September Salon Live from Copenhagen
Art & Society Tuesday September 22 3pm CET
How do we create, collaborate and understand our future inspired by artists? ART 4 COLLABORATIVE FUTURES is a community engaging collectors, art lovers, writers, designers, architects, urbanists and scientists in a dialogue with artists.
Please join us for a conversation about art & society. We have the pleasure to be joined by the artists Mille Kalsmose from her current exhibition Collected Memory and Jakob Fenger from SUPERFLEX, an artist group, known for Superkilen, an urban park project in Nørrebro in Copenhagen. Curator Alex Fisher will be joining us from the sculpture park Wanås Konst and pioneering artist Poul Gernes’ Pyramide, a radical Danish artist only working with art for social situations.
The talk is about an hour and is curated and moderated by: Sofia Bertilsson, International Art Advisor and made possible by support from Konstfrämjandet Skåne, People's Movements for Art Promotion.
(Images courtesy: Mille Kalsmose & SUPERFLEX, photo: Torben Eskerod)
Join us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82528398600?pwd=aDdMRmtFTXNianRLa2FuMENwMzhVdz09
About the Participants
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.
Mille Kalsmose’s work gives shape and materializes what is invisible to the eye – this is a driving force and an indispensable desire throughout the work. Combining autobiography with neuroscience, personal experiences with social inquiry, Mille Kalsmose creates artworks that resonate on a multitude of levels. 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, which is based on a large-scale installation in brass with folded, colored newsprint. 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-organisation and environmental issues, not only by working collectively, but by making projects that actually function in the real world such as urban planning, sodas and cinemas, and by incorporating themselves as a company. 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. In 2018 SUPERFLEX embarked on a three year research project, by taking on the role of Expedition Leaders in TBA21–Academy’s fellowship program The Current.
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. The objects were either produced in a 1:1 copy or bought and transported to the site. In total there are more than 100 different objects encountered from more than 50 different countries. Commissioned by 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
ART 4 COLLABORATIVE FUTURES is a community engaging collectors, art lovers, writers, designers, architects, urbanists and scientists in a dialogue with artists. This conversation is about important topics such as freedom, solidarity, environment, social inequalities in society and in healthcare. @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 representant for the art fairs ARCO Madrid and Lisbon and writes about art & lifestyle.
Konstfrämjandet Skåne, People's Movements for Art Promotion, work towards the mission "art for everyone”. We see art as a way of rethinking society and ourselves. Together with artists, participants and member organizations, this Swedish organisation provide different perspectives on the time in which we live. @konstframjandet http://skane.konstframjandet.se