Programme

A panel discussion exploring how a new generation of collectors is reshaping the art world, challenging established market structures, collecting practices, and value systems. Bringing together emerging voices and industry perspectives, the conversation will examine how evolving priorities and modes of engagement are influencing the future of collecting and the broader art ecosystem.

For CHART 2026, we are delighted to present a conversation moderated by Carola Wiese, UBS Family Advisory – Art and Collecting, featuring Anne Hilde Neset, Director of Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, and Lars Veen Uldal, Sustainability Specialist and art collector, who is a member of the Henie Onstad Patrons Programme.

Photo of Carola Wiese by Michael Kaack / BARSK Projects
Photo of Anne Hilde Neset by Julie Hrncirova
Photo of Lars Veen Uldal

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

Carola Grahn is a Sámi artist whose multidisciplinary practice engages with questions of identity, colonial history, and the relationship between land, culture, and power. Working across sculpture, installation, text, and sound, her work draws on Sámi knowledge systems and personal experience. Grahn’s practice addresses the enduring impact of colonial structures, examining how histories of displacement, resistance, and cultural memory continue to shape contemporary social and political realities.

For CHART 2026, we are delighted to present a conversation between Carola Grahn and Maria Svonni, Founder and Artistic Director of Verdde and Director of Luleåbiennalen. Svonni’s work is organised around collaborations, utilising site-specific methods and activities to promote dialogue and long term change.

Photo of Carola Grahn by Erika Svensson
Photo of Maria Svonni by LKP

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

Emma Sarpaniemi (b. 1993) explores womanhood and femininity through playful and performative photographs. Sarpaniemi is a Finnish artist whose practice engages with themes of joy, empowerment, and the construction of gender roles and the gaze. She holds a BA in Photography from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK), and has exhibited widely across Europe in galleries, museums, and festivals, including Les Rencontres d’Arles and a solo exhibition at the Finnish Museum of Photography K1.

For CHART 2026, we are delighted to present a conversation between Emma Sarpaniemi and Nadine Wietlisbach, curator, author, and former Director of Fotomuseum Winterthur (2018–2026). Wietlisbach is currently Head of Cultural Promotion at Migros Engagement Group, where she continues to write, think, and work across cultural fields as a consultant and curator.

Photo of Emma Sarpaniemi
Photo of Nadine Wietlisbach

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

This conversation explores cross-disciplinary collaboration between artists and architects working on this year’s total installation CHART Public. It examines how shared practices can generate experimental spaces at the intersection of art, architecture and urban development, and how collective processes shape new forms of public engagement. The discussion is framed by this year’s CHART Public open call and the resulting project Pantomime.

For CHART 2026, we are delighted to present a conversation moderated by Holger Dahl, a trained architect and currently Arts and Architecture Editor at Berlingske, in dialogue with Peter Bur Andersen, Founder and Creative Director of BRIQ and a member of the CHART Public Open Call jury, and two representatives from the winning team behind Pantomime: Mads Vagn Jacobsen, architect and co-founder of Antenna Works, and artist Oliver Sundqvist.

Photo of Holger Dahl by Søren Bidstrup
Photo of Peter Bur Andersen by Heidi Lerkenfeldt
Photo of Mads Vagn Jacobsen
Photo of Oliver Sundqvist

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

This talk explores Iceland’s art scene as a small but highly networked ecosystem, examining how collaboration, mobility, and institutional infrastructure enable strong international connections. It considers how artists, curators, and organisations work across borders to strengthen visibility and create sustainable pathways for Icelandic contemporary art within a global context.

For CHART 2026, we are delighted to present a conversation moderated by Brynja Sveinsdóttir, curator and Director of Gerðarsafn – Kópavogur Art Museum, in dialogue with Kristjana Rós Gudjohnsen, Head of Culture and Creative Industries at Business Iceland, Cecilie Ragnheiðardóttir Gaihede, Director of the Icelandic Art Center (Myndlistarmiðstöð), and Börkur Arnarson, owner and director of i8 Gallery, Reykjavík.

Photo of Brynja Sveinsdóttir
Photo of Kristjana Rós Gudjohnsen
Photo of Cecilie Ragnheiðardóttir Gaihede
Photo of Börkur Arnarson

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

Loji Höskuldsson is an Icelandic artist whose practice centres on embroidery, creating intricate works that emerge slowly through a meticulous stitch-by-stitch process. Rooted in craft traditions, his narrative-driven compositions draw together references to local landscapes, flora and fauna, everyday objects, and cultural symbols from Iceland, Denmark, and Sweden. Balancing intimacy and scale, Höskuldsson’s works offer thoughtful reflections on shared human experience, often conveying a quiet sense of hope amid uncertainty.

For CHART 2026, we are delighted to present a conversation between Loji Höskuldsson and Markús Þór Andrésson, Director of Reykjavík Art Museum. Appointed in 2025 after serving eight years as the museum’s Chief Curator, Andrésson has worked extensively as a writer, curator, and filmmaker, with a particular focus on Icelandic artists and art history. He currently leads the museum’s three venues and oversees Reykjavík’s public art programme.

Photo of Loji Höskuldsson by Spessi Hallbjornson
Photo of Markús Þór Andrésson

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

This talk explores the inseparable relationship between Børsen and art, examining how one of Denmark’s most significant historic buildings has shaped cultural identity and artistic narratives for centuries. Reflecting on the fire of 16 April 2024 and the ongoing reconstruction, the conversation considers the role of art in preserving heritage, the symbolism of the rescue of Børsen’s artworks, and how new commissions will contribute to the building’s next chapter.

For CHART 2026, we are delighted to present a conversation moderated by Karen Bro, journalist, author and art collector, in dialogue with Tanya Lindkvist, Director of Kunst På Arbejde, artist Marie Lund, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, artist and part of the steering group, and Lars Daugaard Jepsen is Deputy Director of the Danish Chamber of Commerce (Dansk Erhverv) and heads the team of advisers and craftspeople responsible for reconstructing Børsen. All participants are members of the steering committee overseeing the integrated art programme for the reconstruction of Børsen following the 2024 fire. Børsen is expected to reopen in 2029.

Photo of Karen Bro by Fryd Frydendahl
Photo of Tanya Lindkvist by Sisse Langfeldt
Photo of Marie Lund by Katalin Deer
Photo of Henrik Plenge Jakobsen by Anders Sune Berg
Photo of Lars Daugaard Jepsen by Marcus Stoltze

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

German-Brazilian artist Janaina Tschäpe works across painting, drawing, photography, video, sculpture, performance, murals, and installation. Throughout her multidisciplinary practice, she has explored the fluid relationship between aquatic, vegetal, and human life, creating a poetic visual language that moves seamlessly between figuration and abstraction. Inspired by the natural world, memory, and mythology, her works evoke imagined landscapes where organic forms continuously emerge, dissolve, and transform.

For CHART 2026, we are delighted to present a talk between Janaina Tschäpe and Johan Holten, Director of ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark. Prior to his current role, Holten served as Director of the museum Kunsthalle Mannheim in Germany, where he led the institution’s programme with a strong focus on contemporary art in a global context, exhibition-making, and institutional development.

Photo of Janaina Tschäpe
Photo of Johan Holten by Kavian Borhani

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

Simon Dybbroe Møller’s work engages with the relationship between the weighty materiality of sculpture and its photographic representation and mediation. Rather than settling into one medium or style, he moves between film, photography, found objects, sculpture, writing, curating and teaching. He studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, and is Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Sculpture in Copenhagen, where he curates the performance series Why Words Now.

For CHART 2026, we are delighted to present a conversation between Simon Dybbroe Møller and Cédric Fauq, Chief Curator and Head of Programme and Collections at CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux. Fauq is a curator and writer whose recent projects include Rammellzee: Alphabeta Sigma (Side B), Garden of the Nine Suns, and L’Académie des Mutantes. He has previously worked at Palais de Tokyo and Nottingham Contemporary, and also teaches at HEAD – Geneva and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.

Photo of Simon Dybbroe Møller
Photo of Cédric Fauq by Arthur Péquin

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

This talk explores how art supports mental and physical wellbeing, from public spaces and healthcare settings to everyday environments. It considers how aesthetic experiences can contribute to mental health, community building and a stronger sense of connection, and how art is increasingly integrated into institutions and public life.

For CHART 2026, we are delighted to present a conversation moderated by Tyra Dokkedahl, adviser, curator and editor and owner of Empathic Environments, in dialogue with Kasper Levin, PhD, Lecturer at Roskilde University and Senior Researcher at Frederiksbergmuseerne, contemporary artist Alexander Tovborg, and former professional handball player and art collector Mikkel Hansen.

Photo of Tyra Dokkedahl by Frida Gregersen
Photo of Kasper Levin
Photo of Alexander Tovborg by Josefine Seifert
Photo of Mikkel Hansen

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

SUPERFLEX was founded in 1993 by Jakob Fenger, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen, and Rasmus Rosengren Nielsen. As an expanded collective, they work with a wide range of collaborators, from engineers and gardeners to audience members, developing projects that take the form of energy systems, sculptures, infrastructures, contracts and public spaces. Their practice explores alternative models of social and economic organisation, often through participatory and site-specific works, including major public space interventions such as Superkilen.

For CHART 2026, we are delighted to present a conversation between SUPERFLEX and Alice Sharp, Artistic Director of Invisible Dust and curator and art and science advisor for Climate Clock, part of Oulu’s European Capital of Culture 2026 programme. Sharp works at the intersection of art, science and climate action, and has collaborated with SUPERFLEX on their new marine landmark in Haukipudas, Oulu.

Photo of SUPERFLEX
Photo of Alice Sharp by Rosa Ruuskanen

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

This discussion explores how future art institutions can evolve to better support artists through new structures, resources and practices. It addresses shifting institutional models, questions of sustainability and care, and how programming, funding and curatorial approaches can be rethought to strengthen artistic production and long-term practice.

For CHART 2026, we are delighted to present a conversation moderated by Fatoş Üstek, curator, writer and co-founder of FRANK Fair Artist Pay, in dialogue with Krist Gruijthuijsen, Director and CEO of EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art and Curator at Large at Kunsthaus Zürich, Marie Laurberg, Artistic Director and CEO of Copenhagen Contemporary and founder of CC Commissions and the Beckett-Prize, and Jakob Kudsk Steensen, artist working with environmental storytelling through virtual world building, video games and large-scale installations.

Photo of Fatoş Üstek by Christa Holka
Photo of Krist Gruijthuijsen
Photo of Marie Laurberg by Nicolai Oreskov Westh
Photo of Jakob Kudsk Steensen by Bastian Thiery

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

Miriam Kongstad 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.

For CHART 2026, we are delighted to present a talk between Miriam Kongstad and Fatoş Üstek, curator, writer and co-founder of FRANK Fair Artist Pay. Üstek is currently developing a new institution inspired by the ideas in her acclaimed book, The Art Institution of Tomorrow (2024) and serves on numerous international award juries and advisory boards. The conversation will center around Kongstad’s powerful performance, ‘Hard Play’, which explores how children’s games shape our identities, power dynamics and social norms from childhood into adult life.

Photo of Miriam Kongstad by Liv Latricia Habel
Photo of Fatoş Üstek by Christa Holka

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