Autumn To-Do List: Copenhagen
Our highlights for your art-filled autumnal getaway...
By
Shin Hui Lee
September 8, 2023
Crowned the European Capital of Culture in 1996, Copenhagen has long been a go-to destination for a healthy dose of art and design. This autumn, we’ve gathered together four of the most exciting exhibitions for you to explore in the city. All that’s left to do is to book your flight…
Yet, It Moves! at Copenhagen Contemporary
Reflecting upon the micro and the macro, Yet, It Moves! presents a staggering selection of artworks that shed light on complex phenomena from black holes and star formations to our own human bodies.
The indubitable stand-out is Ryoji Ikeda’s video installation data-verse, composed of images and sounds rigorously sampled and transcribed from open-source data of scientific institutions such as NASA and CERN. Projected onto three formidable screens, each depicts a distinct world of movement, including anatomical scans, CCTV footage, air traffic control systems and microscopic atomic and molecular interactions. At one point, we bear witness to a 30-second barrage of planets and galaxies, guiding us on a hypnotic journey across time and space and offering us a primaeval glimpse into what lies beyond.
Other highlights include Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s contemplative Tongues of Verglas, a digitally simulated video leading us into the body of the Arolla glacier, as well as Jenna Sutela’s fascinating Pond Brain, a water-filled bronze bowl that reverberates sound so powerful that droplets rise straight from the surface of the water. Experienced as a whole, this exhibition is a sobering reminder of the interconnectedness of the world both within and all around us.
Yet, It Moves! is showing at Copenhagen Contemporary until 30th December 2023.
Nan Goldin: Memories Lost at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
A new acquisition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Memory Lost is a 24-minute long slideshow that photographer Nan Goldin created in 2019-21 chronicling the harrowing experience of drug addiction through images from her expansive archive.
Considered Goldin’s most personal work to date, images of herself and her friends at home are interspersed with solitary moments of transit and mournful scenes of bruised-purple skyscapes. Their often blurred, overexposed and unfocused nature evokes the disorientating lapses of memory caused by substance abuse and the subsequent sense of desperation to retrieve what has been lost.
Accompanied by musical compositions by Mica Levi with additional music by CJ Calderwood as well as archival recordings from answerphone messages and interviews, Memory Lost embodies not just the pain but also the fleeting sliver of beauty to be found in a life lived through the spectre of addiction.
Nan Goldin: Memory Lost is showing at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art until 22nd October 2023.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight at Gl Strand
Through photography, drawing and most notably film, American artist Rachel Rose examines how landscapes are repeatedly transformed and violated, raising important questions about the effects of modernity on our social, physical and spiritual existence. Gl Strand presents Good Morning Midnight, Rose’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia.
The Last Day proves a particular pleasure here, comprised of 900 photographs that Rose took every day in her children’s bedroom. Arranging the toys in miniature scenes to chart the Earth’s development, we embark with her on a curious journey from primordial beginnings, to the emergence of humans, to the driving forces of industrialisation, to the end of time itself. A somewhat daunting notion affected with an unmistakable quirk by virtue of appropriated elements of play and childlike wonder.
As Rose hones in on these peculiar spaces between the figurative and the abstract, the real and the imagined, she proposes that it is in fact our very imagination of landscapes that gives shape and meaning to our tangible understanding of the world.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight is showing at Gl Strand until 22nd October 2024.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light at Cisternerne
Every year, the Frederiksberg Museum invites an artist to produce a site-specific work for Cisternerne, into which daylight never reaches and the humidity is perpetually close to 100%. This year, Kimsooja transforms the subterranean space into a mesmeric installation of light and colour.
As we descend the steps into Cisternerne, we are immediately invited to surrender our senses as we adjust to the pure darkness that engulfs us. In the distance, iridescent flashes catch our eye, beckoning us to come closer, to give ourselves over to this dance of light and shadow. Making our way into the heart of the installation, standing on platforms suspended above the water, we are surrounded by a series of double-axis diffraction grating films mounted upon transparent panels. Working to separate light into repetitive linear spectrums, they exist as an array of concentric waves radiating outwards. As these overlapping concentric waves encounter each other they emanate endlessly beguiling patterns, weaving in and out of the concrete colonnades and defiantly breaking the oppressive darkness once and for all.
Like moving through a hallucination, this exhibition serves as a meditative escape from the barrage of day-to-day life above ground.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light is showing at Cisternerne until 30th November.
Crowned the European Capital of Culture in 1996, Copenhagen has long been a go-to destination for a healthy dose of art and design. This autumn, we’ve gathered together four of the most exciting exhibitions for you to explore in the city. All that’s left to do is to book your flight…
Yet, It Moves! at Copenhagen Contemporary
Reflecting upon the micro and the macro, Yet, It Moves! presents a staggering selection of artworks that shed light on complex phenomena from black holes and star formations to our own human bodies.
The indubitable stand-out is Ryoji Ikeda’s video installation data-verse, composed of images and sounds rigorously sampled and transcribed from open-source data of scientific institutions such as NASA and CERN. Projected onto three formidable screens, each depicts a distinct world of movement, including anatomical scans, CCTV footage, air traffic control systems and microscopic atomic and molecular interactions. At one point, we bear witness to a 30-second barrage of planets and galaxies, guiding us on a hypnotic journey across time and space and offering us a primaeval glimpse into what lies beyond.
Other highlights include Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s contemplative Tongues of Verglas, a digitally simulated video leading us into the body of the Arolla glacier, as well as Jenna Sutela’s fascinating Pond Brain, a water-filled bronze bowl that reverberates sound so powerful that droplets rise straight from the surface of the water. Experienced as a whole, this exhibition is a sobering reminder of the interconnectedness of the world both within and all around us.
Yet, It Moves! is showing at Copenhagen Contemporary until 30th December 2023.
Nan Goldin: Memories Lost at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
A new acquisition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Memory Lost is a 24-minute long slideshow that photographer Nan Goldin created in 2019-21 chronicling the harrowing experience of drug addiction through images from her expansive archive.
Considered Goldin’s most personal work to date, images of herself and her friends at home are interspersed with solitary moments of transit and mournful scenes of bruised-purple skyscapes. Their often blurred, overexposed and unfocused nature evokes the disorientating lapses of memory caused by substance abuse and the subsequent sense of desperation to retrieve what has been lost.
Accompanied by musical compositions by Mica Levi with additional music by CJ Calderwood as well as archival recordings from answerphone messages and interviews, Memory Lost embodies not just the pain but also the fleeting sliver of beauty to be found in a life lived through the spectre of addiction.
Nan Goldin: Memory Lost is showing at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art until 22nd October 2023.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight at Gl Strand
Through photography, drawing and most notably film, American artist Rachel Rose examines how landscapes are repeatedly transformed and violated, raising important questions about the effects of modernity on our social, physical and spiritual existence. Gl Strand presents Good Morning Midnight, Rose’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia.
The Last Day proves a particular pleasure here, comprised of 900 photographs that Rose took every day in her children’s bedroom. Arranging the toys in miniature scenes to chart the Earth’s development, we embark with her on a curious journey from primordial beginnings, to the emergence of humans, to the driving forces of industrialisation, to the end of time itself. A somewhat daunting notion affected with an unmistakable quirk by virtue of appropriated elements of play and childlike wonder.
As Rose hones in on these peculiar spaces between the figurative and the abstract, the real and the imagined, she proposes that it is in fact our very imagination of landscapes that gives shape and meaning to our tangible understanding of the world.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight is showing at Gl Strand until 22nd October 2024.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light at Cisternerne
Every year, the Frederiksberg Museum invites an artist to produce a site-specific work for Cisternerne, into which daylight never reaches and the humidity is perpetually close to 100%. This year, Kimsooja transforms the subterranean space into a mesmeric installation of light and colour.
As we descend the steps into Cisternerne, we are immediately invited to surrender our senses as we adjust to the pure darkness that engulfs us. In the distance, iridescent flashes catch our eye, beckoning us to come closer, to give ourselves over to this dance of light and shadow. Making our way into the heart of the installation, standing on platforms suspended above the water, we are surrounded by a series of double-axis diffraction grating films mounted upon transparent panels. Working to separate light into repetitive linear spectrums, they exist as an array of concentric waves radiating outwards. As these overlapping concentric waves encounter each other they emanate endlessly beguiling patterns, weaving in and out of the concrete colonnades and defiantly breaking the oppressive darkness once and for all.
Like moving through a hallucination, this exhibition serves as a meditative escape from the barrage of day-to-day life above ground.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light is showing at Cisternerne until 30th November.
Crowned the European Capital of Culture in 1996, Copenhagen has long been a go-to destination for a healthy dose of art and design. This autumn, we’ve gathered together four of the most exciting exhibitions for you to explore in the city. All that’s left to do is to book your flight…
Yet, It Moves! at Copenhagen Contemporary
Reflecting upon the micro and the macro, Yet, It Moves! presents a staggering selection of artworks that shed light on complex phenomena from black holes and star formations to our own human bodies.
The indubitable stand-out is Ryoji Ikeda’s video installation data-verse, composed of images and sounds rigorously sampled and transcribed from open-source data of scientific institutions such as NASA and CERN. Projected onto three formidable screens, each depicts a distinct world of movement, including anatomical scans, CCTV footage, air traffic control systems and microscopic atomic and molecular interactions. At one point, we bear witness to a 30-second barrage of planets and galaxies, guiding us on a hypnotic journey across time and space and offering us a primaeval glimpse into what lies beyond.
Other highlights include Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s contemplative Tongues of Verglas, a digitally simulated video leading us into the body of the Arolla glacier, as well as Jenna Sutela’s fascinating Pond Brain, a water-filled bronze bowl that reverberates sound so powerful that droplets rise straight from the surface of the water. Experienced as a whole, this exhibition is a sobering reminder of the interconnectedness of the world both within and all around us.
Yet, It Moves! is showing at Copenhagen Contemporary until 30th December 2023.
Nan Goldin: Memories Lost at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
A new acquisition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Memory Lost is a 24-minute long slideshow that photographer Nan Goldin created in 2019-21 chronicling the harrowing experience of drug addiction through images from her expansive archive.
Considered Goldin’s most personal work to date, images of herself and her friends at home are interspersed with solitary moments of transit and mournful scenes of bruised-purple skyscapes. Their often blurred, overexposed and unfocused nature evokes the disorientating lapses of memory caused by substance abuse and the subsequent sense of desperation to retrieve what has been lost.
Accompanied by musical compositions by Mica Levi with additional music by CJ Calderwood as well as archival recordings from answerphone messages and interviews, Memory Lost embodies not just the pain but also the fleeting sliver of beauty to be found in a life lived through the spectre of addiction.
Nan Goldin: Memory Lost is showing at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art until 22nd October 2023.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight at Gl Strand
Through photography, drawing and most notably film, American artist Rachel Rose examines how landscapes are repeatedly transformed and violated, raising important questions about the effects of modernity on our social, physical and spiritual existence. Gl Strand presents Good Morning Midnight, Rose’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia.
The Last Day proves a particular pleasure here, comprised of 900 photographs that Rose took every day in her children’s bedroom. Arranging the toys in miniature scenes to chart the Earth’s development, we embark with her on a curious journey from primordial beginnings, to the emergence of humans, to the driving forces of industrialisation, to the end of time itself. A somewhat daunting notion affected with an unmistakable quirk by virtue of appropriated elements of play and childlike wonder.
As Rose hones in on these peculiar spaces between the figurative and the abstract, the real and the imagined, she proposes that it is in fact our very imagination of landscapes that gives shape and meaning to our tangible understanding of the world.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight is showing at Gl Strand until 22nd October 2024.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light at Cisternerne
Every year, the Frederiksberg Museum invites an artist to produce a site-specific work for Cisternerne, into which daylight never reaches and the humidity is perpetually close to 100%. This year, Kimsooja transforms the subterranean space into a mesmeric installation of light and colour.
As we descend the steps into Cisternerne, we are immediately invited to surrender our senses as we adjust to the pure darkness that engulfs us. In the distance, iridescent flashes catch our eye, beckoning us to come closer, to give ourselves over to this dance of light and shadow. Making our way into the heart of the installation, standing on platforms suspended above the water, we are surrounded by a series of double-axis diffraction grating films mounted upon transparent panels. Working to separate light into repetitive linear spectrums, they exist as an array of concentric waves radiating outwards. As these overlapping concentric waves encounter each other they emanate endlessly beguiling patterns, weaving in and out of the concrete colonnades and defiantly breaking the oppressive darkness once and for all.
Like moving through a hallucination, this exhibition serves as a meditative escape from the barrage of day-to-day life above ground.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light is showing at Cisternerne until 30th November.
Crowned the European Capital of Culture in 1996, Copenhagen has long been a go-to destination for a healthy dose of art and design. This autumn, we’ve gathered together four of the most exciting exhibitions for you to explore in the city. All that’s left to do is to book your flight…
Yet, It Moves! at Copenhagen Contemporary
Reflecting upon the micro and the macro, Yet, It Moves! presents a staggering selection of artworks that shed light on complex phenomena from black holes and star formations to our own human bodies.
The indubitable stand-out is Ryoji Ikeda’s video installation data-verse, composed of images and sounds rigorously sampled and transcribed from open-source data of scientific institutions such as NASA and CERN. Projected onto three formidable screens, each depicts a distinct world of movement, including anatomical scans, CCTV footage, air traffic control systems and microscopic atomic and molecular interactions. At one point, we bear witness to a 30-second barrage of planets and galaxies, guiding us on a hypnotic journey across time and space and offering us a primaeval glimpse into what lies beyond.
Other highlights include Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s contemplative Tongues of Verglas, a digitally simulated video leading us into the body of the Arolla glacier, as well as Jenna Sutela’s fascinating Pond Brain, a water-filled bronze bowl that reverberates sound so powerful that droplets rise straight from the surface of the water. Experienced as a whole, this exhibition is a sobering reminder of the interconnectedness of the world both within and all around us.
Yet, It Moves! is showing at Copenhagen Contemporary until 30th December 2023.
Nan Goldin: Memories Lost at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
A new acquisition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Memory Lost is a 24-minute long slideshow that photographer Nan Goldin created in 2019-21 chronicling the harrowing experience of drug addiction through images from her expansive archive.
Considered Goldin’s most personal work to date, images of herself and her friends at home are interspersed with solitary moments of transit and mournful scenes of bruised-purple skyscapes. Their often blurred, overexposed and unfocused nature evokes the disorientating lapses of memory caused by substance abuse and the subsequent sense of desperation to retrieve what has been lost.
Accompanied by musical compositions by Mica Levi with additional music by CJ Calderwood as well as archival recordings from answerphone messages and interviews, Memory Lost embodies not just the pain but also the fleeting sliver of beauty to be found in a life lived through the spectre of addiction.
Nan Goldin: Memory Lost is showing at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art until 22nd October 2023.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight at Gl Strand
Through photography, drawing and most notably film, American artist Rachel Rose examines how landscapes are repeatedly transformed and violated, raising important questions about the effects of modernity on our social, physical and spiritual existence. Gl Strand presents Good Morning Midnight, Rose’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia.
The Last Day proves a particular pleasure here, comprised of 900 photographs that Rose took every day in her children’s bedroom. Arranging the toys in miniature scenes to chart the Earth’s development, we embark with her on a curious journey from primordial beginnings, to the emergence of humans, to the driving forces of industrialisation, to the end of time itself. A somewhat daunting notion affected with an unmistakable quirk by virtue of appropriated elements of play and childlike wonder.
As Rose hones in on these peculiar spaces between the figurative and the abstract, the real and the imagined, she proposes that it is in fact our very imagination of landscapes that gives shape and meaning to our tangible understanding of the world.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight is showing at Gl Strand until 22nd October 2024.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light at Cisternerne
Every year, the Frederiksberg Museum invites an artist to produce a site-specific work for Cisternerne, into which daylight never reaches and the humidity is perpetually close to 100%. This year, Kimsooja transforms the subterranean space into a mesmeric installation of light and colour.
As we descend the steps into Cisternerne, we are immediately invited to surrender our senses as we adjust to the pure darkness that engulfs us. In the distance, iridescent flashes catch our eye, beckoning us to come closer, to give ourselves over to this dance of light and shadow. Making our way into the heart of the installation, standing on platforms suspended above the water, we are surrounded by a series of double-axis diffraction grating films mounted upon transparent panels. Working to separate light into repetitive linear spectrums, they exist as an array of concentric waves radiating outwards. As these overlapping concentric waves encounter each other they emanate endlessly beguiling patterns, weaving in and out of the concrete colonnades and defiantly breaking the oppressive darkness once and for all.
Like moving through a hallucination, this exhibition serves as a meditative escape from the barrage of day-to-day life above ground.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light is showing at Cisternerne until 30th November.
Crowned the European Capital of Culture in 1996, Copenhagen has long been a go-to destination for a healthy dose of art and design. This autumn, we’ve gathered together four of the most exciting exhibitions for you to explore in the city. All that’s left to do is to book your flight…
Yet, It Moves! at Copenhagen Contemporary
Reflecting upon the micro and the macro, Yet, It Moves! presents a staggering selection of artworks that shed light on complex phenomena from black holes and star formations to our own human bodies.
The indubitable stand-out is Ryoji Ikeda’s video installation data-verse, composed of images and sounds rigorously sampled and transcribed from open-source data of scientific institutions such as NASA and CERN. Projected onto three formidable screens, each depicts a distinct world of movement, including anatomical scans, CCTV footage, air traffic control systems and microscopic atomic and molecular interactions. At one point, we bear witness to a 30-second barrage of planets and galaxies, guiding us on a hypnotic journey across time and space and offering us a primaeval glimpse into what lies beyond.
Other highlights include Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s contemplative Tongues of Verglas, a digitally simulated video leading us into the body of the Arolla glacier, as well as Jenna Sutela’s fascinating Pond Brain, a water-filled bronze bowl that reverberates sound so powerful that droplets rise straight from the surface of the water. Experienced as a whole, this exhibition is a sobering reminder of the interconnectedness of the world both within and all around us.
Yet, It Moves! is showing at Copenhagen Contemporary until 30th December 2023.
Nan Goldin: Memories Lost at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
A new acquisition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Memory Lost is a 24-minute long slideshow that photographer Nan Goldin created in 2019-21 chronicling the harrowing experience of drug addiction through images from her expansive archive.
Considered Goldin’s most personal work to date, images of herself and her friends at home are interspersed with solitary moments of transit and mournful scenes of bruised-purple skyscapes. Their often blurred, overexposed and unfocused nature evokes the disorientating lapses of memory caused by substance abuse and the subsequent sense of desperation to retrieve what has been lost.
Accompanied by musical compositions by Mica Levi with additional music by CJ Calderwood as well as archival recordings from answerphone messages and interviews, Memory Lost embodies not just the pain but also the fleeting sliver of beauty to be found in a life lived through the spectre of addiction.
Nan Goldin: Memory Lost is showing at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art until 22nd October 2023.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight at Gl Strand
Through photography, drawing and most notably film, American artist Rachel Rose examines how landscapes are repeatedly transformed and violated, raising important questions about the effects of modernity on our social, physical and spiritual existence. Gl Strand presents Good Morning Midnight, Rose’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia.
The Last Day proves a particular pleasure here, comprised of 900 photographs that Rose took every day in her children’s bedroom. Arranging the toys in miniature scenes to chart the Earth’s development, we embark with her on a curious journey from primordial beginnings, to the emergence of humans, to the driving forces of industrialisation, to the end of time itself. A somewhat daunting notion affected with an unmistakable quirk by virtue of appropriated elements of play and childlike wonder.
As Rose hones in on these peculiar spaces between the figurative and the abstract, the real and the imagined, she proposes that it is in fact our very imagination of landscapes that gives shape and meaning to our tangible understanding of the world.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight is showing at Gl Strand until 22nd October 2024.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light at Cisternerne
Every year, the Frederiksberg Museum invites an artist to produce a site-specific work for Cisternerne, into which daylight never reaches and the humidity is perpetually close to 100%. This year, Kimsooja transforms the subterranean space into a mesmeric installation of light and colour.
As we descend the steps into Cisternerne, we are immediately invited to surrender our senses as we adjust to the pure darkness that engulfs us. In the distance, iridescent flashes catch our eye, beckoning us to come closer, to give ourselves over to this dance of light and shadow. Making our way into the heart of the installation, standing on platforms suspended above the water, we are surrounded by a series of double-axis diffraction grating films mounted upon transparent panels. Working to separate light into repetitive linear spectrums, they exist as an array of concentric waves radiating outwards. As these overlapping concentric waves encounter each other they emanate endlessly beguiling patterns, weaving in and out of the concrete colonnades and defiantly breaking the oppressive darkness once and for all.
Like moving through a hallucination, this exhibition serves as a meditative escape from the barrage of day-to-day life above ground.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light is showing at Cisternerne until 30th November.
Crowned the European Capital of Culture in 1996, Copenhagen has long been a go-to destination for a healthy dose of art and design. This autumn, we’ve gathered together four of the most exciting exhibitions for you to explore in the city. All that’s left to do is to book your flight…
Yet, It Moves! at Copenhagen Contemporary
Reflecting upon the micro and the macro, Yet, It Moves! presents a staggering selection of artworks that shed light on complex phenomena from black holes and star formations to our own human bodies.
The indubitable stand-out is Ryoji Ikeda’s video installation data-verse, composed of images and sounds rigorously sampled and transcribed from open-source data of scientific institutions such as NASA and CERN. Projected onto three formidable screens, each depicts a distinct world of movement, including anatomical scans, CCTV footage, air traffic control systems and microscopic atomic and molecular interactions. At one point, we bear witness to a 30-second barrage of planets and galaxies, guiding us on a hypnotic journey across time and space and offering us a primaeval glimpse into what lies beyond.
Other highlights include Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s contemplative Tongues of Verglas, a digitally simulated video leading us into the body of the Arolla glacier, as well as Jenna Sutela’s fascinating Pond Brain, a water-filled bronze bowl that reverberates sound so powerful that droplets rise straight from the surface of the water. Experienced as a whole, this exhibition is a sobering reminder of the interconnectedness of the world both within and all around us.
Yet, It Moves! is showing at Copenhagen Contemporary until 30th December 2023.
Nan Goldin: Memories Lost at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
A new acquisition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Memory Lost is a 24-minute long slideshow that photographer Nan Goldin created in 2019-21 chronicling the harrowing experience of drug addiction through images from her expansive archive.
Considered Goldin’s most personal work to date, images of herself and her friends at home are interspersed with solitary moments of transit and mournful scenes of bruised-purple skyscapes. Their often blurred, overexposed and unfocused nature evokes the disorientating lapses of memory caused by substance abuse and the subsequent sense of desperation to retrieve what has been lost.
Accompanied by musical compositions by Mica Levi with additional music by CJ Calderwood as well as archival recordings from answerphone messages and interviews, Memory Lost embodies not just the pain but also the fleeting sliver of beauty to be found in a life lived through the spectre of addiction.
Nan Goldin: Memory Lost is showing at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art until 22nd October 2023.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight at Gl Strand
Through photography, drawing and most notably film, American artist Rachel Rose examines how landscapes are repeatedly transformed and violated, raising important questions about the effects of modernity on our social, physical and spiritual existence. Gl Strand presents Good Morning Midnight, Rose’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia.
The Last Day proves a particular pleasure here, comprised of 900 photographs that Rose took every day in her children’s bedroom. Arranging the toys in miniature scenes to chart the Earth’s development, we embark with her on a curious journey from primordial beginnings, to the emergence of humans, to the driving forces of industrialisation, to the end of time itself. A somewhat daunting notion affected with an unmistakable quirk by virtue of appropriated elements of play and childlike wonder.
As Rose hones in on these peculiar spaces between the figurative and the abstract, the real and the imagined, she proposes that it is in fact our very imagination of landscapes that gives shape and meaning to our tangible understanding of the world.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight is showing at Gl Strand until 22nd October 2024.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light at Cisternerne
Every year, the Frederiksberg Museum invites an artist to produce a site-specific work for Cisternerne, into which daylight never reaches and the humidity is perpetually close to 100%. This year, Kimsooja transforms the subterranean space into a mesmeric installation of light and colour.
As we descend the steps into Cisternerne, we are immediately invited to surrender our senses as we adjust to the pure darkness that engulfs us. In the distance, iridescent flashes catch our eye, beckoning us to come closer, to give ourselves over to this dance of light and shadow. Making our way into the heart of the installation, standing on platforms suspended above the water, we are surrounded by a series of double-axis diffraction grating films mounted upon transparent panels. Working to separate light into repetitive linear spectrums, they exist as an array of concentric waves radiating outwards. As these overlapping concentric waves encounter each other they emanate endlessly beguiling patterns, weaving in and out of the concrete colonnades and defiantly breaking the oppressive darkness once and for all.
Like moving through a hallucination, this exhibition serves as a meditative escape from the barrage of day-to-day life above ground.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light is showing at Cisternerne until 30th November.
Crowned the European Capital of Culture in 1996, Copenhagen has long been a go-to destination for a healthy dose of art and design. This autumn, we’ve gathered together four of the most exciting exhibitions for you to explore in the city. All that’s left to do is to book your flight…
Yet, It Moves! at Copenhagen Contemporary
Reflecting upon the micro and the macro, Yet, It Moves! presents a staggering selection of artworks that shed light on complex phenomena from black holes and star formations to our own human bodies.
The indubitable stand-out is Ryoji Ikeda’s video installation data-verse, composed of images and sounds rigorously sampled and transcribed from open-source data of scientific institutions such as NASA and CERN. Projected onto three formidable screens, each depicts a distinct world of movement, including anatomical scans, CCTV footage, air traffic control systems and microscopic atomic and molecular interactions. At one point, we bear witness to a 30-second barrage of planets and galaxies, guiding us on a hypnotic journey across time and space and offering us a primaeval glimpse into what lies beyond.
Other highlights include Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s contemplative Tongues of Verglas, a digitally simulated video leading us into the body of the Arolla glacier, as well as Jenna Sutela’s fascinating Pond Brain, a water-filled bronze bowl that reverberates sound so powerful that droplets rise straight from the surface of the water. Experienced as a whole, this exhibition is a sobering reminder of the interconnectedness of the world both within and all around us.
Yet, It Moves! is showing at Copenhagen Contemporary until 30th December 2023.
Nan Goldin: Memories Lost at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
A new acquisition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Memory Lost is a 24-minute long slideshow that photographer Nan Goldin created in 2019-21 chronicling the harrowing experience of drug addiction through images from her expansive archive.
Considered Goldin’s most personal work to date, images of herself and her friends at home are interspersed with solitary moments of transit and mournful scenes of bruised-purple skyscapes. Their often blurred, overexposed and unfocused nature evokes the disorientating lapses of memory caused by substance abuse and the subsequent sense of desperation to retrieve what has been lost.
Accompanied by musical compositions by Mica Levi with additional music by CJ Calderwood as well as archival recordings from answerphone messages and interviews, Memory Lost embodies not just the pain but also the fleeting sliver of beauty to be found in a life lived through the spectre of addiction.
Nan Goldin: Memory Lost is showing at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art until 22nd October 2023.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight at Gl Strand
Through photography, drawing and most notably film, American artist Rachel Rose examines how landscapes are repeatedly transformed and violated, raising important questions about the effects of modernity on our social, physical and spiritual existence. Gl Strand presents Good Morning Midnight, Rose’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia.
The Last Day proves a particular pleasure here, comprised of 900 photographs that Rose took every day in her children’s bedroom. Arranging the toys in miniature scenes to chart the Earth’s development, we embark with her on a curious journey from primordial beginnings, to the emergence of humans, to the driving forces of industrialisation, to the end of time itself. A somewhat daunting notion affected with an unmistakable quirk by virtue of appropriated elements of play and childlike wonder.
As Rose hones in on these peculiar spaces between the figurative and the abstract, the real and the imagined, she proposes that it is in fact our very imagination of landscapes that gives shape and meaning to our tangible understanding of the world.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight is showing at Gl Strand until 22nd October 2024.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light at Cisternerne
Every year, the Frederiksberg Museum invites an artist to produce a site-specific work for Cisternerne, into which daylight never reaches and the humidity is perpetually close to 100%. This year, Kimsooja transforms the subterranean space into a mesmeric installation of light and colour.
As we descend the steps into Cisternerne, we are immediately invited to surrender our senses as we adjust to the pure darkness that engulfs us. In the distance, iridescent flashes catch our eye, beckoning us to come closer, to give ourselves over to this dance of light and shadow. Making our way into the heart of the installation, standing on platforms suspended above the water, we are surrounded by a series of double-axis diffraction grating films mounted upon transparent panels. Working to separate light into repetitive linear spectrums, they exist as an array of concentric waves radiating outwards. As these overlapping concentric waves encounter each other they emanate endlessly beguiling patterns, weaving in and out of the concrete colonnades and defiantly breaking the oppressive darkness once and for all.
Like moving through a hallucination, this exhibition serves as a meditative escape from the barrage of day-to-day life above ground.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light is showing at Cisternerne until 30th November.
Crowned the European Capital of Culture in 1996, Copenhagen has long been a go-to destination for a healthy dose of art and design. This autumn, we’ve gathered together four of the most exciting exhibitions for you to explore in the city. All that’s left to do is to book your flight…
Yet, It Moves! at Copenhagen Contemporary
Reflecting upon the micro and the macro, Yet, It Moves! presents a staggering selection of artworks that shed light on complex phenomena from black holes and star formations to our own human bodies.
The indubitable stand-out is Ryoji Ikeda’s video installation data-verse, composed of images and sounds rigorously sampled and transcribed from open-source data of scientific institutions such as NASA and CERN. Projected onto three formidable screens, each depicts a distinct world of movement, including anatomical scans, CCTV footage, air traffic control systems and microscopic atomic and molecular interactions. At one point, we bear witness to a 30-second barrage of planets and galaxies, guiding us on a hypnotic journey across time and space and offering us a primaeval glimpse into what lies beyond.
Other highlights include Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s contemplative Tongues of Verglas, a digitally simulated video leading us into the body of the Arolla glacier, as well as Jenna Sutela’s fascinating Pond Brain, a water-filled bronze bowl that reverberates sound so powerful that droplets rise straight from the surface of the water. Experienced as a whole, this exhibition is a sobering reminder of the interconnectedness of the world both within and all around us.
Yet, It Moves! is showing at Copenhagen Contemporary until 30th December 2023.
Nan Goldin: Memories Lost at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
A new acquisition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Memory Lost is a 24-minute long slideshow that photographer Nan Goldin created in 2019-21 chronicling the harrowing experience of drug addiction through images from her expansive archive.
Considered Goldin’s most personal work to date, images of herself and her friends at home are interspersed with solitary moments of transit and mournful scenes of bruised-purple skyscapes. Their often blurred, overexposed and unfocused nature evokes the disorientating lapses of memory caused by substance abuse and the subsequent sense of desperation to retrieve what has been lost.
Accompanied by musical compositions by Mica Levi with additional music by CJ Calderwood as well as archival recordings from answerphone messages and interviews, Memory Lost embodies not just the pain but also the fleeting sliver of beauty to be found in a life lived through the spectre of addiction.
Nan Goldin: Memory Lost is showing at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art until 22nd October 2023.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight at Gl Strand
Through photography, drawing and most notably film, American artist Rachel Rose examines how landscapes are repeatedly transformed and violated, raising important questions about the effects of modernity on our social, physical and spiritual existence. Gl Strand presents Good Morning Midnight, Rose’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia.
The Last Day proves a particular pleasure here, comprised of 900 photographs that Rose took every day in her children’s bedroom. Arranging the toys in miniature scenes to chart the Earth’s development, we embark with her on a curious journey from primordial beginnings, to the emergence of humans, to the driving forces of industrialisation, to the end of time itself. A somewhat daunting notion affected with an unmistakable quirk by virtue of appropriated elements of play and childlike wonder.
As Rose hones in on these peculiar spaces between the figurative and the abstract, the real and the imagined, she proposes that it is in fact our very imagination of landscapes that gives shape and meaning to our tangible understanding of the world.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight is showing at Gl Strand until 22nd October 2024.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light at Cisternerne
Every year, the Frederiksberg Museum invites an artist to produce a site-specific work for Cisternerne, into which daylight never reaches and the humidity is perpetually close to 100%. This year, Kimsooja transforms the subterranean space into a mesmeric installation of light and colour.
As we descend the steps into Cisternerne, we are immediately invited to surrender our senses as we adjust to the pure darkness that engulfs us. In the distance, iridescent flashes catch our eye, beckoning us to come closer, to give ourselves over to this dance of light and shadow. Making our way into the heart of the installation, standing on platforms suspended above the water, we are surrounded by a series of double-axis diffraction grating films mounted upon transparent panels. Working to separate light into repetitive linear spectrums, they exist as an array of concentric waves radiating outwards. As these overlapping concentric waves encounter each other they emanate endlessly beguiling patterns, weaving in and out of the concrete colonnades and defiantly breaking the oppressive darkness once and for all.
Like moving through a hallucination, this exhibition serves as a meditative escape from the barrage of day-to-day life above ground.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light is showing at Cisternerne until 30th November.
Crowned the European Capital of Culture in 1996, Copenhagen has long been a go-to destination for a healthy dose of art and design. This autumn, we’ve gathered together four of the most exciting exhibitions for you to explore in the city. All that’s left to do is to book your flight…
Yet, It Moves! at Copenhagen Contemporary
Reflecting upon the micro and the macro, Yet, It Moves! presents a staggering selection of artworks that shed light on complex phenomena from black holes and star formations to our own human bodies.
The indubitable stand-out is Ryoji Ikeda’s video installation data-verse, composed of images and sounds rigorously sampled and transcribed from open-source data of scientific institutions such as NASA and CERN. Projected onto three formidable screens, each depicts a distinct world of movement, including anatomical scans, CCTV footage, air traffic control systems and microscopic atomic and molecular interactions. At one point, we bear witness to a 30-second barrage of planets and galaxies, guiding us on a hypnotic journey across time and space and offering us a primaeval glimpse into what lies beyond.
Other highlights include Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s contemplative Tongues of Verglas, a digitally simulated video leading us into the body of the Arolla glacier, as well as Jenna Sutela’s fascinating Pond Brain, a water-filled bronze bowl that reverberates sound so powerful that droplets rise straight from the surface of the water. Experienced as a whole, this exhibition is a sobering reminder of the interconnectedness of the world both within and all around us.
Yet, It Moves! is showing at Copenhagen Contemporary until 30th December 2023.
Nan Goldin: Memories Lost at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
A new acquisition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Memory Lost is a 24-minute long slideshow that photographer Nan Goldin created in 2019-21 chronicling the harrowing experience of drug addiction through images from her expansive archive.
Considered Goldin’s most personal work to date, images of herself and her friends at home are interspersed with solitary moments of transit and mournful scenes of bruised-purple skyscapes. Their often blurred, overexposed and unfocused nature evokes the disorientating lapses of memory caused by substance abuse and the subsequent sense of desperation to retrieve what has been lost.
Accompanied by musical compositions by Mica Levi with additional music by CJ Calderwood as well as archival recordings from answerphone messages and interviews, Memory Lost embodies not just the pain but also the fleeting sliver of beauty to be found in a life lived through the spectre of addiction.
Nan Goldin: Memory Lost is showing at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art until 22nd October 2023.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight at Gl Strand
Through photography, drawing and most notably film, American artist Rachel Rose examines how landscapes are repeatedly transformed and violated, raising important questions about the effects of modernity on our social, physical and spiritual existence. Gl Strand presents Good Morning Midnight, Rose’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia.
The Last Day proves a particular pleasure here, comprised of 900 photographs that Rose took every day in her children’s bedroom. Arranging the toys in miniature scenes to chart the Earth’s development, we embark with her on a curious journey from primordial beginnings, to the emergence of humans, to the driving forces of industrialisation, to the end of time itself. A somewhat daunting notion affected with an unmistakable quirk by virtue of appropriated elements of play and childlike wonder.
As Rose hones in on these peculiar spaces between the figurative and the abstract, the real and the imagined, she proposes that it is in fact our very imagination of landscapes that gives shape and meaning to our tangible understanding of the world.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight is showing at Gl Strand until 22nd October 2024.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light at Cisternerne
Every year, the Frederiksberg Museum invites an artist to produce a site-specific work for Cisternerne, into which daylight never reaches and the humidity is perpetually close to 100%. This year, Kimsooja transforms the subterranean space into a mesmeric installation of light and colour.
As we descend the steps into Cisternerne, we are immediately invited to surrender our senses as we adjust to the pure darkness that engulfs us. In the distance, iridescent flashes catch our eye, beckoning us to come closer, to give ourselves over to this dance of light and shadow. Making our way into the heart of the installation, standing on platforms suspended above the water, we are surrounded by a series of double-axis diffraction grating films mounted upon transparent panels. Working to separate light into repetitive linear spectrums, they exist as an array of concentric waves radiating outwards. As these overlapping concentric waves encounter each other they emanate endlessly beguiling patterns, weaving in and out of the concrete colonnades and defiantly breaking the oppressive darkness once and for all.
Like moving through a hallucination, this exhibition serves as a meditative escape from the barrage of day-to-day life above ground.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light is showing at Cisternerne until 30th November.
Crowned the European Capital of Culture in 1996, Copenhagen has long been a go-to destination for a healthy dose of art and design. This autumn, we’ve gathered together four of the most exciting exhibitions for you to explore in the city. All that’s left to do is to book your flight…
Yet, It Moves! at Copenhagen Contemporary
Reflecting upon the micro and the macro, Yet, It Moves! presents a staggering selection of artworks that shed light on complex phenomena from black holes and star formations to our own human bodies.
The indubitable stand-out is Ryoji Ikeda’s video installation data-verse, composed of images and sounds rigorously sampled and transcribed from open-source data of scientific institutions such as NASA and CERN. Projected onto three formidable screens, each depicts a distinct world of movement, including anatomical scans, CCTV footage, air traffic control systems and microscopic atomic and molecular interactions. At one point, we bear witness to a 30-second barrage of planets and galaxies, guiding us on a hypnotic journey across time and space and offering us a primaeval glimpse into what lies beyond.
Other highlights include Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s contemplative Tongues of Verglas, a digitally simulated video leading us into the body of the Arolla glacier, as well as Jenna Sutela’s fascinating Pond Brain, a water-filled bronze bowl that reverberates sound so powerful that droplets rise straight from the surface of the water. Experienced as a whole, this exhibition is a sobering reminder of the interconnectedness of the world both within and all around us.
Yet, It Moves! is showing at Copenhagen Contemporary until 30th December 2023.
Nan Goldin: Memories Lost at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
A new acquisition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Memory Lost is a 24-minute long slideshow that photographer Nan Goldin created in 2019-21 chronicling the harrowing experience of drug addiction through images from her expansive archive.
Considered Goldin’s most personal work to date, images of herself and her friends at home are interspersed with solitary moments of transit and mournful scenes of bruised-purple skyscapes. Their often blurred, overexposed and unfocused nature evokes the disorientating lapses of memory caused by substance abuse and the subsequent sense of desperation to retrieve what has been lost.
Accompanied by musical compositions by Mica Levi with additional music by CJ Calderwood as well as archival recordings from answerphone messages and interviews, Memory Lost embodies not just the pain but also the fleeting sliver of beauty to be found in a life lived through the spectre of addiction.
Nan Goldin: Memory Lost is showing at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art until 22nd October 2023.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight at Gl Strand
Through photography, drawing and most notably film, American artist Rachel Rose examines how landscapes are repeatedly transformed and violated, raising important questions about the effects of modernity on our social, physical and spiritual existence. Gl Strand presents Good Morning Midnight, Rose’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia.
The Last Day proves a particular pleasure here, comprised of 900 photographs that Rose took every day in her children’s bedroom. Arranging the toys in miniature scenes to chart the Earth’s development, we embark with her on a curious journey from primordial beginnings, to the emergence of humans, to the driving forces of industrialisation, to the end of time itself. A somewhat daunting notion affected with an unmistakable quirk by virtue of appropriated elements of play and childlike wonder.
As Rose hones in on these peculiar spaces between the figurative and the abstract, the real and the imagined, she proposes that it is in fact our very imagination of landscapes that gives shape and meaning to our tangible understanding of the world.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight is showing at Gl Strand until 22nd October 2024.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light at Cisternerne
Every year, the Frederiksberg Museum invites an artist to produce a site-specific work for Cisternerne, into which daylight never reaches and the humidity is perpetually close to 100%. This year, Kimsooja transforms the subterranean space into a mesmeric installation of light and colour.
As we descend the steps into Cisternerne, we are immediately invited to surrender our senses as we adjust to the pure darkness that engulfs us. In the distance, iridescent flashes catch our eye, beckoning us to come closer, to give ourselves over to this dance of light and shadow. Making our way into the heart of the installation, standing on platforms suspended above the water, we are surrounded by a series of double-axis diffraction grating films mounted upon transparent panels. Working to separate light into repetitive linear spectrums, they exist as an array of concentric waves radiating outwards. As these overlapping concentric waves encounter each other they emanate endlessly beguiling patterns, weaving in and out of the concrete colonnades and defiantly breaking the oppressive darkness once and for all.
Like moving through a hallucination, this exhibition serves as a meditative escape from the barrage of day-to-day life above ground.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light is showing at Cisternerne until 30th November.
Crowned the European Capital of Culture in 1996, Copenhagen has long been a go-to destination for a healthy dose of art and design. This autumn, we’ve gathered together four of the most exciting exhibitions for you to explore in the city. All that’s left to do is to book your flight…
Yet, It Moves! at Copenhagen Contemporary
Reflecting upon the micro and the macro, Yet, It Moves! presents a staggering selection of artworks that shed light on complex phenomena from black holes and star formations to our own human bodies.
The indubitable stand-out is Ryoji Ikeda’s video installation data-verse, composed of images and sounds rigorously sampled and transcribed from open-source data of scientific institutions such as NASA and CERN. Projected onto three formidable screens, each depicts a distinct world of movement, including anatomical scans, CCTV footage, air traffic control systems and microscopic atomic and molecular interactions. At one point, we bear witness to a 30-second barrage of planets and galaxies, guiding us on a hypnotic journey across time and space and offering us a primaeval glimpse into what lies beyond.
Other highlights include Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s contemplative Tongues of Verglas, a digitally simulated video leading us into the body of the Arolla glacier, as well as Jenna Sutela’s fascinating Pond Brain, a water-filled bronze bowl that reverberates sound so powerful that droplets rise straight from the surface of the water. Experienced as a whole, this exhibition is a sobering reminder of the interconnectedness of the world both within and all around us.
Yet, It Moves! is showing at Copenhagen Contemporary until 30th December 2023.
Nan Goldin: Memories Lost at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
A new acquisition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Memory Lost is a 24-minute long slideshow that photographer Nan Goldin created in 2019-21 chronicling the harrowing experience of drug addiction through images from her expansive archive.
Considered Goldin’s most personal work to date, images of herself and her friends at home are interspersed with solitary moments of transit and mournful scenes of bruised-purple skyscapes. Their often blurred, overexposed and unfocused nature evokes the disorientating lapses of memory caused by substance abuse and the subsequent sense of desperation to retrieve what has been lost.
Accompanied by musical compositions by Mica Levi with additional music by CJ Calderwood as well as archival recordings from answerphone messages and interviews, Memory Lost embodies not just the pain but also the fleeting sliver of beauty to be found in a life lived through the spectre of addiction.
Nan Goldin: Memory Lost is showing at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art until 22nd October 2023.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight at Gl Strand
Through photography, drawing and most notably film, American artist Rachel Rose examines how landscapes are repeatedly transformed and violated, raising important questions about the effects of modernity on our social, physical and spiritual existence. Gl Strand presents Good Morning Midnight, Rose’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia.
The Last Day proves a particular pleasure here, comprised of 900 photographs that Rose took every day in her children’s bedroom. Arranging the toys in miniature scenes to chart the Earth’s development, we embark with her on a curious journey from primordial beginnings, to the emergence of humans, to the driving forces of industrialisation, to the end of time itself. A somewhat daunting notion affected with an unmistakable quirk by virtue of appropriated elements of play and childlike wonder.
As Rose hones in on these peculiar spaces between the figurative and the abstract, the real and the imagined, she proposes that it is in fact our very imagination of landscapes that gives shape and meaning to our tangible understanding of the world.
Rachel Rose: Good Morning Midnight is showing at Gl Strand until 22nd October 2024.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light at Cisternerne
Every year, the Frederiksberg Museum invites an artist to produce a site-specific work for Cisternerne, into which daylight never reaches and the humidity is perpetually close to 100%. This year, Kimsooja transforms the subterranean space into a mesmeric installation of light and colour.
As we descend the steps into Cisternerne, we are immediately invited to surrender our senses as we adjust to the pure darkness that engulfs us. In the distance, iridescent flashes catch our eye, beckoning us to come closer, to give ourselves over to this dance of light and shadow. Making our way into the heart of the installation, standing on platforms suspended above the water, we are surrounded by a series of double-axis diffraction grating films mounted upon transparent panels. Working to separate light into repetitive linear spectrums, they exist as an array of concentric waves radiating outwards. As these overlapping concentric waves encounter each other they emanate endlessly beguiling patterns, weaving in and out of the concrete colonnades and defiantly breaking the oppressive darkness once and for all.
Like moving through a hallucination, this exhibition serves as a meditative escape from the barrage of day-to-day life above ground.
Kimsooja: Weaving the Light is showing at Cisternerne until 30th November.
