3daysofdesign

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3daysofdesign is now the biggest and the most important design event of the year in Copenhagen.

This year it runs from Thursday 16 September through to Saturday 18 September with events throughout the city.

Design stores and design studios open their doors to visitors and there will be product launches, openings, talks and receptions.

There are so many events that, as usual, I advise people to look carefully at maps of the city and go through the programme of events and exhibitions to work out what to prioritise and to decide how best to zig zag backwards and forwards across the city to see as much as possible.

Above all, 3daysofdesign is when the design community here celebrate and it’s a good opportunity to find out what is happening and where and what is new and what is on it’s way.

Museums and galleries and embassies in the city also take part. There is always a large banner on the front of the French Embassy on Kongens Nytorv. Graphics for this banner and for the posters and so on for events has been designed this year by Ilse Crawford.

3daysofdesign
EXHIBITIONS
EVENTS

Birke Gorm ... 'full stop' at Politikens Hus

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Birke Gorm was born in Hamburg but grew up in Denmark. She studied in Hamburg and at the Academy in Vienna and works now in Vienna.

Materials used for this work includes cast aluminium stools, large jute sacks, webbing with clips or carabiners and aluminium ring pulls.

‘full stop’
Politikens Forhallen
Rådhuspladsen 37
26 August - 30 October 2021

 

CHART Architecture

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CHART Architecture is an annual competition to design pavilions that are erected in the two courtyards of Charlottenborg and they have a major role as they are the venues for drink and food served through the four days of the CHART Art Fair.

To give focus to the initial design process, there is a theme for each year and this year it was to explore the concept of Social Architecture where spaces and objects “sets a tone and a stage for social or private engagements.”

Forty-six proposals were submitted by graduate students or newly-graduated architects, designers and artists from 28 different countries.

In the Spring five finalists were selected by an international jury that included:

Bjarke Ingels, architect and founder of BIG
the architect Shohei Shigematsu, from OMA
David Zahle, architect and partner from BIG
Sabine Marcelis, award winning designer from Holland
Simon Lamunière, director of OPEN HOUSE
Danish artist Nina Beier

CHART 2021
CHART Architecture 2021

courtyard stage by the Swedish designer Fredrik Paulsen

Situated Exteriors
by Kathrine Birkbak, Anja Fange, and Joe Mckenzie

 The architecture of Charlottenborg is echoed in wire panels.

OM
by guilt.studio
Diana Claudia Mot, Marius Mihai Ardelean, Claudia Lavinia Cimpan, and Mihkel Pajuste

 A pavilion constructed with aluminium ventilation ducts.

 

Leverage
by Rumgehør
Rasmus R.B. Maabjerg, Nikolaj Noe, and Victor Tambo

Made from dunnage bags - light inflatable bags used generally to secure and protect freight.

Winner of CHART Architecture 2021

CURTAIN CALL
by Rosita Kær, Nina Højholdt, Thomas Christensen, Sam Collins, and Lauda Vargas

The textiles are reused to create “curtain walls” that define and divide the spaces.

 

 

FIELD
by Torsten Sherwood and Benedicte Brun

 The green canopy over a long communal table is fresh bean shoots.

 

Solutions at Royal Danish Academy

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Architecture Design Conservation: graduate projects 2021

Shown here are 220 projects from the students in the schools of architecture, design and conservation who have graduated from the Royal Danish Academy in 2021.

This is an opportunity to see the work of the Academy schools, with their focus on the UN Sustainability goals, and these projects show clearly the ways in which teaching has taken onboard the challenge of climate change and the need to reassess our approach to materials for new developments and our approach to the increasing need to conserve or adapt existing buildings.

Here are the young architects and designers of the next generation whose designs for buildings and for furniture, industrial products, fashion and graphics will have to provide solutions to the new challenges.

As last year, the graduate projects can also be seen on line.

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after an initial opening in late June, the exhibition closed through July but then reopened on 2 August and can be seen daily from 10.00 to 17.00 through to 20 August 2021

Royal Danish Academy Architecture Design Conservation
Philip de Langes Allé 10
1435 Copenhagen K

Graduation 2021: SOLUTIONS
the exhibition on line

 
 
 
 
 
 
Solutions Grid.jpeg
 

Welcome home Åke

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This weekend is the last opportunity to see the exhibition on the works of the Swedish designer Åke Axelsson at Bygning A - the gallery of Anders Petersen on the east side of Kløvermarken at Klovermarksvej 70.

When seen together, the furniture shown here is both the evidence of a long and exceptionally productive career but is also, and above all, an insight into a designers imagination as he explores a huge range of forms and styles to understand and exploit different materials and to develop the technical details of construction.

Friday 30 July 2021, 12-18
Saturday 31 July 2021, 10-16
Sunday 1 August 2021, 10-16

Welcome home Åke
Bygning A

Too Good To Go - posters against food waste

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A third of food produced in the World is wasted and, to compound the problem, that waste is responsible for 8% of greenhouse gas emissions.

These posters were launched on World Environment Day to make people more aware of the problem and are from a group of European illustrators and designers .

They have been printed in limited editions and can be purchased on line. The price covers printing, handling, packaging and delivery with the remainder going to the UN World Food Programme.

the exhibition continues on Bryghuspladsen until 27 June 2021


www.posters.toogoodtogo.com

the Mindcraft Project 2021

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With restrictions imposed by the pandemic, the Mindcraft Project for 2021 is presented on line.

There are ten pioneering works:

300kg Beauty Bath, by Frederik Nystrup-Larsen & Oliver Sundqvist
Suspense, by Kasper Kjeldgaard
In-tangibles, by Stine Mikkelsen
Bench 01 and Bedside Tables, by Bahraini-Danish
Ctenophora Vase, Echinoidea Bowl, Morning Dip Side Table, by 91-92
Textile Veneer, by Else-Rikke Bruun
Ebano, by Rasmus Fenmann
Architectural Glass Fantasies, by Stine Bidstrup
Chair 02, by Archival Studies
Ombre Light, by Mette Schelde

On the site there is an introduction to Mindcraft and the ‘exhibition’ and then information about each of the works with dimensions and the materials used but the key feature is a short video for each work where the designers and artists talk about the concept and the design process and about the techniques used to produce the finished work.

One characteristic that unites these amazing works is their restraint.


From 2008 through to 2013, the annual Mindcraft exhibitions were organised by Danish Crafts and from 2014 to 2018 by Danish Arts Foundation.
The first Mindcraft Project from Copenhagen Design Agency was in 2020.

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Berørt / Touched at Statens Museum for Kunst

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With restrictions imposed by the lockdown because of the pandemic, Statens Museum for Kunst - the National Gallery in Copenhagen - is still closed but a new exhibition has opened in the gardens at the entrance.

Under the title Berørt or Touched, this is an installation of three large but very different sculptures … works made by artists as their response to the pandemic and inspired by comments and images uploaded for the PARAT project.

Between May and November 2020, Danes were asked to upload photographs and thoughts on the pandemic and, for every one, the COOP donated 5 DKK to Røde Kors, the Danish Red Cross, for them to support vulnerable people through PARAT / READY …. a service from the Red Cross and their volunteers to provide help to collect medicines for vulnerable people confined to their homes; accompany people on walks or on public transport, when they feel unable to do that alone, and to help vulnerable people deal with coronavirus tests and vaccines.

 
 

Benediikte Bjerre (born 1987)
Eee-O- Eleven 2021
Aluminium

The frame forms an outline that appears to be a gigantic laptop computer.

“Benedikte Bjerre's sculpture borrows its form from a familiar consumer product, overscaled here to also delimit a physical space, hinting at the invisible spaces and distancing mechanisms that have emerged during the pandemic.”

 

Sonja Lillebæk Christensen (born 1972)
Skylden / The Blame 2021
LED video collage - loop 12 minutes 30 seconds

A strong recurring theme is hands and the work, with images moving across four screens, looks at many of the new situations in which we now find ourselves.

It explores the paradox that we feel divided and isolated in our own day-to-day lives but we are united, as never before, by a problem that is universal.

 
 

Kaspar Bonnén (born 1968)
JEG TROEDE VI SKULLE BYGGE NOGET OP SAMMEN MEN JEG BLEV VED MED AT GRAVE
I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO BUILD SOMETHING TOGETHER BUT I KEPT DIGGING
Mursten / clay bricks

Bonnén is a writer and a visual artist and his work uses salvaged bricks laid out across a bank of grass.

“When we look back at the time of the coronavirus pandemic years from now, what will we have left behind - or abandoned - and what have we created together?”

 
 

the exhibition continues at Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen until 2 May 2021
it will then transfer to other galleries in Denmark and can be seen at:

Kunsthal Aarhus from the 9 May to 20 June 2021
SMK Thy from the 26 June to 15 August 2021
Kunstmuseum Brandts from the 21 August to 24 October 2021

Berørt at Statens Museum for Kunst
berørt.dk
PARAT / READY

Copenhagen moves outdoors ….

As I was taking photographs of the exhibition in the gardens at the front of Statens Museum for Kunst, there was an exercise class for children who had taken over the large circular pond at the front of the gallery - the water is drained through the Winter to protect it from frost - and there were three girls in a line skipping on the steps up to the closed entrance.

Pandemic and the lockdown has changed how people in the city use public space and, if a new appreciation of our squares, streets and parks continues after restrictions lift, then that will be one positive gain to come out of all this.

 
 
 

news from the Anders Petersen gallery

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Today a newsletter from A Petersen Collection & Craft - the gallery in Copenhagen of Anders Petersen - dropped into my mail box.

With the lockdown of the pandemic, the whole gallery has been closed but the display and retail area on the ground floor has just been allowed to reopen.

It will be several weeks before the gallery and exhibition area on the first floor can reopen - all museums and public galleries in the city are closed - but the really good news is that Anders Petersen has managed to extend the period for the exhibition that shows the work of the Swedish designer Åke Axelsson.

This is an amazing exhibition. The designer has just celebrated his 89th birthday and is still working. Although it is fairly common for galleries to mount 'retrospectives' for living painters or sculptors and even for major potters - for people to see and appreciate the full range of work of the artist through their working life - it is still relatively rare for the works of a furniture designer to be gathered together in this way.

It is a rare privilege to be able to see how the ideas of an amazing imagination develops or evolves to bring designs to realisation and how certain themes reappear as alternative solutions to a problem are explored or as new materials are employed that dictate different forms or require different techniques.

 

once the government allows galleries to reopen,
Welcome Home Åke!  will continue at A Petersen / Bygning A until Sunday 1 August 2021

Koloristerne 2021 at Den Frie

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With restrictions because of the pandemic, all galleries and museums in the city are closed and the major show of works by Koloristerne - The Colourists - at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Arts has been cancelled but if the public cannot go into the gallery then the artists can bring some of their works to the exterior of the building.

Carsten von Würden, chairman of the Colorists, says about the project:

“Several studies have recently indicated that what we especially miss here in the closure is art and culture. The physical encounter with art cannot be replaced by a screen. Eventually we are also so tired of the screen all together, so with this manifestation we artists would like to give people the opportunity to have a physical encounter with art! We are therefore super happy to be able to give everyone who comes past Oslo Plads an art experience in a good safe environment outdoors, with a group of Denmark's most talented painters! ”

continues until 21st February 2021 at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Arts,
Oslo Plads, Copenhagen

KOLERISTERNE
DEN FRIE

 

Members of Koloristerne:
Søren Ankarfeldt, Eli Benveniste, Martin Berge, Asger Harbou Gjerdevik,  Jørgen Teik Hansen, Nanna Hertoft, Ingvald Holmefjord, Ida Kvetny, Anker Mortensen, Lisbeth Nielsen, Niels Reumert, Hartmut Stockter, Kurt Tegtmeier, Helle Thorborg, Inge Lise Westman, Maria Wæhrens og Carsten von Würden.

Invited guests:
Christina Hamre, Signe Jais, Jacob Oksbjerg, Esben Klemann, Michael Norre, Lærke Lauta, Jean Marc Routhier,
Sophus Ejler Jepsen, David Noro, Anne Torpe, Jon Pilkington, Søren Sejr, Anne Sofie Meldgaard og Regitze Engelsborg Karlsen.

 

Skud på stammen at the Design Werck gallery

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Bord dæk dig - en eventyrlig historie / Table deck yourself - an adventure from fairy tales

An exhibition of furniture with tables and chairs by young cabinetmakers from Snedkernes Uddannelser and with lighting by students from the glass school of EUC Nordvestsjælland in Holbæk.

All the designs were inspired by traditional fairy tales.

The title of the exhibition - Bord dæk dig or Table Set Yourself - is from a story by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm about three brothers who are sent off to make their fortunes as apprentices and about the gifts they are given by their masters when they finish their training …. so more than appropriate for the theme for an exhibition by young furniture makers.

In the tale, one of the young apprentices is given a table by his master that, on command, sets or lays itself with a magic feast. The table was carried on the back of the apprentice so the table here is on a version of trestles and the top is made from many layers of veneer that must symbolise potential new layers as the table 'sets itself'.

The inspiration for the other tables were four tales from Hans Christian Andersen …...

Thumbelina was a girl who was so small that she was carried off by a toad and captured by a beetle but escaped on the back of a swallow and that tale inspired a table shaped like a beetle that is supported on insect-like legs and with chairs like giant insect or butterfly wings.

The Top and the Ball, also by Hans Christian Andersen, is a tale of love and loss and rejection and the complicated inlay of the top reflects the pattern of a satin ball that became lost and faded.

The Little Match Girl was caught out in a snow storm, and struck three of her matches for light and warmth and this has inspired the brilliant legs of the small tables with tops like match boxes with three of the four legs like used and burnt matches and the fourth match unused.

Klods-Hans …. Hans the Blockhead - seems to me to be a rather more obscure story that is less easy to interpret. it is the tale of three brothers, two of whom are sent off on horseback by their father to win the hand of the princess with fine wit and fine words and the blockhead son follows behind on a goat and collects on the way a dead bird and rank rubbish as gifts for the princess. The chairs are inspired by the goat but the table with its staggered ends and sliding extension leaves? …. is this the crenellations of the royal castle?

This is an exhibition about the imagination of the designers whose inventions are realised by cabinetmakers with the technical skills required to produce furniture of this quality.

 

Photographs for the catalogue were taken at the fairy-tale castle of Jægerspris Slot on Sjælland.

 


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I think that Skud på stammen can be translated as shoot or bud on the stem or tree trunk. It’s like the English phrase about mighty oaks that from little acorns grow but implies new growth or the new branch on the tree rather than a completely new tree so the relationship between the apprentice and the master.

Design Werck as a venue for the exhibition was planned for the Spring but it had to be postponed because of the lockdown.

Actually, it is a great show for this time of year, in the build up to Christmas, in part because of the fairy tale theme but also because the Christmas season is when, for Danes, the dining table and food becomes such an important part of celebrations with friends and family.

more photographs of the furniture and lights 

the exhibition opened on 6 November 2020
at Design Werck, Krudløbsvej 12, 1439 København
Design Werck
NEXT Uddannelse

note: Design Werck does not open on Mondays or Tuesdays

 

Claydies at Ann Linnemann Galleri

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Claydiesselfies - an exhibition of the work of Karen Kjælgård-Larsen and Tina Broksø at Officinet - the gallery of Danske Kunsthåndværkere & Designere - was unfortunately disrupted by the closure of galleries during the lockdown of the city with the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

This exhibition, at the gallery of Ann Linnemann in Kronprinsessegade, is a welcome chance to see some of the works shown in that larger exhibition in the Spring.

Again it is possible to take selfies 'wearing' some of the full-sized ceramics of vests and T-shirts. If that is difficult to imagine then just think about those old seaside and fairground attractions with large painted cartoons of large ladies and skinny men in Edwardian swimming costumes without faces but with large holes where people stick through their faces from the back to be photographed.

The t-shirts with a Claydies logo on the chest or a string vest or a pleated skirt are obviously an ironic parody that comments on our obsession with both fashion and with taking pictures of ourselves or having our faces in every shot to prove we were there and show what a fantastic time we were having. But these huge pots are also a phenomenal affirmation of the ceramic skills of the two potters.

As I said in my review of the initial exhibition, the best cartoonists are usually highly-skilled artists who understand completely the techniques and skills in drawing that form the basis for their work. You have to master an art before you can subvert it. Here, at the Claydiesselfies exhibition, the works show an amazing and quirky sense of humour but also look at the use of colour, the use of different glazes, with references to various ceramic styles, but they are also very large pots that must have been difficult to fire. Virtuoso pieces.

This exhibition has smaller works that were not in the Officinet exhibition including the infamous and really rather macabre ceramic eye balls and surreal and unsettling clay noses and lips and ears on lumpy stalks that are set to face a mirror so that when you look into the mirror the lips and ears replace or overlay your own. I guess you have to be there and have done that to appreciate the joke ….. a bit like selfies really.

review of Claydiesselfies at Officinet

the exhibition is at
Ann Linneman Galleri, Kronprinsessegade 51, København
from 8 October 2020 until 14 November 2020

Claydies

 

SOLUTIONS

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Over the Spring and through the Summer and Autumn, many major events have been postponed or cancelled because of the pandemic.

That includes the graduation show for design and architecture students at the Royal Academy that has been moved on line.

Shown here are 250 projects from the students who graduated this year.

Det Kongelige Akademi / The Royal Danish Academy
the 2020 Graduate exhibition
Solutions

Graduation2020 - the work of students from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Bornholm

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An exhibition of their degree projects by students who graduated this year from the programme of Crafts: Glass and Ceramics at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Design School Bornholm.

Here you can see the works in glass and ceramics as young artists and makers explore materials and techniques and as they develop a distinct approach to their craft.

The range of styles is incredible but clear themes through all the pieces are the exploration of colour and the use of distinct and strong texture as they relate to both the material and to the forms explored.

An important aspect of the exhibition is how the graduates chose to display and to light their work.

the exhibition ends on 4 October 2020
A.Petersen Collection & Craft

The exhibition catalogue designed by Rasmus Kvist has a short introduction and then, for each student, a short description of their work with photographs by Kirstine Autzen.

 

3daysofdesign - UKURANT OBJECTS

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UKURANT was founded in October 2019 by Josefine Krabbe Munck, Kamma Rosa Schytte, Kasper Kyster and Lærke Ryom and they describe themselves as a community and a platform to provide support for young designers across disciplines.

They are questioning the mass production of design where large and well-established companies aim primarily for low manufacturing costs or rely on a back catalogue where an old designs can be given a new life.

The exhibition has “Experimental furniture and design objects by 24 young designers showing how a new generation challenge traditions, experiment with materials and technologies, question cautious aesthetics and challenge commercial design.”

Some of the aims of the group are set out in the catalogue for the exhibition so "UKURANT acknowledges design objects as functional and sculptural. We find that the industry undermines this statement. UKURANT insists on combining an artistic practice with commercial products and challenge the biased notion of commercial design." 

Many of the designs challenge conventional forms and all experiment with materials either by using standard and well-established materials in less conventional ways or by using new materials for different outcomes for standard design products such as chairs. Several designers here are doing what all good designers should do and that is working with a specific material to understand what can or can't be done and to experiment with new techniques or new tools to push that material to new possibilities.

What is common to most of the works is a move towards strong textures and the use of bold and solid shapes that are a clear rejection of minimalism in recent Danish design where the aim so often seems to be to pare down or reduce structure so that designs, for furniture and household objects, can become thin or flat so appear to lack bold confident form or distinct character. Many of the works in the exhibition have a sense of drama and a scale that occupies space in a way that is closer to the theatre and closer to the baroque style of the 17th century than to the rationalism of Danish design from the 1820s or the functionalism of modern Danish design since the 1950s.

The exhibition was designed by Emil Qvist for the basement space of Nyt I bo in Store Kongensgade in Copenhagen and was one of the major events of 3daysofdesign that was moved on to early September from the Spring because of the pandemic. Normally, through 3daysofdesign, this design store makes space available throughout the ground-floor shop area for smaller design companies to show their products but this was a major exhibition and establishes Nyt I bo as a significant gallery venue.

photographs and basic information about the designs

3daysofdesign
UKURANT
Nyt i bo

When Waters Retract - Lars Ryom
Smoke Cloud Chandelier - Christian and Jade
Artificial Formations - David Ronco
Illusory Functions - Margarida Lopes Pereira
No. 13 - Therese Hald Boesen

 

Foame - Bonnie Hvillum

Where do we go?

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Around the city, during the three days of 3daysofdesign, there are interesting exhibitions in interesting venues.

“Where do we go?” is a small exhibition in what had been the space of the Menu showrooms in Nordhavn.

Lucie Kaas with the curator Jens-Peter Brask focused attention on the global refugee crisis with 15 works - kokeshi sculptures painted by contemporary artists and designers that took as their starting point the question "When we leave our homes, where do we go?"

The works were to be auctioned through Bruun Rasmussen with the proceeds donated to the Danish Refugee Council.

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Lucie Kaas - Where do we go?

 

Naturens Resonans … works by Søren Rønholt and Gurli Elbækgaard

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An exhibition of works in the landscape by the photographer Søren Rønholt and unique ceramic works by Gurli Elbækgaard.

Naturens Resonans
Danske Kunsthåndværkers & Designere
Officinet, Bredgade 66, København
the exhibition continues until 20 September 2020

Søren Rønholt
Gurli Elbækgaard

 

Absent Bodies at Designmuseum Danmark

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Amina Saada

Ishara Jayathilake

A new exhibition has opened on the entrance courtyard of Designmuseum Danmark with works selected by Designers' Nest and Designmuseum Danmark.

The museum remains closed for extensive work to the building due to be completed in 2022 but there is access to the courtyard.

the works:

the love scene & the balancing act
Courtney Makins
sugarcoated cotton houndstooth, wool tartan and ripstop

the red bride
Amina Saada
polyester satin and foam

follow4follow
Oliver Opperman
recycled polyester and dead-stock neoprene

people go to work
Fredrik Stålhandske
cardboard and polyester

east meets west
Ishara Jayathilake
screen-printed cotton canvas

 
 
 
 

Courtney Makins

 Absent Bodies continues on the entrance courtyard of
Designmuseum Danmark, Bredgade ,Copenhagen
until 22 November 2020

 

Københavns Kulturkvarter / Copenhagen Cultural District

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Københavns Museum / Museum of Copenhagen, Stormgade

Gammel Strand

 

The idea of grouping together major monuments and museums and galleries in the historic centre of Copenhagen to promote them as a Kulturkvarter or Cultural District appears to have been given a reboot.

Simple and well-designed information panels have been set up near 19 of the buildings where you can pick up a leaflet with a map that also has short descriptions of each building or cultural institution in Danish and English. All are within a 10 minute walk and the guide does not suggest a proscribed route so it is a good way to explore but to let yourself be diverted or distracted as you walk in the area between the harbour and the west end of the old city and covering the whole of the area of the old castle - now the palace and government buildings of Christiansborg.

There are links to the Instagram and Facebook pages of the Kvarter / Cultural District and the web address of each destination is also given so the guide can simply be the entry point for using a mobile phone for more information about opening times and so on.

Københavns Kulturkvarter
Kulturkvarter on Instagram
Kulturkvarter on Facebook

 

Det skjulte Slotsholmen / The hidden Slotsholmen

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Rigsdagsgården, Christiansborg, København

An exhibition in the great courtyard in front of the entrance to the parliament building. 

Slotsholm is a large and almost square island with canals on three side and the harbour on the fourth side. The natural island was much smaller than the present extent of Slotsholm and was the site of an early-medieval castle of which parts remain below the present parliament building. The castle was extended and the island enlarged and became the main royal palace in the city. There were royal stables here and a church and a complex development of buildings dating back to the early 17th century that housed government officials and administrative buildings and store rooms for the state … so, for instance, the 17th-century arsenal for the navy. After a major fire in the late 18th-century the royal family decamped to Amalienborg and decided to remain there and, although the large royal palace was rebuilt, it became the home of the Danish parliament although the great State Apartments at Christiansborg are still used for major royal events.

The photographs and text in the exhibition look at not just the main buildings of the first great royal palace and parliament on the island but includes fascinating facts and social and political history that reveals much about how the Danish monarchy and democratic government in Denmark has evolved.

Access to the exhibition is at any time as the courtyard and the route through Christiansborg is open to all pedestrians and cyclists.

There are tours of Slotsholmen with guides from Teatermuseet i Hofteatret / the Theatre Museum and the Court Theatre.

the exhibition and tours continue until 6 December 2020

Det skjulte Slotsholmen
tours and guides