Programme

For CHART 2026, Aapo Nikkanen and Raudie McLeod perform Subvocal. The audience is hypnotised and their relationship with technology briefly suspended, while attention is reoriented through suggestion, metaphorical storytelling, and audiovisual stimuli.

Artist, researcher, and trained hypnotherapist, Aapo Nikkanen uses hypnosis to examine the cognitive effects of new technologies, asking how they inconspicuously shape the ways we interpret, trust, and respond to the world.

Subvocal (2026), directed and performed by Nikkanen, with music and sound design by Raudie McLeod, treats the unconscious not as a neutral inner space, but as contested territory – one shaped by extraction and influence, but still open to self-determination. Performed in the movie theatre of Charlottenborg, the piece combines hypnotic suggestion, music, and projected light to construct a "cognitive cinema."

Subvocal is not recommended for individuals with photosensitive epilepsy
Age limit: 16
No admission after the performance begins

Photo of Aapo Nikkanen and Raudie McLeod by Dino Bossini

For CHART 2026, Alberte Skronski will perform “Link Pimousine (Pink Limousine)” together with Anna Roy Winder Salling. The performance is a pink limousine moving through the crowds and around the courtyard of the fair.

The humor of the grotesque runs like a common thread through Alberte Skronski's works. Across video, installation and performance, she explores the activist potential of humor, dresses up, plays and makes children's TV for adults. A duality is always present in Skronski's works as she builds absurd and colorful parallel universes of cardboard and recycled materials. They are characterised by a happy and playful aesthetic, but also contain a kind of grotesque horror. Like at a children's birthday party, where the clown is supposed to be funny, but is it really?

Two people dressed as a pink stretch limousine drive (walk) around the courtyard of Charlottenborg. Turning corners and going up stairs, the limousine moves as if in a cartoon going where no limousine has ever gone before.

Photo of Alberte Skronski

Draped in yards of fabric and a constant flow of action and reaction, The Extra Mile explores the unique energy shared between people who weave time together through courage and trust – not as an ideal, but as a practice. A necessity. A shared language that emerges when you can no longer rely on the predictable, but have to lean into the moment happening now.

Performed by Erika Cucumazzo, Giovanni Fumarola, Margherita Pascariello and Yuri Fortini, the extra mile becomes a way of being in the world. A collective force that creates movement even when past experiences or the surrounding world pull the body back towards stillness.

The performance begins at the Kongens Nytorv Metro, building momentum as it travels and ends in Charlottenborg's Courtyard.

Photo by Daniel Urhøj

For CHART 2026 The Icelandic Love Corporation performs “Gratuation”, a post-menopausal, empowering performance staged as a graduation ceremony, subverting milestones and celebrating womanhood.

Most women experience having their period. From adolescence to over fifty, this monthly task is looming, varyingly burdensome. Women learn to live with it, they move on, and pretend like it's nothing. So as this somewhat unwanted very gender-specific education comes to an end, with a year of no bleeding, it's time to honour the journey. The Icelandic Love Corporation will sign an official Menopause Diploma during the performance, for those who have graduated and will graduate in the future.

The Icelandic Love Corporation (founded in Reykjavík in 1996) is an Icelandic art collective currently consisting of Jóní Jónsdóttir and Eirún Sigurðardóttir.

Photo of Jóní Jónsdóttir and Eirún Sigurðardóttir

h2o slutclub is a music and performance collective that fuses club culture, theatre, and feminist satire. Working at the intersection of electronic house music and performance art, h2o slutclub - dressed in borrowed corporate feathers - transforms performance pressure into community, competition into care, and capital into love.

Live, h2o slutclub creates a theatrical, satirical performance concert with scenography borrowed directly from the office landscape! On stage, a team of agile, suit-clad humans and creatures unfold choreographed dance routines, song, and gesture inspired by the tired bodily and linguistic codes of the business world.

h2o slutclub, formed by Frederikke Maria Krebs Bahn, Johanne Lundgreen Frandsen, Marie Flarup Kristensen & Olivia Lamhauge Barrett, doesn’t just deliver a show - they invite the audience to step into an alternative business meeting where KPIs are measured in love, laughter, and sky-high BPM.

Photo of h2o slutclub by Mathilde Søes Rasmussen

At CHART 2026 Miriam Kongstad will present the performance Hard Play (2024), which explores how children’s games shape power dynamics, identities and social behaviour. The piece is conceived as a duet, blending the performer's physical movements with a dynamic live soundscape created by musician Heva Vaupel.

A 1,5-meter braid is attached to the performer's hair, symbolically morphing into various objects commonly associated with children’s games, such as a princess's hair, a dog leash, a lasso, a skipping rope, and a whip. Each transformation invites the audience to journey through a spectrum of emotions and scenarios—ranging from joy and fantasy to endurance and horror.

Miriam Kongstad (DK, 1991) is an artist and choreographer based in Berlin and Copenhagen. Anchored in explorations of embodiment, identity, and social codes, her work spans from painting, sculpture and text, to performance, sound and scent. Through themes such as health, sexuality, pain and desire, Kongstad depicts cultural and political structures and analyses the constant interplay between bodies and society.

*The performance is held in Festsalen, located near the Kongens Nytorv entrance.

Photo of Miriam Kongstad by Andrej Lamut

For CHART 2026, Aapo Nikkanen and Raudie McLeod perform Subvocal. The audience is hypnotised and their relationship with technology briefly suspended, while attention is reoriented through suggestion, metaphorical storytelling, and audiovisual stimuli.

Artist, researcher, and trained hypnotherapist, Aapo Nikkanen uses hypnosis to examine the cognitive effects of new technologies, asking how they inconspicuously shape the ways we interpret, trust, and respond to the world.

Subvocal (2026), directed and performed by Nikkanen, with music and sound design by Raudie McLeod, treats the unconscious not as a neutral inner space, but as contested territory – one shaped by extraction and influence, but still open to self-determination. Performed in the movie theatre of Charlottenborg, the piece combines hypnotic suggestion, music, and projected light to construct a "cognitive cinema."

Subvocal is not recommended for individuals with photosensitive epilepsy.
Age limit: 16
No admission after the performance begins

Photo of Aaop Nikkanen and Raudie McLeod by Dino Bossini

For CHART 2026, Alberte Skronski will perform “Link Pimousine (Pink Limousine)” together with Anna Roy Winder Salling. The performance is a pink limousine moving through the crowds and around the courtyard of the fair.

The humor of the grotesque runs like a common thread through Alberte Skronski's works. Across video, installation and performance, she explores the activist potential of humor, dresses up, plays and makes children's TV for adults. A duality is always present in Skronski's works as she builds absurd and colorful parallel universes of cardboard and recycled materials. They are characterised by a happy and playful aesthetic, but also contain a kind of grotesque horror. Like at a children's birthday party, where the clown is supposed to be funny, but is it really?

Two people dressed as a pink stretch limousine drive (walk) around the courtyard of Charlottenborg. Turning corners and going up stairs, the limousine moves as if in a cartoon going where no limousine has ever gone before.

For Saturday only, Alberte's performance will also tour through the Kongens Nytorv Metro Station.

Photo of Alberte Skronski

Draped in yards of fabric and a constant flow of action and reaction, The Extra Mile explores the unique energy shared between people who weave time together through courage and trust – not as an ideal, but as a practice. A necessity. A shared language that emerges when you can no longer rely on the predictable, but have to lean into the moment happening now.

Performed by Erika Cucumazzo, Giovanni Fumarola, Margherita Pascariello and Yuri Fortini, the extra mile becomes a way of being in the world. A collective force that creates movement even when past experiences or the surrounding world pull the body back towards stillness.

The performance begins at the Kongens Nytorv Metro, building momentum as it travels and ends in Charlottenborg's Courtyard.

Photo by Daniel Urhøj

For CHART 2026 The Icelandic Love Corporation performs Gratuation, a post-menopausal, empowering performance staged as a graduation ceremony, subverting milestones and celebrating womanhood.

Most women experience having their period. From adolescence to over fifty, this monthly task is looming, varyingly burdensome. Women learn to live with it, they move on, and pretend like it's nothing. So as this somewhat unwanted very gender-specific education comes to an end, with a year of no bleeding, it's time to honour the journey. The Icelandic Love Corporation will sign an official Menopause Diploma during the performance, for those who have graduated and will graduate in the future.

The Icelandic Love Corporation (founded in Reykjavík in 1996) is an Icelandic art collective currently consisting of Jóní Jónsdóttir and Eirún Sigurðardóttir.

Photo of Jóní Jónsdóttir and Eirún Sigurðardóttir

h2o slutclub is a music and performance collective that fuses club culture, theatre, and feminist satire. Working at the intersection of electronic house music and performance art, h2o slutclub - dressed in borrowed corporate feathers - transforms performance pressure into community, competition into care, and capital into love.

Live, h2o slutclub creates a theatrical, satirical performance concert with scenography borrowed directly from the office landscape! On stage, a team of agile, suit-clad humans and creatures unfold choreographed dance routines, song, and gesture inspired by the tired bodily and linguistic codes of the business world.

h2o slutclub, formed by Frederikke Maria Krebs Bahn, Johanne Lundgreen Frandsen, Marie Flarup Kristensen & Olivia Lamhauge Barrett, doesn’t just deliver a show - they invite the audience to step into an alternative business meeting where KPIs are measured in love, laughter, and sky-high BPM.

Photo of h2o slutclub by Mathilde Søes Rasmussen

At CHART 2026 Miriam Kongstad will present the performance Hard Play (2024), which explores how children’s games shape power dynamics, identities and social behaviour. The piece is conceived as a duet, blending the performer's physical movements with a dynamic live soundscape created by musician Heva Vaupel.

A 1,5-meter braid is attached to the performer's hair, symbolically morphing into various objects commonly associated with children’s games, such as a princess's hair, a dog leash, a lasso, a skipping rope, and a whip. Each transformation invites the audience to journey through a spectrum of emotions and scenarios—ranging from joy and fantasy to endurance and horror.

Miriam Kongstad (DK, 1991) is an artist and choreographer based in Berlin and Copenhagen. Anchored in explorations of embodiment, identity, and social codes, her work spans from painting, sculpture and text, to performance, sound and scent. Through themes such as health, sexuality, pain and desire, Kongstad depicts cultural and political structures and analyses the constant interplay between bodies and society.

*The performance is held in Festsalen, located near the Kongens Nytorv entrance.

Photo of Miriam Kongstad by Andrej Lamut

For CHART 2026, Aapo Nikkanen and Raudie McLeod perform Subvocal. The audience is hypnotised and their relationship with technology briefly suspended, while attention is reoriented through suggestion, metaphorical storytelling, and audiovisual stimuli.

Artist, researcher, and trained hypnotherapist, Aapo Nikkanen uses hypnosis to examine the cognitive effects of new technologies, asking how they inconspicuously shape the ways we interpret, trust, and respond to the world.

Subvocal (2026), directed and performed by Nikkanen, with music and sound design by Raudie McLeod, treats the unconscious not as a neutral inner space, but as contested territory – one shaped by extraction and influence, but still open to self-determination. Performed in the movie theatre of Charlottenborg, the piece combines hypnotic suggestion, music, and projected light to construct a "cognitive cinema."

Subvocal is not recommended for individuals with photosensitive epilepsy
Age limit: 16
No admission after the performance begins

Photo of Aapo Nikkanen and Raudie McLeod by Dino Bossini

For CHART 2026, Alberte Skronski will perform “Link Pimousine (Pink Limousine)” together with Anna Roy Winder Salling. The performance is a pink limousine moving through the crowds and around the courtyard of the fair.

The humor of the grotesque runs like a common thread through Alberte Skronski's works. Across video, installation and performance, she explores the activist potential of humor, dresses up, plays and makes children's TV for adults. A duality is always present in Skronski's works as she builds absurd and colorful parallel universes of cardboard and recycled materials. They are characterised by a happy and playful aesthetic, but also contain a kind of grotesque horror. Like at a children's birthday party, where the clown is supposed to be funny, but is it really?

Two people dressed as a pink stretch limousine drive (walk) around the courtyard of Charlottenborg. Turning corners and going up stairs, the limousine moves as if in a cartoon going where no limousine has ever gone before.

Photo of Alberte Skronski

For CHART 2026 The Icelandic Love Corporation performs “Gratuation”, a post-menopausal, empowering performance staged as a graduation ceremony, subverting milestones and celebrating womanhood.

Most women experience having their period. From adolescence to over fifty, this monthly task is looming, varyingly burdensome. Women learn to live with it, they move on, and pretend like it's nothing. So as this somewhat unwanted very gender-specific education comes to an end, with a year of no bleeding, it's time to honour the journey. The Icelandic Love Corporation will sign an official Menopause Diploma during the performance, for those who have graduated and will graduate in the future.

The Icelandic Love Corporation (founded in Reykjavík in 1996) is an Icelandic art collective currently consisting of Jóní Jónsdóttir and Eirún Sigurðardóttir.

Photo of Jóní Jónsdóttir and Eirún Sigurðardóttir