Thoravej 29
17.09.21 – 31.10.21

Thoravej 29, in the heart of Copenhagen’s Nordvest neighbourhood, was designed in 1967 by Erik Stengade, a relatively unknown but prolific architect. Originally built for Danske Pelsauktioner (now Kopenhagen Fur), this large industrial building was later converted into laboratories for the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, and subsequently housed Copenhagen’s municipal office of disability services.

In 2021, the Bikuben Foundation bought the building and in recent years it has undergone a transformation and comprehensive renovation to create a centre of visual and performing arts and social projects that will also be the home of AHC from 2025. Therefore, in the summer of 2021, AHC eyed an opportunity to use the vacant building for a major exhibition project, inviting five curators to organize an exhibition. Each curator was assigned a separate floor and budget, and otherwise had a free hand. Over a few intense months, works by 23 artists filled the building from parking basement to attic.

Thoravej 29 was AHC’s first major exhibition project. Under the collective title, the five individual exhibitions were: Everything is simple and beautiful and you are my friend (an exhibition for kids), curated by Institut Funder Bakke; As I write, I am lying, I hope, curated by Kristian Vistrup Madsen; We are not Myths: Opacity across Difference, curated by Culture Art Society (CAS); Elitism sucks, by Feminist Collective with No Name (FCNN); and Alien Water, curated by Mette Woller.

The exhibitions were very different from each other. Each had its own approach, agenda and signature. Nonetheless, common denominators were identified across all five floors. They include issues of gender, ethnicity and pronominal forms, cultural affiliations and exclusion mechanisms, (self-)institutional practice and site-specificity – big, complex themes embracing potentially controversial issues and socially relevant discussions.

Art works and contributions by the following artists were a part of the exhibition:

Jeannette Ehlers
Santiago Mostyn
Nikhill Vettukattil
Jelsen Lee Innocent
Andromeda 8220 v. Aysha Amin
Tolia Astakhishvili
Bamses Billedbog
Karim Boumjimar
Lydia Östberg Diakité, D.N.A.
Rochelle Goldberg
Liv Latricia Habel
Mia Edelgart / Sebastian Hedevang
Noah Umur Kanber
Paul McCarthy
Ruby Mariama Laura Andersen Ndoye
Vera Palme
Michala Paludan
Spaghetti Clurb
Young Boy Dancing Group

MORE INFO

See more photos from the exhibition here.

And here you will find the publication, which documents the exhibition in both text and images.

This exhibition was organized in partnership with the Bikuben Foundation, and was supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, Pro Helvetia, DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk.