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An installation of works by Gitte Svendsen with heavily-tufted material and fringes in strong colours that are combined with panels of plexiglass, wood, metal and print.
MINDMAP #66
DANSKE KUNSTHÅNDVÆRKERE & DESIGNERE
(Association of Danish Craftsmen & Designers)
Officinet, Bredgade 66, 1260 Copenhagen K
28 October 2023 - 11 November 2023
CHART Art Fair at the palace of Charlottenborg - the home of the Danish Royal Academy of Art - is a major event in the city when commercial art galleries from Nordic countries come together to show the work of the contemporary artists they represent.
It is a great social event but this year seems particularly important as pandemic restrictions in the city have just been lifted and Copenhagen returns to a semblance of normality.
There are always subsidiary shows at galleries around the city but also two main events run in parallel. CHART Architecture is a competition for architects, designers and studios to produce pavilions that are constructed in the two main courtyards of Charlottenborg and are used as venues where visitors can buy food and drink and, an inaugural event, CHART Book Fair, will be held in Festsalen - the hall over the entrance to Charlottenborg.
There is an extensive programme of performances and talks through the three days that the fair is open to the public.
In recent years a design fair, CHART Design, has been held at the gallery of Den Frie at Østerport. This was not part of the programme this year but hopefully it will return in the future.
CHART art fair opening
26 August: Preview -
by invitation only 11-18
27 August: 11-19
28 August: 11-18
29 August: 11-17
This evening CHART - the big annual art fair in the city - opened at Kunsthal Charlottenborg - the main venue for the fair in the centre of Copenhagen.
This was an opportunity to see CHART Architecture - five pavilions in the courtyards of the 17th-century palace that were designed by emerging architects from the Nordic region - the finalists selected by an international jury in an open competition earlier in the year. The winner will be announced on Saturday.
The theme set for the competition was materiality - to see how new materials or reused materials could inspire the designs - and the winning entries have been constructed with the designers working with the engineering consultants ARUP.
Through the weekend of the fair - on Friday 30 and Saturday 31 of August and on Sunday 1 September - the pavilions will be the food stalls and bars for the event.
CHART 2019 -
CHART Architecture
Kongens Nytorv 1,
1050 Copenhagen K
CELL PAVILION
Josephine Rita Vain Hansen & Marie Louise Thorning
Air-filled latex cells form the cocktail bar from Thorn Gin
SALARIA PAVILION
Christina Román Diaz & Frederik Bo Bojesen
Inspired by the mineral salt and made in timber with fish nets, salt crystals and clear polycarbonate frames with wine and oysters from Rouge Oysters
SULTAN
Anne Bea Høgh Mikkelsen, Katrine Kretzschmar Nielsen, Klara Lyshøj & Josefine Ostergaard Kallehave
A pavilion constructed from the frames, springs and fabric covers of Sultan beds from IKEA for beer from 1664 Blanc
ROCK PAPER CNC
Diana Smilijkovic, Jonas Bentzen, Gustav Kjær Vad Nielsen, Haris Hasanbegovic & Oskar Koliander
Recycled paper formed in CNC-cut moulds for Jah Izakaya Sake Bar
SNUG AS A BUG IN A RUG
Andreas Körner & Mathias Bank Stigsen
Timber with latex polymer fabric for Green Burgers from Gasoline Grill
the jury for CHART Architecture competition 2019:
David Zahle, architect and partner at BIG
Lea Porsager, artist
Nikoline Dyrup Carlsen, architect and co-founder of Spacon & X
Pippo Ciorra, Senior Curator of Architecture at MAXXI Museum
Rosa Bertoli, Design Editor at Wallpaper* magazine
the jury awarded first prize for CHART Architecture competition 2019 to
SULTAN by Anne Bea Høgh Mikkelsen, Katrine Kretzschmar Nielsen, Klara Lyshøj & Josefine Ostergaard Kallehave
Walking through the courtyards of Charlottenborg at the end of the week, there was intense activity with work moving forward fast on the construction of the temporary pavilions that are now a main and very popular feature of CHART ART FAIR - the annual commercial art fair in Copenhagen - that will open at Kunsthal Charlottenborg on Friday 30 August and continue through to Sunday 1 September.
The five pavilions are winning designs from a completion at the beginning of the year that was open to postgraduate students or newly graduated architects, designers and artists working in the Nordic region.
As in 2019, commercial galleries for furniture and design and designers and design studios will show separately in CHART DESIGN FAIR at Den Frie - the gallery space close to the railway station at Østerport.
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