Please join us for the Opening of a special exhibition project by the artist duo Hart Lëshkina, “Boy World Effigy II” at O—Overgaden on Friday 10 October, 6pm!
In “Boy World Effigy II,” a major new video and sound work by Hart Lëskhina, Denmark’s historic Herning Kirkes Drengekor choir is transformed into both subject and metaphor. Through a four-channel video and sound installation, the work traces the fragile thresholds between individuality and collective order—between self and system. The choir appears as a symbolic institution, steeped in ritual, harmony, and discipline, while navigating the quiet violence of assimilation that underpins collective belonging.
The installation unfolds as a constellation of performance sequences and uncanny constructed fragments from the choirboys’ daily lives. Harmonized voices, synchronized gestures, and abrupt interruptions form a fractured rhythm that illuminates the boundaries that separate harmony from coercion, unity from erasure, performance from authentic selfhood.
The show will run from 10 October through 19 October.
Due to our collaborating with Kulturnatten, O—Overgaden will be open until midnight Friday 10 October!
The bar will be open, serving cold refreshments—beer, wine and soft drinks.
Everyone is welcome and entry to O—Overgaden is, as always free.
Hart Lëshkina is an interdisciplinary artist duo, formed in 2014 by Erik Hart and Tati Lëshkina. Their practice explores the construction of identity, power dynamics, and avatars, moving fluidly between the contexts of art, fashion, and advertising. Working across film, sound, installation, and photography, their work has been exhibited at Spazio Maiocchi (Milan), the Benaki Museum (Athens), and The Community (Paris), among others. In parallel, they have been commissioned by and collaborated with brands, publications, and musicians such as Prada, The New York Times, Charli xcx, Rizzoli, Universal Music, The New Yorker, 070Shake, The Face, Arca, Harper’s Bazaar France, Pop, Clairo, Nike, and many others.
Anna Frost is a Danish curator renowned for her experimental approach to contemporary art and innovative exhibition formats, particularly noted for her work with unconventional exhibition practices and multipurpose spaces. From 2011 to 2017, Frost co-directed the Copenhagen-based space TOVES, curating over 40 exhibitions in Denmark and abroad. In 2019, she co-founded Atrium with Jordan Richman, a curatorial platform staging site-specific interventions in the iconic Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. In 2021, she launched Institute of the Sun, an artist residency and exhibition space where she premiered Uffe Isolotto’s follow-up to his Venice Biennale project and introduced Esben Weile Kjær to the US with a large-scale piece at the Fontainebleau Hotel during Art Basel Miami. She has collaborated with spaces such as The Getty Center, KW, Berlin Biennale 9, PRAXES, Nikolaj Kunsthal, NordicLA, and BFI, been a guest lecturer at Funen Art Academy, and presented masterclasses at YoungArts Foundation, Miami.
The exhibition is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation and Demant Foundation.
