TRUST at Copenhagen Art Festival

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 (detail)

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)

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

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

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 (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

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