Artists: Martin Erik Andersen, Felicia Atkinson, Jakup Auce, Elena Bajo, Jessica Baxter, Nina Beier, Maiken Bent, Ellen Cantor, Mikkel Carl, Cel Crabeels, Nanna Debois Buhl, Vava Dudu, Sophie Dupont, FOS, Ditte Gantriis, Sofie Haesaerts, Stei- nar Haga Christensen, Maj Hasager, Pernille Kapper Williams, Ilja Karilampi, A Kassen, Seyran Kirmizitoprak, Good Times and Nocturnal News, Emmanuelle Lainé, Adriana Lara, Jacopo Miliani, Cécile Noguès, Officin, Carl Palm, Douglas Park, Angelo After Lucy Experiment, Harald Thys & Jos De Gruyter, Benjamin Valenza, Loic Vandersti- Plessas, Laure Prouvost, Torben Ribe, Ebbe Stub Wittrup, Zin Taylor, The chelen & Jean-Paul Jacquet, We Are The Painters, Atalay Yavuz
Exhibition title: TRUST
Curated by: Sonia Dermience
Venues: Copenhagen Art Festival (Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Nikolaj Kunsthal – Copenhagen Contemporary Art, GL STRAND, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art), Copenhagen, Denmark
Date: August 29 – October 25, 2015
Photography: Torben Eskerod, images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Copenhagen Art Festival
The exhibition TRUST is about the belief in collectivity and trust between people. The exhibition addresses the premises on which art and the art world operate today, as well as focusing on the relationship between the individual artist and the art institution. TRUST is curated by the Belgian curator Sonia Dermience, who as part of her curatorial strategy has given the five art venues temporary names to challenge their usual profiles.
For the duration of the exhibition each of the five art venues has a symbolic name referring to their role and history. Under the name The Palace, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents works that collect, order and process material from the world around us using aesthetic registers. Nikolaj Kunsthal – Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre has been given the name The Temple. Here three art collectives will transform the gallery into three large-scale installations exploring different aspects of contemporary forms of worship. The art venue GL STRAND has been given the name The Salon. The exhibition in this former bourgeois home stages the institution’s history as a place for debate and dialogue, incorporating the decorative, aesthetic and challenging in an apparently dysfunctional family framework. Under the name The Exchange, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art brings design , video, printed matter and performance together to create an exchange between artistic practices. Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art has been given the name The Studio, and presents installations where the creative process itself is both visible and key to the completed works. As well as the exhibitions in the art venues, there will be small TRUST satellites throughout Copenhagen.
The Belgian graphic art group Überknackig has designed the exhibition’s city map guiding people to the venues and locations participating in TRUST.
With TRUST, Copenhagen’s five main art venues have joined forces to present the city with outstanding and relevant highlights from the Danish and international contemporary art scene right now.
The exhibition is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, the City of Copenhagen, Pro Helvetia, OCA and Institute Français.
The Palace at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Angelo Plessas, Fantasy Plot Generator, 2015
Angelo Plessas, Fantasy Plot Generator, 2015
Angelo Plessas, Fantasy Plot Generator, 2015 (detail)
Atalay Yavuz, Puff, 2015
Atalay Yavuz, Puff, 2015
Ditte Gantris, Body & Soul, 2015 (detail)
Ditte Gantris, Body & Soul, 2015
Elena Bajo, 2015
Ellen Cantor, 2015
Jacobo Miliani, ABECEDA, 2015
Nanna Debois Buhl, Botanizing on the Asphalt, 2015
Nanna Debois Buhl, Botanizing on the Asphalt, 2015 (detail)
Nanna Debois Buhl, Botanizing on the Asphalt, 2015 (detail)
Zin Taylor, Thoughts Illustrated Within Three Voids, 2015
Zin Taylor, Thoughts Illustrated Within Three Voids, 2015 (detail)
The Temple at Nikolaj Kunsthal
Akassen, Sound of Sculpture, 2015
Akassen, Sound of Sculpture, 2015
Jessica Baxter, Do Not Feed The Artist. They Have Already Too Much To Digest, 2015
Jessica Baxter, Do Not Feed The Artist. They Have Already Too Much To Digest, 2015 (detail)
We Are The Painters, Threshold of Apparition, 2015
We Are The Painters, Threshold of Apparition, 2015 (detail)
Jessica Baxter, Do Not Feed The Artist. They Have Already Too Much To Digest, 2015
The Salon at GL STRAND
Carl Palm, 2015
Carl Palm, 2015
Cécile Noguès, The Angular, 2015
Emmanuelle Lainé, 2015
FOS, 2015
The chelen & Jean-Paul Jacquet, Every woman should have the tools to take control of her life, 2015
Mikkel Carl, The Possibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 2012-2015
Mikkel Carl, No Woman Is an Island, 2015
Nina Beier, Scheme Suty, 2015 (detail)
Sofie Haesarts, Weight is relative, time is the measure, 2012
The Exchange at Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art
Cel Crabeels & Douglas Park, 2015
Ebbe Stub Wittrup, Perception Figures, 2015
Felicia Atkinson, The Only Luggage of the Lonley Wanderer, 2015
Good Times & Nocturnal News, 2015
Officin, The Day of the Peacock, 2015
Sofie Haesaerts, Alignment, 2015
Sophie Dupont, Heavy Light, 2015. Photography: Martin Kurt Haglund
Sophie Dupont, 2015
Vava Dudu, Le Poison, 2015
The Studio at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art
Benjamin Valenza, A Working Day, 2015
Ilja Karilampi, Plainclothes Poseurs, 2015
Laure Prouvost, I Need to Take Care of My Conceptual Grandad, 2015
Maiken Bent, Depot, 2015
Maiken Bent, Depot, 2015
Maiken Bent, Depot, 2015
Maiken Bent, Depot, 2015
Maiken Bent, Depot, 2015 (detail)
Martin Erik Andersen, Nut – The Nightsky and the Astrlpool, 2015
Steinar Haga Kristensen, 2015
The Boutique
Vava Dudu, The Boutique. Norgaard Paa Stroeget, 2015
Vava Dudu, The Boutique. Norgaard Paa Stroeget, 2015
The Cinema
Angelo Plessas, Eternal Internet Brotherhoos (1-3), 2015 (still from film)
Cel Crabeels, Nearly Present, Just Past, 2004 (still from film)
Joachim Hamou, UIP27, 2015 (still from film)
Loic Vanderstichelen & Jean-Paul Jacquet, La Cascade, 2015 (still from film)
Maj Hasager, We will meet in the blind spot, 2015 (still from film)
Zin Taylor, Put Your Eye in Your Mouth, 2007 (still from film)
The Pizzeria
Torben Ribe, 2015
Torben Ribe, Untitled (Scrambled programme), 2015
