18/9/2014
Art Copenhagen
Forum, Copenhagen
The international art fair features 59 galleries alongside innovative art practices and cross-border installations.
Art Copenhagen is Denmarks largest international art fair for modern and contemporary art and is held for the 18th time this year. Throughout the years, the artistic focus has been the best of the Danish and Nordic art scene. In 2013, we invited a wider audience, and galleries from around the world were welcomed to display their art at Forum Copenhagen.
The good buy
The young art scene is very vital these years. Art Copenhagen honours this by making a number of stands available for younger galleries. The young art scene is especially interesting because the next valuable and unique purchase from an up-and-coming artist could potentially be done here. Art Copenhagen presents many young galleries from home and abroad, all with exciting new artists.
Artistic installations
In addition to the galleries' exciting range of Works, Art Copenhagen features exhibition areas with innovative art practices and cross-border installations.
More info to come soon!
Children's encounter with art
Art Copenhagen wishes to initiate children's positive meeting with art. Mini workshops and a program aimed at children and their families help to activate and stimulate children's interest in art.
Guided tours and programme
Art Copenhagen presents an exciting programme, free guided tours, activities for children and the visitors' meeting with a number of museums and art media.
FACTS ABOUT ART COPENHAGEN
- Art Copenhagen takes place at Forum Copenhagen just 5 minutes from downtown Copenhagen
- 9,043 visitors attended Art Copenhagen 2013
- 59 galleries exhibited at Art Copenhagen 2013
- Art Copenhagen has been held annually since 1997
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Artistic installations
In addition to the galleries' exciting range of works Art Copenhagen features exhibition areas with innovative art practices and cross-border installations.
House of dreams
Pontus Kjerrman, 1954, Swedish-Danish sculptor, painter and printmaker.
Pontus Kjerrman was educated in Gothenburg 1977-79, at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen 1979-84 and 1981-84 as stucco craftsman. Since 1985, he has been a lecturer at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen.
Pontus Kjerrman is working in a figurative idiom where people and animals merge into magical creatures; the horse man has been a recurring character. He is inspired by the ancient Egyptian and Greek art, and in his figural compositions, he uses the frontal position from the Egyptian and archaic geek sculpture in his figural composition.
His world is full of gods and human-like animals in in different materials as bronze, ceramics, plaster ....
Pontus Kjerrman has made sculptures for squares, schools and public facilities, such as a fountain and two drinking fountains at the station square and pedestrian zone in Køge (1992-93) and the Midgard fountain in Vejle, inaugurated 2001.
Pontus Kjerrman tells more
Eternal Storm
In the work Eternal Storm, the spectators are reminded of the destructive forces of nature. As if in slowmotion a storm-damaged greenhouse rotates under the ceiling whilst a carefully crafted soundscape creates the illusion of the fury of powerful forces. But as opposed to the severe incidents during the storm Bodil, this is more of an oddly mesmerizing, almost introvert experience. The slow rotation of the sculpture is in a constrasting relationship with the dramatic, auditive staging and rather than observing the hurricane from the outside it is experienced from its silent eye.
Lars Lundehave Hansen (1978) is a professional artist focusing on sound and media, graduated from Det Jyske Kunstakademi 2006. During the past 16 years he has worked with sound as
installation, material and as a musicality 'beyond the borders'. Lars Lundehave Hansen has received the Det Jyske Kunstakademi's honorable award for his work with sound in the context of art as well as awards, grants and scholarships from the Danish Arts Foundation, the Danish Arts Council and the Municipality of Aarhus. Added to that was an Honorary Mention in 'Digital music and Sound Art' at the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica 2011. The award was given to the work SpiderBytes, a work that visualizes sound using pencils mounted on dancing speakers.
The jury wrote in their statement:
This sound visualization inserts the piece into the contexts of multimedia arts and expands the frontiers on the field of sound art. Due to this refined exploration of the relations between sound and objects, and believing that this fertile territory hosts important sound-art creations at the beginning of this second decade, the jury decided to give an Honorary Mention to the project by this Danish artist."
"Meine schiffe sollen brennen" - Peter Riek:
The background is a poem of Yves Bonnefoy with the meaning, that whatever you do will soon be disappeared. So you better concentrate on this and include this in your way of thinking and plans. These ships show drawings on the the sails which has to do with organic forms of the human body.
For me the whole fleet is a kind of self-portrait, an armada prepare to fight all day, but there is no enemy (men are constructed simple - they regard mostly as a fight).
Peter Riek's CV will follow soon
Sisters searching by Sisters Hope
Sisters Hope operate in the intersection of performance art, research, activism and pedagogy. They are working proactively toward manifesting a more sensuous and poetic educational system. Currently working on the large-scale project Sisters Academy, the school of a sensuous society, which will also manifest in a series of Nordic countires over the course of 2014-2015. Sisters Hope was founded in 2007 by Gry Worre Hallberg and Anna Lawaetz. In the fictitious performance-universe they personify the twin sisters - headmistresses, explorers and seekers of poetry and peace. In Sisters searching you will get the chance to encounter the universe of the sisters and engage and contribute to their search.
Oplev projektrummet under messen fredag fra 16-18 og lør/søndag fra 15-17.
Sisters searching performers: Gry Worre Hallberg (The Sister), Denis Rivin (Skyggen), Marie-Louise Werner (Protector of the Archive)
Sisters searching photography: Diana Lindhardt (The I)
Sisters searching set-design: Rhoda Ting and Connor Parks (The Hands)
Sisters searching sister assistance: Nana Senderovitz (The Link)
Sisters searching interviewer: Jacob Stubbe Østergaards (Journalist, Arterritory)
www.sistershope.dk // www.sistersacademy.dk
Press Contact
Karin Rasmussen
kra@bellacenter.dk - tel: +45 3247 2611
Forum Copenhagen
Julius Thomsens Plads 1 - DK-1825 Frederiksberg C
Opening hours
19 - 21 September 2014
Friday 4pm-8pm
Saturday 11am-8pm
Sunday 11am-5pm
Entrance
Adults: DKK 95,-
Partout-ticket: DKK 150,- (Only when bought at first entry)
Students and persons under 18: DKK 50,-
Children under 12 years: Free in the company of an adult.
Tickets are sold at the door.