Previous Editions

The eleventh edition of CHART took place 24 – 27 August 2023 at Charlottenborg; during that time we were delighted to welcome more than 25.000 visitors to experience a world of culture in the heart of Copenhagen.

In addition to increased attendance, exceptional sales and unprecedented press and media coverage, this year’s fair was marked by a surge of new collectors, a strong presence from international museums and foundations, as well as high levels of institutional acquisitions.

In 2023, we were proud to welcome a particularly strong cohort of representatives from prominent international institutions including: MoMA (US), Palais de Tokyo (FR), MUNCH (NO), Moderna Museet (SE), Gropius Bau (DE), and to have observed accquisitions by The British Museum (UK), SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst (DK), Malmö Konstmuseum (SE), Magasin III (SE), The National Gallery of Iceland (IS), directly from the fair.

CHART 2023 focused on expanding the conversation around art collecting and growing the audience for contemporary art by bringing art out into the public space. Start Collecting with CHART and this year’s CHART in Tivoli exhibition (marking the beginning of a new 3-year partnership) were key initiatives in realising these ambitions.

Returning with full force to our usual programme of live in-person discussions between leading figures from all strands of the contemporary art world, CHART 2022 was host to a varied selection of artist talks including discussions with Yael Bartana, Camilla Engström, Jockum Nordström, Ed Atkins, and Sofia Hultén to name just a few.

Additionally, we were so pleased to host a discussion between Non-Executive Director of frieze and Co-Founder and Trustee of the Gallery Climate Coalition Victoria Siddall, CEO of UBS Europe SE and Head of Wealth Management Europe at UBS, Christl Novakovic, Founder of Andersen’s Claus Andersen and Director of CHART Nanna Hjortenberg alongside a number of other talks focusing around the future of art institutions.

Enjoying strong media participation in the programme, we were happy to welcome writers and recieve reviews from a number of The Art Newspaper (UK), Financial Times (UK), Eurowoman (DK), Ocula (UK), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (DE), Berlingske (DK), Monocle (UK), Børsen (DK), Morgunbladid (IS), Architectural Digest Italy (IT) and Frieze (UK) - (find a full round-up of this year's press here)

Read more about CHART 2022 here.

With high sales, a strong audience turnout and a close partnership with Buffalo AKG Art Museum (US), the arts community reunited and new collaborations and alliances began.

CHART 2021 set the stage for a diverse programme of talks in which leading art world figures discussed the future of a reconnected art world post-pandemic. Speakers included Tessa Praun (Magasin lll), Mikkel Bogh (National Gallery of Denmark, SMK), Christian Utz (MUCA), curator Fatoş Üstek and architect Bjarke Ingels (BIG) to name just a few.

Alongside debates, CHART presented a series of artist talks and the fair concluded with a conversation between artists Mamma Andersson and Tal R as they launched a new artistic collaboration.

Read more about CHART 2021 here.

To connect local galleries, international collectors and institutions, unable to travel and experience the works outside of their home city, CHART facilitated a series of online meetings in the lead-up to the CHART weekend.

A 200-page reader was also published as part of the de-centred edition. The reader features works by 76 exceptional artists presented at the 2020 fair combined with newly commissioned texts from 21 voices from across the art world - historical and contextual pieces, artists' conversations, interviews with collectors and museum directors, critical overviews, diary excerpts, and more.

Writers and contributors include Jennifer Higgie (Frieze Magazine), Kenny Schachter (Artnet), and Christian Viveros-Fauné (The New Yorker, Art Review, ArtNews).

The reader is available through Walther König’s webshop and a digital version is free to download here.

CHART 2019 was accompanied by various special projects designed to give a platform to younger and emerging creative voices from across fine art, architecture and design.

'The Gatherer, The Dumpsterdiver, The Raver, The Hunter, The Alien and The Witch’, a group exhibition by five recent graduates from academies in the Nordic region was on view at Charlottenborg.

Off-site projects included ‘Matters - Rethinking Materials’, a design exhibition produced in collaboration with Design Museum Denmark where five innovative designers showcased works in the vitrines in front of the museum.

In collaboration with Museo Tamayo in Mexico City and Den Frie, CHART was proud to present two never before seen artworks by Portuguese artist Alexandre Estrela as a prelude to the large-scale retrospective exhibition of her work which took place at Museo Tamayo later in the year.

Alongside the art and design fairs, CHART once again offered a vast public programme of talks, films, artistic and musical performances, free and open to all. Participants included Nina Beier (DK), Chloe Wise (CA), George Rouy (UK), Eduardo Monti (IT), Sabine Marcelis (NZ), Kiyoshi Yamamoto (BR), Alexander Tovborg (DK), Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (DK) + Cali Thornhill DeWitt (CA).