Disobedience Archive (The Open Storage), 19 March – 10 August 2025
Dive into an expansive collection of video works that map out various artistic strategies of resistance – and apply a rich diversity of historical, geographical, and social perspectives from the 1970s onwards.
Disobedience Archive explores the relationship between art and political action by examining how struggles for resistance are translated into moving images, thereby creating a form of artistic visual activism.
Curated by Marco Scotini, Disobedience Archive has been presented at institutions worldwide since 2005, most recently at the Venice Biennale in 2024. The archive consists of a comprehensive and continuously growing collection of films chronicling nearly fifty years of social struggles across different parts of the world.
The exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg Disobedience Archive (The Open Storage) is presented in an installation developed by visual artist Christopher McSherry featuring four themes divided into two periods:
19 March – 19 May 2025:
Diaspora Activism: Atelier Impopulaire, Ursula Biemann, Bani Khoshnoudi, LIMINAL & Border Forensics, Angela Melitopoulos, Daniela Ortiz, Tita Salina & Irwan Ahmett, Sim Chi Yin, Pınar Öğrenci.
Radical Ecologies: Navjot Altaf, Ravi Agarwal, Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée (AAA), Mao Chenyu, Critical Art Ensemble, Sanjay Kak, Karrabing Film Collective, Oliver Ressler, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas.
20 May – 10 August 2025:
Gender Disobedience: Ege Berensel, Simone Cangelosi, Seba Calfuqueo, Marcelo Expósito & Núria Vila, María Galindo & Mujeres Creando, Barbara Hammer, Sara Jordenö, Carlos Motta, Güliz Saglam.
Insurgent Communities: Chto Delat, Ali Essafi, Grupo de Arte Callejero, Grupo Etcétera…, Alberto Grifi, Khaled Jarrar, Paloma Polo, Roy Samah, Mohanad Yaqubi.
The exhibition is part of HUMAN:RIGHTS – a new collaboration between Kunsthal Charlottenborg, CPH:DOX, and Human Rights Watch Denmark with support from the Frececo Foundation. The exhibition is also supported by the Augustinus Foundation, The Obel Family Foundation and the Danish Arts Foundation.
