How do we create, collaborate and understand our future inspired by artists? Teaming up with French Art 4 Collaborative Futures we invited art lovers, artists and art professionals to a virtual September Salon on September 22 on Art & Society. We had the pleasure to be joined by the artists Mille Kalsmose, Jakob Fenger from the Danish artist group SUPERFLEX and Curator Alex Fisher. Now both the digital September Salon and the Summer Salon are available on Youtube.

Art 4 Collaborative Futures X The Contemporary Art Insider – September Salon Live from Copenhagen 22 September, 2020.

Watch the webinar on Youtube.

With: Mille Kalsmose, Jakob Fenger, SUPERFLEX and curator Alex Fisher.
Curated and moderated by: Sofia Bertilsson, The Contemporary Art Insider
Coordinated by: Hanna Öjevall.

This conversation about Art & Society gave us three case studies of Dansih artists working directly for and with communities in different ways. We had the pleasure to be joined by the artists Mille Kalsmose from her current exhibition Collected Memory at Politikens forhal talking to Sofia Bertilsson from the exhibition venue at Rådhuspladsen, Copenhagen, Jakob Fenger from the Danish artist group SUPERFLEX joining from the SUPERFLEX studio talking about Superkilen with Hanna Öjevall who was live from the urban park project in Nørrebro Copenhagen, and about current projects. Curator Alex Fisher joined us from the sculpture park Wanås Konst in Sweden giving an introduction to Poul Gernes’ work Pyramide, a radical Danish artist only working with art for social situations.

ART 4 COLLABORATIVE FUTURES is a community engaging collectors, art lovers, writers, designers, architects, urbanists and scientists in a dialogue with artists. @4artcovid www.art4collaborativefutures.org

The PR agency The Contemporary Art Insider specializes in art projects, cultural destinations, lifestyle and luxury. It's founded by Sofia Bertilsson who is an international art advisor and VIP representative for the art fairs ARCO Madrid and Lisbon and writes about art & lifestyle. https://www.thecontemporaryartinsider...

Konstfrämjandet Skåne, People's Movements for Art Promotion, work towards the mission "art for everyone”. Together with artists, participants and member organizations, this Swedish organisation provides different perspectives on the time in which we live. @konstframjandet http://skane.konstframjandet.se

Hanna Öjevall is a young curator and art history student based in Malmö. Her work with the salons are made possible through Konstfrämjandet Skåne.

Mille Kalsmose is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen and New York. Her work spans from images to sculptural pieces and installation works. For decades her work has suggested themselves as mental survival kits, introducing new ways of exploring and understanding human existence and togetherness. The works embody family constellations or, most importantly, the relationships between the individual and the world. Her work has been exhibited at ARoS, Aarhus Art Museum; at MAVI, Museum of Visual Arts, Santiago, Chile, United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA; CCA, Center of Contemporary Art, Andratx, Spain and others.

Collected Memory is based on the artist's own personal narrative of loneliness, failure, and powerlessness, it relates to relationships in more than one sense, in which the individual, the common, and the universal unite. Collected Memory is partly a physical, interactive exhibition in the Media House Politikens Forhal from 20 august - 24 october 2020. Here, visitors can contribute to the work by sharing their experiences of being alone, loneliness and the longing to be part of a community in the collective work. @millekalsmose https://millekalsmose.com/

SUPERFLEX is a Danish artist group founded in 1993 by Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen. SUPERFLEX describes their projects as proposals that invite people to participate in and communicate the development of experimental models. Often their projects are related to economic forces, democratic production conditions, self-organization and environmental issues. SUPERFLEX has exhibited extensively all over the world and made a project for the Turbine Hall at Tate London in 2017 and Dive-In, a drive in cinema for Desert X in Coachella Valley in 2019.

Superkilen is an urban park in Copenhagen opened in 2011. People from the area were asked to nominate specific city objects such as benches, bins, trees, playgrounds, manhole covers and signage from other countries. In total there are more than 100 different objects encountered from more than 50 different countries. Commissioned by the City of Copenhagen and RealDania, the concept for Superkilen was developed by SUPERFLEX in collaboration with architectural firms Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Topotek1. @superflexstudio https://superflex.net/

Alex Fisher is a writer and curator from Buffalo, New York based in Knislinge, Sweden, after a year in Kyiv, where he has been researching Ukrainian contemporary art as a Fulbright scholar. He has led and supported initiatives for the Estate of Ana Mendieta via Galerie Lelong & Co., the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Yoko Ono’s Studio One, and Wanås Konst, amongst others. He contributes to the likes of Kajet, This is Badland, GUEST R00MS, VONO, and C-print. @walexfisher

Text by Hanna Öjevall.