This evening, Jan S. Hansen’s exhibition will set the scene for a reading by musician and poet Jonas Okholm who will recite previously published texts as well as excerpts from his forthcoming publication. Subsequently, the electronic duo Collisional Piledriver will perform an improvised live concert that adds a soundscape to the exhibition. The event will be in Danish.

On the occasion of Svend Bager’s project The Last Breath of Dying Institutions, the artist will give an introduction to the installation and the thoughts behind it. Afterwards Matthew Stanley Johnson, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen, will talk about his research and how he and his colleagues are working to communicate knowledge about air pollution at eye level. Johnson is one of the initiators behind the companies Airlabs and Infuser, which have created systems that measure the personal exposure of air pollution and products to protect you from it. Johnson has also served as a supervisor for Bager throughout the development of the project. Subsequently, there will be music by Palmspree consisting of Anthon P. Nymark and Stefan Napoleon.

As part of Overgaden PROJECT, we present the artist and chemist Svend Bager who for one week will occupy the backroom at Overgaden’s first floor with his installation The Last Breath of Dying Institutions. For the last couple of years, Bager has collected CO² from closure-threatened Danish and international institutions and used it to grow plants through photosynthesis to pass on  the life of the institutions in a new closed ecosystem.

The Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology and The Multispecies Salon present an evening of artistic strategies for becoming-with nonhuman agents. Performance collective Quimera Rosa will present their work on human-plant hybridity in an open chlorophyll tattoo session, and artist Mary Maggic will present their work on micro-colonization of bodies with hormone-hacking devices. There will be a following conversation, which will be moderated by multispecies ethnographer Eben Kirksey on the topic of future (non)humans.

Quimera Rosa [Pink Chimera] is a lab that researches and experiments on bodies, technology and identities. Their work is based on the deconstruction of sex and gender identities from a transfeminist perspective. Particularly interested in the articulation between art, science and technology and their functions in the production of subjectivities, their work is currently focused on the creation of transdisciplinary projects as Trans*Plant, that utilizes living systems and is based on self-experimentation as a process that involves a ‘human > plant’ transition.

Mary Maggic is a non-binary artist who makes freak science, workshops with the public, performs with aliens, and exhibits with urine. They exist between the categorized fields of bio-art, bio-hacking, art-science, citizen-science, though it would rather abandon all. Their most recent work concerns the (lovely) tension between active and passive queering through estrogenic micro-colonizations and asks: do you want to be more alien than you already are? 

Eben Kirksey studies the political dimensions of imagination as well as the interplay of natural and cultural history.  Duke University Press has published his two books—Freedom in Entangled Worlds (2012) and Emergent Ecologies (2015)—as well as one edited collection: The Multispecies Salon (2014). Venturing into art worlds, he has staged a number of “performative experiments” that have exposed and derailed dominant practices for managing life.

To mark the opening several of the works in Hannah Anbert’s exhibition will be activated by performers.

Welcome to the opening of the exhibitions Populus by Jan S. Hansen and Slower and Cheaper by Hannah Anbert.

For the exhibition Consumed Future Spewed Up as Present by Lea Guldditte Hestelund, the author Olga Ravn has written a work of fiction, which is presented as one of the works in the installation. As well as being an independent narrative, the text offers a parallel investigation of the boundaries between humans and objects, and between human and non-human bodies, and adds a literary layer to Hestelund’s works. A revised version of the novel will be published at Gyldendal and on this occasion Overgaden this evening invites you to a book launch.

In connection with the installation Delirium, presented on Overgaden’s 1st floor during Art Week, Mirja Busch will in conversation with curator Anne Julie Arnfred talk about the thoughts behind the work and her artistic practice. Subsequently, it is possible to taste the distilled art theory. The event is in English. The installation is part of the format Overgaden Project

As part of Overgaden PROJECT, we present the installation Delirium by the German artist Mirja Busch. The installation is concieved as a library-like bar, where a number of famous art-theoretical texts are transformed into spirits poured into beautiful flacons through a distillation process that humorously thematises the often extensive use of theory in art world.

This evening, Anne Ring Petersen, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Copenhagen, will put the installational features of the exhibition Even by Christoffer Birkkjær and Duarte Filipe into perspective. In her presentation she will give an introduction to the general characteristics of installation art such as cross-aesthetical overlap between media, involvement of the viewer, and the genre’s break with a traditional distanced contemplation of art. The event will be in Danish.

This evening, the exhibition Consumed Future Spewed Up as Present by Lea Guldditte Hestelund provides the framework for a performative sound universe created by the musician Xenia Xamanek. Xamanek is, like Hestelund, interested in a fluent concept of the body and bodies in transition. Among other things Xamanek works with the voice and explores themes such as ownership of the voice and asks if the voice is actually independent of a body and ego – and might even have a life in itself.

Behind Tonight is Art are the five art centers Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, kunstforeningen GL STRAND, Nikolaj Kunsthal and Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art, which have organized the Copenhagen Art Festival in 2012 and 2015. Common to all, it is one of their most important tasks to unfold the contemporary artistic palette and with Tonight is Art we offer the audience experiences beyond the usual.

Host: author and film journalist Søren Høy

Programme:

17.00 Overgaden – Sound performance by Ragnhild May
Ragnhild May is an artist and she works in the field of visual arts and music in various media such as performance, installation and sculpture. This evening she will present a sound performative work based on the respiration, voices and relationships between man and machine.

18.00 Kunsthal Charlottenborg – Sound & Visuals by Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl + Food from Apollo Bar
Receiver of Charlottenborg’s Spring Exhibition 2018, Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl, presents a VJ set that combines video with electronic music. At the same time, it is possible to buy dinner at a fair price in Apollo Bar.

19.00 Kunstforeningen GL STRAND – Performance by Esben Weile Kjær
Esben Weile Kjær presents a new work which he will perform with Aske Høier Olesen, based on choreographies from popular cultural events, such as festivals, the Pride and the stadium.

20.00 Nikolaj Kunsthal – Concert with Shiva Feshareki
Experience a live show and activation of the exhibition Dancing with the unknown led by DJ and artist Shiva Feshareki’s savvy hand.

21.00 Den Frie – Simon Littauer in The Crystal World + afterparty
Simon Littauer makes improvised, handmade and danceable techno. The music is created live on his home-built modular synthesizer without any presets or backing tracks. The concert takes place in a crystalline scenography created specially by MELT for the occasion.

The mealworms and Hilde co-create a new space. They conduct a durational choreography – an installation in which the space is slowly but visibly being altered though the metabolism of the worms and the human body in motion.

The voice of the author Ida Marie Hede, reading from her text on the peculiarities of life in the plastic habitat, accompanies this unlikely symbiotic system between worms, plastic and a human. A surreal staged ecosystem that nourishes speculation on survival strategies. Could an organism capable of living from plastic be the potential beginning of a new blooming of species on earth?

During the opening hours the visitors are welcome to explore and interact with the installation, and to come and go as they please. They are also invited into the dome to a close one-on-one encounter with Hilde and the worms where they will experience a woman transforming her body, skin and voice in the attempt to co-evolve with a species that potentially has better prospects than herself.

MASS – bloom explorations is the second part of The Membrane Project; as I collapse (2017), Extended falls to humanity (2019) – a series of work seeking to challenge our understanding of the human and the humane.

Opening hours:

Tuesday – Thursday from 1pm-4pm and 5pm-9.30pm

Aftertalks and Events

Wednesday May 2nd 7.30-8.30 PM: MASS – bloom exploration, behind the installation with the artists.

Come and meet the artists and researchers behind MASS – bloom explorations in conversation on creation and collaboration in between art and science. Tina Tarpgaard, choreographer and artistic leader of recoil, Ida Marie Hede, writer and Pei-Ying Lin, artist and designer will reflect on their collaborative artistic process and the final work. The talk is open for questions from the audience. The installation is open before, during and after the talk. Free entrance.

Thursday May 3rd. 7.30-8.30 PM: Co-existence and evolution. The human, now and in a potential future.

Recoil has invited professor Nils Ole Bubandt from AURA, Aarhus university Research on the Anthropocene, Andrea Pontoppidan and Elena Ortiz from Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology and Finnish artist and activist, Riikka Theresa Innanen to discuss the human position and scope now and in the future marked by our self-interested consumption of resources. The installation is open before, during and after the talk. Free entrance.

Saturday May 5th. 3-4PM: Wasted Saturday

Waste. Throw away. Dump. Words most of us are familiar with and concepts that we, consciously or not, deal with on a daily basis. This Saturday afternoon recoil has invited Ioannis Bakas waste expert from Copenhagen Resource Center, a part of NIRAS, Ida Leisner, Environment- and developing consultant from Amager Center of Resources and Jakob Ingemann Parby, Curator at Museum of Copenhagen to discuss, what waste is, who we deal with it, and what we can do about it. The installation is open before, during and after the talk. Free entrance.

Choreographer: Tina Tarpgaard
Performer: Hilde I. Sandvold
Performer at ODD residency: Ellen Furey
Science-art researcher and installation design: Pei-Ying Lin
Writer: Ida Marie Hede
Technical and engineering design: Minshu Haung
Sound design: Søren Knud
Dramaturge: Inge Agnete Tarpgaard
Production managers: Rasmus Sylvest & Viktor K. Magnusson
Producer: Carlos Calvo
PR: Betina Rex

About recoil performance group

Tina Tarpgaard started recoil as a company in 2003, with a vision of creating choreographic stage art based on cross aesthetic collaborations. A vision that is continually the core in recoils work. From the digital Trompe l’oeil videoscenographies of the early works to the latest work, where organic processes and movement in humane as well as non humane organisms is in focus. In a trilogy of work from 2017 to 2019 recoil is focusing on the body in a posthumanistic perspective. In 2017 with the performance as I collapse, with MASS – bloom explorations in 2018 and in 2019 with Extended falls to humanity where the understanding of the human and the humane – now and in a hypothetic future make up the artistic focal point.

www.recoil-performance.org

In connection with the exhibition Even, the electronic musicians Lasse Munk and Tobias Lukassen will perform a concert that interacts with the exhibition and fuse sound and image.

What potential does fiction possess as an approach to understand reality? On the occasion of the exhibition Consumed Future Spewed Up as Present, Lea Guldditte Hestelund will in the company of author Olga Ravn as well as Dea Thune Antonsen and Ida Bencke from the Laboratory of Aesthetics and Ecology talk about how to think though fiction and the importance of communities and collaboration. The event will be in Danish.

Welcome to the opening of the exhibitions Consumed Future Spewed Up as Present by Lea Guldditte Hestelund and Even by Christoffer Birkkjær & Duarte Filipe.

In connection with the exhibition Kære by Mathias & Mathias, Overgaden offers an insight into what happens when art clashes with the systems of society. First Ole Thyssen, Dr. Phil. and Professor Emeritus at CBS, will discuss the relationship between art and other domains of society such as economics, politics, law, science, and religion. Afterwards lawyer Christine Ulrich Andersen will give a number of examples of how art and law have collided – and why it sometimes can be difficult to deal with art in a legal context. The event will be in Danish.

I forbindelse med udstillingen Kære af Mathias & Mathias byder Overgaden denne aften på et indblik i, hvad der sker, når kunsten går i clinch med virkelighedens systemer. Indledningsvist vil Ole Thyssen, dr. phil. og professor emeritus på CBS berette om forholdet mellem kunsten og samfundets øvrige domæner som fx økonomi, politik, jura, videnskab og religion. Herefter vil advokat Christine Ulrich Andersen give en række eksempler på, hvordan kunst og jura er stødt sammen – og hvorfor det sommetider kan være vanskeligt at behandle kunst i en juridisk kontekst.

On the occasion of the exhibition Hidden in Plain Sight by Johan Rosenmunthe, Overgaden invites you to a mini seminar focusing on objects and materiality. During the afternoon we will address topics such as the archaeological process, the study of contemporary objects, and how to design objects that speak to humans. Afterwards there will be a workshop conducted by Johan Rosenmunthe where you get the chance to preserve an artefact with a special story or sentimental value. Everyone can attend the seminar, but as there are limited seats for the workshop, registration for this part is required by 12th of February : ac@overgaden.org. The event will be in Danish.

Join us for an exhibition tour when Mathias & Mathias in the company of art critic Maria Kjær Themsen will talk about the ideas and the process behind their current exhibition as well as their practice in general. The event will be in Danish.

Welcome to the opening of Hidden in Plain Sight by Johan Rosenmunthe and Kære by Mathias & Mathias.

This evening, Overgaden invites you to a lecture by Lise Skytte Jakobsen, Associate Professor in Art History at Aarhus University. Based on her research, she will talk about how 3D printing is used in an artistic context as the framework for a subsequent conversation with Jesper Carlsen that will focus on his exhibition and experiences within the field.

In the exhibition Surface Encounters, the artist Jesper Carlsen uses digital tools to understand and question how reality is perceived. In this connection we have invited Simon Lajboschitz, founder of Khora Contemporary and expert in virtual reality, to talk about the immersive technology virtual reality and what it can be used for in an artistic context. The lecture will be the starting point for a following conversation between Carlsen and Lajboschitz where questions about the problematic sides of creating immersive art experiences will be adressed. The event will be in Danish.

On the occasion of the exhibition ‘REVISIT: EROTIK’, artists Tine Tvergaard and Jakob Jakobsen have arranged a seminar that unfolds some of the themes in their work. The afternoon includes a conversation with Signe Arnfred and Tania Ørum, who will speak about the feminist Alexandra Kollentai and the dream of sexual revolution during and after the October Revolution in 1917, while Carsten Juhl will talk about the author, curator and philosopher Paul Preciado and his ideas about the pharmacopornographic era. As part of the programme, there will be a performance by Tine Tvergaard and Jakob Jakobsen.

The event will be in Danish.

In conjunction with REVISIT: EROTIK the focus of this evening will be the nature of eroticism and how sexuality has changed over the past 30 years. The programme will begin with the performance The Matrix by the artist Nanna Lysholt Hansen, exploring the female body as a transformative medium and sculptural object. Afterwards Hanne Stensgaard, former director of Museum Erotica will talk about erotic culture, while, Christian Groes, sex researcher and associate professor at Roskilde University will tells us about the evolution of gender and sexuality since 1989.

Overgaden’s current exhibition REVISIT: EROTIK is a “revisit” of the exhibition EROTIK fra 1989 where 48 female photographers depicted their view of the erotic.

On this night, the curators of REVISIT: EROTIK will discuss the thoughts behind the exhibition with Pia Funder og Sonja Iskov who took the initiave to make the original exhibition in 1989. In addition hereto, there will be a talk with photography historian Tove Thage who wrote the catalogue text for EROTIK in 1989 and has the development of photography as her special field of research.

This evening will be in Danish.

As part of Overgaden PROJECT, Overgaden has entered into a temporary collaboration with Dansehallerne. In the first session the art gallery for immaterial art, Galerie, will move in for a week presenting happenings, performances, lectures and talks. The six days will take the shape of an immaterial publication where artists and audience will be the writers, Galerie the editor, Dansehallerne the publisher, and Overgaden the printing press. All the different elements will address the current state of immaterial art.

Participating artists, curators and researchers:
Mårten Spångberg, Cecilie Ullerup Smidt, Anne Juren, Frida Sandström, Hana Lee Erdman, Eva Rowson, Krööt Juurak, Alex Bailey, Pontus Petterson, Vanessa Desclaux, Jan Ritsema et. al.

It is strictly edited by Galerie, but anyone can smuggle in content.

Stay tuned at www.galerie.international/thepublication for updates of the tabel of contents.
The Publication is produced by Dansehallerne.

Galerie (2014, INT)
Galerie is an immaterial gallery for immaterial artworks. The mission of Galerie is to promote immaterial objecthood: works that cannot be reduced to an object or to the documentation of an action. Simultaneously a commercial entity, a performance and a research project, Galerie has been involved in a wide range of activities since its launch in 2014

Programme part 2:

14.00: Welcome and summation by Alexander Clausen & Hanne Strager.

Welcome to the opening of Surface Encounters by Jesper Carlsen and REVISIT: EROTIK.

As part of the exhibition This Will Also Change, Sophie Dupont will perform the work Marking Breath, and everyone is welcome to attend.

Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard and Jacob Kirkegaard launch a new joint work for tremolo harmonica. The work will be centered on overlapping sounds and investigate the relationship between sound, space and body.

In connection with the launch of a new monograph on Sophie Dupont, the artist will talk about the exhibition and her practice in the company of Anaïs Lepage, art historian, independent curator and co-founder of the curatorial structure heiwata.

During the event it will be possible to try the works Breathing Seismograph and Two.

Nature and art have always been connected to some degree, but during recent decades nature has had a direct impact on art and a marked presence in a wide range of contemporary art practises. These all share a fascination with nature, but are often characterised by a critical approach addressing the problematic relationship of humankind to nature and the environment: a relationship based on a Western belief that humans and nature are distinct entities, and that we therefore have to either dominate or be subject to the forces of nature.

In current debates a rising number of researchers and opinion makers claim that we have now entered a new geological age called the Anthropocene. Central to the geological understanding of this epoch, is that humans have become the predominant force of change on earth, something that has far-reaching and alarming consequences for the future, for existence, and for the evolution of humankind and planet earth. Basically, the concept of the Anthropocene refers to nature being shaped by humans to such an extent that it no longer exists in any kind of ‘natural’ state. As a concept, the Anthropocene has been subject to hype as well as criticism – also in the art world – but regardless of people’s standpoint, it has opened new avenues to discuss the issues, as well as launching a current of cross-disciplinary thinking on the human impact on and relationship to the world, nature and the environment.

Turning to the landscape of art, a rising number of contemporary artists and cultural institutions are engaging with the theme of nature in numerous ways. With presentations by artists, researchers and art professionals, this year’s conference investigates the relationship between art, culture and nature from a cross-disciplinary perspective, exploring the ways nature can be approached from an artistic, philosophical and ecological perspective. Key questions include whether the concept of the Anthropocene contributes anything radically new – and in what sense does it possess a critical and transformative potential? What understandings of nature are prevalent in artistic and curatorial practises, and is it possible – or even useful – to distinguish between nature and culture?

These are the issues at the core of this year’s Overgaden LECTURES, which consists of two sessions. The first session in October includes presentations by theorists and artists discussing the concepts of nature and the Anthropocene and their relationship to art, as well as examples of how nature is incorporated aesthetically and interpreted in contemporary art. The second session in November focuses on curatorial views of nature, and also probes the significance of artists and cultural institutions tackling the urgent environmental challenges facing society today.

The conference is moderated by MSc in biology Hanne Strager, former Head of Exhibitions at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, and organized by Alexander Clausen.

Programme session 1:

14.00: Welcome and introduction

14.10-14.50: Jacob Wamberg, Professor in Art History, Aarhus University, DK

15.00-15.35: Mickey Gjerris, Associate Professor in bioethics, University of Copenhagen, DK

15.40-16.00: Break

16.00-16.30: Simon Starling, Artist, UK

16.35-17.05: Cecilia Jonsson, Artist, SE/NO

17.10-17.40: Break

17.40-18.20: TJ Demos, Professor in Visual Culture and History of Art, University of Santa Cruz, US (Live video connection)

18.25-18.55: Andreas Malm, Senior Associate Lecturer in Human Ecology, Lund Universitet, SE

19.00-19.30: Paneldebat

NB: Changes in the programme might occur.

Overgaden LECTURES is kindly supported by Bikubenfonden.

This evening, Jacob Kirkegaard and Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard will tell about their journey to the West Indies and the creation of the exhibition Vestindiske Forestillinger. Subsequently, there will be a Q&A session where the audience can ask questions. Moderator: Merete Jankowski, director of Overgaden.

Emotions and state of minds play an integral part of Sophie Dupont’s exhibition This Will Also Change. In connection with the exhibition, Overgaden invites you to talk with Per Aage Brandt, linguist and author, and Bent Rosenbaum, professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen, who will discuss madness, psychotic poetry and other peripheral mental areas. Before the talk, the artist will perform the work This Will Also Change.

The event will be in Danish.

On occasion of the opening of This Will Also Change, Sophie Dupont presents a new performance that connects and completes parts of the exhibition. The performance starts at Christianshavns Kanal.

Welcome to the opening of Vestindiske Forestillinger by Jacob Kirkegaard & Niels Lyhne Lykkegaard and This Will Also Change by Sophie Dupont.

This evening Overgaden in collaboration with Copenhagen Business School invites you to a crossdisciplinary meeting between Peter Voss-Knude’s art, Roberto Bolaño’s novel ‘2666’ and studies in organizations and political power. The event will take its point of departure in the vertiginous structure of 2666 where linear narratives are replaced by a maze of loosely connected events, passages, and persons. The novel creates a state of apophenia – a state where we are never able to apprehend the violence even though we spend our lives amidst of it. During the evening the participants will be able to explore how violence is organized and the ability of people and societies to remember and forget violence and war. There will be presentations from Peter Voss-Knude, Damian O’Doherty, Gibson Burrell, and Christian de Cock.

The event is organized by Justine Grønbæk Pors from Copenhagen Business School and will be in English.

This evening Overgaden invites you to a lecture, reading, and screening in relation to Pia Rönicke’s exhibition The Cloud Document. The different elements of the event are all based on the relationship between language and the idea of the botanical. Rönicke’s video The Cloud Document in which two botanists lead us into the Mexican landscape and through botanical systems will be screened in full length. The German professor of Art and Cultural Science, Hanne Loreck, presents her lecture Hilma af Klint: Botany, Ornaments, Grammars, and Diagrams in which the botanical universe marks the point of departure of her reading of the paintings and drawings by Hilma af Klint. Writer and artist Christian Yde Frostholm will read from his collection of fragmented prose Dagbog af mine blade.

The event will be in English except the reading by Christian Yde Frostholm which will be in Danish.

Extending the exhibition The Cloud Document to the outside of the gallery space, the group Gåafstand invites participants to join them on a walk through Priorparken to the Natural History Museum’s Herbarium where botanist Oluf Ryding will guide participants through the collection.

Meeting point: Brøndbyøster S-train station on the platform (S-train, line B, departure CPH Central Station 2.50pm).

The event will be in Danish.

In relation to the current exhibition Peter & the Danish Defence, the producer of the art podcast The Undergang Armchair, Andreas Olesen joins the artist Peter Voss-Knude and Overgaden’s director, Merete Jankowski, in a conversation about the ideas behind the exhibition. The event will be recorded live at Overgaden and the audience is welcome to participate. Read more about The Undergang Armchair here: www.undergang.net

The talk will be in English.

Welcome to the opening of the exhibitions The Cloud Document by Pia Rönicke and Peter & the Danish Defence by Peter Voss-Knude.

This evening curator Tijana Miskovic and artist Ismar Cirkinagic will talk about how experience and knowledge is central to our understanding of art. The audience will be presented various perspectives on art and society, horizons and the idea of the absolute; all aspects relating to Cirkinagic’s current exhibition Line of the Horizon.

The event will be in English.

HUBRIS Part 2 presents:

J&K: The Emancipation of O.O.O. (duration: 25 min.)

Kristian Byskov: The Dance (duration: 30 min.)

Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen: Icarus Victorious (duration: 50 min.)

Performance dates:

Saturday 6 May

3 pm J&K: The Emancipation of O.O.O.

3.30 pm Kristian Byskov: The Dance

4 pm Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen: Icarus Victorious

Thursday 11 May

6.30 pm Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen: Icarus Victorious

Saturday 13 May

3 pm Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen: Icarus Victorious

Sunday 21 May

3 pm J&K: The Emancipation of O.O.O.

3.30 pm Kristian Byskov: The Dance

Wednesday 24 May

2.30 pm Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen: Icarus Victorious

3.30 pm J&K: The Emancipation of O.O.O.

4 pm Kristian Byskov: The Dance 

Sunday 28 May

3 pm Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen: Icarus Victorious 

As part of the exhibition Icarus Victorious by Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen, Overgaden presents part 2 of The Artist Theatre Festival HUBRIS curated by Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen.

This Friday evening Overgaden invites the audience to the premiere performances of The Dance by Kristian Byskov and The Emancipation of O.O.O. by the artist duo J&K (Janne Schäfer & Kristine Agergaard). Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen will also perform Icarus Victorious.

Programme of the evening: 

Friday 5 May 

5.30 pm  J&K: The Emancipation of O.O.O.

6 pm  Kristian Byskov: The Dance 

6.45 pm  Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen: Icarus Victorious

In connection to the current exhibition Line of the Horizon Mikkel Bruun Zangenberg, writer at Weekendavisen, is invited for a conversation with Ismar Cirkinagic, the artist behind the exhibition. This evening the audience will have the opportunity to gain insight into the themes that the exhibition revolves around, as well as Cirkinagic’s artistic practice.

The event will be in Danish.

HUBRIS Part 1 presents:

Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen: Icarus Victorious (duration: 50 min.)

Ulla Hvejsel: Talking Out of My Ass (duration: 35 min.)

claus ejner: Portrait of an Artist (duration: 35 min.)

Performance dates:

Sunday 9 April

3 pm Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen: Icarus Victorious 

Thursday 13 April

5.15 pm Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen: Icarus Victorious 

6 pm claus ejner: Portrait of an Artist 

7 pm Ulla Hvejsel: Talking Out of My Ass

Sunday 16 April

3 pm Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen: Icarus Victorious 

4 pm claus ejner: Portrait of an Artist 

Thursday 20 April

6 pm Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen: Icarus Victorious

7 pm claus ejner: Portrait of an Artist

Sunday 23 April

3 pm Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen: Icarus Victorious 

Thursday 27 April

5.30 pm Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen: Icarus Victorious 

6.30 pm Ulla Hvejsel: Talking Out of My Ass

Sunday 30 April

3 pm Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen: Icarus Victorious 

4 pm claus ejner: Portrait of an Artist

Welcome to the opening of the exhibitions Line of the Horizon by Ismar Cirkinagic and Icarus Victorious by Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen with Ulla Hvejsel, claus ejner, Kristian Byskov and J&K

This evening the audience is invited on a walk-through of Hysterics while Rikke Benborg in conversation Marie Dufresne, curator at Vejle Kunstmuseum, will elaborate on the thematics of the exhibition and Benborg’s own artistic practice.

This Sunday afternoon artist Jacob Remin and the two composers, Yann Coppier and Runar Magnusson will introduce to the specific recording equipment and techniques involved in making the compositions featured in Harvesting the Rare Earth. After the presentation a special live performance based on the audio material of the exhibition will take place.

This Thursday evening Overgaden will be hosting an event in relation to Rikke Benborgs exhibition “Hysterics”. Here Benborg will be staging women in costumes inspired by home and interior – a playful comment on the historic indoor fate of women. The event will serve as setting for an exclusive concert by Marie Eline Hansen, and as a generous gesture inviting the audience to indulge in gin and melancholic music and imagery. Mother gin, Madam Geneva, Ladies delight or Mother’s ruin are all names for the popular alcoholic beverage, the cheapest means of forgetting your worries in the 18th century, where the effects of gin on the family was disastrous!

Listen to Marie Eline Hansen here.

The event is free, and everybody is welcome.

In connection with the exhibition Harvesting the Rare Earth, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art invites you to a seminar about CRISPR gene technology.

The border between computers, electronics and biology is blurring. Already today CRISPR technology offers new radical possibilities in genetically modifying not only micro organisms, but insects, animals, humans and ecosystems. How does this affect our understanding of the relation between nature, human and technology?

With micro organisms and algorithms gaining more agency in our lives, the borders of the human self is up for discussion. Today we are seeing the rising development of numerous ways that cells and data interact across species and systems, creating complex hybrid ecologies and challenging our traditional understanding of the world centered around man.

In Harvesting the Rare Earth Jacob Remin presents a hypothetical scenario of the near future in which biotech companies have developed a method enabling genetically modified caterpillars to harvest Rare Earth Metals from e-waste dumps around the world. Jacob Remin uses this exchange between actual and hypothetical issues to investigate the power structures of the world in an exhibition that focuses on the environmental and human consequences of our consumption and addiction to technology.

The exhibition and seminar has been developed in collaboration with Martin Malthe Borch, master in biological engineering.

Participants: Erich Berger, Artist, Director of the Bioartsociety in Finland; Jacob Remin, Artist; Martin Malthe Borch, Biological engineer, designer; Helene Faustrup Kildegaard, Senior researcher, DTU Biosustain.
Moderator: Lars Reuter, Ethicist, Theologian, Ph.D.

The seminar will be in English.

This Sunday you are invited to finissage and Sci-fi talk in Ann Lislegaard’s exhibition Spinnng and Weaving. Ann Lislegaard will talk about the inspiration she finds in science fiction and Niels Dalgaard, Ph.D. in Nordic Literature, will talk about the potential of science fiction as a genre. Among other things he will talk about how to use science fiction as a tool to redefine fixed conceptions.

Seimi Nørregaard invites you to an evening of celebration and Spoken Word. Everyone is welcome to give a speech. Tea and biscuits will be served.

This evening Anne Ring Petersen, Associate Professor in Modern Culture, will live review HIDE and afterwards talk with Seimi Nørregaard about her artistic practise and the potential of the performance installation.

Moderator: Matthias Hvass Borello curator, writer and editor at Kunsten.nu

The Canadian artist and beatboxer Liz Kinoshita has given voice to the sound and light installation ‘Shadows of Tomorrow’ in Ann Lislegaard’s exhibition ’Spinning and Weaving’ and will this evening perform live in the installation. After the performance, Ann Lislegaard will in the company of art critic Maria Kjær Themsen lead the audience through the exhibition and speak about her work and the thoughts behind the exhibition.

For the fourth year running, Overgaden invites you to join the international conference series Overgaden LECTURES, an annual event that puts key issues in contemporary art on the agenda. This year Overgaden invited Berlin-based artist and author Andreas Schlaegel to focus on the subject of post-internet art, and invite international and Danish theorists, artists, curators and communicators working in the field.

Based on the idea of ‘call’ and ‘response’, the conference format extends over two sessions, a month apart.

How does art relate to the omnipresent, virtual universe of the Internet? What issues, possibilities and strategies has this digital realm generated? Does art surrender to the terms of capitalism, or can it challenge the commercial character of the web when it enters social media platforms like Facebook or Instagram? The answer is not clear-cut, and can be viewed from many angles – not only artistic, but also social, cultural and political. Based on these questions this year’s LECTURES aim to kick-start with the following thematic tracks.

The Materiality of the Virtual

One of the key themes is the relationship between virtuality and materiality in post-internet art, as well as in the broader context of the Internet. How can we verbalize virtual materiality and the intangible imagery circulating on the worldwide web? Do we lack a language and visual culture that can describe the virtual experiences we have on a daily basis? What about the influence of our actions online on our physical materiality? How far removed is the virtual from physical materiality in relation to the massive global resources consumed for digital purposes, the influence global economies and the age of the Anthopocene?

The Erotics of the Digital Imaginary

Another thread running is the success story of the nearly immaterial and weightless digital image and its seductive and compelling qualities: how the production and accessibility of the virtual image ignites and haunts artistic expression and production. The panels also aim to take this issue one step further, discussing the cultural and communicative consequences of our digital production and the consumption of images in social media cycles.

Click-Bait & Spam – In the Blink of an Eye

The third theme focuses on attention as resource and commodity, and on the way the hyper circulation of news, ideas, images and goods facilitated via the Internet influences us at an individual and societal level. The panelists will reflect on and discuss the human attention span, and how our capacity to concentrate and focus has been influenced and possibly reconfigured by the incessant stream of technical developments.

SCHEDULE

For schedule Thursday 13 October.

Friday 18 November:

14.00: Introduction and summation of the last panel: Andreas Schlaegel (Artist and author)

14.30: Milena Høgsberg (Senior curator, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo)

15.10: Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic director, Disruption Network Lab, Berlin).

15.50: Coffee break

16.05: Paul Feigelfeld (Academic coordinator, Digital Cultures Research Lab, Leuphana University, Lüneburg)

16.45: Sandra Mujinga (Artist)

17.25: Coffee break

17.40: Mohammad Salemy (Curator and critic),

18.20: Mathilde Schytz Marvit (Creative Producer & Digital Strategist at House of Real)

19:00: 20.00 Panel discussion

Formulation of a response to the questions from the last panel

Moderator: Andreas Schlaegel (Artist and author)

We reserve the right to make changes in the programme.

Overgaden LECTURES 2016 has been organised by the German artist and author Andreas Schlaegel.

Overgaden LECTURES is supported by the Bikuben Foundation.

Welcome to the opening of the exhibitions Spinning and Weaving by Ann Lislegaard and Revisit: HIDE by Seimi Nørregaard.

Equipped with trombone, violin, saxophone and drums the all-female quintet Selvhenter will perform their uncompromising, boundless energetic sound in dialog with the exhibition and space. Meanwhile Smag & Rum will provide a both aesthetic and surprising gastronomic experience inspired by Mette Winckelmann’s works.

PROGRAM

From 6:30 pm: continuously serving by Smag & Rum
20 pm: Concert with Selvhenter

FURTHER INFORMATION

SELVHENTER
The all-female band Selvhenter honed a sound all its own – an uncompromising, boundless energetic one that blends the aesthetics of experimental rock, the sophistication of improvised free jazz and the aggressiveness of punk, noise and metal, all performed with passion and humor. Selvhenter is part of the art collective and record label Eget Værelse.
Listen to Selvhenter here.
Further information here.

SMAG & RUM
Smag og Rum by Johanne Brønnum works with gastronomy and arrangement in a scenographic, creative and visual way, that engages the receiver. Further information here.

COME UNDONE
Read about Mette Winckelmann’s exhibition here.

IMORTANT!

CULTURE PASS
Remember to buy a Culture Pass! The Culture Pass can be purchased at 7-Eleven in and around Copenhagen as well at libraries and museums in Copenhagen and at Frederiksberg. It costs 90 kroner and provides you with access to all events during Culture Night. Further information here.

For the fourth year running, Overgaden invites you to join the international conference series Overgaden LECTURES, an annual event that puts key issues in contemporary art on the agenda. This year Overgaden invited Berlin-based artist and author Andreas Schlaegel to focus on the subject of post-internet art, and invite international and Danish theorists, artists, curators and communicators working in the field.

Based on the idea of ‘call’ and ‘response’, the conference format extends over two sessions, a month apart.

How does art relate to the omnipresent, virtual universe of the Internet? What issues, possibilities and strategies has this digital realm generated? Does art surrender to the terms of capitalism, or can it challenge the commercial character of the web when it enters social media platforms like Facebook or Instagram? The answer is not clear-cut, and can be viewed from many angles – not only artistic, but also social, cultural and political. Based on these questions this year’s LECTURES aim to kick-start with the following thematic tracks.

The Materiality of the Virtual

One of the key themes is the relationship between virtuality and materiality in post-internet art, as well as in the broader context of the Internet. How can we verbalize virtual materiality and the intangible imagery circulating on the worldwide web? Do we lack a language and visual culture that can describe the virtual experiences we have on a daily basis? What about the influence of our actions online on our physical materiality? How far removed is the virtual from physical materiality in relation to the massive global resources consumed for digital purposes, the influence global economies and the age of the Anthopocene?

The Erotics of the Digital Imaginary

Another thread running is the success story of the nearly immaterial and weightless digital image and its seductive and compelling qualities: how the production and accessibility of the virtual image ignites and haunts artistic expression and production. The panels also aim to take this issue one step further, discussing the cultural and communicative consequences of our digital production and the consumption of images in social media cycles.

Click-Bait & Spam – In the Blink of an Eye

The third theme focuses on attention as resource and commodity, and on the way the hyper circulation of news, ideas, images and goods facilitated via the Internet influences us at an individual and societal level. The panelists will reflect on and discuss the human attention span, and how our capacity to concentrate and focus has been influenced and possibly reconfigured by the incessant stream of technical developments.

SCHEDULE

14.00: Introduction: Andreas Schlaegel (Artist and author)

14.30: Toke Lykkeberg (Curator and art critic)

15.10:  Marisa Olson (Artist) (Cancelled)

15.50: Coffee break

16.05: Boris Ondreička (Curator, artist, author and singer)

16.45: Aymeric Mansoux (Artist and course leader, Experimental Publishing,
Master Media Design, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam)

17.25: Coffee break

17.40: Alessandro Ludovico (Professor, artist and editor-in-chief of Neural Magazine)

18.20: Hannah Black (Artist and author)

19:00 – 20.00: Panel discussion and formulation of questions for the next panel

Moderator: Andreas Schlaegel

Friday 18 November:

14.00: Introduction and summation of the last panel: Andreas Schlaegel (Artist and Author)

14.30: Milena Høgsberg (Senior curator, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo)

15.10: Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic director, Disruption Network Lab, Berlin).

15.50: Coffee break

16.05: Paul Feigelfeld (Academic coordinator, Digital Cultures Research Lab, Leuphana University, Lüneburg)

16.45: Sandra Mujinga (Artist)

17.25: Coffee break

17.40: Mohammad Salemy (Curator and critic),

18.20: Mathilde Schytz Marvit (Creative Producer & Digital Strategist at House of Real)

19:00 – 20.00: Panel discussion

Formulation of a response to the questions from the last panel.

Moderator: Andreas Schlaegel (Artist and author)

We reserve the right to make changes in the programme.

Overgaden LECTURES 2016 has been organised by the German artist and author Andreas Schlaegel.

Overgaden LECTURES is supported by the Bikuben Foundation.

How do you create an atmospheric art experience? And how can archival material be used to construct a story in an exhibition? This afternoon curator at Brandts, Anna Krogh, will talk about her experiences with curating large-scale art installations, and MA in Modern Culture Jeanette Astrup Christiansen will talk about the relationship between archives and memory in relation to Michael Würtz Overbeck’s exhibition Parable of Love.

Which meaning does colour entail and is our perception of colour subjective? In relation to Mette Winckelmann’s exhibition Come Undone, anthropologist Stine Maria Louring Nielsen will give a lecture on the origin of colour and their cultural meaning, while philosopher and writer at Information, Tine Byrckel, will speak about how we experience and perceive colour from a philosophical perspective.

This evening in the company of Trine Ross Michael Würtz Overbeck will speak about his thoughts and the process behind his current exhibition Parable of Love. In their conversation they will touch upon various themes of the exhibition such as the transience and absurdity of life.

Welcome to the opening of the exhibitions Come Undone by Mette Winckelmann and Parable of Love by Michael Würtz Overbeck.

In connection with his exhibition Milk & Honey Deniz Eroglu will shed light on how Muslims have been represented within popular culture and film history in a film screening and conversation with the cultural sociologist Mehmet Necef.

This evening, the composer and sound artist Lars Kynde will perform his compositionsElephant Heart and Wandelende Tak that are brought into dialogue with the works in the exhibition Vertex. Lars Kynde is interested in the mutual influence of the music, the instrument, and the notation system.

To mark the opening of Vertex, the band Københavns Laptop-Orkester (KLO) will perform an improvised interpretation of the work Superposition which is part of the exhibition. KLO is a musical network whose work combines the site specific with the use of computers and self-programmed instruments in an exploration of digital live music.

Welcome to the opening of the exhibition Vertex by Tobias Lukassen and Andreas Wetterberg, the third and final part of SummerSounds.

Jacob Kirkegaard and Peter Albrechtsen are two of Denmark’s most respected sound personalities within each their field. Kierkegaard as a sound artist who has shown installations in several of the world’s leading art museums and Albrechtsen with his work on many Danish and international motion pictures and documentaries. This night will function as both an introduction to Kierkegaard’s and Albrechtsen’s worlds of sound and as an ear opener and discussion about the visual potential of sound.

On occasion of the opening of sub-, the saxophone player and composer Lotte Anker will perform a solo set that functions as an audible activation of Christian Skjødt’s sound installations. Anker works in the field between experimental jazz and contemporary music.

Welcome to the opening of the solo presentation sub- by Christian Skjødt, the second element of the exhibition series SummerSounds.

During the spring, COLAB Conversation Kitchen has invited six artists from Africa and the Middle East on residencies at a selection of public institutions in Denmark, where they in collaboration with a number of partners have investigated the relationship between memory, identity and performativity. To round off the project the organizers – Liveart.dk and the Portuguese curator Marcio Carvalho – will discuss the collaborations and results of the project with the Danish participants, while the Iraqi duo Urnamo, consisting of Al-Fatlawi and Wathiq Al Ameri, will present a special performance.

This evening, the artist Eva la Cour invites you to a reception in connection with the launch of the catalogue Autopia about the female Belgian artist XX and her exhibition at The Museum. Based on an ongoing conversation with XX la Cour has edited the catalogue, which includes contributions by the Belgian curator and critic Pieter van Bogaert, art historian and artist Kristian Poulsen as well as the visual artists Anne Mette Schultz and Signe Frederiksen. To celebrate the occasion, a number of curators from The Museum will entertain with lectures on XX’s work. The event will be in Danish.

On the occasion of the opening of rum mål lyd tid, which is part of SummerSounds, Ursula Nistrup will present a new site-specific performance developed in collaboration with the musicians Cæcilie Trier and Maria Diekmann. In extension of the artist’s contribution to the exhibition, they will enact a musical study of Overgaden’s space that is based on the discordant principle of the tritone interval.

Welcome to the opening of the exhibitions Milk & Honey by Deniz Eroglu and SummerSounds.

As a round-off of the debate on political visions the Swedish artist Iris Smeds will present a new performance, which lies in continuation of her work in the exhibitionVarulv!. In the role of an oracle she conjures up a speculative scenario of the future that reflects on what the world would look like without any men, and why they might have disappeared.

With a point of departure in the exhibition ”Varulv!”, Overgaden sets the scene for a critical debate about the democratic conversation and if visions are lacking in Danish politics. In a time where political ideologies have been declared dead from several sides, and political speech is slandered for being meaningless, we ask if this is actually so? And if this is the case, what is needed in order to bring visions back as important anchor points for the development of society and democratic debate?

The panel will consist of Jørn Loftager, Associate professor at the University of Aarhus; Christine Cordsen, political correspondent at Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR); Olav Hesseldahl, Founder of Ungdomsbureauet; Jan Juul Christensen, secretary of party Social Democrats. Moderator: Kristian Weise, Director at CEVEA. The event will be in Danish.

COLAB Conversation Kitchen consists of six meetings between representatives from official Denmark and established artists from Africa and the Middle East. In a study of the relationship between memory, identity, and performativity – on a personal as well as national level – the six artists will be staying a month at Danish institutions assisted by Danish mentors. This evening you can experience the results of the exchange between Brian Mikkelsen, former minister for culture and initiator of the Danish Cultural Canon, and Ammar Abo Bakr (Egypt); Alette Scavenius, research librarian at the Royal Library in Denmark, and Jelili Attiku (Nigeria); Torben Sangild, culture reporter at Zetland and Politiken, and Khaled Jarrar (Palestine).

COLAB Conversation Kitchens are the result of a collaboration between Liveart.dk and Portuguese artist and curator Marcio Carvalho. Read more.

This seminar will cross-cut past and present artistic research into the intersection of crisis, computation, network architectures and global power structures. Florian Cramer will look into our current over-belief in the objectivity and neutrality of algorithms and discuss how artists infuse technology with poetic sensibility. Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter will present a performance lecture that draws out connections between the cybernetics of the 1960s, the millennium bug paranoia and India’s outsourcing boom. On the day, a publication that is a never-ending encyclopedia of the end of the world published by the Swedish micro-publishing house Rojal Förlag will be released.

Participants: Florian Cramer (NL/DE), Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter (DK), Rojal Förlag (SE).

The seminar will be in English.

Normally, we communicate in words, but what happens when we are together in silence? Expert in silence, Bastian Overgaard, will focus on this in a lecture which questions the power of language and turns our gaze inward towards the potential of silence in order to further communication, development, and understanding. After the lecture, you will be able to feel the stillness in your own body during a communal dinner, partly wordless, facilitated by Bastian Overgaard.

Free admission, but you need to sign up for the dinner. Please write to ck@overgaden.org before 27 April.

How do we become affected in a musical sense when skilled (and unskilled) speakers try to seduce us with their messages? For the exhibition Varulv!, the composer and jazz guitarist Mikkel Ploug has created a new work where the melody of speaking from a number of prominent politicians such as Angela Merkel and Donald Trump are translated into music through a special method of composition invented by Ploug himself. This evening, he will perform the work live and give an introduction to his work with translating speeches to instruments. The event will be in Danish.

Liveart.dk is behind COLAB: Conversation Kitchen consisting of six meetings between representatives from official Denmark and established artists from Africa and the Middle East.

In a study of the relationship between memory, identity, and performativity – on a personal as well as national level – the six artists will be staying a month at Danish institutions assisted by the Danish mentors. During four events held at Overgaden in April, May and June, you can gain insight into the artistic and human process and participate in the dialogue.

This afternoon offers a comprehensive introduction to COLAB project, where you can also meet the first team of collaborators: Christian Etongo (Cameron), Odun Orimolade (Nigeria) and Ato Malinda (Kenya) and their Danish partners Jessie Kleemann, performance artist associated with the Greenlandic House, Mette Garfield, journalist and editor at Theatre 1, and Peter van der Meijden, associate professor at the Department of Arts and cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

The following COLABs vil take place at Overgaden on April 30, May 24 and June 25. There will be free access to all events which will be in English.

COLAB Conversation Kitchens are the result of a collaboration between Liveart.dk and Portuguese artist and curator Marcio Carvalho. They are part of the IMAGES 2016 programme and are supported by the Danish Art Council and by CKU.

Welcome to the opening of the solo exhibition Bugs in the War Room by Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter and the group exhibition Varulv!

During the past year, designer and illustrator Anne Sofie Madsen and producer and writer Esben Weile Kjær have been collaborating on a series of performances and exhibitions, which combines scenography, choreography, textiles, costumes, and sound. Their new performance with the title Always A Siren, Singing You To Shipwreck can be experienced at Overgaden’s first floor where visitors can come and go as they please during the performance.

Curator Tijana Mišković and artist Thierry Geoffroy are the initiators behind CUB – Copenhagen Ultracontemporary Biennale, which takes place in 2017. The biennale will focus on ultracontemporary art about the now and will involve co-curators that each will formulate their own approach to the now – both as a curatorial concept as well as a concrete framework. This evening, Mišković and Geoffroy will present their motivation for launching a new biennale, their take on collaboration and the involvement of an international network. The event is organised by AICA Denmark.

The performance MIND THE GAP is a personal break with the concept of ‘growth’ that brings the debate on energy and climate into a personal space. In the work, a physical interpretation of the pace, state, and formation process of crude oil is merged with an auto fictional tale of Tora Balslev’s summer trip to Switzerland, which highlights the contrast between the long process of the coming into being of the oil and the temporality of the way we use it. The transformation is triggered by real-time sounds manipulated live on stage by composer Knud Riishøjgaard.

The event will be in Danish.

Poetry plays a significant role in Ester Fleckners practice, and in her works text fragments often appear as an integral part of the visual expression. Following this interest Overgaden invites you to an event that both offers reflections on the potential of poetry by Julie Sten-Knudsen as well as lyrical readings by Caspar Eric and Lea Marie Løppenthin.

The event will be in Danish. 

This evening, Ester Fleckner will talk about the ideas and the process behind her current exhibition and her work in general in the company of art critic and curator Maria Kjær Themsen.

The event will be in Danish.

Since 2013, the Dominican-American performance artist Isabel Lewis has organised and hosted a series of occassions, choreographed as celebratory and sensory gatherings of things, people, plants, music, dance and smells. In collaboration with the dance collective Fanclub, Lewis will present a new site-specific occassion at Overgaden which will be adapted to the audience and their energies in order to establish a platform for conversation, contemplation, dancing, or just simply being. From Tuesday 8 February up until the event, you can follow the preparations that are open to the public during regular opening hours.

Fanclub is Andrea Deres, Carolina Bäckman, Ellesiv V. Selseng, and Sofia Karlsson – a dancers’ collective based in Copenhagen who curate, produce and participate in their own productions. Over the last two and a half years, they have engaged Lewis in an open dialogue around her live art practice. Click here for more information.

This evening Søren Thilo Funder invites you on a walk-through of his exhibition in the company of artist Asbjørn Skou. Taking the works as their starting point, they will try to talk themselves into a critical reading of the constructions that surround us – constructions of Cinema, of fictions, of utopian architecture, of communities, of knowledge, of political movements, of dreams of outer space, and escapism. Asbjørn Skou and Søren Thilo Funder have for long had a close dialogue about their individual work as well as all sorts of strange phenomena that is related to and sometimes just touch on their visual and thematic universes. The event will be in Danish.

On occasion of his exhibition You’re Gonna Die Up There Søren Thilo Funder invites you to a reading session about rocket launches with live music accompaniment by the string orchestra Con Fuoco with composer Tine Vitkov and the punk band 0%.

The event will be in English.

Welcome to the opening of the exhibitions A closet does not connect under the bed by Ester Fleckner and You’re Gonna Die Up There af Søren Thilo Funder.

This evening we will address which role the streams of digital images and data play in our understanding and perception of the world in a time when information technology increasingly dominates. Which impact does the digital have on our understanding of concepts such as objectivity and representation? How is technological development expressed in art, and which collaborations across science, art and technology stimulate and facilitate this development? The event will be in Danish.

The panel will consist of Pernille Leth-Espensen, postdoc at Institute of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University; Morten Søndergaard, media art curator and Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at AAU in Copenhagen; and Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, postdoc at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Moderator: Rasmus Vestergaard, curator at DIAS – Digital Interactive Art Space.

The event will be in Danish.

Overgaden invites you to a guided tour of the current exhibition REVISIT: Thorbjørn Lausten. Afterwards we will serve coffee and cake. The guided tour will be in Danish.

Taking two 28,000 and 18,000 years old cave paintings in the cave Cueva de la Pileta near Ronda in Andalusia as the starting point, Claus Carstensen will give a lecture on how consciousness, thought and writing take their origins from art. Something that artists have often been intuitively aware of and more or less openly carried to the market as expressed in the title of one of Asger Jorn’s paintings: In the beginning was the image. 

The event will be in Danish.

In the early 21^st century a series of marked social, political and economic changes have had a significant impact on the infrastructure and dynamics of the art world. The impact has been acutely felt by Western art institutions, which are under pressure from significant cutbacks in state funding, increased competition, demands to increase visitor numbers, new communication and public participation initiatives, earmarked private funding, and an increasingly prevalent experience and project culture. These and other changes have brought the issue of the role and activities of art institutions today to the fore – including their responsibility and obligations as mediator between an increasingly broad range of stakeholders and funding bodies whose interests far from always coincide. In this complex and conflict-ridden arena it has become crucial to not only identify, but also reconsider and reformulate the ethical basis and scope of the art institution to retain its relevance in the society of the future.

During the 2-day conference we will map out some of the most pressing ethical implications and challenges facing the work of institutions today. Is it possible to balance being both an enlightenment project and business without compromising either professional standards or financial accountability? How can the integrity of art be retained in the face of catering to the needs of private sponsors and the public? What is the role of communication and PR in this context – and what constitutes good, respectful communication? What effect have these developments had on curation and the relationship to artists and their interests? Questions like these form the core of the conference, at which professionals from a range of disciplines from Denmark and abroad will offer their views and experiences as a basis to discuss what a new, contemporary code of ethics for the art institution might look like – and how it can be implemented in practice.

Speakers: Christine Buhl Andersen (DK), Dave Beech (UK), Alistair Brown (UK), Irene Campolmi (DK), Signe Meisner Christensen (DK), Ann Demeester (BE), Carsten Juhl (DK), Sonja Lavaert (BE), Elin Lundgren (SE), Bettina Pehrsson (SE), Angelo Romano & Linda Jensen (CH), Andreas Schlaegel (DE), Julia Schäfer (DE), Ben Street (UK), Marianne Torp (DK).

Moderator: Merete Jankowski, director of Overgaden

The conference series is organised by Overgaden’s curator Anna Holm and is supported by the Bikuben Foundation.

Programme

Love contains forces that no one controls, but is it at all possible to redirect and use these forces in a political situation? This time we will go out on the muddy waters of love in an investigation of the forcefield where desire and morality meet: in love and in politics. This will be addressed in presentations which shed light on this somewhat neglected area in a philosophical and theoretical context and move on to gender politics where a clash between these is inevitable.

Among the speakers are post graduate student Malte Tellerup who is going to investigate the French philosopher Alain Badiou’s book In Praise of Love, and artist and educator Madeleine Kate McGowan from the project Other Story – a short film project which presents stories and personal accounts from Syrian immigrants at their arrival at the Greek archipelago. Additionally the artists Mira Winding and Nana Dahlin will present an art work made specifically for this event.

The event will also be open for discussion among the audience.

The event is organized by Anna and Esben Weile Kjær and will be in Danish.

Due to limited seats, it is mandatory to sign up at: info@infinitescroll.dk

Welcome to the opening of the exhibition REVISIT: Thorbjørn Lausten.

As conclusion of TRUST the two artist groups A Kassen and We Are The Painters will in a conversation with curator Sonia Dermience speak about their exhibited works in Nikolaj Kunsthal and elaborate on how they operate with displacements and transfiguration of materials.

Martin Erik Andersen will speak about his contribution to TRUST at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning. The event will be in Danish.

A panel composed of Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg, artistic director of Den Frie, the art critics Pernille Albrethsen and Torben Sangild and curator Rhea Dall will discuss the creation and reception of TRUST – as an exhibition and experiment.

Moderator: Matthias Hvass Borello. The debate will be in Danish.

This evening Nikolaj Kunsthal invites you to a raw and preposterous analysis of rituals in the company of the collective subject Center for Vild Analyse. The analysis will be based on more or less varied examples from royalism to Kevin Magnussen and molecular gastronomy. Center for Vild Analyse was established in 2006 and has since participated in the public debate on culture, politics and philosophy with weekly columns in the newspaper Information among other things. The lecture will be in Danish.

Programme of the evening:

Joachim Hamou, UIP27, Preview, 2015
80 min. + talk

UIP27 is a speculative drama documentary about the Israel-Palestine conflict taking place in 2027. UIP is short for ”United Israel Palestine” referring to a future scenario for the Israel-Palestine conflict. In the film, the international community led by the UN has taken on the role of occupation force, which, in other words, means that an international court now administers the conflict. The film has been made on the basis of a series of public debates at Moderna Museet in Malmö and La Passerelle in Brest, initiated by Joachim Hamou, and explores different aspects of a conflict where the justice system is in stark contrast to the personal feelings and interests of the involved parties.

Tickets:
When presenting a TRUST ticket you’ll get a 50% discount. Please note that it is possible to reserve seats on Vester Vov Vov’s website, but the discount may only be deducted by purchase and pick up at the cinema.

GL STRAND will host a classic, intimate salon night that focuses on trust, conversation and artistic exchange. Line Knutzon, Tomas Lagermand Lundme and Nikolaj Zeuthen will perform a repertoire of readings, music and debate. The event will be in Danish.

Contemporary art has no relevance. This will be the point of departure for Henrik Holm, inspector at the National Gallery of Denmark, when he commences a discussion on the significance of art now and in the future. How is it possible for contemporary art to enter into an open dialogue with other ideas and current societal issues and become relevant in the encounter with the world? The lecture will be in Danish.

Programme of the evening:

Zin Taylor, Put Your Eye in Your Mouth: A Conversational Documentary Recording Martin Kippenberger’s Metro-Net in Dawson City, Yukon, 2007
22 min.

In the beginning of the 1990s the artist Martin Kippenberger initiated the project Metro-Net based on his visions of a metro system that was to connect the entire world. In collaboration with his close friend, the Austrian architect Reinald Nohal, he began to build a series of sculptures in different cities that represent entrances to this fictional subway. One of these was built in Dawson City, Yukon in 1994 and with departure in the creation and reception of this specific sculpture, Zin Taylor investigates the story about the Metro-Net project through an interview with Reinald Nohal.

Loïc Vanderstichelen & Jean-Paul Jacquet: La Cascade, 2015
15 min.

The researcher Norbert Piron from The Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage gets assigned by the Museum of Arts in Verviers to list and redesign their collection. Piron makes the task the highlight of his career. He quickly gets confronted, though, with a series of challenges that make the mission more difficult which frustrates Piron greatly, but as he feels utterly lost, he receives help from an unexpected side – a nymph brings him the answer to all his troubles.

Cel Crabeels: Nearly Present, Just Past, 2004
22 min.

In 1998 the American artist Dan Graham placed the sculpture Funhouse for Children in a public square in Antwerpen. The piece met an ill fate, though, as it quickly became destroyed by a malcontent public. Since then, it has been reconstructed on the lawn outside of Middelheimmuseum, but what has it meant that the piece has been moved from a vibrating city space to an idyllic museum garden? In this documentary, the artist Cel Crabeels uncovers the history behind the sculpture, which is connected to an investigation of the challenges related to making art in public space. Public space is often associated with democratic potential, but is also a battle zone where viewpoints are constantly challenged by politicians, city planners, artists, and vandals who all have different understandings of its use and function.

Tickets:
When presenting a TRUST ticket you’ll get a 50% discount. Please note that it is possible to reserve seats on Vester Vov Vov’s website, but the discount may only be deducted by purchase and pick up at the cinema.

On Culture Night on Overgaden Smag & Rum will offer tasteful treats inspired by our current exhibition TRUST from 6.30pm. Additionally Overgaden presents three electronica concerts by Internazionale, Assembler and Anden Enhed, which, in combination with the choreographed taste sensations, are guaranteed to stimulate your senses. More info on Smag & Rum can be found here

Music programme: 

6.15 pm: Internazionale

Mikkel Valentin Dunkerley is behind the name Internazionale who is released on Posh Isolation as well as Dunkerley’s own label,  Janushoved. Internazionale is electronica with an atmospheric and nostalgic expression, which stylistically lends from the industrial and synth traditions.

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7.30 pm: Assembler

Assembler is the pseudonym for Claus Haxholm, who accompanied with synthesizers and drum pads produces electronica that brings back memories from the techno of the Detroit scene in the 80’s and 90’s.

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9.00 pm: Anden Enhed

Anden Enhed is a new project consisting of Michael Mørkholt (Solhorn, Æmæx, Emnet) and Andreas Pallisgaard (Pinkuniozu). The duo is playing analogue synthesizer music – sequenced in and out of sync with each other. The music is created from systemic improvisations and is focused on cyclical patterns and organic displacements.

During Culture Night 2015 it is furthermore possible to visit our current exhibition TRUST.

Important:

Remember to buy a Culture Pass! The Culture Pass can be bought at 7-Eleven in and around Copenhagen and costs 90 kroner. It provides you with access to all the activities of Culture Night. More information about the Culture Night can be found here

Based on her contribution to TRUST Maiken Bent will elaborate on the concepts behind her art works in a talk and a guided tour. The event will be in Danish.

Programme of the evening:

Maj Hasager, We will meet in the blind spot, 2015
36 min.

The film We will meet in the blind spot takes the architecture in and around the area Esposizione Universale di Roma (EUR) in the Italian capital of Rome as its point of departure. EUR was built under the Fascist regime on the occasion of the World Expo in 1942, also marking the 20th anniversary of Fascism in Italy. As a consequence of World War II the event never took place and the area, which had played a central part in Mussolini’s idea about ‘The Third Rome’, was not finished until the 1960s. Today, a group of Filipino immigrants have settled in a church in the EUR, and this film gives a unique and personal insight into their everyday lives. With references to post-war Italian film tradition, fact and fiction are intertwined to voice statements and experiences that are often left out in the debate about immigration in an Italian, but also broader European context.

Cel Crabeels: Nearly Present, Just Past, 2004
22 min.

In 1998 the American artist Dan Graham placed the sculpture Funhouse for Children in a public square in Antwerpen. The piece met an ill fate, though, as it quickly became destroyed by a malcontent public. Since then, it has been reconstructed on the lawn outside of Middelheimmuseum, but what has it meant that the piece has been moved from a vibrating city space to an idyllic museum garden? In this documentary, the artist Cel Crabeels uncovers the history behind the sculpture, which is connected to an investigation of the challenges related to making art in public space. Public space is often associated with democratic potential, but is also a battle zone where viewpoints are constantly challenged by politicians, city planners, artists, and vandals who all have different understandings of its use and function.

Tickets:
When presenting a TRUST ticket you’ll get a 50% discount. Please note that it is possible to reserve seats on Vester Vov Vov’s website, but the discount may only be deducted by purchase and pick up at the cinema.

Programme of the evening:

Cel Crabeels: Nearly Present, Just Past, 2004
22 min.

In 1998 the American artist Dan Graham placed the sculpture Funhouse for Children in a public square in Antwerpen. The piece met an ill fate, though, as it quickly became destroyed by a malcontent public. Since then, it has been reconstructed on the lawn outside of Middelheimmuseum, but what has it meant that the piece has been moved from a vibrating city space to an idyllic museum garden? In this documentary, the artist Cel Crabeels uncovers the history behind the sculpture, which is connected to an investigation of the challenges related to making art in public space. Public space is often associated with democratic potential, but is also a battle zone where viewpoints are constantly challenged by politicians, city planners, artists, and vandals who all have different understandings of its use and function.

Angelo Plessas, Eternal Internet Brother/Sisterhood (1-3), 2015
26 min.

In 2012 the Greek artist and curator Angelo Plessas initiated the project Eternal Internet Brother/Sisterhood. The project takes place annually in different locations around the world inviting artists, authors, curators, designers, and researchers to meet and develop projects and ideas together. This film gives an insight into a creative and artistic symposium exploring the spiritual side of technology by experimenting with Internet culture and online concepts. The meetings take place in historic surroundings where the Internet is usually on stand-by. The different editions of the project have until now been held on the Greek island of Anafi, in the Surrealist garden Las Pozas in Mexico, and by The Dead Sea on the West Bank of Palestine.

Zin Taylor, Put Your Eye in Your Mouth: A Conversational Documentary Recording Martin Kippenberger’s Metro-Net in Dawson City, Yukon, 2007
22 min.

In the beginning of the 1990s the artist Martin Kippenberger initiated the project Metro-Net based on his visions of a metro system that was to connect the entire world. In collaboration with his close friend, the Austrian architect Reinald Nohal, he began to build a series of sculptures in different cities that represent entrances to this fictional subway. One of these was built in Dawson City, Yukon in 1994 and with departure in the creation and reception of this specific sculpture, Zin Taylor investigates the story about the Metro-Net project through an interview with Reinald Nohal.

Tickets:
When presenting a TRUST ticket you’ll get a 50% discount. Please note that it is possible to reserve seats on Vester Vov Vov’s website, but the discount may only be deducted by purchase and pick up at the cinema.

In relation to her contribution to TRUST, the artist Nanna Debois Buhl launches an artist book with the title Botanizing on the Asphalt. On this occasion, Charlottenborg invites you to a reading by Nanna Debois Buhl and a presentation by writer and postdoc Kristian Handberg.

As part of TRUST all five kunsthalles will offer a number of guided tours. The exhibition at Overgaden – in accordance with its appointed name The Exchange – puts emphasis on exchange and collaboration. The guided tour will take its point of departure in how the participating artists primarily work cross-media. The event will be in Danish.

In a conversation with Jacob Lillemose from X AND BEYOND Torben Ribe will discuss pizza-art, the general unstability of being and Ribes new video piece Untitled (scramble programme) which can experienced in The Pizzeria – Roma’s Pizza and Burger House on Frederiksberg. The talk will be held in Danish.

Programme of the evening:

Maj Hasager: We will meet in the blind spot, 2015
36 min. + artist talk

The film We will meet in the blind spot takes the architecture in and around the area Esposizione Universale di Roma (EUR) in the Italian capital of Rome as its point of departure. EUR was built under the Fascist regime on the occasion of the World Expo in 1942, also marking the 20th anniversary of Fascism in Italy. As a consequence of World War II the event never took place and the area, which had played a central part in Mussolini’s idea about ‘The Third Rome’, was not finished until the 1960s. Today, a group of Filipino immigrants have settled in a church in the EUR, and this film gives a unique and personal insight into their everyday lives. With references to post-war Italian film tradition, fact and fiction are intertwined to voice statements and experiences that are often left out in the debate about immigration in an Italian, but also broader European context.

Tickets:
When presenting a TRUST ticket you’ll get a 50% discount. Please note that it is possible to reserve seats on Vester Vov Vov’s website, but the discount may only be deducted by purchase and pick up at the cinema.

Programme of evening:

Angelo Plessas: Eternal Internet Brother/Sisterhood (1-3), 2015
26 min.

In 2012 the Greek artist and curator Angelo Plessas initiated the project Eternal Internet Brother/Sisterhood. The project takes place annually in different locations around the world inviting artists, authors, curators, designers, and researchers to meet and develop projects and ideas together. This film gives an insight into a creative and artistic symposium exploring the spiritual side of technology by experimenting with Internet culture and online concepts. The meetings take place in historic surroundings where the Internet is usually on stand-by. The different editions of the project have until now been held on the Greek island of Anafi, in the Surrealist garden Las Pozas in Mexico, and by The Dead Sea on the West Bank of Palestine.

Loïc Vanderstichelen & Jean-Paul Jacquet: La Cascade, 2015
15 min.

The researcher Norbert Piron from The Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage gets assigned by the Museum of Arts in Verviers to list and redesign their collection. Piron makes the task the highlight of his career. He quickly gets confronted, though, with a series of challenges that make the mission more difficult which frustrates Piron greatly, but as he feels utterly lost, he receives help from an unexpected side – a nymph brings him the answer to all his troubles.

Cel Crabeels: Nearly Present, Just Past, 2004
22 min.

In 1998 the American artist Dan Graham placed the sculpture Funhouse for Children in a public square in Antwerpen. The piece met an ill fate, though, as it quickly became destroyed by a malcontent public. Since then, it has been reconstructed on the lawn outside of Middelheimmuseum, but what has it meant that the piece has been moved from a vibrating city space to an idyllic museum garden? In this documentary, the artist Cel Crabeels uncovers the history behind the sculpture, which is connected to an investigation of the challenges related to making art in public space. Public space is often associated with democratic potential, but is also a battle zone where viewpoints are constantly challenged by politicians, city planners, artists, and vandals who all have different understandings of its use and function.

Tickets:
When presenting a TRUST ticket you’ll get a 50% discount. Please note that it is possible to reserve seats on Vester Vov Vov’s website, but the discount may only be deducted by purchase and pick up at the cinema.

During TRUST GL STRAND will be transformed into The Salon where companionship and cultural topics will appear on the agenda. TRUST Poetry invites you to a reading of the writers Kirsten Hammann and Stine Pilgaard and a following conversation with Cæcilie Hjort Pedersen, mediator of literature. The event will be in Danish.

As part of TRUST all five kunsthalles will offer a number of guided tours. The exhibition at Overgaden – in accordance with its appointed name The Exchange – puts emphasis on exchange and collaboration. The guided tour will take its point of departure in how the participating artists primarily work cross-media. The event will be in Danish.

In connection with Officin’s contribution to TRUST at Overgaden, Louise Hold Sidenius will stage a performance with the title Day of the Peacock together with the ballet dancers Marcin Kupinski and Louise Midjord. The performance revolves around how the materiality of textiles interacts with the bodily structure when combined.

Programme of the evening:

Cel Crabeels: Nearly Present, Just Past, 2004
22 min.

In 1998 the American artist Dan Graham placed the sculpture Funhouse for Children in a public square in Antwerpen. The piece met an ill fate, though, as it quickly became destroyed by a malcontent public. Since then, it has been reconstructed on the lawn outside of Middelheimmuseum, but what has it meant that the piece has been moved from a vibrating city space to an idyllic museum garden? In this documentary, the artist Cel Crabeels uncovers the history behind the sculpture, which is connected to an investigation of the challenges related to making art in public space. Public space is often associated with democratic potential, but is also a battle zone where viewpoints are constantly challenged by politicians, city planners, artists, and vandals who all have different understandings of its use and function.

Zin Taylor, Put Your Eye in Your Mouth: A Conversational Documentary Recording Martin Kippenberger’s Metro-Net in Dawson City, Yukon, 2007
22 min.

In the beginning of the 1990s the artist Martin Kippenberger initiated the project Metro-Net based on his visions of a metro system that was to connect the entire world. In collaboration with his close friend, the Austrian architect Reinald Nohal, he began to build a series of sculptures in different cities that represent entrances to this fictional subway. One of these was built in Dawson City, Yukon in 1994 and with departure in the creation and reception of this specific sculpture, Zin Taylor investigates the story about the Metro-Net project through an interview with Reinald Nohal.

Loïc Vanderstichelen & Jean-Paul Jacquet: La Cascade, 2015
15 min.

The researcher Norbert Piron from The Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage gets assigned by the Museum of Arts in Verviers to list and redesign their collection. Piron makes the task the highlight of his career. He quickly gets confronted, though, with a series of challenges that make the mission more difficult which frustrates Piron greatly, but as he feels utterly lost, he receives help from an unexpected side – a nymph brings him the answer to all his troubles.

Tickets:
When presenting a TRUST ticket you’ll get a 50% discount. Please note that it is possible to reserve seats on Vester Vov Vov’s website, but the discount may only be deducted by purchase and pick up at the cinema.

With the exhibition TRUST and trends from this years Venice Biennale as the starting point, art historian and director of the National Gallery of Denmark, Mikkel Bogh, will address the relevance and enlightening potential of contemporary art. Can we trust that contemporary art represents a critical voice in the public debate? The lecture will be in Danish.

Programme of the evening:

Angelo Plessas, Eternal Internet Brother/Sisterhood (1-3), 2015
26 min.

In 2012 the Greek artist and curator Angelo Plessas initiated the project Eternal Internet Brother/Sisterhood. The project takes place annually in different locations around the world inviting artists, authors, curators, designers, and researchers to meet and develop projects and ideas together. This film gives an insight into a creative and artistic symposium exploring the spiritual side of technology by experimenting with Internet culture and online concepts. The meetings take place in historic surroundings where the Internet is usually on stand-by. The different editions of the project have until now been held on the Greek island of Anafi, in the Surrealist garden Las Pozas in Mexico, and by The Dead Sea on the West Bank of Palestine.

Zin Taylor, Put Your Eye in Your Mouth: A Conversational Documentary Recording Martin Kippenberger’s Metro-Net in Dawson City, Yukon, 2007
22 min.

In the beginning of the 1990s the artist Martin Kippenberger initiated the project Metro-Net based on his visions of a metro system that was to connect the entire world. In collaboration with his close friend, the Austrian architect Reinald Nohal, he began to build a series of sculptures in different cities that represent entrances to this fictional subway. One of these was built in Dawson City, Yukon in 1994 and with departure in the creation and reception of this specific sculpture, Zin Taylor investigates the story about the Metro-Net project through an interview with Reinald Nohal.

Tickets:
When presenting a TRUST ticket you’ll get a 50% discount. Please note that it is possible to reserve seats on Vester Vov Vov’s website, but the discount may only be deducted by purchase and pick up at the cinema.

In 2013 Dorota Gaweda & Egle Kulbokaite initiated the Young Girl Reading Group that is shaped towards the issue of gender and beyond in the age of digital technologies. On occasion of TRUST they have joined forces with Systemet – an ongoing symposium and a ground course in forms of resistance by Anna and Esben Weile Kjær. This afternoon you are invited to a special reading session, which takes place at Overgaden in the setting of the installation Good Times & Nocturnal News by Egle Kulbokaite and Carl Palm. During the session we will be reading a few chapters from The Managed Heart. Commercialization of Human Feeling by Arlie Russell Hochschild and an excerpt from The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir. The selected texts will be sent upon registration but as the texts will be read in situ it is not mandatory to read in advance. Registration is required: info@infinitescroll.dk

Ceramics workshop by the artist Cécile Noguès for children and youths from the age of 7.

In a conversation with Toke Lykkeberg curator Sonia Dermience will elaborate on the vision behind and the process of creating TRUST.

Workshop with different artists for children and youths from the age of 6-14.

Programme:

5-6pm   
Overgaden – Institut for Samtidskunst
Opening speeches
Performance – Sophie Dupont, Douglas Park and Vava Dudu + La Chatte

6-7pm 
Nikolaj Kunsthal
Performance – We Are The Painters

7-8pm    
Kunstforeningen GL STRAND
Performance – Seyran Kirmizitoprak

8-9pm   
Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Performance – Angelo Plessas

9-10pm  
Den Frie Udstillingsbygning
Performance – Ilja Karilampi

10pm-  
Den Frie Udstillingsbygning
Afterparty

There is free entry during the entire opening and everyone is welcome.

PERFORMANCE // Uhørt
On the basis of historical sources dramatist Gritt Uldall-Jessen has created a remake of the author Mathilde Fibiger’s never-held feminist speech from 1852. This evening she has invited actress Lene Vasegaard to perform the speech after more than 160 years delay.

LECTURE // The Women’s Struggle According to Fibiger
Afterwards Dr. phil. in Literature Lise Busk-Jensen gives a lecture on Mathilde Fibiger’s reflections on what the outcome of the women’s struggle should be. According to Fibiger the goal of the women’s struggle was far more complext than the suffrage issue.

PERFORMANCE // Forestillingen om mig selv som en anden – del 2
We all have ideas of ourselves as being somebody else. This is the starting point for this monologue by Tomas Lagermand Lundme performed by actor Casper Sloth. The monologue revolves around whether things had turned out completely different if Tomas Lagermand Lundme had not been himself, but the footballer Søren Lerby or Steven Carrington from Dynasty. 42 years of conceptions are in action.

MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERE // Er der forskel på betændelse? 
In connection with her performances during the exhibition Molly Haslund has produced a music video where she and her band performs a new song with lyrics by Tomas Lagermand Lundme. The cress costumes, giant wooden spoons and custommade ‘quitar’ is rocking the cabinet installation – with jumping, dancing & head banging going on.
Credits: Marie Eline Hansen (spoon & song), Steffen Galster (mandola & song), Sigrid Dyveke (spoon), Molly Haslund (quitar & song), Jeanette Land Schou (video) og Mads Ljungdahl (sound).

On the basis of the exhibition Våbenhvile – 100 års forestillinger, Systemet is inviting you to participate in a critical discussion about rights. When do you have the right to offer resistance against the ruling discourse and who is granting you that right? Are rights something that you yourself can partake in through acts and if so, is it even rights if it is something you have granted yourself? How and whom can give and take rights? This Saturday Class will approach the topic from an activistic and philosophical angle through three presentations, a writing exercise and open discussions.

The Saturday Class by Systemets is a symposium og foundation course in forms of resistance targeting those searching for a lack of governing, political disorder and confusion. No requirements needed except the interest to learn about yourself, the system you are part of and the opportunities for activism today. The basis for the course is a compendium of selected texts and materials that will be sent upon registration.

The event is organized by Anna and Esben Weile Kjær. As the number of participants are limited, registration is required: info@infinitescroll.dk. The event will be in Danish.

This evening, Lea Porsager will elaborate on her artistic practice in a speculative fabulation on how to merge occult doctrines with other forms of thought. The belief in ”staying with the trouble” – a quote from the American feminist thinking Donna Haraway – is central to Porsager’s conceptual work in which historical spiritual movements and their ideas are challenged and materialised in a tension field between seriousness and irony.

Guattari Reading Circle presents Seven Billion Perverts – a reading based on the controversial and censored 12th edition of the journal Recherches – a journal founded and edited by Félix Guattari. The 12th edition was entitled Trois Milliards de Pervers – Grande encyclopédie des homosexualités and was published in 1973. In the reading at Overgaden, we will engage with the materials of Trois Milliards de Pervers and the writing that exists around this issue in an attempt to make 1973 speak and correspond in criticality with the Seven Billion Perverts of 2015.

Guattari Reading Circle is a reading group which focuses on reading texts by the French institutional psychotherapist, philosopher, and radical activist Félix Guattari. The reading group is completely open for public participation. The reading group is nomadic and organised around reading aloud and on the spot (without preparation) and it travels through various places and institutional contexts to investigate the relationship between the specific spaces, the act of group reading in itself and Félix Guattari’s writing. Guattari Reading Circle is  conceptualised and organised by artist Arendse Krabbe and artist and curator Mathias Kryger.

As part of Lea Porsager’s exhibition SPIN Φ, Carl Abrahamsson gives a lecture on esoteric history and the colorful grey areas between art and esotericism. Carl Abrahamsson is a Swedish writer, filmmaker and photographer who has written extensively on the esoteric and art.

As part of the exhibition Våbenhvile – 100 års forestillinger the actor Casper Sloth will repeatedly act as curator Tomas Lagermand Lundme. This Friday, however, he will be at Overgaden as himself to celebrate the release of his first book Sorte ord (‘Black words‘). The book is a collection of poetry and prose that revolves around love, dissolution, destruction and yelling so loud that the mouth becomes full of black words. The event will treat guests to both a book reading and a glass of bubbles. The reading is in Danish.

PERFORMANCE // Brevkassen
Tomas Lagermand Lundme reads two questions and an answer from the letterbox.

PERFORMANCE // Kvinder synger
Molly Haslund unfolds her contribution to the exhibition by a joint singalong where we will sing songs from the 1970s songbookKvinder synger (‘Women Singing‘) by S. Østre. The singalong will be led by musician and choirmaster Marie Eline Hansen and accompanied by Molly Haslund on a custom built guitar made especially for this occasion. Everybody regardless of gender is very welcome to join the choir, and it requires no preparation.

CONCERT // Jomi Massage
The evening ends with an alternative, intimate concert with one of the Danish rock scene’s noisy pioneers Jomi Massage.

All the events this evening are in Danish.

PERFORMANCE // Forestillingen om mig selv som en anden – part 1
We all have ideas of ourselves as being somebody else. This is the starting point for this monologue by Tomas Lagermand Lundme performed by actor Casper Sloth. The monologue revolves around whether things had turned out completely different if Tomas Lagermand Lundme had not been himself, but the footballer Søren Lerby or Steven Carrington from Dynasty. 42 years of conceptions are in action.

PERFORMANCE // Brevkassen
We all ask questions about the difference between men and women. We also have all the answers to these questions. The letterbox, which is part of the exhibitionVåbenhvile – 100 års forestillinger, probably asks a few more questions about gender than it provides answers. But the answers you do get are in turn generally not too pretty. This will be evident when actress Amira Jasmina Shalaby Jensen reads a series of questions and answers from the letterbox.

LECTURE // Mor Jutta
The lecturer Jutta Bojsen-Møller talks about her great-grandmother Jutta Bojsen-Møller, who was chairman of the Danish Women’s Society. Jutta Bojsen-Møller traveled around the country to campaign for “equal rights for man and woman” and became a natural focal point of the women’s suffrage parade on 5 June 1915, where 12,000 women marched through the streets of Copenhagen to celebrate their newly achieved status as fully empowered citizens.

All the events this evening are in Danish.

Welcome to the opening of the exhibitions Spin Φ by Lea Porsager and the group exhibition Våbenhvile – 100 års forestillinger.

POLEMIK is a series of informal public debates organized by Overgaden, where invited guests address important questions and issues on the contemporary art scene. In 2015 the focus of POLEMIK is on discussions and challenges in the interaction between artists and art institutions.

The first event of this year thematises the so-called “professionalization” of artists. What is the role of the academisation of the Danish art academies? Is it the ability of the artist to network and communicate that determines whether they succeed? And if so, is this not just an expected fundamental condition facing all professions today? Or is there a real danger that this professionalization entails an adaption to institutional structures to such a degree that art looses its edge? The debate will be in Danish.

The guests of the evening are:
Sanne Kofod Olsen, rector of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts; Christian Schmidt Rasmussen, artist and former member of the Grant Committee of the Danish Arts Foundation; Marianne Torp, Senior Research Curator and researcher at the National Gallery of Denmark; Mikkel Carl, artist; Christina Wilson, independent art consultant and previous gallery owner. Moderator: Merete Jankowski, director of Overgaden.

As part of the exhibition Forcefield Climber, Ferdinand Ahm Krag and Sune TB Nielsen have constructed three motorised piano frames, each playing an infinite drone. During regular opening hours the instruments are muffled but this evening the group Lights People – consisting of Tobias R Kirstein, Toke Tietze Mortensen, and Sune TB Nielsen – will remove the attenuation and perform a live concert on the artwork. It will be an intense sensuous experience where the sound is shaped and amplified by the meeting with the room and the bodies of the audience.

As part of her exhibition Stine Marie Jacobsen has invited teenagers from different educational institutions to rejudge a number of real court cases in a courtroom at Overgaden staged for the occassion. In three sessions a lawyer will guide the young people through the cases, and through discussion and normal courtroom procedure they will jointly reach their own judgment and punishment. The trials are documented and subsequently included in the exhibition where the audience can read the trials of the two court decisions. The events are open to the public and will be in Danish.

This evening Stine Marie Jacobsen’s exhibition will be the frame for the evening class The System – a symposium and basic course in forms of resistance for those seeking the absence of a government, political disorder, and confusion. No qualifications is required other than an interest to learn something about yourself, the system you are part of, and the opportunities for activism in our time. During the evening we will be taught by laywer Marc Jørgensen, news editor at Modkraft Rune Eltard, a.o. Inspired by previous examples, we will then compose a joint guide on how to provide resistance in our legal present. The basis for the course is a compendium of selected texts and materials that will be sent upon registration. The event is organized by Anna and Esben Weile Kjær. As the number of participants are limited, registration is required: info@infinitescroll.dk. The event will be in Danish.

On occasion of Ferdinand Ahm Krag’s exhibition the author Karsten Wind Meyhoff will give an introduction to the American philosopher and psychonaut Terence McKenna who is one of the most distinctive personalities of recent psychedelic culture. In his lecture Meyhoff will present McKenna’s psychedelic anthropology and ethno-investigations including his experimental practices and actual investment of body and mind in the exploration of traditional drugs. Additionally, Meyhoff will address how McKenna’s discoveries and ideas can be seen as a vibrating horizon for future intellectuals and artists. The event will be in Danish.

As part of her exhibition Stine Marie Jacobsen has invited teenagers from different educational institutions to rejudge a number of real court cases in a courtroom at Overgaden staged for the occassion. In three sessions a lawyer will guide the young people through the cases, and through discussion and normal courtroom procedure they will jointly reach their own judgment and punishment. The trials are documented and subsequently included in the exhibition where the audience can read the trials of the two court decisions. The events are open to the public and will be in Danish.

As part of her exhibition Stine Marie Jacobsen has invited teenagers from different educational institutions to rejudge a number of real court cases in a courtroom at Overgaden staged for the occassion. In three sessions a lawyer will guide the young people through the cases, and through discussion and normal courtroom procedure they will jointly reach their own judgment and punishment. The trials are documented and subsequently included in the exhibition where the audience can read the trials of the two court decisions. The events are open to the public and will be in Danish.

Overgaden invites you to a guided tour of the current exhibitions Forcefield Climber by Ferdinand Ahm Krag and Mann beißt Hund by Stine Marie Jacobsen in the company of art historian Sarah Hansen. Afterwards we will serve coffee and cake. The event will be in Danish.

Welcome to the opening of the exhibitions Forcefield Climber by Ferdinand Ahm Krag and Mann beißt Hund by Stine Marie Jacobsen.

On occasion of Ruth Campau’s exhibition, Overgaden invites you to a panel debate about art projects integrated in public space. The panel consists of Ruth Campau herself, who will present and show examples of some of her commissions in public space, architect Jørgen Kreiner-Møller, who will share his experiences of what to be aware of when integrating art and architecture, as well as architect Kjeld Vidum, who will address the theme from a historical perspective. Moderator: Camilla Hedegaard Møller. The event will be in Danish.

For one night, Asbjørn Skou’s exhibition will temporarily be converted into set design for a misanthropic robot theatre performed by a Parrot AR Drone 2.0. The play portraits a posthuman landscape above which a pilotless smart drone floats like a relentless metallic bird of prey. It is looking for human faces among the architecture. This is its primary objective. The total absence of people get the programming of the drone to form new and unforeseen circuits, and through its stammering, algorithmic train of thought bits of a story of a disastrous future and what may have preceded it is generated. The play is produced and performed in collaboration between Asbjørn Skou (screenplay), Jacob Sikker Remin (drone pilot and technology) and Krister Moltzen & Tim Hinman (recordings and sound).

This evening, architect Carsten Thau will give a lecture taking Asbjørn Skou’s exhibition as a starting point. With the aid of images the talk examines phenomena such as residence and re-railing, claustrophobia, the dwelling as timepiece, shadows and horror vacui, hermetical stuffiness, the metaphysics of absence, the ruinous, and the relationship between construction and destruction. These are selected headlines in a lecture that is primarily based on examples from architecture and art. The event will be in Danish.

Overgaden invites you to a guided tour of the current exhibitions Between the Past and the Coming by Ruth Campau and A Staggering Territory by Asbjørn Skou in the company of art historian Sarah Hansen. Afterwards we will serve coffee and cake. The event will be in Danish.

Since the 90s, there has been a strong focus on the meeting of visual art and social practices. Today, the actors involved occupy a special position in the art field treating and challenging the structural and societal forces and mechanisms of society with new art forms, models, actions, and thought patterns in which dialogue, participation, and ownership are  cornerstones. But where does critique stand today and how are the criteria that this form of art production is measured by prepared and formulated?

AICA – the Association of Danish Art Critics – invites you to an open debate with a panel of artist Kenneth A. Balfelt, editor and curator Matthias Hvass Borello, art adviser Ulrikke Neergaard and moderator Line Rosenvinge, AICA bord member.

The debate will be in Danish.

In the exhibition Between the Past and the Coming Ruth Campau takes stock of her longstanding exploration of painting in an expanded field. This evening you can get a deeper insight into the thoughts behind the exhibition when Overgaden invites you to an artist talk with Campau. The event will be in Danish.

Asbjørn Skou invites you for a walk through his exhibition in the company of himself and the artist Søren Thilo Funder. Asbjørn Skou and Søren Thilo Funder have for long had a close dialogue about their individual work as well as all sorts of strange phenomena that is related to and sometimes just touch on the visual and thematic universe of Asbjørn Skou. The event will be in Danish.

Welcome to the opening of the exhibitions Between the Past and the Coming by Ruth Campau and A Staggering Territory by Asbjørn Skou.

To mark the ending of the exhibition REVISIT: Musikerne maler, malerne musicerer og digterne holder kæft, Anders Mathiasen performs a piece made for his mechanical instrument polymonochord. Then the meta musical text band T/S STERNDOLPH presents their first album, Action Potential, and last but not least Ragnhild May gives a concert on her work Organon.

On occassion of REVISIT: Musikerne maler, malerne musicerer og digterne holder kæft, Overgaden invites you to a two-day seminar that, with presentations by several of the participants from the original exhibition, will shed light on the developments on the Danish art scene from 1989 to today, as well as on how the perception of amateurism and intermediality in art has changed.
Saturday 1-5pm and Sunday 1-3pm
The event will be in Danish.

As a basis for her show, Yvette Brackman has written a play in collaboration with the authors Gitte Broeng and Suzi Tucker. The text is a rewriting of the artist’s family history and is loosely based on the Futuristic opera Victory over the Sun from 1913. This evening, the play will be performed for the second and last time, and on this occasion several of the exhibited works will be brought to life as props in the performance.

In relation to Yvette Brackman’s exhibition AGIT FLIGHT Overgaden offers the opportunity to get acquainted with the method ‘family constellations’. When you experience trauma, pain or sorrow it may stem from past generations. At a family constellation you can detect whether the symptoms are your own or whether they are inherited. Family constellations as a method is acclaimed worldwide as a fast way to uncover and make visible challenges in families and other relations – challenges that it may otherwise take months and years to realize. The family constellations are conducted by psychotherapist Kristina van Kampen and take place outside normal opening hours five Mondays during the exhibition period. Participation is as always free but registration required: yvette.brackman@gmail.com.

As part of the exhibition REVISIT: Musikerne maler, malerne musicerer og digterne holder kæft Ida Marie Hede and choir present the polyphonic reading performance Inferno Song. Afterwards Amalie Smith reads from her book Marble, and finally Anne Mette Schultz reads, in dialogue with her work Selveste A?, from the Institute of Applied Speech.
The event will be in Danish.

In relation to Yvette Brackman’s exhibition “AGIT FLIGHT” Overgaden offers the opportunity to get acquainted with the method ‘family constellations’. When you experience trauma, pain or sorrow it may stem from past generations. At a family constellation you can detect whether the symptoms are your own or whether they are inherited. Family constellations as a method is acclaimed worldwide as a fast way to uncover and make visible challenges in families and other relations – challenges that it may otherwise take months and years to realize. The family constellations are conducted by psychotherapist Kristina van Kampen and take place outside normal opening hours five Mondays during the exhibition period. Participation is as always free but registration required: yvette.brackman@gmail.com.

This evening Overgaden invites you to a panel discussion on aesthetic strategies for memory processing. In the company of Jacob Lund, Associate Professor of Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University, Morten Thing, cultural historian and essayist, as well as Mathias Danbolt, art historian and theorist, it will be discussed how we, as individuals as well as societies, can make use of the arts to gain an understanding of and release from the past. The event will be in Danish.

In relation to Yvette Brackman’s exhibition “AGIT FLIGHT” Overgaden offers the opportunity to get acquainted with the method ‘family constellations’. When you experience trauma, pain or sorrow it may stem from past generations. At a family constellation you can detect whether the symptoms are your own or whether they are inherited. Family constellations as a method is acclaimed worldwide as a fast way to uncover and make visible challenges in families and other relations – challenges that it may otherwise take months and years to realize. The family constellations are conducted by psychotherapist Kristina van Kampen and take place outside normal opening hours five Mondays during the exhibition period. Participation is as always free but registration required: yvette.brackman@gmail.com

Lux Aeterna is a sound piece, an array, and a 12-hour action by Vagn E. Olsson and Daniel Bøtcher. A cacophony containing desire, aspirations, despair and violence, a spout of the world and an invocation of something else. The play cuts freely from the culturel history; van Eyck, the wolf and the three little pigs, popart, noise and mindfullness, while simultaneously exposing the post catastrophic state of the social and mentale. Lux Aeterna consists of four hours of building, four hours of evoking and supplication and four hours of magnetic storm.

In relation to Yvette Brackman’s exhibition “AGIT FLIGHT” Overgaden offers the opportunity to get acquainted with the method ‘family constellations’. When you experience trauma, pain or sorrow it may stem from past generations. At a family constellation you can detect whether the symptoms are your own or whether they are inherited. Family constellations as a method is acclaimed worldwide as a fast way to uncover and make visible challenges in families and other relations – challenges that it may otherwise take months and years to realize. The family constellations are conducted by psychotherapist Kristina van Kampen and take place outside normal opening hours five Mondays during the exhibition period. Participation is as always free but registration required: ls@overgaden.org.

Welcome to the opening of Yvette Brackman’s solo exhibition AGIT FLIGHT and the group exhibition REVISIT: Musikerne maker, malerne musicerer og digterne holder kæft. At the opening the will be performances by Felia Gram-Hanssen with dancer Tora Balslev, Kristian Poulsen (Spost), Michael Mørkholt, and Clus Haxholm.

In collaboration with the Association for Kunsthallen in Denmark, Overgaden invites you for a night of debate about the numerous mergers of kunsthallen that are taking place these years. Together with a panel of key players in the field, we will discuss potentials and consequences, advantages and disadvantages of merging art institutions.
Are artistic profiles streamlined when institutions become fewer? Is professionalism heightened or expertise lowered? How are the mergers experienced by staff and audience? Do audience numbers rise? And last, but not least – are we saving money? Join us when the Culture Mayor of the municipality of Copenhagen, Carl Christian Ebbesen, director of BRANDTS, Mads Damsbo, financial researcher at CBS, Christian Rix-Nielsen and director of Viborg Kunsthallen, Helene Nyborg Bay present their views on the recent mergers. The debate will be moderated by Merete Jankowski. On this night we will be serving gazpacho for the guests who are optimistic about the mergers and mixed fruit for those who are more reserved.
This debate will be in Danish.

Art and science have traditionally been perceived as mutually exclusive epistemologies and disciplines, but in recent years there has been increasing interest in merging the two. New techno-scientific breakthroughs in areas like biochemistry, particle physics, and genetic research have radically changed our view of the world, and more and more artists have started to work with scientific areas of research, technologies, and methods in the field of ‘sci-art’, often in collaboration with scientists.

Parallel to this, scientific institutions have begun to examine the creative aspects of research processes and the broader dissemination of their research results. This has generated a new receptiveness to having a dialogue with artists and their often more experimental methods and ability to represent complex connections. Yet despite formal artist-in-residency programmes, economic support, and countless collaborations and exhibition projects, it remains unclear how and on which terms – if any – art and science can be seen to cross-pollinate each other today.

Which structural and methodological similarities and differences characterise the two disciplines? Why is an exchange between them relevant right now? Is it a dialogue between equals? And what role does financing and funding play in a relationship between what sceptics might call a mismatched couple? These are the questions at the core of the conference that will be explored over two days of lectures and debates with leading experts in the field, as well as via the concrete experiences and results of collaborative projects between artists and scientists.

The conference series is organised by Overgaden’s curator Anna Holm, and will in 2014 be moderated by Associate Professor of Interactive Media Art at Aalborg University, Morten Søndergaard.

The conference will be in English, and everybody is welcome. Registration is not required.

Programme

Friday 24 October

10-10.30am
Introduction by Anna Holm and Morten Søndergaard

10.30-11.30am
Susann Wintsch: The Science Is the Bit We Always Hang On To

11.30am-12.30pm
Ernst Peter Fischer: Creations of the Mind – A Romantic View of the Sciences

12.30-1.30pm
Lunch

1.30-1.45pm
Roger Malina: Creating New Forms of Collaborations Between the Arts and Sciences

1.45-2.45pm
Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond: Science and Art – Brief Encounters

2.45-3pm
Coffee break

3-4pm
Heather Barnett: The (Dis)Comfort Zone: Creative Conflicts and Meaningful Misunderstandings in Art and Science

4-5pm
Irène Hediger: Re-Composing Art and Science. Artists-in-labs’ Immersive Encounters

Saturday 25 October

10-10.15am
Introduction by Morten Søndergaard

10.15-11.15am
Ljiljana Fruk: From Colour to Super-Resolution Microscopes: Seeing the Invisible

11.15am-12.15pm
Mette Høst: Art and Physics

12.15-1.15pm
Lunch

1.15-2.15pm
Geert Mul: The Ana-logic Database

2.15-3.15pm
Thomas Söderqvist: Art-Science Interaction from the Perspective of the Sci-Tech-Med Museum

3.15-3.30pm
Coffee break

3.30-4.30pm
Ryszard W. Kluszczyński: Conversation between Art and Science – A Philosophical and Curatorial Perspective

4.30-5.30pm
Panel discussion

Overgaden LECTURES is supported by the Bikuben Foundation.

As part of the project The Psychozoic Era, Overgaden invites you to a seminar which – with a focus on aesthetic image worlds- will shed light on life in the anthropocene age. The seminar is organized by Ferdinand Ahm Krag and will be moderated by action researcher Aslak Aamot Kjærullf. The event will be in Danish.

Programme:

Kl. 1.15-2pm
Torsten Bøgh Thomsen: Aesthetics of the Anthropocene

Kl. 14-14.30pm
Kristoffer Akselbo: Supermoon – a journalistic graphic novel

Kl. 2.30-2.45pm
Coffee break

Kl. 2.45-3.30
pm
Andreas Dalsgaard: The Human Scale

Kl. 3.30-4.15pm
Jacob Lillemose & Nikolaj Recke: A Psychoanalysis of Robert Smithson’s Fascination with Non-human Time …

Kl. 4.15-5pm
Panel discussion

On occasion of Christian Vind’s exhibition research curator from the National Gallery of Denmark, Henrik Holm, will give a lecture on the temporalities and dynamics of the archive seen from an art historical perspective.
The event will be in Danish.

In connection with their current residency at Astrid Noack Atelier the artists Søssa Jørgensen and Geir Tore Holm guest Overgaden. This evening they will talk about their practice which is often based on the establishment of site-specific dialogical spaces – a practice that began to take shape when in 1993 they opened the exhibition space Balkong in their own home in Trondheim. Ten years later they started Sørfinnetset School / the nord land in Northern Norway focusing on the exploitation of nature, ecology, exchange of knowledge, and small scale architecture. Jørgensen and Holm’s work additionally spans video, photography, sculpture, sound, and installation. More info: www.astrid-noack.dk

At the last event in the talk series accompanying Coming From you can get insight into Lone Høyer Hansen and Tomas Lagermand Lundme’s contributions as well as how their exhibited material has inspired them in their respective practices.
The event will be in Danish.

Not Festival invites you to an evening of performances which all thematize the odd, the strange, the unconventional, the inexplicable, and the unknown. The evening will consist of a Skype lecture performance by American Annie Sprinkle, a live performance by Tara Noir and Sarah Armstrong and a surprice performance. The Pop Up Queer’s Shelter 2 is part of the recurring event Not Festival: Third Class Citizen and is organized by the Danish National School of Performing Arts in collaboration with choreographer and performer Luis Lara Malvacias.

This afternoon Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen will unfold the stories behind his contribution to the exhibition Coming From and share his sources of inspiration.
The event will be in Danish.

POLEMIC is a series of public debates arranged by Overgaden, which during 2014 addresses various questions and issues relevant for the Danish contemporary art institutions. This coming event thematizes the art institutions social responsibility, and will focus on their engagement in the development of society. The event is relevant in relation to rising political expectations, which many institutions experience about social involvement. As an example it is expressed in various requests that the art institutions should play a role in relation to inclusion of minorities, be a catalyst for growth in the local community, contribute to the development of socially loaded housing areas or deliver an eventful programme of initiatives to an broad range of politically defined target groups. Join us when business leader Stine Bosse, head of education at Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center Hilde Østergaard, and artist Kenneth Balfelt give their perspectives on the topic. Moderator: Merete Jankowski, director of Overgaden.
The event will be in Danish.

In connection with the exhibition project Coming From where 35 Danish artists are showing what has inspired their artistic practices, a series of artists talks are arranged in which the artists discuss their sources of inspiration drawing from the material they have presented in the exhibition. First artist in line is Gudrun Hasle. The talk series is held in connection with Copenhagen Art Week and in collaboration with the Danish Broadcasting Cooperation.
The event will be in Danish.

In the exhibition Dr. Topic, Christian Vind injects new life into a wide-ranging arsenal of objects, archaeological artefacts and everyday items, drawing connections between past and present, between personal memories and the materials of cultural history. This afternoon Christian Vind will give an introduction to his exhibition as well as to some of the guiding principles behind it. The event will be in Danish.

ARD general meeting 5-6pm (open to all)
Debate and music: 6-8pm

The association ARD ((Art Research Dialogue/www.a-r-d.org) invites you to an evening of debate, music, food and Thursday beer at Overgaden. For 10 years ARD has involved socially vulnerable groups in projects both at home and abroad, all of which have been designed to improve the life situation of the involved parties. This evening the association presents different working methods, which have aroused from the specific projects and been developed along the way, and sets the stage for a discussion on how art can be used as a platform and method to solve societal problems.

Presentations:

Rehabilitation of prisoners in Agadez, Niger by Kenneth A. Balfelt about the experiences with offering prisoners supplementary education and new skills.

Visit Tingbjerg by curator Matthias Hvass Borello about the art festival in the renowned and notorious district Tingbjerg.

Folkets Park by urban sociologist Simon Mertner Vind about the development and improvement of a park used by a wide range of often conflicting groups such as homeless Africans and Romanians, young men, activists, families with children as well as many others.

Music: Nikolaj Zeuthen (Skammens Vogn)

Friday 22 August Overgaden invites you to the opening of the exhibitions Dr. Topic by Christian Vind and Coming From which will feature 30 danish artists.

On the occasion of his exhibition Alexander Tovborg will publish a catalogue. This afternoon we celebrate the release with a glass of wine and tarot card reading by Toke Lykkeberg.
The event will be in Danish.

To mark the end of the exhibition Rasmus Rosengaard and Marie Søndergaard Lolk has published a joint catalogue. This evening we celebrate the launch with a release reception, also featuring a concert by musician Tobias Kirstein which combine drone and sound collage.

In Alexander Tovborg’s exhibition Bocca Baciata myths play a key role. This evening we will have a closer look at the concept of myths when Tovborg and Pia Skogemann, MA in History of Religions and a practicing Jungian analyst, from each their perspective will discuss the nature and mechanisms of mythmaking.
The event will be in Danish.

Welcome to the openings of the exhibitions ˄Ɣ ƪǷ by Marie Søndergaard Lolk and Rasmus Rosengaard and Bocca Baciata by lexander Tovborg.

Sara Gebran and Mathias Kryger present Acción Gorila, a series of events, bringing together practitioners & scholars from the dance and art fields, the art schools The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts & The National School of Performing Arts, art spaces/venues and the audience. Using the potential that is set in place, the art school’s visiting international lecturers and teachers will present works to an audience, outside the class room, combining this with performances by local artists and sometimes student’s work.

An emphasis on process, materiality and space is common to Marie Søndergaard Lolk and Rasmus Rosengaard’s work and on occasion of their exhibition the artist Nils Erik Gjerdevik and Ditte Vilstrup Holm, MA in Art History and PhD Fellow at CBS will guest Overgaden and give an introduction to art and materialism.
The event will be in Danish.

Artist Run is an international festival consisting of exhibitions at 17 of Copenhagen’s artist-run exhibition spaces, and a conference on 10-11th May at Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art. During the conference, questions about which role this type of exhibition spaces play on the contemporary art scene will be discussed as well as factors that influence the blooming of the spaces that is seen at the moment. Both Danish and international artist-run spaces will present their work and their distinctive profile. In addition, a number of keynote speakers will debate and reflect on concepts and questions that challenge the notions of the artist-run spaces in general. There will be a joint opening at the different sites in Copenhagen on Friday May 9th- Read more about the participating artists, venues, and see the program of the conference at: www.artistrun.net.
Both days 10am-6pm

Jacob Tækker invites composer and musician Anders Monrad and sound artist Budhaditya Chattopadhyay to a talk about music in art and the visuality of sound in regards to the exhibition Apophenia Cloud Travel Apparatus. Find out how the moods of music are transposed into the art and how art talks to the music when perceived by the listening audience.

Funen Art Academy, Valand Academy in Gothenburg and Bergen Academy of Art and Design have collaborated across borders on a performance workshop, held in Bergen, which explores the topic of shame. In extension of this the theme has been developed further through new workshops, and the result will be shown on this night at Overgaden, as a series of performances by: Nick Bruhn-Petersen, Mary Coble, Tao Sabella Hansen, Nanna Katharina Jensen, Dina Lundvall Nielsen, Jonas Kjeldgaard Sørensen and Anna Walther.

Overgaden inviterer til omvisning i de aktuelle udstillinger i selskab med kunstfaglig medarbejder Nina Wöhlk. Efterfølgende serverer vi kaffe og kage.

On occasion of Astrid Myntekær’s exhibition the artist Jens Ulrik Jørgensen has organised a concert with Volto and Jamie Allen’s circuitMusic who in turn will make sound and light merge into an auditory and visual universe of noise.

Two key elements of the exhibition Orgone are lasers and broken glass, mechanically turning and creating a symphony of shadow effects. During this workshop you can gain a unique insight into Astrid Myntekær’s artistic practice and work with light, when she invites the audience to make their own ‘Dream Wheel’. The workshop is limited to 15 attendees and it is therefore required to sign up: tg@overgaden.org. Registration will be dealt with on a first come, first served basis. Participation is as always free, but please bring 50 DKK to cover material costs.

How do computer games affect art and vice versa. And what are the consequences of the fact that we to an increasing extent experience the world through smartphones, tablets and apps? Join us when Jacob Tækker tells about the influence of computer games on his artistic practice in a conversation with Ravi Vatrapu, professor at CBS, who is researching in the field of ‘human computer interaction’. In connection with the talk there will also be an opportunity to play classic games from the heyday of arcade halls, provided by Chassis Arcade.

POLEMIK is a series of public debates arranged by Overgaden, which this spring addresses various questions and issues relevant for the Danish art institutions having contemporary art as their prime focus.

This evening we will look into the question of language and communication within the art world. During the debate, we ask whether art institutions lower the bar by making their communication more accessible? And whether the public has a responsibility for learning professional terminology if they want to gain insight into contemporary art?

Join us when Gitte Ørskou, chairman of the Danish Arts Foundation, Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg, chairman of the Danish Association of Art Centres, Berit Anne Larsen, head of communication at the National Gallery of Denmark, Christina Pontoppidan, rhetorician and external lecturer at CBS, and Matthias Hvass Borello, editor at Kunsten.nu, present their perspectives on the communication of art.
The debate will be in Danish.

Performance art can be a difficult genre to define, because when is performance an art form? Does the definition primarily rely on whether or not the performance is staged within the confines of the art world, or can the artistic performance be found in popular culture or even every day life?

With questions like these, Naja Maria Lundstrøm would like to investigate the performance terminology as artistic praxis and genre and has therefore invited Sanne Koefod, Museum director of Museet for Samtidskunst, and Henrik Vestergaard Friis from Liveart.dk to a conversation. So join us in a discussion about artistical praxis, popular culture and performance art as genre in a sincere attempt to get behind the term performance art.

The life of the body is closely linked to metabolism. A physical process of change that both art and science is investigating.

In relation to the exhibition Bodies and Bodies, Troels Sandegård has invited Adam Bencard, philosopher and assistant professor at Medicinsk Museion / Novo Nordisk Center for Basic Metabolic Research, to a conversation about the body, sensory perception and science. The conversation will evolve around the complexity of the body with perspectives from molecular science added a little body philosophy and perceptual theory.

If you are brave enough for a different culinary experience, you can also taste samples of ‘non muscular meat’, prepared by Levent Bøilerehauge (former chef at Famo) in conceptual collaboration with Troels Sandegård.
The event will be in Danish.

POLEMIK is a series of public debates that takes place during the spring and focuses on a number of questions and issues relevant to the Danish art institutions.

The first debate addresses the question of where the money shall come from during a time of economic crisis? What are the requirements from the State to institutions that receive financial support, and in which direction is the development taking us?

Join us when Maria Lind, director of Tensta Konsthall, Anettte Østerby, Head of Visual Art Centre at Kunststyrelsen, Daniel Hjorth, professor at CBS, among others will share their view on this development. POLEMIK is arranged by Overgaden and will be in Danish.

How do you eat, exercise and live your life in a effective way if you want to optimize your bodys physical condition and performance? Learn about this and much more when assistant professor and dietician Umahro Cadogan shares his knowledge on the topic, and try some free paleo food from Torvehallerne’s take-away restaurant PALÆO.

Overgaden invites you to a guided tour of the current exhibitions in the company of Anders Thrane, a member of Overgaden’s curatorial staff. Afterwards we serve coffee and cake.
The event will be in Danish.

The conference will be in English, and everybody is welcome. Registration is not required.

Programme