Join us for an evening with artist Nora Al-Badri, who will give the talk Decolonizing Data: AI and Technoheritage  and afterwards have a conversation with exhibition curator Nadim Samman.

Al-Badri is part of the current exhibition Poetics of Encryption, displaying the video work The Post-Truth Museum (2021–23) which features deepfakes of museum directors narrating their collection’s imperial pasts.

At the lecture at Kunsthal Charlottenborg Nora Al-Badri will discuss themes such as algorithmic coloniality and the problem with bias, knowledge and epistemicide as well as presenting her works The Post-Truth-Museum and Babylonian Vision, sharing her reflections on technoheritage, the role of museums and why she has been working with AI since 2018.

The event will be in English. It’s free to participate and no registration is required.

About the artist:

Nora Al-Badri is a multi-disciplinary and conceptual media artist with a German-Iraqi background. Her works are research-based as well as paradisciplinary  and post-colonial. She lives and works in Berlin. She graduated in political sciences at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main and is a lecturer at the Eidgenössische Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich and a guest professor at the Academy of Arts in Stuttgart. Her practice focuses on the politics and the emancipatory potential  of new technologies such as machine intelligence or data sculpting. Al-Badri’s artistic material is a speculative archaeology from fossils to artefacts or performative interventions in museums and other public spaces, that respond to the inherent power structures.

She has exhibited in the Viktoria and Albert Museums’ Applied Arts Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, Design Biennal Istanbul, ZKM Karlsruhe, KW Contemporary Berlin, Science Gallery Dublin, NRW Forum, European Media Art Festival, Transmediale, Space Fundacion Telefonica, Ars Electronica amongst others.

Her work was featured from media all over the world like The New York Times, BBC, The Times, Artnet, Wired, Le Monde Afrique, Financial Times, Arte TV, The Independent, New Statesmen, Hyperallergic, Smithsonian, Al Ahram, Vice, Hürriyet, Dezeen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Spiegel Online, Heise, The Boston Globe, Archdaily, Polska, La informacion, De Volkskrant, Gizmodo, New Scientist, Popular Science and The Verge amongst others.

The event is in Danish – further info here.

On November 6th, Kunsthal Charlottenborg hosts the Copenhagen-launch of Marie Kølbæk Iversen’s new book, Histories of Predation. Join us for the book launch from 18.30 and a performance at 19.15. The admission is free to Kunsthal Charlottenborg 17.00-20.00.

At the book launch there will be served drinks in our book shop, where the book will be sold at a special launch price. Histories of Predation draws its name from Marie Kølbæk Iversen’s large-scale video work by the same name. For the launch, an iteration of the work will be shown in our cinema, where Marie Kølbæk Iversen will also perform merpeople songs as part of her performance project Donnimaar.

Histories of Predation chronicles Marie Kølbæk Iversen’s video work Rovhistorier | Histories of Predation which is based on microscopic video recordings from within the eye lenses of the gurry shark, also known as the grey shark or Greenland shark. Through carbon-14 dating of its eye lens nuclei, recent marine biological research has shown that the shark may live to become as old as 272 to 512 years, which opens up a perspective of more-than-human ‘eye witnessing’ that far exceeds the human life span. Across the Nordic-Germanic languages, the grey shark has traditionally been designated as a ‘merperson’: In Icelandic, Faroese, and Danish as ‘merman’—‘hákarl’/’havkallur’/‘havkal’—and in Norwegian and Swedish as ‘mermaid’—‘håkjerringa’/‘håkjäring.’

For the launch, Marie Kølbæk Iversen activates these mythological axes of the Atlantic Ocean by performing folksongs from her East Atlantic home region in Western Jutland that features merpeople as dissident Others in relation to the Danish nation-state and its authorities.

About the artist:
Marie Kølbæk Iversen (*Herning, 1981) lives and works in Copenhagen. Vocalist of Donnimaar since 2017. Visual artist MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2008, and PhD in practice-based visual art from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Aarhus University in 2023. Marie Kølbæk Iversen works across time-based, image-borne and sculptural media. She has exhibited and performed extensively in Scandinavia and abroad, among others at the Gwangju Biennial (KR), the Centre d’art contemporain Genève (CH), Henie Onstad Art Centre (NO), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (DK), SMK—Danish National Gallery (DK), and PARMER (US). Her work is represented in notable collections, such as SMK—Danish National Gallery (DK), Malmö Konstmuseum (SE), and the ARKEN Museum of Modern Art (DK). Histories of Predation (Mousse Publishing, 2024) is her most recent artist book.

About the book:
Histories of Predation is a book about active mythic thinking and scientific storytelling, about fright, trauma, and potentials for transformation. It traces Marie Kølbæk Iversen’s critical reimagining of subjectivity and cultural history, from Mirror Therapy (2015–16) and Io/I (2015–19) to Histories of Predation (2022–) and the performance project Donnimaar (2017–). Interrogating the demographic and aesthetic homogenization of the mid-nineteenth-century Danish nation-state and the ensuing forced forgetting of divergent identities, the book offers a deep-time view on processes of nation building by probing the geopolitical “mythologics” they hinge on.

Published by Mousse and Podere Trafonti
Texts by Marie Kølbæk Iversen, Adam Khalil, Isabella Rjeille, and Yann Chateigné Tytelman
Design by Maximage
2024
English / Italian
136 pages
Hardcover, 19 x 26 cm
ISBN 978-88-6749-598-6
€27 / $30

Histories of Predation is part of the Podere Trafonti notebook series. Further info here

Every first Tuesday of each month art lovers on parental leave can experience contemporary art in a baby-friendly pace at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s usual opening hours and get the opportunity to experience our 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:
1 Oct: Francis Upritchard, Any Noise Annoys an Oyster
5 Nov: Poetics of Encryption
3 Dec: Francis Upritchard, Any Noise Annoys an Oyster

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 or heat up baby food. The Kunsthal provides an electric kettle and a microwave.

In Apollo Bar you can buy snacks as well as coffee and cake and here there is also plenty of space for strollers in our courtyard.

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

Art with your baby is sponsored by bObles

During week 42, you can bring your family to Kunsthal Charlottenborg, where you can experience the two newly opened exhibitions and a range of creative activities for both children and adults. Join for a treasure hunt through the exhibitions guided by a mystifying treasure map, and continue exploring our current exhibitions Any Noise Annoys an Oyster by Francis Upritchard and Poetics of Encryption at our family tour. Anyone who wants to unleash their creativity can create fantasy sculptures from various exciting materials and make their own flag in two workshops inspired by the works from the exhibitions.

PROGRAM

Wednesday, 16 October 16:
17.00-18.00: Family tour in Any Noise Annoys an Oyster
17.00-19.00: Create your own fantasy sculpture with inspiration from Any Noise Annoys an Oyster
Admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg is free every Wednesday 17.00-20.00.

Saturday 19 October:
12.00-13.00: Family tour in Poetics of Encryption
13.00-14.00: Create your own personal flag with inspiration from Poetics of Encryption

Our art treasure hunt is open for children and adults throughout the week during our opening hours.

Workshop: Create Your Own Fantasy Sculpture
Age group: 5-100

Sculptures in bronze, natural rubber, textiles, and papier-mâché. Ancient giants, mythological creatures, miniatures, futurism, and much more will be present through Francis Upritchard’s fascinating and captivating universe in the exhibition Any Noise Annoys an Oyster. Beneath the surface lurk mystique, mythical creatures, and unknown forms, perhaps even sweet, new friends. Inspired by the exhibition, you can, at Culture Night, enter the realm of strangeness and acquaint yourself with the artist’s materials, digging your hands deep in the clay to continue imagining who might inhabit Upritchard’s shared fantasy universe. In the workshop, you can create your own miniature sculpture out of clay and other exciting materials and explore what a sculpture can be.

Workshop: Who Do You Fly the Flag For?
Age group: 8-100

The exhibition Poetics of Encryption highlights the impact technology and our online presents can have on how we think and feel about ourselves, others, politics, and much more. Among the vast array of information, images, advertisements, etc., the internet is also home to a multitude of communities, sometimes, they are very small and highly specific. Artist Joshua Citarella is intrigued by the many, sometimes dark, corners of the internet, through this fascination he has created the work E-deologies, a series of flags – a kind of simplified personal branding for some of the hyperspecific political ideologies and communities that exist only online. At the Culture Night workshop, we will similarly play with the idea of how our own personal stories, playful identity, or personal branding might look in an easily decipherable way by designing and creating our own personal flag using various materials and incorporating icons, symbols, memes, and images

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

No registration is required. There is an elevator, so it is possible to bring wheelchairs, strollers, etc.

Bring your family on Friday, October 11th, and experience the newly opened exhibitions through a series of inspiring workshops. Here, you will have the opportunity to create fantasy sculptures inspired by Francis Upritchard’s dinosaurs, mermaids, and other creatures or design your very own personal flag in the style of Joshua Citarella’s works, which explore internet culture in the exhibition Poetics of Encryption. You can also join an art treasure hunt or take a historical guided tour at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Program

18.00 – 00.00: Treasure Hunt – Find the Detail from the Artwork
18.00 – 00.00: Exhibitions – Any Noise Annoys an Oyster and Poetics of Encryption
18.00 – 22.00: Workshop – Create Your Own Fantasy Sculpture
18.00 – 22.00: Workshop – Who Do You Fly For?
19.00 – 20.15: Guided Tour at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
21.00 – 22.15: Guided Tour at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

Interactive Treasure Hunt in Poetics of Encryption
Age group: 5-100
Embark on a treasure hunt in the exhibition space of Poetics of Encryption, where you will explore details from selected artworks, follow the clues, and answer the questions. You can complete the tasks on your own or bring an adult or friend along on the hunt. There is a small prize for everyone who participates in the treasure hunt.

Workshop: Create Your Own Fantasy Sculpture
Age group: 5-100
Sculptures in bronze, natural rubber, textiles, and papier-mâché. Ancient giants, mythological creatures, miniatures, futurism, and much more will be present through Francis Upritchard’s fascinating and captivating universe in the exhibition Any Noise Annoys an Oyster. Beneath the surface lurk mystique, mythical creatures, and unknown forms, perhaps even sweet, new friends. Inspired by the exhibition, you can, at Culture Night, enter the realm of strangeness and acquaint yourself with the artist’s materials, digging your hands deep in the clay to continue imagining who might inhabit Upritchard’s shared fantasy universe. In the workshop, you can create your own miniature sculpture out of clay and other exciting materials and explore what a sculpture can be.

Workshop: Who Do You Fly For?
Age group: 8-100
The exhibition Poetics of Encryption highlights the impact technology and our online presents can have on how we think and feel about ourselves, others, politics, and much more. Among the vast array of information, images, advertisements, etc., the internet is also home to a multitude of communities, sometimes, they are very small and highly specific. Artist Joshua Citarella is intrigued by the many, sometimes dark, corners of the internet, through this fascination he has created the work E-deologies, a series of flags – a kind of simplified personal branding for some of the hyperspecific political ideologies and communities that exist only online. At the Culture Night workshop, we will similarly play with the idea of how our own personal stories, playful identity, or personal branding might look in an easily decipherable way by designing and creating our own personal flag using various materials and incorporating icons, symbols, memes, and images.

Guided Tour: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
We open the doors to the old Charlottenborg Palace, which was built in 1672-1683. In 1753, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts moved in, and the address at Kgs. Nytorv 1 has been a centre of Danish visual arts ever since. The Academy of Fine Arts has been home to the education of some of the greatest Danish artists – and all the historic rooms are still buzzing with life today. There will be two guided tours, one at 19.00 and one at 21.00. Both tours will be in Danish.
Please note: Unfortunately, the tour is not suitable for wheelchair users or strollers due to many stairs and limited elevator access. There are limited places for the tours, places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Meeting point is in our reception.

Culture Night at Charlottenborg is made possible in collaboration with Simone Syska Andersen. Simone Syska Andersen is a creative consultant, art communicator, and educator with experience from several years in the museum world. She works freelance with the development and management of both long-term projects and art workshops for various exhibition venues, Copenhagen Municipality, and others.

Practical Information:
Friday, October 11th, 18:00-24:00
Admission: Access with a Culture Pass for 125 DKK
Children under 12 years: Free admission
Culture Passes can be purchased on the Culture Night webshop: https://kulturnatten.dk/kulturpas/

Culture Night at Kunsthal Charlottenborg is created in collaboration with creative consultant and art educator Simone Syska Andersen.

Read more about the exhibitions here: https://kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/en/

You can purchase drinks at Apollo Kantine.

A giant natural rubber dinosaur, fabric masks with pink beards and football eyes, and a troll with several trolls in its ears. In the universe of New Zealand sculptor Francis Upritchard, you can find centaurs, mermaids, and other wondrous creatures and mythical beings. Is it perhaps a journey back to the past, or could it be the future that looks like this?

Join the guided tour and gain a unique insight into the creation of the exhibition as curator Henriette Bretton-Meyer unfolds Upritchard’s practice. During the tour, you will get a general introduction to the exhibition, learn more about the various materials, and hear the stories behind some of the many details that can be experienced in the more than 100 works of ceramics, hand-blown vases, jewelry, tapestries, and sculptures featured in the exhibition. Read more about the exhibition here.

The tour will be in Danish and no registration is required. Admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg is free every Wednesday 17.00-20.00.

How do some of the most influential artists of our time relate to the rapid development of artificial intelligence, and how will it impact contemporary art?

Get a unique insight into the creation process of Poetics of Encryption when exhibition curator Nadim Samman invites you on a special guided tour of the exhibition. The comprehensive group exhibition explores the dark side of tech, bringing together 38 international artists, spanning both analogue and digital media with a mix of historical and new works.

Nadim Samman will present and discuss the work involved in creating Poetics of Encryption, which explores the fascination and concerns surrounding new technologies and artificial intelligence. Read more about the exhibition here.

Nadim Samman is also the author of the recent book titled Poetics of Encryption. Art and the Technocene. It surveys an imaginative landscape marked by ‘Black Sites’, ‘Black Boxes’, and ‘Black Holes’ — terms that indicate how technical systems capture users, how they work in stealth, and how they distort cultural space-time. These three themes form the basis for Poetics of Encryption that play out across more than 1000 m2 in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s south wing.

The tour will be in English and no registration is required. The admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg is free every Wednesday 17.00-20.00.

Every first Tuesday of each month art lovers on parental leave can experience contemporary art in a baby-friendly pace at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Visit Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s usual opening hours and get the opportunity to experience our 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:
1 Oct: Francis Upritchard, Any Noise Annoys an Oyster
5 Nov: Poetics of Encryption
3 Dec: Francis Upritchard, Any Noise Annoys an Oyster

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 or heat up baby food. The Kunsthal provides an electric kettle and a microwave.

In Apollo Bar you can buy snacks as well as coffee and cake and here there is also plenty of space for strollers in our courtyard.

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

Art with your baby is sponsored by bObles

Join us when Kunsthal Charlottenborg opens its doors for the autumn season, featuring two new exhibitions and an after party on Friday, September 27th.

Experience the opening of Any Noise Annoys an Oyster by Francis Upritchard and the comprehensive group exhibition Poetics of Encryption. Santino will be playing in the foyer, and Apollo Bar will serve free bubbles to the first 100 guests. Throughout the evening, you can purchase beer, wine, drinks, and the “dish of the day” at Apollo Kantine.

Just before the opening of the exhibition Poetics of Encryption, curator Nadim Samman and participating artists will give an introduction to the exhibition, the works and the creation process behind them. The introduction takes place in our cinema. It is free to participate and places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis (doors open at 15.30).

After the opening, the party moves on to the legendary Culture Box’s Black Box. Here, there will be free admission between 21.00 and 22.00, and until midnight, you can experience a series of musical and visual performances with Eliott Litrowski, Rhyw & Moritz Stumm LIVE A/V, and Alva Noto (DJ set) playing at the After party: Poetics of Encryption x Culture Box.

PROGRAM

16.00-17.00 Artist talk with curator Nadim Samman and participating artists from Poetics of Encryption

17.00-21.00 Opening of the exhibitions Poetics of Encryption and Any Noise Annoys an Oyster by Francis Upritchard

21.00-00.00 After party: Poetics of Encryption x Culture Box

21.00-22.00 Eliott Litrowski

22.00-23.00 Rhyw & Moritz Stumm LIVE A/V (Fever AM / Flipping The Coin)

23.00-00.00 Alva Noto (DJ set)

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen K
17.00-21.00, free admission
Culture Box
Kronprinsessegade 54, 1306 Copenhagen K
21.00-00.00, free admission from 21.00 to 22.00, after which Culture Box’s regular admission fee applies.

Francis Upritchard:
Look forward to experience the New Zealand-born sculptor Francis Upritchard unfold a world of mermaids, mythical creatures and eccentric figures in her first Scandinavian exhibition. With more than 100 works, ranging from large-scale figurative sculptures to ceramics, blown glass vases, jewellery and diminutive beings, this comprehensive exhibition creates a space somewhere between ideas of our past and visions for a future. Further info here

Poetics of Encryption:
Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents this year’s major group exhibition in close collaboration with KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Poetics of Encryption explores the dark side of tech, bringing together 38 international artists. Installed in Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s grand south wing, the exhibition spans analogue and digital media featuring historic and newly commissioned works. Further info here

Just before the opening of the exhibition Poetics of Encryption, curator Nadim Samman will give an introduction to the exhibition, the works and the creation process behind them together with some of the participating artists:

Andrea Khôra
Clusterduck
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Eva & Franco Mattes
Jonna Kina
Jürgen Mayer H.
Kristian Kragelund
Mathias Gramoso
Matthias Planitzer
Nanna Debois Buhl
Nico Vascellari
Troika

The introduction takes place in our cinema. It is free to participate and places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis (doors open at 15.30).

Look forward to August 29th – September 1st at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, when CHART opens its doors to this year’s art fair. The program offers a variety of exhibitions, talks, a book fair, and an extensive public program with events in the courtyards of Charlottenborg featuring music, performances, architecture, and installation artworks. Further info here

Opening hours:
29 Aug 11-19 VIP Preview
30 Aug 11-19
31 Aug 11-18
01 Sep 11-17

Join us for the finissage and the last day with the exhibition Thick & Thin, where you can experience artist Simon Dybbroe Møller participating in a live therapy session with psychologist Dr. Debbie Quackenbush.

The talk will take place Sunday 11 August, 15.00-16.00 and is in English. Before and after the talk, it is possible to see the exhibition one last time, and after the event we will serve a glass of bubbles.

There is free entry to the event after paid admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. No registration is required to participate in the event, places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Read more about the exhibition Thick & Thin here.

About the participants:

Simon Dybbroe Møller is a professor at the School of Sculptors at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He has studied visual arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and lived and worked in Berlin and New York until he moved back to Denmark in 2019. Simon Dybbroe Møller has had solo exhibitions in Denmark and abroad, and is right now displaying his solo exhibition Thick & Thin at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, which is the most comprehensive presentation of his practice to date and which shows works from the mid-2000s until today.

Debbie Quackenbush, Ph.D. received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Utah. She is published in the areas of human sexuality and cybertherapy. She has extensive experience working with a variety of problems and population including: stress, depression, anxiety, life transition, addiction, and divorce. She has experience with chronic mental illness, as well. Dr. Quackenbush’s in Private Practice in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was most recently a Psychologist at the renowned Menninger Clinic, in Houston, Texas.

In connection with the last week of the exhibition Thick & Thin, on Wednesday evening 7 August you can experience the artist Simon Dybbroe Møller in one-on-one conversations with:

Maja Li Härdelin, Artist
Kirsten Ortwed, Sculptur
Anders Kold, Curator at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Steven Shainberg, Film Director

Each participant will interview Simon Dybbroe Møller for 20 minutes about the thoughts behind the exhibition Thick & Thin, which is on display in our south wing until 11 August 2024. Read more about the exhibition here.

The conversations will shift between taking place in Danish and in English. There is free admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg at 17.00-20.00 and for the event, where seats are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

About the participants:

Simon Dybbroe Møller is a professor at the School of Sculptors at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He has studied visual arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and lived and worked in Berlin and New York until he moved back to Denmark in 2019. Simon Dybbroe Møller has had solo exhibitions in Denmark and abroad, and is right now displaying his solo exhibition ‘Thick & Thin’ at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, which is the most comprehensive presentation of his practice to date and which shows works from the mid-2000s until today.

Maja Li Härdelin is an artist and lives and works in Malmö. She has a Master’s degree from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and until recently was Simon Dybbroe Møller’s student at the Sculpture School. In addition to her MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2023, Maja Li has a BA from the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts in 2020. She currently has her first solo exhibition, ‘Cats – The Exhibition’ at PS44, Kunsthal 44Møen.

Kirsten Ortwed is a sculptor and graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1975. In 1982 she moved to Cologne. She has had solo exhibitions in Danish and international museums, and has several sculptures placed in public spaces. She has received multiple honours, including Eckersberg medaljen and Thorvaldsen Medaillen. She represented Denmark at the Venice Biennale in 1997. In 2022, Ortwed moved back to Denmark.

Anders Kold, curator & Head of Acquisitions, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Has worked for more than 30 years at art institutions with Danish and foreign modern and contemporary art.

Steven Shainberg is an American film director, writer and producer. He is, among other things, known for the films Secretary (2002) starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader, Rupture (2016), and Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr. He currently lives in Copenhagen.

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

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

AICA – The Association of Danish Art Critics celebrates the art scene with this year’s Art Critics Awards for activities in 2023 on June 19^th 2024 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Every year The Art Critics Award is awarded to initiatives on the Danish/Faroese/Greenlandic art scene to put art and art criticism on the agenda. The members of the association nominates in each category and the award winners are chosen by a jury. This years jury is art critic Troels Laursen, art critic and writer Louise Steiwer and rector of the Funen Art Academy Kristine Kern. The Art Critic Award is generously supported by 15. Junifonden.

The jury has shortlisted the following in the category Art Exhibition of the Year:
Full of days, kurateret af Julia Rodrigues & Francesca Astesani, Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Butterfly, kurateret af Esben Weile Kjær, Arken
Kirsten Christensen, Drømmene rider forbi – det haster, Holstebro Kunstmuseum 

The jury has shortlisted the following in the category Art Publication of the Year:

MC Coble & Louise Wolthers: Things Change Anyway, Forlaget *[asterisk] og Breadfield Press
Rasmus Myrup: The Völvas Bestiary of Best Friends, Rasmus Myrup/Coda Press
Bibliotek for ny kunstteori, Informations Forlag

The jury has shortlisted the following in the category Art Event of the Year:
Guðrið Poulsen: KARYATIDA, Monument for kvinder, der er døde i barselsseng, Fuglafjørður
Jessie Klemann: Lone Wolf Runner, performance, Statens Museum for Kunst
Simon Starling: Husbåd til Ho, kunst i offentligt rum, Sønder Ho/Varde Kommune

15. Junifondens special award to an art critic of the year will be announced by the fund at the award ceremony at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

As part of the exhibition Thick & Thin, experience the Danish artist Simon Dybbroe Møller’s series What Do People Do All Day (2019), which is a contemporary update to Richard Scarry’s 1968 children’s book of the same name. Replacing the original’s drawings of cute animals doing people-things in industrious and purposeful Busytown with real-life people in working situations, Dybbroe Møller juxtaposes Scarry’s idealistic “everybody is a worker” ethos with the “everything is work” reality.

What Do People Do All Day asks viewers to look at their own work and the work that makes their life possible, even if it might be invisibilized, or just looked over. We shop and cook and clean. We fall in love, we have sex. However, all these practices are increasingly mediated, alienated, and alienating. Someone else buys our groceries from an app, or we are that someone else. We swipe through potential lovers who are just images and a first name. Data and the management of complexity have seeped into even our most primal needs for sustenance and for touch.

A narrator’s voice quotes everything from Scarry’s book to Elio Petri’s film The Working Class Goes to Heaven from 1971, while non-actors in changing costumes stand frozen in changing scenographies.

What Do People Do All Day is screened in our cinema from 18 June to 11 August. The work loops during our opening hours (4 episodes, 30min).

Experience the The Royal Danish Academy of Art Schools of Visual Arts from the inside for the school exhibition ‘Rundgang’ on the weekend Friday 14 – Sunday 16 June 2024.

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.

The Academy of Arts is open all weekend, and admission is free. You can experience exhibitions, installations, performances and film screenings.

In Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s cinema you can experience:

Aase Nielsen, SoMe Compilation November (6:30 min.)
Ba Bladh, Supercrush (30 min.)
Frej Volander, Freeform Falling (4 min.)
Mathias Westbrook, Pseudo Sorcerer (5 min.)
Miglė Vyčinaitė, Partly Cloudy with Occasional Turmoil (10 min.)
Mishael Fapohunda, That’s All Folks (10 min.)
Nathalia Koux, Peel My Skin (12 min.)
Nivetha Balasubramaniam, Amala and Companion (40 min.)
Yeshin Lee, Cottagecore (5 min.)

The admission is free to the film program at Rundgang, the films are looping during our regular opening hours.

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

Opening hours:
Friday 14 June: 15-20
Saturday 15 June: 12-18
Sunday 16 June: 12-17

Painting in the courtyard at Charlottenborg Castle on Friday 14 June at 15.00.

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

17.00-20.00: Free admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg
19.00-19.30: Reincarnations of Shadows – Shadows that shed light  (Danish)

This summer’s major exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents a survey of the work of Danish artist Simon Dybbroe Møller from the past 20 years. We look forward to seeing you at the opening:

FRIDAY 7 JUNE

Just before the exhibition opens, you can experience a conversation between Simon Dybbroe Møller and curator Krist Gruijthuijsen, seats are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

Program:
16.00 Talk with Simon Dybbroe Møller & Krist Gruijthuijsen
17.00 Speeches and opening of Thick & Thin
17.20 The bar is open, music by Erdal Bilici b2b Lukas Danys
20.00 Thank you for coming!

About the exhibition:
In his practice, Simon Dybbroe Møller investigates and complicates common binaries: copy and original, motif and depiction. The artist tests what sculpture is or can be, in a world that is dictated by the photographic; a world where our economy and attention has shifted from the object to the image.

‘Thick & Thin’ hints at this preoccupation with the relationship between sculpture (thick) and imagery (thin) as well as the twists and turns of two decades of artistic practice – through “thick and thin”. His solo exhibitions often have the atmosphere of carefully curated group shows, and many works chosen for the exhibition use autobiographical elements to examine notions of identity and representation, and question tropes and mechanisms of depiction. Rather than settling into one medium or style, Dybbroe Møller continuously probes new territories, moving between film, photography, found objects, installation, sculpture, performance, writing, curating and teaching.

Simon Dybbroe Møller was born in Aarhus in 1976 and has been professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Sculpture in Copenhagen since 2019. He has previously had solo exhibitions in several international institutions as well as participated in biennials and group exhibitions worldwide. Simon Dybbroe Møller is the founder of the performance program Why Words Now and, together with the artist Nina Beier, runs the exhibition site AYE-AYE in Copenhagen.

‘Thick & Thin’ has been developed in close collaboration between the artist and with curator Krist Gruijthuijsen, director KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin.

The exhibition is supported by The Augustinus Foundation, The Beckett Foundation, The Danish Arts Foundation, The New Carlsberg Foundation, The Obel Family Foundation, The William Demant Foundation as well as Belvedere 21, Gallery FRANCESCA MININI, Fastighetaktiebolaget Folkets Hus in Stockholm, The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Sammlung Ivo Moser.

Just before the opening of the solo exhibition with Simon Dybbroe Møller, you can experience curator Krist Gruijthuijsen in conversation with the Danish artist and sculpture professor about the exhibition Thick & Thin, and the works and the creation process behind them.

The talk is in English and takes place in our cinema. Admission is free and seats are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

After the talk, we invite you to the opening of the exhibition at 17.00-20.00.

About the exhibition:
In his practice, Simon Dybbroe Møller investigates and complicates common binaries: copy and original, motif and depiction. The artist tests what sculpture is or can be, in a world that is dictated by the photographic; a world where our economy and attention has shifted from the object to the image.

‘Thick & Thin’ hints at this preoccupation with the relationship between sculpture (thick) and imagery (thin) as well as the twists and turns of two decades of artistic practice – through “thick and thin”. His solo exhibitions often have the atmosphere of carefully curated group shows, and many works chosen for the exhibition use autobiographical elements to examine notions of identity and representation, and question tropes and mechanisms of depiction. Rather than settling into one medium or style, Dybbroe Møller continuously probes new territories, moving between film, photography, found objects, installation, sculpture, performance, writing, curating and teaching.

Simon Dybbroe Møller was born in Aarhus in 1976 and has been professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Sculpture in Copenhagen since 2019. He has previously had solo exhibitions in several international institutions as well as participated in biennials and group exhibitions worldwide. Simon Dybbroe Møller is the founder of the performance program Why Words Now and, together with the artist Nina Beier, runs the exhibition site AYE-AYE in Copenhagen.

‘Thick & Thin’ has been developed in close collaboration between the artist and with curator Krist Gruijthuijsen, director KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin.

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

Bring the family for a guided tour at Kunsthal Charlottenborg with one of our skilled guides who will introduce to the critically acclaimed exhibition Reincarnations of Shadows by Thao Nguyen Phan. The guided tour will be in Danish.

Through fairy tales, literature, philosophy and everyday life, the Vietnamese artist creates dreamlike and poetic narratives that deal with pressing questions surrounding her homeland’s history in relation to contemporary environmental and social changes.

Come and explore the symbolic and imaginative artworks, and hear what materials and techniques the artist has used. With works ranging from film installations, light sculptures and architectural interventions to delicate watercolors and meticulously executed lacquer paintings, you can get an insight into Vietnamese contemporary art.

The tour is organized so that both children and adults can join. It is free to participate with paid entrance to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. There is free entry for children under 16 years of age.

This evening you can experience a very special live performance with musician, artist and performer Nguyen Thanh Thuy in the critically acclaimed exhibition Reincarnations of Shadows.

Nguyen Thanh Thuy has created the music for Thao Nguyen Phan’s latest film work and will on this evening 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.

The admission is free to Kunsthal Charlottenborg 17.00-20.00 and to the event, no reservation is required.

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, 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.

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 Vietnam in relation to contemporary environmental and social changes. Further info here.

Bring the family for a guided tour at Kunsthal Charlottenborg with one of our skilled guides who will introduce to the critically acclaimed exhibition Reincarnations of Shadows by Thao Nguyen Phan. The guided tour will be in Danish.

Through fairy tales, literature, philosophy and everyday life, the Vietnamese artist creates dreamlike and poetic narratives that deal with pressing questions surrounding her homeland’s history in relation to contemporary environmental and social changes.

Come and explore the symbolic and imaginative artworks, and hear what materials and techniques the artist has used. With works ranging from film installations, light sculptures and architectural interventions to delicate watercolors and meticulously executed lacquer paintings, you can get an insight into Vietnamese contemporary art.

The tour is organized so that both children and adults can join. It is free to participate with paid entrance to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. There is free entry for children under 16 years of age.

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

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

Kunsthal Charlottenborg invites, in collaboration with Apollo Bar, to a new edition of Charlottenborg Live on five selected Wednesdays in 2024, where there is free admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg at 17-20.

Look forward to talks, film screenings, and guided tours, where you can meet international artists, be inspired by new talents and gain more knowledge and artistic experiences.

From 16.00 you can start your with a drink at Apollo Bar at a special price and then immerse yourself in our current exhibitions.

Program 24 April:

16.00-17.30: Drinks in Apollo Bar, Gin & Tonic DKK 60
17.00-20.00: Free admission to Kunsthal Charlottenborg
17.30-20.00: The artists introduces their works on this year’s MFA Degree Show
19.00-20.00: Tours in the current exhibitions

Bring the family for a guided tour at Kunsthal Charlottenborg with one of our skilled guides who will introduce to the critically acclaimed exhibition Reincarnations of Shadows by Thao Nguyen Phan. The guided tour will be in Danish.

Through fairy tales, literature, philosophy and everyday life, the Vietnamese artist creates dreamlike and poetic narratives that deal with pressing questions surrounding her homeland’s history in relation to contemporary environmental and social changes.

Come and explore the symbolic and imaginative artworks, and hear what materials and techniques the artist has used. With works ranging from film installations, light sculptures and architectural interventions to delicate watercolors and meticulously executed lacquer paintings, you can get an insight into Vietnamese contemporary art.

The tour is organized so that both children and adults can join. It is free to participate with paid entrance to Kunsthal Charlottenborg. There is free entry for children under 16 years of age.

Experience the latest visual art by this year’s graduating students from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Visual Arts. This year, 30 artists present their works at the annual graduation exhibition opening:

Thursday 11 April, 17.00-20.00
The admission is free and everyone is invited!

Program:
17.00-20.00: Drinks from Apollo Bar, dish of the day DKK 95, music by Santino
17.10-17.20: Opening speeches by Rector Lars Bent Petersen and Curator Post Brothers
17.20-20.00: The exhibition is open

About the exhibition:
The MFA Degree Show 2024 presents works by this year’s graduating talents from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Schools of Visual Arts. It is an exhibition that both shows the individual artistic practices that unfold at the art academy, and at the same time it is a curated group exhibition that gives a general insight into the next generation of artists. Further info here.

This year’s participating artists are: Amanda Ramona, Ani Liv Kampe, Bjarke Jepsen, Cecilie Penney, Christine Dahlerup, Davide Hjort Di Fabio, Erdal Bilici, Eva Helene Pade, Freja Sofie Kirk, Hedvig Greiffenberg, Jacob Schill, Jiawei Zheng, Johan Bech Jespersen, Johanne Anastasia Stoffersen, Julie Nymann, Kamil Dossar Franko, Lukas Danys, Mikkeline Lerche Daa Natorp, Olga Kristine Stage, Philip Ullman, Sahar Jamili, Sara Krøgholt Trier, Sofus Keiding-Agger, Sophia Luna Portra, Tea Eklund Berglöw, Theodor Nymark, Thor Kazuo Buehlow, Tringa Gashi, Vibe Kilde, Wenjie Zhou

In 2024, the exhibition is curated by Post Brothers and supported by the 15 June Foundation, the Augustinus Foundation, the Obel Family Foundation.

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

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

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.

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.

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 Frieze, Kunstkritikk, Spike, and elsewhere. He lives in Copenhagen.

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

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.

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

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

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

17.00 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!

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

On Culture Night 2023 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, you can experience our newly opened exhibitions, go treasure hunting and participate in creative workshops for children.
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Culture Night takes place Friday the 13^th of October at 18.00-24.00.⁠
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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

[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.

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.

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.

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).

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Explore the digital age at Copenhagen’s annual Culture Night.
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Experience our newly opened exhibitions and take part in a series of creative workshops, which revolve around technology and utopian futures.⁠
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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.⁠
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Culture Night takes place Friday 14 October at 18.00-24.00.⁠
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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

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 24^th 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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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.

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 2^nd – 5^th 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  2^nd  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.

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 2^nd – 5^th 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

About the event

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On the  International Women’s Day on March 8^th 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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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 18^th June 2021to 27^th 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 18^th June, 2021 27^th 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.

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.

“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.

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.

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).

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

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 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 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.

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)

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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) .

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Stig Sjölund, artist and instructor at Academy of the Unknown in Stockholm, reads tarot cards for visitors to the exhibition.

Supporting Flea Market among the wind blades arranged by Ulrikke Bak og Melanie Kitti. Further information will follow.

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 6^th of July – 8^th 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.

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 55^th Venice Biennale. She has also published numerous essays and articles on contemporary art and theory.

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

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

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) 

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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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).

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.