Après-Baschet sound sculpture Concordia, Marmorkirken, 2023. Photo: Mathias Kristensen.
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Join us for Free Lunch on Tuesday 27 January, where Barbara Amalie Skovmand will present her artistic practice, rooted in sound and sculpture. As part of the event, Skovmand will be in conversation with cultural mediator Jan Høgh Stricker and curator Lotte Løvholm, and will also give a small taste of her sonic universe by performing on one of her self-built sound sculptures.
Specifically, Skovmand will perform with one of her après-Baschet sound sculptures, where sound is created by rubbing water-wet fingers along glass rods. The vibrations travel through the sculpture’s metal components and into mirror-polished stainless steel sheets, which amplify and distort the sound. The instrument is entirely acoustic, yet the resulting tones can resemble those of a synthesizer, ranging from rhythmic drones to crystal-clear tones.
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Free Lunch Series : Barbara Amalie Skovmand
Tuesday, 27 January 2026
12:00–1:30 PM
Art Hub Copenhagen
Thoravej 29
2400 Copenhagen NV
Participation is free, but registration is required. If you wish to attend the lunch, please register via rsvp@arthubcopenhagen.dk.
Please note that the conversation will be in Danish.
There are a limited number of seats.
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ABOUT BARBARA AMALIE SKOVMAND
Barbara Amalie Skovmand’s work spans sound sculptures, automated musical instruments, musical performance, video, and immersive installations — most of them rooted in scientific themes and in explorations of the ecological crisis, species extinction, nature’s healing power, interspecies symbioses, and attempts at imagining or contacting something more-than-human. Driven by her interest in scientific concepts such as superposition, entanglement, and the origins of matter, she recently visited CERN, invited by the Niels Bohr Institute and Art Hub Copenhagen.
Skovmand holds an MFA in Fine Arts from the Sandberg Institute and a BA in Audio Visual Art from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, both in Amsterdam. She has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally — at the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK), the Marble Church, the Inter Arts Center in Malmö, Blueproject Space in Barcelona, and W139 in Amsterdam, among others — and is part of the artist group at Munkeruphus.
ABOUT JAN HØGH STRICKER
Jan Høgh Stricker (b. 1983) is a cultural mediator, radio producer, and concert organizer. Since 2019, he has been the artistic director of Organ Sound Art Festival, and in 2025 he co-founded Hanne Darboven Music Festival Copenhagen. In 2014, he was one of the initiators of the internet radio station The Lake Radio, and in recent years he has been involved in a range of radio projects and podcasts related to contemporary art, including General Booty of Work, Podcast for Contemporary Art, Tell, No Show, and A Painter of Our Time. He is a former chair of the archive project Institute for Danish Sound Archaeology.
ABOUT LOTTE LØVHOLM
Lotte Løvholm (b. 1986) is a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde. Lotte’s practice operates in the tension between intensive archival work and more extroverted activities. She values long-term working relationships, which often turn into friendships, and dreams of working in a cyclical manner, in touch with both outer seasons and inner rhythms. She has a steady meditation practice that flows in and out of her professional and personal life and likes to connects art with movements, magic, and history.
