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Autumn at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Opening on September 27th, Kunsthal Charlottenborg is pleased to present two new exhibitions: a solo exhibition with the New Zealand-born sculptor Francis Upritchard, and an extensive group exhibition on art and artificial intelligence featuring historical and new works by a wide range of international artists.
Poetics of Encryption
Art and Artificial Intelligence
28 Sep 2024 – 12 Jan 2025
Though we rely on digital tools for many things, we rarely understand how they work and affect us both on a personal and on a societal level. What symptoms of this register in the cultural field? What moods, symbols, or narrative frames capture the aesthetics and politics of exclusion, occlusion, secrecy, and speculation concerning the inside of technology? Poetics of Encryption surveys an imaginative landscape where technical systems capture users, work in stealth, and distort cultural space-time.
Participating artists: Emmanuel Van der Auwera, Gillian Brett, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Julian Charrière, Joshua Citarella, Clusterduck, Simon Denny, enorê, Tilman Hornig, Daniel Keller, Andrea Khôra, Eva & Franco Mattes, Trevor Paglen, Matthias Planitzer, Jon Rafman, Rachel Rossin, Troika, among others.
Poetics of Encryption is curated by Nadim Samman, the author of the recent book titled Poetics of Encryption. Art and the Technocene. The exhibition is initiated by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, with support by Volkswagen Group.
The exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg is supported by the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen’s Foundation, the Augustinus Foundation, the Beckett Foundation, the Danish Art Foundation, the New Carlsberg Foundation, the Obel Family Foundation, the William Demant Foundation.
Francis Upritchard
The Waste
28 Sep 2024 – 16 Feb 2025
Francis Upritchard (b. 1976, based in London) works in a field where visual art, design and craft intersect; her art can take on many different formats, ranging from large-scale figurative sculptures to decorated ceramics, delicate watercolours, soft masks and blown glass vases. Among the exhibited works are sculptures embodying mythical and fantastic figures such as the centaur, the dinosaur and the mermaid, made in bronze as well as natural rubber.
At Kunsthal Charlottenborg, a group of eccentric figures and a large collection of the artist’s miniature works will accompany these beings. As an ensemble they create an unfolding kaleidoscopic narrative, which offers the opportunity to contemplate different facets of the human condition.
The Waste is curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer.
The exhibition is supported by the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen’s Foundation, the Augustinus Foundation, the Danish Art Foundation, the Knud Højgaard’s Foundation, the Obel Family Foundation, the William Demant Foundation.
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Kunsthal Charlottenborg is one of the largest and most beautiful exhibition spaces for contemporary art in Northern Europe. The exhibition space presents an ambitious program with international outlook featuring talents as well as established stars from both Denmark and abroad. The exhibition program is supplemented with a large number of activities like artist talks, performances, concerts and film screenings.
