Programme 2024

This talk explores different approaches and case studies to responsible and strategic philanthropy, inviting experts to discuss how to engage with the “bigger picture” in art and society, / building on an original UBS content series dedicated to art philanthropy "Collecting Works": on-location video interviews engaging art collectors who play an active, responsible role in support of arts, culture, and education worldwide.

Moderated by Marco Antonini, working with Art Sponsorship Partnerships, Family Advisory, Art and Collecting at UBS, participants in the talk will include: Sandra Terdjman, curator and advisor in arts and philanthropy, and founding member of KADIST and AFIELD, Carola Wiese, UBS Family Advisory – Art and Collecting and William Flatmo, Director, Christen Sveaas Art Collection.

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Curator and writer Stephanie Cristello and artist Anders Ruhwald discusses the interplay between form and content in Ruhwald's latest publication, "Material Skin" The talk will offer insights into the creative process behind the creation of an artist book. Don't miss this opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the intersection of art, materiality, and form in contemporary practice.

For CHART 2024, we are delighted to present a talk between Anders Herwald Ruhwald and Stephanie Cristello, Stephanie Cristello, a contemporary art critic, curator, and author based in Chicagoan independent curator and writer based in London. Cristello is the author of "Material Skin”.

Pia Ferm's first exhibition at Saskia Neuman Gallery and in Scandinavia, "Plow your fields, keep your enemies close," debuted at CHART Art Fair 2024. The show draws inspiration from the landscape, blending figuration and abstraction. Ferm employs various materials, including weaving, tufting, stone, and marble, often building her own looms. Each piece starts with a sketch or watercolor, serving as the foundation for her woven or tufted works. The exhibition reflects the artist's exploration of her process, studio practice, and the elusive concepts of value and time.

For CHART 2024, we are delighted to present a talk between Pia Ferm and Stephanie Cristello, a contemporary art critic, curator, and author based in Chicago. She is currently the Director / Curator at Chicago Manual Style & P.S. Publishing Services as well as part of the Curatorial Cohort for Contemporary Art at the Driehaus Museum.

A conversation on Urban Design and public spaces between architect Jan Gehl and architect and journalist Tyra Dokkedahl.

Gehl is an Architect, practicing Urban Design Consultant and Professor of Urban Design at the School of Architecture in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has extensively researched the form and use of public spaces and put his findings to practice in multiple locations throughout the world. His company, Gehl Architects -- Urban Quality Consultants, creatively reimagines the multiple ways in which communities use the public realm. Tyra Dokkedahl is the director of Seriously Fun – a bureau for art and communication in architecture and co-initiator of Empathic Environments – a curatorial platform for interdisciplinary art projects in public realm.

Trine Søndergaard is a Danish photography-based visual artist. Søndergaard lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Trine Søndergaard’s work is marked by a precision and a sensibility that co-exist with an investigation of the medium of photography, its boundaries and what constitutes an image.

For CHART 2024, we are delighted to present a talk between Trine Søndergaard and Saara Hacklin, Chief Curator of Contemporary Art Museum KIASMA in Finland.

Join us for a panel discussion, featuring passionate art collectors and art advisor from different backgrounds, offering valuable insights into the considerations when starting and building a private art collection. Participants include: Mikkel Hansen, retired handball player and art collector, Karen Bro, chief advisor at Lederne and art collector and Julie Quottrup Silbermann, Director CHART. The talk will be moderated by the Swiss-Swedish journalist Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar.

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Nina Beier's works often take their starting point in pre-existing objects and situations, which she processes and assembles into new constellations. She is interested in the ability of objects to accumulate layers of meaning throughout their journeys—from the intention with which they are created, to how they are used and negotiated, and how these movements are dictated by power structures in our society. Beier currently has solo shows up at Gammel Holtegaard, Copenhagen, Kiasma, Helsinki, CAPC, Bordeaux and Museo Tamayo, Mexico City. She has shown internationally for the past two decades and her work has been included in exhibitions at major institutions.

For CHART 2024, we are delighted to present a talk between Nina Beier and Arem Moshayedi the current interim chief curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and curator-in-residence at Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, where he recently oversaw the exhibition Nina Beier Casts.

A conversation on the joint exhibition Homesick. In Homesick, artists Johannes Sivertsen and Modou Dieng Yacine explore the pathology of territory and the trauma embedded in their shared history as children of the republic and the colony. They examine how the absence of representation in their respective homelands shapes their sense of homesickness, questioning who is remembered and who is forgotten. Sivertsen views the erasure of colonial history as a failure of the republic's revolutionary ideals, revealing a selective application of equality that excludes the marginalized. Yacine, reflecting on his childhood, notes the lack of representation of people of his skin color in public spaces, even decades after colonization ended.

For CHART 2024, we are delighted to present a talk between Modou Dieng Yacine, Johannes Sivertsen and Marie-Ann Yemsi, Independent Exhibition Curator, Contemporary Art Consultant and Member of the Board of Directors at Palais de Tokyo - Center for Contemporary Creation in Paris.

A conversation among the CHART 2024 Architecture Jury, exploring the contemporary essence of New Nordic Architecture. Exploring why the fundamental principles - Sustainability, Integration with immediate surroundings, Functionality and simplicity, Cultural Context, Human-Centric Design, and Innovation and Experimentation - remain profoundly significant. What is Nordic architecture? and how is the winning pavilion an example of it?

Tyra Dokkedahl, Founder Seriously Fun, Jonas Sarantaris, Winner CHART Architecture 2024, Søren Pihlmann, Founder Philman Architects, Jakob Brandtberg Knudsen, Dean of Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy.

Inuuteq Storch, is a Greenlandic photographer with a deep connection to his homeland, who is also currently representing Denmark at the 60th Venice Biennale. Born, raised, and residing in Sisimiut, Greenland, he has expanded his artistic reach through extensive travel for international exhibitions. A graduate of the International Centre of Photography in New York and the Fatamorgana School of Photography in Copenhagen, Storch skilfully explores his Greenlandic identity through a compelling blend of personal and archival photography.

For CHART 2024, we are delighted to present a talk between Inuuteq Storch and Stephanie Cristello, a contemporary art critic, curator, and author based in Chicago. She is currently the Director / Curator at Chicago Manual Style & P.S. Publishing Services as well as part of the Curatorial Cohort for Contemporary Art at the Driehaus Museum.

This talk explores performance art, focusing on Teo Ala-Ruona's practice. Ala-Ruona investigates how somatic fiction influences perceptions of the human body, its technological essence, and psycho-physical extremes. His work intertwines linguistic, semiotic, technological, and biological aspects, exploring techno-trans-masculinity, sexuality, and eco-normative "naturalness." He does this through a blend of autobiographical and theoretical texts, scientific research, fiction, and bodily exercises.

For CHART 2024, we are delighted to present a talk between Teo Ala-Ruona and Storm Møller Madsen, PhD, from the University of Copenhagen. Madsen's research areas include performance art, body-based performance, questions of representation, transgender identity, dramaturgical and curatorial methodologies, as well as the relationship between performance and embodiment.

In this talk, artist duo Rhoda Ting & Mikkel Bojesen (formerly Studio ThinkingHand) and the Globe Institute discuss their collaboration on the work We Are All Hybrids. They will explore new directions in evolutionary biology revealed through environmental DNA and speculate affirmative futures, discussing how species and A.I. evolve in relations and co-creations.
Participants include: Rhoda Ting & Mikkel Bojesen, and Luke Holman, scientist from Globe Institute. Moderated by Kasper Opstrup, PHD, Copenhagen University, researcher and writer specializing in hybrids of art/literature, occultism and radical politics as counter-culture and underground phenomenons.

This talk explores the evolving relationship between AI and human creativity. In 2017, Stephen Hawking suggested that AI might one day surpass human intelligence. But does AI truly exceed human capabilities, or is it still shaped and guided by us, particularly in the realm of art? We will examine whether AI can be harnessed and refined to collaborate on artworks and exhibitions that push the boundaries of conventional imagination. Participants include: Emilie Boe Bierlich, Project Researcher SMK, Arvida Byström, artist and Michael Connor, Co-Director Rhizome. Moderated by Fatos Üstek independent curator and writer.

Marcus Leslie Singleton is a self-taught artist best known for his distinctive figurative paintings and pointed yet subtle observations. Singleton’s practice offers implicit critiques of contemporary social and political issues. Simultaneously, his work invites viewers to examine the dialogue around social constructs, culture, and spirituality. His presentation of multiple timelines both highlight and celebrate multiplicity in society and detail the parallel realities of joy and hardship in a figurative language. Using spontaneity, scale, and expressive placement of colour, Singleton’s paintings offer a jovial perspective that is both poignant and bold.

For CHART 2024, we are delighted to present a talk between Marcus Leslie Singleton and Fatoş Üstek, an independent curator and writer based in London whose work includes curating the annual Frieze Sculpture exhibition in Regent’s Park 2023 and she recently published the book ‘The Art Institution of Tomorrow’.