Book & Print Fair Programme 2025

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2025, Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents a conversation between artists Jytte Rex, Hannah Toticki, and Signe Høi, in dialogue with Birgitte Anderberg from the Statens Museum for Kunst.

Marking fifty years since Kvindeudstillingen XX, the discussion reflects on the exhibition’s legacy and the evolving conditions for women artists over the past five decades. Bringing together artists from different generations, the talk will explore shifting perspectives on contemporary art, feminism, and creative practice today.

Photo: Kvindeudstillingen XX på Charlottenborg, 1975. Udstillingsplakat skabt af Lene Adler Petersen. Foto: Nanja Pontoppidan

*The talk is in Danish.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2025, artist and photographer Fryd Frydendahl and graphic designer and publisher Jacob Birch from Marrow Press discuss their latest collaboration on the book Salad Days.

The conversation encompasses bookmaking, photography, and publishing in general — as well as trust in the process, and how collaboration can enhance a project when diverse perspectives and practices are combined. The talk explores how the partnership between designer, publisher, and artist can shape the process and transform the work into a shared space.

*The talk is in Danish.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2025, artist Gudrun Hasle and moderator Cecilie Marie Dalhoff present Gudrun Hasle: Sketchbooks, a new publication built from twenty years of the artist’s notebooks. Across its pages unfold notes, drawings, misspellings, and personal reflections that together trace how private thoughts evolve into ideas, images, and artworks.

Working across embroidery, banners, photography, and video, Gudrun Hasle’s practice draws directly from her own experiences. Diagnosed with dyslexia, she explores communication, vulnerability, and the politics of language through her works, often using deliberately misspelled embroidered text to invert the power dynamics between reader and writer. By combining personal narrative with references to feminist and craft traditions, Hasle reveals how norms around language, identity, and capability shape our sense of belonging and expression.

*The talk is in Danish.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2025, author and professor emeritus Ditlev Tamm and artist Alexander Tovborg present their new illustrated retelling of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy. In this collaboration, Tamm reimagines Dante’s journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in vivid, contemporary language, abandoning the original verse form to bring the story closer to a modern readership.

The book unfolds as a dynamic dialogue between word and image, featuring 92 etchings by Alexander Tovborg, printed and published by BORCH Editions, accompanied by Tamm’s reflections on both Dante’s enduring vision and Tovborg’s visual interpretations.

*The talk is in Danish.

Photo by Sara Galbiati

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2025, artist Tal R, designer Claus Due, and publisher Lærke Rydal Jørgensen meet for a conversation about the role and resonance of art books today. The talk explores the differences and overlaps between the artist’s book and the institutional art publication, from the personal, experimental practice of making books as artworks to the editorial and design processes behind museum and gallery publications.

Through their shared experiences, the speakers reflect on how art in print can take many forms: as a site of artistic expression, a means of mediation, and a record of exhibitions and artistic practice. Together, they discuss the intentions, challenges, and possibilities that arise when artists, designers, and institutions each approach the printed page in their own way.

*The talk is in Danish.

For CHART Book & Print Fair 2025, Forening for Boghaandværk presents a conversation with the designers and editors behind this year’s award-winning books, offering insight into the creative processes, material choices, and collaborations that shape their work.

Participating are Cecilie Høgsbro, Head of Publishing at Statens Museum for Kunst (Alberto Giacometti: Hvad øjet ser, Gold, SMK Forlag); Laura Silke, graphic designer at Stanza (Viscose Journal Vol. 06: TEXT, Silver, self-published); and Jacob Haagen Birch, founder and graphic designer at Spine Studio (Inuuteq Storch – Rise of the Sunken Sun, Bronze, Strandberg Publishing). The discussion explores the book as a cultural and creative medium — where content, design, and craftsmanship intertwine.

*The talk is in Danish.