Programme 2024

Margrét Bjarnadóttir is an Icelandic artist and choreographer who works at the intersection of dance, performance, visual arts and literature. Her diverse practice includes choreography, performance, photography and video, text pieces, writing, drawing and cutting glass objects.

For the Performance Programme at CHART 2024, Margrét Bjarnadóttir will perform ‘PEOPLE PLEASE.’ During the performance, a group of people will walk around Kongens Nytorv with protest signs that have text pieces by the artist written on them. Unlike protest signs which normally aim to be clear and direct and not open to misunderstanding, here, the messages are deliberately left open and ambiguous.

‘Collecting Works’ is an original UBS content series dedicated to art philanthropy. These beautifully produced, on-location video interviews engage art collectors who play an active, responsible role in support of arts, culture and education worldwide.

COLLECTING WORKS: Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo 5:16 min

The author and collector reflects on the importance of supporting young artists, and how connecting the art community at large is central to the mission of her art foundation.

COLLECTING WORKS: Estrellita Brodsky 4:52 min

In episode two of our series 'Collecting Works', Estrellita Brodsky talks about how some of her collection found a better space in the public realm rather than at home and her mission to bring Latin American artists to a broader audience.

COLLECTING WORKS: Hasnaine Yavarhoussen 4:12 min

“I truly believe that this is just the beginning.” How the business leader came to spearhead the Madagascan art movement…

COLLECTING WORKS: Nadia and Rajeeb Samdani 4:16 min

“Our mission is to share art with everyone.” Discover how the Bangladeshi art collectors are building a foundation which impacts generations to come.

COLLECTING WORKS: AFIELD 4.39 min

This new episode in our “Collecting Works” series, introduces AFIELD, an international network of collectors, curators and artists creating tangible and long-term impact in their communities.

COLLECTING WORKS: David and Indrė Roberts 5:58 min

In the first episode of this new video series, art collectors David and Indrė Roberts share their collecting journey.

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 are presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2024 by Galleri Magnus Karlsson.

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 are presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2024 by palace enterprise.

'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 is presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2024 by palace enterprise.

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 are presented as part of the Special Projects programme for CHART 2024 by SPECTA.

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.

For CHART 2024, Danish artist Oliver Sundqvist has created a unique installation produced in collaboration with Nørrebro Bryghus.

Combining a self-service bar with the artist’s signature sculptural vocabulary, NASONI SELFSERVICE is inspired by archeological records from Sumer, Egypt and Babylonia as well as graffiti scratching.

Skip the queue and scratch your own tag at NASONI SELFSERVICE

Nørrebro Bryghus is an iconic Copenhagen-based brewery known for flabourful craft beers that are made with 100% organic ingredients. Look out for Nørrebro Bryghus at all of the CHART bars throughout the weekend.

With her unique expression, which references both surrealism and the documentary aesthetics of the 1970s, Jenny Källman is a significant representative of the Swedish photo-based art of recent decades.

For the Performance Programme at CHART 2024, Jenny Källman presents the photographic mirror installation 'we have our own song'. In the installation, mirrors hang freely from the ceiling. On the reverse side of the mirrors, faces, body parts, hair, and hands are depicted and accompanied by an animation that creates light reflections, thereby also giving an illusion of movement in the room.Tthe music group Les Big Byrd will perform inside the installation.

The mirrors, light and shadow effects, and sudden glares complete a movement that has long been present in Jenny Källman's art—out of the frameworks that narrow or limit, toward a greater spatiality, where the viewer does not assume a fixed, predetermined observer position in relation to the work but can, in a way, be said to be in the middle of it, surrounded by it.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, Plastic Letters Press will present a reading from Mothering Economy by design strategist and architect Jenny Grettve. Mothering Economy is an exploration of how care and generosity fits within a global metacrisis. Explore an in depth look at the current climate of the Economy by Jenny Grettve followed by a Q & A.

Formed by a duo with deep roots in the Swedish indie rock scene, Les Big Byrd played an expansive style of indie rock that leaned on psychedelic influences on the 2014 debut album They Worshipped Cats, while 2018's Iran Iraq Ikea welcomed synths and Krautrock to their sound. The band was formed in Stockholm, Sweden around 2011 by Joakim Åhlund and Frans Johansson.

vio lino is a Copenhagen-based project, experimenting with the impulsivity of sound… It can be from using toy-instruments, pipeorgan sounds, sampling experience and field recordings.

Through electronic music-production, they try to find a space where these sound fragments can co-exist: a field with no rules and genre specifications… or to be more specific…. expect, embarrassing rock, random feedback, ear bleeding, monotony, awkward vibes, confusion, lounge music, elevator music and more!

David Risley plays music, makes paintings, writes, curates, and teaches. He co-founded CHART and ran David Risley Gallery for 20 years. Risley used to run a small record store, ‘The Gutter,’ from a corner of his former gallery. The idea for the store originated from his intimate relationship with music, especially punk and rock.

For CHART 2024, DJ Risley will play tunes spanning across a broad spectrum of genres.

With her solo project Fine, Fine Glindvad—known to many as part of the band Chinah—has embarked on an exciting new musical journey. This path traverses a nocturnal landscape where alternative rock and country twang intersect with David Lynch-inspired mystique.

The music conveys longing and melancholy, yet also features more hopeful tones delivered by an angelic voice. Its atmospheric beauty may evoke comparisons to bands like Mazzy Star, but Fine has also been described as if Dolly Parton were playing alternative rock.

Ultimately, Fine is uniquely her own, as heard in the three strong singles she released through Escho in the fall of 2023. In 2024, Fine will release her debut album and will bring her dusty and enigmatic world to the Roskilde Festival next summer, promising a beautiful concert experience.

Italian-born Francesca Burattelli is active in the Danish music and art scene with her distinctive experimental pop music-performances. Burattelli’s voice is the mainstay of her electronic universe, which embraces pop, rap and orchestral elements with a vast sonic range, including elements from performance art into her acts. Her origins are reflected in her work, which draws on Southern Italian folklore traditions re-interpreted in a futuristic setting.

Mads Axelsen is a radio host on P6BEAT, where he presents the show 'Vær.Her.Nu' every Sunday from 10 AM to 12 PM—arguably the best program for discovering new, exciting music. In addition to his role as a DJ, he is an Art Director, stylist, and recently took on the role of PR and Communications Manager at Blaagaards Teater.

Wedding is a Copenhagen-based band whose eclectic influences span across a range of genres and styles. Join us for Wedding's debut appearance at CHART where they will perform an energetic live set that is sure to get you moving.

With 10 years of active DJ'ing, HARRISON HEAT's roots as a DJ stem from the jacking, bouncy style of house music most prominent in Chicago house. Over the years he has added layers upon layers on his style as a DJ. It doesn't make sense to define him in just one genre, rather he delivers moods and sounds that are deeply rooted in house, techno, Italo-disco and progressive sounds, etc - it all depends on the energy of the dancefloor.

Emerging from Copenhagen, Kawun is a rising star among the new wave of DJs in the Danish capital. Over the past few years, has he firmly cemented his position as one of the most thrilling and promising young DJs on the vibrant club scene of Copenhagen. His unique blend of House, Acid, and 90's grooves sets him apart, and has graced the decks of renowned venues in the city, sharing stages and supporting acclaimed artists like DJ Seinfeld, Skatebård, Tijana T, HAAi, Shanti Celeste, and numerous others.

Copenhagen-based musician Atusa draws from the city's music scene, global club influences, and her Iranian roots to craft mixes that blend the familiar with the new. For the past decade, she has been part of the local music scene, involved in various projects ranging from Eastern classical music to Western alt-pop. She mixes alongside musical collaborator Angel Wei at venues ranging from underground clubs to electronic music events like Department, Strøm, and Odays. Her sets are lively and captivating, combining melodic elements with heavy rhythms and occasional ethereal soundscapes. With a wide and varied music taste, Atusa delights in surprising her audience while creating a welcoming and engaging space.

We are delighted to partner with Louisiana Channel to screen a number of video interviews recorded with artists exhibiting at CHART 2024.

Per Bak Jensen – 'Life Itself Unfolding' [38:29]

Meet one of the most renowned photographers of our time, Danish Per Bak Jensen, who reflects upon life in photography in this very personal interview. “What I’d like people to experience when they see my pictures is a request for calm. A request for silence. Perhaps even meditation.”

Nanna Debois Buhl – 'Time Travelling with Photography' [09:32]

Nanna Debois Buhl is a Danish visual artist, who works with photographs, installations, films, site-specific works in public spaces, and artist’s books. Buhl discusses her project ‘Cloud Behaviour’ (2018), where she photographed clouds and processed them in a colour developer.

Lawrence Weiner – 'The Means to Answer Questions' [12:20]

American artist Lawrence Weiner is regarded as a founding figure of Postminimalism’s Conceptual arm in the 1960s. In this interview Weiner philosophises on how the artist can present things people might not have noticed. Art is not meant to answer questions, but rather to ask them.

For CHART 2024, a champagne bar created by the artist FOS is temporarily installed inside the art fair on the first floor of Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

Made of terrazzo, brass, powder coated steel and fabric, ‘Always happy new year’ was originally commissioned by The Royal Danish Theater in 2015. We are delighted to present this unique installation at CHART 2024 in collaboration with Etage Projecs who are also exhibiting FOS’ work inside the art fair.

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.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, Tofu Collective will present the launch of Typhoon: In the Eye of Taiwan's New Artistic Whirlwinds by Tofu Collective. Typhoon focuses on the Taiwanese contemporary art scene and features a variety of art works from friends of Tofu Collective and collaborators in Taiwan.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, Blankt Papir Press will present the launch of The Hunt for the Palm Trees of Cómpeta. by Sille Juline Høgly Petersen. The Hunt for the Palm Trees of Cómpeta encapsulates the external and internal educational journey. By examining the human condition of searching for happiness outside of one's trivial everyday life in the hope of finding something better, when much of what we seek is found in our immediate surroundings and in ourselves.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, Null & Void Books will present the launch of two books Forty Viewpoints in Seven Instances of two Environments by Björn Lövin and Peo Olsson, and MUSSELS by Märta Thisner, Åsa Jungnelius, and Tone Schunnesson. MUSSELS, by photographer Märta Thisner, offers an exclusive look at a collection of photographic works.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, Null & Void Books will present the launch of two books Forty Viewpoints in Seven Instances of two Environments by Björn Lövin and Peo Olsson, and MUSSELS by Märta Thisner, Åsa Jungnelius, and Tone Schunnesson. Forty Viewpoints in Seven Instances of two Environments offers a window in between images and information.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, Plastic Letters Press will present the launch of Mothering Economy by design strategist and architect Jenny Grettve. Mothering Economy is an exploration of how care and generosity fits within a global metacrisis.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, Plastic Letters Press will present the launch of Abody Abode by design strategist and architect Jenny Grettve. Abody Abode is a poignant collection of fragmentary stories and architectural spaces that are both memories of emotions and made-up moments. The outcome is a modest but also rebellious anthology that tells a story of modern womanhood. The short stories are connected with architectural drawings that represent the spaces inside oneself – we construct them, move through them and let them protect us.

"A gem! Just like architecture is spatial, there are spaces inside oneself. This book is a combination of short stories and architectural drawings that treats the subject of our internal physical space and womanhood.” - Konst-ig bookstore

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, hurricane publishing will present the launch of En bog om kunst, alkymi, proces og natur by Cecilia Westerberg. This beautiful art book captures site-specific field work around the Nordic region.

We are delighted to partner with Louisiana Channel to screen a number of video interviews recorded with artists exhibiting at CHART 2024.

Mamma Andersson – 'Painting as Weapons' [24:53]

Mamma Andersson takes us on a tour of her studio and her extensive library of books and images that inspire her paintings – from Edward Munch to images of stripping athletes who embody the act of painting.

Inuuteq Storch – 'Who We Are' [17:22]

For Inuuteq Storch found images and archive projects have developed into a project where he wants to tell Greenland history from the Greenlandic perspective, “because many of the documents and photos we have are by people who came to Greenland.”

Ebbe Stub Wittrup – 'Who Owns Culture?' [18:08]

Ebbe Stub Wittrup works across a wide range of media – from photography to sculpture. He invests a lot of energy into researching his projects and seeks to find parallels for example in the botanical and historical world.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, hurricane publishing will present the launch of LET'S BECOME SOMETHING ELSE- Visual Letters by Julie Sass. This artist book, has 43 texts which are handwritten with ink on slightly transparent paper. Each has an accompanying image: visual moods in abstract idiom. What do we say to each other on the phone, via SMS, on the bus? Half sentences are easily woven in and out between each other and linked together in an open, heartfelt and wild story.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, hurricane publishing will present a launch from a new collection of poems titled 'Min hud er ikke din' by Tomas Lagermand Lundme.

We are delighted to partner with Louisiana Channel to screen a number of video interviews recorded with artists exhibiting at CHART 2024.

Roni Horn – 'Saying Water' [39:11]

Have you ever stood by a river and stared into the black water? In this video acclaimed artist Roni Horn takes us down by the riverside, performing a powerful 40 minute monologue based on her associations with water, including tales of sex and murder.

Karin Sander – 'The Brutality of Walls' [07:25]

Karin Sander, born in Bensberg, lives in Berlin and Zurich. In her artistic practice, she questions given situations in relation to their structural, social and historical contexts and makes them visible using a range of media.

Sigurður Guðmundsson – 'There is No Visual Language' [13:59]

As an Icelandic artist, poetry and literature is inevitable, according to Sigurður Guðmundsson. In the video, he shares his philosophies on art and love.

Margrét Bjarnadóttir is an Icelandic artist and choreographer who works at the intersection of dance, performance, visual arts and literature. Her diverse practice includes choreography, performance, photography and video, text pieces, writing, drawing and cutting glass objects.

For the Performance Programme at CHART 2024, Margrét Bjarnadóttir will perform ‘PEOPLE PLEASE.’ During the performance, a group of people will walk around Kongens Nytorv with protest signs that have text pieces by the artist written on them. Unlike protest signs which normally aim to be clear and direct and not open to misunderstanding, here, the messages are deliberately left open and ambiguous.

We are delighted to partner with Louisiana Channel to screen a number of video interviews recorded with artists exhibiting at CHART 2024.

Tal R – ':' [47:42]

Tal R, on the brink of turning fifty, looks forwards as well as backwards and shares what being an artist and a human being means to him, and why the two can’t be separated.

John Kørner – 'How We Behave' [11:42]

Contemporary life takes center stage in the art of Danish John Kørner – colourful, anonymous figures interact, turning daily life into a vibrant force – and an ”expression of a problem man must endure.”

Teo Ala-Ruona is a performance artist based in Helsinki. In his work, he explores the possibilities of somatic fiction to influence our perceptions of the human body, its technological essence, and psycho-physical extremes. His works investigate the intertwining of linguistic, semiotic, technological, and biological existence, exploring techno-trans-masculinity, sexuality, and eco-normative narratives of "naturalness." He examines these by interweaving autobiographical and theoretical texts, scientific research, fiction, and bodily exercises.

Even Minn is a Helsinki-based writer and dramaturg working in the fields of performing arts and literature. Their latest works include Enter Exude (Kiasma Theatre 2023), Alien Mother (Vleeshal 2023) and Deep Time Trans (Baltic Circle 2021). On Tuesdays they host Queer Writing Group on zoom.

For the Performance Programme at CHART 2024, performance artist Teo Ala-Ruona and the dramaturg Even Minn will present ‘Anabolic Spectacle’ a collaborative creation between the two of them.

Anabolic Spectacle is a solo performance in the form of a feverish eruption of identity construction. It's a textual overload, drawing inspiration from the language of men's online magazines, dreamlike imagery, and the process of strategic mastering of one's own body. It seeks to articulate a labyrinthe of fantasies, restless nights and the impact of the categorical gaze on a non-normative body. The performance sees the transmasculine body as an incompatible territory for hegemonic masculine narratives - a realm where the capitalist ideals of the optimized self begin to crumble.

We are delighted to partner with Louisiana Channel to screen a number of video interviews recorded with artists exhibiting at CHART 2024.

Sophie Calle – 'Conversation with the Nameless' [34:57]

A conversation about “self-burial” between artist Sophie Calle and a man without identity. In this video the two artists meet for the first time, to discuss an artistic idea which they have discovered that they share: arranging and attending your own funeral.

Wardell Milan – 'Retreat or Engage' [10:51]

Wardell Milan brings a photographically trained eye to his drawings, collages, dioramas, and works on paper. In his practice, he explores themes of personal identity and the physicality of the body, often drawing inspiration from sports culture, pornography, and fashion.

Frida Orupabo – 'Now You Can See Me' [13:10]

Growing up in Norway Frida Orupabo was hungry for images that would resemble her. Today she works with found images in order to create new realities that reflect who she is.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, hurricane publishing will present a signing event for an exclusive new artbook ‘En bog om kunst, alkymi, proces og natur ' by Cecillia Westerberg. This beautiful art book captures site-specific field work around the Nordic region.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, Art & Theory Publishing will present a signing event for Ghost Hunting, 2023 by Jenny Källman, Källman's photographic language alternates between the staged and works that, through light and reflections, darkness, and mirroring, exist on their own abstract level. Ghost Hunting, 2023 includes photography, film stills and installation views from Källman’s over 20 year long artistry.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, Art & Theory Publishing will present a signing event for Olsson Mikael, 2022 by Mikael Olsson, Olsson’s self-portraits/selfies (since 2007) challenge the narcissistic use of selfies as well as the status of influencers. Through play and intuition, Olsson’s images are marked by both intimacy and distance, the role of his own physical presence and the perceptive relationship to the surroundings.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, Art & Theory Publishing will present a signing event for Inka & Niclas: Extensions, by artist duo Inka & Niclas, with written text by Olga Krzeszowiec Malmsten. This exclusive book gives a window into the works of visual artists Inka & Niclas who manipulate the visual mechanics of nature photographs that playfully examine the everyday usage of landscape imagery.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, At Last Books will present a signing event for Walden Life in the Woods, Archive 1993-2024, Vol. 2, by Peter Funch. Walden; Life in the Woods, Archive 1993-2024, Vol. 2 follows When You Invent The Ship, You Also Invent The Shipwreck, Archive 1993-2022, Vol. 1 (2022). Vol. 2 is printed on thin newspaper stock, reflecting Funch's photojournalist background, aiming to engage the general population in serious cultural discourse.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, Blankt Papir Press will present a signing event for The Hunt for the Palm Trees of Cómpeta. by Sille Juline Høgly Petersen. An artist book that encapsulates the external and internal educational journey. By examining the human condition of searching for happiness outside of one's trivial everyday life in the hope of finding something better, when much of what we seek is found in our immediate surroundings and in ourselves.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, Null & Void Books will present a signing event for MUSSELS by Märta Thisner, Åsa Jungnelius, and Tone Schunnesson. MUSSELS, by photographer Märta Thisner, offers an exclusive look at a collection of photographic works.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, Null & Void Books will present a signing event for Forty Viewpoints in Seven Instances of two Environments by Björn Lövin and Peo Olsson. Björn Lövin was a Swedish painter, sculptor and installation artist. Forty Viewpoints in Seven Instances of two Environments offers a window in between images and information.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, Ironflag Publication will present a signing event for Anders Herwald Ruhwald, Mineral Skin, by Anders Herwald Ruhwald. The publication Mineral skin is a deep dive into Ruhwald’s artistic universe and use of glaze. At CHART Ironflag Publication will present the book along with a limited edition consisting of an installation of 30 unique ceramic works.

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen’s praxis is based on performativity and performance art, transformed, and translated into different medias. The productions involve the body and scripted texts. She gathers, adapts and universalizes her narratives in both a critical and humorous approach regarding issues such as identity, culture and social relations and constellations.

For the Performance Programme at CHART 2024, Rasmussen will perform 'Afraid of ME'. In this performance, the audience will encounter a middle-aged woman, all dressed up and supposedly from the art industry, standing with handwritten signs in public space around Charlottenborg. The sentences are direct, some quite personal, though open for interpretation. Distancing herself from the art fair, she is trying to catch attention, while sending out mixed signals and creating an awkward situation….

Batukizer DJs will take you on deep dives exploring some of the many legacies and depths of Brazilian dance floor music. Tune in for musical journeys inspired by nature, spirituality, art, history and regional culture, delivered with passion by the Brazilian/Danish vinyl fanatics based in Copenhagen and sometimes Brazil.

We are delighted to partner with Louisiana Channel to screen a number of video interviews recorded with artists exhibiting at CHART 2024.

Ragnar Kjartansson – 'I'm Not an Authentic Human Being' [44:14]

Icelandic visual artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s world of art, is filled with clichés. And he’s not afraid to use them. From a heartbroken crooner in a white suit to a half a year performance as a macho painter, Kjartansson gives a tour into his oeuvre and his studio space.

Richard Deacon – 'It Doesn't Have an End' [14:16]

“I like messing around with materials,” says the hugely influential Turner Prize-winning sculptor Richard Deacon in this video. Watch him talk about his diverse approaches to making abstract sculptures in a vast catalogue of materials.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, galleries Croy Nielsen and STANDARD (OSLO) will together with publisher Hatje Cantz present a signing event for the monograph ‘Nina Beier Works' edited by Vanessa Boni, Nanna Friis, Benjamin Reichen. Signing by Nina Beier

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, Null & Void Books will present a reading from MUSSELS by Märta Thisner, Åsa Jungnelius, and Tone Schunnesson. Discover the new release of a collection of photographic work by photographer Märta Thisner and the processes behind the work followed by a Q & A.

We are delighted to partner with Louisiana Channel to screen a number of video interviews recorded with artists exhibiting at CHART 2024.

Kirsten Ortwed – 'I am not interested in Beauty' [19:08]

Kirsten Ortwed (b. 1948) is a Danish artist. Ortwed is particularly noted for her striking sculptures in public spaces and her often unusual combination of materials.

20_14 ASSEMBLY is a Copenhagen sublabel to escho curated by Rune Kielsgaard / also setting up events with favorites from around the world. 20_14 shows are about new meetings, framing contrasts, and making special room for different perspectives in sound.

For CHART 2024, 20_14 will feature Felisha Ledesma on synth, Zach Toppin, and Rune Kielsgaard on drums. Soft played high gain endless bliss w Nis Bysted on PA.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, Art & Theory Publishing will present a reading from Inka & Niclas: Extensions, by Inka & Niclas, with written text by Olga Krzeszowiec Malmsten. This exclusive book gives a window into the works of visual artists Inka & Niclas who manipulate the visual mechanics of nature photographs that playfully examine the everyday usage of landscape imagery. Curator Olga Krzeszowiec Malmsten will conduct the reading and answer questions about Inka & Niclas: Extensions.

Frederik Valentin, once known for hedonistic excess, has transitioned to introspective composition and cinematic song cycles. His new phase focuses on personal themes and retains his evocative charm.

Starting around 2016, Valentin's project Kyo with Hannes Norrvide and collaborations with Loke Rahbek have highlighted his evolution in electro-acoustic and ambient music. Notable works include 0011001 and 0011000, and his partnership with Yung Lean, resulting in Nectar (2019) and Sugar World (2023).

His latest solo album, Rock N Roll Will Never Die, captures his artistic journey, blending melodic songwriting with reflections on life’s constant changes.

Raised in Aarhus by South African parents, Shaq aka. Prom Night has been djing since he was 14 and started producing at 19. With years of experience behind the booth, he now spins rare gems and is a regular fixture in Copenhagen’s nightlife, known for his sets that mix sleazy disco, italo house, afro-house, acid, and techno. Shaq’s sound, influenced by 70s and 80s pop culture, blends nostalgia with modern house styles.

In the intersection between sunny, happy, dark and trippy, you'll find Copenhagen native William 'Wille' Winding trucking along. The lifelong DJ & Producer's sound is a tapestry of seemingly disparate musical connections like Italo, Acid House and Balearic Disco, driven by a self-professed mantra of "never second guessing yourself". Look out for his debut LP "Shoreline Orbs", out in late 2024 on Music For Dreams.

For CHART 2024 the two DJs will play together as a duo.

GB is an artist from Copenhagen who released the debut album “Gusse Music" on Posh Isolation back in May 2024. It is a 33-minute collaged symphony of explorative guitar music offering a world heavy on texture and atmosphere but which nevertheless has a sheen of pop sensibility. GB debuts live as a rock band trio at CHART 2024.

Known for his role as the lead vocalist of Iceage, Rønnenfelt has made a mark in alternative rock and post-punk with his boundary-pushing work. Born in Copenhagen, he was influenced by punk rock and folk, shaping his unique musical identity.

Since Iceage's formation in 2008, Rønnenfelt has earned acclaim for his bold songwriting and dynamic performances. Albums like New Brigade, You're Nothing, and Plowing Into the Field of Love have solidified the band’s reputation.

Rønnenfelt's collaborations span experimental noise and folk, showcasing his versatility. He is also a poet and visual artist, drawing from literature and philosophy. His debut solo album, set for late 2024 release on Escho, promises to continue his tradition of raw emotion and innovation.

For CHART 2024 Rønnenfelt is doing a solo performance.

Grammar of Movement is one of the monikers of Puyain Sanati, a DJ and musician based in Copenhagen by route via Aarhus and Berlin.

Spending the past few years honing his sound and technique, the Danish-Iranian producer has been on a musical journey with a willigness to experiment. His Azadi EP, released in 2016 and Plastic Games EP, released in 2020, has shown his ability to produce and incorporate eclectic styles and influences to his sound and movement. With his release last year on the influential Copenhagen label Escho, here we get to experience a different side to his sound, utilising hypnotic rhythms and soundscapes to map out some kind of bigger universal language, perhaps bridging a wider human consciousness.

Smerz is a Norwegian electronic music duo made up of Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldt, based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Oslo, Norway.

Beat specialists and vocalists Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldt spent their Norwegian youth engaged in traditional musical pursuits—singing in choirs, studying classical violin, and theatre—before falling in love with electronic music through Jessy Lanza, DJ Rashad, and Jamie xx’s remixes of Gil Scott-Heron.

The breadth of their experience might explain the feel of their music, which sounds like something Tove Lo might make if she gave up on making hits and started obsessing over Yeezus and field recordings.

Smerz released their first single 'Because' on Soundcloud in 2016 and recent releases include 'Allina EP' (2024) and 'Believe' (2020).

We are delighted to partner with Louisiana Channel to screen a number of video interviews recorded with artists exhibiting at CHART 2024.

Sophie Calle – 'Conversation with the Nameless' [34:57]

A conversation about “self-burial” between artist Sophie Calle and a man without identity. In this video the two artists meet for the first time, to discuss an artistic idea which they have discovered that they share: arranging and attending your own funeral.

Wardell Milan – 'Retreat or Engage' [10:51]

Wardell Milan brings a photographically trained eye to his drawings, collages, dioramas, and works on paper. In his practice, he explores themes of personal identity and the physicality of the body, often drawing inspiration from sports culture, pornography, and fashion.

Frida Orupabo – 'Now You Can See Me' [13:10]

Growing up in Norway Frida Orupabo was hungry for images that would resemble her. Today she works with found images in order to create new realities that reflect who she is.

We are delighted to partner with Louisiana Channel to screen a number of video interviews recorded with artists exhibiting at CHART 2024.

Per Bak Jensen – 'Life Itself Unfolding' [38:29]

Meet one of the most renowned photographers of our time, Danish Per Bak Jensen, who reflects upon life in photography in this very personal interview. “What I’d like people to experience when they see my pictures is a request for calm. A request for silence. Perhaps even meditation.”

Nanna Debois Buhl – 'Time Travelling with Photography' [09:32]

Nanna Debois Buhl is a Danish visual artist, who works with photographs, installations, films, site-specific works in public spaces, and artist’s books. Buhl discusses her project ‘Cloud Behaviour’ (2018), where she photographed clouds and processed them in a colour developer.

Lawrence Weiner – 'The Means to Answer Questions' [12:20]

American artist Lawrence Weiner is regarded as a founding figure of Postminimalism’s Conceptual arm in the 1960s. In this interview Weiner philosophises on how the artist can present things people might not have noticed. Art is not meant to answer questions, but rather to ask them.

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen’s praxis is based on performativity and performance art, transformed, and translated into different medias. The productions involve the body and scripted texts. She gathers, adapts and universalizes her narratives in both a critical and humorous approach regarding issues such as identity, culture and social relations and constellations.

For the Performance Programme at CHART 2024, Rasmussen will perform 'Afraid of ME'. In this performance, the audience will encounter a middle-aged woman, all dressed up and supposedly from the art industry, standing with handwritten signs in public space around Charlottenborg. The sentences are direct, some quite personal, though open for interpretation. Distancing herself from the art fair, she is trying to catch attention, while sending out mixed signals and creating an awkward situation….

We are delighted to partner with Louisiana Channel to screen a number of video interviews recorded with artists exhibiting at CHART 2024.

Roni Horn – 'Saying Water' [39:11]

Have you ever stood by a river and stared into the black water? In this video acclaimed artist Roni Horn takes us down by the riverside, performing a powerful 40 minute monologue based on her associations with water, including tales of sex and murder.

Karin Sander – 'The Brutality of Walls' [07:25]

Karin Sander, born in Bensberg, lives in Berlin and Zurich. In her artistic practice, she questions given situations in relation to their structural, social and historical contexts and makes them visible using a range of media.

Sigurður Guðmundsson – 'There is No Visual Language' [13:59]

As an Icelandic artist, poetry and literature is inevitable, according to Sigurður Guðmundsson. In the video, he shares his philosophies on art and love.

Teo Ala-Ruona is a performance artist based in Helsinki. In his work, he explores the possibilities of somatic fiction to influence our perceptions of the human body, its technological essence, and psycho-physical extremes. His works investigate the intertwining of linguistic, semiotic, technological, and biological existence, exploring techno-trans-masculinity, sexuality, and eco-normative narratives of "naturalness." He examines these by interweaving autobiographical and theoretical texts, scientific research, fiction, and bodily exercises.

Even Minn is a Helsinki-based writer and dramaturg working in the fields of performing arts and literature. Their latest works include Enter Exude (Kiasma Theatre 2023), Alien Mother (Vleeshal 2023) and Deep Time Trans (Baltic Circle 2021). On Tuesdays they host Queer Writing Group on zoom.

For the Performance Programme at CHART 2024, performance artist Teo Ala-Ruona and the dramaturg Even Minn will present ‘Anabolic Spectacle’ a collaborative creation between the two of them.

'Anabolic Spectacle' is a solo performance in the form of a feverish eruption of identity construction. It's a textual overload, drawing inspiration from the language of men's online magazines, dreamlike imagery, and the process of strategic mastering of one's own body. It seeks to articulate a labyrinthe of fantasies, restless nights and the impact of the categorical gaze on a non-normative body. The performance sees the transmasculine body as an incompatible territory for hegemonic masculine narratives - a realm where the capitalist ideals of the optimized self begin to crumble.

We are delighted to partner with Louisiana Channel to screen a number of video interviews recorded with artists exhibiting at CHART 2024.

Tal R – ':' [47:42]

Tal R, on the brink of turning fifty, looks forwards as well as backwards and shares what being an artist and a human being means to him, and why the two can’t be separated.

John Kørner – 'How We Behave' [11:42]

Contemporary life takes center stage in the art of Danish John Kørner – colourful, anonymous figures interact, turning daily life into a vibrant force – and an ”expression of a problem man must endure.”

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, Northing/Kinakaal forlag will present a reading from Kua Fu Chasing the Sun by artist Xiao Longhua. Kua Fu Chasing the Sun is an ancient mythological story. In modern society, preserving memories through oral storytelling has virtually disappeared. This is Xiao Longhua’s attempt to reshape this story passed down through generations, blending his own understanding and uncovering narrative fragments from the scattered information concealed in various sources. Departing from a text by Xiao Yong, the mastermind behind POST POST Space in Beijing and 3standardstoppage in San Francisco, Xiao Longhua presents a new form of memory medium—a digital stele—awaiting decipherment and interpretation by future generations.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2024, hurricane publishing will present a reading from a new collection of poems from: Min hud er ikke din by Tomas Lagermand Ludme. The reading will be followed by a Q&A with Tomas Lagermand Ludme about the book and about using yourself in the art.

We are delighted to partner with Louisiana Channel to screen a number of video interviews recorded with artists exhibiting at CHART 2024.

Mamma Andersson – 'Painting as Weapons' [24:53]

Mamma Andersson takes us on a tour of her studio and her extensive library of books and images that inspire her paintings – from Edward Munch to images of stripping athletes who embody the act of painting.

Inuuteq Storch – 'Who We Are' [17:22]

For Inuuteq Storch found images and archive projects have developed into a project where he wants to tell Greenland history from the Greenlandic perspective, “because many of the documents and photos we have are by people who came to Greenland.”

Ebbe Stub Wittrup – 'Who Owns Culture?' [18:08]

Ebbe Stub Wittrup works across a wide range of media – from photography to sculpture. He invests a lot of energy into researching his projects and seeks to find parallels for example in the botanical and historical world.

We are delighted to partner with Louisiana Channel to screen a number of video interviews recorded with artists exhibiting at CHART 2024.

Ragnar Kjartansson – 'I'm Not an Authentic Human Being' [44:14]

Icelandic visual artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s world of art, is filled with clichés. And he’s not afraid to use them. From a heartbroken crooner in a white suit to a half a year performance as a macho painter, Kjartansson gives a tour into his oeuvre and his studio space.

Richard Deacon – 'It Doesn't Have an End' [14:16]

“I like messing around with materials,” says the hugely influential Turner Prize-winning sculptor Richard Deacon in this video. Watch him talk about his diverse approaches to making abstract sculptures in a vast catalogue of materials.

Kunstteater is a performance based cross-disciplinary project founded in 2018 by Danish artist Mathias Dyhr. Central to Dyhr's work in Kunstteater are experiments with spatial and durational formats within art institutions, theatres and public space, as well as his many collaborations with a broad variety of professionals from different artistic fields.

For the Performance Programme at CHART 2024, Kunstteater's three-meter-tall stilt character, the infant dandy 'Baby' played by circus performer Michiel Tange van Leewen will stroll around the grounds of Charlottenborg and Kongens Nytorv in the performance Sunday Afternoon especially made for the occasion.

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.

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, Dragan Samajovic, Elin Lundgren, Erik Wall, Faïka Ammar, Finon Alkabawi, Gisel Munir Escobar, Inna Pettersson-Lundgren, Irene Stenberg, Jacob Skarehag, Johan Rastenberger, Kim Holm, Lo Lundgren, Louise Zurawski, Siri Hedlund, Susanne Larsdotter, Thomas

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.

In this talk, artist Nazgol Ansarinia (IR), Khurram Jamil, patron and 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 an international stage in continuous transformation.

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, Dragan Samajovic, Elin Lundgren, Erik Wall, Faïka Ammar, Finon Alkabawi, Gisel Munir Escobar, Inna Pettersson-Lundgren, Irene Stenberg, Jacob Skarehag, Johan Rastenberger, Kim Holm, Lo Lundgren, Louise Zurawski, Siri Hedlund, Susanne Larsdotter, Thomas

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, "Paperplane," 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.

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.

This talk explores the role of art in public spaces, focusing on the creation and commissioning process of public art. Moderated by Milena Høgsberg, curator and writer based in Copenhagen and most recently served as Director and Chief Curator of Wanås Konst / The Wanås Foundation in Southern Sweden, the panel consists of Danish artist Pernille With Madsen, Michael Thouber, Director of the New Carlsberg Foundation, Diana Velasco, an art consultant specialising in public art and served for five years as Program Lead for the Art in Metro initiative at Metroselskabet.

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, Dragan Samajovic, Elin Lundgren, Erik Wall, Faïka Ammar, Finon Alkabawi, Gisel Munir Escobar, Inna Pettersson-Lundgren, Irene Stenberg, Jacob Skarehag, Johan Rastenberger, Kim Holm, Lo Lundgren, Louise Zurawski, Siri Hedlund, Susanne Larsdotter, Thomas

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.

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.