AHC x Art & Activism: Anna Walther & spellchestra
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At Roskilde Festival 2026, Anna Walther and spellchestra presented two newly commissioned works through Art Hub Copenhagen’s collaboration with the festival’s Art & Activism programme.
This year’s collaboration resulted in two participatory projects by Anna Walther and spellchestra, who each developed site-specific works that invited festivalgoers to engage with questions of labour, value, community, and collective imagination through installation and performance.
Anna Walther presented Who’s Gonna Do the Dirty Jobs, When Everyone Is Equal?, a climbable sculpture standing on a layer of mud that visitors have to wade through to reach. The work turned the familiar experience of navigating Roskilde’s muddy festival grounds into a reflection on the hidden labour behind global production and trade. By confronting audiences with the physicality of mud, Walther invited visitors to consider how hard, dirty work often becomes invisible within global supply chains and the inequalities they sustain.
At Platform, spellchestra presented Marketplace, an immersive musical role-playing performance in which a troupe of composers, artists, and musicians transformed the 360-degree stage into a living marketplace. Continuing the work first developed during their collaboration with Art Hub Copenhagen in 2024, the performance challenged the logic of ownership, economics, and power through music, play, and collective participation. As noisy bards confronting the god of private property, the performers imagined alternative systems of value built on generosity, imagination, and shared experience.
Anna Walther and spellchestra were selected through an Open Call launched in 2025, inviting artists who have previously collaborated with Art Hub Copenhagen to develop new works for Roskilde Festival as a unique platform for public art.
