Art Hub Copenhagen
A part of the Bikuben Foundation’s mission is to strengthen the foundation for visual arts in Denmark and to promote its current and future activities. Art Hub Copenhagen seeks to accomplish this by creating an innovative framework that allows contemporary art to unfold.
Art Hub Copenhagen was established as an independent association in 2018 with the aim of supporting and promoting young visual artists, generating more informed dialogue about what artists do and giving artists a clearer public voice.
Art Hub Copenhagen focuses on artistic research, production, development and outreach, and it sees its role as offering younger artists the facilities and counselling they need to develop as artists, network, conduct research and create new works. In addition, Art Hub Copenhagen works to bring professionals with a range of expertise and from a variety of locations together.
You can visit the website of Art Hub Copenhagen here
Art Hub Copenhagen is currently housed in Copenhagen at 27 Halmtorvet, but it will move to 29 Thoravej, in the city’s Nordvest district, where the Bikuben Foundation is carrying a major renovation of a building that will serve as a community for groups active in our focus areas.
On February 1st 2022 Art Hub Copenhagen held the window exhibition 27DAYS (27DAGE), where three artist led exhibition venues got a temporary exhibition space in the windows of Halmtorvet 27. To the right: KMS/ACC/FRA/TXL/CPH by Mickael Marman, curated by Bizarro. To the left: Jag snubblar på en jättestor tår by Melanie Kitti, curated by SOL. Photo: Rine Rodin.
As part of the Art Hub residency the residents are encouraged to throw an elaboration event presenting their practice. In the photo: Artist and resident Mia Edelgart in a performative talk about stupidity. Photo: Christian Brems.
Adam Khalil was as part of the Art Hub Residency in 2021. In this regard he helped develop Art Hub Film Club. Adam Khalil curated the first season of the film club held in spring 2022. The film club continues with different affiliated artists and curators.
In cooperation with artist, Ed Atkins and writer, Steven Zultansky Art Hub Copenhagen runs the format Partly, which combines performance, visual art, sound and word. In the photo: Jenny Gräf on stage at Partly in March 2022. Photo: Emil Basse.
Art Hub Copenhagen organizes the event Free Lunch twice a month. Here Art Hub Copenhagen, with an artist, invites for lunch and a conversation about the artist’s practice. In the photo: Kasper Hesseldahl, who at his lunch served his version of a Chinese soup, that could be connected to his practice. Photo Christian Brems.
Testing Ground is a laboratory where artists get the opportunity to share their explorations and experiments within artistic research. In the photo: The project Precarious Film Practice (Prekær Filmpraktik) held by artists Eva la Cour, Mia Edelgart and Joen Vedel. Photo: Christian Brems.
Testing Ground is a laboratory where artists get the opportunity to share their research and experiments within artistic research. In the photo: The project New Connections Queering the Radio Voice held by kunstner Kristoffer Raasted. Photo: Christian Brems.
In fall 2021 Art Hub Copenhagen held an exhibition in five floors in the building at Thoravej 29 before it was renovated. Five curators were chosen and had free hands to curate one floor each. The photo is from the exhibition opening, where Jacob Fabricius, director at Art Hub Copenhagen, held a speech on the ground floor curated by the curator collective FCNN. Photo: Christian Brems.
Young Boy Dancing Group in a live performance as a part of the exhibition at Thoravej 29. Photo: Frida Gregersen.
The Bikuben Foundation conducted a major study in the autumn of 2016 in order to uncover the challenges facing the visual arts in Denmark and their potential. The study identified initiatives to promote art production, networking, knowledge-sharing, outreach and organisation. These themes were unfolded in the 2017 report “Kunstens Rammer — nyskabelse af muligheder for kunstnerisk udvikling i Danmark” (A Framework for the Arts: Creating New Opportunities for Artistic Development in Denmark). Among the report’s findings were that there is a need for a meeting place that can serve as a crucible for collaboration among disciplines and that international relations need strengthening. Read the report (in Danish only) here
In order to concretise various scenarios for the content, structure and organisation of a meeting place, we initiated, as a follow-up to the report, a series of workshops and dialogues with artists, art institutions, foundations and other stakeholders that are either directly or indirectly involved with the arts in Denmark. Their feedback became the scenario for Art Hub Copenhagen’s vision of creating a leading international meeting point in Copenhagen, and it is this scenario that is today a reality.
EXTERNAL ACTIVITIES
Foreningen Thoravej 29 (member of the board)
Art Music Denmark (member of the board)
Fonden af 28. februar 1970 (member of the board)
Holbæk Kunsthøjskole (member of the school council)
Teatercentrum (member of the board)
Philea (member of the steering committee)
Art Hub Copenhagen (member of the board)
Latest news (in Danish only)
More information about how you can get in touch with Art Hub Copenhagen is available here, where you can also learn more about its activities.