Programme 2025

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

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

Credits:

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

Composer: Philip Gleisner

Opera Soloist: Angelica Asp

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

Production: Lilith Performance Studio

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

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

Credits:

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

Composer: Philip Gleisner

Opera Soloist: Angelica Asp

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

Production: Lilith Performance Studio

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Bios

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

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

*Cinema capacity is limited; please arrive on time.

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

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

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

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

*Cinema capacity is limited; please arrive on time.

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

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.

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

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

Credits:

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

Composer: Philip Gleisner

Opera Soloist: Angelica Asp

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

Production: Lilith Performance Studio

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

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

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

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

Cinema capacity is limited; please arrive on time.