The warm months have fully settled upon the land, and with every Danish summer comes the yearly tradition of Roskilde Festival, one of the world’s largest music festivals. Around 130,000 people attend the festival, which is run by a non-profit organization. For many years now they have also had a surprisingly ambitious art zone during the festival, with running themes and critical commentary on social and political issues. This year, for example…
Read MoreWell dOCUMENTA happened to pop up again in the news for this episode. Ando actually heard about this story too!
One of the most prestigious art exhibitions, dOCUMENTA (15) is on the brink bankruptcy. We try to unravel how that could have happened. Who is to blame? The curators, a local politician, and poor management. The future of dOCUMENTA is...
Read MoreWe are back again here on the other side of CHART Art Fair with our wrap up from the events this year. It’s a two part episode, with the first part featuring a short discussion with the panel of speakers from one of the Chart Art Talks, namely Peter Pakesch, the chairman of the Maria Lassning Foundation, Shwetal Patel, director of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Sofia Hernández Chong Cuy, curator at the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC), Hans-Ulrich Obrist, artistic director at Serpentine Galleries, and editor of ArtReview magazine Mark Rappolt. The second part of the show is guested by Helga Christoffersen, curator...
Read MoreIn honor of our new collaboration with the CHART Art Fair, we have special episode out today, featuring some of the founding galleries and the director of the fair. Through talking with them about the ideas behind the fair and some of the guiding principles, we’ve compiled an oral history of sorts as a warm up to the event, which opens here in Copenhagen on Friday the 1st of September. It’s the 5th anniversary of the fair, and it was tremendously...
Read MoreToday we have a big one folks, we visited Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm last month, and this is a compilation of our conversations with some of the many nice folks we met. It was a lot, there were lots of exhibitors, and as usual it’s really hard to figure out when is best to try to talk to people, and of course you try...
Read MoreGreetings friends, we’re here with a quick bonus episode before the Easter holiday. We were up in Stockholm recently to check out both the Market and Supermarket art fairs, and ended up meeting all sorts of cool people while we were there. For example, we met with two of our colleagues while we were there, Jenny Danielsson and Oscar Carlson, who have a...
Read MoreThe inaugural edition of the CODE Art Fair was this last week weekend, and we were there with a booth in order to meet the art going public and having some talks with folks working at the fair. It was certainly a mixed result in many ways, but not without it’s successes. Our guess is that many who were there could say the same thing. CODE is ambitious, and it was interesting to see all the new...
Read MoreAlright gang, welcome to episode 80. Today we are presenting some of the conversations we had during the 1000 Books Art Book Festival which was at Charlottenborg about a week and a half ago, even if we did promise that we would never cover a festival again. Never say never right? We spoke to a handful of folks, from the organizers to some of the exhibiting artists and on to the publishers. It was a fun and challenging event, and we...
Read MoreThis week we checked out the Alternative Art Fair Copenhagen (Alt_Cph), and we got the chance to wander around and interact with the nice folks there. It was a great fair and there was a really good feeling of community, exploration and...
Read MoreWe are joined today by the man behind Distortion Festival, Thomas Fleurquin. Like the festival or not, one can't deny that the event is now...
Read MoreWe are very proud to bring you guys our first exploration into new waters with these conversations recorded live at the 1000 Books Art Book Festival here...
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