK), Henriikka Harinen (FI), Dorthe Herup (DK), Liisa Hietanen (FI), Davide Hjort (IT), Erik Hjorth (DK), Annamarie Ho (US), Gunzi Holmström (FI), Mette Homar (DK), Hanna Hyy (FI), Maria Høyen (NO), Mads Max Ibenfeldt (DK), Noa Ironic (IL), Amalie Vöge Jensen (DK), Nellie Jonsson (SE), Silke Xenia Juul (DK), Nikki Jääskeläinen (FI), Jakob Jørgensen (DK), Kamilla Jørgensen (DK), Niklas Karlsson (SE), Malene Kastalje (DK), Jonna Kina (FI), Maria Koshenkova (RU), Rebecka Larsdotter (SE), Anton Lind (SE), Christina Maj Lundqvist (DK), Material Think Space (Kate Williams (US) & Louis Alderson-Bythell (UK)), Anne Mortensen (DK), Niels Østergaard Munk (DK), Isaac Nissen (DK), Anna Nyberg (SE), Karl Ejnar Nybo (DK), Annelie Grimwade Olofsson (SE), Christina Bruun Olsson (DK), Iida Pii (FI), François Réau (FR), Marie Retpen (DK) & Begitte Lynge Andersen (DK), Sixten Sandra (SE), Katherine Sankey (IE), Susanne Schwieter (DE), Henk Stallinga (NL), Trine Struwe (DK), Stine Stubdrup (DK), Charlotte Thorup (DK), Attilio Tono (IT), André Viking (DK), Austin Voll (US), Vic West (SE), Sky Lucy Young (DK), Heidi Øiseth (NO).

Furthermore, last year’s winner of the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition Solo Award, Samaneh Roghani (IR), presents a solo exhibition with a new installation at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2020.

The 2020 jury consists of Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg (Director, Malmö Art Museum), Morten Løbner Espersen (craftsman), Tina Maria Nielsen (visual artist), Trine Søndergaard (visual artist) and Trude Mardal (architect). With their artistic practice and background as well as their international experience the jury has not only selected the works for the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2020 but also nominated five artists to this year’s Solo Award and elected the Solo Award winner and the Talent Award winner, where the winners are announced at the opening night.

We look forward to a festive night!

Talk programme:
During the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2020 visitors can meet some of the participating artists and hear about their artistic practice. All events are free. Further info about the events: kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/en/events/

Funds and sponsors:
The Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2020 is generously supported by the following funds and sponsors: 15. Juni Fonden, Apollo Bar, Augustinus Fonden, Beckett-Fonden, Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond af 1968, Det Obelske Familiefond, Dreyers Fond, Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond, Knud Højgaards Fond, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Statens Kunstfond, Vester Kopi og Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond.

7 Jan - 6 Feb
12.00

The Why

Short film programme

7 January – 6 February 2020, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents a selection of short films in collaboration with The WHY from their previous programs: WHY SLAVERY?, WHY WOMEN?, WHY DEMOCRACY?, WHY POVERTY?. The film programme lasts 55 min. and consists of eleven short films:

Carl Gierstorfer & Sebastian Weis: Dollar Heroes, 2018 (5:56 min.)
Kasper Møller Jensen & Joachim Berg Nielsen: Striving for Utopias, 2016 (2:56 min.)
Judy Kibinge: Coming of Age, 2007 (11:59 min.)
Simon Nørredam: The Benefits of a Toilet, 2016 (2:49 min.)
Roger Ross Williams: Jailed in America, 2018 (5:19 min.)
Ivan Golovnev: Old Peter, 2007 (8:27 min.)
Robin Glass: Every Year, Every Hour, Every Minute, 2016 (2:45 min.)
Hanna Polak: Love and Rubbish, 2012 (7:45 min.)
Guillaume Suon: The Storm Makers, 2018 (4:06 min.)
Lucas Nieto: In Your Hands, 2012 (5:44 min.)
Sara Koppel: It Started with a Duck, 2016 (2:26 min.)

The film programme is screened in our cinema and can be experienced with paid entrance to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

18 Dec
17.00 - 18.30

Pedro Gómez-Egaña – CANCELLED

Professor of Sculpture and Installation at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts

Wednesday 18 December, experience a talk with Pedro Gómez-Egaña, Professor of Sculpture and Installation at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. The admission is free and everyone is invited.

The Séance of Gorrlaus is a performance that draws from sex dating apps, folk musical mysticism and the lecture format as a way to summon altered states of perceprtion. It is part of a series of works (The Séance of Canis, Mitre Marrows) that investigate mysticism as a way of understanding our relationship with technology and temporal collapse.

The talk is organised by Honey Biba Beckerlee & Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Institute for Art, Writing & Research, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, in collaboration with Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The talk is part of a PhD symposium within the KUNO network between art academies in the Nordic-Baltic region.

Pedro Gómez-Egaña (1976, Colombia) lives and works in Oslo. He studied music composition, performance, and visual arts at Goldsmiths College, Bergen National Academy of Arts, and completed his doctoral project with the Norwegian Research Fellowship Programme. Gómez-Egaña is currently professor of sculpture and installation at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

Gómez-Egaña’s sculptures, immersive installations and video works take a critical look at current and historical technologies and explore how they define our experience and understanding of time. This includes an interest in the mechanical, the intersection of the industrial and the mystical, and the emotional and spiritual undertones of digital culture. The work reflects a concern with how our networked and media-driven world reduces a certain diversity of attention. Gómez-Egaña addresses this by producing purpose-built spaces that seek to modulate audiences’ way of experiencing a situation or narrative.

Gómez-Egaña’s works have been presented by The Munch Museum (Oslo, 2019), ARTBO Mesoamerica Art Award (Bogotá, 2019), Zilberman Gallery (Istanbul, 2019), YARAT Contemporary Art Space (Baku, 2018), TENT (Rotterdam, 2018), 15th Istanbul Biennial (Istanbul, 2017), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2017), Contour Biennial (Mechelen, 2017), Museo de Arte Moderno (Medellin, 2017), Entree (Bergen, 2017), Kochi-Muziris Biennial (Kochi, 2016), Mana Contemporary (New Jersey, 2015), Colomboscope Biennial (Colombo, 2015), Performa 13 (New York, 2013), Kunsthall Mulhouse (Mulhouse, 2013), Marrakech Biennial (Marrakech, 2009), and Brussels Biennial (Brussels, 2008).

11 Dec
17.00 - 21.00
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Charlottenborg Live

Knud Romer, Nikoline, Cecilie Lind and others

In collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites to eight Wednesdays evenings from 23 October – 11 December 2019 with live talks, performances, guided tours in the current exhibitions, author meetings and long table dinners.

Programme 11 Dec

6-6pm Talk: Knud Romer and rapper Nikoline
5.30-7.30 Performance: Eva Kotatkova Confessions of the Piping System with Ninna Steen and Lisbeth Sonne
6-6.45 Guided tour: Art & Porn
7-9pm Long table dinner in Apollo Kantine
7.45-8.45 Author meeting: Cecilie Lind Mit barn (part of dinner), in Danish

Dinner reservation (DKK 100 + fee per person) here.

Wednesday night, the admission is free at Kunsthal Charlottenborg at 5-8pm.

9 Dec
19.00 - 21.00

BEFORE WE GO

Jorge León (BE)

Film: Before We Go by Jorge León

An awarded film about human frailty, death, resilience and the lifeaffirming possibilities of communal artistic activity.

Brussels, La Monnaie Opera House. Three people near the end of their lives meet with choreographers, actors and musicians. They take part in a unique experience which involves music, dance and silence. Their journey becomes a tribute to the fragility of the human condition, between reality and representation, tragedy of the body and freedom of the spirit. Together they question their own relationship with death.

Credit
Director/ Jorge Leon
Production company / Derives
Cast / Meg Stuart, Lidia Schoue, Michel Vassart, Noel Mineo, Benoit Lachambre, Simone Aughterlony, Thomas Wodianka
Director/Screenwriter / Jorge Leon
Producer / Julie Freres
Executive producers / Veronique Marit, Sabine Raskin
Cinematographers / Remon Fromont, Jorge Leon, Thomas Schira
Editor / Marie-Helene Mora
Music / George Van Dam, Walter Hus, Alex Verster
Duration / 82 minutes

Jorge León (Belgium)
Jorge León studied film in Brussels (INSAS). His interests led him into the documentary field as director and director of photography. He’s been working as photographer and videomaker, with a.o. Éric Pauwels, Wim Vandekeybus, Thierry De Mey, Xavier Lukomski, Olga de Soto, Ana Torfs, Meg Stuart, … His photographic works have been exhibited in Belgium and abroad and were published in different newspapers and magazines. At the kunstenfestivaldesarts 2010 in Brussels he created his first theatre production, Deserve, in collaboration with Simone Aughterlony.

Meg Stuart,
She is born in New Orleans, is an American choreographer and dancer who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels. The daughter of theatre directors, she began dancing and acting at an early age in California and regularly performed in her parents’ productions and those made by family friends. She made her first dance studies as a teenager focusing on simple movement actions. Stuart decided to move to New York in 1983 and studied dance at New York University. She continued her training at Movement Research where she explored numerous release techniques and was actively involved in the downtown New York dance scene.
Invited to perform at the Klapstuk festival in Leuven in 1991, she created her first evening-length piece, Disfigure Study. In this choreography, Stuart approaches the body as a vulnerable physical entity that can be deconstructed, distorted or displaced but still resonates and has meaning. Her subsequent piece, No Longer Readymade (1993), toured extensively and launched her artistic career in Europe. Interested in devising her own structure through which to develop artistic projects, Stuart founded Damaged Goods in Brussels in 1994.
www.damagedgoods.be/en/about

The evening is part of the program series CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists and other professionals share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installations, performances and films. New guest every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to the artists in the field but open to all with an interest.

It is in English.

Free Entrance.

4 Dec
17.00 - 21.00
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Charlottenborg Live

Simon Dybroe Møller, Ditte & Louise and others

In collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites to eight Wednesdays evenings from 23 October – 11 December 2019 with live talks, performances, guided tours in the current exhibitions, author meetings and long table dinners.

Programme 4 Dec

5-6pm Talk: Simon Dybroe Møller
5.30-7.30pm: Eva Kotatkova Confessions of the Piping System with Nina Tind, Ninna Steen and Piet Gitz-Johansen
6-6.45 Guided tour: Art & Porn
7-9pm Long table dinner in Apollo Kantine
7.45-8.45 Author meeting: Ditte & Louise Gode kasser (part of dinner), in Danish

Talk: Simon Dybbroe Møller
Simon Dybbroe Møller, newly appointed Professor at The School of Sculpture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, will speak about  his practice and how it tests the relationship between essential sensate qualities and the evolution of communication; how it feels to be bodies tumbling or stumbling through this world; how we change media and how media changes us.

Simon Dybbroe Møller has had solo exhibitions at Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Fondazione Giuliani in Rome, Kunsthalle Sao Paulo, 21er Haus in Vienna, Kunstverein Hannover, Frankfurter Kunstverein, among others. His work was included in the 5th Moscow Biennial, the 2nd Turin Triennial and the 9th Berlin Biennial and in group exhibitions at MOCA Detroit; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; SMK National Gallery, Copenhagen; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, and Kunstverein München.

Wednesday night, the admission is free at Kunsthal Charlottenborg at 5-8pm.

27 Nov
17.00 - 21.00
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Charlottenborg Live

Vika Kirchenbauer, Jules Fischer, Tinne Zenner, Dy Plambeck and others

In collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites to eight Wednesdays evenings from 23 October – 11 December 2019 with live talks, performances, guided tours in the current exhibitions, author meetings and long table dinners.

Programme 27 Nov

5-7pm Talk: Vika Kirchenbauer, Jules Fischer & Tinne Zenner
5.30-7.30pm Performance: Eva Kotatkova Confessions of the Piping System with Nina Tind and Ninna Steen
6-6.45 Guided tour: Art & Porn
7-9pm Long table dinner in Apollo Kantine
7.45-20.45 Authour meeting: Dy Plambeck Til min søster (part of dinner), in Danish

Dinner reservation (DKK 100 + fee per person) here.

Wednesday night, the admission is free at Kunsthal Charlottenborg at 5-8pm.

27 Nov
17.00 - 19.00

Vika Kirchenbauer, Jules Fischer & Tinne Zenner

Feeling Difference

Wednesday November 27 Kunsthal Charlottenborg is excited to present Charlottenborg Art Talk with the artist Vika Kirchenbauer, also participating in the current exhibition Art & Porn.

The talk ‘Feeling Difference’ is moderated by Tinne Zenner followed by a conversation with Jules Fischer and questions from the audience. The admission is free and everybody is welcome.

‘Feeling Difference’ – Artist talk by Vika Kirchenbauer
YOU ARE BORING! (14”/2015)
FEELING DIFFERENCE (25”/artist talk)
THE ISLAND OF PERPETUAL TICKLING (excerpt 13”/2018)

YOU ARE BORING! (14”/2015)
YOU ARE BORING! discusses the troublesome nature of “looking” and “being looked at” in larger contexts including labour within the Experience Economy, performer/spectator relations, participatory culture, contemporary art display and queer representational
politics. Vika Kirchenbauer formulates from this web of thoughts a 3D video installation focusing on five performers’ bodies as sites-of-speech removed from any physical context. Through strategies that overload the capacities of affective multitasking and the selfconsuming illusion of total subjectivity, the spectator is personally addressed and promised exactly what they need. The work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions and is included in the collection of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein.

FEELING DIFFERENCE (artist talk)
An important economic shift can be witnessed in Western economies: value, rather than being based on an object’s trade value, is now created through the untradeability of the inherently personal experience. It can be stated that not only in politics and economy, but also in art, affects have become the most promising currency that stakeholders deal in. In her video and performance works, writings and teachings she has previously discussed
spectatorship and representation of the othered in relation to the Experience Economy and museum spaces’ increasing focus on the visitor’s engagement and immersion. In this artist talk she will expand that notion and depart towards a relational understanding of the act of looking whilst complicating some pre-conceptions about empathy and compassion. Particularly when considering the relational dynamics of encounters with art produced from a minoritised position: what difficulties arise around notions of “understanding” and how are empathy and compassion – emotions of profound historic entanglements with the arts – involved in shaping a centralised constitution of the world as such?

THE ISLAND OF PERPETUAL TICKLING (excerpt, 13”/2018)
This excerpt from Vika Kirchenbauer’s video installation is based on a performance of the same title that took place at District Berlin in March 2018. Having grown up not just with sports but very much within them, the artist gained understanding of arenas and stadiums to be disorienting places where people (mostly straight men) find access to and outlets for emotions they struggle to encounter or express in regular life. Similarly in art spaces she observes audiences find access to otherwise covered emotions triggered by looking at something foreign, accessing parts of themselves without having to live (or be able to live) the totality of that other “experience”. The audience spectacle of a tickling performance was the artist’s attempt at creating a situation of crossover art/sports spectatorship where the affective responses caused by minority art (assuming most “minority art” to consist of some degree of more or less abstracted or reenacted trauma) get intensified and displayed in a more open and legible way. There is shock, there is laughter, there is identification, there is disidentification, there is joy, there is feeling bored and there is wanting it to be over.

26 Nov
18.00 - 20.00

Luke Fowler

Film screening and Q/A

Tuesday 26 November, Kunsthal Charlottenborg and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts presents a screening of Luke Fowler’s film ‘Electro-Pythagoras (a portrait of Martin Bartlett)’ (2017, 45 min.). We have invited the artist to introduce the film and afterwards there will be time for a Q&A session.

A prominent figure in Glasgow’s contemporary art scene, Luke Fowler’s work explores the limits and conventions of biographical and documentary film-making. This has resulted in comparisons with British Free Cinema of the 1950s, which represented a new attitude to film-making that embraced the reality of everyday, contemporary British society.

In adopting the roles of artist, curator, historian, film-maker and musician, Fowler creates impressionistic portraits of intriguing figures. As montages of archival footage alongside new recordings, interviews, photography and sound, Fowler’s films offer a unique and compelling insight into his subject.

With ‘Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett’ Luke Fowler pays tribute to the work and musical ideas of Martin Bartlett (1939-93) a proudly gay Canadian composer who during the 1970s and 1980s pioneered the use of the ‘microcomputer’. Bartlett is hardly recognised, never mind canonised, in cultural life. He researched intimate relationships with technology and was particularly interested in handmade electronics where, as he states in one of his performances: “the intimacy of handcraftedness softens the technological anonymity creating individual difference making each instrument a topography of uncertainties with which we become acquainted through practice’.

Luke Fowler (b. 1978, Glasgow) has exhibited widely and his films have been shown at film festivals across the world. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2012.

Admission to this event is free once you have purchased a ticket for Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

25 Nov
19.00 - 21.00

Reflections on the Performance of Rage and Femininity

Johanna Chemnitz (DE)

Dancer and choreographer Johanna Chemnitz will take this evening at Dansehallerne as an opportunity to explore (un)traditional formats of creative performance lecture.
She will share extracts of her work, working processes and current artistic investigation, with a focus on feminist perspectives.
Most of the works that Johanna has co-created, participated and collaborated on have had the underlying thread of the practice of release techniques, including the exploration of the still burning topics and political questions of different liberation movements of the 20th century but from today’s perspective.
During this evening, she will be focusing on these themes and progress these ideas further by reflecting on the performance of rage and femininity.

About Johanna Chemnitz
In recent years, Johanna has been working with choreographers Mette Ingvartsen and Margrét Sara Gudjónsdóttir and has been touring worldwide. She also created collaborative works with other choreographers and visual artists. She has been a dance and yoga teacher throughout all of her career.
www.johannachemnitz.com/

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists and other professionals share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installations, performances and films. New guest every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to the artists in the field but open to all with an interest.

It is in English.

Free Entrance.

20 Nov
17.00 - 21.00
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Charlottenborg LIVE

Maja Malou Lyse, Anders Fomsgaard and others

In collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites to eight Wednesdays evenings from 23 October – 11 December 2019 with live talks, performances, guided tours in the current exhibitions, author meetings and long table dinners.

Programme 20 Nov
5-6pm Talk: Maja Malou Lyse

5.30-7.30 Performance: Eva Kotatkova Confessions of the Piping System with Nina Tind and Ninna Steen
6-6.45pm Guided tour: Art & Porn
7-9pm Long table dinner in Apollo Kantine
7.45-8.45pm Author meeting: Anders Fomsgaard Det er bare en virus (part of dinner), in Danish

Dinner reservation (DKK 100 + fee per person) here.

Wednesday night, the admission is free at Kunsthal Charlottenborg at 5-8pm.

20 Nov
16.30 - 19.00

Girlification

By Petra Kleis

Deeply fascinated with the freedom and playfulness expressed by Maja Malou Lyse, the photographer Petra Kleis (b.1983) has been documenting the artist, ten years her junior. Shot
casually and sporadically over the course of three years, the series portrays the female model – artist Maja Malou Lyse – as a desired object and a desiring subject: dressing up, dressing down, or overtly reproducing classic motifs and archetypes of contemporary Western sexuality.

“This dynamic duo cleverly comments on today’s porn culture
in knowing, non-judgmental ways.
Subtly hilarious, hence subversive.
Only loving, generous, wise women could make us feel this way.
Girlification is a masterful work of post-porn modernism.
Positively femmetastic!”
– Annie Sprinkle

GIRLIFICATION
192 pages
Texts by: Annie Sprinkle, Jeppe Ugelvig
Graphic design: Spine Studio
Published by: Roulette Russe
Price: 400 DKK
Pre-order here

13 Nov
17.00 - 21.00
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Charlottenborg LIVE

Suste Bonnén, Mikkel Frey Damgaard and others

In collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites to eight Wednesdays evenings from 23 October – 11 December 2019 with live talks, performances, guided tours in the current exhibitions, author meetings and long table dinners.

Programme 13 Nov
5-6pm Talk: Suste Bonnén
5.30-7.30 Performance: Eva Kotatkova Confessions of the Piping System with Nina Tind, Ninna Steen and Piet Gitz-Johansen
6-6.45pm Guided tour: Art & Porn
7-9pm Long table dinner in Apollo Kantine
7.45-20.45pm Author meeting: Mikkel Frey Damgaard Sørgekåben (part of dinner), in Danish

Dinner reservation (DKK 100 + fee per person) here.

Wednesday night, the admission is free at Kunsthal Charlottenborg at 5-8pm.

12 Nov - 1 Dec
12.00

Vika Kirchenbauer

I know you, and you know that

Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to present the Vika Kirchenbauer Film Programme ‘I know you, and you know that’, curated by Tinne Zenner.

Three films are shown throughout the opening hours in Kunsthal Charlottenborg Art Cinema: LIKE RATS LEAVING A SINKING SHIP (24”, 2012), SHE WHOSE BLOOD IS CLOTTING IN MY UNDERWEAR (3”, 2016) and YOU ARE BORING! (14”, 2015). The film programme is screened 12 Nov – 1 Dec 2019 in the cinema, and can be experienced with paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

About Vika Kirchenbauer
Vika Kirchenbauer is an artist, writer and music producer based in Berlin. In her work she explores opacity in relation to representation of the ʻotheredʼ and discusses the role of emotions in contemporary art, labour and politics. With particular focus on affective subject formation she examines the troublesome nature of “looking” and “being looked at” in larger contexts including labour within post-fordism and the experience economy, modern drone warfare and its insistence on unilateral staring, the power relationships of psychiatry, performer/spectator relations, participatory culture,
contemporary art display and institutional representation of otherness as well as the everyday life experience of ambiguously gendered individuals.

Her work has been presented in a wide range of contexts including Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s current exhibition ‘Art & Porn’, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Bonn Museum of Modern Art, ICA Artists’ Film Biennial, Donaufestival Krems, transmediale festival for art and digital culture, Hebbel Am Ufer Berlin, Ann Arbor Film
Festival, Images Festival Toronto, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, European Media Art Festival and Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. She has given lectures at institutions such as New York University, Goldsmiths University of London, Otis College of Art and Design Los Angeles, the Ruskin School of Art Oxford, the University of Copenhagen, the Berlin University of the Arts, the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and the Academy of Arts Kassel.

Films in the programme:

LIKE RATS LEAVING A SINKING SHIP (24”, 2012)
Following observations about how ‘coherent biographies’ are constructed, and partly based on the psychiatric assessments declaring the artist ‘incurably transsexual’, in LIKE RATS
LEAVING A SINKING SHIP Vika Kirchenbauer layers sometimes contradicting aspects of interpretation, information, memory and non-remembrance. The film reflects upon the ways in which such apparatuses as state, law and psychiatry do not only affect our present, but also the ways in which our lives are documented and interpreted in what we might call an ‘official memory’. Named “one of the 10 great transgender films of the 21st century” by the British Film Institute, LIKE RATS LEAVING A SINKING SHIP has won a series of awards and screened extensively.

SHE WHOSE BLOOD IS CLOTTING IN MY UNDERWEAR (3”, 2016)
SHE WHOSE BLOOD IS CLOTTING IN MY UNDERWEAR is a video made by Vika Kirchenbauer for her music project COOL FOR YOU. Following her research on enhanced vision via infrared technology in modern warfare, here she utilises these technological
means to discuss intimacy, the body, physical relations between bodies as well as the privileged gaze of the spectator. The video was awarded the prize for the best contribution to the German Competition at the 62th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.

YOU ARE BORING! (14”, 2015)
YOU ARE BORING! discusses the troublesome nature of “looking” and “being looked at” in larger contexts including labour within the Experience Economy, performer/spectator relations, participatory culture, contemporary art display and queer representational politics. This web of thoughts find form in a 3D video installation focusing on five performers’ bodies as sites-of-speech removed from any physical context. Through strategies that overload the capacities of affective multitasking and the self-consuming illusion of total subjectivity, the spectator is personally addressed and promised exactly what they need. The work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions and is included in the collection of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein.

10 Nov
16.00 - 17.00

POW – Power of Women Festival Copenhagen

'Art & Porn' guided tour

A guided tour in the exhibition ‘Art & Porn’ with focus on ”the male gaze”, the feminine eros and the exhibition’s feminist and power-critical works.

About ‘Art & Porn’
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of lifting the ban on visual pornography in Denmark, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents in collaboration with ARoS the group exhibition ‘Art & Porn’. The exhibition presents the development in art from the 60s legalization of visual pornography to the current fourth-wave feminism, and highlights how art is influenced by changing the law on pornography. What are the implications when the boundaries of what citizens may be faced with in public spaces change from one day to the next? Further info here.

Admission: DKK 70 (special POW-discount on day purchases). Normal price DKK 90.

6 Nov
17.00 - 20.00

CSFF ’19 – Opening event

Copenhagen Short Film Festival

Come and join the opening of this year’s edition of Copenhagen Short Film Festival, together with our new collaborator Kunsthal Charlottenborg. It is free to participate from 17.00-20.00, where you can get something to drink, experience the short films programme ‘Bodies of Information’ (informationsorganet) and meet the curator and filmmaker Jazbo Gross, who will introduce the programme as we screen it for the first time, and you can meet some of the filmmakers for a Q&A after the screening.

If you can not make the opening of CSFF ‘19, don’t worry, cause we will be screening ‘Bodies of Information’ throughout the whole festival period at Kunsthal Charlottenborg within our regular opening hours. The screening is free, you just have to pay for the entrance for Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

You can find more information about the event here: www.csff.dk

PROGRAM – ‘Bodies of Information’

There are not enough meals in a day to take in all the information. We can’t consume it all by passing through the pearly gates of the internet. What then is the purpose of all this information if we are, as it seems, not meant to ingest it? The answer is simple: We care for it. The method, on the other hand, is not so straightforward. The videos selected for this programme are evidence of a diverse set of caring practices that rub shoulders with information technologies and raise questions about a society characterised by obsessive image production and exhaustion. We might think of this selection of films as a little tour of said society. A tour in which we are guided tenderly and compassionately reminded that we are the bodies that make up this information.

Ljósið Mitt
Victoria Kaldan | 14 min. | Denmark | 2019
A lo-fi travel through crystal rivers and scattered blue light to the river Styx, where the living can go no further. In memory of my grandmother; Ragnheiður Skjold Rasmussen (1932-2016).

A Conversation at the Edge of the Object
Sidsel Christensen | 19 min. | Denmark | 2015
A conversation between the artist and art collector Thomas Frankenberg which encompasses philosophical reflections on his collection, including the status of the object in terms of an exploration of texture, proximity, meaning, preservation and disappearance.

Til Søde i Det Hinsides, del 1, 2 & 3
Alice Topsøe-Jensen | 11 min. | Denmark | 2019
A digital exchange of letters in three parts about the value of emotional labour in an overworked society, lightning jolts of feelings which are transformed into energy and the Afterlife. The friends’ love for each other is equally big before and after the revolt, before and after death.

Tannhäuser Gate (not really now not anymore)
Rustan Söderling | 17 min. | Sweden | 2017
A first-person voyage through the remains of what seems to be an instant ruin – a kind of late-capitalist Machu Picchu. Our guides through this cacophonic visual landscape; an unsettling voice that emanates from nowhere and a tiny immortal tardigrade.

Stumbling Block
Mitra Saboury | 2 min. | USA | 2013
I want to be alone with you, ground.

The Word of Mouse (grok your cornea gumbo)
Thomas Goddard | 21 min. | UK | 2018
A dark yet humorous coming-of-age film, combining archival moving and still images from popular culture with an original score, to consider our lives as inextricably linked with the digital world for better or worse.

6 Nov
17.00 - 21.00
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Charlottenborg LIVE

Copenhagen Short Film Festival, Pilou Asbæk, Kristoffer Zøllner and others

In collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites to eight Wednesdays evenings from 23 October – 11 December 2019 with live talks, performances, guided tours in the current exhibitions, author meetings and long table dinners.

Prorgamme 6 Nov
5-8pm Opening: Copenhagen Short Film Festival
5.30-7.30pm Performance: Eva Kotatkova Confessions of the Piping System with Nina Tind, Ninna Steen and Piet Gitz-Johansen
6-6.45pm Guided tour: Art & Porn
7-9pm Long table dinner in Apollo Kantine
7.45-8.45 Author meeting: Pilou Asbæk in conversation with Kristoffer Zøllner about the biography Alting sker på en gang – et år med Pilou Asbæk (part of dinner), in Danish

Dinner reservation (DKK 100 + fee per person) here.

Wednesday night, the admission is free at Kunsthal Charlottenborg at 5-8pm.

5 Nov
16.30 - 19.30
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Korean contemporary literature

Seminar by Terrapolis and LTI Korea

It is with great excitement that Terrapolis and LTI Korea present four of the most prominent Korean writers:

Lee Seung-U, Pyun Hye Young, Kyung-sook Shin and Kim Yong Taik.

They will appear in conversation with Danish writers Eva Tind and Maja Lee Langvad. The conversations will, among other tings, revolve around topics such as care and exposedness, motherhood and belonging, feminism and literary commitment to ecological problems.

Barbara Wall, assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen, will initiate the seminar with an introduction to contemporary Korean fiction and will moderate the conversations.

In connection with the seminar, an anthology will be published with excerpts – in Danish – from works by Lee Seung-U, Pyun Hye Young, Kyung-sook Shin and Kim Yong Taik. The translations are done by translators from Korean Studies, the University of Copenhagen, and literary edited by Maja Lee Langvad. Everyone attending the seminar will be provided with a copy of the anthology.

The seminar is free of charge and is supported by LTI Korea.

Light meals will be served.

4 Nov
19.00 - 21.00

WHAT’S KEEPING ME BUSY RIGHT NOW

Charlie Laban Trier, Meleat Fredriksson, Snorre Jeppe Hansen

WHAT’S KEEPING ME BUSY RIGHT NOW / CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION

Dansehallerne invites three young choreographers / dancers to this CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION. Meet Charlie Laban Trier, Meleat Fredriksson and Snorre Jeppe Hansen as they will talk about their artistic work and what they are up to at the moment.

Charlie Laban Trier
is a dance-maker and performer, (1987 CPH/DK), based primarily in Amsterdam. He graduated (2018) from SNDO – Bachelor in Choreography. One of the focuses of his work, is studying how to embody and learn from methods of already existing performance practices that plays with turning the gaze inside-out and that aims on enhancing space for bodies corrupted by different oppressive structures. Being in different queer scenes and living as a transgender-person, has also influenced his thinking and approach to work. In the recent year he has worked for artists such as Paul Maheke (LND), Beck Heiberg (CPH), Michele Rizzo (AMS/IT), Noha Ramadan (AMS), Keren Levi (AMS), Phoebe Osborne (NYC/AMS), Andreas Hannes (AMS). He has since 2015 worked for and with Italian choreographer Cristina Kristal Rizzo. They are currently creating an upcoming piece together (working title: Hypernating) that will premiere in 2020. More info here.

Meleat Fredriksson
is a dancer and choreographer, educated from The Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen. Since graduating in 2015 she has been part of danseatelier: a studio-collective consisting of 11 dance artists working with creating continuity within the freelance world and explore art making, sharing and hosting – using multiple hierarchies. Meleat’s work often springs out of and features improvisation, rhythm and attitude. She is currently tuning into and questioning how her blackness is connected to her artwork. On the mission to duck imposed white values, standards and affirmation she wonders what happens when she places her whole (intersectional) self at the core of the research? Meleat’s work has been shown in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Hong Kong at festivals such as My Wild Flag 2019, Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival 2018, TheCarrierBag Festival 2016, Hong Kong International Choreography Festival 2016. More info here.

Snorre Jeppe Hansen
is a dancer and choreographer based in between Copenhagen and Berlin. In 2015 he graduated from the dance and choreography program at The Danish National School of Performing arts. As a part of the collective Danseatelier he works with supportive structures and togetherness as a way of allowing dance to exist. He works with dance as a place of listening, allowing and becoming – dance as a way of being in worlds and as a way of being with the places in between the defined. More info here.

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists and other professionals share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installions, performances and films. New guest every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to the artists in the field but open to all with an interest.

It is in English.

Free Entrance.

30 Oct
17.00 - 20.00

Roee Rosen

'The Mosquito-Mouse and Other Hybrids'

It is with great pleasure that Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you to the opening of our new exhibition with Roee Rosen: The Mosquito-Mouse and Other Hybrids. We celebrate this with a talk and an opening reception taking place on:

Wednesday 30 October 5-8pm

Programme
5-6pm Talk: Roee Rosen in conversation with Mathias Kryger
6-8pm Opening reception: Roee Rosen The Mosquito-Mouse and Other Hybrids

Admission is free and everyone is welcome!

Roee Rosen: The Mosquito-Mouse and Other Hybrids
The first-ever solo exhibition in Denmark featuring artist, writer and director Roee Rosen (b. 1963 in Rehovot) includes his series Vladimir’s Night. Comprising 39 gouaches, the work relates a hybrid tale – part children’s book, part martyr story, part twisted political narrative – in which the protagonist, Vladimir, is surrounded by absurd scenarios. It starts out as a cheerful picture fable, slipping into a violent and grotesque tale of power and torture that touches upon similar situations in present-day society.

The exhibition also presents the film The Dust Channel – an operetta about the many kinds of cleansing taking place in a family whose fears of dirt, dust and any kinds of foreign matter give rise to an almost perverted devotion to home appliances. The film has garnered much recognition for its absurd and politically poignant fiction, creating a polemic space for addressing current political issues.

Roee Rosen has created an artistic universe that undermines normative ideas through fiction and satire while merging Israeli and global politics with myths and historical references. Using a variety of fictional characters and iconographic motifs, Rosen draws on – and transforms – a range of materials ranging from the historical avant-garde to popular media, political propaganda and classic fairy tales for children. To emphasise his focus on artistic expression during exile and oppression, he often works under pseudonyms. This is also the case at Kunsthal Charlottenborg: all works are presented as having been created by the Russian author and artist Maxim Komar-Myshkin, who, having escaped from Russia to Israel, struggled with his own paranoia and with the restrictions imposed by his surroundings.

Further info about the exhibition here.

The exhibition is accompanied by a small publication featuring texts by Paul B. Preciado. The publication will be launched this autumn.

The exhibition is curated by Anne Mikél Jensen, and supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, Grosserer L. F. Foght’s Foundation, Knud Højgaard’s Foundation, Obel Family Foundation.

30 Oct
17.00 - 21.00
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Charlottenborg LIVE

Roee Rosen, Mathias Kryger, Kaspar Colling and others

In collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites to eight Wednesdays evenings from 23 October – 11 December 2019 with live talks, performances, guided tours in the current exhibitions, author meetings and long table dinners.
Programme 30 Oct
5-6pm: Roee Rosen in conversation with Mathias Kryger
6-8pm Opening: Roee Rosen The Mosquito-Mouse and Other Hybrids
5.30-7.30pm Performance: Eva Kotatkova Confessions of the Piping System with Nina Tind and Lisbeth Sonne
6-6.45 Guided tour: Art & Porn
7-9pm Long table dinner in Apollo Kantine
7.45-8.45 Author meeting: Kaspar Colling Nielsen Dengang dinosaurerne var små (part of dinner), in Danish

Dinner reservation (DKK 100 + fee per person) here.

Wednesday night, the admission is free at Kunsthal Charlottenborg at 5-8pm.

28 Oct
19.00 - 21.00

Start in the Middle

Carima Neusser (SE)

Start in the Middle is a participatory performance that uses the formats of lecture and meditation into a seamless whole. The performers use texts, sounds, lights and contemplative exercises for the audience to participate in a collective journey where they spend most of the performance lying on the floor with their eyes closed.

Carima Neusser
was born in Stockholm. She is a choreographer, dancer and artist. She earned her master degree in Culture and Media production at Linköpings Universitet (2014-2016) and she studied dance at Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance (2006-2009) She works and collaborates throughout different international and national contexts and her work has been presented at dance theaters, galleries, museums, music festivals among many others. Her work has been presented in Sweden, Italy, France, Mexico, Brazil and USA.

Siri Jennefelt
is a sound designer, composer and musician based in Stockholm. She got her degree at STDH in 2015. She makes music for the stage and is involved in a series of musical projects including Nev Lilit and Saigon.

Per Hüttner
is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm and Paris. He was trained at Konsthögskolan, Stockholm and at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. He has shown extensively in Europe, Australia, Asia, North and South America. Solo exhibitions and major presentations include Zendai Contemporary in Shanghai, Göteborgs konstmuseum and Wellcome Collection in London. Participation in group shows include Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM); Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Hayward Gallery in London, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, MACBA in Barcelona. He has performed at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Pinacoteca, Museo Jumex and the Venice Biennial. He is represented at art museums in Sweden, Poland, China and Brazil. Hüttner is the founder and director of the international research network Vision Forum and a member of the Board of ISBA in Besançon France. He is a member of the performance collective 1+1=3 where he has been part of developing the EEGsynth a tool to use brain waves in performance art.

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists and other professionals share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installions, performances and films. New guest every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to  the artists in the field but open to all with an interest.

The event is in English.

Free Entrance.

23 Oct
17.00 - 19.00
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FCNNNews

Ep.3 by FCNN

We are excited to announce that FCNN will show the final and last episode of FCNNNews in Charlottenborg Art Cinema Wednesday 23 October 5pm, and we invite you all to come celebrate this Danish premiere with us. The admission is free and everyone is invited.

Ep.3 focuses on projects and initiatives that work in the intersection of art, culture and activism and through their work thematize real political issues such as the use of sonic weapons against demonstrative citizens, in Fannie Sosa’s video: “I Need This in My Life”, or the living conditions of queers in the MENA region told by the anonymous voice of SeenNoon magazine’s hand puppet LaBeeba.

As part of the curatorial aspect, we have also invited artists Madison Bycroft to do a weather report, Ahmet Ögût to talk about The Silent University and supporter Wael Shawky to the program.

On this special night there will be a panel discussion after the screening. Participants will be announced soon. The event will be held in English.

Thank you to Statens Kunstfond and everyone who helped creating this episode of FCNNNews.

23 Oct
17.00 - 21.00
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Charlottenborg LIVE

FCNNNews, Malene Lei Raben and others

In collaboration with Gyldendal and Apollo Bar, Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites to eight Wednesdays evenings from 23 October – 11 December 2019 with live talks, performances, guided tours in the current exhibitions, author meetings and long table dinners.

Programme 23 Oct
5-7pm Talkshow: FCNNNews
5.30-7.30pm Performance: Eva Kotatkova Confessions of the Piping System with Nina Tind and Lisbeth Sonne
6-6.45pm Guided tour: Art & Porn
7-9pm Long table dinner in Apollo Kantine
7.45-8.45 Author meeting: Malene Lei Raben Fruen (part of the dinner), in Danish

Dinner reservation (DKK 100 + fee per person) here.

Wednesday night, the admission is free at Kunsthal Charlottenborg at 5-8pm.

23 Oct
08.30 - 10.00

Charlottenborgs Kaffeklub #2

Introducing children to the world of art

Theme: How do we ensure that children and young adults encounter art?

Art is important. Our encounters with art and our participation in culture play a crucial role in our general formation and growth, both professionally and as human beings. Our engagement with art affects and shapes us a people, providing us with stepping stones towards a better quality of life – it hones our curiosity, creativity and imagination, nourishing our ability to wonder and to ask critical questions.

The education and growth of future generations starts right now and merits close attention. For how do we, as a society, ensure that we reach and get hold of the many children and young people who do not visit the various art institutions today, and who have few, if any, opportunities for creative expression in their lives? When do young people encounter the realm of art? Who activates and facilitates the encounter between art and the young? Those important overlaps between the world of art and the formative years in primary school – do we properly activate and leverage them? How? And if not, why?

How can we allow the young voices to be heard, enabling them to actively influence the future and culture of which they will be part? And what does the encounter with art and culture really mean to young people?

At Charlottenborg’s Kaffeklub #2, we delve deeper into the conversation about the cultural developments of the future, adding greater nuance as we focus on the young people who will meet the world of art now and in the years ahead.

Panel 1
Benedikte Kiær, mayor of Helsingør Municipality, The Conservative People’s Party.
Trine Wisbech, manager of Det Lille Teater and Marionet Teatret (The Puppet Theatre) in Kongens Have.
Thomas Blachman, musician, writer, X-Factor judge and host of Blachman på Skemaet, DR1.
Hans Kristian Kristensen, head of the secretariat of the A.P. Møller Foundation’s Primary School Project.
Maria Frej, programme director of classical music, Tivoli; member of the Culture and Leisure Committee for the Socialist People’s Party, City of Copenhagen.

Panel 2
Mai Mercado, MP for the Conservative People’s Party and former Minister for Children and Social Security.
Katrine K. Pedersen, Head of Education at Arken, Head of Arken Art & Tech Lab.
Tue Biering, director; artistic director of Fix&Foxy.
Hamayun Butt, initiator, X-Skolen.
Kirstine Vinderskov, development editor at Nordisk Film and host of the Radio24syv programme Forældreintra.

Moderator: Lene Johansen, journalist and former presenter at DR.

The event will be in Danish.

Admission is free, but seating is limited, so all attendees must sign up in advance. Sign up here.
We expect this session of Charlottenborg’s Kaffeklub to be streamed live on Facebook.

About Charlottenborg’s Kaffeklub
Charlottenborg’s Kaffeklub is a place where the realm of politics meets the art community to share a cup of coffee and a frank, open conversation about our visions for the cultural policies of the future – and about how art promotes our growth as humans.

Charlottenborg’s Kaffeklub convenes four times over the course of two years. Its objective is to assist the dissemination of art in Denmark and to nurture greater understanding of the importance of art to people and to society in general.

Charlottenborg’s Kaffeklub is collaborative project by Kunsthal Charlottenborg and the Bikuben Foundation.
Arranged by Michael Thouber and Karina Lykkesborg.

21 Oct
17.00 - 19.00

Choreographing the gaze

Dialogue by Björn Säfsten (SE) & Pernille Welent Sørensen (DK)

Welcome to a conversation with choreographer Björn Säfsten and Ph.D. Fellow Pernille Welent Sørensen.

There will be a brief presentation of the two and then a talk about artistic practice, methodology and interactivity with the children’s performance The Canteen (2016) as an example.

More specifically they will talk about choreographing the gaze and different modes of being an audience that they both share an interest for. 

The Canteen is a commissioned work for the Regional Theater Väst and Gothenburg Opera’s Dance Company. The two institutions wanted an interactive work to deal with a room at a school – it became The Canteen.

About Björn Säfsten
He has been working as a choreographer and dancer since 2003, and also researched choreography at Umeå Art Academy. Säfsten is particularly interested in how body is produced through the language and how the language shapes our idea of ​​the world. He also uses choreography as a way of creating representation- and norm criticism. The Canteen is Björn Säfsten’s first work for Regionteater Väst.

About Pernille Welent Sørensen
She likes the color blue, dark water scares her and and makes her curious. She is currently moving me mostly on dark water.
Cand. Mag. employed at Teatercentrum, Copenhagen. PhD Fellow at Performance Design, RUC.
She examines children’s encounters with performing arts in school. She works with children as co-researchers.

Part of CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
This is a weekly event throughout the season. Every Monday at 7-9 pm artists and other professionals share thoughts about their artistic work and research through conversations, installations, performances and films. New presentation every monday. Open to all with an interest.

The program is in English.

Free entrance.

11 Oct
18.00 - 00.00
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Culture Night 2019

Kids take over Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Students from Langelinieskolen take over Kunsthal Charlottenborg at Culture Night with a night of fun, imaginative workshops and tours made by the children themselves. Join our young guides and experience Eva Koťátková’s distinctive and surrealistic exhibition through their eyes and ears. Also, go for a guided tour of Charlottenborg Palace and our screening programme for the whole family presenting Czech animation and puppet films by three of the most legendary Czech directors.

Programme
18.00-24.00: You can buy food and beverage at Apollo Bar in the lower foyer.
18.00-24.00: Czech animation and puppet films for the whole created by three of the most legendary Czech directors: Hermína Týrlová, Karel Zeman and Jiri Trnka. The films are shown in our cinema.
18.00-21.30: Kids take over Charlottenborg: Dream Demo, sign workshop in the yard of Kunsthal Charlottenborg (ongoing).
18.00-21.30: Kids take over Charlottenborg: Dream Corner, collage workshop in the upper foyer (ongoing).
18.30 / 19.00 / 20.15
Kids take over Charlottenborg: Dream Corner, dialogue, upper foyer.
18.45 / 20.00 / 20.30
Kids take over Charlottenborg: Dream Tour, performative tour, upper foyer.
19.30 / 21.00
Kids take over Charlottenborg: Dream Demo, demonstration on and outside Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
18.30-21.30: Guided tours of the newly opened exhibition Art & Porn every hour. The exhibition has pornographic content that may be unsuitable for children.
19.00-22.30: Guided tours on Charlottenborg Palace with art historian Henrik Biehl at 7, 9 and 10.30pm.
21.30-24.00: DJ in the lower foyer.

Kids take over Charlottenborg
20 students from Langelinieskolen take over Kunsthal Charlottenborg with a night of fun, imaginative workshops and tours made by the children themselves. All visitors are invited to join our young guides! The project, Kids take over Charlottenborg (Danish: Børnene Bestemmer), is made in collaboration with IMAGINARIUM and is supported by Kulturnatten and Københavns Kommune, Åben skole.

Historical tours of Charlottenborg Palace
Join historian Henrik Biehl on guided tours of the beautiful Charlottenborg Palace. Included in the tour is an introduction to The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. The tours will be in Danish and take place at 7pm, 9pm and 10.30 pm.

Czech animation and puppet films
Charlottenborg Art Cinema is looking forward to present a screening programme for the whole family presenting Czech animation and puppet films created by three of the most legendary Czech directors: Hermína Týrlová, Karel Zeman and Jiri Trnka. The programme is inspired by the Czech artist Eva Koťátková, who currently is on view at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, and curated by Anne Mikél Jensen. The films appears both on Culture Night and during the autumn holidays in our cinema.

On Culture Night and every Wednesday from October 23 – December 11, 2019, there will be performances in Eva Koťátková’s exhibition at 5.30-7.30pm.
Performers: Snorre Jeppe Hansen, Nina Tind Jensen, Ninna Steen, Lisbeth Sonne and Piet Gitz-Johansen.

Admission
During the Culture Night there is access with a Culture Pass for DKK 95. The Culture Pass can be purchased at Kunsthal Charlottenborg or at the Culture Nights wepshop.

 

9 Oct
17.00 - 18.00

Active Art

Book launch

Wednesday 9 October at 5-6pm the book Active Art – a collection of texts by various contributors inspired by the 1923 manifesto Active Art by Andrejs Kurcijs – is launched at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

The 1923 manifesto Active Art by Latvian philosopher Andrejs Kurcijs triggered a series of responses by writers, artists and curators on the notion of activism, past and present: art for political purposes, art for its own purpose or art with no purpose.

The texts collected in the book Active Art aim at considering the active part of writing inspired by the definition given in Kurcijs manifest. Contributors include Rebeka Pōldsam from Estonia writing on the lesbian artist Anna-Stina Tremund, Isabella Marrin from UK writing on virus structures in language, French poet Laure Boullic writing a revolutionary poetry essay, French artist Eva Barto advertising an upcoming research on economic structures in art and Latvian artist Evita Vasiļjeva sharing the beginning and the end of her notebook. There is a conversation in several parts between the editors and Latvian contemporary philosopher Ainars Kamolins on Kurcijs original text.

The book also includes the reprint of texts by American writer Rober Glück introducing the queer writing collective New Narrative co-founded in 1975 and a rare essay from 1982, a text by American writer James Baldwin, initially published in art-catalogue in 1987 that hi-lights his very strong political stand against racism, and finally the first translation of Anrejs Kurcijs 1923 manifesto.

The book is edited by curator and writers Maija Rudovska, Barbara Sirieix and Joachim Hamou. The book is published in English by French publisher Paraguay Press (paraguaypress.com).

7 Oct
19.00 - 21.00

Climatic Dances / Endangered Human Movements Vol. 5

Amanda Piña (MEX-RCH-A)

Presentation / by Amanda Piña, a Mexican-Chilean-Austrian choreographer, dancer and cultural worker
Part of the program series CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION

Climatic Dances is the name of the fifth volume of the Endangered Human Movements* series, a long-term research carried out by choreographer Amanda Piña on the current planetary loss of cultural and biological diversity.
The artistic research for Climatic Dances is inspired by the work of Mexican anthropologist Alessandro Questa, on two “traditional” dances of the Northern Highlands of Puebla, performed by indigenous Masewal people, in a context of climate change and advancing mining exploitation in the region.

The presentation is an essay on the possibility of thinking the world, leaving behind the idea of progress and about how dance, as a socioenvironmental movement, can contribute to that process.

For CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION the artist will give and insight in her work and share some choreographic and visual material, related to her research on Climatic Dances, whose first draft will be presented in October 2019, in Mexico City (Museo Universitario del Chopo UNAM) and will premiere in March 2020, in Vienna (TQW).

* Endangered Human Movements is the title of a long-term project, started in the year 2014, focusing on human movement practices, which have been cultivated for centuries all over the world. Inside this frame, a series of performances, workshops, installations, publications and a comprehensive online archive are developed which reconstruct, re-contextualize and re-signify human movement practices in danger of disappearing, aiming at unleash their future potential.
https://nadaproductions.at/projects/endangered-human-movements
https://www.bmfb.at/sites_en/bewegungen.html

Amanda Piña
Is a Mexican-Chilean-Austrian choreographer, dancer and cultural worker living between Vienna and Mexico City. Her choreographic work is concerned with the decolonisation of art, focusing on the political power of dance, understood as socioenvironmental movement. Her performances are contemporary rituals for temporary dismantling the ideological separations between contemporary, modern and traditional, the human, the animal and the vegetal, nature and culture. Amanda Piña is interested in making art beyond the idea of a product, and in developing new frameworks for the creation of sensual experiences. Her work within the artistic association nadaproductions has been presented in renown art institutions such as TQW, MUMOK and ImpulsTanzFestival in Vienna, Fondation Cartier, Paris, DeSingel, Antwerp, Royal Festival Hall London, ImpulsTanzFestival Vienna, STUK Leuven, Buda Kortrijk, Beursschouwburg Brussels, Tanz NRW, Düsseldorf and HAU, Hebbel am Uffer, Berlin, NAVE and Festival Internacional Santiago a Mil in Chile. She currently leads the gallery space specialized in dance and performance nadaLokal in Vienna, and works on the realization of the long-term project Endangered Human Movements, dedicated to dances and cultural practices that have already vanished or are threatened with extinction. Four volumes of research in the scope of this project have been already realized, which include performances, publications, curatorial frames, workshops and lectures.

www.nadaproductions.at
https://nadaproductions.at/performance/climatic-dances
https://www.bmfb.at/sites_en/bewegungen.html
https://nadaproductions.at/books
www.nadalokal.at

Part of CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
This is a weekly event throughout the season. Every Monday at 7-9 pm artists and other professionals share thoughts about their artistic work and research through conversations, installations, performances and films. New presentation every monday. Open to all with an interest. The program is in English.

FREE ENTRANCE

4 Oct
18.00 - 22.00

Art & Porn

In collaboration with ARoS

It is with great pleasure that Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you to the opening of Art & Porn, our major exhibition this autumn that marks the 50th anniversary of lifting the ban on visual pornography in Denmark. The opening will take place on:

Friday 4 October 6-10pm.

The admission is free and everyone is welcome!

Programme
6.00pm: The doors open to the exhibition and we serve a glass of bubbles in the foyer.
6.15pm: Welcome by Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s Director, Michael Thouber, and opening speeches by ARoS’ Director, Erlend G. Høyersten, and Julie Rokkjær Birch, Director at the Womens Museum in Aarhus.
6.30pm: Music by ’Male Actress’. Food and drinks can be purchased from Apollo Bar.
10.00pm: The exhibition closes. Party at Apollo Bar.

Art & Porn
Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents in collaboration with ARoS the group exhibition Art & Porn. The exhibition presents the development in art from the 60s legalization of visual pornography to the current fourth-wave feminism, and highlights how art is influenced by changing the law on pornography. What are the implications when the boundaries of what citizens may be faced with in public spaces change from one day to the next? Further information here.

Participating artists:
Marina Abramović, Matthew Barney, Katja Bjørn, Monica Bonvicini, Mike Bouchet, Marco Brambilla, Jeff Burton, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Larry Clark, Elmgreen & Dragset, Valie Export, Jesper Fabricius, Biba Fibiger, Tom of Finland, Wilhelm Freddie, Suzette Gemzøe, Susan Hinnum, Kuki Jijo, William E. Jones, Vika Kirchenbauer, Per Kirkeby, Jeff Koons, Arthur Køpcke, Peter Land, Hans Henrik Lerfeldt, Linder, Sarah Lucas, Maja Malou Lyse, Zanele Muholi, Gaspar Noé, Bjørn Nørgaard & Lene Adler Petersen, Pipilotti Rist, Carolee Schneemann, Cindy Sherman, Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens, Sam Taylor- Johnson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Betty Tompkins, Anna Uddenberg, Amalia Ulman, Lawrence Weiner.

The exhibition is curated and organized by Erlend G. Høyersten, Lise Pennington, Gry Stangegård Schneider, Rasmus Stenbakken, Anne Mette Thomsen and Michael Thouber.

30 Sep
19.00 - 21.00

ART AND SOCIAL COMMUNITIES

Ditte Vilstrup Holm (DK)

The event is part of the program CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION

How does art organise communities? Taking its cue from a research project about social practices in public spaces, the purpose of the evening is to generate space for discussion and reflection about artistic strategies in respect to the formation of communities.
Research into art’s social practices has basically followed two different trails: the first trail has emphasized art’s aesthetic potentials in performatively involving, affecting and modulating participants. The other trail has emphasized artists’ ability to organise local communities in order to develop and improve local environments. In this event the two trails are connected through a reflection of the aesthetic dimension in organising practices and the organisational dimensions of aesthetic forms.

Ditte Vilstrup Holm
She holds an MA in art history and a ph.d. in organisation studies obtained on the basis of a cross-disciplinary research project about art and organisation. She is currently affiliated with the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School.

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists and other professionals share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installions, performances and films. New guest every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to  the artists in the field but open to all with an interest.
It is in English. Free Entrance.

20 Sep
17.00 - 20.00

Eva Koťátková / Irena Haiduk

It is with great pleasure that Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you to the opening of our upcoming exhibitions with the Czech artist Eva Koťátková: ‘Confessions of the Piping System’ and the Serbian artist Irena Haiduk: ‘Seductive Exacting Realism’. The opening will take place on:

Friday 20 September 5-8pm
The admission is free and everyone is welcome!

Eva Koťátková: ‘Confessions of the Piping System’
Discover Eva Kot’átková’s surreal universe when she presents her first solo exhibition ever in Scandinavia at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. With her oversized objects, iron sculptures, text sequences and performative works, Kot’átková challenges everyday situations infused by the inhibiting social control of institutional structures. A rapidly rising star on the art scene, Eva Kot’átková (Prague, 1982) has previously presented an extensive solo show at HangarBicocca in Milan, contributed to the Venice Biennale and taken part in group shows at venues such as New Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In the autumn of 2019, she will also be featured at the Istanbul Biennale and present a solo exhibition at the acclaimed Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover. The exhibition is curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer. Further info here.

Irena Haiduk: ‘Seductive Exacting Realism’
‘Seductive Exacting Realism’ (SER) is a sound programme based on an interview the artist Irena Haiduk conducted on January 14, 2015 at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center, with Srdja Popovic, co-founder of the OTPOR! student group and the consultancy CANVAS (Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategy), who advises democratic, revolutionary movements all over the world. This presentation marks the beginning of a two-year collaboration with Irena Haiduk (b. 1982 in Beograd), and the opening of Yugoexport’s economy inside Charlottenborg’s bookshop. SER was originally commissioned by the Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, and later exhibited at the 14th Istanbul Biennial and documenta 14. The exhibition is curated by Michael Thouber. Further info here.

16 Sep
19.00 - 21.00

Mycorrizal Co-Laborings

Ilya Noé (DE)

The event is part of the program CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION

“Roots are dead; long live the nomadic” seems to be one of the mantras which has taken hold in this so-called “age of the network”.  The reticular has – quite ironically – been crowned king.
Using samples from her work, Ilya Noé will walk us through how the recently discovered non-metaphoric intimacy between roots and rhizomes is gifting her with multiple pathways to more distributed, vulnerable, and co-extensive modes of living, working, and togethering. Along tales of synergetic relationships between plants and fungi, which biologists have termed the mycorrhizal, and which Deleuze and Guattari were unable to factor into their theorizing, Ilya will also introduce us to her figure of the sporad, as well as her practiced notion of the (s)porous, before artist Eva Meyer-Keller joins her to continue the conversation about their collaboration in the frame of the RESA pilot program.

Ilya Noé
A visual/performance artist-researcher, compulsive walker, and a fan of deer, trees, fungi, foxes, interspecies collaboration, mutualistic processes, slow research, messy theory, intellectual promiscuity, epistemological uncertainty, open-ended storytellings, ellipses…
Born and mostly assembled in Mexico City, she moved to New York to study art when she was still a teenager, and has since explanded her zone of propagation by popping up on all sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific to trace lines and build spaces by hand, on foot, and in co-creation with both humans and non-humans alike. Ilya represented her country in Venice’s OPEN2000, became a UNESCO-Aschberg Laureate, was recipient of Mexico’s National Young Art Award, and more recently showed her work at the 12th Biennale of Shanghai.
She is now based in Berlin where she was one of the organizers the Month of Performance, is one of the founders of the city’s Association for Performance Art, and teaches and mentors BA and MA students while engaged in an increasingly erratic and awkward dance with her own PhD thesis.

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists and other professionals share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installions, performances and films. New guest every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to  the artists in the field but open to all with an interest.
It is in English. Free Entrance.

 

10 Sep
16.00 - 18.00

Innovative Leadership: A Lexicon of Slippery Critique

Diana Damian Martin (UK)

This lecture presents a lexicon of encounters with pieces of criticism that unsettle – by means of their affective density, their slipperiness, or their rejection of the category of criticism itself.

This lecture creates a network of alternative modes of criticality to unpack what conflicts shape politics of the recognition of criticism, moving beyond what Bojana Kunst calls ‘the ready-made possibilities of discourse’ under neoliberalism, that is, the ‘pre-established models of criticality and reflexivity’ of which art and artistic subjectivity often partake.

This is a lecture about critique as a process of deliberately mishandled translation, a political occupation of an idea shifted elsewhere, an event of displaced meaning in the thickness of now.

Diana Damian Martin is a performance and live art writer and researcher. She is co-editor of Critical Interruptions Vol 1: Steakhouse LIVE (2018) and Critics in Conversation (2018), and editor of (states of) wake: Dedicating Performance (2018).

Diana’s collaborative projects include an ongoing programme on the intersection between writing, criticism and live art with Pacitti Company / SPILL Festival of Performance, a live writing pilot project with Steakhouse Live and Critical Interruptions, which she co-founded with Bojana Jankovic, and ongoing work with Generative Constraints Committee and Writingshop, a pan-European project examining how criticism thinks politically.

Her academic work has been published in Global Performance Studies, Performance Research, Contemporary Theatre Review, and Journal for Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. She completed her doctorate ‘Criticism as a Political Event: the emergence of performance criticism 2006-2017’ at Royal Holloway, University of London, for which she was a recipient of the Royal Holloway and Bedford Scholarship for Excellence, and works as a Lecturer in Performance Arts at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

About The Innovative Leadership Network (ILN)

Artists as leaders of change”

ILN is a Nordic cross-disciplinary platform working towards enabling artists to become leaders, developing innovative methods for artistic research activities, as well as developing new ideas in relation to rethinking institutions, increasing audience engagement, investigating new presentation formats, tackling political & societal issues or working on sustainable practices… in order to challenge status quo.

The platform proposes fruitful exchanges between Nordic & European artists, researchers and creative workers from theperforming arts field through networking events, lectures & thematic workshops, and open seminars that will take place in Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway from April 2018 to October 2020. Regular online publications will feed the reflection and build cross-sectoral knowledge.

INL is one strand of an ambitious Artist’s Research Lab and Residency Programme developed by Dansehallerne and its partners.

Venue: Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Nyhavn 2, 1051 København K

9 Sep
19.00 - 21.00

Drawing between the Lines os Con-notation

Nikolaus Gansterer (AT)

Based on images, materials and examples of his work Nikolaus Gansterer will introduce into his ongoing practice of notation and practices of translation. Gansterer understands the processes of thinking and drawing as analogous. He is thus concerned with the fundamental question of how to translate processes of thought, and explores how the act of drawing can become a tool of communication. In the course of the presentation Gansterer wishes to go in dialogue with the audience.

In order to approach the materiality of perception Gansterer applies a unique performative grammar, in which the artist’s flow of observations in relation to his environment manifest as captivating live drawings, diagrams and arrangements. He questions how these situative constructions of meaning could be expanded towards a radical autopoiesis or evensympoiesis: where a line of thought becomes a line on paper, turns into a line in space, and then again a line articulated with the whole body or transforms into an object.

About the artist
Nikolaus Gansterer is an artist, performer and researcher deeply interested in the links between drawing, thinking and action. His practice is grounded in a trans-medial approach, underpinned by conceptual discourse in the context of performative visualisation and cartographic representations. In form of installations and performances he traces the in/-translatability of phenomena of perception into an artistic environment. In his trans-medial works, he focuses on mapping ephemeral and emergent processes unfolding their immanent structures of inter-connectedness, questioning the imaginary threshold between nature and culture, art and philosophy.

Nikolaus Gansterer is internationally active in performances, exhibitions and lecturing. Gansterer studied anthropology at University of Vienna and Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria, he completed his cross-disciplinary studies at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands. He is co-founder of the Institute for Trans- acoustic Research. Currently he is teaching at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Gansterer’s fascination with the complex character of diagrammatic figures led to two books: “Drawing a Hypothesis – Figures of Thought”, (Vienna/New York: Springer, 2011) on the ontology of shapes of visualisations and the development of the diagrammatic perspective and “Choreo–graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line”, (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2017) on the development of experimental notation systems and embodied diagrammatics, by staging an inter-disciplinary encounter between the lines of choreography, drawing and writing. From  2019 till 2023 Gansterer is leading key researcher of the Contingent Agencies research project inquiring into the agency of atmospheres.
www.gansterer.org

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists and other professionals share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installions, performances and films. New guest every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to  the artists in the field but open to all with an interest.
It is in English. Free Entrance.

CHOREOGRPAHY IN ACTION  takes place at Charlottenborg Art Cinema. Kunsthal Charlottenborg ia a close collaborator of Dansehallerne.

7 Sep
17.00 - 19.00

Knud Romer & Simon Strauss

Golden Days

Join us for a journey into the literature of Europe and a cross-generation meeting between Knud Romer and the young German writer Simon Strauss. The two will meet in the banquet hall of Charlottenborg for a talk on European literature, identity and education.

As writers and debaters, both have marked themselves as neo-romantic voices, fighting for the arts to become part of the (European) public and self-understanding again. Strauss’ debut novel ‘Seven Nights’ caused a big amount of debate in Germany in 2017 and it has been declared a key novel for the post-wall generation. In June, he published his second book ‘Römische Tage’. Romer is an award-winning author and has recently published the book ‘Map of Paradise’. Associate Professor and Dr. Phil Marianne Stidsen will be moderating the conversation.

ATLAS Magazine organizes the talk in collaboration with Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Golden Days and Goethe Institute Denmark Admission: 50 DKK (including a beer or alcohol-free beverage). Get your ticket here.

The talk will be in English.

2 Sep
19.00 - 21.00

DH Branchemøde

Danjel Andersson & Hanne Svejstrup

First branchemøde in the fall 2019. Let’s meet and talk and share thoughts, reflections and ideas for the coming.

Branchemøde is open for DH artists and other artists in the field together with the artistic management of Dansehallerne.

Part of CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
Choreography in Action is a weekly event throughout the season. Every Monday at 7-9 pm Dansehallerne presents meetings between affiliated artists and guests. They share their thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installations, performances or films. The meetings are primarily addressed to the artists in the field but open to all with an interest.
The program is in English. Free entrance.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg
CHOREOGRPAHY IN ACTION takes place at Charlottenborg Art Cinema. The distinctive art institution Kunsthal Charlottenborg ia a close collaborator of Dansehallerne.

30 Aug
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CHART Friday Night Opening Concert

CHART 2019

True to tradition CHART 2019 will launch with a renowned Friday Night Opening Concert in Charlottenborg’s Courtyards. Line-up:

MR. TOPHAT (SE) + EMMA ROSENZWEIG (DK) – ELIAS BENDER RØNNENFELT (DK)+ CALI THORNHILL DEWITT (CA) – TOKYO TWINS (NO) – VARNRABLE (NO) – PEN GUTT (NO) – YDEGIRL (DK) + XENIA XAMANEK (DK) – ARVIDA (SE)

Friday 30 Aug – 20:00 – 01:00 – Charlottenborg

Entrance fee after 21:00 – 70,-
Paid upon arrival, cash or card
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We kick off CHART 2019 with a mesmerising display of audio-visual performances developed by collaborative duos of artists and musicians from across the Nordic region and beyond. Join us for the beginning of an entire weekend dedicated to celebrating artistic practice.

MR. TOPHAT (SE) + EMMA ROSENZWEIG (DK)
Swedish DJ, producer and artist Rudolf Nordström (b. 1990, Sweden), is the uncrowned king of the Nordic club scene. Combining underground and mainstream in a heady mix of the lush experimental and dancefloor beats, Mr. Tophat absorbs genres and makes them his own. For his show at CHART Danish artist Emma Rosenzweig will provide accompanying visuals to his DJ-act.

ELIAS BENDER RØNNENFELT (DK)+ CALI THORNHILL DEWITT (CA)
Copenhagen-based lead singer of Danish band Iceage, Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (b. 1992, Denmark) will do a collaborative DJ-set with Canadian LA-based multi disciplinary artist Cali Thornhill DeWitt (b. 1973, US), for CHART. Dewitt, who has previously produced music videos for Iceage will do the visuals for this playful and exciting collaboration.

TOKYO TWINS (NO)
Tokyo Twins is an audiovisual duo consisting of Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel (b. 1988, Germany) and Anne Ødegård (b.1990, Norway), drawing inspiration from European electronic music history, folklore and fantasy in their musical expression. They have come to call their sound “eurodeath” and “digital phantasee”. Their show will be accompanied by the duo’s own visuals and their work can also be experienced at the Emerging exhibition.

VARNRABLE (NO)
Varnrable (b. 1992, Norway) is the music project by Norwegian producer, singer and visual artist Camilla Myhre, based in Copenhagen. As Varnrable, Myhre produces slick synth pop, set on top of icily cool productions, using repetitive pulsing her tunes have an almost hypnotic effect. She expands her show with imagery created from her work as an artist.

PEN GUTT (NO)
Pen Gutt (b. 1995, Norway) calls himself a “complete nerd”, growing up in a nature-immersed town in Norway, going to Christian summer camp. This is one of many reasons that make him such an original artist. As a result of an upbringing atypical to most rappers, Pen Gutt’s music is similarly atypical and his individual style will transcend the music into the visual style of his performance at CHART.

YDEGIRL (DK) + XENIA XAMANEK (DK)
Ydegirl and Xamanek are Copenhagen-based musicians and composers. The R&B infused chambermusic of Ydegirl combines with Xamanek’s idiosyncratic electronic compositions to push the limits of song and sound, for this performance at CHART. For their performance they have created a visual world to accompany the music.

ARVIDA (SE)
Arvida Byström (b. 1991, Sweden) comes from a photography background but works with multiple mediums such as music and installation. Her practice is at the intersection of pop culture and the art world which is also apparent in her work as a musician. Arvida uses a hyper feminized aesthetic to question and challenge these same concepts and she will use her own cross disciplinary imagery as visuals for her friday night performance.

HOW TO BUILD A BLANKET FORT
In a collaboration between Copenhagen-based architecture studio Spacon & X and London and Copenhagen-based artist duo Oliver Sundqvist and Frederik Nystrup-Larsen, the project ‘How to Build a Blanket Fort’ has been redesigned and built anew for CHART. Originally created for Tuborg at Roskilde Festival with reused materials from the Tuborg brewery such as furniture and old banners and kegs, ‘Blanket Fort’ is transformed at CHART to set the stage for musical performances and the main bar in the Charlottenborg courtyard.

Additionally, experience a total of five architecture pavilions designed by budding architects and visual artists, which will house a selection of bars and restaurants serving a plentiful supply of organic food and delicious drinks. This year’s pavilion bars and restaurants are hosted by 1664 Blanc, Thorn Gin, Gasoline Grill, Jah Izakaya & Sake Bar, Rouge Oysters.

The presentation of ‘Blanket Fort’ is a close collaboration between Tuborg, Spacon & X, Oliver Sundqvist & Frederik Nystrup-Larsen and CHART.

CHART Architecture is made possible with the generous support from Realdania, The Dreyer Foundation, FOSS, The City of Copenhagen and the Danish Arts Foundation. Knowledge and resource partners include BLOXHUB, Arup, and Copenhagen Architecture Festival.

BAR AND RESTAURANT PARTNERS
Turborg, 1664 Blanc, Thorn Gin, Gasoline Grill, Jah Izakaya & Sake Bar, Rouge Oysters

ABOUT CHART

Friday, 30 August – Sunday, 1 September 2019, the seventh edition of CHART will take place at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, Denmark.

CHART is the leading event for contemporary art and design in the Nordic region offering a unique, single entry point for all to the art and design scene. For three days, CHART invites everyone, from professionals, practitioners and cultural enthusiasts, to celebrate art, design and architecture, and explore new frontiers in the cross-fields between these practices.

CHART 2019 will present an art fair and a design fair, featuring pioneering galleries from all five Nordic countries; a series of curated exhibitions, showcasing innovative talents in art, design, and architecture; and a vast live programme comprised of film screenings, concerts, performances and festivities.

30 Aug - 1 Sep

Chart 2019

The leading event for contemporary art and design in the Nordic region

Friday, 30 August – Sunday, 1 September 2019, the seventh edition of CHART will take place at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, Denmark.

CHART is the leading event for contemporary art and design in the Nordic region offering a unique, single entry point for all to the art and design scene. For three days, CHART invites everyone, from professionals, practitioners and cultural enthusiasts, to celebrate art, design and architecture, and explore new frontiers in the cross-fields between these practices.

CHART 2019 will present an art fair and a design fair, featuring pioneering galleries from all five Nordic countries; a series of curated exhibitions, showcasing innovative talents in art, design, and architecture; and a vast live programme comprised of film screenings, concerts, performances and festivities. Mark your calendars and stay tuned as our programme will be launched in the coming months.

About CHART
CHART believes in the power of art to rethink society and challenge conformity. Since its foundation in 2013 CHART has strived to challenge the boundaries and experience of a traditional art event to connect individuals. In bringing together the art world’s entire ecosystem CHART fosters new relationships and encourages collaboration.

CHART is a non-profit organisation.

OPENING HOURS:

Friday, 30 August
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Art Fair: 16:00 – 20:00
Den Frie, Design Fair: 16:00 – 20:00
Charlottenborg, Public Programme: 16:00 – 20:00

Charlottenborg, Opening Concert, 20:00 – 01:00
Entrance from Kongens Nytorv
Free entrance until 21:00, 70kr thereafter.

Saturday, 31 August
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Art Fair: Art Fair: 12:00 – 18:00
Design Fair: 12:00 – 18:00
Charlottenborg, Public Programme: 12:00 – 19:00

Sunday, 1 September
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Art Fair: 12:00 – 17:00
Den Frie, Design Fair: 12:00 – 17:00
Charlottenborg, Public Programme: 12:00 – 17:00

FAIR ADMISSION:

Both fairs, one day – 120kr
Both fairs, partout, all three days – 225kr
Student/Senior, with a valid ID – 65kr
Children 0-16 years old – free
Public programme is free

For more information about the programme check out our website chartartfair.com and while you’re at it follow us on Instagram. Find all the events here.

#CHART2019 #CHARTArtFair

KEY PARTNER
Nykredit Private Banking

PARTNERS
Montana, GRID, TransArt, Møbeltransport Denmark, Brookfield, FOSS, Normann Copenhagen and Tuborg.

CONTRIBUTORS
The Dreyer Foundation, Realdania, The Beckett Foundation, The City of Copenhagen, The Nordic Culture Fund, New Carlsberg Foundation, Danish Arts Foundation, and The Obel Family Foundation.

19 Aug - 20 Aug
10.00 - 17.00

Looking for another space of belonging

Seminar

A seminar exploring the notion of belonging through the work of artists from former Yugoslavia – especially those who left the country after the 90’s.

Speakers: Among others René Block, Irfan Hošić, Carsten Juhl, Tijana Mišković, Adnan Softić, Jeppe Wedel-Brandt (The full list of speakers will be announced during the first half of July)

Program: August 19th and 20th, 2019

Both days:
10.00-12.30 Cinema-screening program with video artworks related to the seminar theme
13.00-17.00 Seminar Presentations

Tickets here
Venue: Kunsthal Charlottenborg (cinema space at mezzanine on the 1st floor), Nyhavn 2, 1051 Copenhagen K

In 30-minutes afternoon presentations during the 2-day seminar, a group of international speakers will focus on theoretical, curatorial and especially artistic attempts to redefine the notion of belonging by directing us to look in-between and beyond established national and cultural structures. Furthermore, there will be a cinema-screening program in the morning hours, with video artworks related to the seminar theme.

Thematically the seminar program will be organized around three lines that question the notion of:
LAND/ SOIL – Territorial belonging, as well as heritage, in the situation of displacement.
ARCHITECTURE – Protective construction that evokes physical and mental belonging in the context of destruction, trauma, and rebuilding.
CITY SPACE – Urban patterns for thinking, communicating, and social acting in both diversity and unity.

Background:
In the ‘90s, the multinational Balkan country Yugoslavia dissolved. The nationalism took over Tito’s concept of “brotherhood and unity”, and the violent war resulted in millions of people being displaced. However, the Balkan concept of a multicultural coexistence, which can be traced back not only to Tito’s Yugoslavia, but also to the culturally diverse Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, did not disappear. In fact, it has transitioned from a concept of peripheral otherness of Europe into one of diasporic inbetweenness of Europe.

Today, other war refugees, as well as environmental migrants, are fleeing their places of origin to new territories in search of better futures. This increasing worldwide displacement is calling for a redefinition of the concept of belonging by thinking beyond established structures.

The artists who left Yugoslavia after the ‘90s – and now live in what we, for lack of a better word, call a diaspora – might be able to provide a useful “third point of view” amidst Europe’s actual struggle to maintain its concept of coexistence “in unity and diversity” because they are intrinsically connected to several contexts of liminality. (They come from the Balkans, which historically has been considered a periphery of Europe, being both an exotic and obscure “other”. Additionally, they’ve gained yet another layer of “otherness” as a displaced generation of immigrants living between cultures.) Further info here.

The seminar is supported by:
Grosserer L.F. Foghts Fond
Billedhuggeren, professor Gottfred Eickhoff og hustrus, maleren Gerda Eickhoffs Fond

 

10 Aug
14.00 - 16.00

Curator tour and catalogue launch

Jesper Just 'Servitudes'

Join a guided tour on Saturday 10 August at 2 pm of the solo exhibition ‘Servitudes’ of internationally renowned artist Jesper Just. Curator Irene Campolmi will guide you through the exhibition, a spatial installation, which disrupts the visitor’s experience to question the ideas of agency and passivity that permeate social interactions in contemporary society. The guided tour is in English, and you can experience it by purchasing a normal entrance ticket to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

The guided tour is followed at 3 pm by Jesper Just’s book launch ’Jesper Just – Servitudes. Circuits. Interpassivities’, which for the first time documents the artist’s live performances from 2005 to 2019.

The book editor, Irene Campolmi and book’s contributors Marianne Torp and Michael Thouber will be in conversation in connection to the book’s launch.

The book features contributions by RoseLee Goldberg, Founder and Director of Performa NY; André Lepecki, professor and chair of the Department of Performance Studies at
New York University; Fatoş Üstek, Director of the Liverpool Biennial; Andrew Berardini, L.A. based writer; Irene Campolmi, curator and editor of the book; Michael Thouber, director of Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Marianne Torp, senior research curator at SMK – The National Gallery of Denmark. The book is published by Mousse Publishing, and the essays investigate and reflect on Just’s performances and on the performative dimensions of his total installations.

Jesper Just ‘Servitudes’ is on view at Kunsthal Charlottenborg until 11 August 2019. Further info about the exhibition here.

25 Jun - 10 Aug

Der Lauf der Dinge

Film by Fischli Weiss

This summer, we are screening the iconic art film ’Der Lauf der Dinge’ by the Swiss artist duo Fischli Weiss, with enchanting sequences of everyday objects that together create absurd chain reactions of collisions and explosions. The film is on view in Charlottenborg Art Cinema during opening hours from 25 June – 10 August.

’Der Lauf der Dinge’, 1987, 30 min.
The film presents sequences with objects such as tires, garbage bags, ladders, soup, oil drums, old shoes, water and gasoline that together create chains of motions. The course has an entertaining yet critical understanding of functionality, and the viewer feels captivated by the domino effect. The Guardian has described it as “post-apocalyptic”, because the objects fly, crash and are destroyed in a continuous flow. The film was created for documenta in 1987 and has received a number of awards at film festivals such as Berlin International Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival and others.

Copyright: Peter Fishcli & David Weiss, Zürich 2018 / Courtesey Sprüth Magers; Natthew Marks Gallery, Galerie Eva Presenhuber.

19 Jun
17.00 - 18.00

The future of Europe

Europa Endlos x ATLAS

How does the European project shape after the European Parliament election? How will the next five years be with the new power constellations in Europe?

Professor Marlene Wind and author Kaspar Colling Nielsen discuss the outcome of the European election with Kristoffer Granov from Atlas Magasin as moderator Wednesday 19 June at 5pm.

The event is in Danish and takes place in Charlottenborg Art Cinema. Admission is free and open for all.

The event is created in collaboration with Atlas Magasin.

14 Jun
17.00 - 18.00

Jesper Just

Servitudes

Just before the opening of Servitudes, the renowned Danish artist Jesper Just introduces the exhibition in a conversation with curator Irene Campolmi and actress Dree Hemingway, moderated by Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s director, Michael Thouber.

Come by and hear more about Jesper Just’s artistic practice and his most comprehensive video installation yet, Servitudes, which premiered in 2015 at Palais de Tokyo in Paris and is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection in New York.

This Charlottenborg Art Talk will be in English and takes place in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema 14 June at 5pm. Everyone is welcome and the entrance is free. Further info about the exhibition: kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/en/exhibitions/jesper-just/

The exhibition is made in collaboration with MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture & Technology in Lisbon.

8 Jun
14.00 - 22.00

Byens Bedste party

Berlingske x Kunsthal Charlottenborg x København Mad & Marked

Experience Byens Bedste party at Kunsthal Charlottenborg to celebrate those who have made an extraordinary impact on Copenhagen during the past year. Berlingske has nominated a number of people, places and initiatives, and they will reveal the winners at an award show with music, food trucks and bar.

When: Saturday 8/6 at 2-10pm
What: Award show at 6-7.30pm
Where: Charlottenborg court yard
Host: Anders Stegger
DJ: Camille Jones
Music: Rolf Thofte Trio + Off Bloom

Admission is free.

7 Jun
20.00 - 22.00

Blue hour #3

Curated by Emma Rosenzweig and Albert Grøndahl

BLUE HOUR is a Film Club at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, which screens Super 8 works by selected artists. The movie programme is organised and curated by Emma Rosenzweig and Alberte Grøndahl, who have invited four artists to join the third version of BLUE HOUR. A Super 8 camera has been passed on between artists Marie Karlberg, Esben Weile Kjær, Lizzi Bougatsos and Tal R and each artist has created one film.

The unedited films will premiere at Kunsthal Charlottenborg on 7 June at 8 PM. The screening will be followed by a party at Apollo Bar.

BLUE HOUR is a recurring event. Every movie night screens film pieces created on the basis of the same fixed framework, getting a number of artists to record between three and five rolls of film using the same Super 8 camera. The framework establishes an artistic platform where Danish and international artists all create a filmic piece based on the same gaze and approach. The results are shown together at one-night-only events to a common audience.

The analogue limits of the medium means that artists cannot edit or carry out revisions during the process. The rough, unfiltered feel, the texture of the cine-film and the intuition of the artist are fundamental for the process, action and progress of the project.

Esben Weile Kjær (born 1992).
‘Queen is a feeling’ is a re-enactment of how the Danish Queen arrives for the New Year’s Banquet at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen. The piece is performed by Gina Jaqueline, a media personality known from her blog, Instagram profile and, later, TV and other mass media,. She will arrive in her car and pose to the press, but the public is absent although the echo from the cameras of the press and the yelling of the photographers can be heard in the palace square. Queen is a feeling suggests that the current centre of power and attention lies elsewhere. Maybe a place she is on her way to.

Lizzi Bougatsos (born 1974)
Fuelled by an innate tension, Bougatsos has made a movie based a dream she had recently: she paints a dead fish with nail polish and dances with knives to scare evil spirits away.

Tal R (born 1967)
The beautiful boy is dancing in the light, the beautiful boy is dancing behind the mask, the beautiful boy is a beautiful girl, the beautiful girl is lifting her skirt.

Marie Karlberg (born 1985)
The journey you are following starts with a woman, alone on the foggy beach of New Hampshire, America. She is looking for someone or something, but we do not know what. In a way she finds what she is looking for, and lies down on the rocks. She closes her eyes, is she dreaming? Suddenly humans are talking to her. Faces, faces, real faces, but also painted faces. They are telling her things, commentaries she has heard earlier, or is it a warning?

6 Jun
17.00 - 18.30

Mark Nelson

Kunsthal Charlottenborg x Medical Museion

Experience the American ecologist Mark Nelson for the first time in Denmark talk about his insightful and thought-provoking experiences from life in Biosphere 2, a closed ecosystem in Arizona. The event takes place Thursday 6 June at 5pm in Charlottenborg Art Cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

On 26 September 1991, Mark Nelson closed the door of the Biosphere 2 behind him and did not open it again until 26 September 1993. In the two intervening years, he lived with seven other so-called biospherians in this unique architectural construction in the Arizona desert. Biosphere 2 had its own biosphere, a closed ecosystem consisting of various biomes, which the residents should live in and off. The biospherians were one with the system. They were organic pioneers, participants in an extreme experiment, and the incarnation of a radical vision for the future. Almost 30 years after Mark Nelson ended the first mission, it is highly appropriate to re-visit the Biosphere 2 and its ecological awareness to reflect on the relationship between human and non-human life on Earth, today and in the future.

The talk is organized in collaboration with Medical Museion as part of an exhibition collaboration at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in the fall of 2021, which is curated by Jacob Lillemose and Adam Bencard. The talk is a collaboration between Medical Museion, Art Hub Copenhagen and RESPOND Festival – People, Planet and Technology, which takes place 6 – 8 June at the Engineer Association’s building in Copenhagen.

The event is in English and the admission is free (admission to the current exhibition is 50 DKK).

29 May
17.00 - 19.00

Soda_Jerk

Talk with Jacob Lillemose

Meet the Australian artist duo Soda_Jerk Wednesday 29 May at 5pm. Soda_Jerk is screening their film TERROR NULLIUS and after the film screening, the artists participate in a talk with curator Jacob Lillemose.

TERROR NULLIUS is a mix of political satire, collage film and road movie. It is visual fireworks that express power structures and politics, where the post-apocalyptic dessert camps from ‘Mad Max 2’ turn into refugee camps, meat-eating sheep turn into anti-colonialist protesters, and a feminist motorcycle gang puts Mel Gibson in his place. The film is commissioned by ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image).

Film critics Luke Buckmaster describes it in The Gurdian: “And it is a crazy, punch-drunk, astral-projecting, bizarro roller-coaster ride through Australian cinema, with an unnerving ability to observe things that were never said and forge connections that were never made. The film celebrates and denigrates; it loves and hates. In one sense it is respectful of classic texts, because without them it would be nothing. And in another, there is a feeling the directors enjoy watching old sentiments burn to the ground, with a “nothing is sacred” ethos, all about challenging old narratives and asserting new ones.”

The event is in English and takes place in Charlottenborg Art Cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Admission is free.

During the period 28 May – 23 June, we are screening the film TERROR NULLIUS throughout opening hours in Charlottenborg Art Cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

28 May - 23 Jun

Terror Nullius

Film by Soda_Jerk

How is a story created? How is history written? How are our memories shaped? 28 May – 23 June, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the film TERROR NULLIUS by the Australian artist duo Soda_Jerk.

TERROR NULLIUS is a mix of political satire, collage film and road movie. It is visual fireworks that express power structures and politics, where the post-apocalyptic dessert camps from ‘Mad Max 2’ turn into refugee camps, meat-eating sheep turn into anti-colonialist protesters, and a feminist motorcycle gang puts Mel Gibson in his place. The film is commissioned by ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image).

Film critics Luke Buckmaster describes it in The Gurdian: “And it is a crazy, punch-drunk, astral-projecting, bizarro roller-coaster ride through Australian cinema, with an unnerving ability to observe things that were never said and forge connections that were never made. The film celebrates and denigrates; it loves and hates. In one sense it is respectful of classic texts, because without them it would be nothing. And in another, there is a feeling the directors enjoy watching old sentiments burn to the ground, with a ‘nothing is sacred’ ethos, all about challenging old narratives and asserting new ones.”

The film is screened in Charlottenborg Art Cinema during opening hours.

Soda_Jerk visits Kunsthal Charlottenborg Wednesday 29 May at 5pm, where they participate in a Q&A with Jacob Lillemose.

25 May
13.00 - 14.00

Guided tour in the exhibition by curator Henriette Bretton-Meyer

Guided tour

Curator on the current exhibition Europa Endlos, Henriette Bretton-Meyer, gives a guided tour in the exhibition and shares some of the thoughts behind it.

The group exhibition puts Europe and the EU on the agenda. Henriette Bretton-Meyer has selected art works created by a number of today’s most prominent artists, who look into stories and themes such as identity, labour, borders, community and migration.

The tour is in Danish.

24 May
17.00 - 18.00

Bouchra Khalili (postponed)

Europa Endlos

NOTE: The talk with Bouchra Khalili is unfortunately cancelled 24 May – the event is postponed to another day in the exhibition period. Date and time will be announced ultimo May.

Friday 24 May at 5pm, we present a talk with the Morrocan French artist Bouchra Khalili. Her film work ‘The Tempest Society’ is currently on view in the exhibition ‘Europa Endlos’ at Kunsthal Charlottenborg and this evening, she will talk about her film and her artistic process.

The film is created for documenta 14 and addresses among other things contemporary Greece in Europe and the refugee crisis through a narrative about the French theater group Al Assifa from the 1970s with North African migrants and French students.

The event is in English.

22 May
17.00 - 18.30

New Narratives for Europe – Panel discussion

Europa Endlos x ATLAS

How do we make a trans-European conversation about politics, art and culture possible? Editor in Chief at Eurozine Réka Kinka Papp and Anne-Marijn Epker from the Dutch Forum on European Culture talk with ATLAS’ Kristoffer Granov about the opportunities of a European public

The event is in English, and admission is free.

The event is made in collaboration with ATLAS Magasin.

22 May
08.30 - 10.00

Art for all in Denmark

Dialogue

HOW DO WE SHOW ART TO ALL IN DENMARK?

We will discuss this in Charlottenborg Coffee Club Wednesday 22 May with artists, culture institutions and politicians.

Panel 1
Kaare Dybvad Bek, Politician (S)
Nikolaj Bøgh, Politician (K)
Kasper Holten, Direktor The Royal Danish Theatre
Knud Romer, Author
Franciska Rosenkilde, Politician (Å)
Gitte Ørskou, Direktor Kunsten Museum Aalborg

Panel 2
Fenar Ahmad, Film director
Marianne Jelved, Politician (R)
Morten Messerschmidt, Politician (DF)
Pernille Rosendahl, Musician
Michael Thouber, Direktor Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Moderator: Lene Johansen, journalist

There are limited seats and reservation is through billetlink. The event is in Danish and tickets are free.

CHARLOTTENBORG COFFEE CLUB
22 May 2019, 8.30-10am
Apollo Bar, Kunsthal Charlottenborg

22 May - 26 May

Europa Endlos X ART WEEK

Film programme

During Art Week, 22-26 May, there will be launched a film programme with the focus on Europe in connection with Europa Endlos, curated by CPH:DOX:

Wednesday 22 May: ’Ceremony’ by Phil Collins (2018), 67 min. Screened in loop from 12 PM-4:30 PM.
Thursday 23 May: ’Hungary 2018’ by Eszter Hajdu (2018), 82 min. Screened in loop from 12 PM-8 PM.
Friday 24 May: ’Democracy LTD’ by Robert Schabus (2019), 87 min. Screened in loop from 12 PM-4.30 PM.
Saturday 25 May: ‘Everybody in the Place’ by Jeremy Deller (2018), 61 min. Screened in loop from 11 AM-5 PM.
Sunday 26 May: ‘The Rest’ by Ai Weiwei (2019), 79 min. Screened in loop from 11 AM-5 PM.

The films can be seen in the opening hours in the cinema with an entrance ticket for Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The programme is made in collaboration with CPH:DOX.

21 May
12.00 - 20.00

Bachelor exhibition

Film

As a part of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Bachelor Exhibition, we present a number of films from the students Tuesday 21 May in Charlottenborg Art Cinema. Throughout the day, there will be film screenings of all films starting at 12noon, 2pm, 4pm and 6pm. The five films are:

Victoria West: Film 1 and film 2 from ‘The Forest Floor’ (7 min.)
The two films from ‘The Forest Floor’ are part of a computer game/digital installation, where the films are shown on screens in a digital forest. The texts that are read out loud are thoughts and emotions on limited time and energy. How much can you take? What do you prioritize, when you for example explore a digital forest? The computer game with the title ‘The Forest Floor’ is on view at Brønshøj Vandtårn during the exhibition period.

Bertram von Undall: ‘P’ (12 min.)
A forest was attempted transformed to a film set. In the attempt to plan the perfect transformation, a group of people was captured in an infinite planning loop, where one plan only led to the next plan etc. The film is a research fiction, in which a person attempts to explain these semi-absurd occurrences. It mainly consists of digital reconstructions and some stills from a previous documentary on this topic

Mads Hyldgaard Nielsen: ‘Blikket er et objekt’ (18 min.)
… maybe he has closed his eyes and dreamt that the sculpture will bow down like Galatea to embrace him? The memory is his gaze that stretches like an image into our now. The film is an essayistic extended montage, which processes the image as concept and the gazes that fixates them.

Aske Thiberg: ‘Now I see things for the way it is’ (32 min.)
The film is a musical about youth in isolation and takes place in four bedrooms that are reconstructed in 3D from images and conversations in a chat room for people, who voluntarily and involuntarily have isolated themselves from society.

This year’s bachelor exhibition is on view in Brønshøj Vandtårn until 25 May.

20 May
19.00 - 21.00

Exploration through the body

Work demo & talk

We invite you to take part in the participatory concept Exploration through the body (Med kroppen på opdagelse) where the artists will share their thoughts and methods behind the choreographic game Monday 20 May at 7pm.

Mette Overgaard, Marlene Bonnesen and Lars Dahl Pedersen are the creators behind Running Sculptures’ participatory performance Exploration through the body. The performance is a choreographic game where children, young people, and the dance artists are exploring creative tasks, observation, and reflection.

What happens when you insist on cultivating a process, the unpredictability and the change within a finished performance?
The artists have created a concept where they are able to develop and understand their own artistic practice, with each other and at the same time with the children and the young, through layers of choreographic rules, dance scores, and sound landscapes in wireless headphones.

In this version of Choreography in Action we will try out parts of the concept followed by a dialogue around the aspects of working with exploration and participation from a workshop format to a participatory performance format.

Mette Overgaard, Marlene Bonnesen and Lars Dahl Pedersen
The three artists are working together on supporting and developing their individual choreographic practices. They focus on involvement, development, and sharing of practices. They produce and have presented work through the company Running Sculptures since 2017. Since 2018 the company has toured at schools in Denmark with Exploration through the body through the Dance for Children Programmein Dansehallerne.

Lars Dahl Pedersen has recently graduated with an MA in Philosophy from University of Copenhagen (2016). He finished his training as a dancer and choreographer in 1999 from The Danish National School of Performing Arts.

Marlene Bonnesen holds a BA Diploma in dance and choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts (2015).

Mette Møller Overgaard has a diploma from Iwanson School of Contemporary Dance in Munich (2009). In 2014 she graduated from the Dance Partnership programme at The Danish National School of Performning Arts.

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installions, performances and films. New artist every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to  the artists in the field but open to all with an interest.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg
CHOREOGRPAHY IN ACTION  takes place at Charlottenborg Art Cinema. The distinctive art institution Kunsthal Charlottenborg ia a close collaborator of Dansehallerne. It is in English and admission is free.

18 May
14.00 - 15.30

Guided tour by curator

Afgang 2019

Join a guided tour in the art scene of the future with art from the 28 graduating artists from The Royal Danish Academy of Visual Arts Saturday 18 May at 2pm.

One of the curators María Berríos gives a tour in the exhibition and introduces her work with orchestrating the exhibition, which takes point of departure in fractions from a poem by Ursula Andkjær Olsen and creates unity and dialogue between the various art works.

‘Afgang 2019’ is on view at Kunsthal Charlottenborg until Sunday 19 May 2019.

15 May
17.00 - 19.00

ATLAS spring edition

Book launch Kunsthal Charlottenborg x ATLAS

Join us at the launch of the newest edition of ATLAS in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s book shop at 5pm. Admission is free.

In this edition, you can read abort the written porn’s release, about Las Vegas, or about Simone Weil’s religious and political philosophy.

The event is created in collaboration with ATLAS magazine.

15 May
17.00 - 19.00

Afgang Live vol 3

Afgang 2019

Wednesday 15 May at 5pm, Kunsthal Charlottenborg looks forward to present the third edition of Afgang LIVE – an evening where this year’s MFA Degree Show is unfold with performances, concerts, films and guided tours by the artists.

The event starts at 5pm and is introduced by curator María Berríos. Afterwards, a number of the paticipating artists in the exhibition will introduce their works or perform, give a lecture etc.

The participating artists are:
Adam Fenton, Isabella Martin, Jacob O. Henry, Karen Nhea Nielsen, Linda Karin Nielsen, Lou Mouw, Maja Fjord Fjord, Mathilde Bjerre, Rasmus Emil Styrmer, Tore Hallas.

5.05pm (upper foyer): María Berríos introduces to the evening
5.15pm (exhibition): Artist tour by Jacob O. Henry, Isabella Martin, Mathilde Bjerre, Maja Fjord Fjord, Rasmus Emil Styrmer, Adam Fenton med Rebecka Berchtold.
6pm (exhibition): Adam Fenton med Rebecka Berchtold, performance.
OBS: Dance performance is cancelled due to injury. Adam Fenton and Rebecka Berchtold wil nevertheless be a part of the artist tour.
6pm (cinema): Karen Nhea Nielsen ‘Fuck off Freud’ (Dansih).
6.15pm (cinema): Tore Hallas, talk with Dina Amlund and film screening.
6.50pm (cinema): Lou Mouw, lecture performance (English).
7.20pm (cinema): Linda Karin Nielsen, introduction and filmscreening.
7.40pm (cinema): Isabella Martin ‘If We’re Moving Fast Enough’, film and soundwork.
7.50pm (stairs): Isabella Martin ‘Dead Reckoning’ saxophone performance with Jim Slade.

The event is in English, and the admission is free.

13 May
19.00 - 21.00

Choreographic performative practices for babies

Talk / Dalija Acin Thelander

The choreographer, theatre maker and cultural worker Dalija Acin Thelander is engaged in research and creation in the field of contemporary dance for babies and children. Fundamental for Dalija Acin Thelanders motivation to create for the youngest audience is the perception of the child as equal to an adult, worthy of encountering arts in early years.

Dalija will Monday 13 May at 7pm present some of her performances for babies (0-18 months) and introduce the choreographic methods and main approaches related to her performative practice and movement. She will emphasize the general concerns related to performing and creating for babies.

This lecture aims to encourage rethinking and challenge the concepts and aesthetics of performing arts for babies, both from the perspective of creating and performativity.

Dalijas choreographic practice for babies is grounded in sensorial-perceptual perspective and she will speak about some of the key aspects of her work:
– notion of choreography as expanded practice
– synergy of choreography and installation art
– sensuous interrelationship of body-mind environment
– agency as politicized aesthetic practice
– mutually influential exchange between the performers and audience

About the artist Dalija Acin Thelander
She works within the performing arts field as a choreographer, theatre maker and cultural worker. She has been involved in intensive research and creation in the field of contemporary dance for babies and children since 2008, asserting the importance of the early encounters with art.

Her work aspires to contribute to the notion of choreography as expanded practice and focuses on audience’s agency, intersensoriality and emplacement.

Her performances for the youngest audiences have successfully toured in Japan, Korea, China, India, Brazil and Europe. Her choreographed installation for babies “Baby Space” was co-produced in Serbia, Poland, Denmark, Japan, China, Singapore and Greenland.
In 2017 she created commissioned performance for babies for the Royal Opera House in Stockholm, Sweden. She shared the findings of her research and practice internationally throughout numerous of lectures and laboratories.

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installions, performances and films. New artist every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to  the artists in the field but open to all with an interest.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg
CHOREOGRPAHY IN ACTION  takes place at Charlottenborg Art Cinema. The distinctive art institution Kunsthal Charlottenborg ia a close collaborator of Dansehallerne. The event is in English and admission is free.

9 May
17.00 - 20.00

Woman drags along her barking shadow kung kung

Talk, dialogue and readings

TERRAPOLIS are more than delighted to present two of the most important and influential contemporary feminist poets of South Korea at Kunsthal Charlottenborg: Kim Hyesoon and Kim Yideum. Their poetry, breath-taking, subversive, grotesque, displaying resistance and political repression, will be unfolded, on occasion of this event, through readings, talks and conversations.

The event will feature the poet and translator Don Mee Choi, who has done masterly translations of both poets, Johannes Göransson, their American publisher, and the Danish writer Maja Lee Langvad, whose writing is influenced by her connection to South Korea.

The event is in English and takes place in Chartlottenborg Art Cinema.
Free sandwiches will be provided.
Admission (normal entrance to the exhibition space): 90/50 DKK.
Supported by Statens Kunstfond and LTI Korea.

More words on and from the participants:

KIM HYESOON
Kim Hyesoon debuted her poems in 1979, where she, along with another renowned feminist poet, Ch’oe Sung-ja, were the first female poet to be published in South Korea’s prominent literary journal ‘Literature and Intellect’. With this, a woman’s poetry energized by feminist consciousness began to challenge the status quo of Korean patriarchy and oppressive conditions.

Among a lot of literary awards, Kim Hyesoon was the first woman poet to receive the prestigious Kim Su-yong Literary Award, and she has been translated into several languages from Chinese to Swedish. Her books include Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream (2011), I’m OK, I’m Pig! (2014) and Autobiography of Death (2018). In a conversation with Don Mee Choi, Kim Hyesoon have said: “At the place where the body becomes anonymous, disenfranchised, and expelled, is where the language of death, women’s language, is born—language that grapples with the language of anonymity, negativity, non-gender specific language. The kind of writing that has definite subjects and objects, that depicts its objects in detail, objectifying them, then adding grandiose aphorisms to them is, of course, masculine writing that has been preserved in Korea by history. But the feminine writing of death begins from a place of emptiness/nothingness, a place that’s full with the presence of absence. In that place, there are sounds that are considered embarrassing to the world of meaning, but not at all to the world of body (sound).”

DON MEE CHOI
Don Mee Choi has, among other books, written the poetry collections Hardly War (2016) and The Morning News Is Exciting (2010). She has received a Whiting Award, Lannan Literary Fellowship, and Lucien Stryk Translation Prize. Her translations include six collections of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry, one of Kim Yideum’s. In her introduction to Kim Hyesoon’s Mommy Must be a Fountain of Feathers, she writes: “For Kim the blackened space is the realm in which women from the traditional era expressed their social conditions. This realm has long been traveled by women represented in Korean shaman narratives, muga. […] For Kim the blackened space is not only the space of oppression but also a place where a woman redefines herself, retranslates herself. Therefore, I see Kim’s poetry as poetry of translation. And in my role as a translator, I guide Kim’s translated blackened self to another place, another language, across a bridge forged by history. […] It made total sense to me that Kim’s blackened realm would be populated by rats copulating, raising a family, mommy rats gnawing at baby rats, surviving hell. Kim translates hell, as a daughter of neocolony, and I translate her translated hell as a daughter from the neocolony – two daughters too many.”

KIM YIDEUM
Kim Yideum has written five books of poetry and a novel, including Cheer up, Femme Fatale (2007) and Hysteria (2014). She has received numerous awards for her poetry and has a PhD in Korean feminist poetics. Kim Hyesoon writes beautifully about Kim Yideums poetry: “Kim Yi-Deum’s poetry is the landscape of confession. The confession flows inside the landscape and the landscape soars inside the confession. These two elements of her poetry are interconnected in the way eros gets pulled up to the divine place. Her poetry appears as poetry, it also appears as prose. As poetry, it’s polyphonic, and as prose, it’s defiant. Her poetry is the theater of multiple personality. You hear the voices of hundreds of people, hundreds of things. These naked living things become her poetic subjects. In each poem, the different sensations of each body are invented. She punishes herself and accepts her own unsightly, gutless face. Her poetry is engaged in the difficult process of discovering the other inside her. Her rhythm, which emerges from the fishnet of interconnections, bites power and sets her free.”

MAJA LEE LANGVAD
Maja Lee Langvad grew up in Copenhagen but was born in Seoul and lived there from 2007 to 2010. In her books, she addresses issues of transnational adoption, nationalism and racism. She was rewarded with the Bodil og Jørgen Munch-Christensens debutant prize for her book Find Holger Danske (2004) and has furthermore written Hun er vred (2014) and Dage med galopperende hjertebanken (2017).

JOHANNES GÖRANSSON
Translator, poet, critic and publisher. Johannes Göransson is an editor at the feminist anchored Action Books and its serie of Korean literature. He writes criticism about translation theory. In a conversation on Kim Hyesoon and criticism, he has said: “Why not explore the differences between sensationalism—a crossing of various boundaries, a model of art as attacking the senses—and the contextualizing or the critique? […] I do think both of these “contexts” for her [Kim Hyesoon’s] work are important, and her own critical writing certainly supports both. To me the critique—like the “original context” model of criticism—tends to stabilize and quarantine texts, especially foreign texts. I am really interested in the anxieties that surround translation: on one hand that the anxiety that the foreign influence will corrupt the domestic poetry, and on the other hand the anxiety that the translation is corrupting the foreign text.”

8 May
17.00 - 19.00

Afgang Live vol 2

Afgang 2019

Wednesday 8 May at 5pm, Kunsthal Charlottenborg looks forward to present the second edition of Afgang LIVE – an evening where this year’s MFA Degree Show is unfold with performances, concerts, films and guided tours by the artists.

A number of the paticipating artists in the exhibition will introduce their works or perform, give a lecture etc.

The participating artists 8 May are:
Maria Nørholm Ramouk, Tore Hallas, Maja Fjord Fjord, Rasmus Emil Styrmer, Tore Hallas, Mathilde Bjerre, Isabella Martin, Adam Fenton, Jeppe Lange, Johanne Cathrine Haugen Østervang, Karen Nhea Nielsen, Lotte Lind, Linda Karin Larsen and Lou Mouw.

Programme:
17.05: (upper foyer) Anne Mikél Jensen introduces to the evening
17.15: (in the exhibition) The artist-tours starts: Maria Nørholm Ramouk, Tore Hallas, Mathilde Bjerre, Maja Fjord Fjord and Rasmus Emil Styrmer
17.45: (in the cinema) Isabella Martin: If we’re moving fast enough
18.00: (in exhibition) Adam Fenton
18.15: (in exhibition) Johanne Østervang: Performance
18.30: (in foyer) Karen Nhea Nielsen: Party Conversation (with Naja Bjørnsson, Josefine Ibsen, Katrine Pløger Nielsen and Mirjam Trier)
18.00: (in cinema) Jeppe Lange: Film screening and introduction
18.25: (in cinema) Lotte Lind: Performance lecture
18.55: (in cinema) Linda Karin Larsen: Film screening and introduction
19.20: (in cinema) Lou Mouw: film screening
19.45: (on the stairs) Isabella Martin: Dead Reckoning with Malene Hovgaard Vested (harmonium)
The event is partly in English, and the admission is free.
6 May
19.00 - 21.00

Dansehallerne Business Meeting

Dialogue

Let’s meet and talk and share thoughts, reflections and ideas for the coming Monday 6 May at 7pm. This evening the new director/artistic director of Dansehallerne Danjel Andersson will be present.

Branchemøde is open for DH artists and other artists in the field together with the artistic management of Dansehallerne.

A part of CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A weekly event throughout the season. Every Monday at 7-9 pm Dansehallerne presents meetings between affiliated artists and guests from other programs and performances presented by Dansehallerne. The artists share their thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installations, performances or films. The meetings are primarily addressed to the artists in the field but open to all with an interest.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg
CHOREOGRPAHY IN ACTION takes place at Charlottenborg Art Cinema. The distinctive art institution Kunsthal Charlottenborg ia a close collaborator of Dansehallerne. The program is in English and admission is free.

3 May
17.00 - 21.00
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Heartland programme launch

Heartland is proud to present the final program for this year’s festival at Egeskov Castle from 30 May until 1 June.

Heartland celebrates the program launch in collaboration with Kunsthal Charlottenborg on Friday the 3 May from 5-9pm by inviting all of you to an evening of MUSIC, ART, TALKS and FOOD in the beautiful surroundings of the Charlottenborg Palace. Experience Heartland 2019 MUSIC acts Jeuru Antoine and Christian d’Or among other.

Heartland will also launch the Heartland 2019 Program Paper, along with a few of our collaborative projects which is announced regularly for the event. Among other this year’s Heartland rosé created in collaboration with Vinhanen.

Heartland serve free beer from our partner Albani and for the guests arriving early, we will offer a tasting of the Heartland rosé. You can buy delicious MikropolisCocktails and restaurant Apollo Bar will create a special Heartland co-lab serving for one night only.

Program:
5pm: Doors open – food, drinks and free beer & wine
DJ all evening: Christian d’Or
5.30pm: Welcome
6pm: TALK (TBA)
7pm: Jeuru Antoine LIVE
9pm: Thank you for tonight

We look forward to see you and welcome all!

1 May
17.00 - 19.00

Afgang LIVE vol 1

Afgang 2019

Wednesday 1 May, Kunsthal Charlottenborg looks forward to present the first edition of Afgang LIVE – an evening where this year’s MFA Degree Show is unfold with performances, concerts, films and guided tours by the artists.

The event starts at 5pm and is introduced by curator María Berríos. Afterwards, a number of the paticipating artists in the exhibition will introduce their works or perform, give a lecture etc.

The participating artists 1 May are:
Maja Fjord Fjord, Adam Fenton, Jeppe Lange, Isabella Martin, Karen Nhea Nielsen, Rasmus Emil Styrmer amongst others.

Programme:
17.00: Welcome and short introduction to the exhibition and the programme of the evening – by Maria Bérríos (in the upper foyer)
17.15: Rasmus Emil Styrmer and Maja Fjord Fjord will introduce to their works (in front of works in the exhibition)
17.45: Karen Nhea Nielsen and Josefine Ibsen: Bunny Ball Performance (in upper foyer). Duration 60 min.
18.00: Adam Fenton: The Ultimate New Aesthetic Dance Floor of the Future 2.0 (in front of his work in the exhibition)
18.15: Isabella Martin: film screenings (in the cinema)
18.30: Jeppe Lange: Drawings. Film screening and introduction (in the cinema)
19.00: Isabella Martin : ‘Dead Reckoning’ harmonium performance (on the staircase)The event is partly in Danish and partly in English. The admission is free.
30 Apr
16.00

De Identitære

Book launch and debate with Rasmus Dalland

In connection to the exhibition ‘Europa Endlos’ ATLAS and Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites to launch of Rasmus Hage Dalland’s book IDENTITÆR – en rejse ind i Europas nye højre.

For two years, Rasmus Dalland has traveled through Europe to talk with the leaders of the so called identitarian movement. It has turned into the book ‘Identitær – En rejse I Europas nye højre’, which investigates one of this time’s most powerful political movements.

The event is created in collaboration with ATLAS magazine.

29 Apr
19.00 - 21.00

What is creativity in production?

Panel discussion / Anja Arnquist, Betina Rex, Lene Bang, Magnus Nordberg

This evening we gather four colleagues from Denmark and Sweden. They represent the project; CAMP – creative agent manager producer.

The conversation highlights the challenges which a creative agent and producer has when involved in the development of dance and performance – having ambition, knowledge and heart in play.

The conversation is a prelude to CAMP visiting Denmark in 2020, where also Canadian and Dutch partners will be actively present. The aim is to explore and expand these issues in interaction with the Danish performing arts environment and other relevant actors.

Panel
Anja Arnquist, Producer/Artist
Betina Rex, Producer/Dramaturg
Lene Bang, Creative Producer/Agent
Magnus Nordberg, General Manager/Producer

CAMP samarbejdspartnere og støtte
Festival TransAmériques (CA), The Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival (SE), Theaterfestival Boulevard (NL), Dansehallerne Copenhagen (DK), The Development Platform (DK). Montreal Camp is supported by: The Danish Arts Foundation, Conseil des Arts de Montreal. Early conversations, which shaped CAMP, took place during residencies at Festival TransAmériques (CA) and B.MOTION Festival (IT) in 2017. A special thanks to Denis Bergeron for encouraging CAMP.The development of CAMP is supported by Nordic Culture Fond 2018 – 2020.

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installions, performances and films. New artist every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to  the artists in the field but open to all with an interest.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg
CHOREOGRPAHY IN ACTION  takes place at Charlottenborg Art Cinema. The distinctive art institution Kunsthal Charlottenborg is a close collaborator of Dansehallerne. The event is in English, and admission is free.

23 Apr - 19 May
12.00

The Why Foundation film programme

Film

23 April– 19 May Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to present a film programme by The Why Foundation with four films.

Christoffer Guldbrandsen: The Road to Europe, 2003 (56 min.)
The Road to Europe is the controversial documentary that stirred an international debate and caused a crisis in the relationship between the Danish Prime Minister and his counterparts in France and Germany. The film follows the Danish Prime Minister and EU President, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, as he leads the negotiations towards the Union’s enlargement. The documentary provides a revelatory insight into what EU leaders really think of Turkey’s application for membership.

Christoffer Guldbrandsen: The President, 2011 (59 min.)
In January 2009, a historical moment was planned to take place in the account of the European Union – the 27 member states were to elect the first permanent President of the EU. This film will explore the core of European political power, with cultures dating back centuries, which includes drama, intrigues, vanity and greed. Mostly it is the story about the decisive clash between those who wish for a united Europe and those who oppose it.

Firas Fayyad & Henrik Grunnet: My Escape, 2016 (45 min.)
The film focuses on the largest refugee crisis since the World War II – through the eyes of two boys, Ghaith and Abdul, out of the many thousands of children who are fleeing alone. Their journey to Europe is told from their point of view, and they have recorded some of it themselves with their own mobile cameras.

Sean McAllister: The Crisis and the Sunglasses, 2012 (2.55 min)
A tragicomic narrative about how a family father in Greece is offered to sell sunglasses as compensation by the state after the state has demolished his house to make a landfill expansion.

Nick Fraser & Ben Lewis: R.U.E.U?, 2000 (75 min.)
A hypnotic trip around the European Union (or the idea of European Union) is based on a variety of motion through a labyrinth. A British reporter Nick Fraser owns a BBC reporter’s card, which should open all the doors in every office. He visits various Brussels and Strasbourg institutions (pertinently their Western European regional reflections). He confronts the impeccable artificiality and the mysterious abstraction of the institutions with two journeys to the outskirts of Europe, namely to villages in Poland as well as towns in Romania. Of course, he doesn’t forget his Polaroid camera.

The film programme is screened in Kunsthal Charlottenborg Art Cinema throughout the opening hours.

10 Apr
17.00 - 18.30

Concrete Nature: The Planetary Sand Bank

Film and talk by Rikke Luther

Wednesday 10 April experience the film ‘Concrete Nature: The Planetary Sand Bank’ by Rikke Luther, who will introduce the film before the screening. The film premiered at CPH:DOX 2019 and is an architectural essay about the basic material of modernity in beautifully composed images and a thought-provoking monologue. The admission is free and everyone is welcome.

Each of the meticulously composed images in Rikke Luther’s essayistic ‘Concrete Nature’ is literally rooted in a specific place, its material history and social relations. With concrete as the topic of this beautiful cinematic essay, Luther draws thought-provoking lines between critical moments of modernity – a period whose promises of progress and universal values are materialised in concrete. From the first decades of the 19th century, via the aestheticisation of politics until today, where the seabed is used as a sand mine with disastrous consequences – and possibly on to a future with 3D-printed concrete buildings on other planets. The food for thought is complex, but accessible in Luther’s well-written monologue, illustrated by well-chosen and spacious motifs of the both standardised and visionary architecture that concrete has enabled, and the destroyed landscapes that its production has caused. Screening with ‘A Tree Is Like a Man’.

8 Apr
19.00 - 21.00

Dance On, Pass On, Dream on

Talk with Madeline Ritter, Ty Boomershine and Lisa Marie Bowler

Dance On, Pass On, Dream On proposes a European strategy for a sustainable dance praxis. Instead of continuing to ignore and sideline older dancers and older bodies in general, it celebrates the richness of age and experience – on stage and in society.

The initiative is led by Diehl+Ritter in Berlin and spearheaded by the Dance On Ensemble, a flagship company for dancers 40+.

Dance On, Pass On, Dream On brings together European dance organisations who are committed to making a difference: allowing older dancers to continue to show their great art and experience, enabling older people to move and express themselves, helping institutions to sustain artists’ careers in a responsible manner, and celebrating the intangible heritage of dance that is all too easily forgotten.

Madeline Ritter (Executive Director of Diehl+Ritter and Dance On), Ty Boomershine (Artistic Director of the Dance On Ensemble) and Lisa Marie Bowler (Coordinator of Dance On, Pass On, Dream On) will talk about the project, its achievements over the last three years, and its future.

“It is not true that people stop pursuing their dreams because they get older. We only grow old when we stop pursuing our dreams.” (Donald Tusk, President of the European Parliament, quoting Gabriel García Màrquez)

ABOUT
Madeline Ritter is the Executive Director of Diehl+Ritter and Dance On, and the project leader of Dance On, Pass On, Dream On. Her extensive leadership experience in working with artists, institutions and sponsors led her to oversee the initiative Tanzplan Deutschland in 2004, which mobilised 21 million Euro for dance in Germany and became a model project internationally. In 2011 she founded the non-profit organisation Diehl+Ritter to develop and manage large-scale projects and initiatives. These include, among others, Tanzfonds Erbe (Dance Heritage Fund), Tanzfonds Partner (Dance Partners Fund), Dance On, and Tanzpakt Stadt-Land-Bund. Since 2014, Madeline Ritter has been on the board of the Pina Bausch Foundation.

Ty Boomershine studied dance in Ohio and Missouri. In addition to working with Lucinda Childs Dance, Emio Greco | PC, LeineRoebana, Dan Wagoner, Gus Solomons Jr., Bill T. Jones, Ton Simons, Giulia Mureddu and the Merce Cunningham Repertory Ensemble, he has also performed in various works by Dancenoise and in Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach. He was Artistic Assistant to Lucinda Childs from 2007 and Rehearsal Director for ICKamsterdam from 2013. He is a founding member and now Artistic Director of the DANCE ON ENSEMBLE.

Lisa Marie Bowler is a London-based writer, editor, translator and project manager specialising in dance. She is the coordinator of Dance On, Pass On, Dream On.

Co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union as part of DANCE ON, PASS ON, DREAM ON

DANCE ON is an initiative by DIEHL+RITTER gUG funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installions, performances and films. New artist every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to  the artists in the field but open to all with an interest. It is in English, Free Entrance.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg
CHOREOGRPAHY IN ACTION  takes place at Charlottenborg Art Cinema. The distinctive art institution Kunsthal Charlottenborg is a close collaborator of Dansehallerne. Admission is free.

4 Apr - 21 Apr
12.00

Tony Cokes film programme

Evil. 16 (torture music) & The Queen Is Dead 07.3

4 – 21 April Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to present a film programme with films by Tony Cokes.

Tony Cokes’s most recent work, The Queen is Dead 07.3. is shown alongside one of his more classic works, Evil.16 (torture.music). Both films demonstrate the power of music and what it can give rise to. Against an alternately red and blue background, Evil.16 (torture.music) unfolds how music can be used as torture, as destruction and audio-noise aiming to make prisoners speak. Conversely, The Queen is Dead 07.3 – set against an undulating golden background – celebrates the other aspect of the affective power of music: its ability to move us, its creative powers, its beauty.

Cokes’s Evil series addresses the political situation in the USA and the ways in which American culture has been presented, especially after 11 September 2001. The Queen is Dead 07.3 is an entirely new work originally created for the exhibition Della’s House in Los Angeles: more than anything, it is an homage to Aretha Franklin and her huge significance within American culture and how it relates to women, black people and music – right from Franklin’s first album was released in 1962 up until she sang My Country, ‘Tis of Thee at the inauguration of president Obama in 2009.

Tony Cokes has developed his distinctive visual language since the 1980s, combining pointedly political texts with music and monochrome backgrounds and presenting them together as a kind of cinematic slide show. Cokes samples text, sound and images to create new messages while also reminding us of how powerfully the media of a given period can affect how we view the world. Colours can affect our mood, text can inform us and songs can turn into soundtracks of our lives, get under our skin and act as clear memories of specific experiences.

Tony Cokes (1956) is a professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, Providence. He has exhibited extensively in the USA and Europe for decades.

The film programme is curated by Anne Mikél and is screened in Kunsthal Charlottenborg Art Cinema throughout the opening hours unless otherwise informed.

1 Apr
19.00 - 21.00

Scupture and choreography by Stella Geppert

Talk

This evening Stella Geppert provides insights into her artistic practice. She considers herself to be a kind of communications sculptor and understands sculpture as a “relational investigation” into verbal and nonverbal bodily communication.
As a field researcher would, she examines the moving dynamics of people in social and urban spaces. In her artistic practice, candid social communicative behaviours and spatial phenomena are made visible sculpturally.
Her recent work deals with a kind of “archeology of bodily presence.” Physical techniques, which work with the body’s intelligence, are intertwined with spatial-theoretical questions of duration, alertness, and the physical interaction of bodies in space. Her practice investigates the performative body and spatial concepts as well as installations, drawings, objects, and sculptures.
Stella Geppert will also present her new catalogue called Scores and Sculptures.

About Stella Geppert
Stella Geppert studied fine arts at the University of the Arts Berlin and at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris. Numerous scholarships — the Bursary for Emerging Artists (Nachwuchsförderung, NaföG), the Bonn Art Fund (Bonner Kunstfonds), the Berlin Work Scholarship (Berliner Arbeitsstipendium), and, more recently, a research fellowship at the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani in Venice — support her artistic development.
Her work has been exhibited in numerous national and international exhibitions, with residencies in Japan, France, Denmark, Italy, and elsewhere. She is at present professor of sculptural and spatial artistic practices at the University of Art and Design in Halle (Saale), Germany, and lives and works in Halle and Berlin.
 www.stella-geppert.de

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installions, performances and films. New artist every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to  the artists in the field but open to all with an interest.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg
CHOREOGRPAHY IN ACTION  takes place at Charlottenborg Art Cinema. The distinctive art institution Kunsthal Charlottenborg is a close collaborator of Dansehallerne.

The event is in English, and admission is free.

25 Mar
19.00 - 21.00

Choreographing film by BLUE TIT Production

Film and dialogue

BLUE TIT Production will share their method for filmmaking. A method based on a choreographic approach to image and a collaborative proces for creating. We will watch films and talk about pre-production, shooting and editing and about starting and ending with the body and its movement.

ABOUT BLUE TIT
An artists group initiated by Pernille Koch, Amia Miang and Helle Pagter.

Amia Miang is trained at The Danish National School of Performing Arts and Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York. She is an artist with a diverse range of expressive talents and a real knack for learning. Her performance skills include playing the clarinet and the guitar, part-singing, dubbing, performing magic tricks and steering marionettes. She works internationally within the stage arts – performing in dance-, music- and theatre productions.
She also collaborates with highly regarded visual artists on exhibitions and performances in galleries and museums where she contributes her comic timing and musicality, as well as an open curiosity towards the challenges of art.
Amia is an engaging teacher and speaker, focusing on the physical body and creativity.

Pernille Koch holds a MA in dance and choreography from the international school SNDO in Amsterdam. She has been a driving force as a performer and actress within the Danish stage arts since the 90s. She is a diverse artist and performer who brings humour and presence to many genres: musical theatre, performances for teenagers and children, key notes, installation art, political satire, experimental performance art and film.
She prefers to involve herself in projects where she can contribute to and be part of the process of creating a communal work of art.
She also teaches social choreography to children as part of an artist in residence program.
Pernille is courageous and humorous and throws herself into crazy projects where she can take on the responsibility of asking a lot of questions and meeting her audience eye-to-eye.

Helle Pagter is a choreographer-turned-filmmaker and in addition to being a proud member of Blue Tits, she directs for television and makes short films and documentaries. She teaches regularly at The National Danish Film School and has a passion for the precisely framed and open-ended process of artistic research.
For TV she co-conceptualized and co-directed the first ever season of the staged documentary series Married at First Sight.
Helle is the other half of the reflective laboratory Pagter & Worsøe and a sought after teacher and consultant.
She is currently presenting her latest film Travels to the Dance Within at filmfestivals.

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installions, performances and films. New artist every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to  the artists in the field but open to all with an interest. It is in English, Free Entrance.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg
CHOREOGRPAHY IN ACTION  takes place at Charlottenborg Art Cinema. The distinctive art institution Kunsthal Charlottenborg is a close collaborator of Dansehallerne. Admission is free.

14 Mar
16.00 - 18.00

Innovative Leadership: Artists as International Curators

Talk and workshop

River Lin is an artist and curator working across the fields of visual and performing arts. River’s work includes choreography, live installation, one-on-one performance. Body is the main medium he uses to explore art forms, to activate participation and audience involvement, and to investigate the relationship between time, body and the ritualistic.
His work has been presented at festivals and exhibitions internationally, including Do Disturb Festival of Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Camping Festival of Centre National de la Danse, 2016 Taipei Biennial, M+ Museum in Hong Kong, Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, Manifesta Biennial in Zurich, the Liveworks Festival in Sydney, and ANTI Contemporary Art Festival in Kuopio among others. In 2016-2017, He has been Project Curator of National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan’s International Performing Arts Development Program CO3. In 2018, He has curated Taiwanese program at TPAM Fringe. Sine 2017, he has co-initiated and curated Asia Discovers Asia Meeting (ADAM) with Taipei Performing Arts Center.

About The Innovative Leadership Network (ILN)

“Artists as leaders of change”

ILN is a Nordic cross-disciplinary platform working towards enabling artists to become leaders, developing innovative methods for artistic research activities, as well as developing new ideas in relation to rethinking institutions, increasing audience engagement, investigating new presentation formats, tackling political & societal issues or working on sustainable practices… in order to challenge status quo.

The platform proposes fruitful exchanges between Nordic & European artists, researchers and creative workers from the performing arts field through networking events, lectures & thematic workshops, and open seminars that will take place in Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway from April 2018 to October 2020. Regular online publications will feed the reflection and build cross-sectoral knowledge.

INL is one strand of an ambitious Artist’s Research Lab and Residency Programme developed by Dansehallerne and its partners.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg
The event  takes place at Charlottenborg Art Cinema. The distinctive art institution Kunsthal Charlottenborg ia a close collaborator of Dansehallerne. The event is in English and admission is free.

11 Mar
19.00 - 21.00

Re-Dream – from stage performance into film by Vesala & Helbing

Film and dialogue

The event will be the premiere of the Re-Dream film, which is a collaboration between Antoinette Helbing and Jan Vesala based on the solo performance I’m nothing but I could be anything by Antoinette. It is also based on interviews with elderly people, looking back at the role of dreams in their lives. These interviews were collected during the tour of the stage version in Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

Antoinette and Jan will give insights in their working process in creating a film based on a finished stage piece and including the information from interviews.

How did they use the privileges of the medium film? The great range of possibilities of how to work with time. Having the option to change perspective within a split second. Enabling to move the spectator into a new place. Erasing the limitations that one faces during the creation of a stage performance were replaced by new challenges: How long can a filmed sequence unfold over time compared to a scene we witness live? How far can we stretch the dramaturgic logic?

About Jan Vesala & Antoinette Helbing
Next to Jan’s passion for creating dance movies he has worked as a dancer/performer for more than 30 years within many areas of dance. Some of the people he has been working with are Pina Bausch, Janet Jackson, Rui Horta, Kitt Johnson, Camilla Stage, Dorte Olesen, Pernille Garde and Birgit Cullberg.
During the past years Jan has established an intensive artistic collaboration with Antoinette, who is a German dance artist based in Copenhagen. Her choreographic works “How to be/loved” (2013) and “Re-Dream” (2016) toured Holland,Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Greenland, Faroe Islands and the Philippines. Next to her choreographic practice she works as a dancer for Åben Dans Productions, Tina Tarpgaard, Andreas Constantinou and Kitt Johnson. Before coming to Denmark she worked as dancer at city theaters as well as freelance dancer and choreographer across Germany.

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installions, performances and films. New artist every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to  the artists in the field but open to all with an interest. It is in English, Free Entrance.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg
CHOREOGRPAHY IN ACTION  takes place at Charlottenborg Art Cinema. The distinctive art institution Kunsthal Charlottenborg ia a close collaborator of Dansehallerne. Admission is free.

6 Mar
18.30 - 20.00

‘DAYS OF AL’ WITH INTRODUCTION BY KIM RICHARD ADLER MEJDAHL

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019

As a part of the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019 the artist Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl’s new work DAYS OF AL is screened in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema.

With the lenght of one hour it is Mejdahl’s most comprehensive film work yet – created specially for the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019 after Mejdahl in 2018 received the Solo Award.

The film is introduced by the artist and is on view at Charlottenborg Sping Exhibition 2019 from 2 February to 6 March at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

The admission to the event is free and everyone is welcome.

4 Mar
19.00 - 21.00

DH Business Meeting

Dialogue

Let’s meet and talk and share thoughts, reflections and ideas for the coming.
Branchemøde is open for DH artists and other artists in the field together with the artistic management of Dansehallerne.

On the agenda:
Dansehallernes next leader, Danjel Andersson, will introduce him self

Hanne Svejstrup will say a few words on the new president of the Dansehallerne board, Pernille Backhausen

Marie Topp will inform on workshops and daily training, fall 2019

Ida Elisabeth Larsen will introduce Research Lab May 9-10

Info on DH-kunstnere and conditions for membership

Tim Matiakis has a proposal for us to consider

And some questions in the planning of the event April 25th

Anything else?

The meeting will be in English. Free entrance.
It takes place at Charlottenborg Art Cinema.

27 Feb
18.30 - 20.00

‘DAYS OF AL’ with introduction by Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019

As a part of the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019 the artist Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl’s new work DAYS OF AL is screened in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema.

With the lenght of one hour it is Mejdahl’s most comprehensive film work yet – created specially for the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019 after Mejdahl in 2018 received the Solo Award.

The film is introduced by the artist and is on view at Charlottenborg Sping Exhibition 2019 from 2 February to 6 March at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

The admission to the event is free and everyone is welcome.

27 Feb
17.00 - 18.30

The nominees to this year’s Solo Award

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019

This evening, Charlottenborg Art Talk is a conversation between the four nominees for this year’s Solo Award and is moderated by the member of the jury 2019 Anna Krogh, curator at Brandt – Museum for Art and Visual Culture.

The four nominees are Madeleine Andersson (SE), Amalie Gabel (DK), Kasper Knudsen Muusholm (DK) and 24 students at 3. semester of KADK, Institut for Bygningskunst og Kultur, Kandidatprogrammet Kunst og Arkitektur. The 24 students are Agnete Winsens Astrup, Alberte Marie Bugl Brinckmann, Bastian Bilde Boelsmand, Carla Maria Bøg Larsen, Casper Gudman Dam, Christine Arctander, Desislava Mincheva, Felicia Amdrup Laugesen, Ida Willadsen Bang Kjeldsen, Jens Christian Rønholt Schmidt, Katrine Møller Brændholt Rasmussen, Laura Julie Brage, Louisa Vendelboe Vestergaard, Louise Fischer Madsen, Magnus Holm Thøgersen, Maria Holst Petersen, Pontus Alexandersson, Rikke Sandbugt, Sebastian Mark Christensen, Sebastian Zapata Ottung Henriksen, Selma Viktoria Zosel, Silja Juul Krüger, Søren Skovgaard Laursen and Terese Maglegaard Christensen. The teachers are Filippa Berglund and Peter Møller Rasmussen.

During the talk this evening, Anna Krogh will have a conversation with Madeleine Andersson, Amalie Gabel, Kasper Knudsen Muusholm, and Laura Julie Brage and Bastian Bilde Boelsmand, who participate on behalf of the KADK-team, about their art works in this year’s Spring Exhibition

This evening’s Charlottenborg Art Talk is in Danish and takes place from 17-18.30 in the Charlottenborg Art Cinema. The admission is free.

25 Feb
19.00 - 21.00

Film / Curated by Taneli Törmä, Location X

Film

The Finnish dancer and choreographer Taneli Törma, LOCATION X, is based in Denmark and has been creating dance films since 2010 in Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France, Canada, Finland, Greenland, Norway and Estonia. Taneli has curated this evening and will present a program with five dance films. This evening you can enjoy dance films by Eleni Pierides (FIN) / Jesper Ravn (DK) / Jan Vesala (SWE) / Constantin Georgescu (ROM) / Taneli Törmä (FIN). Taneli has chosen these films as examples of how he got inspired to choreograph dance on screen in the beginning of his career. STORY OF… is the first longer dance film by Taneli Törma created in 2013 in Estonia. The film is based on 6 weeks research residency, where Taneli was first filming 3 weeks and then editing 3 weeks. The originally movie was part of a live performance. This film project was a source of  inspiration for Tanelis future movies and live performances: ZOOM, EPILOGUE, BLACK SIDE and JUMP. The film STORY OF… shows how Taneli started to choreograph film: action, framing, filming and editing. After he created this movie he continue working more with dance films. He was super inspired by others working in the field and their different approaches to film making – Constantin Georgescu (ROM), Jan Vesala (SWE), Eleni Pierides (FIN) and Jesper Ravn (DK). Taneli Törmä can not participate in this screening event February 25th, since he is working as choreographer for Tanzmainz dance company in Germany at the moment. However he wish to inspire the audience with these movies which were an inspiration for him when he started making dance on screen 9 years ago.

POSTCARDS 01:00 / 2015 / NO/DK
Choreography and interpretation: Taneli Törmä.
Filmed and edited / Constantin Georgescu in Tromsø, Norway in 2014.

HOW THEY DANCE 05:40 / 2008 / DK
Director / Jesper Ravn Nielsen
Photographer / Anders Elgaard
Editor / Jesper Maintz, Benjamin Bindrup
Sound / Søren Bendz
Performers / Lis Randeris, Peter Glaser, Claus Handberg Christensen, Simone Spottag
Production / Beofilm/ Filmværkstedet / DFI

JUMP 01:00 / 2015 / DK
Choreographer & Director: Taneli Törmä & Jan Vesala
Awards / Winner of DK 60secondsdance online competition in 2015 and third prize at the CHOREOGRAPHIC CAPTURES Competition in 2016.

SLICED 01:17 / 2011 / DE
Director, choreography, camera and editing / Constantin Georgescu.
Dancers / Mimi Jeong and Tim Gerhards
Music / Jonas Wiese.

Awards / Second Prize at “One-Minute Jumping Frames Dance Video Competition” 2013
Innovation Prize at “Idill international dance online competition” 2011
Second Prize at “One minute jumping frame” Dance Video Competition 2013, Hong Kong

STORY OF…  40 min / 2013 / (FIN/EST/DK)
By Taneli Törmä & Eleni Pierides
Filmed in Sleeping Beauty Castle in Tallinn, Estonia.
The project invited 18 volunteers from Tallinn. Their task was to bring their own (true?) stories.

About LOCATION X
LOCATION X – Projects was created by Taneli Törmä in 2011 and produces international contemporary dance and video works that break the boundaries between dance and performance art. Taneli collaborates with different artists in producing conceptual projects for stage and site-specific locations.
Location X constantly takes on new challenges. Every new location is a source of inspiration – whether it will be stage- or site specific.
LOCATION X made International collaborations on film projects since 2012 in Finland, Greenland, Canada, Norway, Germany, France, Estonia, Belgium and Denmark using different site specific locations. Taneli Törmä and Constantin Georgescu received a number of International dance film prizes in the past years. www.tanelitorma.com

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installions, performances and films. New artist every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to  the artists in the field but open to all with an interest.
It is in English, Free Entrance.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg
CHOREOGRPAHY IN ACTION  takes place at Charlottenborg Art Cinema. The distinctive art institution Kunsthal Charlottenborg ia a close collaborator of Dansehallerne. The event is in English and admission is free.

20 Feb
18.30 - 20.00

‘DAYS OF AL’ with introduction by Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019

As a part of the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019 the artist Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl’s new work DAYS OF AL is screened in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema. With the lenght of one hour it is Mejdahl’s most comprehensive film work yet – created specially for the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019 after Mejdahl in 2018 received the Solo Award.

The film is introduced by the artist and is on view at Charlottenborg Sping Exhibition 2019 from 2 February to 6 March at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

The admission to the event is free and everyone is welcome.

20 Feb
17.00 - 18.30
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Book launch: ‘Motherload’ by Anna Margrethe Pedersen and Ditte Soria

Incl. film screening, music and reading

Wednesday, February 20 at 5–6.30 pm the book ‘Motherload’ is launched in Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Motherload is a collection of new and older works that circles loosely around the subject of motherhood. “It is clear to us that the mother does not have a fixed role but that she performs centrally or at the periphery of virtually everything. Motherhood is made up of a polyphonic and rather penetrating choir of voices, and it is a small selection of these voices we have gathered in this book in harmony and murmur.” The book has been edited and layout by Anna Margrethe Pedersen and Ditte Soria and contains works and excerpts from Margaret Atwood, Judy Chicago, Sara Deraedt, Hannah Heilmann, Maria Hesselager, Elfriede Jelinek, Kristine Kemp, Liv Sejrbo Lidegaard, Reba Maybury, LeRoy McDermott (et al.), Jonathan Messe, Rasmus Myrup, Maggie Nelson, Saskia te Nicklin, New Noveta, Pernille Zidore Nygaard, Michala Paludan, Anna Margrethe Pedersen, Rasmus Røhling, Emma Sheridan, Ditte Soria, Lewis Teague Wright og Amelie von Wulffen.

For the occasion, artist and actor Casey Jane Ellison’s  entertaining talk show ‘Mothers and Daughters’ (or ‘M.A.D.’) is screened for the first time in Denmark. “Mothers. You can’t live with them. You can’t live without them. Literally.” Casey Jane Ellison’s surreal unscripted talk show sits mothers and their daughters down to help them explore their own, often underrepresented, connections. Full of unexpected twists and turns, M.A.D. critically asks what it is to have, become, and be a mother.

Furthermore, there will be Motherload music by artist and DJ Lewis Teague Wright, and writer Liv Sejrbo Lidegaard will read ‘Et kryppespil’ from the book.

18 Feb
19.00 - 21.00

Movement as Cinematic Storytelling

FILM & TALK / Maja Friis (DK)

“Cinematic storytelling is the art of audiovisual choreography. It’s emotions in motion.
In my work as a filmmaker, I aim to use movements as an aesthetic tool to dramatise the story – and as a tool that can sharpen our sensitivity to the world and to one another. When I use movements it is not only in the sense of body movements, but writing the script is to choreograph the movements of the camera as well as the movements in front of it: Actions of stilness, moving shadows, transformations of color, change of light, sound and silence.”

During the evening Maja will share her movement method and choreographic approach to cinematic storytelling by showing excerpts of her previous work as well as sharing the work in progress of her new project, a VR-experience, “Requiem for corals”.

Requiem for corals is a poetic and musical journey into a microscopic world of corals at the very moment of exposure to climate change impacts, where these colourful moving creatures live on the verge of dying. A visual and ethereal dance macabre of current times’ reality in a world beyond imagination and beyond our field of view.

It will be an evening with a lot of film examples and with a discussion of the use and potentials of movements in films – with or without dance.

Based on the work on her VR-project, where she studies and choreographs the movements and natural behaviours of corals, she will talk about the process of creation and discuss how movements and visual storytelling can be used as an artistic tool to communicate climate scientific matter, that can bring sense of clarity.

About Maja Friis (DK)
Maja Friis is a film director with a passion for dance and movements. Throughout many years she has been interested in exploring ways of how movements and choreography can act as the main language in visual storytelling.

Her debut film ‘Ballerina’, a poetic dance documentary, which she directed and choreographed, was nominated for ‘Best Danish Documentary’, and was awarded by The Danish Art Council.

Maja has a Master’s degree in Film Studies at University of Copenhagen with elective courses in dramaturgy and in the aesthetics of dance. In addition she studied dance films at La Cinémathèque de la Danse in Paris. The topic of her final thesis was “Motion as cinematic narrative”. www.majafriis.dk

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installions, performances and films. New artist every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to  the artists in the field but open to all with an interest.
It is in English, Free Entrance.

13 Feb
18.30 - 20.00

‘DAYS OF AL’ with introduction by Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019

As a part of the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019 the artist Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl’s new work DAYS OF AL is screened in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema. With the lenght of one hour it is Mejdahl’s most comprehensive film work yet – created specially for the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019 after Mejdahl in 2018 received the Solo Award.

The film is introduced by the artist and is on view at Charlottenborg Sping Exhibition 2019 from 2 Feb to 6 Mar.

13 Feb
17.00 - 18.30

Samaneh Roghani – the winner of The Solo Award

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019

In relation to Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019 experience a talk with Samenah Roghani, who received this year’s Solo Award for her work ‘Barzakh (Limbo)’, 2018.

Below, you can read an excerpt from the jury’s argument to choose Samaneh Roghani as the Solo Award winner: “The jury has decided to award this year’s Solo Award to the Iranian artist Samaneh Roghani (b.1984) for her work Barzakh (Limbo). Roghani has created a very special and important work, which presents an innovative approach to its constituent media (video, sculpture, installation) and notably manages to render the artist’s personal story moving, relevant, and significant. A unanimous jury was captivated by her ability to work formally and spatially while also convincingly and stringently coupling this to the work’s statement and content. The moving tale seems powerful, because Roghani is capable of translating her own private story into something that is both universal and important. And she does it in a work where viewers practically experience the theme on their own bodies: through the long corridor where our shadows become part of the video image of wandering people. We pass a number of ropes (with sinister associations to imprisonment and execution), but we do get through to the other side. The work interacts immersively with the gallery space. Precisely because the work incorporates viewers’ movements as part of its setting in time, the thought-provoking and menacing sides of the work only slowly become apparent to us. They get to us as we proceed through the sensuous passage. The impact is very strong, indeed.”

Samenah Roghani (b. 1984) is born in Iran and today, she studies at Kungliga Konsthögskolan in Malmö. This evening, Samenah Roghani will talk about her art work and artistic practice in a conversation with Thomas Lindvig, Chairman of the Board in Charlottenborg Fonden. Samaneh Roghani’s art work takes point of departure in her personal story about migrating, and she combines different media, which together create a spacious and sensory video installation. During the talk, you will hear about the artist’s catching story, which she has translated to something general and essential in her work.

This evening’s Charlottenborg Art Talk is in English and takes place from 17-18.30 in the Charlottenborg Art Cinema. The admission is free.

6 Feb
18.30 - 20.00

‘DAYS OF AL’ with introduction by Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl

Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019

As a part of the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019 the artist Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl’s new work DAYS OF AL is screened in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema. With the lenght of one hour it is Mejdahl’s most comprehensive film work yet – created specially for the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019 after Mejdahl in 2018 received the Solo Award.

The film is introduced by the artist and is on view at Charlottenborg Sping Exhibition 2019 from 2 February to 6 March at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

The admission to the event is free and everyone is welcome.

5 Feb - 10 Mar
12.00

Bubble Metropolis

In collaboration with Vermilion Sands

Charlottenborg Art Cinema collaborates with the exhibition venue Vermillion Sands for the exhibition Bubble Metropolis. From 2 February to 10 March, Kunsthal Charlottenborg will screen a film programme featuring works by The Otolith Group and Allan Sekula & Noël Burch – a programme which constitutes a central part of the exhibition Bubble Metropolis, on show at Vermillion Sands in Tagensvej 85 (Kbh N) until 16 March.

The idea of the sea as a resource – both literally and metaphorically – forms the starting point of the group show Bubble Metropolis. The film Hydra Decapita (2010) by The Otolith Group, screened in the cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, explores ideas about globalisation, capitalism and climate change with particular emphasis on the relationship between money, death, abstraction and language. This is done via a study of the techno act Drexciya from Detroit, which, back in the 1990s, built a mythological narrative about an underwater world inhabited by the unborn children of pregnant enslaved women thrown overboard as casualties of the Atlantic slave trade.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema also shows the essayistic film The Forgotten Space (2010) by Allan Sekula & Noël Burch. In this tale the sea is seen as a potential source of capital. The film follows the vast infrastructure of container ships, trains, engineers and politicians who together form the basis of the money-making machine that the sea can be. The film juxtaposes maritime trade and the complex, symbolically charged story of the sea in general.

The exhibition venue Vermillion Sands shows the exhibition Bubble Metropolis featuring Calder Harben’s Bodies of Water (2017–19) and Amitai Romm’s An obstinate craving for sleep (2018).

Bubble Metropolis is the first chapter of Vermilion Sands’s themed exhibition series on The Speculative, which will run throughout 2019. Over the course of the year, a range of visual, formal, intellectual and scientific experiments will manifest themselves through speculative, artistic and fictional scenarios. The overall framing facilitates explorations into how areas such as sci-fi, cli-fi, migration, biotechnology, utopias, the Anthropocene, Afrofuturism and linguistics are connected in myriad ways and cannot be considered separately without diminishing each of them.

These days, the sea evokes associations to climate crisis and migration issues, making it more current than ever. By juxtaposing the four works and the various potential meanings they generate, Vermilion Sands offers its take on how we might view and perceive this enthralling phenomenon right here, right now.

Bubble Metropolis

Featured artists: Calder Harben (CA/DK), The Otolith Group (UK) Amitai Romm (DK), Allan Sekula (US) & Noël Burch (US).
Film screening programme (Kunsthal Charlottenborg): 5 February – 10 March
Exhibition (Vermillion Sands, Tagensvej 86, 2200 Kbh N): 2 February – 16 March

4 Feb
19.00 - 21.00

Siri Derkert the Trilogy

FILM & TALK / Teresia Björk (SE)

Teresia Björk has worked as a dancer and choreographer in Sweden and internationally for almost 30 years.Through three works, she has profiled, lived and investigated the life os the Swedish artist and sculptor Siri Derkert. Now the work has been portrayed in a film.

This evening af Charlottenborg Art Cinema we will show the film Siri Derkert the Trilogy  and in connection with the showing a Choreographer Conversation will be held with Teresia Björk.

The film Siri Derkert the Trilogy 
This art and dance film is the result of a more than five years long creative process. It is a film by Håkan Larsson – he and Bengt Wanselius have been filming Teresia’s performances since 2014. Siri Derkert the Trilogy premiered at Scandinavian House, New York in June 2018.
Over the last few years, the performances captured in the film have been shown on many stages, for example Culture House Stockholm City Theatre, Gothenburg’s Grand Theatre and The 9 Beijing Theatre, Beijing.

The book TERESIA BJÖRK 3 x Derkert
A new book, “TERESIA BJÖRK 3 x Derkert”, written by Charlotta P. Einarsson, was released in September 2018 and will be a part of the Choreographer Conversation at Dansehallerne.

About Siri Derkert
Siri Derkert was born in 1888 and grew up in Stockholm in a family of seven children. Her mother, Valborg, had been a seamstress, and her father Edvard, initially a Bookkeeper, worked hard to become a businessman in the textile industry in Norrköping. Siri Derkert’s (1888-1973) artistic practice is a part of 20thCentury Art History. Her many works encompass an individual, sensitive interpretation of Cubism as well as a period as a fashion designer.

www.teresiabjork.com

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installions, performances and films. New artist every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to  the artists in the field but open to all with an interest.
It is in English, Free Entrance.

30 Jan
17.00 - 19.00

Alicja Kwade & Minik Rosing

+ book launch 'In Aporie’

In relation to Alicja Kwade’s solo exhibition Out of Ousia at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, experience Alicja Kwade and Professor of Geology Minik Rosing in a talk about art and sciende moderated by curator on Out of Ousia, Marie Nipper.

After the talk we celebrate the launch of Alicja Kwade’s first monography In Aporie with bubbles in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s foyer. In Aporie is published by Roulette Russe and Hatje Kanz with articles by Minik Rosing and Marie Nipper amongst others. The book can be purchased in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s bookshop.

Free admission and everyone is invited.

28 Jan
19.00 - 21.00

Choreographing a book – book launch, panel discussion

Sara Gebran

The last one and a half year Sara Gebran has been writing a book to launch this night.
The evening will consist of 3 parts:  A remediation of the book into a short performance, using the pages of the book as a script or a tarot card reading, includes fragments from the premier “A land where no dragons hide – and I want bright shivering lights in it”. Followed by a large panel to discuss the book. And mingle time to buy the book at a discount price, with a drink. (Bring cash to buy the book).

The book launch
The book Another Hole  is an investigation of the relation between power and pornography. A combo of personal notes, lyrical writings, an art object, text and visual essays, on political thoughts, to dig into the relations between state power and individual erotic desires and an art object,. It re-thinks the language utilized for pornography, taking it from the practices of individuals, to the practices of dominant corporate power that pierces through bodies and minds of people without their consent. Beyond cultural and political thoughts, the book is a choreographic and artistic platform that offers further potential for moving practices, for playing, and for sustaining happiness.

The Panel discussion
A large panel of international and national artists, art workers and researchers will discuss the book through the notion of self-instituting by posing Sara 1-2 questions, as: Jennifer lacey, Katrine Dirckinck Holmfeld, Tina Tarpgaard, Anders Paulin, Maria Stiernborg, Cecilie Ullerup, Mathias Kryger, Hugo Hopping and a few more not confirmed yet.

The performance
A small remediation from the book into a performance. Smugling, as a tool, would be revealed for who has seen the premiere 22nd of January 2019 called: “A land where no dragons hide – and I want bright shivering lights in it” at Koncertkirken.

Support
Book support: Nordisk Kulturfond.
Book Consultants: Sergej Goran Pristâs and Anders Paulin
Book Editor: Michal Langan
Graphic designer: RLD REPRO

SARA GEBRAN (VZ/DK)
Sara has a BA/MA in Urban planning at University Simón Bolivar Venezuela (1982-87), dance studies at Instituto Superior de Danza Caracas (1989-92) and Post-Studies in The History of Images and its Representation at The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2012-13). She is based in Copenhagen since 1996. Her works are situated within performance art, exploring medias as video, sound, text, digital works, and finding sustainable ways to produce and create art works that generates genuine autonomy and equality.
www.saragebran.com

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installions, performances and films. New artist every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to  the artists in the field but open to all with an interest. It is in English, Free Entrance.

26 Jan
13.00 - 14.00

Guided tour Alicja Kwade ‘Out of Ousia’

Guided tour and introduction to the exhibition by curator Marie Nipper

Join a guided tour in Alicja Kwade’s poetic and powerful sculptural landscapes Saturday 26 January at 1pm.

Curator Marie Nipper gives a guided tour in the exhibition and introduces Alicja Kwade’s interest in scientific and mathematical questions in her sculptures and installations.

‘Out of Ousia’ is on view at Kunsthal Charlottenborg until Sunday 17 February 2019. Further info about the exhibition here.

23 Jan
17.00 - 19.00

When She Spoke

Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat

Charlottenborg Art Talk ‘When She Spoke’ will gravitate around three different video sequences showing two girls and a young woman. The figures, their actions and the conditions in which each sequence was created will be a stepping ground to think together about power relations and the agency that is given (not given or forced) within image production—in front and behind a camera.

The talk will introduce the work of the duo in general and be a moment to reflect on the work of the duo in general and the making of the exhibition When She Spoke, presented in De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam Dec 16, 2018 – Jan 27, 2019.

Sirah and Eitan (both °1983 in Tel Aviv) have been working in collaboration for several years and are creating works in the Audiovisual field. Living and working in Brussels. Sirah and Eitan’s practice focuses on the performative aspects of the moving image. In their work they aim to mark the spatial and durational potentialities in the reading of images – moving or still; the relations between spectatorship and history; the temporality of narratives and memory and the material surfaces of image production. Their works have been shown in duo exhibitions in Kunsthalle Basel (CH), Argos (BE) and CAC Delme (FR); at group exhibitions in Argos, Brussels (BE); Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Humburg (DE); Portikus, Frankfurt (DE); Museumcultuur Strombeek (BE); Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (DE) Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR) and STUK, Leuven (BE. In film festivals such as EMAF, Osnabrück DE; Atonal, Berlin DE; Doc Lisboa PL; Underdox Munich DE; Oberhausen Film Festival, DE; Les Rencontres International, Paris and Berlin; IDFA, Amsterdam NL; New Horizons, Wroclaw PL; Oberhausen Film Festival, DE; Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel, DE; Rotterdam Film Festival, NL; Media City, Windsor, CA; Images, Toronto CA; Planstik, Dublin IE; November Film Festival, London UK; Visite, Antwerp BE; Bratislava Film Festival SK; 25FPS Zagreb HR.

15 Jan - 3 Feb

Orientation – Screening program with works by Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat

Curated by Tinne Zenner

15 January – 3 February Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to present the Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat Film Programme ‘Orientation’ curated by Tinne Zenner.

Three films by Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat are shown throughout the opening hours in Kunsthal Charlottenborg Art Cinema: ‘Complex’ (2009), ‘Printed Matter’ (2011) and ‘Orientation’ (2015).

The film programme Orientation consists of a selection of works from ten years of collaboration between the two artists. The films are concerned with historic narratives and relations between the private and political in the context of contemporary geopolitics. While questioning the spatial and temporal potential within the moving image medium, the films utilise performative examinations – with the camera, body, voice or image itself as the actor.

Sirah and Eitan (both °1983 in Tel Aviv) have been working in collaboration for several years and are creating works in the Audiovisual field. Living and working in Brussels. Sirah and Eitan’s practice focuses on the performative aspects of the moving image. In their work they aim to mark the spatial and durational potentialities in the reading of images – moving or still; the relations between spectatorship and history; the temporality of narratives and memory and the material surfaces of image production. Their works have been shown in duo exhibitions in Kunsthalle Basel (CH), Argos (BE) and CAC Delme (FR); at group exhibitions in Argos, Brussels (BE); Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Humburg (DE); Portikus, Frankfurt (DE); Museumcultuur Strombeek (BE); Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (DE) Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR) and STUK, Leuven (BE. In film festivals such as EMAF, Osnabrück DE; Atonal, Berlin DE; Doc Lisboa PL; Underdox Munich DE; Oberhausen Film Festival, DE; Les Rencontres International, Paris and Berlin; IDFA, Amsterdam NL; New Horizons, Wroclaw PL; Oberhausen Film Festival, DE; Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel, DE; Rotterdam Film Festival, NL; Media City, Windsor, CA; Images, Toronto CA; Planstik, Dublin IE; November Film Festival, London UK; Visite, Antwerp BE; Bratislava Film Festival SK; 25FPS Zagreb HR.

Films in the programme:

‘Complex’ (2009)
DV-PAL, 4:3, 9”

On a winter night, at an open parking lot in Tel Aviv, seven men who served together in the Israeli army meet again. The reunion of the group brings back the atmosphere they know so well from three years of army service in the special forces. On the parking lot surface an outline of a fictional house is sketched and the ex-soldiers will reenact the military manoeuvre of taking over a civilian house. Their weapons are replaced by a paper roll and the zone of combat by an open space in Tel Aviv. During their military service the soldiers were trained to perform this manoeuvre automatically. In the new context the action of the “take-over” is stripped down from its original context and becoming a performance.

‘Printed Matter’ (2011)
16mm on HD video, color, 4:3, stereo sound, BE, 29”

Printed Matter follows twenty years of photographic news coverage in Israel/Palestine (1982-2002), through the archive of photojournalist André Brutmann. The photographer, Foighel Brutmann’s father, captured with his camera, both daily and major news events and his own family life; from the birth of his daughter and son, through the first and second Palestinian uprisings, the assassination of the Israeli Prime Minister Yizhak Rabin, and more. In Printed Matter his images are shown in a selection of about 80 contactsheets, together with the voice of his partner and colleague Hanne Foighel, who is going through the archive, reminiscing and remembering the events from her point of view – as a mother and as a journalist herself. The film, which is divided by three 16mm-reel-long chapters, tries to review two decades through multiple parallel “points of view”, portrayed simultaneously. The work questions the division between different labels such as “political” and “personal” and how images are read in favor of narratives, and visa versa.

‘Orientation’ (2015)
HD video, color, 16:9, stereo sound, BE, 12”

Looking at two locations— the public sculpture White Square commemorating the founders of Tel Aviv, and the shrine of Palestinian village Salame in today’s Israeli Kafar Shalem—Orientation focuses on the ability of architectural material, and of sound and image, to register collective forgetfulness.
In 1989, the Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan, completed his sculpture White Square. The work was commissioned by the Municipality of Tel Aviv, and by the end of the building process Karavan decided to dedicate the sculpture to the founders of Tel Aviv—among whom his father Abraham Karavan, who was the city’s landscape architect for four decades from 1930’s onwards. The sculpture is composed of simple geometrical shapes and is made of white concrete, influenced by the International Style of early architecture in Tel Aviv. White Square—situated on the highest point in the area located in the eastern outskirts of Tel Aviv—overlooks through the skyscrapers all the way to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. The commonly used name of the hill on which White Square is exalted is pronounced in Arabic: “Giv’at Batih” (Watermelon Hill).
The remains of the shrine of Salame, in today’s Tel Avivian neighbourhood Kfar Shalem is located a few hundred meters south of this hill. The abandoned dome-structure was once at the centre of the ancient Palestinian village Salame. The village, dating back to the 16th century up until 1948, was located on the highway from Jaffa Port to the mainland. During the ‘Nakba’ of 1948 it was occupied and depopulated by the Israeli Army and the new Zionist state. Weeks after expelling the Palestinian villagers from their land, the Israeli authorities—managing waves of Jewish immigration—re-inhabited the village with Yemenite Jews. Those, were settled in the original Palestinian stone houses. Today, decades later, the ownership of the land is still in dispute, and the Jewish-Israeli residents of Kfar Shalem are threatened with evacuation due to a construction-corporations’ plan to destroy the stone houses and to build a new profitable neighbourhood. Orientation is the second chapter in a series of works titled Gathering Series.

14 Jan
19.00 - 21.00

PONDERING PERSPECTIVES

PERFORMANCE LECTURE / Eva Meyer-Keller (DE)

In this performance lecture Eva Meyer-Keller will share her artistic research into molecular biology. Eva will perform some elements live, show video excerpts and photographs and talk about the stories, questions and observations that she encountered so far.
As part of the presentation while watching traces of elementary particles, Eva Meyer-Keller will have a meandering conversation about adjacent topics with her artistic collaborator, Ilya Noé, a visual/performance artist-researcher from Mexico.

Eva´s work has long examined the relationship between art and science and she understand both as specific ways of testing and evaluating the world around us.
Eva is convinced that an intuitive approach, which begins in the realm of things – material and physical – can create alternative knowledge “experimentally”, in the full sense of the word and that scientific systems, constructs and models have more to do with speculation and performativity than is obvious at first sight.

As lay people, we usually know very little about how knowledge is generated in the field of molecular biology, how things are actually observed or what the nature of the experiments concretely are. In this vacuum, our ideas are influenced either by discourses around innovation and optimisation or futuristic dystopias.

Eva Meyer-Keller wish with her presentation to provide a sensory space to experience, ask questions and to raise awareness of what we do when we try to understand “life”. She is interested in the haptic nature and materiality of their professional environment. Their concrete, sensory experience is indispensable to our playful transposition of research environments, contrasting the deliberately sterile, objective conditions of the lab with our rough, dirty, basic conditions on stage.
She will e.g. look at procedures how biological material is prepared before it is even looked at through a microscope. She is committed to translate these procedures using everyday materials. Through this kind of absurd investigation a yet unexpected knowledge might be obtained.

Eva Meyer-Keller
Eva Meyer-Keller (1972) lives and works in Berlin. Eva works at the interface of choreography, performance and visual art and has a fascination for natural sciences and trans-disciplinary approaches. Before graduating from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam she studied photography and Visual Arts in Berlin (Hochschule der Künste) and London (Central St. Martins and King’s College).
Eva is the first artist to be supported by RESA pilot programme.
Her artwork is distinguished by its meticulous attention to detail. Eva often uses everyday objects from her immediate surroundings, things that she finds at home, in the supermarket or in the tool shed. This lends the work an obsessive, domestic aesthetic. Her working method is marked by a constructive disregard for the imposition of any boundary between visual and performing arts. Throughout her artistic career, Eva has developed a number of solo and group performance pieces, as well as exhibition, installations, films and workshop formats. She has held on-going teaching positions at several degree programs across Europe since 2010.
www.evamk.de

IIya Noé
Is currently concluding her PhD in Performance Studies at the University of California.
www.ilyanoe.com

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installions, performances and films. New artist every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to  the artists in the field but open to all with an interest. It is in English, Free Entrance.

12 Jan
14.00 - 15.00

Guided tour Big Art

Guided tour and introduction to the exhibition by curator Michael Thouber

Just before the exhibition period ends, curator and Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s director Michael Thouber gives a guided tour in Big Art 12 January at 2pm.

Hear about the selected works in the exhibition and the collaborations between Bjarke Ingels Group and some of the most acclaimed artists in the world including Ai Weiwei, Douglas Coupland, John Kørner, Es Devlin, Superflex, Lars von Trier.

Big Art is on view at Kunsthal Charlottenborg until Sundat 13 January 2019. Further info about the exhibition here.

9 Jan
17.00

Marie Louise Krogh reads The Concept of History by Walter Benjamin

Part of the exhibition Angela Melitopoulos: 'Crossings'

To unfold the theoretical background of Crossings a series of collective readings are taking place in the exhibition. Angela Melitopoulos and Kunsthal Charlottenborg have invited theoreticians and artists to present a text related to Crossings.

This text from 1940 was among the last finished pieces by German philosopher, critic and cultural historian Walter Benjamin: an enigmatic collection of theses on the concept of history which has invited endless interpretations. Marie Louise Krogh is a researcher and writer whose work has focused on Benjamin’s conceptions of time and history. She is currently doing a PhD on philosophies of history and contemporary questions of temporality and territory at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, London.

The collective reading is in English and takes place in the exhibition spaces. Texts will be provided, and no preparations needed.

2 Jan - 13 Jan

Big Time

Kaspar Astrup Schröder

Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the documentary film Big Time in the last part of the exhibition period of Big Artart in Bjarke Ingels architecture.

The film follows Bjarke Ingels during the course of 6 years and gives a unique insight of the creative mind of one of the world’s most innovative architects, who is considered as one of the 100 most influential people by Time Magazine.

At the same time the film creates an intimate and personaly portrait capturing the acceleration in Ingels’ already hectic life, and his struggles to balance ambition, health and relationships.

Big Time can be experienced with admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

2-13 Jan 2019
Tue-Fri 3-4.30pm and 6-7.30pm
Sat-Sun 12-1.30pm and 3-4.30pm

26 Dec - 30 Dec
12.00

Lars von Trier cavalcade

The Element of Crime / Dogville / Manderlay / The Idiots / Melancholia / Antichrist / The Boss of It All / Nymphomaniac / The Kingdom

In connection with the ‘Big Art’ exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents a cavalcade of Lars von Trier’s award winning films between Christmas and New Year.

For the newly released film The House That Jack Built, Lars von Trier worked with Bjarke Ingels on the drawings of the house in the film.

The house is constructed of 60 frozen bodies, which the film’s main character and serial killer, Jack, has killed throughout the film. Until 13 January, 2019, the original house from the film is exhibited as part of the Big Art exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

For this reason, Kunsthal Charlottenborg now presents a cavalcade with a large selection of Lars von Trier’s award winning films. The films are presented from the 26–30 December 2018. The film screenings are free with entrance paid to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Programme

Wednesday 26 December, 12-7pm:

12-2pm: The Element of Crime (1:44 min.)
As Byzantine as a novel by Kafka, as twisted of plot as any story by Raymond Chandler, Lars von Trier’s first full-length feature was immediately accepted for competition in Cannes 1984 and proceeded to win a Prix Technique. Using an English dialogue, Trier’s tale runs through water-logged subterranean post-Apocalypse landscapes to the key of everything: penetration and assimilation of the criminal mind. (Source: DFI)

2-5pm: Dogville (2:58 min.)
The beautiful fugitive, Grace (Nicole Kidman), arrives in the isolated township of Dogville on the run from a team of gangsters. With some encouragement from Tom (Paul Bettany), the self-appointed town spokesman, the little community agrees to hide her and in return, Grace agrees to work for them. However, when a search sets in, the people of Dogville demand a better deal in exchange for the risk of harbouring poor Grace and she learns the hard way that in this town, goodness is relative. But Grace has a secret and it is a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever began to bare its teeth… (Source: DFI)

5-7pm: Manderlay (2:05 min.)
The story continues from the point where Grace left Dogville. We follow her and her father as they come to Manderlay, a plantation in Alabama where they witness the horrors and injustice of slavery, which compels Grace to intervene. (Source: DFI)

Thursday 27 December, 12-8pm:

12-2pm: The Idiots (1:57 min.)
The modern welfare state is so rationally well-organised that special effort is required if you want to throw off the traces and let your instincts run riot. In Lars von Trier’s tragi-comedy a group of young men and women turn their backs on established society and form a commune in order to cultivate their “inner idiots”. They provoke the people around them and themselves by pretending to be retarded. But is there more to their antics than casual role-playing? Where does pretence cease and reality begin? Only one member of the group, naïve, emotionally unsullied Karen, manages with bravery and single-mindedness to turn the game into deadly earnest. (Source: DFI)

2-4pm: Melancholia (2:15 min.)
Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister and brother-in-law. Meanwhile, the planet, Melancholia, is heading towards Earth… (Source: DFI)

4.30-6.30pm: Antichrist (1:48 min.)
A grieving couple retreat to ‘Eden’, their isolated cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse … (Source: DFI)

6.30-8pm: The Boss of It All (1:39 min.)
In Lars von Trier’s comedy the owner of an IT firm wants to sell out. The trouble is that when he established his firm he invented a non-existent company president to hide behind when unpopular steps needed taking. When the potential purchaser insists on negotiating with the ‘president’ face to face, the owner has to take on a failed actor to play the part. The actor suddenly discovers he is a pawn in a game that goes on to sorely test his (lack of) moral fibre. (Source: DFI)

Friday 28 December, 12-6pm:

12-2.30pm: Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut, Part I (145 min.)
2.30-3pm: Break
3-6pm: Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut, Part II (180 min.)
Nymphomaniac is the story of a woman’s journey from birth to the age of fifty as told by the main character, the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe. On a cold winter’s evening the old, charming bachelor, Seligman, finds Joe beaten up in an alleyway. He brings her home to his flat where he tends to her wounds while asking her about her life. He listens intently as Joe over the next eight chapters recounts the lushly branched-out and multi-faceted story of her life, rich in associations and interjecting incidents. (Source: DFI)

Saturday 29 December, 11am – 4pm:

11am-4pm: The Kingdom I (269 min.)
The director darling of European auteur filmmaking, Lars von Trier, dazzles you with tongue-in-cheek comedy horror as he explores manners and morals among patients and staffers at a gigantic modern hospital. (Source: DFI)

Sunday 30 December, 11am – 4pm:

11am-4pm: The Kingdom II (286 min.)
At the Kingdom Hospital in Copenhagen, everything is as it was – and nothing is. Consultant neurosurgeon Stig Helmer has returned from Haiti, and immediately runs into problems. He faces prosecution for his unsuccesful operation on poor little brain-damaged Mona, and his colleague Rigmor is hell-bent on enticing him into matrimony. Judith’s baby, Little Brother, is growing at amazing pace and fighting for his life, just like professor Bondo who has a cancer implant. (Source: DFI)

19 Dec
17.00

Angela Anderson reading Returning the Gift by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Part of the exhibition Angela Melitopoulos: 'Crossings'

To unfold the theoretical background of Crossings a series of collective readings are taking place in the exhibition. Angela Melitopoulos and Kunsthal Charlottenborg have invited theoreticians and artists to present a text related to Crossings.

The text by Dr. Robin Kimmerer, Professor of Environmental Biology and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, questions the modernist notion of earth as “natural resource”, poetically calling on us humans to think of ourselves as living in a world of natural gifts and to actively cultivate our relations to non-human others.

Angela Anderson is a researcher and video artist, and a co-author on the parts Skouries, Oreokastro, and Mithimna, Lesbos in Crossings. She has collaborated with Angela Melitopoulos since 2013 on several video installations as part of the long-term audio-visual research project Unearthing Disaster on the social movement fighting the construction of the Skouries gold mine. She is currently a fellow in the Art and Theory program at Künstlerhaus Büchsehausen in Innsbruck, Austria.

The collective reading is in English and takes place in the exhibition spaces. Texts will be provided, and no preparations needed.

13 Dec
17.00 - 19.00

It matters what thoughts think thoughts – on Ursula K. Le Guin

Feat. Peter Adolphsen, Ursula Andkjær Olsen, Nanna Storr-Hansen, Nazila Kivi and others

Hosted by Terrapolis. Information will follow.

13 Dec
17.00

Guattari Reading Circle reading The Three Ecologies by Félix Guattari

Part of the exhibition Angela Melitopoulos 'Crossings'

To unfold the theoretical background of Crossings a series of collective readings are taking place in the exhibition. Angela Melitopoulos and Kunsthal Charlottenborg have invited theoreticians and artists to present a text related to Crossings.

Guattari Reading Circle read ‘The Three Ecologies’ by Félix Guattari from 1989, which unfolds Guattari’s definition of ecology as of complex interconnected phenomena, entangled by subjectivity, social and political relations and the environment.

Guattari Reading Circle is a research collective offering open reading groups focusing on studies of texts by the French institutional psychotherapist, philosopher and radical activist Félix Guattari (1930-1992). Established around the participation of the public, the reading circle is an itinerant function that responds to, vibes with and involves the given site and particular group of its gathering – always organised around reading aloud and on the spot (no preparation needed).

The Guattari Reading Circle was founded in 2014 and is conceptualised and organized by visual artist Arendse Krabbe and performance artist, curator and critic Mathias Kryger. Institutions that have previously hosted the reading circle include Kunsthal Charlottenborg; The Mental Health Center Sct. Hans; The Danish Art Library; Copenhagen University; Bispebjerg Hospital; Medical Museion; Trampolinehouse; Aarhus Litteraturecenter; Dansehallerne and the 32nd Saõ Paulo Biennial.

The collective reading is in English and takes place in the exhibition spaces. Texts will be provided, and no preparations needed.

10 Dec
19.00 - 21.00

DH Branchemøde

DIALOGUE / Efva Lilja (DK/SE) & Hanne Svejstrup (DK)

Let’s meet and talk and get all the latest news. We always have a lot to share with you!
Branchemøde is mostly for professionals and DH artists, but everybody is welcome.

More info about the content of this meeting is coming up.

 

The event is part of Dansehallernes program CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION and will be in English, free entrance.

More information at Dansehallerne.dk

6 Dec
17.00 - 19.00

It matters what thoughts think thoughts – on Donna Harraway

Feat. Laboratoriet for Æstetik & Økologi, Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Ida Marie Hede, Lis Højgaard and others

Hosted by Terrapolis. Information follow.

5 Dec
17.00 - 19.00

Maurizio Lazzarato

Part of the exhibition Angela Melitopoulos: 'Crossings'

In connection to the exhibition ‘Crossings’ by Angela Melitopoulos at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, experience a talk with Maurizio Lazzarato about the neo-fascist wave that the planet is going through, starting with the election of Bolsonaro in Brazil.

The lecture by Maurizio Lazzarato expands on another chapter of Kunsthal Charlottenborg ‘Crossings’ by Angela Melitopoulos – focusing on Latin America

Maurizio Lazzarato and Angela Melitopoulos’ introcuktion to the talk:

The election of Bolsonaro in Brazil immediately brings us back to the political birth of neo-liberalism that occurred in Chile after the massacre of the socialist “revolution” and the assassination of
Allende. In the fascist government announced by Bolsonaro, there are generals and ultra-liberals from the Chicago School. What does this alliance of war and the economy tell us about our time? This is another chapter of the same policies that we have analyzed in the
installation work Crossings, in that the arrangement of the debt war, the war against migrants and ecological warfare are overlapping.

Maurizio Lazzarato is an Italian sociologist and philosopher who has worked closely with Angela Melitopoulos since 1989.

The admission is free and everyone are welcome.The talk will be in English.

Read more about ‘Crossings’ and the event programme in connection to the exhibition: kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/en/exhibitions/angela-melitopoulos/

4 Dec
16.00

Maurizio Lazzarato reading from Wars and Capital by Maurizio Lazzarato & Éric Alliez

Part of the exhibition Angela Melitopoulos: 'Crossings'

To unfold the theoretical background of Crossings a series of collective readings are taking place in the exhibition. Angela Melitopoulos and Kunsthal Charlottenborg have invited theoreticians and artists to present a text related to Crossings.

In Wars and Capital, Maurizio Lazzarato and Éric Alliez propose a counterhistory of capitalism to recover the reality of the wars that are inflicted on us and denied to us. We experience wars of class, race, sex, and gender; wars of civilization and the environment; wars of subjectivity that are raging within populations and which following the authors, constitute a secret motor of liberal governmentality.

Maurizio Lazzarato is an Italian sociologist and philosopher who has worked closely with Angela Melitopoulos since 1989.

The collective reading is in English and takes place in the exhibition spaces. Texts will be provided, and no preparations needed.

3 Dec
19.00 - 21.00

WATCH THE CITY VERTICALLY

DIALOGUE / Mette Møller Overgaard (DK) & David Navndrup Black (UK/DK)

Be a part of a dialogue and experience how small changes can alter the space, and how an audience can get involved through choreography, sound and architectonic choices.

Mette Møller Overgaard and David Navndrup Black are – together with Esther Wrobel – part of the artistic team in Watch the city vertically shown in Holstebro (March 2018). The team works throughout 2018 on developing the concept further in relation to other spaces and target groups.

In the middle of this process, we invite you to join the artists’ reflections about how to watch and challenge urban spaces while involving the audience. How can we turn the perspective upside down and watch the city from another angle – in the intersection between choreography, sound and architecture? The background is the artists’ different concrete experiences in working with urban spaces and natural settings.

Mette Møller Overgaard (DK)
A dance artist. She focuses her choreographic praxis in projects where the participants’ physical, social and creative established experiences are central. Mette works in the crossing between different art forms, and often site specifically.

David Navndrup Black (UK/DK)
A sound artist. His work is centered around movement and technology and he collaborates with other professionals in projects that suggest new sensorial experiences of well-known Spaces.

The event is part of Dansehallernes program CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION and will be in English, free entrance.

More information at Dansehallerne.dk

29 Nov
17.00

Guattari Reading Circle reading The Micro-Politics of Fascism by Félix Guattari

Part of the exhibition Angela Melitopoulos: 'Crossings'

To unfold the theoretical background of Crossings a series of collective readings are taking place in the exhibition. Angela Melitopoulos and Kunsthal Charlottenborg have invited theoreticians and artists to present a text related to Crossings.

Guattari Reading Circle reads ‘The Micro-Politics of Fascism’ by Félix Guattari from 1973, which initially was presented as an intervention at a conference regarding psychoanalysis and politics held in Milan, Italy.

Guattari Reading Circle is a research collective offering open reading groups focusing on studies of texts by the French institutional psychotherapist, philosopher and radical activist Félix Guattari (1930-1992). Established around the participation of the public, the reading circle is an itinerant function that responds to, vibes with and involves the given site and particular group of its gathering – always organised around reading aloud and on the spot (no preparation needed).

The Guattari Reading Circle was founded in 2014 and is conceptualised and organized by visual artist Arendse Krabbe and performance artist, curator and critic Mathias Kryger. Institutions that have previously hosted the reading circle include Kunsthal Charlottenborg; The Mental Health Center Sct. Hans; The Danish Art Library; Copenhagen University; Bispebjerg Hospital; Medical Museion; Trampolinehouse; Aarhus Litteraturecenter; Dansehallerne and the 32nd Saõ Paulo Biennial.

The collective reading is in English and takes place in the exhibition spaces. Texts will be provided, and no preparations needed.

 

27 Nov - 16 Dec
12.00

Elizabeth Price Film Programme

Curated by Nikolaj Phillipsen

27 November – 16 December Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to present the Elizabeth Price Film Programme ‘Spatial Fictions’ curated by Nikolaj Phillipsen.

Three films by the Elizabeth Price are shown throughout the opening hours in Kunsthal Charlottenborg Art Cinema: ‘At the House of Mr. X’, ‘User Group Disco’, and ‘The Woolworths Choir of 1979’, for which Elizabeth Price received the prestigious Turner Pize in 2012.

‘Spatial Fictions’ is investigating architecture as not only made by walls and floors but also made by social and political history, institutions, materialism, and commercial fantasies.

At the House of Mr. X (2007)
A guided tour of the home of an anonymous cosmetic business venture and art collector, designed and built in the late 1960s. Only briefly inhabited, the House and its contents remain immaculately preserved.

With the luxurious and exclusive sensibility of cosmetic brands, we are guided through the house and art collection, elegant open spaces, gleaming reflective surfaces, and colored glass.

The tour is directed by an on-screen script, punctuated with percussion and close-harmony vocal arrangements. Its script is collaged from documents relating to the House, art collection, and ventures of the former resident. The resulting combination of administrative, curatorial and commercial languages produces an equivocal identity: as you move through the pristine interiors the tone shifts from deadpan taxonomical description to the solicitation and innuendo of advertising copy.

User Group Disco (2009)
User Group Disco is the second work in an ongoing series, in which each episode unfolds a different room within the notional architecture of a fictional Institutional building.

This video is set in the Hall of Sculptures, only inhabited by defunct, damaged, unidentifiable things. No people – no apparent human action and no visible architecture. The only things visible are the objects themselves – debris comprised of mundane and ubiquitous objects, utensils and ornaments drifting in a black void.

The video consists of a series of daydreams and hallucinations concerning these objects. These dwell upon the Institution that holds them, upon categories of distinction between art objects and social history artefacts and the strange and compulsive desires of consumerism.

THE WOOLWORTHS CHOIR OF 1979 (2012)
Comprising of three parts, the video brings together distinct bodies of material into a dissonant assembly; photographs of church architecture, internet clips of pop performances and news footage of a notorious fire in a Woolworth’s furniture department in 1979. The film weaves together existing archives of text, image, and sound to create video installations that drift between social history and fantasy.

Elizabeth Price treats history as something animated and malleable, as dissonant elements are clashed together to convey the experienced trauma as much as the facts of the event.

21 Nov
17.00 - 18.00

Angela Melitopoulos in conversation with Mathias Kryger

Part of the exhibition Crossings

Just before the opening of the exhibition Crossings, come by and experience artist Angela Melitopoulos in a conversation with Mathias Kryger.

Angela Melitopoulos is a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Schools of Visual Arts, who presents her comprehensive video works globally. Her comprehensive video- and sound installation Crossings was appointed by critics as one of the central contributions to last year’s documenta-exhibition in Kassel. Now Kunsthal Charlottenborg premieres the work in Scandinavia. Further info about the exhibition here.

This Charlottenborg Art Talk will be in English and takes place in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema 21 November at 5pm. Following join the opening of the exhibition Crossings from 6-9pm. Everyone is welcome and the entrance is free.

19 Nov
19.00 - 21.00

Book launch for the 2nd edition of KOREOGRAFI / CHOREOGRAPHY

LAUNCH & DIALOGUE / Solveig Styve Holte (NO)

This evening the new edition of Koreografi / Choreography will be launched and our Danish contributors will join us in a conversation with the anthology as a starting point. The written will in this way be activated and continued live together with the audience.

The anthology Koreografi / Choreography will be published in the end of October and consists of texts written by artists within the Nordic field of dance and choreography. Each text is build around a specific issue requested by the editors and developed in dialogue with the contributors. All texts exist in both Scandinavian and English versions. With the anthology we wish to build a rich and complex understanding of what choreography is and can be. Our curatorial strategy is to facilitate the texts we miss and the conversations we have dreamt of reading, always inviting new voices so that the conversation is ever expanding.

The first edition of Koreografi / Choreography was initiated and edited by Solveig Styve Holte, Ann-Christin Berg Kongsness and Runa Skolseg in 2016. Venke Sortland is now joining the editorial team together with Kongsness and Holte for the second edition. Holte/Sortland/Kongsness are performers and choreographers living and working in Oslo. They share a common interest in writing and organizing seminars, workshops, conversations and reading circles that push the discourse in dance and choreography further. A new edition will be released every second year until ten books are made.

Read more at Read more about Koreografi / Choreography here 

The event is part of Dansehallernes program CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION and will be in English, free entrance.

More information at Dansehallerne.dk

15 Nov - 25 Nov
12.00 - 20.00

Tyler Matthew Oyer Film Programme

15 – 25 Nov during the opening hours in Charlottenborg Art Cinema we present a film programme curated by Malene Dam with screening of the following films by Conrad Ventur and Tyler Matthew Oyer:

Conrad Ventur, ‘Mario Banana’, 2010 (4 min)
Conrad Ventur ‘Boca Chica’, 2013 (2:35 min)
Tyler Matthew Oyer ‘When Queens Collide’, 2017 (64 min)

The films are screened during Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s opening hours.

Conrad Ventur’s two short films: ‘Mario Banana’ (2010) and ‘Boca Chica’ (2013) were made in collaboration with Mario Montez, a legendary drag performer, who was also a co-founder the Ridiculous Theatrical Company. Montez participated in several Andy Warhol and Jack Smith films before he in 1977 disappeared from the art world. Conrad Ventur developed a many-year collaboration with Montez after he was “found” again in 2006 at a Jack Smith conference in Berlin.

‘Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide’ (2017) is a film adaptation of Charles Ludlam’s legendary Ridiculous Theatrical Company’s theater production of the same name, – a piece of experimental queer theater from New York’s Downtown art scene circa 1967. The narrative, based on Christopher Marlowe’s play Tamburlaine the Great, is interwoven with lines of Shakespeare, Bible verses, quotations from other plays such as Oscar Wilde’s Salome, the speeches of dictators, and help wanted ads. The story depicts homoerotics, incestuous lust, and the satirical downfall of a corrupt, confused Trump-like imperialist “President of Earth.”

The film is directed, produced and staged by LA-based artist Tyler Matthew Oyer with amazing teams of primarily LA based performers, including among others: Harry Dodge, EJ Hill, Julie Tolentino and Lex Brown, incredible artists in their own right. Oyer takes a piece of theater that is SO art historical Downtown New York and does it today in Los Angeles. With this Oyer insists that history writing is never linear or one-sided, but must be thought across time and contexts and opens up an (im) possible dialogue with artistic colleagues who are no longer here.

14 November: Charlottenborg Art Talk with Tyler Matthew Oyer & curator Malene Dam. Further info here.

14 Nov
17.00 - 19.00

Tyler Matthew Oyer & Malene Dam

Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide

Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide (2017) is a film adaptation of Charles Ludlam’s legendary Ridiculous Theatrical Company’s theater production of the same name, – a piece of experimental queer theater from New York’s Downtown art scene circa 1967. The narrative, based on Christopher Marlowe’s play Tamburlaine the Great, is interwoven with lines of Shakespeare, Bible verses, quotations from other plays such as Oscar Wilde’s Salome, the speeches of dictators, and help wanted ads. The story depicts homoerotics, incestuous lust, and the satirical downfall of a corrupt, confused Trump-like imperialist “President of Earth.”

The film is directed, produced and staged by LA-based artist Tyler Matthew Oyer with amazing teams of primarily LA based performers, including among others: Harry Dodge, EJ Hill, Julie Tolentino and Lex Brown, incredible artists in their own right. Oyer takes a piece of theater that is SO art historical Downtown New York and does it today in Los Angeles. With this Oyer insists that history writing is never linear or one-sided, but must be thought across time and contexts and opens up an (im) possible dialogue with artistic colleagues who are no longer here.

The film show will be followed by a talk between Tyler Matthew Oyer and curator Malene Dam. The talk will be in English.

As an introduction to the talk, 2 short films by Conrad Ventur are screened: Mario Banana (2010) and Boca Chica (2013). Both films were made in collaboration with Mario Montez, a legendary drag performer, who was also a co-founder the Ridiculous Theatrical Company. Montez participated in several Andy Warhol and Jack Smith films before he in 1977 disappeared from the art world. Conrad Ventur developed a many-year collaboration with Montez after he was “found” again in 2006 at a Jack Smith conference in Berlin.

15 – 25 Nov in Charlottenborg Art Cinema we present a film programme curated by Malene Dam with screening of the following films by Conrad Ventur and Tyler Matthew Oyer. Further info here.

12 Nov
19.00 - 21.00

“Fundamental Doubt” – a staged conversation in many dimensions

PRESENTATION / Jon Skulberg (NO)

Jon Skulberg invites to a reflection upon his work with atmospheres, why he finds it hard to trust dance, why he finds it easy to trust the audience, his notion of dynamics and tempo, and the importance of dramaturgy.

The presentation will be a two-dimensional conversation confronted with a multi-dimensional body – a reflection in text and movements.

Jon R. Skulberg
He is the artistic director of Convoi Exceptionnel and the second half of JULI/JON. He has created several opera productions with Hotel Pro Forma. He practices as a director, choreographer and scenographer. His work developed with a strong visual gaze – balancing visual and spatial means, sound and music into a holistic unity. Always in relation with one or more bodies. Working with both trained and untrained bodies, lived experience is central in his choreographic practice.
More information about Jon R. Skulberg here

The event is part of Dansehallernes program CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION and will be in English, free entrance.

More information at Dansehallerne.dk

11 Nov
13.00

Ben Russell Film Programme

Finissage

Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites to the finissage on our film programme with the American artist Ben Russell. Following films will be screened in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema 11 November at 1pm with an introduction:

‘A Spell to Ward off the Darkness’ (in collaboration with Ben Rivers), 2013 (98 min)
‘Good Luck’, 2017 (143 min)

The programme is curated by Erdal Bilici & Mikkeline Daa Natorp.

7 Nov
17.00 - 19.00

Esther Leslie & Rikke Luther

Liquid and Crystal Intelligence in the Epoch of Turbidity

Kunsthal Charlottenborg proudly welcomes Esther Leslie, Professor in Political Aesthetics.

Esther Leslie’s research include the poetics of science, the bleeding edge of technologies, European literary and visual modernism and avant gardes, animation, colour and madness, art philosophy and politics at Birkbeck Universitet, London.

The event is in English and is initiated by PhD Rikke Luther, Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

Liquid and Crystal Intelligence in the Epoch of Turbidity
Photography shatters time and space, it has been said. It recombines too. As it shatters and recombines its procedures might be aligned to the states of liquidity and crystallinity. It snatches something from a flow – from a watery gush of life and holds it up – the crystal. But it could be said, just as much, that each image splashes into the world, is a drop in the ocean, is a liquid reflection of a fraction of a second, caught on a sheeny surface, now likely to be a smartphone, one of the latest stages of photography’s history which begun, in Walter Benjamin’s description, with the emergence from a droplet-laden mist, out of the aura that seeped into clothes, a dampness of imperial history that threatened ever to return. Jeff Wall wrote an essay on photography as liquid intelligence, again associating photography’s origins with wetness, with the sloshing chemicals, the water baths, and each photograph of liquid, arrested in its flow, like his explosive milk, evokes that ‘ancient memory’. The control of water, held back by glass is photography’s battle, but the intelligence, the materiality, the sensitivity and the desire seems to lie with the liquid alone. Writing in 1989, Wall observes a shift from analogue, chemical photography to digital photography, which, he notes, aims to keep the camera and its processes dry, to hold water far from the production process, far away powering electricity plants that the cameras rely on, to hold it all behind glass, which is hard, crystalline, a barrier, a dry product of technology. Later liquid and crystal will merge together as state of matter in the ubiquitous smartphone, unforeseeable in 1989.

What liquid and crystal intelligences are evinced in it, in its relation to seeing, and how, in the light of these, does the history of its seeing, technical seeing, which is not ours, come to appear? It comes as turbid media. This media seeing – to be pursued here as both technical and human – is dependent  variously on turbidity, on turbid media, and will be shown to be always emergent from or seeping into mists, fogs, clusters of dust, clouds and other turbid environs.

Text by Esther Leslie.

5 Nov
19.00 - 21.00

THE BODY AS PLATFORM FOR UTTERANCE

WORK DEMO & TALK / Nønne Mai Svalholm (DK)

Power and fragility are the starting point when choreographer Nønne Mai Svalholm and selected performers aged 60+ give a work demonstration and tell about the artistic work of creating choreographic works on the theme ”Rethink Ageing”.

Since 2015, Nønne Mai Svalholm has worked on the theme ”Rethink Ageing”. Along with a larger group of seniors, she is continuously examining choreographic concepts and grips, which investigate the staging of seniors as performers, scenographic landscape and role models.
The works ”Circuit – a reflection on aging” (2016), ”Ultima” (2017) and the upcoming work ”Gravity” (2019) are created as a trilogy.

Nønne Mai Svalholm
She creates choreographic works based on a feminist look at the body in relation to our present time. Svalholm is an artistic director and choreographer at Svalholm Dans and has since 2008 created a number of choreographic works, short films, tours and cultural exchange projects in the Middle East and North Africa. The focus has been on the artwork, not only as an aesthetic product, but also as an action and platform for performance.
The artistic vision is to free the body by staging the body, thereby creating room for new perceptions. The works become potentially political when they are developed or incorporated in a Middle East and North African context. An example of this is the work CHEST (duet, Egypt 2013) that was developed and performed by local performers – an Egyptian man and woman – who repeatedly knock their chests against each other. CHEST was created as a site-specific work and performed in the old city of Cairo during the 2013 demonstrations.
Read more about Nønne Mai Svalholm here

Watch trailer here

The event is part of Dansehallernes program CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION and will be in English, free entrance.

More information at Dansehallerne.dk

4 Nov
14.00 - 15.30

He Loves Me

MIX Copenhagen LGBTQ Film Festival

In collaboration with MIX Copenhagen Kunsthal Charlottenborg is screening Lotte Nielsen’s short film ‘Haus of Dragons’ about young queers in Istanbul as well as Konstantinos Menelaou’s film ‘He Loves Me’ (more info below). The films are free when the entrance to Kunsthal Charlottenborg is paid.

Haus of Dragons, 2018 (23min)
Saturday 3 November at 2pm
The film is Turkish with English subtitles

The film ‘Haus of Dragons’ by the young Danish documentarist Lotte Nielsen depicts a group of young people from the LGBT club at Bogazici University in Istanbul, who live under the repressive norms of the Erdogan regime. The youth speak intimately about how the conservative policies have affected their lives and show that despite the difficulties in openly expressing their gender and sexual identities, they still fight to live true to them selve s, as shown in a spectacular drag show two of the students put on for the film. Lotte Nielsen’s dark and beautiful film creates a haven where the youths can be themselves and speak openly. And they do. A romantic refuge is conjured up in the struggle for rights and recognition from the rest of Turkish society.

He Loves Me, 2018 (68min)
Sunday 4 November at 2pm
The film is in English

’He Loves Me’ by the young talented Greek instructor Konstantinos Menelaou is an exploration of the unconventional nature of love and its ability to survive against the fear of loneliness, psychological traumas and the problematic lifestyle of a big city. The collapsing relationship between two boys finds an outlet for escape in an isolated beach. Once there, they feel free to expose their deepest thoughts and release their true emotions. Their wounded but true love might not be enough to amend all the shattered pieces of their relationship.
Further information: kostakis.co.uk/helovesme

Credits (He Loves Me):
Written and directed by KONSTANTINOS MENELAOU
With SANUYE SHOTEKA, HERMES PITTAKOS
Voice THANOS LEKKAS
Production KONSTANTINOS MENELAOU, JAMES PEARCEY, RUSSELL WOULD
Camera KONSTANTINOS MENELAOU, KOSTIS FOKAS
Director of photography KOSTIS FOKAS
Line production JONNY SEVEN
Production co-ordinator ZOIE SGOUROU
Music MICKE LINDEBERGH
Song LENA PLATONOS
Editing KONSTANTINOS MENELAOU, RUSSELL WOULD, PARIS GRIGORAKIS
Color grading BABIS PETRIDIS
Sound design & Mix NIKOS TRIANTAFYLLOU, CHRIS BEKIRIS

About MIX Copenhagen
MIX Copenhagen started in 1986 and is now Denmark’s oldest recurring and ever-active film festival, as well as one of the world’s oldest LGBTQ film festivals. We are a volunteer association run by passionate LGBTQ movie lovers who use their spare time to make MIX Copenhagen a spectacular event not only for the LGBTQ environment but also for all the Copenhageners and far beyond the city limits. Our goal is to show a palette of movies that bend gender and break sexual boundaries, affect the gender debate and reflect a diverse world.

This year the festival takes place 26 October-4 November. Further info at mixcopenhagen.dk.

3 Nov
14.00 - 15.00

Haus of Dragons

MIX Copenhagen LGBTQ Film Festival

In collaboration with MIX Copenhagen Kunsthal Charlottenborg is screening Lotte Nielsen’s short film ‘Haus of Dragons’ about young queers in Istanbul as well as Konstantinos Menelaou’s film ‘He Loves Me’ (more info below). The films are free when the entrance to Kunsthal Charlottenborg is paid.

Haus of Dragons, 2018 (23min)
Saturday 3 November at 2pm
The film is Turkish with English subtitles

The film ‘Haus of Dragons’ by the young Danish documentarist Lotte Nielsen depicts a group of young people from the LGBT club at Bogazici University in Istanbul, who live under the repressive norms of the Erdogan regime. The youth speak intimately about how the conservative policies have affected their lives and show that despite the difficulties in openly expressing their gender and sexual identities, they still fight to live true to them selve s, as shown in a spectacular drag show two of the students put on for the film. Lotte Nielsen’s dark and beautiful film creates a haven where the youths can be themselves and speak openly. And they do. A romantic refuge is conjured up in the struggle for rights and recognition from the rest of Turkish society.

He Loves Me, 2018 (68min)
Sunday 4 November at 2pm
The film is in English

’He Loves Me’ by the young talented Greek instructor Konstantinos Menelaou is an exploration of the unconventional nature of love and its ability to survive against the fear of loneliness, psychological traumas and the problematic lifestyle of a big city. The collapsing relationship between two boys finds an outlet for escape in an isolated beach. Once there, they feel free to expose their deepest thoughts and release their true emotions. Their wounded but true love might not be enough to amend all the shattered pieces of their relationship.
Further information: kostakis.co.uk/helovesme

Credits (He Loves Me):
Written and directed by KONSTANTINOS MENELAOU
With SANUYE SHOTEKA, HERMES PITTAKOS
Voice THANOS LEKKAS
Production KONSTANTINOS MENELAOU, JAMES PEARCEY, RUSSELL WOULD
Camera KONSTANTINOS MENELAOU, KOSTIS FOKAS
Director of photography KOSTIS FOKAS
Line production JONNY SEVEN
Production co-ordinator ZOIE SGOUROU
Music MICKE LINDEBERGH
Song LENA PLATONOS
Editing KONSTANTINOS MENELAOU, RUSSELL WOULD, PARIS GRIGORAKIS
Color grading BABIS PETRIDIS
Sound design & Mix NIKOS TRIANTAFYLLOU, CHRIS BEKIRIS

About MIX Copenhagen
MIX Copenhagen started in 1986 and is now Denmark’s oldest recurring and ever-active film festival, as well as one of the world’s oldest LGBTQ film festivals. We are a volunteer association run by passionate LGBTQ movie lovers who use their spare time to make MIX Copenhagen a spectacular event not only for the LGBTQ environment but also for all the Copenhageners and far beyond the city limits. Our goal is to show a palette of movies that bend gender and break sexual boundaries, affect the gender debate and reflect a diverse world.

This year the festival takes place 26 October-4 November. Further info at mixcopenhagen.dk.

31 Oct
17.00

Hyperstition

Armen Avanessian & Christopher Roth

HYPERSTITION is a film equal parts documentary and artistic exploration. Equal parts concrete and abstract. It is a film on time and narrative. Of thoughts and images. On plants and the outside. Abduction and Recursion. Yoctoseconds and Platonia. Plots and anaerobic organisms. About the movement of thinking and philosophy in anthropology, art, design, economy, linguistics, mathematics, and politics. And back into abstraction.

HYPERSTITION covers some of the most vigorous and rigorous streams of contemporary thought. A retooling of philosophy and political theory for the 21st Century. It is mandatory viewing for anyone with an interest in such topics as accellerationism, speculative realism, xenofeminism and far, far beyond.

HYPERSTITION is a film by filmmaker Christopher Roth and theorist Armen Avanessian with a wealth of contributions by renowned theorists, artists, philosophers, writers and more.

The screening at Kunsthal Charlottenborg will be introduced by Armen Avanessian. It is organized by Mikkel Rørbo.

Running time is 100 minutes including an 8 minute break plus introduction.

29 Oct
19.00 - 21.00

DANISH DANCE STORIES 2018 – PRESENTATION AND PERSPECTIVES

DIALOGUE / Andrea Deres, Carolina Bäckman, Nanna Stigsdatter & Stine Frandsen

Danish Dance Stories 2018 – a symposium, a residency, a mapping of personal dance stories. This evening the whole project will be presented, unfolded and launched and everyone is invited to a dialogue around the future potential of the project.

During a symposium at HAUT and a week-long residency at Vestjyllands Højskole, the initiative Danish Dance Stories has gathered around 80 persons connected to the Danish dance environment. Across different generations, geographical affiliations and artistic standpoints, we have remembered, danced, examined, debated, created and dreamt of a wealth of “Danish dance stories” – related to the past, present and future.

The event at Charlottenborg marks the end of the 2018 process, where you will get an insight into the project. At the same time it is a springboard for the future, through a common reflection around the project’s unfolding and possible potential.

Finally we will celebrate the (re)launch of DANSKEDANSEHISTORIER.DK – a virtual hub, where images, texts and podcasts documents the activities of the project and creates new connections through a fragmented mapping of “Danish dance stories”.

The event is part of Dansehallernes program CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION and will be in English, free entrance.

More information at Dansehallerne.dk

25 Oct
12.00

Ben Russel Short Film Programme

25 October - 10 November.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the following series of films by the American artist Ben Russell in our Cinema. The films will run from 25 October – 10 November.

25 October – 30 October : The Garden of Earthly Delights
‘Let Us Persevere In What We Have Resolved Before We Forge’, 2013 (20 min)
‘Atlantis’, 2014 (23:33 min)
‘Greetings to the Ancestors’, 2015 (29 min)

31 October – 5 November: The Mirror Stage
‘He Who Eats Children’, 2016 (26 min)
‘Black and White Trypps Number Three’, 2007 (12 min)
‘YOLO’, 2015 (6:30 min)
‘Trypps #7 (Badlands)’, 2010 (10 min)
‘River Rites’, 2011 (11min)

6 November – 10 November: The Rare Event
‘The Rare Event’ (In collaboration with by Ben Rivers), 2018 (48 min)

The programme is curated by Erdal Bilici & Mikkeline Daa Natorp.

24 Oct
17.00 - 19.00
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Ben Russell

Hosted by Erdal Bilici & Mikkeline Daa Natorp

Kunsthal Charlottenborg is proud to welcome Ben Russell who will be screening two films and a live performance. The programme is initiated by Forum /Erdal Bilici & Mikkeline Daa Natorp.

PROGRAMME

Screening of two films by the artist:

Trypps #7 (Badlands)by Ben Russell (10:30, S16mm, 2010
Atlantisby Ben Russell (23:33, S16mm, 2014)

Followed by a performance:

CONJURING by Ben Russell (25:00, performance, modular / video synthesis, 2018)

CONJURING is a live AV performance in which analogue synthesis becomes a spell for conjuring, a tool for geomancy.   A mountain emerges, an invisible summit appears.  We are earth and we are mountain and we climb forever upwards along a chaos of slopes where synaesthesia is feeling, mapping is modeling, volume (sound) is volume (space), and waveform is mountain song.

The event is in English.

25 Oct-10 Nov in Charlottenborg Art Cinema we will present a film programme curated by Erdal Bilici and Mikkeline Natorp with screening of the following short films by Ben Russell:

2015 YOLO (6:30, S16mm)

2015 Greetings to the Ancestors (29:00, S16mm)

2014 Atlantis (23:33, S16mm)

2013 Let Us Persevere In What We Have Resolved Before We Forget (20:00, S16mm)

2012 Ponce de León (co-directed w/Jim Drain) (24:00, video)

2011 River Rites (11:00, S16mm)

2010 Trypps #7 (Badlands) (10:00, S16mm)

2009 Trypps #6 (Malobi) (12:00, 16mm)

2007 Black and White Trypps Number Three (12:00, 35mm)

22 Oct
19.00 - 21.00

TO MOVE WITH OR AGAINST

DIALOGUE / Xiri Tara Noir (EN/ES) & Boaz Barkan (IL)

The choreographers Xiri Tara Noir and Boaz Barkan in an open debate about what choreography is today, and about how their practices aims to activate the engagement of all participants with the work in question.

Choreography is the capacity to make any activity generate potential.
How do we as choreographers activate movement, and can choreography be another way of thinking in terms of political actions.

Xiri Tara Noir 
Independent activist, performance artist and choreographer.
In her choreographic practice she examines the edges that separates academic research from our everyday gestures and practices. Within a variation and exchange of social roles her work explores the boundaries and hierarchies between “artist” and “audience”, and between what it means to be observing or participating in an event.
Read more about Xiri Tara Noir here

Boaz Barkan
Choreographer, performer and practitioner in the fields of dance, performance
and somatic practice. His focus is on movement and embodiment as mediums for performers, audience, and communities.
Read more about Boaz Barkan here

The event is part of Dansehallernes program CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION and will be in English, free entrance.

More information at Dansehallerne.dk

13 Oct
11.00 - 18.00

The Why at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Why Slavery?

Every day, every hour, every minute and every second, more than 40 million children, women and men live as slaves all around the globe.

THE WHY foundation, a Danish-based NGO, shines a light on the millions of destinies lived in the shadow of enslavement — and the billion dollar industry behind it.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites you to come and watch 4 critically acclaimed films on this pressing topic. The films will be screened at the start of every full hour, to remind us about the harsh reality faced by millions of men, women and children.

The films can be seen at Kunsthal Charlottenborg the 13th – 20th of October, Tue-Fri at 12pm-8pm and Sat-Sun 11am-5pm.

MAID IN HELL
Director / Søren Klovborg (DK)
Producer / Mette Heide (DK)

Maid in Hellinvestigates the bonded labour system known as kafala in the Middle East. Harassment, abuse, rape and 18-hour work days are a commonplace reality for domestic helpers who have travelled from countries all over the world, with the hope to be able to support their families from abroad. Their passports are confiscated upon arrival and they are bound to their employer. Unable to flee, they risk harsh punishments or imprisonments if they try.

JAILED IN AMERICA
Instruktør / Roger Ross Williams (US)
Producer / Femke Wolting (NL)

Jailed in Americaexplores the billion dollar prison industrial complex in the US. During the last 30 years, America’s prison population has surged from 330,000 to 2.3 million inmates. In this deeply personal and provocative film, Academy Award-winning director Roger Ross Williams sets out on a mission to investigate the prison system that has helped drive this explosive web of political, social, and economic forces that have consumed so many of Roger’s friends and family.

NORTH KOREA’S SECRET SLAVES: DOLLAR HEROES
Instruktør / Carl Gierstorfer (DE) & Sebastian Weis (DE)
Producer / Tristan Chytroschek (DE) & Wonjung Bae (KOR)

North Koreas Secret Slaves: Dollar Heroesdives deep into the lives of the hidden slaves the North Korean regime sends abroad to work. Shrouded in secrecy and notoriously cash-strapped, the North Korean regime has resorted to running one of the world’s largest slaving operations – exploiting the profits to fulfill their own agenda. These bonded laborers can be found in Russia, China and dozens of other countries around the world – including EU member states.

A WOMAN CAPTURED
Instruktør / Bernadett Tuza-Ritter (HU)
Producer / Julianna Ugrin (HU) & Viki Réka Kiss (HU)

A woman Capturedtells the heart-breaking story of a European woman who has been kept by a family as a domestic slave for 10 years. Marish has been exploited and abused by a women for whom she toils as a housekeeper entirely unpaid – performing all manner of back-breaking household duties seven days a week in exchange only for meals, cigarettes and a couch to sleep on. A women captured is a raw and intimate portrayal of the psychology behind enslavement.

8 Oct
19.00 - 21.00

THE GENTLE BODY AS AN ACTIVIST

LABORATORY & DIALOGUE / Vera Maeder & Jacob Langaa Sennek (DK)

Inspired by their latest work “THE NIGHT- visioning a post-capitalist society while we sleep” Vera Maeder and Jacob Langaa Sennek invite into a short joint laboratory of 30 min, relating to this aspect of their work.
This will be followed by an artist talk with examples from previous works and open dialog.

How would big politics look like, if it was shaped by the sensing body?

How to offer conditions, where the body is invited to inhabit complex and paradoxical questions and seemingly abstract topics such as economy, environmental or social issues?

How can the body be catalyst for producing thought and become a transformative resource, a form of activism?

hello!earth has since 2008 dedicated their practice to create participatory works with relational approach. They see their works as laboratories for fragile and big visions, where new thoughts can become reality and where we create the world instead of consuming it.

The base of the works is an inquiry into consciousness and an exploration of the myth of reality. The works are always spaces for an audience to experience, sense and do.

To stimulate bodily sensitivity and knowledge in any participant are key elements for creating the works.
Read more about hello!earth here

The event is part of Dansehallernes program CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION and will be in English, free entrance.

More information at Dansehallerne.dk

 

5 Oct
20.00

Blå time

Film club curated by Emma Rosenzweig and Albert Grøndahl

BLÅ TIME is a film club at Kunsthal Charlottenborg presenting Super8 works by selected artists. The film programme is curated by Emma Rosenzweig and Albert Grøndahl, who have invited the artists Jockum Nordström, Christian Falsnæs & Daniela Brunand, Mira Winding & Sufie Elmgreen and Kirsten Justesen to participate in the second edition of BLÅ TIME. Four films all shot with the same Super8 camera. The films are unedited, and premiere at Kunsthal Charlottenborg October 5 at 8pm with afterparty at Apollo Bar.

BLÅ TIME is a returning event. Every film night presents works created from the same concept, where a number of selected artists alternately have recorded 3-5 rolls of film with the same Super8 camera. The concept functions as an artistically platform, where both Danish and international artists create a cinematic work through the same lens, which are presented at the same time to the same audience.

With the media’s analogue limits it is not possible for the artist to edit and experience the material during the process. The raw expression, the materiality of the 8mm film and the artist’s intuition are the foundation for the project’s process, duration and progress.

 

JOCKUM NORDSTRÖM, visual artist, b. 1963, Sweden
Jockum has shot 4 rolls of super8 and given his film, which he recorded around his cottage in Gotland, the title “Det Hule Træ”.

MIRA WINDING, visual artist, b. 1992, Denmark & SUFIE ELMGREEN b. 1992, Denmark
This is the first time the two visual artists, who are both studying at the School of Visual Arts at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, are working with super8. They have recorded a movie on Amager with the title “The Luxury of Fairytales”.

CHRISTIAN FALSNÆS, visual artist, b.1980, Denmark & DANIELA BRUNAND b. 1987, Argentina
Christian Falsnæs and Daniela Brunand have recorded a short experimental film in Berlin, where they have investigated the relationship between sound and picture.

KIRSTEN JUSTESEN, visual artist, b. 1943, Denmark
With her film Kirsten Justesen shows how time transforms human and matter, the meeting between intimacy, absence, heat and cold, the natural and the technical interrelationship, control and randomness, process and repetition.

3 Oct
17.00 - 19.00

Study for a Monument (The Music) XIII

Johan Zetterquist

At this Charlottenborg Art Talk, the Gothenburg-based artist Johan Zetterquist will perform his work STUDY FOR A MONUMENT (THE MUSIC) XIII. His work, in his own opinion, should be seen as both a piece of music and a sculpture – because the experience, the music in itself, have a direct and pronounced physical expression. His music has parallels to the music genre drone metal.

Staffan Boije of Gennäs will begin with a short introduction into the artistic practice of Zetterquist. After the concert there will be a conversation between Staffan Boije and Johan Zetterquist with a focus on the relationship between art and music in his works, and the idea of presenting all of his artworks as sketches  or drafts for a public monument.

STUDY FOR A MONUMENT (THE MUSIC) have previously been performed at: Avaruusromua Drone/ambient Festival (Sienajoki, Finnland), Cafe OTO (London, England), Borås Intenational Sculpture Biennal (Borås, Sverige), Geiger Septemberfest (Göteborg, Sverige). The music is improvisations and every performance of the work is a new variation.

Background
The album contains three long parts, which works as a kind of sound sculpture. It’s a profound drone metal variant recorded on a Gibson SG amplifier with various effects, live with no overdubs, slowly unfolding to reveal blistered shards of sound that recall everything from Stephen O’Malley to Maryanne Amacher’s seminal Sound Characters.
Zetterquist takes advantage of the contrast between extremes produced on his limited set up, taking us from quiet contemplation to visceral and apocalyptic metallic drones and back again, providing natural catharsis without ever being burdened by elaborate sequencing. The swell and hum is aided by Boris Wilsdorf’s detailed recording that lends itself to attentive, immersive listening.

Biography
Conceptual artist Johan Zetterquist devises proposals and designs for public space whose execution is one step removed from reality. His ambitious, absurdist proposals may take the form of texts, drawings, photography, models, performances, sound art and large-scale installations and sculptures both within and outside of the gallery. His subjects often exist within the urban context and confront our understanding of the distinction between “nature” and the man-made. Zetterquist’s surreal humor creates unconventional ideas: a permanently burning house on the edge of the highway, skyscrapers half-buried in sand, a “monument” that is actually a garden fence. His works rebel against societal rules and the orderly voice of public announcements, refusing conformity and rejoicing in hypothetical realities.

1 Oct
19.00 - 21.00

WORKING AS POLITICAL BODY FOR THE INDEPENDENT STAGE ARTISTS

DIALOGUE / Independent Choreographers & Independent Performing Artists

Which communities are you a part of as an independent artist?

How can your voice be heard on a political level?

Independent Choreographers and Independent performing Artists presents their working methods and most important cases at the moment. We will on this evening open for dialogue and refleksion about the identity of our field and the role we play in society today.

About
Independent Choreographers
 is a political spokes organization with the goal of creating political awareness of the working conditions of choreographers and to strengthen the position of dance and performance in Danish cultural politics.
Read more about Independent Choreographers here

Independent Performing Artists is an organization functioning as a cultural and political body working for the further recognition of professional independent performing artists in Denmark.
Read more about Independent Performing Artists

The event is part of Dansehallernes program CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION and will be in English, free entrance.

More information at Dansehallerne.dk

30 Sep
13.00 - 16.00

Ality

two-women-machine-show (DK) & Jonathan Bonnici (DK/UK)

New work by the acclaimed duo two-women-machine-show and Jonathan Bonnici.

A durational piece that spans over three hours. The audience is invited to view it at their own pace.

ALITY comes from an enduring question about the possibilities of subversion/utopia. We choose to work in the realm of possibles from which concrete instances come into being. The piece is an experiment in indeterminacy, thin images that appear unbidden and glide between the lines of common readability offering spaces for the imagination to exercise.

The bodies are on par with the space as a material available for negotiation. The possibility is for all present elements to offer their energetic subtexts. The performers do not compose, they practice, and in the eschewal of a rationalist determination, new longed for sensations and spaces appear. There is no fiction, no predefined images. Not unlike the experience of staring into the tarot or a kaleidoscope, ALITY is a space of spaces that unfolds the more it is attended to.
Se trailer her

At Charlottenborg we offer a version of ALITY which is particular to the given space and the bodies present.

The team behind ALITY and the partnering bodies
In 2015 the Danish duo two-women-machine-show began their collaboration with British actor Jonathan Bonnici. Together they premiered the work TRANS- at Bora Bora’s platform New Nordic Dances. TRANS- has been shown in Denmark, Hungary and Norway and was selected for Berliner Festspiele’s Stückemarkt programme. This year TRANS- is included in the exhibition Welt Ohne Aussen curated by Tino Sehgal and Thomas Oberender at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.
Read more here www.twowomenmachineshow.com

Their new work ALITY features South Korean artist Yujin Kim, British composer S. Rieser and the Danish architect and textile artist Lea Paulsen.

Performers, co-creators / Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Jonathan Bonnici, Yujin Kim, S. Rieser, Emilia Gasiorek
Choreographers, initiators, staging / Marie-Louise Stentebjerg, Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Jonathan Bonnici
Sound / S. Rieser
Light / Jesper Møller
Space, textile & costumes / Lea Paulsen
Graphic Design / Samuel Moore
Voice consultant / Emma Bonnici
Channelling consultant / Sunniva Høgsberg
Residency / UniArts Helsinki, PACT Zollverein, Dansarena Nord
Co-production / Dansehallerne, Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki and Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Thank you / Simo Kellokumpu, Tuija Kokkonen, Anders Paulin, Paula Caspao, Alaknanda Samarth, Pia Stentebjerg, Hanna Reidmar, 13Festivalen

ALITY is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation, Københavns Kommunes Scenekunstudvalg, Knud Højgaards Fond, Oticon Fonden and Beckett-fonden as well as the co-producing partners Dansehallerne, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Dansarena Nord, UniArts Helsinki and PACT Zollverein.

To buy tickets for the premiere Sep 24th you have to follow this link. If you wish to attend the performance one of the other days you just buy a ticket for Charlottenborg Kunsthal at the entrance.

29 Sep
13.00 - 16.00

Ality

two-women-machine-show (DK) & Jonathan Bonnici (DK/UK)

New work by the acclaimed duo two-women-machine-show and Jonathan Bonnici.

A durational piece that spans over three hours. The audience is invited to view it at their own pace.

ALITY comes from an enduring question about the possibilities of subversion/utopia. We choose to work in the realm of possibles from which concrete instances come into being. The piece is an experiment in indeterminacy, thin images that appear unbidden and glide between the lines of common readability offering spaces for the imagination to exercise.

The bodies are on par with the space as a material available for negotiation. The possibility is for all present elements to offer their energetic subtexts. The performers do not compose, they practice, and in the eschewal of a rationalist determination, new longed for sensations and spaces appear. There is no fiction, no predefined images. Not unlike the experience of staring into the tarot or a kaleidoscope, ALITY is a space of spaces that unfolds the more it is attended to.
Se trailer her

At Charlottenborg we offer a version of ALITY which is particular to the given space and the bodies present.

The team behind ALITY and the partnering bodies
In 2015 the Danish duo two-women-machine-show began their collaboration with British actor Jonathan Bonnici. Together they premiered the work TRANS- at Bora Bora’s platform New Nordic Dances. TRANS- has been shown in Denmark, Hungary and Norway and was selected for Berliner Festspiele’s Stückemarkt programme. This year TRANS- is included in the exhibition Welt Ohne Aussen curated by Tino Sehgal and Thomas Oberender at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.
Read more here www.twowomenmachineshow.com

Their new work ALITY features South Korean artist Yujin Kim, British composer S. Rieser and the Danish architect and textile artist Lea Paulsen.

Performers, co-creators / Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Jonathan Bonnici, Yujin Kim, S. Rieser, Emilia Gasiorek
Choreographers, initiators, staging / Marie-Louise Stentebjerg, Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Jonathan Bonnici
Sound / S. Rieser
Light / Jesper Møller
Space, textile & costumes / Lea Paulsen
Graphic Design / Samuel Moore
Voice consultant / Emma Bonnici
Channelling consultant / Sunniva Høgsberg
Residency / UniArts Helsinki, PACT Zollverein, Dansarena Nord
Co-production / Dansehallerne, Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki and Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Thank you / Simo Kellokumpu, Tuija Kokkonen, Anders Paulin, Paula Caspao, Alaknanda Samarth, Pia Stentebjerg, Hanna Reidmar, 13Festivalen

ALITY is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation, Københavns Kommunes Scenekunstudvalg, Knud Højgaards Fond, Oticon Fonden and Beckett-fonden as well as the co-producing partners Dansehallerne, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Dansarena Nord, UniArts Helsinki and PACT Zollverein.

To buy tickets for the premiere Sep 24th you have to follow this link. If you wish to attend the performance one of the other days you just buy a ticket for Charlottenborg Kunsthal at the entrance.

28 Sep
13.00 - 16.00

Ality

two-women-machine-show (DK) & Jonathan Bonnici (DK/UK)

New work by the acclaimed duo two-women-machine-show and Jonathan Bonnici.

A durational piece that spans over three hours. The audience is invited to view it at their own pace.

ALITY comes from an enduring question about the possibilities of subversion/utopia. We choose to work in the realm of possibles from which concrete instances come into being. The piece is an experiment in indeterminacy, thin images that appear unbidden and glide between the lines of common readability offering spaces for the imagination to exercise.

The bodies are on par with the space as a material available for negotiation. The possibility is for all present elements to offer their energetic subtexts. The performers do not compose, they practice, and in the eschewal of a rationalist determination, new longed for sensations and spaces appear. There is no fiction, no predefined images. Not unlike the experience of staring into the tarot or a kaleidoscope, ALITY is a space of spaces that unfolds the more it is attended to.
Se trailer her

At Charlottenborg we offer a version of ALITY which is particular to the given space and the bodies present.

The team behind ALITY and the partnering bodies
In 2015 the Danish duo two-women-machine-show began their collaboration with British actor Jonathan Bonnici. Together they premiered the work TRANS- at Bora Bora’s platform New Nordic Dances. TRANS- has been shown in Denmark, Hungary and Norway and was selected for Berliner Festspiele’s Stückemarkt programme. This year TRANS- is included in the exhibition Welt Ohne Aussen curated by Tino Sehgal and Thomas Oberender at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.
Read more here www.twowomenmachineshow.com

Their new work ALITY features South Korean artist Yujin Kim, British composer S. Rieser and the Danish architect and textile artist Lea Paulsen.

Performers, co-creators / Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Jonathan Bonnici, Yujin Kim, S. Rieser, Emilia Gasiorek
Choreographers, initiators, staging / Marie-Louise Stentebjerg, Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Jonathan Bonnici
Sound / S. Rieser
Light / Jesper Møller
Space, textile & costumes / Lea Paulsen
Graphic Design / Samuel Moore
Voice consultant / Emma Bonnici
Channelling consultant / Sunniva Høgsberg
Residency / UniArts Helsinki, PACT Zollverein, Dansarena Nord
Co-production / Dansehallerne, Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki and Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Thank you / Simo Kellokumpu, Tuija Kokkonen, Anders Paulin, Paula Caspao, Alaknanda Samarth, Pia Stentebjerg, Hanna Reidmar, 13Festivalen

ALITY is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation, Københavns Kommunes Scenekunstudvalg, Knud Højgaards Fond, Oticon Fonden and Beckett-fonden as well as the co-producing partners Dansehallerne, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Dansarena Nord, UniArts Helsinki and PACT Zollverein.

To buy tickets for the premiere Sep 24th you have to follow this link. If you wish to attend the performance one of the other days you just buy a ticket for Charlottenborg Kunsthal at the entrance.

27 Sep
18.30 - 20.30

Choreography as reading practice

Simo Kellokumpu (FI)

In continuation of the performance ALITY – a new piece by the acclaimed two-women-machine-show and Jonathan Bonnici – there will be a talk about the work with the Finnish choreographer and doctoral candidate Simo Kellokumpu. The talks will be in English and take place after the performance of ALITY September 27th 6.30 pm.

Simo Kellokumpu describes the evening as follows

Choreography as reading practice

The title of the talk refers to the etymological and artistic history of choreography, which defines choreography as writing practice. By considering the reciprocal nature of writing and reading in the realm of choreographic art, the presentation introduces the choreographic potential of reading as a way to examine movements that set conditions for the choreographic to emerge. The following movements and transformations will thus be addressed:

from choreographer towards choreoreader
from choreographing towards choreoreading
from grounded embodied choreographic construction towards astroembodied choreostruction
from human body vessel towards human atmospheric organism

The event functions in dialogue with the choreographic work ALITY, and the informal discussion will be opened for the audience as well. Welcome!

Simo Kellokumpu
A Finnish artist, choreographer, and a doctoral candidate in Artistic Research in the Performing Arts Research Centre, Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki.
His works explore the choreographic relations in between materiality and corporeality in various scales and contexts from queer space to intergalactic dimensions.
His current doctoral research project examines the choreographic potential of reading in parallel to understanding choreography as writing practice.
Read more here

Tickets
To join the talk you only need an entrance ticket to Kunsthal Charlottenborg – which you can buy at the entrance. If you wish you can join the performance ALITY before the talk at 3-6 pm.

27 Sep
15.00 - 18.00

Ality

two-women-machine-show (DK) & Jonathan Bonnici (DK/UK)

New work by the acclaimed duo two-women-machine-show and Jonathan Bonnici.

A durational piece that spans over three hours. The audience is invited to view it at their own pace.

ALITY comes from an enduring question about the possibilities of subversion/utopia. We choose to work in the realm of possibles from which concrete instances come into being. The piece is an experiment in indeterminacy, thin images that appear unbidden and glide between the lines of common readability offering spaces for the imagination to exercise.

The bodies are on par with the space as a material available for negotiation. The possibility is for all present elements to offer their energetic subtexts. The performers do not compose, they practice, and in the eschewal of a rationalist determination, new longed for sensations and spaces appear. There is no fiction, no predefined images. Not unlike the experience of staring into the tarot or a kaleidoscope, ALITY is a space of spaces that unfolds the more it is attended to.
Se trailer her

At Charlottenborg we offer a version of ALITY which is particular to the given space and the bodies present.

The team behind ALITY and the partnering bodies
In 2015 the Danish duo two-women-machine-show began their collaboration with British actor Jonathan Bonnici. Together they premiered the work TRANS- at Bora Bora’s platform New Nordic Dances. TRANS- has been shown in Denmark, Hungary and Norway and was selected for Berliner Festspiele’s Stückemarkt programme. This year TRANS- is included in the exhibition Welt Ohne Aussen curated by Tino Sehgal and Thomas Oberender at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.
Read more here www.twowomenmachineshow.com

Their new work ALITY features South Korean artist Yujin Kim, British composer S. Rieser and the Danish architect and textile artist Lea Paulsen.

Performers, co-creators / Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Jonathan Bonnici, Yujin Kim, S. Rieser, Emilia Gasiorek
Choreographers, initiators, staging / Marie-Louise Stentebjerg, Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Jonathan Bonnici
Sound / S. Rieser
Light / Jesper Møller
Space, textile & costumes / Lea Paulsen
Graphic Design / Samuel Moore
Voice consultant / Emma Bonnici
Channelling consultant / Sunniva Høgsberg
Residency / UniArts Helsinki, PACT Zollverein, Dansarena Nord
Co-production / Dansehallerne, Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki and Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Thank you / Simo Kellokumpu, Tuija Kokkonen, Anders Paulin, Paula Caspao, Alaknanda Samarth, Pia Stentebjerg, Hanna Reidmar, 13Festivalen

ALITY is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation, Københavns Kommunes Scenekunstudvalg, Knud Højgaards Fond, Oticon Fonden and Beckett-fonden as well as the co-producing partners Dansehallerne, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Dansarena Nord, UniArts Helsinki and PACT Zollverein.

To buy tickets for the premiere Sep 24th you have to follow this link. If you wish to attend the performance one of the other days you just buy a ticket for Charlottenborg Kunsthal at the entrance.

26 Sep
17.00

TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT

Yu Cheng-Ta & Maria Bordorff

Tell Me What You Want (2017) is a mockumentary in four chapters about desire, friendship, and negotiation between a foreign traveler and the local so-called ‘marketeers’ that he encounters on the street in Malate, Manila.

Using a fictitious name, ‘David’, Yu Cheng-Ta travels to Malate, shifting his identity between tourist, friend and artist, allowing him to get involved in ambiguous narratives and relations. In Malate, ‘tell me what you want’ is a common greeting referring to the transactional structures characteristic to the red light districts. By incorporating transaction as a concept for the production of the film, Yu Cheng-Ta delves into a blurred field of tourism, sex industry and performance.

The film screening will be followed by a talk between Yu Cheng-Ta and art critic Maria Bordorff.

Yu Cheng-Ta (1983) lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. He holds an MA from Taipei National University of the Arts and has received the Beacon Prize at Art Fair Tokyo in 2012. His works have been represented in various contexts internationally such as the 6th Taipei Biennial in 2008, 53rd Venice Biennial in 2009, and the 56th Berlin International Film Festival in 2015. Yu Cheng-Ta is Board Director of Taipei Contemporary Art Center.

Supported by National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan.

26 Sep
17.00 - 20.00

Ality

two-women-machine-show (DK) & Jonathan Bonnici (DK/UK)

New work by the acclaimed duo two-women-machine-show and Jonathan Bonnici.

A durational piece that spans over three hours. The audience is invited to view it at their own pace.

ALITY comes from an enduring question about the possibilities of subversion/utopia. We choose to work in the realm of possibles from which concrete instances come into being. The piece is an experiment in indeterminacy, thin images that appear unbidden and glide between the lines of common readability offering spaces for the imagination to exercise.

The bodies are on par with the space as a material available for negotiation. The possibility is for all present elements to offer their energetic subtexts. The performers do not compose, they practice, and in the eschewal of a rationalist determination, new longed for sensations and spaces appear. There is no fiction, no predefined images. Not unlike the experience of staring into the tarot or a kaleidoscope, ALITY is a space of spaces that unfolds the more it is attended to.
Se trailer her

At Charlottenborg we offer a version of ALITY which is particular to the given space and the bodies present.

The team behind ALITY and the partnering bodies
In 2015 the Danish duo two-women-machine-show began their collaboration with British actor Jonathan Bonnici. Together they premiered the work TRANS- at Bora Bora’s platform New Nordic Dances. TRANS- has been shown in Denmark, Hungary and Norway and was selected for Berliner Festspiele’s Stückemarkt programme. This year TRANS- is included in the exhibition Welt Ohne Aussen curated by Tino Sehgal and Thomas Oberender at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.
Read more here www.twowomenmachineshow.com

Their new work ALITY features South Korean artist Yujin Kim, British composer S. Rieser and the Danish architect and textile artist Lea Paulsen.

Performers, co-creators / Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Jonathan Bonnici, Yujin Kim, S. Rieser, Emilia Gasiorek
Choreographers, initiators, staging / Marie-Louise Stentebjerg, Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Jonathan Bonnici
Sound / S. Rieser
Light / Jesper Møller
Space, textile & costumes / Lea Paulsen
Graphic Design / Samuel Moore
Voice consultant / Emma Bonnici
Channelling consultant / Sunniva Høgsberg
Residency / UniArts Helsinki, PACT Zollverein, Dansarena Nord
Co-production / Dansehallerne, Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki and Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Thank you / Simo Kellokumpu, Tuija Kokkonen, Anders Paulin, Paula Caspao, Alaknanda Samarth, Pia Stentebjerg, Hanna Reidmar, 13Festivalen

ALITY is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation, Københavns Kommunes Scenekunstudvalg, Knud Højgaards Fond, Oticon Fonden and Beckett-fonden as well as the co-producing partners Dansehallerne, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Dansarena Nord, UniArts Helsinki and PACT Zollverein.

To buy tickets for the premiere Sep 24th you have to follow this link. If you wish to attend the performance one of the other days you just buy a ticket for Charlottenborg Kunsthal at the entrance.

25 Sep
15.00 - 18.00

Ality

two-women-machine-show (DK) & Jonathan Bonnici (DK/UK)

New work by the acclaimed duo two-women-machine-show and Jonathan Bonnici.

A durational piece that spans over three hours. The audience is invited to view it at their own pace.

ALITY comes from an enduring question about the possibilities of subversion/utopia. We choose to work in the realm of possibles from which concrete instances come into being. The piece is an experiment in indeterminacy, thin images that appear unbidden and glide between the lines of common readability offering spaces for the imagination to exercise.

The bodies are on par with the space as a material available for negotiation. The possibility is for all present elements to offer their energetic subtexts. The performers do not compose, they practice, and in the eschewal of a rationalist determination, new longed for sensations and spaces appear. There is no fiction, no predefined images. Not unlike the experience of staring into the tarot or a kaleidoscope, ALITY is a space of spaces that unfolds the more it is attended to.
Se trailer her

At Charlottenborg we offer a version of ALITY which is particular to the given space and the bodies present.

The team behind ALITY and the partnering bodies
In 2015 the Danish duo two-women-machine-show began their collaboration with British actor Jonathan Bonnici. Together they premiered the work TRANS- at Bora Bora’s platform New Nordic Dances. TRANS- has been shown in Denmark, Hungary and Norway and was selected for Berliner Festspiele’s Stückemarkt programme. This year TRANS- is included in the exhibition Welt Ohne Aussen curated by Tino Sehgal and Thomas Oberender at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.
Read more here www.twowomenmachineshow.com

Their new work ALITY features South Korean artist Yujin Kim, British composer S. Rieser and the Danish architect and textile artist Lea Paulsen.

Performers, co-creators / Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Jonathan Bonnici, Yujin Kim, S. Rieser, Emilia Gasiorek
Choreographers, initiators, staging / Marie-Louise Stentebjerg, Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Jonathan Bonnici
Sound /S. Rieser
Light / Jesper Møller
Space, textile & costumes / Lea Paulsen
Graphic Design / Samuel Moore
Voice consultant / Emma Bonnici
Channelling consultant / Sunniva Høgsberg
Residency / UniArts Helsinki, PACT Zollverein, Dansarena Nord
Co-production / Dansehallerne, Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki and Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Thank you / Simo Kellokumpu, Tuija Kokkonen, Anders Paulin, Paula Caspao, Alaknanda Samarth, Pia Stentebjerg, Hanna Reidmar, 13Festivalen

ALITY is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation, Københavns Kommunes Scenekunstudvalg, Knud Højgaards Fond, Oticon Fonden and Beckett-fonden as well as the co-producing partners Dansehallerne, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Dansarena Nord, UniArts Helsinki and PACT Zollverein.

To buy tickets for the premiere Sep 24th you have to follow this link. If you wish to attend the performance one of the other days you just buy a ticket for Charlottenborg Kunsthal at the entrance.

24 Sep
18.00 - 21.00

Ality

two-women-machine-show (DK) & Jonathan Bonnici (DK/UK)

New work by the acclaimed duo two-women-machine-show and Jonathan Bonnici.

To buy tickets for the premiere Sep 24th you have to follow this link. If you wish to attend the performance one of the other days you just buy a ticket for Charlottenborg Kunsthal at the entrance.

A durational piece that spans over three hours. The audience is invited to view it at their own pace.

ALITY comes from an enduring question about the possibilities of subversion/utopia. We choose to work in the realm of possibles from which concrete instances come into being. The piece is an experiment in indeterminacy, thin images that appear unbidden and glide between the lines of common readability offering spaces for the imagination to exercise.

The bodies are on par with the space as a material available for negotiation. The possibility is for all present elements to offer their energetic subtexts. The performers do not compose, they practice, and in the eschewal of a rationalist determination, new longed for sensations and spaces appear. There is no fiction, no predefined images. Not unlike the experience of staring into the tarot or a kaleidoscope, ALITY is a space of spaces that unfolds the more it is attended to.
Se trailer her

At Charlottenborg we offer a version of ALITY which is particular to the given space and the bodies present.

The team behind ALITY and the partnering bodies
In 2015 the Danish duo two-women-machine-show began their collaboration with British actor Jonathan Bonnici. Together they premiered the work TRANS- at Bora Bora’s platform New Nordic Dances. TRANS- has been shown in Denmark, Hungary and Norway and was selected for Berliner Festspiele’s Stückemarkt programme. This year TRANS- is included in the exhibition Welt Ohne Aussen curated by Tino Sehgal and Thomas Oberender at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.
Read more here www.twowomenmachineshow.com

Their new work ALITY features South Korean artist Yujin Kim, British composer S. Rieser and the Danish architect and textile artist Lea Paulsen.

Performers, co-creators / Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Jonathan Bonnici, Yujin Kim, S. Rieser, Emilia Gasiorek
Choreographers, initiators, staging / Marie-Louise Stentebjerg, Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Jonathan Bonnici
Sound /S. Rieser
Light / Jesper Møller
Space, textile & costumes / Lea Paulsen
Graphic Design / Samuel Moore
Voice consultant / Emma Bonnici
Channelling consultant / Sunniva Høgsberg
Residency / UniArts Helsinki, PACT Zollverein, Dansarena Nord
Co-production / Dansehallerne, Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki and Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Thank you / Simo Kellokumpu, Tuija Kokkonen, Anders Paulin, Paula Caspao, Alaknanda Samarth, Pia Stentebjerg, Hanna Reidmar, 13Festivalen

ALITY is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation, Københavns Kommunes Scenekunstudvalg, Knud Højgaards Fond, Oticon Fonden and Beckett-fonden as well as the co-producing partners Dansehallerne, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Dansarena Nord, UniArts Helsinki and PACT Zollverein.

21 Sep
12.00 - 20.00

Chart film

Film programme in collaboration with CHART ART FAIR

In collaboration with CHART ART FAIR, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents CHART Film: A film programme consisting of artists from the galleries participating in this year’s CHART.

The film programme will be shown in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema 19 September-12 October where all the films in the programme are shown daily in a two-hour-long loop within the opening hours of Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

The film programme is free when admission for Kunsthal Charlottenborg has been payed.

PROGRAM
Steina
Lilith (1987)
9 minutes 12 seconds
Courtesy of the artist and BERG Contemporary, Reykjavik

Trine Lise Nedreaas
PULSE (2014)
6 minutes
Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo

Dodda Maggý
Étude Op, 88, No. 1 (2017)
10 minutes 25 seconds
Courtesy of the artist and BERG Contemporary, Reykjavik

Theo Bat Schandorff
Heavy (2018)
60 minutes
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Forsblom

Perttu Saksa
Animal Image (2018)
15 minutes
Courtesy of the artist and Helsinki Contemporary

20 Sep
17.00

Big Art: Large-scale contemporary art in BIG’s architecture

Bjarke Ingels, Andrew Zuckerman, Victor Ash, Es Devlin, Julie Edel Hardenberg, John Kørner, Andri Magnason & Benoit Maire et al

Just before the opening of Big Art, Bjarke Ingels and some of the exhibiting artists introduce their projects in a conversation moderated by curator and Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s director Michael Thouber.

Come by and hear more about the collaboration between BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and the artists, and how they research and develop their ideas in the creative alliance across art and architecture.

This Charlottenborg Art Talk will be held in Festsalen at The Royal Danish Academy of Art 20 September at 5pm. Everyone is welcome and the entrance is free. Afterwards, join us for the official opening party of Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s two major fall exhitbitions Big Art and Alicja Kwade: Out of Ousia.

17 Sep
19.00 - 21.00

Practice, imagination and decentralised choreography

DIALOGUE / two-women-machine-show (DK) & Jonathan Bonnici (DK/UK)

As a prelude to the premiere of the performance ALITY the team behind the work will reflect on their joint process and open up about their practice and the specific choreographic considerations that lie at the heart of the piece. It is about the capacity of human imagination, practice-based work and the possibilities of a multiple, decentralised choreography.

ALITY comes from an enduring question about the possibilities of subversion/utopia. We choose to work in the realm of possibles from which concrete instances come into being. The piece is an experiment in indeterminacy, thin images that appear unbidden and glide between the lines of common readability offering spaces for the imagination to exercise.

The bodies are on par with the space as a material available for negotiation. The possibility is for all present elements to offer their energetic subtexts. The performers do not compose, they practice, and in the eschewal of a rationalist determination, new longed for sensations and spaces appear. There is no fiction, no predefined images. Not unlike the experience of staring into the tarot or a kaleidoscope, ALITY is a space of spaces that unfolds the more it is attended to. At Charlottenborg Sep 24th – 30th we offer a version of ALITY which is particular to the given space and the bodies present.
See trailer for the performance here

The team behind ALITY and the partnering bodies
In 2015 the Danish duo two-women-machine-show began their collaboration with British actor Jonathan Bonnici. Together they premiered the work TRANS- at Bora Bora’s platform New Nordic Dances. TRANS- has been shown in Denmark, Hungary and Norway and was selected for Berliner Festspiele’s Stückemarkt programme. This year TRANS- is included in the exhibition Welt Ohne Aussencurated by Tino Sehgal and Thomas O. at the Martin-Gropious-Bau in Berlin.
Read more about two-women-machine-show here

Their new work ALITY features South Korean artist Yujin Kim, British composer S. Rieser and the Danish textile designer Lea Paulsen. ALITY premieres at Kunsthal Charlottenborg on the 24th of September and especially for this edition of the work the team will be joined by British co-performer Emilia Gasiorek.

ALITY is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, Københavns Kommunes Scenekunstudvalg, Knud Højgaards Fond and Beckett-fonden as well as the co-producing partners Dansehallerne, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Dansarena Nord, UniArts Helsinki, Oticon Fonden and PACT Zollverein.

The event is part of Dansehallernes program CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION and will be in English, free entrance.

More information at Dansehallerne.dk

10 Sep
19.00 - 21.00

THE HUMAN BODY VERSUS THE PERFORMATIVE BODY

SCREENING & DIALOGUE / Maja Friis (DK) & Ana Sendas (P)

Screening of Ballerina, a poetic dance documentary inspired by the life of former Swedish prima ballerina Elsa Marianne von Rosen. A poetic take on a true pas de trois – the difficult balance act between human love and artistic passion.

The film features
Elsa Marianne von Rosen, Ana Sendas, Stefanos Bizas and Jonathan D. Sikell
Director/writer/editor: Maja Friis
Choreographed by: Maja Friis in collaboration with the dancers

The film premiered in 2013. It was nominated for a for ‘Best Danish Documentary’ and was awarded by The Danish Art Council.

Excerpts from the film
“Nothing shall ever come between me and dancing”
Elsa Marianne von Rosen, 9 years old

Read more about the film here

See trailer for the film here

 

Meet the director Maja Friis og dancer Ana Sendas
After the screening of the film (52 min.) director Maja Friis and dancer Ana Sendas will talk about the process of creation and choreographic methods inspired by site-specific explorations, image-movement studies as a tool for the cinematic narrative and themes that inspired the characters in the film.

The focus will be on “The human body versus the performative.
How to use the body as storyteller?
How to choreograph human emotions?
How does the private, non-performative body perform?

About Maja Friis
“To me cinematic storytelling is the art of audiovisual choreography. It is emotions in motion. I aim to use movements through time and space as a tool to create visual and aesthetic experiences that touch what goes beyond time and space.
Writing the script is to choreograph the movements of the camera as well as the movements in front of it: Actions or stillness, shadows and lights, colors and absence, sound and silence.”
Maja Friis has a Master’s degree in Film Studies at University of Copenhagen. Final thesis: “Motion as cinematic narrative”. A minor in dramaturgy and in the aesthetics of dance. Foreign studies of dance films at La Cinémathèque de la Danse, Paris.
Further information about Maja Friis here

About Ana Sendas
Educated at Academia de Dança Contemporânea de Setúbal in Portugal, Ana is a freelance professional dancer, teacher and choreographer with 24 years of professional experience.
In her career as a professional dancer she worked with several dance companies such as Dansk Danseteater (DK), Göteborgs Operan Ballet (SWE), Ballet Gulbenkian (PT), Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporaneo (PT), Ballet Theater Augsburg (GER), Galili Dance Company (NL) CeDeCe (PT) as well as a number of independent dance projects worldwide where she performed and collaborated with different artists.
As a teacher she is continuously developing work in contemporary, graham technique, ballet, improvisation, contact improvisation and partnering to students and professionals in Denmark, Sweden and Portugal.
Besides dancing and teaching Ana has been developing choreographic work since 1994 having created more than a dozen works for schools and Companies in Denmark and abroad.
Ana and Maja have been collaborating since their first meeting in Ballerina, 2013, developing studies, choreographic work and image-movement research on stage and on camera.
Further information about Ana Sendas here

The event is part of Dansehallernes program CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION and will be in English, free entrance.

More information at Dansehallerne.dk

3 Sep
19.00 - 21.00

DIALOGUE / DANSEHALLERNE BRANCHEMØDE

DH Artistic Management Efva Lilja (SE/DK) & Hanne Svejstrup (DK)

Let’s meet and talk and get all the latest news. We always have a lot to share with you!
Branchemøde is mostly for professionals and DH artists, but everybody is welcome.

The event is part of Dansehallernes program CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION and will be in English, free entrance.

Read more

8 Aug
18.30 - 20.00

Influenza (on Kirstine Roepstorff)

Bjarke Underbjerg

The creative process behind the Danish artist’s work leading up to the Venice Biennale last year, elegantly portrayed as a reflection on creation itself.

When the artist Kristine Roepstorff was nominated in 2017 to represent Denmark at the Venice Biennale, it was a very specific but ambiguous term that was the basis for her work: Influenza. A word that suggests both illness and transformation. The film follows her for the one and a half years during which Roepstorff devoted her time to the opus Influenza, as it evolved materially from textiles, plants and concrete to light and darkness. A creative process and a philosophical reflection on the act of creating. The path from idea to finished work is long, and passes by sculptors in Copenhagen, weavers in Paris and architects and gardeners in Venice, where the work has to be installed before the artificial darkness falls on the Danish pavilion. And before the audience can join Roepstorff inside the transformative and fertile darkness, where the ideas came from in the first place.

The film is directed by Bjarke Underbjerg and world premiered during CPH:DOX 2018.

1 Aug
18.30 - 20.00

Influenza (on Kirstine Roepstorff)

Bjarke Underbjerg

The creative process behind the Danish artist’s work leading up to the Venice Biennale last year, elegantly portrayed as a reflection on creation itself.

When the artist Kristine Roepstorff was nominated in 2017 to represent Denmark at the Venice Biennale, it was a very specific but ambiguous term that was the basis for her work: Influenza. A word that suggests both illness and transformation. The film follows her for the one and a half years during which Roepstorff devoted her time to the opus Influenza, as it evolved materially from textiles, plants and concrete to light and darkness. A creative process and a philosophical reflection on the act of creating. The path from idea to finished work is long, and passes by sculptors in Copenhagen, weavers in Paris and architects and gardeners in Venice, where the work has to be installed before the artificial darkness falls on the Danish pavilion. And before the audience can join Roepstorff inside the transformative and fertile darkness, where the ideas came from in the first place.

The film is directed by Bjarke Underbjerg and world premiered during CPH:DOX 2018.

25 Jul
18.30 - 20.00

Influenza (on Kirstine Roepstorff)

Bjarke Underbjerg

The creative process behind the Danish artist’s work leading up to the Venice Biennale last year, elegantly portrayed as a reflection on creation itself.

When the artist Kristine Roepstorff was nominated in 2017 to represent Denmark at the Venice Biennale, it was a very specific but ambiguous term that was the basis for her work: Influenza. A word that suggests both illness and transformation. The film follows her for the one and a half years during which Roepstorff devoted her time to the opus Influenza, as it evolved materially from textiles, plants and concrete to light and darkness. A creative process and a philosophical reflection on the act of creating. The path from idea to finished work is long, and passes by sculptors in Copenhagen, weavers in Paris and architects and gardeners in Venice, where the work has to be installed before the artificial darkness falls on the Danish pavilion. And before the audience can join Roepstorff inside the transformative and fertile darkness, where the ideas came from in the first place.

The film is directed by Bjarke Underbjerg and world premiered during CPH:DOX 2018.

18 Jul
18.30 - 20.00

Influenza (on Kirstine Roepstorff)

Bjarke Underbjerg

The creative process behind the Danish artist’s work leading up to the Venice Biennale last year, elegantly portrayed as a reflection on creation itself.

When the artist Kristine Roepstorff was nominated in 2017 to represent Denmark at the Venice Biennale, it was a very specific but ambiguous term that was the basis for her work: Influenza. A word that suggests both illness and transformation. The film follows her for the one and a half years during which Roepstorff devoted her time to the opus Influenza, as it evolved materially from textiles, plants and concrete to light and darkness. A creative process and a philosophical reflection on the act of creating. The path from idea to finished work is long, and passes by sculptors in Copenhagen, weavers in Paris and architects and gardeners in Venice, where the work has to be installed before the artificial darkness falls on the Danish pavilion. And before the audience can join Roepstorff inside the transformative and fertile darkness, where the ideas came from in the first place.

The film is directed by Bjarke Underbjerg and world premiered during CPH:DOX 2018.

11 Jul
18.30 - 20.00

Influenza (on Kirstine Roepstorff)

Bjarke Underbjerg

The creative process behind the Danish artist’s work leading up to the Venice Biennale last year, elegantly portrayed as a reflection on creation itself.

When the artist Kristine Roepstorff was nominated in 2017 to represent Denmark at the Venice Biennale, it was a very specific but ambiguous term that was the basis for her work: Influenza. A word that suggests both illness and transformation. The film follows her for the one and a half years during which Roepstorff devoted her time to the opus Influenza, as it evolved materially from textiles, plants and concrete to light and darkness. A creative process and a philosophical reflection on the act of creating. The path from idea to finished work is long, and passes by sculptors in Copenhagen, weavers in Paris and architects and gardeners in Venice, where the work has to be installed before the artificial darkness falls on the Danish pavilion. And before the audience can join Roepstorff inside the transformative and fertile darkness, where the ideas came from in the first place.

The film is directed by Bjarke Underbjerg and world premiered during CPH:DOX 2018.

4 Jul
18.30 - 20.00

Influenza (on Kirstine Roepstorff)

Bjarke Underbjerg

The creative process behind the Danish artist’s work leading up to the Venice Biennale last year, elegantly portrayed as a reflection on creation itself.

When the artist Kristine Roepstorff was nominated in 2017 to represent Denmark at the Venice Biennale, it was a very specific but ambiguous term that was the basis for her work: Influenza. A word that suggests both illness and transformation. The film follows her for the one and a half years during which Roepstorff devoted her time to the opus Influenza, as it evolved materially from textiles, plants and concrete to light and darkness. A creative process and a philosophical reflection on the act of creating. The path from idea to finished work is long, and passes by sculptors in Copenhagen, weavers in Paris and architects and gardeners in Venice, where the work has to be installed before the artificial darkness falls on the Danish pavilion. And before the audience can join Roepstorff inside the transformative and fertile darkness, where the ideas came from in the first place.

The film is directed by Bjarke Underbjerg and world premiered during CPH:DOX 2018.

27 Jun
18.30 - 20.00

Influenza (on Kirstine Roepstorff)

Bjarke Underbjerg

The creative process behind the Danish artist’s work leading up to the Venice Biennale last year, elegantly portrayed as a reflection on creation itself.

When the artist Kristine Roepstorff was nominated in 2017 to represent Denmark at the Venice Biennale, it was a very specific but ambiguous term that was the basis for her work: Influenza. A word that suggests both illness and transformation. The film follows her for the one and a half years during which Roepstorff devoted her time to the opus Influenza, as it evolved materially from textiles, plants and concrete to light and darkness. A creative process and a philosophical reflection on the act of creating. The path from idea to finished work is long, and passes by sculptors in Copenhagen, weavers in Paris and architects and gardeners in Venice, where the work has to be installed before the artificial darkness falls on the Danish pavilion. And before the audience can join Roepstorff inside the transformative and fertile darkness, where the ideas came from in the first place.

The film is directed by Bjarke Underbjerg and world premiered during CPH:DOX 2018.

22 Jun
20.00 - 22.00

BLÅ TIME

Film club curated by Emma Rosenzweig and Albert Grøndahl

BLÅ TIME is a film club at Kunsthal Charlottenborg presenting Super8 works by selected artists. The film programme is curated by Emma Rosenzweig and Albert Grøndahl, who have invited the four artists Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Alexander Tovborg, Emma Kohlmann and Jesper Fabricius to participate in the first edition of BLÅ TIME. Four films by four artists, all shot with the same Super8 camera. The films are unedited, and premiere at Kunsthal Charlottenborg June 22 at 8pm with afterparty at Apollo Bar.

BLÅ TIME is a returning event. Every film night presents works created from the same concept, where a number of selected artists alternately have recorded 3-5 rolls of film with the same Super8 camera. The concept functions as an artistically platform, where both Danish and international artists create a cinematic work through the same lens, which are presented at the same time to the same audience.

With the media’s analogue limits it is not possible for the artist to edit and experience the material during the process. The raw expression, the materiality of the 8mm film and the artist’s intuition are the foundation for the project’s process, duration and progress.

Ursula Reuter Christiansen, b. Germany 1947, visual artist
Ursula Reuter Christiansen has given her film, which she has recorded around her home at the Danish island Møn, the title ‘Med Det Halve Øje’. Ursula has worked with the 8mm film several times, but has not worked with Super8 for many years. In her film, she explores her many identities, considers her family’s art, and places her paintings by the sea, while she wonders about Marie Grubbe’s life.

Jesper Fabricius, b. Denmark 1957, visual artist
Jesper Fabriciu’s film is without a title and consists of a range of scenes, which are rerecording of films he has made in Super8 and 16mm: ‘DANMARKSFILM 1 – 3’ and ‘SPROGET ER DET HUS VI BOR I’. He looks at landscapes, cityscapes and accumulations through the mechanic media with 18 slide pr. second. In one of the scenes he reads from one of his poetry collections – mutely.

Emma Kohlmann, b. USA 1989, visual artist
Emma Kohlmann has not worked with Super8 before. Her film is created as one long montage recorded in Massachusetts at her trips in the forest, around her studio and her everyday life.

Alexander Tovborg, b. Denmark 1983, visual artist
Alexander Tovborg has never worked with Super8 before. His film is recorded in Mexico, and Alexander has written a short introduction to his film:
”Ay, ay, ay ay. Syng og græd ikke. For når du synger, bliver hjertet glad. Lille smukke sky, hele hjertet.”

20 Jun
18.30 - 20.00

Influenza (on Kirstine Roepstorff)

Bjarke Underbjerg

The creative process behind the Danish artist’s work leading up to the Venice Biennale last year, elegantly portrayed as a reflection on creation itself.

When the artist Kristine Roepstorff was nominated in 2017 to represent Denmark at the Venice Biennale, it was a very specific but ambiguous term that was the basis for her work: Influenza. A word that suggests both illness and transformation. The film follows her for the one and a half years during which Roepstorff devoted her time to the opus Influenza, as it evolved materially from textiles, plants and concrete to light and darkness. A creative process and a philosophical reflection on the act of creating. The path from idea to finished work is long, and passes by sculptors in Copenhagen, weavers in Paris and architects and gardeners in Venice, where the work has to be installed before the artificial darkness falls on the Danish pavilion. And before the audience can join Roepstorff inside the transformative and fertile darkness, where the ideas came from in the first place.

The film is directed by Bjarke Underbjerg and world premiered during CPH:DOX 2018.

20 Jun
17.00 - 19.00

Kirstine Roepstorff & David Hykes

Kirstine Roepstorff in conversation with curator Aukje Lepoutre Ravn and composer David Hykes in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema followed by a concert in the exhibition with David Hykes accompanied by Lars Bo Kujahn.

Programme: Music of the Spheres of Being
Music by David Hykes
David Hykes, voice
Lars Bo Kujahn, percussion
Harmonic Opening
Spectral Path
Deserted Temple
Two Mantras: Om Mani Padme Hum & Om Ah Hung Benza Guru Pema Siddhi Hum
Let the Lover Be (Rumi poem)
Harmonic Meeting (Sound mandala with the audience)

David Hykes
David Hykes (US/FR) is a pioneering composer and singer, teacher of meditation, conference presenter and visual artist. He founded the Harmonic Presence Foundation which since 1981 has explored resonant relationships between mind, music, and the medicine of healing harmonization. He is a noted “sacred cinema” composer (Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche’s ‘Travellers and Magicians’, Peter Brook’s ‘Meetings with Remarkable Men’, Ron Fricke’s ‘Baraka’, two films by Terrence Malick, among others. He has released 12 albums, several with his pioneering group The Harmonic Choir, and was the first westerner to collaborate with overtone musicians from Tibet, Tuva, and Mongolia. He has offered concerts for H.H. the Dalai Lama, Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoché, Chokyi Nima Rinpoché, Tsoknyi Rinpoché, Rangjung Yeshe Institute, and with the Gyuto and Gyume Monks. Further information about David Hykes and Harmonic Presence at www.harmonicworld.com

Lars Bo Kujahn
Lars Bo Kujahn (DK) started as a rock-drummer in 1975, but has since the 1980’s been working with Balkan and Middle Eastern music. In 1987 he formed the band Kefir (later Svira). In autumn 1988 supported by scholarships, he studied Oriental Percussion from Turkey and the Middle East in Istanbul and Cairo. In 1991 Lars Bo Kujahn published the book “Oriental Percussion” at Percussion Center Publishing CPH. Further information at www.darbuka.dk.

15 Jun
17.00 - 18.00

Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe

Just before the opening of their installation Scenario in the Shade the New York-based artists Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe will introduce their practice.

Come by and get a thorough introduction to Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s new North Wing exhibtion by the artists themselves – hear about Freeman & Lowe’s collaboration and how they research and develop their ideas and art practice.

This Charlottenborg Art Talk will be held in kunsthallen’s cinema June 15 from 5pm-5.45pm, and the entrance is free. Afterwards, join us for the official opening party 6pm-10pm for Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s two major summer exhibitions.

4 Jun
19.00 - 21.00

Presentation and discussion For The Time Being

Declan Whitaker (UK)

We have developed an appetite for immediacy, satisfaction and overstimulation. Duration is dead: In a world of increased technological dependence and decreased attention span, what are we willing to give our time to?
Working with two physical dancers and one digital dancer, For The Time Being is a contradictory investigation into probing the borders of boredom and providing people with ‘what they want’: brevity.
This evening a work in progress will be shown followed by a discussion.

The event is part of Dansehallernes program CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION and will be in English, free entrance.

More information at Dansehallerne.dk.

 

30 May
17.00 - 19.00

Maile Colbert

Maile Colbert designs and composes sound for and from the past, to consider what knowledge and applications can be gained from the concept, and to expand sound design for cinematic and artistic works through time, space, and place.

For the art talk Maile Colbert presents her research on sound, proposing that the relationship between our soundscape and sound design can give key information about how we listen, what we listen for, and what that can tell us.

Maile Colbert  is  an  intermedia  artist  with a  focus  on sound and video. She is currently a PhD Research Fellow in Artistic Studies with a concentration on sound studies, sound design in time-based media, and soundscape ecology at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Her current practice and research project is titled, Wayback Sound Machine: Sound through time, space, and place, further information here.  She has exhibited, screened, and performed around the globe.

Colbert is a collaborating partner in Jenny Gräf Sheppard’s KUV research project Sounding Bodies: Resonance in and Between Bodies. Jenny Gräf Sheppard is associate professor at the Laboratory for Sound at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen.

28 May
19.00 - 21.00

A conversation with dancer and choreographer Kitt Johnson (DK)

A conversation with dancer and choreographer Kitt Johnson about the semantics of the room, about the dynamics of light and darkness, the legitimacy of time and the power of sound, the somatic and the dialectics of mentality, about the principal and existential focal points, about “ this not yet “and” the unknown knowns “.
This conversation is based on 30 years of experience with performing arts inside and outside the conventional framework.

The event is part of Dansehallernes program CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION and will be in English, free entrance.

More information at Dansehallerne.dk.

24 May
19.00 - 21.00

1=1+1 – BFA Degree Show: Films + Visions of Ukraine at Charlottenborg Art Cinema

Art Week

As a part of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Bachelor Exhibition we present a series of student films alongside a selection called Visions of Ukraine curated by Erdal Bilici and Søren Rye.

Bachelor Exhibition Films
1. Clara Busch – The Highest Flood – 2018
2. Emilie Tarp – Luftrum klarsol – 2018

Visions of Ukraine
1. Oleksiy Radynski – Landslide – 2017
2. Yuriy Hrytsyna – Varta1, Lviv, Ukraine – 2014

Duration approximately 1,50 hours in Charlottenborg Art Cinema.

23 May
17.00 - 19.00

Snövit Snow Hedstierna

Snövit Hedstierna will visit the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Kunsthal Charlottenborg for an inspirational talk about gender, power structures, trauma, memory and working with oral history as a foundation of art making. Relational structures, traditions and conventions within the rituals of sharing stories and bearing witness, and the solidarity created between the participants based on the conditions, experiences and concerns being shared.

During 2014-2018 Snövit Hedstierna created the work “An Issue of Structure”, a project that confronts dysfunctional and failed gender structures within Scandinavia (the region with the highest gender equality according to the WEF’s “Global Gender Gap Report”).

Carried out over more than 3 years, the process included approximately 250 in-depth interviews with female/queer/transgender/gender-fluid people. Resulting in nearly 6000 hours of audio recordings, based on the participants’ lived experiences that covers misogyny, transphobia and sexual violence among other pressing issues.

To date, the work has resulted in a series of spatial sound installations, films, performances, a sound archive and the writing of a publication. Hedstierna will talk about this work and others made between 2012-2018 that investigates and questions similar discourses and problematics.

Snövit Hedstierna received her MFA from Concordia University and has aslo been a student at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, Valand Academy of Arts and Konstfack. Her work has been displayed and presented widely at international galleries, museums and festivals including: Manifesta11 (Zurich), PPP/Documenta14 (Athens), Satellite Art Fair (Miami) and the Venice Biennale. For 2018 she is finalizing new pieces for Manifesta12 (Palermo), The Nordic house (Iceland) and Skövde Konsthall (Sweden). Snövit Hedstierna is currently teaching at HDK – Academy of design and crafts, Dalarna University, Linnaeus University, Beckmans College of Design and Forsbergs School of Design. She lives and works between Montreal, Berlin and Stockholm. She is the founder of Pony Sugar Art Gallery and a recurring art and design writer for Cap&Design.

The talk is part of the Charlottenborg Art Talk program and it is arranged in a collaboration between The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

The event takes place in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema and the admission is free.

22 May
20.00 - 22.00

1=1+1 – BFA Degree Show: Films + Visions of Ukraine at Charlottenborg Art Cinema

Art Week

As a part of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Bachelor Exhibition we present a series of student films alongside a selection called Visions of Ukraine curated by Erdal Bilici and Søren Rye.

Bachelor Exhibition Films
1. Clara Busch – The Highest Flood – 2018
2. Emilie Tarp – Untitled – 2018
3. Erdal Bilici – Shadow Games – 2018

Visions of Ukraine
1. Oleksiy Radynski – Landslide – 2017
2. Yuriy Hrytsyna – Varta1, Lviv, Ukraine – 2014

Duration approximately 1,50 hours in Charlottenborg Art Cinema.

16 May
17.00 - 19.00
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Afgang 2018 LIVE Vol. 2

Kunsthal Charlottenborg is pleased to present ‘Afgang 2018 LIVE vol. 2’ – which also is the official vernissage for this year’s MFA Degree Show. On the programme are Emilia Bergmark, David Stjernholm, Louka Anargyros, Ida Retz Wessberg, Louis Scherfig, Stephanie Bech Madsen and Sara Sjölin.

Guided tours in the exhibition – the upper foyer:
Curator Henriette Bretton-Meyer introduces works in the exhibition along with several of the exhibiting artists. Albin Werle introduces his games between 5pm-7pm. All visitors are welcome to participate. The duration of each game varies and the participants may come and go as they like. Signing up is not required.

David Stjernholm will show a video work in the cinema
Fabian Wigren will show the film Tårar; Ögonens Crescendo / Tears; the eyes Crescendo in the cinema
Emilia Bergmark will temporarily exhibit the work ‘Still Life (Can’t Live with You, Can’t Live without You)’
Louis Scherfig will do a reading
There will be a concert with Orchid Domain feat. Vid Edda: Det Lange Ridt
There will be a concert with SXR

 

11 May
12.00 - 20.00

★ by Johann Lurf

CAFx - Copenhagen Architecture Festival

AN INTERGALACTIC NIGHT SKY ORGY, WHERE YOU CAN FLY AWAY ON STAR-COVERED FILMS CLIPS FROM HUNDREDS OF MOVIES.

A film with no answers but as many questions as there are stars in the universe. Austrian structuralist Johann Lurf has chosen an audacious and ever-expanding subject for his feature film debut: the stars of cinema. Not the movie stars, but the stars in the night’s sky. These stellar instances, riven from context with sound intact—ambient hums, grand orchestral scores, pedantic explanations, dreamy speculation—are magical fields of darkness sprinkled with possibilities.
Lurf playfully shows how cinema turned the stars into endless metaphors, dreams, and warm blankets. We put our own thoughts into the stunning scenes while each clip’s sound design presents us with ambience outside of their contexts.

Support from the Austrian Embassy to Johann Lurf’s visit. The event will be in English.

10 May
12.00 - 20.00

★ by Johann Lurf

CAFx - Copenhagen Architecture Festival

AN INTERGALACTIC NIGHT SKY ORGY, WHERE YOU CAN FLY AWAY ON STAR-COVERED FILMS CLIPS FROM HUNDREDS OF MOVIES.

A film with no answers but as many questions as there are stars in the universe. Austrian structuralist Johann Lurf has chosen an audacious and ever-expanding subject for his feature film debut: the stars of cinema. Not the movie stars, but the stars in the night’s sky. These stellar instances, riven from context with sound intact—ambient hums, grand orchestral scores, pedantic explanations, dreamy speculation—are magical fields of darkness sprinkled with possibilities.
Lurf playfully shows how cinema turned the stars into endless metaphors, dreams, and warm blankets. We put our own thoughts into the stunning scenes while each clip’s sound design presents us with ambience outside of their contexts.

Support from the Austrian Embassy to Johann Lurf’s visit. The event will be in English.

9 May
18.00 - 19.00

Kim Richard Adler Mejdal

Tonight is Art - tour of five Copenhagen art centres

As part of the joint tour Tonight is Art Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents an audio-visual experience by Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl, WHO received the Solo Award at The Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2018 for his works ‘ODE’ and ‘No Ozone’. The jury states that their fascination bounds in Mejdahl’s “[…] energetic universe in both works, where the intense personal expression obstructs the boundaries between art and life”.

At Tonight is Art you can experience Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl live, where he presents a VJ-set combining video with electronic music. At the same time, it will be possible to buy dinner for a reasonable price in Apollo Bar.

Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and has since 2013 performed and published music under his alias Kim Kim.

Come by and experience a truly unique – and insane – audio visual work in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema Friday 9 May at 6pm. Admission is free.

The five Copenhagen art centres Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Kunstforeningen GL STRAND, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Overgaden – Institut for Samtidskunst og Kunsthal Charlottenborg have together created Tonight is Art – a joint tour of the art centres with a grand event programme including performances, theater, dance, sound, food and art of course. The programme stretches from late afternoon until in the evening and is completed with concert and afterparty.

 

9 May
12.00 - 16.00

★ by Johann Lurf

CAFx - Copenhagen Architecture Festival

AN INTERGALACTIC NIGHT SKY ORGY, WHERE YOU CAN FLY AWAY ON STAR-COVERED FILMS CLIPS FROM HUNDREDS OF MOVIES.

A film with no answers but as many questions as there are stars in the universe. Austrian structuralist Johann Lurf has chosen an audacious and ever-expanding subject for his feature film debut: the stars of cinema. Not the movie stars, but the stars in the night’s sky. These stellar instances, riven from context with sound intact—ambient hums, grand orchestral scores, pedantic explanations, dreamy speculation—are magical fields of darkness sprinkled with possibilities.
Lurf playfully shows how cinema turned the stars into endless metaphors, dreams, and warm blankets. We put our own thoughts into the stunning scenes while each clip’s sound design presents us with ambience outside of their contexts.

Support from the Austrian Embassy to Johann Lurf’s visit. The event will be in English.

8 May
12.00 - 20.00

★ by Johann Lurf

CAFx - Copenhagen Architecture Festival

AN INTERGALACTIC NIGHT SKY ORGY, WHERE YOU CAN FLY AWAY ON STAR-COVERED FILMS CLIPS FROM HUNDREDS OF MOVIES.

A film with no answers but as many questions as there are stars in the universe. Austrian structuralist Johann Lurf has chosen an audacious and ever-expanding subject for his feature film debut: the stars of cinema. Not the movie stars, but the stars in the night’s sky. These stellar instances, riven from context with sound intact—ambient hums, grand orchestral scores, pedantic explanations, dreamy speculation—are magical fields of darkness sprinkled with possibilities.
Lurf playfully shows how cinema turned the stars into endless metaphors, dreams, and warm blankets. We put our own thoughts into the stunning scenes while each clip’s sound design presents us with ambience outside of their contexts.

Support from the Austrian Embassy to Johann Lurf’s visit. The event will be in English.

7 May
19.00 - 21.00

From Wetware Art to Greeness Studies

Jens Hauser (DE)

What is a ‘body’ to be ‘choreographed’ today? Media philosopher and curator Jens Hauser has coined the term ‘microperformativity’ to understand how contemporary artists stage aliveness at the conjunction between aesthetics, performance and the techno-science. He challenges our current understanding of what is ‘life’ and ‘nature’ by proposing a journey from wetware art to greenness studies.

The event is part of Dansehallernes program CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION and will be in English, free entrance.

More information at Dansehallerne.dk.

6 May
15.00 - 17.00

Pontus Lidberg (SE)

Artist talk with Pontus Lidberg; choreographer, filmmaker and the new artistic director of the Danish Dance Theater.
Lidberg will talk about his new artistic visions and aspirations for Danish Dance Theater, his choreographic work and his life as a creative choreographer working all over the world.

The informal conversation between Pontus Lidberg and the director of Dansehallerne Efva Lilja is open to anyone with a ticket to Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

More information on Dansehallerne.dk.

5 May
11.00 - 17.00

Collective Experiment 1968 – 2018

CAFx - Copenhagen Architecture Festival

SERIES OF TALKS AND FILMS ON COLLECTIVE AND ACTIVIST HOUSING EXPERIMENTS FROM CHRISTIANIA, BZ-SQUATTERS, THE YOUTH HOUSE, ETC. WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED SINCE 1968 AND HOW DO WE EXPERIMENT WITH COLLECTIVE HOUSING TODAY?

50 years after 1968, when experimental collectives and ‘local’ flourished in Denmark, we examine what we learned and what happened afterwards. Celebrate the anniversary of 1968 by using the medium of film and witness accounts to discuss how collective bottom-up initiatives around Christiania, Youth House Jagtvej 69 and Thy camp and join the debate on the development of collective accommodation facilities. The Dutch curator, researcher and activist Rene Boer from research platform Failed Architecture will moderate and perspective to the Netherlands, where BZ culture historically has characterized the urban development by the research and exhibition project The Architecture of Appropriation, a collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam (2017) .

Rene Boer, Failed Architecture and curator of the exhibition and research project The Architecture of Appropriation (NL), Ole Lykke, archivist Christiania, Carsten Hoff, architect and pioneer in Thy camp, Gyda Heding, member of the Copenhagen City Council (SE), active in the squatting movement in the 1980’s.

You can choose to follow the whole program or participate in parts of it.

 

ARCHITECTURE OF Appropriation

11:00 to 11:45 Presentation of René Boer, Urban geograf (Failed Architecture and Non-Fiction NL)

What if the right to affordable housing, jobs and good living conditions rather than property was the main priority in urban development? Since the 1960s squatters who worked for this idea has been a contribution to urban development by the artist, appropriate parts of the city and change it from the outside in. Through a study of themes such as availability, ownership and collective housing, unfolds research project Architecture of Appropriation how the city’s infrastructure can be adapted to how networks can be reconfigured and how buildings can be rethought.

12:00 to 13:30 Film Viewing BZ Helle Hansen followed by Q & A with ex-squatter Gyda Heding (2006, 72 min)

The film portrays the development a radical youth movement in Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The activists later wrote history under the name ‘BZ’ by virtue of their squatting, street actions and militant confrontations with police. Helle Hansen’s documentary is the first film that detailed study squatter movement’s history.

1:30 p.m. to 14:00 lunch break

 

LOCAL PERSPECTIVES

Presentations followed by Q & A and moderated by Rene Boer

14:00 to 14:15 Carsten Hoff, architect, active in Thylejrens genesis in 1970,
14.15 to 14.30 Ole Lykke , Christiania Local History Archive
14:30 to 14:45 Gyda Heding , member of the Copenhagen City Council (SE), active in the squatting movement in the 1980s
14:45 to 15:15 Q & A

15.45 to 16.30 Film Viewing byggeeksperimenter in Thylejren during ‘the summer of love’ in 1970 (about 20 min.) By Carsten Hoff with Q & A

 

The event will be in english / event will be in English. Just show up and buy your ticket direkt at the venue.

4 May
17.00 - 21.00
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Heartland program launch

Heartland is proud to present the final program for this year’s festival at Egeskov Castle from the 31st of May until 2nd of June.

Heartland celebrates the program launch in collaboration with Kunsthal Charlottenborg on Friday the 4th of May from 17:00 to 21:00 by inviting all of you to an evening of MUSIC, ART, TALKS and FOOD in the beautiful surroundings of the Charlottenborg Palace.

They will also launch the Heartland 2018 Program Paper along with their brand new Heartland short film by director Camilla Ramonn. In collaboration with internationally renowned artist Jeppe Hein and Change Yourself they will present a special edition work and the official T-shirt for Heartland Festival 2018.

Heartland serves free organic US LAGER beer from Albani and you can buy delicious drinks from BRUS and of course have a taste of the Heartland food experience.

Program:
17.00: Doors open – food, drinks and free beer
DJ’s: Josefine Winding and Niels Fejrskov Juhl (GENTS)
17.30: Welcome
18:00: BARSELONA (LIVE)
19:00: TALK (TBA)
21:00: Thank you for tonight

2 May
19.00 - 20.00

Forensic Architecture

Granular Realism: Computational, Spatial and Civic-led Photography

The presentation and conversation will consider the development of the term ‘spatial photograph’, an emergent form of 3D photographic processes and assemblages that constitute not an image but a navigable, architectural environment. Through a select number of projects undertaken as part of Forensic Architecture, Ariel Caine will look into the ways in which this transition from flatness to volume of the 3-D photographic image can open new possibilities for political action and civic led resistance in situations of conflict.

Cases:
Ground Truth
Killing of Yaaqub abu al-Qi’an in Umm al-Hiran
Yazidi Genocide documentation Project

2 May
17.00 - 19.00

Augusto Corrieri

In Place of a Show (a lecture)

Augusto Corrieri will present and reflect on an ongoing project of writing and performance making, involving empty and abandoned theatres, and the possibility of encountering non-human forms of agency and matter within such places. How can all-too-human modes of perception and sensibility meet other forms of life and animation? How do we account for the myriad of events typically cast into the background of theatres – the swirls of dust motes, strange architectural immobilities, the sudden passage of a bird?

Augusto Corrieri is an artist and writer based in Brighton and London. His written work is often presented in the form of performance-lectures, which are part-academic, part show and tells, and part deconstructions of photographic images. Corrieri’s current focus is on contemporary ecology and the possibility of generating cross-species affinities and encounters, through writing, performance and video. His book In Place of a Show: What Happens Inside Theatres When Nothing is Happening (2016) is published by Bloomsbury.

Corrieri’s works for theatres and galleries have been commissioned by European art centres, including Madrid’s Casa Encendida, Vienna’s Tanzquatier and London’s Camden Arts Centre.

The talk is part of the Charlottenborg Art Talks program and is initiated by Forum, a group for student led teaching at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

26 Apr
18.00 - 20.00

States of Desolation

Art Films #1

At the first Art Films screening we will explore the desolated states of human existence with a backdrop of Nature, History, isolation, local myths and speculations through three well crafted films made by Ali Cherri, John Skoog, Maria von Hausswolff and Anne Gry Friis Kristensen.

The Digger by Ali Cherri, 24 min – 2015

For twenty years, Sultan Zeib Khan has kept watch over a ruined Neolithic necropolis in the Sharjah desert in the United Arab Emirates. Although majestic, the wide-angle shots have no monumentalising intent: the beauty and extent of the site speak for themselves. What is playing out here is the possibility for one man to become part of a landscape that overwhelms him yet seems to need his help. Seen under the silhouette of a rock about to devour him or as a dwarfed figure spade in hand walking from the back of the frame, Sultan curiously busies himself from day to day to prevent the ruins… from falling into ruin. Hamlet’s words in the famous gravedigger scene come to mind: “Has this fellow no feeling of his business? He sings at grave-making.” But here the human remains have long since become archaeological artefacts: the highly luminous outside sequences alternate with shots inside a museum where the bones are sorted and laid out for the visitor’s eye. The switching between day and night but also the soundscape of the man’s singing and the sound of his transistor radio suggest that even the greatest solitude can allow itself be inhabited. Above all, it underlines the paradox of these empty tombs, where death is compounded by the absence of the relics.

Reduit by John Skoog, 15 min – 2014
Cinematography: Ita Zbroniec-Zajt
Sound: David Gülich

In the early 1940’s the farm-worker Karl-Göran Persson started to fortify his small house in the flat farmlands of southern Sweden. He wanted to build a place where he and the people in the village could find refuge in the event of a Soviet invasion. He took any metal he could get cheap
or for free from the neighboring farmers and used it as reinforcement for the cement casting of the house’s new exterior walls. Karl-Göran lived alone in the house and continued his re-construction until his death in 1975.

Entrance to the End by Maria von Hausswolff, Anne Gry Friis Kristensen, 30 min, 2017

A trippy and brutal psycho-ethnographic expedition into the tropical jungles of the subconscious. The dense, tropical motifs in ‘Entrance to the End’ are immortalised on analogue 16mm film in Panama’s jungles by Maria von Hausswolff during a trip to Panama, and all the film’s sound is recorded on a cassette tape by the co-director Anne Gry Kristensen. Title cards set the tone and define the evolutionary law of the jungle: ‘We didn’t come to dominate the world because we were the smartest or the fittest… but because we were the craziest, baddest motherfuckers around.’ Hausswolff and Kristensen’s dark, audiovisual work is the subconscious’ answer to an ultra-violent Italian cannibal film from the 1970s, and to every romantic notion of nature as a harmonic place that is in balance with itself and its inhabitants.

Art Films is a screening programme curated by Erdal Bilici. The screenings will take place once a month at Kunsthal Charlottenborg Cinema.

25 Apr
17.00 - 19.00

Afgang 2018 LIVE vol. 1

Kunsthal Charlottenborg is pleased to announce ‘Afgang 2018 LIVE’, where Albin Werle, Emilia Bergmark, David Stjernholm, Louka Anargyros, Emil Alenius Boserup, Ida Retz Wessberg, George Koutsouris and Kinga Bartis among others from this year’s MFA Degree Show are on the programme.

Guided tours – the upper foyer
Louka Anargyros, Emil Alenius Boserup, Ida Retz Wessberg, George Koutsouris, Kinga Bartis among others introduce their works in the exhibition. Albin Werle introduces his games between 5 and 7 pm. All visitors are welcome to participate. The duration of each game varies and the participants may come and go as they like. Signing up is not required.

Film screening – in the cinema
David Stjernholm: Chameleon 2014, HD video

Sound theater – in the Cinema
Emilia Bergmark: Heaven and Earth

Performance concert – in the cinema
Orchid Domain feat. Ursula Raasted: Stemmekorrespondance

Free entrance to the event, which will be in English.

13 Apr
18.00 - 22.00

MFA DEGREE SHOW 2018

At this year’s AFGANG (MFA Degree Show), twenty-five graduates from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Schools of Visual Arts will present new works at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. This year’s graduates work with all kinds of styles and modes of expression, from video and painting to sculpture, installation and performance art. Some works are vast in scale, others are delicate, fleeting or porous. Together, they offer insight into the potential future of contemporary art.

The artists featured are:
Banaan Al-Nasser, Louka Anargyros, Kinga Bartis, Emilia Bergmark, Viktor-Emil Dupont Billund, Emil Alenius Boserup, Emelie Carlén, Ockie Basgül Dogan, Sebastian Hedevang, Anna Kristine Holmberg, David Stjernholm, Morten Knudsen, George Koutsouris, Stephanie Bech, Frederik Worm, Frederik Næblerød, Stefan Plahn, Asta Lulu Refn, Kristoffer Raasted, Louis Scherfig, Sara Sjölin, Marco Spörle, Albin Werle, Ida Retz Wessberg, Fabian Wigren.

The exhibition is curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer.

3 Apr
12.00

Lawrence Lek

Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD)

Lawrence Lek
Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD), 2017
Full HD Video, 60m00s
Produced by Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Courtesy: The artist
 
Curated by Toke Lykkeberg & Tranen in collaboration with Kunsthal Charlottenborg
 
“Sinofuturism is an invisible movement. A spectre already embedded into a trillion industrial products, a billion individuals, and a million veiled narratives.“ Thus opens the artist Lawrence Lek’s film Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD) from 2017 about a new Chinese futurism.
 
Lek’s video essay, exactly 60 minutes long, outlines a series of clichés about Chinese society, which draw a picture of the future. This future is likened to contemporary China, a voice-over explains. However, in reality, Sinofuturism is rather a ”science fiction that already exists.”
 
Through an exposition of seven stereotypes of China concerning activities such as computing, copying, studying and labour, Lek presents the cultural and technological development of China as an articifial intelligence in action:
“Sinofuturism is in fact a form of artificial intelligence: A massively distributed neural network focused on copying rather than originality, addicted to learning a massive amount of raw data rather than philosophical critique or morality with a posthuman capacity for work in an unprecedented sense of collective will to power.”
 
Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD) combines elements of science fiction, documentary melodrama, social realism and Chinese cosmologies. Sinofuturism is presented as a period, which begins in 1839 with the Opium Wars. The period ends in 2046, when the so-called technological singularity is said to kick in, i.e. the point, when artificial intelligence will transcend human intelligence with unpredictable consequences.
 
The presentation of Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD) is an extension of the exhibition Welcome too late curated by Toke Lykkeberg and produced by Kunsthal Charlottenborg and CPH:DOX in 2017. The exhibition dealt with art at a time, when everything from climate to technology develops at exponential growth rates. While the present becomes ever more fleeting, much contemporary art is decreasingly contemporary, i.e. ‘with time’. Instead much recent art is extemporary, i.e. ”out of time”. Many artists working today tend to focus less on the present and more on other and bigger temporalities.
Lawrence Lek (b. 1982, Frankfurt am Main) is a London-based simulation artist who creates site-specific virtual worlds, video game essays and speculative films. Lek is born in Frankfurt, has lived in Hong Kong and is based in London.
 
Thanks to: Joni Zhu, Steve Goodman, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Deforrest Brown, Samantha Culp, Justin Kim, Stephanie Bailey, Alvin Li, AVANT.org, After Us, Film & Video Umbrella, UCCA, Wysing Arts Centre
 
Chinese Subtitles by Wenfei Wang for ‘The New Normal’, an exhibition at UCCA, Beijing.
27 Mar
12.00

The Why Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Documentary

The Why på Kunsthal Charlottenborg
27 Mar – 04 Apr

In coorporation with The Why Foundation Kunsthal Charlottenborg screens the documentary ‘Marathon Boy’ (2010).

In the film we meet the Indian boy Budhia Singh, who at the age of three had already run six half marathons. By four he was making it the full 42 km. His biggest dream is to one day run his way to the Olympics. But as you almost instinctively suspect, this dream is not only his own making. Behind the marathon running wonder child, adoptive father and coach Biranchi, is riding his bike. A man who is self-funding an orphanage and judo school and who does everything in his power to draw attention to Budhia and his unusual skills. When the local child welfare office intervenes, a political battle breaks out, with Budhia as its center. And when his biological mother shows up to claim her now famous son, with the slum mafia backing her, the boy’s position as a pawn in the game of adults trying to take advantage of his talent, becomes tragically obvious. Marathon Boy is a story about the desperate need for cathartic success stories that can exist in a country like India, and an insight into, how some adults will go to great lengths to exploit children in the process.

Director: Gemma Atwal. Run Time: 45 min.

22 Mar
16.00 - 18.00

What we are talking about when talking art

The Bikuben Foundation and Kunsthal Charlottenborg invite you to Visionsalon

Welcome to the Visionssalon, an art critic salon and debate about how art criticism contributes to the conversation about the importance of art. Based on the thesis that art criticism is an essential part of the artworld’s food chain, the question is asked – can criticism help raise the art level?

How is art seen, dealt with, and evaluated? What has art criticism been concerned with in recent years? And do the arts get the criticism they deserve? What happens to public debate about art in the new media reality?

The debate rages between critics and artists, because art criticism is currently challenged in Denmark, in the Danish-language media world, and in the public debate. The major media houses – including the web publications – have cut down on art and culture reporting and academic critiques. Why?

The Art Critic Visions salon wishes to discuss the importance of art criticism from artistic, technological, educational, social, and international perspectives. Does art criticism reflect a particular view of art, a special way of perceiving and reading it? Can we stimulate the level of criticism in Denmark?

In a meeting between Danish and international critics, the salon wants to find out how art criticism has an impact on how society views art.

Moderator:
Nete Nørgaard Kristensen – Associate Professor at the Department of Media, Recognition and Communication, KU. Researcher in cultural journalism and criticism. The editor and author of the books “Cultural journalism and Cultural Critique in the media” and “Cultural Journalism in the Nordic Countries” and the leader of the research project “From Ivory Tower to Twitter: Rethinking the Cultural Critic in Contemporary Media Culture”.

Panel:
Sophie Diesselhorst, editor Nachtkritik.de Germany. Nachtkritik.de is Germany’s leading online media for theater criticism.
Steven Zultanski, Writer, critic, and arts administrator from N.Y, now living in Denmark. artswriters.org
Line Rosenvinge – Art historian, Art blogger at Børsen and chairman of newly founded United Critics, which gathers Denmark’s professional writers and represents all art forms. forenedekritikere.wordpress.com
Mikkel Carl, artist, freelance curator and writer
Lasse Marker, Partner in the consultant agency Rasmussen & Marker, Lasse Marker, author of several books about Cultural Journalism, – politics and communication

Place: Apollobar Katina – entrance on the left of Charlottenborgs Ticketsale. Registration required (Registration fee 10 kr). Sign up here

NB! The debate will be in english.

Partners: Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Apollo bar.

21 Mar
17.00 - 19.00

Bedwyr Williams

On this Charlottenborg Art Talk the artist Bedwyr Williams talks about his production of video, drawing, installation and performance work throughout the last 20 years.

Bedwyr Williams (born 1974) is a Welsh and internationally known artist. His last exhibition ‘The Gulch’ was shown at the Barbican in 2016-17 in London, presenting a new installation which transforms the gallery into a series of theatrically staged environments, conceived to disorient the viewer.

In general Bedwyr Williams uses multimedia, performance and text to explore the friction between ‘the deadly serious’ and ‘the banal’ aspects of modern life. Williams is also known for satirizing the relationship between the artist and curator by creating absurd scenarios for them to appear in. More recently he has explored, through video, themes of dystopia and mankind’s significance in the universe.

Bedwyr Williams was born in St. Asaph, Wales, and lives and works in Caernarfon, Wales. He studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, and Ateliers Arnhem, The Netherlands. He is a winner of the Paul Hamlyn Award, represented Wales at the Venice Biennale 2013 and was recently selected for the shortlists for both the prestigious Jarman Award and the Artes Mundi 7 Prize.

PLEASE NOTE! This Charlottenborg Art Talk has moved from the Kunsthalle due to CPH:DOX and takes place at: Auditoriet i Hirschsprung, Det Kgl. Danske Kunstakademi. Peder Skramsgade 2, 3.B. 1054 København K

28 Feb
17.00 - 19.00

KATE COOPER

Charlottenborg Art Talks and Forum are proud to present a talk by the British artist Kate Cooper.

Her work centres on the body as a contested space for communication and representation, often through presenting computer generated (CG) bodies as tools with which to negotiate our own understanding of the bodily effects of capitalism. Through the use of these computer-generated technologies, the figures presented in her videos and installations intentionally function both as objects and as infrastructure.

In the talk Kate Cooper will give an introduction to her practice that explores possibilities for disconnecting images from their economic contexts through forcing bodies and objects to relate to each other in improbable situations. How these fictional liminal bodies can be presented as forms of weaponry with which to unpick and reject contemporary modes of exploitative labour?

Kate Cooper (b. Liverpool, UK) lives and works in London and Amsterdam. She is the Director and co-founder of the London based, artist-led organisation Auto Italia. Recently she has presented work at ICA Boston, CCA Derry, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse was commissioned by the The Public Art Fund. Cooper was the recipient of the Schering Stiftung Art Award, where she presented her first solo exhibition Rigged at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2014).

Kate Cooper’s work Rigged is currently on view at the exhibition Vibrant Matter at SAK Kunstbygning, where her work exploring virtual spaces and bodies can be seen alongside Kai Nielsen’s sculptures.

NB! The talk will be in English.

The talk is part of the Charlottenborg Art Talks program and is initiated by Forum, a group for student led teaching at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

21 Feb
17.00 - 18.30

SUPERFLEX

The artist trio Superflex will visit the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts for a public, inspirational talk on February 21st at 17:00, at Festsalen at the Academy.

The subjects of the talk will be artistic strategy, the artist group’s current exhibition One Two Three Swing! at Tate Modern and other relevant subjects, developed in conversation with Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s director Michael Thouber.

The art talk is part of the Charlottenborg Art Talk program and is arranged in a collaboration between the The Royal Danish Academy, the academy student George Koutsouris (School of Media Arts), and and Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Charlottenborg Art Talk: Superflex
Festsalen, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts, Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen
Free admission
NB: The talk will be filmed

30 Jan
12.00

The Why

documentaries

 30 Jan – 25 Feb
 
The Confession (2016)
Ashish Ghadiali
Run Time: 45 min
 
Islamist or activist? A profound and disturbing interview with a complex man.
 
The Brit Moazzam Begg has been imprisoned for years on suspicion of terrorist sympathies and for being a member of Al-Qaeda. He has since been acquitted of all charges. ‘The Confession’ is a profound and immensely detailed interview with the clearly intelligent, well-spoken and politically well-informed Begg. A man who answers questions about Jihadi sympathies by insisting on the right of countries like Iraq and Afghanistan to defend themselves against foreign invaders. And who has spent much of his adult life in Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Syria – and in prison. But who is he? The last question is left to you to answer, but Begg is a man who embodies the staggering complexity that makes the West’s self-proclaimed ‘war against terror’ a hornet’s nest of self-contradictions. Begg gives us clear and concise answers, and no matter if you agree with him or not – and it’s likely that you won’t – there is plenty of material in the film’s marathon interview that is bound to make you question your own world view.
 
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
John Archer, Clara Glynn
Run Time: 45 min
 
From diplomat to anarchist and from disillusioned to activist. Around the world with the British Carne Ross in search of direct democracy.
 
Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save us all. But working inside the system he came to see its failures, deceits and ulterior motives. He witnessed first-hand the corruption of power. After the Iraq War Carne became disillusioned, quit his job and started searching for answers. This film traces his journey across the globe as he tries to find an answer to the question – isn’t there a better way? For Carne there is. Anarchism offers a solution to the brutalities of Capitalism and the dishonesty of Democracy. It offers a world where people have control over their own lives. From the protesters of Occupy Wall Street, to an anarchist collective in Spain, to Noam Chomsky, the grand old man of anarchism himself, Carne finds people who are putting the theory into practice. His journey eventually takes him to one of the most dangerous places on earth – Syria, eight kilometres from the front line with ISIS, where a remarkable anarchist state has risen phoenix like from the ashes. A powerful film about one man’s epic journey from government insider to anarchist.
16 Jan
16.30

Brian Knappenberg

Internet's Own Boy

In collaboration with Danish Broadcasting Corporation DR2 Dokumania, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the documentary ‘Internet’s Own Boy’ by the filmmaker Brian Knappenberg about the young internet activist and developer Aron Swartz, who tragically committed suicide in 2013. The film is displayed on the occasion of Ahmet Ögüt’s current exhibition, which includes a new bronze sculpture of the film’s main character Aaron Swartz – one of the heroes of the internet.

The documentary portrays a fascinating person who lived and breathed to make information and knowledge accessible to as many as possible. In his short life, Aaron Swartz was a co-founder of news site Reddit, being a co-developer of RSS technology and making an early version of a Wikipedia-like online dictionary. However, it was especially his glowing internet activism that made him famous and notorious. He engaged in the struggle to make legal and academic documents openly available and it turned out to have big consequences.

Aron Swartz was charged with illegally having access to an online base of academic articles via MIT’s network. Aaron Swartz was responsible for risking up to 35 years in prison and a fine in the million dollar class, and it was obviously too much for him. On January 11, 2013, Aaron was found dead in his apartment in Brooklyn.

There is free admission to the film when entrance fee is paid to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The film will be shown in the cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg from 16th – 28th January 2018 and will also be shown on January 24th on Danish tv-channel DR2. After the broadcasting the documentary will also be available online on dr.dk/tv.

13 Jan
16.00 - 17.00

JOTA MOMBAÇA & DANIEL LOURENÇO

Reading session

The Brasilian author and performance artist Jota Mombaça and Author and researcher DanielLourenço will do a reading performance on Kunsthal Charlottenborg on the last Saturday during the exhibition ‘Ovartaci & The Art of Madness’

‘untitled, unreasonable’ (reading session) by Jota Mombaça & Daniel Lourenço

Jota Mombaça and Daniel Lourenço intercalate readings of their respective fragmentary poetic prose work, surrounding the problematic of unreason and touching on matters such as affectivity, crisis-shaped relationality, anxiety, embodied political strugle, depression, and the ethics of madness. The reading session will be held in English, Corró and Portuguese.

BIO

Jota Mombaça (1991) is a non-binary bicha, born and raised in the northeast of Brazil, who writes and performs on the relations between monstruosity and humanity, kuir studies, de-colonial turns, political intersectionality, anti-colonial justice, redistribution of violence, visionary fictions, the end of the world and tensions among ethics, aesthetics, art and politics in the knowledge productions of the global south-of-the-south.

Daniel Lourenço (1988) is a researcher and writer who lives and works in Lisbon. He has a master’s in Sexual Dissidence in Literature and Culture by the University of Sussex and he is a phd candidate at the University of Lisbon, where he works on formal tactics and affective, racial and gender politics in the work of Kathy Acker. He is the author of the poetry pamphlets “Lábio/Abril” (Traveller, 2015″ and “fox, closet & fist” (Winter Olympics, 2017).

13 Jan
14.00 - 16.00

Banjo Art School

Art workshop for children


ART WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN HOSTED BY BANJO BILLEDSKOLE

As a part of the exhibition OVARTACI & The Art of Madness, a series of art workshops for children will take place at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Try out a number of Ovartaci’s artistic techniques (pàpier-maché, mobiles, painting) and make imaginative art where landscapes become faces and people and animals melt together.

The workshops are taking place in the exhibition at Kunsthal Charlæottenborg.

There is a limit of 12 participants for each workshop and children under 6 years of age must be accompanied by an adult.

Registration is not necessary and participation is free when the entrance fee has been paid. Show up at Kunsthal Charlottenborg on the following saturdays from 2-4 pm (first come, first served):

Banjo Billedskole is a professional visual art school, which has a solid experience with creating art workshops for children.
banjobilledskole.dk

13 Jan
13.00 - 14.30

Jota Mombaça : WE AGREED NOT TO DIE

Performance

The Brasilian author and performance artist Jota Mombaça will do a performances on Kunsthal Charlottenborg on the last Saturday during the exhibition ‘Ovartaci & The Art of Madness’

‘WE AGREED NOT TO DIE’ (solo performance) by Jota Mombaça

7 knives over a white flag, as a prophecy and a promise: they will not kill us now. This performance is a continuation of the piece already displayed in the exhibition, “NÃOVÃO”.

Jota Mombaça (1991) is a non-binary bicha, born and raised in the northeast of Brazil, who writes and performs on the relations between monstruosity and humanity, kuir studies, de-colonial turns, political intersectionality, anti-colonial justice, redistribution of violence, visionary fictions, the end of the world and tensions among ethics, aesthetics, art and politics in the knowledge productions of the global south-of-the-south.

13 Jan
12.00 - 13.00

Book launch : Ovartaci & The Art of Madness

Book launch: OVARTACI & the Art of Madness

Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Antipyrine are aunching a ambitious publication featuring the work of outsider artist Ovartaci. The publication includes reproductions of a large portion of Ovartaci’s oeuvre, installation views from the exhibition and a range of texts that unfold the background and themes unfolding the exhibition – including all-new Danish translations of text by Félix Guattari and Paul B. Preciado.(for a full list of contents, see below.)

The book will be launched at Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s bookshop Saturday 13 January from 12.00–13.00. The event will include a presentation of the work. Coffee and cake will be served.

Special launch price: 199kr

 

Foreword – Michael Thouber

Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd – Editorial team

A space to be in – Zoltan Ara

High Heels – Ferdinand Ahm Krag

Insider Art – Sidsel Meineche Hansen

Testo Junkie, Chapter 2: The Pharmacopornographic Era – Paul B. Preciado

Who is Laboria Cuboniks? – Helen Hester

Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation – Laboria Cuboniks

Machinic Animism – Angela Melitopoulos & Maurizio Lazzarato

The Three Ecologies – Félix Guattari

6 Jan
14.00 - 16.00

Banjo Art School

Art workshop for children


ART WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN HOSTED BY BANJO BILLEDSKOLE

As a part of the exhibition OVARTACI & The Art of Madness, a series of art workshops for children will take place at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Try out a number of Ovartaci’s artistic techniques (pàpier-maché, mobiles, painting) and make imaginative art where landscapes become faces and people and animals melt together.

The workshops are taking place in the exhibition at Kunsthal Charlæottenborg.

There is a limit of 12 participants for each workshop and children under 6 years of age must be accompanied by an adult.

Registration is not necessary and participation is free when the entrance fee has been paid. Show up at Kunsthal Charlottenborg on the following saturdays from 2-4 pm (first come, first served):

Banjo Billedskole is a professional visual art school, which has a solid experience with creating art workshops for children.
banjobilledskole.dk

3 Jan
17.00 - 19.00

Charlottenborg Art Talk & Cinema

Ovartaci Film Workshop (The Jutland Art Academy)

As part of the Ovartaci Film Workshop, initiated by Ebbe Stubb Wittrup and Florian Zeyfang, with support from Kim Høgh Mikkelsen at the Jutland Art Academ, six students will present 3 films inspired by Ovartaci

 

PROGRAMME

Introduction to the workshop by Judith Schwartzbart

 

Introduction to the film Es by Nushan Rose Roshani

Director: Nushan Rose Roshani

Actors: Emma Wolff Jespersen, Sara Roshani Schou, Didde Rose Roshan

 

Introduction to the second film by. Kasper Knudsen Muusholm, Mikkel Kaldal, Finn scherczer

Directors: Kasper Knudsen Muusholm, Mikkel Kaldal, Finn scherczer

 

Introduction to the third film by Stine Rosdahl & Clara Denmark

Directors: Stine Rosdahl & Clara Denmark

Actors: John Demix, Mathias Andersen and Stine Rosdahl

Sound: Mathias Andersen

Mask is made by and kindly borrowed from Taika Tuutikki Louhivuori

 

Thank you: Museum Ovartaci og Kim Mikkelsen

 

 

3 Jan
12.00 - 17.00

Film programme: ’Abandoned Goods’ by Pia Borg & Edward Lawrenson + ‘Receding Triangular Square’ by Virlani Rupini & Dr Leon Tan

In relation to the exhibition Ovartaci & the Art of Madness a film programme will be shown in Charlottenborg Art Cinema

3. – 14. januar 2018

Pia Borg & Edward Lawrenson: Abandoned Goods, 2014, 37:29 min.

Abandoned Goods is a short essay film that tells the story of the journey of the Adamson Collection. Recently rediscovered after years of neglect, the collection is one of the major bodies of British ‘asylum art’. It contains around 5,500 objects (paintings, drawings, ceramics, sculptures and works on stone, flint and bone) created between 1946-1981 by patients in Netherne psychiatric hospital in Surrey. Blending archive, reconstruction, 35mm rostrum photography, interviews and observational footage, the film explores the transformation of the objects in the Adamson Collection, from clinical material to revered art objects, examining the lives of the creators and the changing contexts in which the objects were produced and displayed.

Abandoned Goods was awarded the Pardino d’oro for the Best International Short Film at Locarno Film Festival. It has screened among other places at London BFI Film Festival; Sundance; Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and Oberhausen.

Pia Borg is a Maltese/ Australian artist and filmmaker who lives and works in London and Los Angeles.
Edward Lawrenson is a filmmaker, journalist and film programmer based in London.


Virlani Rupini & Dr Leon Tan: Receding Triangular Square’, 2012,  36:53 min.

Through an unsettling arrangement of sound, voice and moving images derived from on location interviews and footage as well as archival material, the film, Receding Triangular Square, explores Chinese and Aboriginal (indigenous Taiwanese) philosophies and practices of healing as well as the dominant (’official’) Euro- American mental health paradigm. The film relates these to the larger social and historical framework of Taiwan’s development as a modern and post- colonial state.

The film is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between the artist and filmmaker Virlani Rupini and the art critic and psychotherapist Leon Tan.

Commissioned originally for the Taipei Biennial in 2012, the project uses the mediums of conversation and moving- image to ’analyze’ colonization and decolonization, psychosocial trauma and repression, and potentials for constructing new assemblages of enunciation in Taiwan (Republic of China).

21 Dec
15.00 - 17.00

AFLYST: Boglancering

Værker og tekster fra udstillingen

Boglanceringen er udskudt til januar pga. forsinkelser i leveringen. Vi glæder os til at dele publikationen med jer.

I forbindelse med udstillingen ”Ovartaci & Galskabens Kunst” udgives en publikation med gengivelser af værker samt tekster, der udfolder udstillingens diskurs. Publikationen forventes færdig i starten af januar

 

13 Dec
17.00 - 19.00

Space Dog Odyssey

Collection of manuscripts by Honey Biba Beckerlee & Mathias Kryger

We are happy to invite you to the book launch of Space Dog Odyssey: The Series by Honey Biba Beckerlee and Mathias Kryger.

Space Dog Odyssey is a series of four fictional documentaries written as performances unfolding fabulating, contrafactual stories about decisive moments in history told from the perspective of pets.

Space Dog Odyssey unfolds reparative readings of historical trauma by challenging a western ontology viewing humans as the only influential political agents of this world.

The launch will take place at Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Kunstbiblioteket on December 12th, and runs in two parts:

16.00-17.00: Presentation and display of the book at Kunstbiblioteket
17.00-18.00: Launch in the bookshop at Kunsthal CharlottenborgWine & water will be served.Read more about Space Dog Odyssey.
6 Dec
18.00 - 20.00

Opening: Ahmet Öğüt: No Protest Lost + Forms of Entanglement

We celebrate the opening of our two winter exhibitions, Ahmet Öğüt: No Protest Lost og the research based Forms of Entanglement with an opening reception including free bubbles for those arriving early, bar by Apollo Bar and music by DJ Cohnny Jazz.

About the exhibitions
Ahmet Öğüt: No Protest Lost
Protest, citizenship and the claim to public space are among the themes considered in Ahmet Öğüt’s exhibition No Protest Lost presented at Kunsthal Charlottenborg from December 7. The exhibition includes a new bronze monument for the young internet activist Aaron Schwartz, who took his own life after being accused of IT crime. The exhibition is curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer. Read more.

Forms of Entanglement – Tentative notes for approaching the ecocide-genocide-epistemic ide knot
How can we understand the implications of earthly processes and our entanglement with them? Forms of Entanglement offers a set of reflections for knowing the world otherwise by engaging in issues of indigenous resistance and survival, non-Eurocentric epistemologies and multispecies interdependency.
The exhibition is curated by Katarina Stenbeck. Read more.

6 Dec
17.00 - 18.00

Charlottenborg Art Talk

No Protest Lost

As a lead up to his exhibition No Protest Lost at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, the Kurdish artist Ahmet Öğüt will give a talk about the exhibition and his artistic practice, right before the opening.

29 Nov
18.00 - 19.00

Guided tour in ‘Ovartaci & the Art of Madness’

This Wednesday’s Charlottenborg Art Talk will take form as a guided tour in the exhibition Ovartaci & the Art of Madness with art host Anne Kruckenberg. Come and learn more about the life and artistic practice of Ovartaci.

Admission is free.

28 Nov
12.00 - 20.00

Yoko Ono film programme

Premiere of a new film programme

This day we premiere a new programme with films by Yoko Ono that can be enjoyed during our opening hours until January 2 2018.

Charlottenborg Art Cinema presents a series of films by Yoko Ono from the 1960s onwards.

Experience classics that Yoko Ono made in collaboration with John Lennon such as Bed Peace and Imagine, along with some of her legendary short films, including Cut PieceFilm No 1 and Film No 2.

The film screenings are free with the entrance to the Kunsthal.

Read more about the film programme.

27 Nov
19.00 - 21.00

The Presentation

Talk with the immaterial gallery Galerie

The Presentation is a lecture performance introducing the business model and activities of Galerie, including the role of representation and economy. How do you sell a joke? How do you represent a conflict? The Presentation will also address questions about the intersection of the commercial and the affective and the locality of immaterial artworks. It will include time for questions as well.

The Presentation will follow The Publication by Galerie at Overgaden – Institut for Samtidskunst Nov. 21st – 26th. Read more.

The event will be in English.

22 Nov
17.00 - 18.30

Simon Starling

Conceptuel artist and Turner Prize winner

This evening Forum, a student-run programme, presents a Charlottenborg Art Talk with the English artist and Turner Prize winner Simon Starling.

The talk will be about the importance of exhibition making to Simon Starling’s practice and will take as it’s starting point a recent exhibition at Mrac Occitaine in Sérignan, France.

This exhibition of 4 works which were all originally made for specific venues in Mexico City, Turin, Glasgow and New York all employ music as a key component and are all highly collaborative in nature.

Together these displaced, context specific, projects begin new conversations and, functioning as something of a promenade theatre experience haunted by a diverse collection of ghosts, begin to tease out underlying threads and resonances within the practice as a whole.

Admission to the talk is free.

20 Nov
19.00 - 21.00

Practicing Togetherness

Performance by DANSEatelier

This evening DANSEatelier will show a condensed version of the activity already present in DANSEatelier: by practicing collectivity through feeding each other’s work as individual artists. By sharing pieces, fragments, and examples from what they are working on now, they deliberately allow each other’s contribution. DANSEatelier work next to, together and across each other’s physical and artistic pathways, allowing for contamination, mutation and transformation.

DANSEatelier is a vision of creating continuity and shared authorship in the exploration of dance and choreographic practices. It is a physical space and a collective of eleven dancers, choreographers and friends. They believe in the strong potentials of collectivity  as a way of sharing and producing new knowledge in regards to our field. Read more.

The event will be in English.

18 Nov
14.00 - 16.00

Banjo Art School

Children's workshop in Ovartaci & the Art of Madness

As part of the exhibition Kunsthal Charlottenborg are holding art workshops for children every Saturday in October and November. Test a series of techniques that Ovartaci worked with and create imaginative art where landscapes turn into faces and humans and animals fuse.

There can be a maximum of 12 participants at a time, and children under 6 years old must be accompanied by an adult. Registration is not necessary, but participation will be after the first come, first served principle. It is free to participate when admission for Kunsthal Charlottenborg has been payed.

15 Nov
17.00 - 18.30

Carla Zaccagnini

New professor at the Schools of Visual Arts

Art talk with Carla Zaccagnini, new professor at The Royal Danish Art Academy, Schools of Visual Arts. Carla Zaccagnini will talk about her practice focusing on works that deal with museums and other art institutions.

A restoration; the empty spaces left by a previous exhibition; two pieces that exchange places, another that travels without moving; a parasite on graphic materials; a twist on a façade visual identity; a hole on a panel; a valuable artwork used as what it represent.

The artist will talk about these gestures and the processes and negotiations that  lead to them.

Admission is free.

About Carla Zaccagnini
Carla Zaccagnini (AR, born 1973) holds an MA in Art from Universidade de São Paolo. Zaccagnini has teaching experience from Escola São Paolo and Pontifícia Universidade Católica São Paolo and she has a wide range of international exhibitions behind her, most recently at the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands, Malmö Kunsthal and Museu de Arte de São Paolo.

Zaccagnini’s works are represented in collections such as MUSAC, Tate Modern and Guggenheim. Carla Zaccagnini is professor at the new MFA program ‘The School of Contextual and Conceptual Practices’ at the Royal Danish Art Academy.

13 Nov
19.00 - 21.00

Conversation in the Dark

Conversation about darkness between Thomas Eisenhardt and Kirstine Roepstorff

Up until summer 2018 Kunsthal Charlottenborg will host a series of events arranged by Dansehallerne.

On 13 November the event “Conversations in the Dark” will see choreographer Thomas Eisenhardt and visual artist Kirstine Roepsdorff discuss notions of darkness in relation to dance performances by Eisenhardt as well as Roepsdorff’s work at this year’s Venice Biennial – which can be seen at Kunsthal Charlottenborg next summer.

Read more about the programme of events for “Choreography by Intervention” and “Choreography in Action” HERE.

11 Nov
14.00 - 16.00

Banjo Art School

Children's workshop in Ovartaci & the Art of Madness

As part of the exhibition Kunsthal Charlottenborg are holding art workshops for children every Saturday in October and November. Test a series of techniques that Ovartaci worked with and create imaginative art where landscapes turn into faces and humans and animals fuse.

There can be a maximum of 12 participants at a time, and children under 6 years old must be accompanied by an adult. Registration is not necessary, but participation will be after the first come, first served principle. It is free to participate when admission for Kunsthal Charlottenborg has been payed.

8 Nov
18.00 - 19.30

Angela Melitopoulos in conversation with Mathias Kryger

François Tosquelles – The Catalan independence movement in the 30ies and the institutional psychotherapy

At this Art Talk professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art’s School of Media, Angela Melitopoulos reflects on her work “Assemblages”, which is part of the current exhibition Ovartaci & the Art of Madness. Melitopoulos will be in dialogue with the exhibition’s curator, Mathias Kryger.

Central to the presentation is an introduction to the Catalan psychiatrist François Tosquelles (1912-1994) and his revolutionary institutional psychotherapy as well as his commitment to the Catalan independence movement in the 1930s.

Admission is free.

7 Nov
18.30 - 21.00

Ai Weiwei: Human Flow

Danish premiere

In collaboration with Grand Teatret and Nordic Film we present a special preview of Ai Weiwei’s Golden Lion nominated documentary Human Flow depicting the ongoing global refugee crisis.

The screening takes place at Grand Teatret, and will be introduced by Michael Thouber, director at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

4 Nov
14.00 - 16.00

Banjo Art School

Children's workshop in Ovartaci & the Art of Madness

As part of the exhibition Kunsthal Charlottenborg are holding art workshops for children every Saturday in October and November. Test a series of techniques that Ovartaci worked with and create imaginative art where landscapes turn into faces and humans and animals fuse.

There can be a maximum of 12 participants at a time, and children under 6 years old must be accompanied by an adult. Registration is not necessary, but participation will be after the first come, first served principle. It is free to participate when admission for Kunsthal Charlottenborg has been payed.

28 Oct
14.00 - 16.00

Banjo Art School

Children's workshop in Ovartaci & the Art of Madness

As part of the exhibition Kunsthal Charlottenborg are holding art workshops for children every Saturday in October and November. Test a series of techniques that Ovartaci worked with and create imaginative art where landscapes turn into faces and humans and animals fuse.

There can be a maximum of 12 participants at a time, and children under 6 years old must be accompanied by an adult. Registration is not necessary, but participation will be after the first come, first served principle. It is free to participate when admission for Kunsthal Charlottenborg has been payed.

26 Oct
12.00

William E. Jones, Wu Tsang, Zachary Drucker

Charlottenborg Art Cinema

24 October-19 November Charlottenborg Art Cinema hosts screenings of Wu Tsang’s film Mishima in Mexico (2012) and William E. Jones’ Fall into Ruin (2017).

Wu Tsangs Mishima in Mexico (2012) is a sublime exploration of the longing in Yukio Mishima’s novel Thirst for Love (1950). The film shows a form of test shots of the novel where Wu Tsang himself and his scriptwriter Alex Segade each play the film’s characters while they small talk about the novel’s themes – while they are longing.

William E. Jones’ Fall into Ruin (2017) is a fascinating portrait of the legendary Greek gallerist Alexander Lolas where Jones’ own youth photos from the flamboyant Greek home are connected to photos of the left ruins of the home 30 years later. Jones’ personal voice over narrates movingly and detailed about the fascinating meeting with the decadent Greek art lover who lost his life to AIDS in 1987.

The films are looped within the opening hours of Kunsthal Charlottenborg (unless there are events in the cinema). The films are free to watch when admission for Kunsthal Charlottenborg has been payed.

25 Oct
17.00 - 20.00

Olof Olsson

"Driving the Blues Away" - An Info Comedy

What connects Toblerone to Steve Jobs, cocaine, Charlie Chaplin, Adam & Eve, Kant, and sanitary porcelain? Olof Olsson takes you on a rollercoaster of comic infotainment. From silly lows to poetic highs – and back again.

Driving the Blues Away is an info comedy racing through the histories of art, chocolate, cola-drinks, personal computers, philosophy, politics and theology.

Along the way there’s a romantic melodrama – where Olof’s almost partner is seduced by an ultra famous software entrepeneur in the tax-free shop of Dehli’s Indira Gandhi Airport. The whole thing is steeped in Olof’s twisted love of language:

“Our language and the world are not always hooked up one-to-one. It’s a mess, and that makes us nervous. But it’s a funny mess.”

Admission is free.

22 Oct
11.00 - 17.00

Bjergkøbing Grand Prix

Film screening for kids during the half-term break

In the half-term break Charlottenborg Art Cinema invites kids and adults to screenings of the legendary 1975 stop-motion film Bjergkøbing Grand Prix.

The film is about the inventor and bicycle mechanic Theodor Fælgen who, together with his bird Sofus and his hedgehog Ludvig, builds a very significant car. The car is named Il Tempo Gigante and is built for an oil sheikh, og together they participate in the up-tempo race Bjergkøbing Grand Prix.

The film is based on figures created by the Norwegian cartoonist Kjell Aukrust and directed by Ivo Caprino.

The film is shown Tuesday-Friday at 1pm, 3pm and 5pm and Saturday-Sunday at 11am, 1pm and 3pm in the period 14-22 October. The film lasts 88 minutes and is in Danish.

21 Oct
14.00 - 16.00

Banjo Art School

Children's workshop in Ovartaci & the Art of Madness

As part of the exhibition Kunsthal Charlottenborg are holding art workshops for children every Saturday in October and November. Test a series of techniques that Ovartaci worked with and create imaginative art where landscapes turn into faces and humans and animals fuse.

There can be a maximum of 12 participants at a time, and children under 6 years old must be accompanied by an adult. Registration is not necessary, but participation will be after the first come, first served principle. It is free to participate when admission for Kunsthal Charlottenborg has been payed.

21 Oct
11.00 - 17.00

Bjergkøbing Grand Prix

Film screening for kids during the half-term break

In the half-term break Charlottenborg Art Cinema invites kids and adults to screenings of the legendary 1975 stop-motion film Bjergkøbing Grand Prix.

The film is about the inventor and bicycle mechanic Theodor Fælgen who, together with his bird Sofus and his hedgehog Ludvig, builds a very significant car. The car is named Il Tempo Gigante and is built for an oil sheikh, og together they participate in the up-tempo race Bjergkøbing Grand Prix.

The film is based on figures created by the Norwegian cartoonist Kjell Aukrust and directed by Ivo Caprino.

The film is shown Tuesday-Friday at 1pm, 3pm and 5pm and Saturday-Sunday at 11am, 1pm and 3pm in the period 14-22 October. The film lasts 88 minutes and is in Danish.

20 Oct
13.00 - 19.00

Bjergkøbing Grand Prix

Film screening for kids during the half-term break

In the half-term break Charlottenborg Art Cinema invites kids and adults to screenings of the legendary 1975 stop-motion film Bjergkøbing Grand Prix.

The film is about the inventor and bicycle mechanic Theodor Fælgen who, together with his bird Sofus and his hedgehog Ludvig, builds a very significant car. The car is named Il Tempo Gigante and is built for an oil sheikh, og together they participate in the up-tempo race Bjergkøbing Grand Prix.

The film is based on figures created by the Norwegian cartoonist Kjell Aukrust and directed by Ivo Caprino.

The film is shown Tuesday-Friday at 1pm, 3pm and 5pm and Saturday-Sunday at 11am, 1pm and 3pm in the period 14-22 October. The film lasts 88 minutes and is in Danish.

19 Oct
13.00 - 19.00

Bjergkøbing Grand Prix

Film screening for kids during the half-term break

In the half-term break Charlottenborg Art Cinema invites kids and adults to screenings of the legendary 1975 stop-motion film Bjergkøbing Grand Prix.

The film is about the inventor and bicycle mechanic Theodor Fælgen who, together with his bird Sofus and his hedgehog Ludvig, builds a very significant car. The car is named Il Tempo Gigante and is built for an oil sheikh, og together they participate in the up-tempo race Bjergkøbing Grand Prix.

The film is based on figures created by the Norwegian cartoonist Kjell Aukrust and directed by Ivo Caprino.

The film is shown Tuesday-Friday at 1pm, 3pm and 5pm and Saturday-Sunday at 11am, 1pm and 3pm in the period 14-22 October. The film lasts 88 minutes and is in Danish.

18 Oct
13.00 - 19.00

Bjergkøbing Grand Prix

Film screening for kids during the half-term break

In the half-term break Charlottenborg Art Cinema invites kids and adults to screenings of the legendary 1975 stop-motion film Bjergkøbing Grand Prix.

The film is about the inventor and bicycle mechanic Theodor Fælgen who, together with his bird Sofus and his hedgehog Ludvig, builds a very significant car. The car is named Il Tempo Gigante and is built for an oil sheikh, og together they participate in the up-tempo race Bjergkøbing Grand Prix.

The film is based on figures created by the Norwegian cartoonist Kjell Aukrust and directed by Ivo Caprino.

The film is shown Tuesday-Friday at 1pm, 3pm and 5pm and Saturday-Sunday at 11am, 1pm and 3pm in the period 14-22 October. The film lasts 88 minutes and is in Danish.

17 Oct
13.00 - 19.00

Bjergkøbing Grand Prix

Film screening for kids during the half-term break

In the half-term break Charlottenborg Art Cinema invites kids and adults to screenings of the legendary 1975 stop-motion film Bjergkøbing Grand Prix.

The film is about the inventor and bicycle mechanic Theodor Fælgen who, together with his bird Sofus and his hedgehog Ludvig, builds a very significant car. The car is named Il Tempo Gigante and is built for an oil sheikh, og together they participate in the up-tempo race Bjergkøbing Grand Prix.

The film is based on figures created by the Norwegian cartoonist Kjell Aukrust and directed by Ivo Caprino.

The film is shown Tuesday-Friday at 1pm, 3pm and 5pm and Saturday-Sunday at 11am, 1pm and 3pm in the period 14-22 October. The film lasts 88 minutes and is in Danish.

15 Oct
11.00 - 17.00

Bjergkøbing Grand Prix

Film screening for kids during the half-term break

In the half-term break Charlottenborg Art Cinema invites kids and adults to screenings of the legendary 1975 stop-motion film Bjergkøbing Grand Prix.

The film is about the inventor and bicycle mechanic Theodor Fælgen who, together with his bird Sofus and his hedgehog Ludvig, builds a very significant car. The car is named Il Tempo Gigante and is built for an oil sheikh, og together they participate in the up-tempo race Bjergkøbing Grand Prix.

The film is based on figures created by the Norwegian cartoonist Kjell Aukrust and directed by Ivo Caprino.

The film is shown Tuesday-Friday at 1pm, 3pm and 5pm and Saturday-Sunday at 11am, 1pm and 3pm in the period 14-22 October. The film lasts 88 minutes and is in Danish.

14 Oct
14.00 - 16.00

Banjo Art School

Children's workshop in Ovartaci & the Art of Madness

As part of the exhibition Kunsthal Charlottenborg are holding art workshops for children every Saturday in October and November. Test a series of techniques that Ovartaci worked with and create imaginative art where landscapes turn into faces and humans and animals fuse.

There can be a maximum of 12 participants at a time, and children under 6 years old must be accompanied by an adult. Registration is not necessary, but participation will be after the first come, first served principle. It is free to participate when admission for Kunsthal Charlottenborg has been payed.

14 Oct
11.00 - 17.00

Bjergkøbing Grand Prix

Film screening for kids during the half-term break

In the half-term break Charlottenborg Art Cinema invites kids and adults to screenings of the legendary 1975 stop-motion film Bjergkøbing Grand Prix.

The film is about the inventor and bicycle mechanic Theodor Fælgen who, together with his bird Sofus and his hedgehog Ludvig, builds a very significant car. The car is named Il Tempo Gigante and is built for an oil sheikh, og together they participate in the up-tempo race Bjergkøbing Grand Prix.

The film is based on figures created by the Norwegian cartoonist Kjell Aukrust and directed by Ivo Caprino.

The film is shown Tuesday-Friday at 1pm, 3pm and 5pm and Saturday-Sunday at 11am, 1pm and 3pm in the period 14-22 October. The film lasts 88 minutes and is in Danish.

13 Oct
18.00 - 00.00
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Culture Night at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Jacob Haugaard and the Art of Madness

Visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg at the Culture Night and experience our current exhibitions with multi-artist Yoko Ono, outsider artist Ovartaci, Norwegian performance and installation artist Tori Wrånes, and the research-based group exhibition Mediated Matter via 15 minute long guided tours every hour.

Furthermore, you can hear Poul Nyrup Rasmussen and Jacob Haugaard in conversation with curator Mathias Kryger about Ovartaci, psychiatry and madness at 8pm-9pm.

6.30pm-10pm Banjo Billedskole will host an art workshop for children inspirered by the exhibition ‘Ovartaci & The Art of Madness’.

7.15pm-7.30pm you can experience the performance “Building a Nest” by Anne Nora Fischer and Anna Ørberg in connection with the exhibition Mediated Matter.

There is also the possibility of getting behind the walls of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts when historian Henrik Biehl gives guided tours at Charlottenborg Castle at 7pm, 9pm and 10.30pm.

DJ Christian d’Or is playing 6pm-9.15pm and DJ Cohnny Jazz 9.15pm-midnight in the lower foyer.

It will be possible to buy food and drinks at Apollo Canteen throughout the evening.
Admission with Culture Pass which can be purchased at Kunsthal Charlottenborg for 95DKK.

12 Oct
17.00 - 20.00

YOKO ONO TRANSMISSION

Opening of new exhibition with Yoko Ono's printed matter and publications

This night we celebrate the opening of the exhibition YOKO ONO TRANSMISSION from 5pm-8pm.

The exhibition, which is created for Kunsthal Charlottenborg in collaboration with the artist herself, focuses on Yoko Ono’s publications, printed matter in the widest sense, and on how the artist has been able to disseminate her work, from small whispers to broadcasting through mass media.

The exhibition will include scans of her original typescripts for Grapefruit, an original War Is Over! poster, rare popular record sleeves (for example from the early Plastic Ono Band), flyers for exhibitions, newspaper ads, photographs of Bed-In for Peace, and Word Piece billboards throughout the world, films, participatory installations, and much more.

At the same time, the exhibition portrays how Yoko Ono as an avant-garde artist suddenly became part of the epicentre of popular culture.
Read more about the exhibition.

11 Oct
17.00 - 18.00

Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology

"Curating Multispecies Storytellings"

Wednesday October 11, The School of Visual Arts and Kunsthal Charlottenborg will host an art talk with the Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology.

Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, founded by Dea Antonsen and Ida Bencke, is a multidisciplinary platform working with experimental exhibition formats and knowledge productions in the knotty entanglements between the human and the non-human, between the arts and the sciences, guided by posthuman and queer strategies – be they artistic, theoretical, scientific or everything at once.

At this talk, Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology will talk about facilitating conversations across disciplines and species. About the work on potentials and problems in multilingual storytelling. About the importance of cultivating generosity and courtesy in more-than-human (art) worlds. About curatorial difficulties and all that can go wrong when communities based on unequal partners try to get to know each other. About insisting on affection and care, not as embarassing residues of a ‘serious science’, but as epistemological basic principles for the foundation of new responsibilities and the genesis of species.

The talk will be in Danish. Admission is free.

 

 

11 Oct
17.00 - 19.00

Mediated Matter

Lise Skytte Jakobsen in conversation with the exhibition's artists

This Wednesday Kunsthal Charlottenborg will host an art talk that will be a conversation between associate professor at Aarhus University Lise Skytte Jakobsen and the exhibiting artists from the exhibition Mediated Matter.

The talk will take place in the exhibition and it will be in Danish. Admission is free.

7 Oct
14.00 - 16.00

Banjo Art School

Children's workshop in Ovartaci & the Art of Madness

As part of the exhibition Kunsthal Charlottenborg are holding art workshops for children every Saturday in October and November. Test a series of techniques that Ovartaci worked with and create imaginative art where landscapes turn into faces and humans and animals fuse.

There can be a maximum of 12 participants at a time, and children under 6 years old must be accompanied by an adult. Registration is not necessary, but participation will be after the first come, first served principle. It is free to participate when admission for Kunsthal Charlottenborg has been payed.

4 Oct
17.00 - 18.00

La Vaughn Belle

Wednesday October 4, The School of Visual Arts and Kunsthal Charlottenborg will host an art talk with artist La Vaughn Belle.

La Vaughn Belle is a leading multidisciplinary artist based in the US Virgin Islands whose work centers around creating narratives that challenge colonial hierarchies and narratives.

Over the last 10 years her work has focussed on the colonial legacy of the US Virgin Islands. Having changed hands several times, the longest being Denmark for almost 250 years and the last being the United States the question of coloniality has been a central theme in her work.

Belle’s work is a poetic investigation into the material residues of colonialism. Using architecture, archival images, pottery and other aspects of material culture La Vaughn Belle creates a space to explore collective narratives, memory and identity.

Her work is often presenting alternative narratives of resistance and agency and the power of the imagination to redefine our understanding of our world.

In this talk La Vaughn Belle will share some of her new works that she has developed over the last year and which has been presented as part of the centennial marking the 100 years since Denmark sold the Virgin Islands to the United States.

La Vaughn Belle holds a MFA from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba and an MA and BA from Columbia University in NYC. She has taught Humanities and Visual Arts at the St. Croix campus of the University of the Virgin Islands.

Her work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions throughout the Caribbean, the USA and Denmark such as the Museo del Barrio in NY, the Havana biennial, the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art & Meter in Copenhagen and the Whim Plantation Museum in St. Croix.

La Vaughn Belle is currently an artist in residence in Copenhagen and her work is being shown in various venues including The Royal Danish Library, Christianborg Palace, Gammel Holtegaard and a public sculpture project that she is developing together with artist Jeannette Ehlers.

The talk will be in English. Admission is free.

1 Oct
14.00 - 15.00

ORLAN

Sunday October 1 at 2pm, The Schools of Visual Arts and Kunsthal Charlottenborg will host an art talk with the world famous French artist ORLAN.

ORLAN creates sculptures, photographs, performances, videos, videogames, and augmented reality, using scientific and medical technics like surgery and biogenetic.

Her work and ideas are concerned with the body’s status in our society where new medical technologies are gaining ground. ORLAN makes her own body the medium, the raw material, and the visual support of her work.

She is a major figure of the body art and “carnal art” as she has defined her practise in a manifesto from 1989, and her work is often conceived from a feminist perspective.

ORLAN will talk about her oeuvre and there will be presentations of some of her earlier works as well as screenings of selected films and videogames.

The talk is introduced and moderated by author and postdoc at the University of Copenhagen, Jens Hauser.

The talk is in French, but will be translated into English. Admission to the talk is free, when admission for Kunsthal Charlottenborg has been payed. The talk will take place in Kunstakademiets Festsal.

25 Sep
20.00 - 22.00

Mithkal Alzghair: DISPLACEMENT

Performance and artist talk in collaboration with Dansehallerne

How does a body react when it is forced to or prevented from moving? Displacement looks at the conflict and contradictions between roots and exile. The award-winning piece by the Syrian born choreographer and dancer Mithkal Alzghair is in two parts – a solo and a trio. In continuation of the performance there will be an artist talk with the choreographer and the dancers.

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
The event is a part of Choreography in Action, a collaboration between Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Dansehallerne. Every Monday during the season, affiliated artists and guests from other programs and performances are presented. Thoughts are shared about artistic work through conversations, installations, performances or films. New artist every Monday. The program is in English and is primarily addressed to artists in the field but open to all.

17 Sep
15.00 - 16.00

NAR (FOOL)

Performance with Johannes Lilleøre

The performance NAR (FOOL) is a tragicomic medieval performance with Johannes Lilleøre, staged by Erik Pold.

It is shown in the courtyard in front of Kunsthal Charlottenborg as part of the Golden Days Festival: København 850 on Sunday, September 17 at 3pm. Duration: 50 minutes. Admission is free.

Does the fool have a place in society today and who is he? In the performance NAR, we meet the modern fool, who has devoted his life to the role and to his modern “fool technique”. His methods lead him into great moral dilemmas, and radical choices must then be made.

Choices that end up pushing him to the edge. “I have studied the humans. I know what they will do before they do it. In that way I have an advantage. I’m always one step ahead.”

The performance NAR is improvised in close cooperation between director Erik Pold and actor Johannes Lilleøre. They have had an artistic collaboration for a number of years, focusing on investigating ways of performing and acting that consciously work on the boundary between fiction and reality, and that investigates a style of play which is in direct dialogue with the audience.

A play with recognizable characters that say and do absurd things, and allow them to be both ridiculous, provocative and reckless at the same time, just like the role of the fool.

16 Sep
15.00 - 16.00

NAR (FOOL)

Performance med Johannes Lilleøre

The performance NAR (FOOL) is a tragicomic medieval performance with Johannes Lilleøre, staged by Erik Pold.

It is shown in the courtyard in front of Kunsthal Charlottenborg as part of the Golden Days Festival: København 850 on Saturday, September 16 at 3pm. Duration: 50 minutes. Admission is free.

Does the fool have a place in society today and who is he? In the performance NAR, we meet the modern fool, who has devoted his life to the role and to his modern “fool technique”. His methods lead him into great moral dilemmas, and radical choices must then be made.

Choices that end up pushing him to the edge. “I have studied the humans. I know what they will do before they do it. In that way I have an advantage. I’m always one step ahead.”

The performance NAR is improvised in close cooperation between director Erik Pold and actor Johannes Lilleøre. They have had an artistic collaboration for a number of years, focusing on investigating ways of performing and acting that consciously work on the boundary between fiction and reality, and that investigates a style of play which is in direct dialogue with the audience.

A play with recognizable characters that say and do absurd things, and allow them to be both ridiculous, provocative and reckless at the same time, just like the role of the fool.

16 Sep
11.00 - 17.00

CHART Film

Film programme in collaboration with CHART ART FAIR

In collaboration with CHART ART FAIR, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents CHART Film: A film programme consisting of artists from the galleries participating in this year’s CHART.

The film programme will be shown in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema 16 September-12 October where all the films in the programme are shown daily in a two-hour-long loop within the opening hours of Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

The film programme is free when admission for Kunsthal Charlottenborg has been payed.

PROGRAMME:
Marina Abramović
The Current (2017)
60 minutes
Courtesy of Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo

Alex Da Corte
TRUƎ LIFƎ (2013)
Standard digital video
3 minutes 44 seconds
Courtesy of the artist and David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen

Maria Friberg
Matador (2016)
13 minutes 47 seconds
Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm

NUG
Territorial Pissing, Second Version (2007/2011)
2 hours 15 minutes 8 seconds
Courtesy of the artist and GSB/Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm

Sigurður Guðjónsson
Distance (2012)
9 minutes 48 seconds
Courtesy of the artist and BERG Contemporary, Reykjavik

Steina
Distant Activities (1972)
4 minutes 48 seconds
Courtesy of the artist and BERG Contemporary, Reykjavik

Tuomas A. Laitinen
The Powder of Sympathy (2015)
HD video, stereo sound
8 minutes 36 seconds
Production support: Avek and HIAP
Courtesy of the artist and Helsinki Contemporary

Tomas Saraceno
CLOUD / TIME (2016)
Single channel video (color, silent)
12 minutes 40 seconds
Courtesy of the artist; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen; Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa; Esther Schipper, Berlin

Read more.

15 Sep
18.00 - 22.00

Ovartaci & the Art of Madness + Tori Wrånes: Ældgammel Baby + Mediated Matter

This Friday night we celebrate the opening of our three new exhibitions Ovartaci and the Art of Madness, Tori Wrånes: Ældgammel Baby, and the group show Mediated Matter.

At the opening, speeches will be given by Danish Minister of Culture Mette Bock, Chairman of the Board for the New Carlsberg Foundation Karsten Ohrt, and Professor at the Royal Danish Art Academy Martin Erik Andersen. The opening includes drinks from Apollo Bar and dj. The event is open for all, and admission is free.

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Ovartaci & the Art of Madness
The unique artist Ovartaci is the most significant and important exponent in Denmark for what is known as Art Brut or outsider art. With the exhibition Ovartaci & the Art of Madness, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Ovartaci outside of the psychiatric hospital in Risskov, Aarhus. The exhibition also includes a number of contemporary artists whose works reflect Ovartaci’s art and the themes of madness, psychiatry, gender and identity. The exhibition is curated by Mathias Kryger and produced in collaboration with Museum Ovartaci. Read more about the exhibition.

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Tori Wrånes: Ældgammel Baby
The enigmatic exhibtion title Ældgammel Baby (Ancient Baby) sets the tone for Norwegian performance artist Tori Wrånes’ first solo exhibition in Denmark. In her imaginative and disturbing universe, one can never be sure what will happen; the colour of the ceiling can change, a purse might sing, trolls can float, sculptures can be in motion. For Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Tori Wrånes has created an exhibition which can be considered as a single installation consisting of many individual elements, several of them created specifically for the high-ceilinged exhibition halls of the kunsthalle. The exhibition is curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer. Read more about the exhibition.

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Group show: Mediated Matter
Artists: Amalie Smith, Amitai Romm, Anna Moderato, Anna Ørberg, Anne Eckersberg, Anne Friis, Anne Nora Fischer, Franco Turchi, Fredrik Tydén, Jacob Alrø, Jean Marc Routhier, Jesper Carlsen, Joakim Almroth, Karen Harsbo, Katya Sander, Lydia Hauge Sølvberg, Marco Spörle, Martin Erik Andersen, Matilde Duus, Maja Malou Lyse, Morten Modin, Rene Schmidt, Sebastian Hedevang, Sophus Ejler Jepsen, Theodor Walldius, Tinne Zenner, Veronica Riget

More than 20 Danish contemporary artists are presented in the exhibition Mediated Matter which unfolds the interaction and discusses the potential between contemporary art and the newest 3D design technology in relation to sculpture, installation, video, and performance. The three-year research project behind the exhibition was launched by Martin Erik Andersen, Karen Harsbo, Katya Sander, and Franco Turchi, who have also curated the exhibition. Read more about the exhibition.

1 Sep
16.00

CHART ART FAIR 2017

Fair for contemporary art 1-3 September

Friday, September 1 at 16.00-20.00
Saturday, September 2 at 12.00-18.00
Sunday, September 3 at 12.00-18.00

CHART ART FAIR, the leading Nordic contemporary art fair, returns to The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen from 1 – 3 September 2017. For its 5th edition CHART will bring an expanded network of the most prominent Nordic art galleries accompanied by a bespoke programme of talks, events and architectural installations.

CHART ART FAIR was established in 2013 by Gallery Susanne Ottesen, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, V1 Gallery, Andersen’s Contemporary, and David Risley Gallery, with the aim to challenge the boundaries and experience of a traditional art fair. The ambition was and remains to further develop the impact and role of a Nordic art event on the international art and cultural scene.

Over 18,000 people visited CHART 2016, making it the most popular edition yet. While the attendance of collectors and institutions from the Nordic region was once again strong, the presence of new collectors attending the fair for the first time from territories including China, Ecuador, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, UK and USA reinforces CHART as the leading contemporary art fair in the Nordic region with strong international appeal.

13 Aug
17.00 - 21.00

NAR (FOOL)

Performance with Johannes Lilleøre

The performance NAR (FOOL) is a tragicomic medieval performance with Johannes Lilleøre, staged by Erik Pold.

It is shown in the courtyard in front of Kunsthal Charlottenborg on Sunday, August 13 at 17.00 and 20.00. Duration: 50 minutes. Admission is free.

Does the fool have a place in society today and who is he? In the performance NAR, we meet the modern fool, who has devoted his life to the role and to his modern “fool technique”. His methods lead him into great moral dilemmas, and radical choices must then be made.

Choices that end up pushing him to the edge. “I have studied the humans. I know what they will do before they do it. In that way I have an advantage. I’m always one step ahead.”

The performance NAR is improvised in close cooperation between director Erik Pold and actor Johannes Lilleøre. They have had an artistic collaboration for a number of years, focusing on investigating ways of performing and acting that consciously work on the boundary between fiction and reality, and that investigates a style of play which is in direct dialogue with the audience.

A play with recognizable characters that say and do absurd things, and allow them to be both ridiculous, provocative and reckless at the same time, just like the role of the fool.

12 Aug
17.00 - 21.00

NAR (FOOL)

Performance with Johannes Lilleøre

The performance NAR (FOOL) is a tragicomic medieval performance with Johannes Lilleøre, staged by Erik Pold.

It is shown in the courtyard in front of Kunsthal Charlottenborg on Saturday, August 12 at 17.00 and 20.00. Duration: 50 minutes. Admission is free.

Does the fool have a place in society today and who is he? In the performance NAR, we meet the modern fool, who has devoted his life to the role and to his modern “fool technique”. His methods lead him into great moral dilemmas, and radical choices must then be made.

Choices that end up pushing him to the edge. “I have studied the humans. I know what they will do before they do it. In that way I have an advantage. I’m always one step ahead.”

The performance NAR is improvised in close cooperation between director Erik Pold and actor Johannes Lilleøre. They have had an artistic collaboration for a number of years, focusing on investigating ways of performing and acting that consciously work on the boundary between fiction and reality, and that investigates a style of play which is in direct dialogue with the audience.

A play with recognizable characters that say and do absurd things, and allow them to be both ridiculous, provocative and reckless at the same time, just like the role of the fool.

11 Aug
20.00 - 21.00

NAR (FOOL)

Performance with Johannes Lilleøre

The performance NAR (FOOL) is a tragicomic medieval performance with Johannes Lilleøre, staged by Erik Pold.

It is shown in the courtyard in front of Kunsthal Charlottenborg on Friday, August 11 at 20.00. Duration: 50 minutes. Admission is free.

Does the fool have a place in society today and who is he? In the performance NAR, we meet the modern fool, who has devoted his life to the role and to his modern “fool technique”. His methods lead him into great moral dilemmas, and radical choices must then be made.

Choices that end up pushing him to the edge. “I have studied the humans. I know what they will do before they do it. In that way I have an advantage. I’m always one step ahead.”

The performance NAR is improvised in close cooperation between director Erik Pold and actor Johannes Lilleøre. They have had an artistic collaboration for a number of years, focusing on investigating ways of performing and acting that consciously work on the boundary between fiction and reality, and that investigates a style of play which is in direct dialogue with the audience.

A play with recognizable characters that say and do absurd things, and allow them to be both ridiculous, provocative and reckless at the same time, just like the role of the fool.

10 Aug
16.00 - 19.00

Maria Zahle – “8 Poems”

Reading from the book by visual artist Jason Dungan, Kaspar Bonnen and Maria Zahle

8 Poems is a visual poetry collection by visual artist Maria Zahle. The book is an exploration of words, colors, and sharp shapes. The poems actively exploit the physical shape of a book. As a result, the act of flicking through the book, repetitions, and juxtapositions of pages integrate with the printed words. The work revolves around death as a memory, as a meeting with the body’s material, and as carve out.

The book launch will take place in the book shop of Kunsthal Charlottenborg on August 10th. From 16:30, visual artist Jason Dungan, Kaspar Bonnen and Maria Zahle will read from the book. The poetry collection is an edition of 100 signed copies. At the book launch, it can be purchased for 300 DKK.

Maria Zahle is a Danish visual artist educated at Slade School of Fine Art og Royal Academy Schools, London. She is represented by the gallery Arcade, London, and is at the moment a part of the exhibition ’Occasional Geometries’ in Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK. Zahle is co-founder of the project room Kiosk 7 at Amager, and a member of the band Squares and Triangles.

8 Poems is produced in Fraser Muggeridge Studio and published by Akerman Daly, London.

21 Jun
17.00 - 18.00

Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway

Screening of Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway's film 'Kuannersuit; Kvanefjeld'

The film ‘Kuannersuit; Kvanefjeld’, 2016 (27 min.) by Lise Autogena (DK) and Joshua Portway (UK) portrays the region of Kvanefjeld in southern Greenland – site of the richest rare earth mineral resources in the world, and home to one of the world’s largest deposits of uranium.

The film explores a Greenland divided on the issue of uranium mining as a means of gaining autonomy, social progress and financial independence. Traditional ways of living from the land and the sea do not sit easily with the Greenland’s government’s plans for big investments by foreign mining companies.

The film portrays the difficult decisions and trade-offs faced by a culture seeking to escape a colonial past and define its own identity in a globalised world.

The film will be introduced by a paper by the artists.

20 Jun
16.00 - 19.00

World Refugee Day at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Celebration of World Refugee Day

The opening of Ai Weiwei’s (b. 1957 in Beijing, China) new installation, produced specifically for Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Copenhagen, will take place on United Nations International Refugee Day (June 20 2017). Named Soleil Levant, the installation barricades the windows of Kunsthal Charlottenborg with more than 3500 salvaged life jackets collected from refugees arriving at the Greek Island of Lesbos.

Focus on the humanitarian crisis
With this installation, Ai Weiwei hopes to bring focus to the refugee crisis currently taking place across Europe. According to UNHCR, 1,377,349 individuals arrived in Europe via sea in 2015 and 2016. In the same period, over 8000 individuals have died or disappeared attempting this journey. It is the wide-spread humanitarian crisis, which Ai Weiwei aims to bring focus on.

The name of the work stems from Claude Monet’s painting Impression, Soleil Levant from 1872, which depicts the harbour in Le Havre at the end of the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian war. Whereas Monet’s landscape painting captures the political and social reality of its time with its cranes, steamboats and industrialisation, Ai Weiwei’s Soleil Levant draws attention to the political and social reality of today through refugee lifejackets.

World-renowned artist and activist
Ai Weiwei is one of the most respected living artists in the world today. His work – across sculpture, architecture, installations, music, photography and film – always challenge and encourage critical debate. He has previously exhibited at ARoS, Louisiana and Arken in Denmark, where his works are also part of the museums’ permanent collections.

In 2011, Ai Weiwei was detained in China for 81 days without charges and had his passport confiscated. He did not get his passport back from the government until 2015. Since relocating to Berlin following the return of his passport, many of the artist’s latest works focus on the refugee crisis of present-day Europe.

The installation Soleil Levant for Kunsthal Charlottenborg officially opens on United Nations  World Refugee Day, (June 20) and will be on view at the facade of Kunsthal Charlottenborg until the October 1 2017. The project is curated by Luise Faurschou from ART 2030 and Michael Thouber from Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

ART 2030 connects art and the UN Global Goals
ART 2030 unites art as the key to open people’s hearts, minds and imagination for the world we want by 2030. ART 2030 is a movement of visionary artists and influencers in the art world, who are determined to reinstate the role for art in a bigger world context and make their contributions visible for sustainable Development.

The project is supported by The Obel Family Fund, Platform A/S and The Danish Arts Foundation.

17 Jun
15.00 - 18.00

John Kørner + Whisteblowers & Vigilantes + Slow Violence

This Saturday afternoon we celebrate the opening of three new exhibitions: John Kørner’s Altid Mange Problemer, the group exhibition Whistleblowers & Vigilantes – The digital rebellion and the group exhibition Slow Violence.

At the opening, which will be held outdoors if the weather permits, you’ll be able to buy the vegetarian dish of the day from Apollo Canteen, while Apollo Ba offers beer and drinks in addition to more culinaric delicacies depending on the weather. Master Fatman distributes cosmic love from the dj booth. The opening is free and open to all.

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John Kørner – Altid Mange Problemer
In the year of John Kørner’s fiftieth birthday, Kunsthal Charlottenborg will present the largest exhibition ever seen of his work. Spanning more than 1000 m2 of floor space, this retrospective places particular emphasis on the social issues addressed by the artist over the years, investigating Kørner as an important reinventor of contemporary painting.

For this exhibition Kørner will create a series of new paintings as well as site-specific immersive installation. The exhibition will also bring together a range of Kørner’s most important series of paintings for the first time ever. Thus, the show will offer an unprecedented opportunity to see the artist’s major works gathered under one roof. Read more.

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Whistleblowers & Vigilantes is a controversial exhibition that uses art, TV footage, surveillance, documentary approaches and historical documents to offer a range of perspectives on the fierce discussion concerning whistleblowers.

The exhibition showcases the activist strategies and legal positions that whistleblowers, hackers, online activists and artists use to justify their efforts in the digital rebellions – featuring Anonymous, Julian Assange, DIS, Chelsea Manning, Metahaven, Edvard Snowden and others. Read more.

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Group exhibition: Slow Violence
Artists: Maria Thereza Alves, Pia Arke, Mia Edelgart, Harun Farocki, Basia Irland, Runo Lagomarsino, Zoe Todd, Lise Autogena & Joshua Portway

The Anthropocene and climate change reflect nothing so much as industrial capitalism’s dependence on ancient sunshine.[i]

The condition of the planet is undergoing radical transformations. The massive destruction of the Earth’s ecosystems not only comprise climate change and species extinction. The extraction of minerals and other raw materials, deforestation, desertification, ocean acidification, floating plastic continents, toxic waste, monoculture-plantation, industrial farming and an accelerating global urbanization are also part of the processes that are changing the living conditions for all life on Earth.

We call it development. Progress. Growth. A development based on centuries of radical interventions into the complex and interdependent processes that constitute the life sustaining systems of the Earth.

Modernity: a permanent, dirty war on life. We have entered the endgame.[ii]

The planetary meltdown is a result of slow violence. This is a violence that is exercised in the margins of our attention, a violence that is often out of sight, invisible and whose destruction emerges with a delay. A violence not perceived as violence.

Our present is the Anthropocene; this is our time.

But this present time progressively reveals itself a present without a view.[iii]

The story of the Anthropocene, the geological epoch of our time, is a new evolutionary agenda that puts mankind at the centre of the development of the Earth and designates humans as a geological factor. It is evident, however, that it is not humanity in its entirety that has violated the planet and caused the grave transformations taking place. These violations have to do with a specific mindset, a specific practice and way of perceiving the relationship between Man and his surroundings connected to European colonialism and early capitalism.

The narrative of the Anthropocene considers the environmentally degrading consequences of industrialisation as a kind of collateral damage, an unintended harm, but the use of the term ‘climate change’ in the 18. Century tells a different story. To the colonial administers it was crucial not only to control the physical surroundings but changing the climatic conditions was also an integral part of the colonial project.

How did it become possible to consider people and the planet as inexhaustible resources to be used and abused without cost? The exhibition Slow Violence is an attempt to read the destabilization of the climate and the destruction of the Earth as a history of slow violence.

The exhibition is curated by Katarina Stenbeck and is part of the research project In Search of the Lost Future, for more information www.lostfuture.netSlow Violence inaugurates the programme Charlottenborg Art Research, a collaboration between the Royal Danish Art Academy and Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

[i] Elizabeth Povinelli ”Geontologies: A requiem to late liberalism”, 2016
[ii] Gene Ray ”Writing the Ecocide-Genocide Knot” South as a State of Mind #7, 2016
[iii] Déborah Danowski & Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ”The Ends of the World”

Read more.

16 Jun
15.00

Rundgang 2017

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Visual Arts

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Visual Arts open the doors of Charlottenborg Palace and invites the general public to this year’s Rundgang.
Rundgang is the annual open-house exhibition where the students of the Art Academy will exhibit works and projects.

Rundgang is a unique possibility to catch a glimpse behind the walls of the palace and gain insight into what the students of the Art Academy are working with every day.

Opening June 16 from 3pm – 8pm
Saturday open from 11am – 6pm
Sunday open from 11am – 5pm

Read more about Rundgang 2017.

27 May
16.00 - 16.30

Vibe Overgaard: ”TURNING (BACK)”

Performance with Adriano Wilfert Jensen and Paolo Gile

On the day before the last day of this year’s MFA Degree Show by the graduates from the Art Academy’s Schools of Visual Arts, you can experience a motion based performance as part of Vibe Overgaard’s work “Turning (Back)”. The performance is developed in collaboration with and performed by dancers and choreographers Adriano Wilfert Jensen and Paolo Gile.

Vibe Overgaard considers official narratives about our history and cultural heritage as political constructs. On this basis, she is concerned with establishing a more personal connection to the past through body and material. She has chosen to immerse herself in the material clay, rather than the monumentalized archaeological artefacts found in ethnographical museums.

Her objective is that a material can hold inherent information about its use through generations – clay has often been serving domestic purposes, to build houses and store food. With an observant attitude she listens to these narratives inscribed, not in history books but in the material itself.

For Afgang 2017 Vibe Overgaard has created a scenography that comprises a half timbered wall. A black vinyl floor marks out a delimited space in the exhibition where unfired vases are placed. The setting will be activated at several points during the exhibition as dancers and choreographers Adriano Wilfert Jensen and Paolo Gile continues the dialogue with the material, pulling the historical references into the present and the exhibition situation.

The performance is free, when admission to the kunsthalle has been paid.

10 May
18.30 - 20.00

Maria Lassning: “Art Education” + “Shapes”

Charlottenborg Art Cinema

By request from some of our exhibiting MFA Degree Students, we are screening two of visual artist Maria Lassnings works: Art Education and Shapes.
 
Maria Lassning was an Austrian born visual artist, especially recognized for her self-portraits and her special awareness of the body and gender politica.
 
Painting was her starting point, but from 1970 she also produced films based on her paintings. The film works are autodidact produced from her own drawings on a self-invented work desk (not an animation desk).
 
Art Education (1976), 8.06 min.
Through humour and feminist interpretations Maria Lassning demystifies the masculinity cult of famous works of art from Vermeer to Michelangelo.
 
Shapes (1972), 10 min.
Human forms are dancing to the sound of Johan Sebastian Bach composition in a way that dissolves what is feminine and masculine.
10 May
17.00 - 08.00

Sam Smith: “E.1027”

Live video perfomance + lecture

At this evening’s Charlottenborg Art Talk London-based Australian artist Sam Smith will talk about his performance video ‘E. 1027’. In addition to the talk and live video performance, there will be a Q & A session.

‘E.1027’ is a performance video based on the complex history and imagined future of Irish architect and designer Eileen Gray’s eponymous villa.
The history of conflict etched within the building’s material structure plays out in episodes of companionship, obsession, murder and destruction.

The work gives life and resonance to the house by playing back scenes from its tangled history and treating it as an active thing – a vibrant form that is capable of reorganising matter, facilitating life and playing a central part in its own narrative.

The talk is arranged by the publisher Forum.

Admission is free.

6 May
15.00

Copenhagen Architecture Festival: The Invisible City

Screening af Vladimir Tomic's "Flotel Europa"

On arrival, refugees enter a living situation on the edge of the city. Come to this film screening, boat tour and debate.

15.00 – 16.10
FLOTEL EUROPA

VLADIMIR TOMIC | 2015 | 70 min.
BOSNIAN W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES
TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoA0t0SismE

A coming-of-age story with a refugee twist, cut from personal VHS archives of Bosnians who lived together on a giant ship in the port of Copenhagen in the 1990’s

16.30 – 17.30
BOAT TOUR AND DEBATE

Panel: Vladimir Tomic, director of Flotel Europa and artist, Jonas May, architect at Røde Kors and Sara Fredfeldt Stadager from Danish Jewish Museum.
Debate moderated by Garbi Schmidt.

Departure (boat tour) from Inderhavns brigde / Nyhavn.

TICKET INFO
Museum admission is you entrance ticket for film screening and boat tour. The dabate is in English.

3 May
17.30
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Copenhagen Architecture Festival: Tales from Paradise

Charlottenborg Art Talk and Cinema

Artist Søren Lose explores the architectural landscapes of St. Croix.

Danish w/ English subtitles.

COLONIAL HISTORY REVISITED
Did you know that great parts of central Copenhagen where financed by the Danish slave trade in Ghana and the West Indies? Or that you can still find buildings in India that testify to the history of Danish colonial rule?

2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the transfer of the Danish West Indies to America. This is our occasion to seek out the architectural traces of colonialism and slavery in Copenhagen and in the former Danish colonies.

Through performances, film screenings, tours, and discussions, we want to open a debate on the built heritage of the colonial era. The fact is that the story of the Danish colonialism is also a story about conflicts in space, place, and identity: About thousands of bodies crammed together while crossing the Atlantic. About the Paradise of the West Indies which was not Paradise for everyone. About the failed export of welfare architecture in Greenland, and about fancy mansions in Copenhagen. And it is a story about generations of human lives torn between different cultures, nations, and continents.

28 Apr
20.00 - 21.00

Joey Holder & Dane Sutherland (UK)

Tonight is Art - tour of five Copenhagen art centres

As part of the joint tour “Tonight is Art” Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents an audio-visual conspiracy by Joey Holder and Dane Sutherland, connecting occult marginalia, swamp gas emissions in Michigan USA 1966, and the extraterrestrial source of biomysticism.

British Joey Holder is interested in the ways in which manipulated images are appropriated and circulated by Internet culture as ‘fact’. Joey Holder’s practice is closely linked to collaborations with scientists to deeply explore this zone between postulated facts and reality, and how this impacts the visual world.

Curator of the exhibition Welcome Too Late, Toke Lykkeberg has invited Joey Holder to present a video work as part of his exhibition, and Holder has invited DJ and independent curator Dane Sutherland to collaborate on the project.

Come by and experience a truly unique – and occult – audio visual work in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema on Friday 8pm. Admission is free.

The five Copenhagen art centres Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Kunstforeningen GL STRAND, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Overgaden – Institut for Samtidskunst og Kunsthal Charlottenborg have together created “Tonight is Art” – a joint tour of the art centres with a grand event programme including performances, theater, dance, sound, food and art of course. The programme stretches from late afternoon until in the evening and is completed with concert and afterparty.

27 Apr
17.00 - 22.00

Opening reception for Apollo Bar

We celebrate the opening of Frederik Bille Brahe’s new bar and dining space at Kunsthal Charlottenborg with an reception open for all. Further information about the opening reception will follow later.

26 Apr
17.00 - 20.00
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Joachim Hamou: United Israel Palestine UIP27

Charlottenborg Art Talk and Cinema

This evening you can experience Copenhagen based artist Joachim Hamou’s latest works: the film United Israel Palestine UIP27 and the anthology Calling Out of Context. The artist will be there to present his works and afterwards there will be book launch and film screening.
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United Israel Palestine UIP27
The territorial conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is radically re-examined in Joachim Hamou’s performative project, which is the result of a public seminar attended by lawyers, observers, anthropologists and historians. A discussion that had a direct impact on the direction the film took during the shoot.

The year is 2027, and the endless conflict has finally found its natural equilibrium: the two states have merged into United Israel Palestine. Through this imaginary future scenario, UIP27 takes a futuristic look at the current conflict, while the film’s fictional dimension is more a theoretical or hypothetic space in the form of a courtroom, where the different viewpoints meet and interact.

The issue being fought about is a small piece of land that a Palestinian family has been granted the right to after it was annexed by a Jewish family in 1970, which in the meantime has invested in and developed the land by building a well, and therefore needs to be compensated. Not even the hermetic, Brechtian setting is immune to the individual players’ personal passions and conflicts.

Before the screening Joachim Hamou will present the project and launch his new publication Calling Out of Context containing texts about cross cultural collaborations moving between the field of theater and visual arts.

21 Apr
18.00 - 21.00

MFA Degree Show 2017

At this year’s AFGANG (MFA Degree Show), a total of twenty-four graduates from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Schools of Visual Arts will present new works at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. This year’s graduates work with all kinds of styles and modes of expression, from video and painting to sculpture, installation and performance art. Some works are vast in scale, others are delicate, fleeting or porous. Together, they offer insight into the potential future of contemporary art.

The artists featured are:
Anne Eckersberg, Anne Sofie Fenneberg, Coline Marotta, David Minařík, Eduardo Antonio Rodriguez Chain, Gabriel Bott, Hannibal Andersen, Ingrid Høiskar Borgfjord, Jacob Alrø, Jens Hüls Funder, Jesper Skov Madsen, Kirsten Astrup, Lydia Hauge Sølvberg, Malte Starck, Veronica Riget, Nicky Sparre-Ulrich, Nike Åkerberg, Nikolaj Nielsen Phillipsen, Nina Mølgård Knappe, Oskar Jakobsen, Signe Boe, Simon Rasmussen, Theodor Walldius and Vibe Overgaard.

The exhibition is curated by Christian Skovbjerg Jensen.

See facebook event.

19 Apr
18.30 - 20.00

Cécile B. Evans – Hyperlinks or It Didn’t Happen

Charlottenborg Art Cinema

The third part of the film program, which accompanies the exhibition Welcome Too Late, presents Hyperlinks or It Didn’t Happen from 2014 by American-Belgian artist Cécile B. Evans.

The film is narrated by the failed CGI rendering of a recently deceased actor, PHIL. In an intensification of so-called hyperlink cinema, the lives of a group of digital agents—render ghosts, spam bots, holograms—unfold across various settings, genres, and modes of representation.

Multiple storylines build, converge, and collapse around overarching ideas of existence without anatomy: the ways in which we live and work within the machine. Throughout, questions are raised about what it means to be materially conscious today and the rights of the personal data we release. Watch a trailer for the film.

Read more about the exhibition Welcome Too Late.

19 Apr
17.00

Goldin + Senneby: Zero Magic

With ZERO MAGIC, Goldin + Senneby have reverse engineered a confidential trading strategy of an American short-only hedge fund.

Together with stage magician Malin Nilsson and sociologist of finance Théo Bourgeron, they have developed a magic trick for the financial markets, which has the capacity to dramatically alter the public perception of a company’s valuation and profit from this.

At this week’s Charlottenborg Art Talks, Goldin + Senneby will introduce their magic trick and invite the audience to become part of the speculation.

”Goldin+Senneby define themselves as a ’collaborative framework exploring juridical, financial and spatial constructs.’ The elusiveness of this description is somewhat apt. Since 2004, when Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby started working as a duo, they have speculated around the layerings of contemporary economics, analyzing and employing different dimensions of financial markets. Their collaborative strategies have shaped a withdrawn approach wherein the artists are akin to puppeteers: their production mostly comprises choreographing the labour of others.” – João Laia, Frieze

Katie Kitamura is the author of A Separation (2017), Gone to the Forest (2013) and The Longshot (2009).
She is a two-time finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, has written for numerous publications including the New York Times, the Guardian, Granta, and Wired, and is a regular contributor to Frieze.

Read more about Charlottenborg Art Talks.

5 Apr
18.30

Charlottenborg Art Talks: Simon Dybbroe Møller

For the second part of the film programme, which accompanies the exhibition “Welcome Too Late”, Danish artist Simon Dybbroe Møller will present his trilogy about anachronisms, i.e. phenomena that are out of time.

The first film, Animate V (2012), is about the French car producer Renault’s failed model Avantime. The second film, Untitled (How Does It Feel) (2014), is about Canon 5D Mark II camera, which was the first device both to serve professional film making and still photography.

The third and most recent film, Comorous (2016), focuses on the ancient bird, the cormorant, thought to descend through unbroken lineage from the dinosaurs.

The films are stylistic pieces of montage that smoothly blends and borrows from different genres such as documentaries about nature and history, advertisement and structuralist film making.

The film will be shown throughout easter until April 19, 4 pm.

5 Apr
17.00

Peter Adolphsen & David Musgrave: Ten Small Stories/Skeleton + Flesh

In Ten Small Stories, Peter Adolphsen reads a sequence of short and very short stories. For each, he is transformed into a different animated glyph, diagram, creature or personage by his collaborator David Musgrave.

David Musgrave’s Skeleton + Flesh is a lecture, copiously illustrated with explanatory images, in which an artificial art history lecturer reflects on the termination of its employment.

David Musgrave is an artist based in London with recent solo shows at Luhring Augustine, New York and greengrassi, London. His novel Unit is published by LemonMelon. His second novel Total Abstraction is forthcoming from Somerset Press.

Peter Adolphsen is a Danish writer currently based in Oxford. His novel Machine was published in English by Harvill Secker in 2008, the novel Brummstein by Amazon Crossing i 2011 and a selection of his short stories was included in Best European Fiction 2011. His novel The Wrinkle Fuck Disease will be published in Danish by Gyldendal 2017.

Read more about Charlottenborg Art Talks.

29 Mar
18.30

Charlottenborg Art Cinema: Korakrit Arunanondchai

The film program, which accompanies the exhibition Welcome Too Late, opens with two films by Korakrit Arunanondchai, who lives and works in New York and Bangkok. Both films break with a linear timeline while switching between different timescales.

In his new film from 2017, “with history in a room filled with people with funny names 4”, a poetic and playful dialogue between the artist and a drone spirit called Chantri sets the tone:
“Someone explained the idea of reincarnation to me once; the universe is made up of one big river of spirits, both yours and mine and everything else that exists. The spirits are constantly reincarnating on a timeline that is neither the future, the past, nor the present. So Chantri, in this sense, you could be my grandmother.”

The other film is There’s a word I’m trying to remember, for a feeling I’m about to have (a distracted path towards extinction) from 2016. The film was also shown last summer on a boat in Spree during the Berlin biennale.

29 Mar
17.00

TOKE LYKKEBERG: CONTEMPORARY >< EXTEMPORARY

At this evening’s Charlottenborg Art Talk curator Toke Lykkeberg will be introducing his current exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, entitled Welcome Too Late, and lauching the film programme, which is an important part of the exhibition. Read more about the exhibition.

If there is international audience present, the talk will be in English. Otherwise in Danish.

About Charlottenborg Art Talks
Wednesdays Charlottenborg Art Talks presents talks, performances, film screenings, readings and debates about art by Danish and international artists, writers, curators and professors. The programme is arranged in collaboration with The Royal Danish Academy og Fine Art’s Schools of Visual Arts. Admission to Charlottenborg Art Talks is free.
See the entire programme.

19 Mar
16.00 - 22.00
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CPH:DOX – Tindersticks Live x Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Ticket Links:
Matinée Concert – 16 pm
https://billetto.dk/en/events/tindersticks-vs-minute-bodies

Evening Concert – 20 pm
https://billetto.dk/en/events/tindersticks-vs-minute-bodies-69e500

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Music lovers, nature lovers, art lovers and sensitive souls – Listen up! We have something special for you:

The legendary Tindersticks are coming to town to give an exclusive tribute concert at CPH:DOX in March!

Tindersticks, one of the most legendary bands from the alternative music scene, with roots in both soul and jazz will hold two quirky, beautiful and thoughtful concerts during a unique concert experience at the venue Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

The concert is a rare and very special performance of Tindersticks’ new work ‘Minute Bodies’, which is a tribute to the British photographer and timelapse pioneer F. Percy Smith, known for his innovative nature films from the beginning of the 1900s.

The performance is divided into two parts, both of which will be performed twice on Sunday, March 19.

Don’t miss this special concert experience!

Find out more at http://bit.ly/2gOcqdQ

17 Mar
18.00 - 22.00

Welcome Too Late

When everything from climate to technology is changing at accelerating pace, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to keep up. The future undercuts the present and the present recedes into the past at ever greater speed. Artists and documentarists experience arriving too late to the moment they’re trying to capture.

Instead of running after time, attempting to zoom in on the present moment, the tendency is now towards zooming out on other and bigger temporalities. This is the premise for the group exhibition Welcome Too Late in light of changes such as explosive population growth, rising temperatures and sea levels, automation, artificial intelligence, growing inequality, prospects of eternal life, resurrection of animal species and mass extinction.

Among others, the exhibition presents sculptures and movies by young artists as Iain Ball (1985, UK), Marguerite Humeau (1986, FR), and Katja Novitskova (1984, EE). Welcome Too Late is presented in collaboration with CPH:DOX and is curated by Toke Lykkeberg.

Welcome Too Late will be held at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg all the way from Sunday May 21, but there is only free entry under CPH:DOX from March 16-26. After this date Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s normal entry fee will be reintroduced (60 DKK).

Social media hashtag: #welcometoolate

8 Mar
19.00

Charlottenborg Art Cinema: Innocent on Death Row

The new cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Charlottenborg Art Cinema, has been given a unique opportunity through February and March when the cinema will be screening a series of acclaimed documentaries selected by the Why Foundation and created by some of the most respected documentarists.

The Why Foundation has selected 20 award-winning journalistic documentaries and distributed the films in a collected series called World Stories annually since 2015. Kunsthal Charlottenborg and The Why Foundation has collaborated on the screening of four films as a prelude to CPH:DOX by the title World Stories at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Innocent on Death Row:
The boy ’Paco’ is innocently convicted for murder and rape in a town 500 km from his home in Manila. The absurdities and the injustice permeates this alluring documentary on the corruption and power which sentences an innocent, young boy to begin his life as ’guilty’ in a Philippine prison and who to this day remain incarcerated in Spain.

The case, which has surprisingly little focus on the real victims, becomes a matter of conspiracy and diversion in a heavy legal system. Pacos case is still active and can be followed by several media platforms such as www.facebook.com/FreePacoNow.

Duration: 45 min
Instruction: Michael Collins and Marty Syjuco
Country: The Philippines

The documentary will be played continuously from  March 9 at 11 a.m. until March 12 at 5 p.m.

Trailer to World Stories:
https://vimeo.com/190714614

8 Mar
17.00
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Charlottenborg Art Talks: Kvindeudstillingen XX, 1975

On the International Women’s Day, March 8, 2017, the book It happened at the Women’s Exhibition, Charlottenborg 1975 written by Birgit Pontoppidan will be launched at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

In connection with the release of the book, the author can be experienced at this week’s Charlottenborg Art Talks in conversation with the principal of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Visual Arts Sanne Kofod about the book and the Women’s Exhibition XX, 1975.

The Women’s Exhibition in Charlottenborg was a considerable exhibition featuring female contributions from 42 Danish and 50 foreign artists of which many were committed to their art being politically charged.

As described in It happened at the Women’s Exhibition, Charlottenborg 1975, there was various sorts of entertainment such as dancing, opera, poetry readings, each day of the exhibition, making it accessible for both men, women and children.

With 25.000 visitors in the mere 14 days it was open to the public, the exhibition was twice as visited as Charlottenborgs other exhibitions at the time.

At the event, it will be possible to purchase the book at Kunsthallens bookstore at a special price of 250 DKK.

1 Mar
19.00

Charlottenborg Art Cinema: Miners Shot Down

The new cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Charlottenborg Art Cinema, has been given a unique opportunity through February and March when the cinema will be screening a series of acclaimed documentaries selected by the Why Foundation and created by some of the most respected documentarists.

The Why Foundation has selected 20 award-winning journalistic documentaries and distributed the films in a collected series called World Stories annually since 2015. Kunsthal Charlottenborg and The Why Foundation has collaborated on the screening of four films as a prelude to CPH:DOX by the title World Stories at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Miners Shot Down

In August 2012 a number of miners working at a platinum mine outside Johannesburg in South Africa decided to strike for better wages. The film follows both miners and employers in the six days leading up to the day when the strike ended in a massacre with 34 killed and several injured.

The shooting is described as the first post-apartheid massacre in the history of South Africa, and director Rehad Desai is able to visualize a political situation with a subtle conspiracy of the powerful bodies in the conflict that, to this day, refuses to take responsibility for.

Duration: 45 min
Instruction: Rehad Desai
Country: South Africa

The documentary will be played continuously from March 2 at 11 a.m. until March 9 at 4 p.m.

Trailer to World Stories:
https://vimeo.com/190714614

1 Mar
17.00

Charlottenborg Art Talks: Angela Dimitrakaki

Is This Rosa Luxemburg or Is It Art? Revolutionary Memory and Feminist Struggle Today

The lecture considers the political and affective need for an exchange between 21st-century feminism and a revolutionary past that is violated, excised, and undermined: that of female socialist leaders and intellectuals.

With an emphasis on Sanja Ivekovic’s work on/with Rosa Luxemburg the analysis will raise broader issues pertaining to the potential of feminism as revolution today.

Dr Angela Dimitrakaki is a writer and Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Edinburgh. Her academic research focuses on feminist and Marxist methodologies in art history; globalisation and biopolitics; art and culture in post-1989 Europe; contemporary democracy and fascism.

Dimitrakaki currently works on two books forthcoming in 2017: Feminism, Art, Capitalism, on the potential and contradictions of feminist politics in art practice and theory today; and The Economic Subjects of Contemporary Art, on artists and curators’ increased emphasis on economic relations since 1989 in an effort to contribute to a trans-disciplinary understanding of art’s complex links with socio-economic processes.

Read more about Charlottenborg Art Talks.

22 Feb
19.00

Charlottenborg Art Cinema: Dancing Boys of Afghanistan

The new cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Charlottenborg Art Cinema, has been given a unique opportunity through February and March when the cinema will be screening a series of acclaimed documentaries selected by the Why Foundation and created by some of the most respected documentarists.

The Why Foundation has selected 20 award-winning journalistic documentaries and distributed the films in a collected series called World Stories annually since 2015. Kunsthal Charlottenborg and The Why Foundation has collaborated on the screening of four films as a prelude to CPH:DOX by the title World Stories at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
The instructors Najibullah Quraishi and Jamie Doran sheds light upon an ancient tradition in Afghanistan, where poor boys from the age of 10 unknowingly ends up as so-called “Bacha Bazi” – dancing boys.

The Boys are trained to sing and dance in seducing dresses in front of a male audience. Among the power elites there is a secret prestige in ‘owning’ the most talented dancing boys who are bought, sold and exploited sexually. This practice is illegal but nevertheless widespread, as the marked of The Dancing Boys consists of the power elite of society.

Duration: 45 min
Instruction: Najibullah Quraishi and Jamie Doran
Country: Afghanistan

The documentary will be played continuously from February 23 at 11 a.m. until March 1 at 4 p.m.

Trailer to World Stories:
https://vimeo.com/190714614

15 Feb
18.30
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Charlottenborg Art Cinema: Please Vote for Me

The new cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Charlottenborg Art Cinema, has been given a unique opportunity through February and March when the cinema will be screening a series of acclaimed documentaries selected by the Why Foundation and created by some of the most respected documentarists.

The Why Foundation has selected 20 award-winning journalistic documentaries and distributed the films in a collected series called World Stories annually since 2015. Kunsthal Charlottenborg and The Why Foundation has collaborated on the screening of four films as a prelude to CPH:DOX by the title World Stories at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Please Vote For Me

Introduction to World Stories by the founder of the Why Foundation Mette Hoffmann Meyer, followed by screening of Please Vote For Me.

Is democracy a universal value adaptable to all? The Chinese director Weijun Chen unfolds a democratic experiment in which he lets a school class in Wuhan in central China vote on who should be their class-chairman.

The experiment unfolds the unsightly strategies of democracy in children’s height, and the film provides both insight into China today as well as to the strengths and weaknesses of democracy.
Weijun Chen’s film depicts the democratic processes in a time where it is not always entirely predictable who the people will elect.

Duration: 45 min
Instruction: Weijun Chen
Country: China

The documentary will be played continuously from February 16 at 11 a.m. until February 22 at 4 p.m.

Trailer til World Stories
https://vimeo.com/190714614

15 Feb
17.00 - 19.00

Charlottenborg Art Talks: Uffe Elbæk & Thomas Agergaard

Forgotten Beats

In August 2016 Danish politician and leader of the political party Alternativet Uffe Elbæk asked the composer, musician and event maker Thomas Agergaard to become artist in residence at the Danish Parliament in Christiansborg.

Agergaard immediately accepted, proposing to create a sound installation based on recordings of the heartbeats of Danish politicians. The sound installation is sponsored by the famous Danish loudspeaker company Artcoustic.

About Charlottenborg Art Talks
Wednesdays Charlottenborg Art Talks presents talks, performances, film screenings, readings and debates about art by Danish and international artists, writers, curators and professors. The programme is arranged in collaboration with The Royal Danish Academy og Fine Art’s Schools of Visual Arts.

8 Feb
18.30 - 20.30
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Hemmeligheder alle vegne

Maria Wandel

Maria Wandel exhibits drawings in Charlottenborg Foyer in connection with the release of her artbook hemmeligheder alle vegne. The exhibition opens on February 8. 2017 with booklaunch and vernissage at 18.30 – 20.30.

At the exhibition and in the artbook, hemmeligheder alle vegne, Maria Wandels graphically powerful and at the same time, subtle drawings, a fascinating universe filled with hidden stories the viewer must uncover.

The artist often lets scripture be a part of the image, not as an educational measure, let alone a moral or political reprimand, but rather as a poetic addition which can be mysterious or humorous.

The authors Per Aage Brandt, Christina Hesselholdt and Christel Wiinblad, inspired by cartoons, have written poems and prose pieces, which are included in the book.

At the vernissage, the three authors will read aloud with the exhibition as background.
The Book is the first release on the newly-founded art and literature Publishing House, ARTUR, a Turbine publisher.

8 Feb
17.00 - 18.30

Charlottenborg Art Talks: Luis Berríos-Negrón

Undisciplinary Learning and the Social Pedestal

Luis Berríos-Negrón (Puerto Rico, 1971) is a multidisciplinary artist who works in the intersection between sculpture, installation and environmentalism.

For this occasion of Charlottenborg Art Talks, Berríos-Negrón will delve into his collective and ongoing project “Anxious Prop” that explores the expansion of the performative field, the display of dematerialisation, and the academic reflex of art to get in the business of knowledge production.

Berríos-Negrón’s talk aims to open a discussion about “Anxious Prop” and the techniques, props, and preparations that allow us to sense the contemporary “environmental form” in lieu of digitalization and accelerated climate change.

Berríos-Negrón proposes this format of engagement between the artist and audience as a version of the “social pedestal” – one that may display, not necessarily knowledge or crystallized sculpture, but of personal and collective sensation as a political figure beyond our intentionality.

About the speaker
Luis Berríos-Negrón has an independent practice, and he is the founder of the Anxious Prop art collective and the Paramodular environmental design group. After a decade in Berlin Berríos-Negrón has now moved to Copenhagen.

He is currently PhD in philosophy at the Konstfack College of the Arts and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. He holds a Master of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Parsons New School for Design.

1 Feb
17.00 - 19.00

Charlottenborg Art Talks: Sara Gebran

Self-curating/Infiltration/Bribe/Camouflage...

This evening artist Sara Gebran will talk about the works “Selection-Redo”, “Another 3” and the platform she initiated with Mathias Kryger called “Accion Gorila”.

The talk will focus on choreographic tools that can be used by any artists in any art discipline as: Exploded View, Holidays at work, Bribe, Laziness, B-way, Camouflage, Infiltration, Borrow, RE-. These are proposals that challenges the problems of artists at work, the lack of time, excess of administrative work, low income, competitive field, hijacked desire, capitalist post-depression, isolation, etc.

Sara Gebran is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, and has lead the choreography education at the Danish National School of Performing Arts /Den Danske Scenekunstskolen 2012-16. Her artistic practice and teaching has been about experimenting between practice and theory, working across disciplines, in various forms of collaboration, including the agency of all the participants at work, both working with professionals and students.
The talk will be held in English, and the admission is free.

About Charlottenborg Art Talks
Wednesdays Charlottenborg Art Talks presents talks, performances, film screenings, readings and debates about art by Danish and international artists, writers, curators and professors. The programme is arranged in collaboration with The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Schools of Visual Arts.

27 Jan
17.00 - 20.00

The Freshman Exhibition 2017

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art's Schools of Visual Arts

On Friday January 27, 25 artists present works at the annual exhibition for freshmans at the academy’s Schools of Visual Arts.

This year’s Freshman Exhibition can be experienced at the students exhibition space Q on Peder Skrams Gade 2, where it is on display from January 28-29. The opening of the Freshman Exhibition 2017 is Friday January 27 at 5pm. The opening is free and open for all.

The artist exhibiting are:
Casper-Malte Augusta, Martin Brandt Hansen, Frederik Exner Carstens, Søren Frederik Petersen, Mads Hyldgaard Nielsen, Ida Hy, Simon Jakobsson, Bjarke Jepsen, Ville Laurinkoski, Nellie Lindquist, Marine Morel, Anna Munk, Kristian Alexander Norden Minthe, Helene Norup Due, Aske Høier Olsen, Kristine Karlshøj Leopold Petersson, Simin Stine Ramenazali, Adele Marie Rannes, Ida Raselli, Miki Skak, Kristine Stage, Sofia Luna, Aske Thiberg, Christian Vindelev, Victoria West.

26 Jan
18.00 - 20.00

The Chocolate Wagon

Exhibition at the Pavillion by Sebastian Hedevang and Andreas Rønholt

The Chocolate Wagon
Sebastian Hedevang and Andreas Rønholt
Exhibition period: January 27 – February 12

Thursday January 26 you’re invited to the opening of Sebastian Hedevang and Andreas Rønholt’s exhibition The Chocolate Wagon at the Pavillion in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s courtyard.

The Pavillion, which has been design by students of architecture Emil Fabritius Buchwald and Mads Nikolaj Brandt, is used as exhibition space for the students of The Schools of Visual Arts at the The Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

25 Jan
17.00 - 08.00

Charlottenborg Art Talks: Niels Norman

All Teachers are Cops: An introduction to alternative pedagogy

Nils Norman is an artist and professor at the Royal Danish Academy of the Fine Arts, Copenhagen. He has been exploring a variety of experimental approaches to art education at graduate and post graduate level in collaboration with friends and students since 1999.

Building upon ideas from a variety of writers, educationalists and projects that foreground student-led learning using experiential and academic research methods. His most recent text on the subject was published in Contestations: Learning From Critical Experiments In Education, Ed Tim Ivison & Tom Vandeputte, Bedford Press London, 2014.

About Charlottenborg Art Talks
Wednesdays Charlottenborg Art Talks presents talks, performances, film screenings, readings and debates about art by Danish and international artists, writers, curators and professors. The programme is arranged in collaboration with The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Schools of Visual Arts.

11 Jan
17.00 - 20.00
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An Age of Our Own Making

Seminar

In the last week of An Age of Our Own Making we have invited important voices to the exhibition series to make presentations: Prof. AbdouMaliq Simone will present the article “Urban Collective Life Down South” which has inspired the exhibition and is published in the catalogue.

Artists Harold Offeh, the duo Ali Al-Fatlawi & Wathiq Al-Ameri will present performances, and curator Solvej Helweg Ovesen will give a tour in the exhibition.
After the seminar the NGO Turning Tables will introduce to their work with young people in challenged areas.

The programme for the seminar looks as follows:
4.30pm: exhibition tour by curator Solvej Helweg Ovesen
5pm: Performance by Ali Al-Fatlawi & Wathiq Al-Ameri, foyer.
5.30pm: Lecture by AdbouMaliq Simone, moderated by af Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, The Cinema, mezzanine.
6.45pm: Performance by Harold Offeh performance, introduced by af Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, mezzanine.
7.15pm: Introduktion til Turning Tables’ arbejde om empowering marginalised youth through music and film

An Age of Our Own Making is an exhibition series in three “chapters” that took place in three Danish cities – in public space in Holbæk, at Roskilde Festival & The Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde and at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen – from May 2016 to January 2017. The project is initiated and organized by The Municipality of Holbæk and is part of IMAGES 2016, an art programme that unfolded in art institutions and public spaces all over Denmark in 2016.