Programme 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.