Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale

What would artists advertise today? The 2023 edition of the Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale is an inquuiry into advertising space and its potential use for artists. The biennale activates avant-garde histories of alternative artistic distribution methods while focusing specifically on the visual economy of advertising, where value is perpetually constructed and circulated.

Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale is an international art exhibtion 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.

Participating artists in the Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale 2023:

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

The 2023 Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale will be curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968), who is director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, and Jeppe Ugelvig (b. 1993), a freelance curator whose credits include exhibitions in Beijing, Hong Kong, New York and Ramallah. In 2020, Ugelvig was also co-curator of the exhibition Witch Hunt at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

The works featured in the exhibition are displayed on nationwide advertising panels, which means that 84% of the population will be able to experience the biennale. The event continues in the vein of Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s previous nationwide exhibitions Yoko Ono – Transmission (2017), It’s Urgent! (2019) and Poet Slash Artist (2021).

The Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale is produced in collaboration with AFA JCDecaux. Supported by The Augustinus Foundation, The Obel Family Foundation, and the Danish Arts Foundation.