Programme 2025

For CHART 2025, Gallery Gudmundsdottir presents Keep Frozen (2025, 1:08 min) by Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

For CHART 2025, I8 Gallery presents A Portrait of a Sculptor as a Sculpture, a series of the following five works by Hreinn Friðfinnsson:

∂L/∂t = rxF (2014, 5 min 14 s)

T=2π√ (L_v / g ) L_v = (R_CM^2 + R_g^2) / (R-R_CM) (2014, 12 min 33 s)

Px = M.vx=Po y-y_0 =Vy / Vx (x – x_0) - /g/(2v_X^2) (x-x_0)^2 (2014, 3 min 34 s)

L=Iω=L0 (2014, 49 s)

Ma=mg-ky (2014, 1 min 5 s)

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

This talk explores how collections evolve across generations, highlighting the considerations, processes, and rituals involved when collections are passed down. It will address the challenges and opportunities families encounter in preserving, shaping, and reinterpreting collections for the future.

For CHART 2025, we are delighted to present a conversation moderated by Carola Wiese, Senior Advisor to the Family Advisory, Art, and Collecting, in dialogue with Timo Miettinen, Chairman of EM Group Oy in Finland and Founder of the Miettinen Collection and Baltzar Wachtmeister, Chairman of the Wanås Foundation, lawyer and partner of FHH Law, landowner Wanås Estate, Knislinge, Sweden.

Photo (left) of Timo Miettinen by Kai Werner Schmidt. Artwork by Leiko Ikemura
Photo (right) of Carola Wiese by Michael Kaack / BARSK Projects

LILITH constructs visual worlds through intuitive, collage-like processes involving performance, film, text, sound, and sculptural installations. The starting point for their work is often linked to inner human states and drives, exploring the structures of rituals and ceremonies we follow in order to function and be accepted as part of a group. The concept of ritual has long preoccupied the duo, as it permeates many of the agreed-upon rules we use to build meaning and belonging during dramatic life events—or simply to create shared understanding in everyday life—such as the rules in games, play, and all forms of staged presentation.

At CHART 2025, LILITH Artis Duo will premiere the performance I AM EXTREME. In this piece, we witness a group of people in a procession carrying a vastly oversized arm, while performing ritual tributes to the physical and psychological variations and imperfections of our bodies. As part of these rites, a newly composed opera piece will be performed.

Credits:

Concept/Artists: LILITH artist duo (Elin Lundgren & Petter Pettersson)

Composer: Philip Gleisner

Opera Soloist: Angelica Asp

Performers: Angelica Asp, Daniel Mårs, Elin Lundgren, Emilie Kutzenberger, Erik Wall, Faïka Ammar, Finon Alkabawi, Gisel Munir Escobar, Inna Pettersson-Lundgren, Irene Stenberg, Jacob Skarehag, Johan Rastenberger, Kaisa Malmborg, Kim Holm, Lo Lundgren, Louise Zurawski, Mia Nora Røn, Siri Hedlund, Susanne Larsdotter, Thomas Hilljeborn

Production: Lilith Performance Studio

For CHART 2025, Martin Asbæk presents Carry an Object to Another Place (02:28 min) by Elina Brotherus.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme and may already be familiar to some visitors, as it is also currently on view in Copenhagen Metro stations.

For CHART 2025, Martin Asbæk presents Baloon Dash (01:20 min) by Elina Brotherus.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme and may already be familiar to some visitors, as it is also currently on view in Copenhagen Metro stations.

For CHART 2025, Anhava presents Individually Packaged (2020–2025, 3:30 min) by Heini Aho.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme and may already be familiar to some visitors, as it is also currently on view in Copenhagen Metro stations.

For CHART 2025, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard presents The Ocean Within (13:30 min) by Janaina Tschäpe.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme and may already be familiar to some visitors, as it is also currently on view in Copenhagen Metro stations.

Emily Gernild is a Danish artist well-known for her paintings presenting a lush series of tableaux within the still life tradition that take exception to commonly held notions of the genre. Lying seductively between abstraction and representation, her opulent paintings exude a deeply sensory awareness of colour and shape. Rabbit-skin glue imbues her paintings with an ethereal and shimmery quality, as the organic material permeates their surfaces. Gernild is currently featured in the exhibition Feminist Aesthetics at the Vigeland Museum in Oslo, presented alongside works by Sonja Ferlov Mancoba.

For CHART 2025, we are delighted to present a talk between Emily Gernild and Marie Laurberg, Artistic Director and CEO at Copenhagen Contemporary in Denmark and Founder of the support program for artists, CC Commissions, and the Beckett-Prize.

For CHART 2025, Palace Enterprise presents Love Your Clean Feet on Thursday (2023, 18:53 min) by Young-jun Tak.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

Supported by Arts Council Korea, Burger Collection, Berlin Masters Foundation, and Center Stage.

In this conversation, artist Nazgol Ansarinia (IR), Khurram Jamil (DK), founder of the non-profit exhibition space, MILAAP, and MILAAPs’s curator Astrid Wang explore the role of private patronage in sustaining artistic practice in times of uncertainty.

Introducing and reflecting on Ansarinia’s solo exhibition at MILAAP, which examines the shifting boundaries between public and private space, urban transformation, and the impact of globalisation, the talk considers how cross-border collaborations and independent platforms like MILAAP can support artistic resilience and foster dialogue on a international stage in continuous transformation.

For CHART 2025, Martin Asbæk presents Guardians (2024, 12:51 min) by Jane Jin Kaisen.

Single-channel film. 4K. Color. Stereo sound.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

For CHART 2025, Wilson Saplana Gallery presents Eftersøgning (2018, 8:24 min) by Jytte Rex.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

For CHART 2025, Wilson Saplana Gallery presents Ukendt Landskab (2016, 8:30 min) by Jytte Rex.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

For CHART 2025, Galleri Magnus Karlsson presents BYSTANDERS (2020, 16:08 min) by Petra Lindholm.

With sensitivity and lyricism, Petra Lindholm reflects on the condition of our planet and the perpetual flow and change of existence. In Bystanders, the artist shapes her perception of the frequencies emitted by the earth’s surface through images, words, and sound. Stemming from walks in the forest, fragments of reality are developed into a dream-like flow of images, blending poetic, emotional, and powerful visual narratives. The video combines atmospheric sounds, voice samplings, and singing to enhance the immersive experience, evoking both reflection and a sense of wonder.

Excerpt of text by Lorella Scacco.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

Gallery Gudmundsdottir presents BeastQuest (2025, 29:12 min) by Kolbeinn Hugi.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

Ahmed Umar is a cross-disciplinary artist living and working in Oslo. Through his work, Umar has also been an important front figure for queer persons with Muslim backgrounds in Norway and Sudan. His artistic practice highlights questions regarding identity, religion, and cultural values through different modes of artistic expression. He uses personal experiences as tools to convey narratives not only about suppression and alienation, but also about liberation and owning one’s own history.

For CHART 2025, we are delighted to present a talk between Ahmed Umar and Mariam Elnozahy, curator, researcher, and writer. She currently serves as the Artistic Director of Konsthall C in Stockholm, Sweden, where her program “Sacred Spaces” invites questions of religion and society in the realm of artistic production.

LILITH constructs visual worlds through intuitive, collage-like processes involving performance, film, text, sound, and sculptural installations. The starting point for their work is often linked to inner human states and drives, exploring the structures of rituals and ceremonies we follow in order to function and be accepted as part of a group. The concept of ritual has long preoccupied the duo, as it permeates many of the agreed-upon rules we use to build meaning and belonging during dramatic life events—or simply to create shared understanding in everyday life—such as the rules in games, play, and all forms of staged presentation.

At CHART 2025, LILITH Artis Duo will premiere the performance I AM EXTREME. In this piece, we witness a group of people in a procession carrying a vastly oversized arm, while performing ritual tributes to the physical and psychological variations and imperfections of our bodies. As part of these rites, a newly composed opera piece will be performed.

Credits:

Concept/Artists: LILITH artist duo (Elin Lundgren & Petter Pettersson)

Composer: Philip Gleisner

Opera Soloist: Angelica Asp

Performers: Angelica Asp, Daniel Mårs, Elin Lundgren, Emilie Kutzenberger, Erik Wall, Faïka Ammar, Finon Alkabawi, Gisel Munir Escobar, Inna Pettersson-Lundgren, Irene Stenberg, Jacob Skarehag, Johan Rastenberger, Kaisa Malmborg, Kim Holm, Lo Lundgren, Louise Zurawski, Mia Nora Røn, Siri Hedlund, Susanne Larsdotter, Thomas Hilljeborn

Production: Lilith Performance Studio

For the CHART 2025 Cinema Programme, we are delighted to present Self Tape (2024, 9 min 12 s) by Filip Vest.

Photography/editing: Ville Vidø
Music: Francesca Buratelli
Choreography: Paolo de Venecia Gile
Co-directing: Rasmus Balling
Assistant: Asta Herta Møllholst

Do not miss Filip Vest performing Self Tape live during CHART 2025.

Esben Weile Kjær is a Danish artist whose work spans sculpture and performance, drawing on the history of pop culture to investigate themes of nostalgia, authenticity and generational anxiety. In his performances, installations and sculptures, he examines identity among his own generation and explores the role of popular culture and technology in shaping experiences of community and freedom. Esben is currently featured in Rainbow Tornado at Rudolph Tegner’s Museum and Sculpture Park, and is also part of the Christiania Biennale.

For CHART 2025, we are delighted to present a talk between Esben Weile Kjær and Mariam Elnozahy, curator, researcher, and writer. She currently serves as the Artistic Director of Konsthall C in Stockholm, Sweden where her program “Sacred Spaces” invites questions of religion and society in the realm of artistic production.

The Danish duo, Nikolaj Svaneborg (keys) and Jonas Kardyb (drums, percussion) craft intricate, cyclical compositions that balance introspective warmth with an underlying sense of movement. Jazz-tinged minimalism that drifts between contemplation and momentum, where soft Wurlitzer swells and crisp percussion ripple like echoes in still water.

After carving out their space, they joined Gondwana Records for their third album, Over Tage, a perfect fit within Matthew Halsall’s forward-thinking UK label. Their latest effort, Superkilen, expands their sonic vocabulary while staying tethered to the quiet magnetism of their roots. It’s an album of contrasts—joyful yet wistful, outward-facing yet deeply personal. Like the shifting light of Nordic seasons, it exists in the in-between: past and future, memory and discovery.

Winners of two Danish Music Awards Jazz in 2019 (New Artist of the Year and Composer of the Year), Svaneborg Kardyb continue to refine their world-building, one delicate phrase and pulsing groove at a time - bringing their ever-evolving sound to audiences across the globe.

Photo Credits: Dennis Morton

Slapstick humour and gothic horror meet up in the multifaceted work of Danish artist Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl. Be it music albums, film productions, or large exhibition projects, Mejdahl explore the topics of trauma healing, spirituality, and masculinity.

His work is part of the National Gallery's collection (SMK), among others. The artist was recently awarded the three-year working grant by The Danish Arts Foundation.

Within a few years, Mejdahl has brought contemporary art to unconventional places with surprising collaborations including Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), Danish theme park BonBon-Land, and Roskilde Festival.

Mejdahl has exhibited at Kunsthal Rønnebæksholm, Overgaden, KØN - Gender Museum Denmark, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg among other places, while his video works have reached international audiences with screenings across the world.

This year, CHART celebrates Mejdahl's cross-disciplinary practice with a proper takeover. The artist teams up with renowned cellist Cæcilie Trier and gay linedance club Outliners for the premiere of Adam's Apples - an enigmatic performance piece combining a masculine initiation rite with public humiliation. The performance will transition into Mejdahl's blazing debut DJ set, Lovebomb.

Mejdahl's work is part of the National Gallery's collection (SMK,) among others. Mejdahl was recently awarded the three-year working grant by The Danish Arts Foundation.

Photo credit: Andreas Noes Brødsgaard

David Risley makes paintings, writes, curates, teaches and occasionally plays music. He co-founded CHART and ran David Risley Gallery for 20 years. The gallery also housed a record store, ‘The Gutter’, selling records by artists. The gallery also hosted concerts, festivals and performances including Lee Scratch Perry, Iceage, TS Hoegh among others.

For CHART 2025, Risley will play tunes spanning a range of genres.

Molina is the Danish-Chilean producer and composer—full name Rebecca Molina (b. 1992)—living in Copenhagen.

Her music flows from an interest in combining digital, sample-based production with organic, hand-played instrumentation. Her compositions create wide and woozy landscapes: a pixelating sunset coming in and out of focus and Guitars that blur the lines with jagged textures and splattered muck.

"When You Wake Up" (label: Escho), the debut full-length from Molina, is a record of presence—a collage of time spent slowing down and being attuned to life’s cycles and changes. “It's a record where I focused on the accidental and immediate,” Molina shares, letting these qualities “become the center of the songs.” Molina pushed herself to try playing instruments with which she had less experience to capture a sense of unpolishedness and spontaneity in the recordings. “I hoped that would create some immediate and unintended material that I had no control over,” she says, “which, for me, is being present.”

In this way, Molina’s music welcomes listeners to a surrealist universe of fuzzed-out guitars, ethereal vocals, and layered samples.

Live, she both performs in a duo and trio setup with Collider guitarist Troels Damgaard-Christensen on guitar and Drummer Benedicte Pierleoni from Baby In Vain.

David Risley makes paintings, writes, curates, teaches and occasionally plays music. He co-founded CHART and ran David Risley Gallery for 20 years. The gallery also housed a record store, ‘The Gutter’, selling records by artists. The gallery also hosted concerts, festivals and performances including Lee Scratch Perry, Iceage, TS Hoegh among others.

For CHART 2025, Risley will play tunes spanning a range of genres.

Apollonian Circles is a hybrid concert-installation blending electronic music, jazz, theatre, and performance art into a participatory, dream-like experience. Built around improvisation and audience involvement, each performance unfolds as a living, shifting reflection of those present, like a hall of mirrors.

Presented in different forms over time, from sunlit gallery spaces to darkened black-box theatres, the work adapts to each setting while preserving its core: a heightened sense of presence, a collapse of the boundary between performer and audience, and an atmosphere charged with ritual and spontaneity.

Sound, movement, light, and scenography come together in an ever-evolving composition where no two performances are alike. Apollonian Circles resists traditional concert formats, instead inviting audiences into a shared space of uncertainty, intensity, and collective resonance.

For CHART 2025, Apollonial Circles features Henrik Vibskov and Mikkel Hess drum duo. Excerpt from Apollonian Circles performed at Teater Republique in January 2025.

Friday night at CHART Copenhagen’s own Christian d’Or & Prom Night go back2back (for the first time ever) for a night of house, disco and sleazy chuggers.

Photo Credits Christian d'Or: Dennis Morton

Blush consists of Lola Hammerich and Jonathan Holst Bruus, who are also active in Baby in Vain and Flawless Victory, respectively. The duo emerged in the wake of their respective breakups, turning to music as a refuge together. Music was a way to process and soothe their heartache, as well as an escape and an opportunity for experimentation. Friendship became an artistic partnership where vulnerability and playfulness coexist. Colored by crooning harmonica, 2000s-inspired indie drums, and a melancholic glockenspiel, the duo crafts music with a unique, ambivalent mood, that’s equally wistful and hopeful.

Photo credits: Alex Rotondo

Zoumer is the project of singer/producer Yasmina Derradj. Her debut album ‘Green World’ (2024) was well received in both art and music circles for its blend of alt-pop and Algerian raï and punk sensibility with vulnerable songwriting and unpolished energy.

Despite having released music for just a year and a half, Zoumer has performed at Roskilde, Heartland and SPOT, and will return to Roskilde Festival this summer with the conceptual project Zoumer & Debbie Clubs, using the club format to experiment with demos, visual ideas and chopping different genres together.

She is currently working on her upcoming project ‘euro arab lovergirl’, developed both in and outside of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Media School. The project is currently taking the form of a conceptual album, where freestyling is meticulously reworked, exploring storytelling both true and fictional through a prism of mixed identity.

This kind of curious experimentation with style and form resulted in Derradj winning the Solo Award at the Spring Exhibition at Charlottenborg in 2023.

Expect new songs from Zoumer in the autumn of 2025.

Photo Credits: Carys Huws

Xenia Xamanek's work spans experimental production, live performance, and DJ sets that merge the raw physicality of reggaeton and perreo with abstract electronics, noise, and moments of haunting beauty. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, Xamanek builds sonic worlds that are emotionally charged, unpredictable, and unapologetically hybrid, resisting easy categorisation and inviting the listener into states of altered perception.

For CHART 2025, Gallery Gudmundsdottir presents Keep Frozen (2025, 1:08 min) by Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

Cecilia Fiona (b. 1997) works across sculpture, painting, costume and performance. Fiona conjures a mythic world where hybrid beings blur the lines between body and earth, dream and reality. Drawing inspiration from quantum physics, microbiology, and alchemy, the artist evokes a future-past realm populated by biomorphic creatures and imaginative ecosystems exploring themes of rebirth, transformation and death.

Part funeral, part fertility rite, Fiona’s performances often involve performers wearing handmade costumes, animating her sculptures and moving slowly and intuitively within her installation. Using materials such as shells, branches, jute fibre, paper pulp and tree resin, the artist creates a ceremonial space where body, nature and myth dissolve into one another.

For CHART 2025, Fiona will perform 'And the needle was a golden key', a ritual performance in three parts, unfolding across three locations over two days. The audience follows a singing being who buries the dead and lets new creatures be born and carried out into the world. Through sculpture, song, movement and painting, the performance explores the threads of fate that weave us together across time and species.

Performers: Cecilia Fiona and Lucie Cure

Song/Music Composition: Lucie Cure

Recent exhibitions include Copenhagen Contemporary, DK: SIXI Museum, Nanjing, CH: Lab Verde Residency, Amazon, BR; and Niru Ratnam Gallery, London, UK. The artist is represented by Andersen’s Contemporary. Upcoming presentations include a group exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall in January 2026 and a solo exhibition at Towner Eastbourne, UK, in July 2026.

For CHART 2025, Martin Asbæk presents Carry an Object to Another Place (2:58 min) by Elina Brotherus.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme and may already be familiar to some visitors, as it is also currently on view in Copenhagen Metro stations.

For CHART 2025, Martin Asbæk presents Baloon Dash (01:20 min) by Elina Brotherus.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme and may already be familiar to some visitors, as it is also currently on view in Copenhagen Metro stations.

For CHART 2025, Anhava presents Individually Packaged (2020–2025, 3:30 min) by Heini Aho.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme and may already be familiar to some visitors, as it is also currently on view in Copenhagen Metro stations.

For CHART 2025, Steinsland Berliner presents Galatea (2023, 8:20 min) by Arvida Byström & Hampus Byström (SE).

A female, seemingly lifeless, body is found in the forest. Who was she, who left her there, and is she really dead? Galatea follows a man who abandons his lifelike sex doll in the woods, prompting a police investigation when it is mistaken for a real corpse. Throughout the film, we hear Galatea’s own thoughts—exploring her role in society as a martyr or savior of women, shouldering their sexual and emotional labor.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

For CHART 2025, Lagune Ouest presents WIND (2024, 6 min) by Kåre Frang.

Edition of 3 + 2AP.

Credits
Produced by inter.agcy
Special Effects & Production Support by FXteam
DOP: André Hansen
Editor and VFX: Roni Selovuo
Colorist: Rasmus Hedin
Sound Design: Albert Aagaard Hertz
Runners: Theodora Lyng
Actors: Ronnie Shabani
EQ: Only Rental

Special thanks to Finn Andreassen and Özcan Özdemir, Københavns Kommune.
With support from Ny Carlsbergfondet and The Danish Arts Foundation

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

This talk explores innovative approaches and challenges in creating sustainable exhibitions, featuring insights from the Helsinki Biennial. The biennale looks at the transformative potential of art, and encourages responsible action towards sustainable exhibition-making. Participants include Arja Miller, Director of the HAM Helsinki Art Museum in Finland, Kati Kivinen, Head of Exhibitions at the HAM Helsinki Art Museum and Head Curator for the Helsinki Biennial 2025, Hans Rosenström, Finnish artist represented at the Helsinki Biennial 2025. Moderated by Aino Frilander, Finnish journalist and author. She works as a staff writer and editor at Helsingin Sanomat, where she covers art and design.

During CHART 2025, Zishi Han and Wei Yang present their first duo exhibition in Denmark at Politikens Forhal, showcasing their ongoing collaboration rooted in historical Chinese homoerotic literature and contemporary queer narratives.

As part of the CHART performance programme, the artists will stage Hairpin Beneath 2 in the cinema — a performance and video work emerging from their shared interest in the power dynamics inherent in desire and intimacy, the artists’ point of departure is their own adaptation of the late Ming dynasty anthology of homoerotic stories 弁而釵 (Biàn ér chāi), the title of which suggests the action of a man removing his ceremonial headgear and donning a woman's hairpin. Han and Yang loosely interpret the text’s storylines to dwell amidst the blurry boundary between the fictional and the biographical, intertwining multiple narratives that explore queer existences in China and of Chinese diaspora.

Zishi Han and Wei Yang’s video and performance project Hairpin Beneath won the Solo Award 2024 from the Spring Exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg and thereby the opportunity to exhibit at Politikens Forhal. This exhibition is a further development of works the artists will also present at the Sculpture Center in New York in 2025.

Bios

Zishi Han (b. Beijing 1990, lives and works in Frankfurt am Main) recently graduated from Städelschule in Frankfurt and previously trained as an engineer and designer in Beijing and London. His work has been shown at the Busan Biennale (KR), saasfee*pavilion (DE), Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden (DE), and Fondazione Antonio Ratti (IT).

Wei Yang (b. Liuzhou 1994, lives and works in Frankfurt am Main) graduated from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam and is currently studying at Städelschule in Frankfurt. His works have been exhibited at Memphis (AUT), West Den Haag (NL), Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras (ES), and Stedelijk Museum (NL). In the fall of 2024, Mousse published an in-depth interview with Yang about his practice and collaboration with Zishi Han.

*Cinema capacity is limited; please arrive on time.

Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl is a Danish artist who is known for his slapstick humour and gothic horror. Mejdahl's multifaceted work often has its starting point in the artist's personal life story. Be it music album releases, film productions or large solo exhibition projects, Mejdahl's practice explores the topics of trauma-healing, our relationship to nature, spirituality, and masculinity.

For CHART 2025, we are delighted to present a talk between Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl and Magnus Kaslov, curator at SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark, responsible for contemporary art, and also previously curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde. He is currently working on a PhD exploring sound in Danish visual art from 1940 to the present.

For CHART 2025, Gallery Susanne Ottesen presents Let’s Oscillate (10 min), TimeBeing (1 min), Building Ruins (1:30 min), Seriel Koreografi (2:30 min), and Untitled – Stand (3:45 min) by Pernille With Madsen.

The screening comprises five consecutive video works. Collectively, they provide a broad overview of With Madsen's practice, highlighting her methods, thematic concerns, and approach to time, movement, and structure.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

For the CHART 2025 Cinema Programme, we are delighted to present Self Tape (2024, 9 min 12 s) by Filip Vest.

Photography/editing: Ville Vidø
Music: Francesca Buratelli
Choreography: Paolo de Venecia Gile
Co-directing: Rasmus Balling
Assistant: Asta Herta Møllholst

Do not miss Filip Vest performing Self Tape live during CHART 2025.

Valentin Ranger is a French artist who works with a range of mediums. Through drawings, paintings, 3D films, and sculptural installations, Ranger unfolds a dreamlike world in constant mutation, mirroring the human body, which is his main subject of study. In richly detailed settings or virtual rooms traversed in 360°, the artist stages hybrid characters and cellular forms pulsating with the rhythm of an indeterminate organism. Across different mediums, he writes the saga of a community where marginalised or invisible populations—sexual and gender minorities—come together to forge new forms of solidarity.

For CHART 2025, we are delighted to present a talk between Valentin Ranger and TF Chan, author and director of Collect, the leading contemporary craft and design fair held at London's Somerset House. Formerly the editor of Wallpaper* magazine, he continues to work as a freelance arts journalist.

For CHART 2025, Filip Vest (DK, 1995) will perform Self Tape, an exploration of precarious work, identity, queerness, exhaustion, and humiliation in late capitalism.

In the performance, we follow an androgynous creature with light blue skin, long ears, and red boots, trapped in an eternal casting limbo by an unseen force represented only by a menacing buzzer and a red light. Part monster, part pop princess, the creature struggles to find a role it can play, shifting between iconic figures from across time, Gollum, Frankenstein’s monster, Marilyn Monroe, Dolly Parton, and others.

When not delivering monologues, dancing, or playing music with its long nails, it attempts to answer questions about its previous work experience — but inevitably ends up talking about its ex and childhood instead.

Filip Vest is a performance artist exploring queer relations, identity, social scripts and capital.

*Cinema capacity is limited; please arrive on time.

This talk explores the notion of Nordic art, its values, and its future role within the global art world. Moderated by Helga Christoffersen, Curator-at-Large and Curator of the Nordic Art and Culture Initiative at Buffalo AKG Art Museum, the panel includes Anna Mustonen, Chief Curator at Kiasma in Finland and Curator of the Nordic Countries Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition in Venice, Swedish/Polish artist Klara Kristalova, represented at the Nordic Pavilion in 2026, and Auður Jörundsdóttir, Director at Icelandic Art Center in Reykjavík.

For CHART 2025, I8 Gallery presents A Portrait of a Sculptor as a Sculpture, a series of the following five works by Hreinn Friðfinnsson:

∂L/∂t = rxF (2014, 5 min 14 s)

T=2π√ (L_v / g ) L_v = (R_CM^2 + R_g^2) / (R-R_CM) (2014, 12 min 33 s)

Px = M.vx=Po y-y_0 =Vy / Vx (x – x_0) - /g/(2v_X^2) (x-x_0)^2 (2014, 3 min 34 s)

L=Iω=L0 (2014, 49 s)

Ma=mg-ky (2014, 1 min 5 s)

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

For CHART 2025, Public Service presents Going to the Meta Hospital (19:09 min) by Valentin Ranger.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme and may already be familiar to some visitors, as it is also currently on view in Copenhagen Metro stations.

Minh Ngọc Nguyễn is Danish/Vietnamese artist based in Copenhagen. Nguyễn holds an MFA in Photography from HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design in Gothenburg and is represented in public collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the Danish Arts Foundation and Region Västra Götaland.

For CHART 2025, we are delighted to present a talk between Minh Ngọc Nguyễn and Anna Mustonen, Chief Curator at Kiasma in Finland. Mustonen has also curated exhibitions for Fotografiska, Helsinki Kunsthalle and Kai Art Center in Tallinn, among others and is the Curator of the Nordic Countries Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.

For CHART 2025, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard presents The Ocean Within (13:30 min) by Janaina Tschäpe.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme and may already be familiar to some visitors, as it is also currently on view in Copenhagen Metro stations.

For CHART 2025, Martin Asbæk presents Guardians (2024, 12:51 min) by Jane Jin Kaisen.

Single-channel film. 4K. Color. Stereo sound.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

Slapstick humour and gothic horror meet up in the multifaceted work of Danish artist Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl. Be it music albums, film productions, or large exhibition projects, Mejdahl explore the topics of trauma healing, spirituality, and masculinity.

His work is part of the National Gallery's collection (SMK), among others. The artist was recently awarded the three-year working grant by The Danish Arts Foundation.

Within a few years, Mejdahl has brought contemporary art to unconventional places with surprising collaborations including Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), Danish theme park BonBon-Land, and Roskilde Festival.

Mejdahl has exhibited at Kunsthal Rønnebæksholm, Overgaden, KØN - Gender Museum Denmark, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg among other places, while his video works have reached international audiences with screenings across the world.

This year, CHART celebrates Mejdahl's cross-disciplinary practice with a proper takeover. The artist teams up with renowned cellist Cæcilie Trier and gay linedance club Outliners for the premiere of Adam's Apples - an enigmatic performance piece combining a masculine initiation rite with public humiliation. The performance will transition into Mejdahl's blazing debut DJ set, Lovebomb.

Mejdahl's work is part of the National Gallery's collection (SMK,) among others. Mejdahl was recently awarded the three-year working grant by The Danish Arts Foundation.

Photo credit: Andreas Noes Brødsgaard

Gallery Gudmundsdottir presents BeastQuest (2025, 29:12 min) by Kolbeinn Hugi.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

For CHART 2025, Galleri Magnus Karlsson presents BYSTANDERS (2020, 16:08 min) by Petra Lindholm.

With sensitivity and lyricism, Petra Lindholm reflects on the condition of our planet and the perpetual flow and change of existence. In Bystanders, the artist shapes her perception of the frequencies emitted by the earth’s surface through images, words, and sound. Stemming from walks in the forest, fragments of reality are developed into a dream-like flow of images, blending poetic, emotional, and powerful visual narratives. The video combines atmospheric sounds, voice samplings, and singing to enhance the immersive experience, evoking both reflection and a sense of wonder.

Excerpt of text by Lorella Scacco.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

19-year-old Lucca from Aalborg, Denmark, despite her young age and limited life experience, has managed to put into words the difficult, shameful, and embarrassing experiences, as well as the thoughts, dreams, and desires she carries with her, things that, regardless of age, nearly all of us can relate to. While Denmark has yet to receive any official releases from Lucca, her debut single, "paper plane," will drop on September 5, 2025, via the Danish indie label 100Blaa.

Lucca has a deep hope that her music can inspire listeners to distance themselves from self-criticism, insecurity, and worry, and instead allow the music to fill them with love, happiness, melancholy, or even sorrow. With her melancholic style, influenced by the world of jazz, alongside her pop-infused lyrics, melodies, and, most notably, her distinctive voice, which holds both hope and reflection, Lucca is creating a unique sonic universe all her own.

Photo: Portrait of Lucca, 2025. Courtesy of Hjalmar Krüger Lindø @hjalmarlindoe

Boogie Rookie is Copenhagen’s dicoteque rock star. After 10 years of working in Denmark’s biggest record store he built up an eclectic vinyl set ranging from eurodance to acid jazz. His sets are full of nostalgia, synthesizers and drum machines and allthough they’re hard to put in a box space disco, hi-nrg, italo, new wave and spaghetti-house are some of the genres that you might expect to hear.

His dj-sets have become famous in Copenhagen where he is a resident at venues like Jolene and Cecil but also at disco parties in Milano, Paris, Berlin, New York etc. His italo club night La Dolce Vita at Jolene has become one of the most well established italo-disco parties in Europe and he is continuously hosting the world’s most exciting disco-DJ’s at his Copenhagen parties.

In November 24’ he came out as a singer and producer on his debut-song ‘Beat The Disco Ball’ that carries on the sonic universe of his dj sets. Since then he has been working hard on an album set to be released in early 2026 on the Copenhagen label Music For Dreams.

Alba Akvama (b.1999) is an emerging songwriter and composer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. A recent graduate of Copenhagen's Rhythmic Music Conservatory, she is now debuting with her first collection of intimate and introspective songs. They explore being stuck in time, relationships and unresolved feelings. The music blends orchestral midi with open-tuned guitars and jazz-minded chords, drawing the listener into a minimal universe that feels eclectic and sincere. Alba’s first release is set to come this year; however, most recently, she’s been featured on the record of the artist GB, “Gusse Music” (Posh Isolation, 2024), where she’s done backing vocals on a number of songs.

Photo credits: Samuel Wilson

Soli City is an artistic initiative created by composer and artist Harald Bjørn. The project moves within the intersection of classical music traditions, electronic structures, and a broader media-critical gaze on contemporary life. Rooted in the post-digital, Soli City operates through composition, performance, and installation—where sound, light, and space merge in explorations of connection, consumption, and transformation.

The music orbits around synthetic voices, polished strings, and radical collage techniques, forming an auditory surface where joy and sorrow, acceleration and dissolution coexist. The works delve into the contrasts that define our relationship to media culture and the world around us.

In August 2024, Soli City released its debut album PARADOXE on the renowned indie label Posh Isolation. Written, produced, and recorded entirely by Harald Bjørn, the album received wide acclaim from both Danish and international critics. Following the release, Soli City has established a presence in both the experimental music scene and the art world, performing in Denmark and abroad with visually striking and formally exploratory performances.

Photo Credits: Clement Mogensen

Apollonian Circles is a hybrid concert-installation blending electronic music, jazz, theatre, and performance art into a participatory, dream-like experience. Built around improvisation and audience involvement, each performance unfolds as a living, shifting reflection of those present, like a hall of mirrors.

Presented in different forms over time, from sunlit gallery spaces to darkened black-box theatres, the work adapts to each setting while preserving its core: a heightened sense of presence, a collapse of the boundary between performer and audience, and an atmosphere charged with ritual and spontaneity.

Sound, movement, light, and scenography come together in an ever-evolving composition where no two performances are alike. Apollonian Circles resists traditional concert formats, instead inviting audiences into a shared space of uncertainty, intensity, and collective resonance.

For CHART 2025, Apollonial Circles features Henrik Vibskov and Mikkel Hess drum duo. Excerpt from Apollonian Circles performed at Teater Republique in January 2025.

Haloplus+ is a trio of lead singers, producers, and independent artists from Copenhagen. Consisting of Isa Nam Sook, Joakim Wei Bernild, and Stine Victoria; solo artists in their own right, with backgrounds in songwriting, dj'ing, visual arts, performance and event curation.

singing together, longing, belonging, (fake) nostalgia, fragments, experiments, love, no rules, mu-si-ca-li-ty, is, the, beat, of, my, heart, when, you, sit, next, to, me, a, dessert, and, a, coffee

Though they have released only one EP and a handful of singles, the group has already made a mark both locally and internationally. Haloplus+ has toured Japan and Korea, played at Roskilde Festival, and performed at various venues in Copenhagen, including Hotel Cecil, Mayhem, and Alice. The trio is also behind the event series Moodkiller, which, alongside friends, invites both local and international artists and musicians into a creative dialogue.

In October 2025, the group will release their album Musicality on Escho.

Photo Credits: Zinna Mac-Eochaidh

Ydegirl & RIP Swirl

Danish artist and composer Ydegirl joins forces with Berlin-based producer RIP Swirl for an intimate collaboration that blurs the lines between chamber pop, indie sleaze, and experimental electronic. Their joint EP Emo Regulation, released via In Real Life, was born from instinct, friendship, and a series of loose jam sessions, shaped more by mood than method.

Ydegirl, composer and vocalist Andrea Novel, is known for weaving classical instrumentation into electronic soundscapes, creating a distinctive Nordic baroque meets R&B sound. RIP Swirl, the project of Luka Seifert, fuses guitar-driven textures with Berlin’s club energy and an analogue approach to production. Together, they explore raw emotion through one-take freestyles, field recordings, and lyrics drawn straight from lived experience.

The result is a body of work that’s both vulnerable and vivid, highlighted by the touching “Clayboy” and the cinematic “TMN,” recorded during a return to Copenhagen. At CHART, they bring this collaborative energy to the stage in a set that feels immediate, personal, and wide open.

Photo credit: Amy Peskett

Copenhagen-based producer oqbqbo weaves ambient, euphoric dance music that feels both otherworldly and oddly familiar - a sonic realm where eurodance memories flicker through the haze of contemporary club music. Wordless vocals haunt her tracks like half-remembered dreams, not telling stories, but becoming an instrument of emotional texture rather than narrative clarity. Since 2019, oqbqbo has been part of the world around Posh Isolation. Her work moves between solo pieces and collaborations - recently with Scandinavian Star on ‘In This Together’, an album released in April 2025.

For CHART 2025, Gallery Gudmundsdottir presents Keep Frozen (2025, 1:08 min) by Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

This talk explores the role of art in public spaces, focusing on the creation and commissioning process of public art. Moderated by curator Milena Høgsberg, former Director and Chief Curator of Wanås Konst, Sweden, the panel consists of Danish artist Pernille With Madsen, Michael Thouber, Director of the New Carlsberg Foundation and former Director of Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Diana Velasco, an Art & Project Manager at Kunst på Arbejde and served for five years as Program Lead for the Art in Metro initiative at Metroselskabet.

Photo credits:
Portrait of Milena Høgsberg, 2022. Photo by Christian Bang
Portrait of Pernille With Madsen. Photo by Søren Rønholt
Portrait of Michael Thouber. Photo by Kasper Witte Larsen
Portrait of Diana Velasco. Photo credit: Sisse Langfeldt I Kunst på Arbejde

For CHART 2025, Public Service presents Going to the Meta Hospital (19:09 min) by Valentin Ranger.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme and may already be familiar to some visitors, as it is also currently on view in Copenhagen Metro stations.

For CHART 2025, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard presents The Ocean Within (13:30 min) by Janaina Tschäpe.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme and may already be familiar to some visitors, as it is also currently on view in Copenhagen Metro stations.

For CHART 2025, Martin Asbæk presents Carry an Object to Another Place (2:58 min) by Elina Brotherus.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme and may already be familiar to some visitors, as it is also currently on view in Copenhagen Metro stations.

For CHART 2025, Martin Asbæk presents Baloon Dash (01:20 min) by Elina Brotherus.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme and may already be familiar to some visitors, as it is also currently on view in Copenhagen Metro stations.

For CHART 2025, Anhava presents Individually Packaged (2020–2025, 3:30 min) by Heini Aho.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme and may already be familiar to some visitors, as it is also currently on view in Copenhagen Metro stations.

For CHART 2025, Steinsland Berliner presents Galatea (2023, 8:20 min) by Arvida Byström & Hampus Byström (SE).

A female, seemingly lifeless, body is found in the forest. Who was she, who left her there, and is she really dead? Galatea follows a man who abandons his lifelike sex doll in the woods, prompting a police investigation when it is mistaken for a real corpse. Throughout the film, we hear Galatea’s own thoughts—exploring her role in society as a martyr or savior of women, shouldering their sexual and emotional labor.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

Frederik Næblerød is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen. Næblerød’s works span across paintings, drawings, sculptures, and off-grid projects. His works are expressive, sometimes bordering on the grotesque. Often, they draw inspiration from his immediate surroundings to convert the wild, quivering energy from life, people, and things around him to present and pertinent works whose materials, motifs, sizes, and messages span widely.

For CHART 2025, we are delighted to present a talk between Frederik Næblerød and Marie Nipper Director of ARKEN and serves on the board of Tivoli A/S, Kistefos Museum, Bikubenfonden, Wonderful Copenhagen and Axel Muusfeldts Foundation.

LILITH constructs visual worlds through intuitive, collage-like processes involving performance, film, text, sound, and sculptural installations. The starting point for their work is often linked to inner human states and drives, exploring the structures of rituals and ceremonies we follow in order to function and be accepted as part of a group. The concept of ritual has long preoccupied the duo, as it permeates many of the agreed-upon rules we use to build meaning and belonging during dramatic life events—or simply to create shared understanding in everyday life—such as the rules in games, play, and all forms of staged presentation.

At CHART 2025, LILITH Artis Duo will premiere the performance I AM EXTREME. In this piece, we witness a group of people in a procession carrying a vastly oversized arm, while performing ritual tributes to the physical and psychological variations and imperfections of our bodies. As part of these rites, a newly composed opera piece will be performed.

Credits:

Concept/Artists: LILITH artist duo (Elin Lundgren & Petter Pettersson)

Composer: Philip Gleisner

Opera Soloist: Angelica Asp

Performers: Angelica Asp, Daniel Mårs, Elin Lundgren, Emilie Kutzenberger, Erik Wall, Faïka Ammar, Finon Alkabawi, Gisel Munir Escobar, Inna Pettersson-Lundgren, Irene Stenberg, Jacob Skarehag, Johan Rastenberger, Kaisa Malmborg, Kim Holm, Lo Lundgren, Louise Zurawski, Mia Nora Røn, Siri Hedlund, Susanne Larsdotter, Thomas Hilljeborn

Production: Lilith Performance Studio

For CHART 2025, Gallery Susanne Ottesen presents Let’s Oscillate (10 min), TimeBeing (1 min), Building Ruins (1:30 min), Seriel Koreografi (2:30 min), and Untitled – Stand (3:45 min) by Pernille With Madsen.

The screening comprises five consecutive video works. Collectively, they provide a broad overview of With Madsen's practice, highlighting her methods, thematic concerns, and approach to time, movement, and structure.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

For the CHART 2025 Cinema Programme, we are delighted to present Self Tape (2024, 9 min 12 s) by Filip Vest.

Photography/editing: Ville Vidø
Music: Francesca Buratelli
Choreography: Paolo de Venecia Gile
Co-directing: Rasmus Balling
Assistant: Asta Herta Møllholst

Do not miss Filip Vest performing Self Tape live during CHART 2025.

This talk explores strategies and best practices for building and managing corporate art collections that enrich business culture and identity. Moderated by Mette Marcus, founder of Connecting Dots and Kunstkonsortiet (The Art Consortium), which brings together key stakeholders from the art world who provide services to the business community, Julie Quottrup Silbermann, Director of CHART, Leif Djurhuus, Danish lawyer and owner of The Djurhuus Collection, and Tina Grønning, owner of Vincit Law Firm who combines her legal expertise with advising on how integrated art can strengthen identity, strategy, and the overall experience of built environments. She has contributed to several major building projects where art plays a central role.

For CHART 2025, Filip Vest (DK, 1995) will perform Self Tape, an exploration of precarious work, identity, queerness, exhaustion, and humiliation in late capitalism.

In the performance, we follow an androgynous creature with light blue skin, long ears, and red boots, trapped in an eternal casting limbo by an unseen force represented only by a menacing buzzer and a red light. Part monster, part pop princess, the creature struggles to find a role it can play, shifting between iconic figures from across time, Gollum, Frankenstein’s monster, Marilyn Monroe, Dolly Parton, and others.

When not delivering monologues, dancing, or playing music with its long nails, it attempts to answer questions about its previous work experience — but inevitably ends up talking about its ex and childhood instead.

Filip Vest is a performance artist exploring queer relations, identity, social scripts and capital.

Cinema capacity is limited; please arrive on time.

Benedikte Bjerre is a Danish artist who works conceptually with sociological phenomena in a versatile practice focusing on sculpture and installation which reflect on the current state of society. Bjerre consistently examines sculptural qualities in relation to the architecture of a given space all while using observations from her everyday life, engaging in how the beholders experience their surroundings.

For CHART 2025, we are delighted to present a talk between Benedikte Bjerre and Mai Dengsøe, art historian and curator at Gammel Strand. In curating contemporary art, Dengsøe works with intergenerational topics, focusing on art from the 1970s to the present day.

For CHART 2025, I8 Gallery presents A Portrait of a Sculptor as a Sculpture, a series of the following five works by Hreinn Friðfinnsson:

∂L/∂t = rxF (2014, 5 min 14 s)

T=2π√ (L_v / g ) L_v = (R_CM^2 + R_g^2) / (R-R_CM) (2014, 12 min 33 s)

Px = M.vx=Po y-y_0 =Vy / Vx (x – x_0) - /g/(2v_X^2) (x-x_0)^2 (2014, 3 min 34 s)

L=Iω=L0 (2014, 49 s)

Ma=mg-ky (2014, 1 min 5 s)

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

For CHART 2025, Palace Enterprise presents You're In My Veins (2024, 24 min) by Adam Christensen.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

For CHART 2025, Palace Enterprise presents Love Your Clean Feet on Thursday (2023, 18:53 min) by Young-jun Tak.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

Supported by Arts Council Korea, Burger Collection, Berlin Masters Foundation, and Center Stage.

The Christiania Biennale invites CHART VIPs to join the inaugural edition of the Christiania Biennale, culminating on Sunday 31 August with a site-specific celebration of contemporary art and sound.

Set in the heart of Copenhagen’s legendary freetown, Christiania – just a ten-minute walk from Charlottenborg – the Biennale offers a singular context for artistic exploration, with its rich countercultural legacy serving as both backdrop and inspiration.

To mark the closing of the Biennale, guests are invited to an open-air dub day party, staged between two exhibitions that remain on view throughout the event. Inside the iconic Månefiskeren (The Moon Fisher) – a historic coffee house turned cultural landmark – curator Mai Densgøe presents a painting exhibition, while outdoors a newly installed sculpture park features works by leading contemporary artists, including Esben Weile Kjær, Max Popov, and Nina Beier, among others.

Round off your CHART weekend as we celebrate the first-ever Christiania Biennale together.

Please note: This off-site event is organised and hosted by the Christiania Biennale.

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For CHART 2025, Martin Asbæk presents Guardians (2024, 12:51 min) by Jane Jin Kaisen.

Single-channel film. 4K. Color. Stereo sound.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

For CHART 2025, Wilson Saplana Gallery presents Eftersøgning (2018, 8:24 min) by Jytte Rex.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.

For CHART 2025, Wilson Saplana Gallery presents Ukendt Landskab (2016, 8:30 min) by Jytte Rex.

This work is part of the CHART Cinema Programme.