Reading Group #2 – Andreas Albrectsen

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

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

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

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

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

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