ART WEEKS: Copenhagen Art Week 2016
Copenhagen Art Week was established by web magazine Kunsten.nu in 2013 to assemble and showcase the entire Danish art scene. The objective is to affirm Copenhagen as a metropolis for contemporary art accommodating both mainstream and narrow artistic activities and to open up the whole scene to a wide audience. Its aim is to provide the audience, curators, art professionals and artists with an insight into current art activities as well as to develop new strategies of cooperation among the diverse institutions held by the art scene.
By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Copenhagen Art Week Archive
Copenhagen Art Week (Cph Art Week) gathers Museums, Fairs, art centers, galleries, smaller project spaces and artist-run exhibition spaces. Its aim is to provide the audience, curators, art professionals and artists with an insight into current art activities as well as to develop new strategies of cooperation among the diverse institutions held by the art scene. Every year Cph Art Week picks a theme that reflects current trends in the art scene and society at large. This year’s theme Open Gestures investigates the unique ability of art to engage, debate and emphasise itself as an open, welcoming and incomplete act that only has meaning once when it first meets its audience. The theme is also explored in the various infrastructural initiatives that the Art Week is reviving after last year’s resounding success. Art meets transport when performances, projections, and assorted craziness and gestures are performed in the metro and on board an art cruise on the city’s canals. Special City Artist: The French art duo Nøne Futbal Club is invited to create a ‘place-specific’ scene with strange and unusual interventions in public spaces and participating venues, Isabel Lewis creation for SMK Friday at the National Gallery of Denmark, features a performative celebration where all sense are put in play, and initiated and controlled by the artist herself using dance, music, smell, furniture and plants to create a unique atmosphere. The art collective B-tours, known for their experimental art tours, created a special trip in the Sundholm area of Amager along with the alternative art fair Alt_Cph.
Info: Cph Art Week 2016, Copenhagen, Duration: 2/8-4/9/16, http://copenhagenartweek.dk
