Programme 2025

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.

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

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.