Special Projects at CHART 2024

Highlighted Presentations by Individual Artists

As part of the expanded programme for this year's art fair, we were delighted to spotlight several presentations by artists who are represented by galleries participating at CHART.

These special presentations were exhibited in the foyer and stairways leading up to the fair at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. For CHART 2024, Special Projects was by:

Ulf Lundin (SE); Jenny Källman (SE); Ann Lislegaard (NO); Magnus Andersen (DK); Johannes Sivertsen (DK/FR); Modou Dieng Yacine (SN); Emma Kohlmann (US); FOS (DK)

Scroll down to find out more about the works that were included in this year's Special Projects.

Ulf Lundin (SE)

In the project Best of Sweden, Ulf Lundin has photographed the same scene from early morning before dawn until it gets dark again in the evening. The final image is composed of different parts from a selection of exposures he took during the day. In these photographs common and unremarkable places, which we may not usually associate with the image of Sweden, are presented in an idealized light. The project raises the question about what a photograph is and how we perceive it, but also about the environment surrounding us and how we influence it.

Selected photographs from Ulf Lundin's Best of Sweden project were presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2024 by Galleri Magnus Karlsson.

Ann Lislegaard (NO)

Ann Lislegaard is known for her experimental 3D animations, sculptures, and sound and light works. In Lislegaard’s work, experiences of simulated spheres are created by means of interdisciplinary hybrids and connections — between architecture and cinema, between fictional narratives, and between human beings, machines, and animals.

In this context, which draws on the historical residues of culture and technology while building on feminist gender theories, the boundaries between the real and the imagined are blurred. Concrete and simulated worlds interpenetrate and are reorganised within one another, a world within a world within a world.

Three works by Ann Lislegaard were presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2024 by palace enterprise.

Magnus Andersen (DK)

'Agrication' is a contraction of the words ‘agriculture’, ‘vacation’ and ‘education'. Conjuring up a landscape that blends steampunk à la Mad Max and Silicon Valley-esque Biedermeier, Agrication processes contemporary desire for, and dreams of rural idyll. The installation reflects the artist’s notion of a not too distant future, which is blurred by a nostalgic longing for a simpler life in the past.

A work from Magnus Andersen's Agrication part II series was presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2024 by palace enterprise.

Modou Dieng Yacine (SN) & Johannes Sivertsen (DK/FR)

Following their first meeting in 2023, Modou Dieng Yacine and Johannes Sivertsen started an ongoing conversation about the situation they share, being in some ways between places: from living in other locations both artists have had the possibility of looking at their home countries in a complex state of longing and worry.

Johannes Sivertsen, who grew up in a Parisian suburb, has lived in Copenhagen for 20 years before recently moving. Modou Dieng Yacine, who grew up in Saint Louis, Senegal, now lives in Chicago. Continuously, they each return to their starting point, to take a critical look at the urban spaces of their childhood and the stories they hide.

Works by Modou Dieng Yacine and Johannes Sivertsen were presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2024 by SPECTA.

Modou Dieng Yacine and Johannes Sivertsen also appeared together in conversation on their joint exhibition Homesick with curator Marie-Ann Yemsi as part of the Talks Programme at CHART 2024.

Emma Kohlmann (US)

During the past decade, Emma Kohlmann has developed a distinct visual universe, easily recognizable for its amorphous figures. Rendered in an evocative colour scheme and framed in pyrographed cherry wood frames, her signature style has with the last series settled into an almost naïve, folksy symbolism.

The same hybrid figures appear in Kohlmann’s paintings again and again: bodies turn into candelabras, heads unfurl wings, a tailless cow acts as shelter, and women grow leaves as limbs. Strange in a way that only Kohlmann can achieve.

Emma Kohlmann's painting Oversized Family Tree was presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2024 by V1 Gallery.

FOS (DK)

The Danish artist FOS creates sculptures, installations, objects and performances with the wish to investigate the social traditions, it’s systems and principals. His artistic practice is diverse and moves through many genres and materials. FOS’ work is an ongoing study of how the language of objects and space define us as social beings. Existing in the cross-field between art and craftsmanship, FOS is driven by an interest in how our social relations and physical contexts simultaneously co-exist.

Made of terrazzo, brass, powder coated steel and fabric, ‘Always happy new year’ was originally commissioned by The Royal Danish Theater in 2015.

FOS's champagne bar Always Happy New Year was presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2024 in collaboration with Etage Projects.