Copenhagen

Initiatives

Venues

• Art as Forum, research center
• Art Hub Copenhagen
• Bladr, bookstore and exhibition place, *2017
• Bøssehuset, queer theatre and cultural centre, *1973
• BRØG Litteraturbar
• Captive Portal, *c.2014
• Charlottenborg Art Books
• Cinemateket
• Collega, exhibition space, *2022
• Dance Cooperative, artist-run platform & studio
• Danseatelier, *2015
• Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, *1891
• Det Rene Glas, bar
• Heirloom – Center for Art and Archives.
• Hotel Pro Forma, production house and meeting place for cross-disciplinary artistic work, *1985
• Kirkegaard Antikvariat, independent bookstore, *2004
• Kunsthal Charlottenborg
• Ladder, artist-run space, *2022
• Det Lilla Rum, qfeminist literary platform and bookstore
• Mayhem
• Møllegades Boghandel, bookstore
• O—Overgaden, institute of contemporary art, *1986
• stanza, project space & studio for critical graphic design & publishing, *2022
• Thiemers Magasin & Greens Boghandel
• Toaster, experimental platform for the intersection between theatre, performance and visual art, *2021
• VEGA, concert hall
• X And Beyond, exhibition space dedicated to contemporary disaster culture, *2015
• YNKB (Ydre Nørrebro Kultur Bureau), *2002

• Past venues: DIAS (art space, *2015), Another Space (project space, 2012-2014), ScienceFriction (gallery, *2011), TOVES (artist-run exhibition space, 2010-2017).

Other initiatives

• Det Algoritmiske Teater, *2020
• a/nordi/c, 2021-2023
• Artnode, *1995
• Art Matter, formerly kunsten.nu
• Bananskolen, [1]
• Basilisk, publishing house, *1983
• bastard, platform for performance art
• Beforeforgetting, film collective
• BRØG, bookshop, *2019
• eget værelse, artist collective, *2010
• Institute of Interconnected Realities (I—IR)
• KOMMA, performance productions
• Laboratoriet for Æstetik og Økologi
• Liveart_dk, *2004
• Marronage, decolonial feminist collective, *2016
• Pist Protta, art magazine, *1981
• Publik
• Space Poetry, publisher, *1980
• Superflex, *1993
• Supertanker, *2002
• Terrassen, roving cinema, *2019
• The Other Eye of The Tiger (TOETT), artist collective
• tv-tv, *2005
• Viscose, journal for fashion criticism, *2021

• Past initiatives: UFOlab (2004-2010), Vandkunsten (publisher), Afsnit P (virtual exhibition space for literature and art, 1999-2009), Bøssekaravanen (action theatre, 1976), Kvindekaravanen (action theatre, 1975), Solvognen (theatre and action group, 1973-1982), Røde Mor (artist- and rock group, *1969), Forsøgsscenen (1929-1932).

Events

• Art Matter Festival
• Dorkbot Copenhagen, *2007
• Forum Lectures, *2020
• LAK Festival, *2012
• Reboot, *1998
• re-new, *2008
• The Social Life of Film, international congress for nomadic screening collectives, 2023

• Event listings: ursuppe, Art Matter Guide (formerly kunsten.nu), Duk Op (activist event calendar).

Past events

• Imagine Earth, conference, 2023
• Naive Yearly, conference, 2023
• Fluxus East, exhibition, 2009
• ICMC, 2007
• POEX 65, 1965

Art workers

• Anders Aarvik
• Annette Finnsdottir
• David Hilmer Rex
• Eva la Cour
• Frans Jacobi
• Geoff Cox
• Hanna Bergman
• Hannah Heilmann
• Jesper Fabricius (1957)
• Jeuno JE Kim
• Joasia Krysa
• Johanne Løgstrup
• Johannes Lund
• Kirsten Dufour
• Kristoffer Ørum
• Line-Gry Hørup
• Lotte Løvholm
• Mads Kjeldgaard
• Rune Søchting
• Stine Hebert
• SØS Gunver Ryberg (1979)
• Thomas Madsen-Mygdal (1977)
• Tinne Zenner
• Zeenath Hasan
• Åse Eg Jørgensen (1958)

Publications

• Fucking Good Art: "Copenhagen", Mar 2007. Special issue.

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