Culture Night

Culture Night 2024 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

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 that, unfortunately, the tour is not suitable for wheelchair users or strollers due to many stairs and limited elevator access.

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/

There will be an opportunity to purchase a daily special and drinks at Apollo Kantine in the ground floor of the art gallery.