Publications
In our efforts to give time, space and voice to artists and the artistic experiment, Art Hub Copenhagen publishes books in three series, respectively Interview, Theory and Other.
An encounter with visual art is also an encounter with language. Where the seeable and the sayable meet, images are intertwined with words when we speak, listen, and write.
At AHC we explore the many voices of contemporary art in their own right, as statements and testimonies that attune to the places where art might lead us.
Our publications grow out of collaborations and conversations we have with many different people and communities, in the form of theory, narratives entangled with art, and texts derived from artistic doing and thinking.
The first publications initiated by AHC was released in September 2022. They can be bought from the art store SKITSE. You can read more on the publications below.
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All publications have been initiated by AHC and designed by Alexis Mark.
With support by Statens Kunstfond, LA Box ENSA and Novo Nordisk Fonden.
Interview
The Interview series is based on conversations with artists who have been residents at AHC. Together with an interviewer and a guest, the artists present their work in words and images: not just one work or one show, but their current processes, thoughts, and daily challenges. The Interview Series is in English.
According to Comanche author Paul Chaat Smith, mainstream images of the “Indian” conjures “a half-remembered presence, both comforting and dangerous, lurking just below the surface.” In this interview, artist and filmmaker Adam Khalil lets the half-remembered presence out by engaging with themes ranging from the temporal double binds of Indigeneity, Christopher Columbus as the first vampire in the “New World,” and the public secret society New Red Order. Christian Lund talks to Khalil about his collaborative projects, and Naja Dyrendom Graugaard contributes with a poetic reflection on racial stereotyping in the Danish school system.
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Thanks to: Adam Khalil, Naja Dyrendom Graugaard and Christian Lund
Design: Alexis Mark
Copyediting: Sarah Quigley
Managing editor: Stine Nørgaard Lykkebo
Editors: Jacob Fabricius and Lars Bang Larsen
Print: Eks-skolen, Copenhagen
Edition: 300 copies, first edition
ISBN: 978-87-94396-00-4
Art Hub Copenhagen, 2022.
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The Interview series is based on conversations with artists who have been residents at AHC. Together with an interviewer and guests, the artists present their work in words and images: not just one work or one show, but their current processes, thoughts, and daily challenges.
In this publication, Mia Edelgart talks about her recent works, and engages with subjects such as stupidity, vulnerability, slowness, and collective ways of thinking and working. The two guest voices of Mai Corlin Frederiksen and Deirdre Johanna Humphrys infiltrate and discuss Edelgart’s approach and process. The interview was conducted as an email conversation during the summer of 2021.
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Thanks to: Mia Edelgad, Mai Corlin Frederiksen and Deirdre Johanna Humphrys
Design: Alexis Mark
Translation: Glen Gamer
Managing editor: Stine Nørgaard Lykkebo
Editors: Jacob Fabricius and Lars Bang Larsen
Print: Eks-skolen, Copenhagen
Edition: 300 copies, first edition
ISBN: 978-87-94396-01-1
Art Hub Copenhagen, 2022.
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The Interview series is based on conversations with artists who have been residents at AHC. Together with an interviewer and guests, the artists present their work in words and images: not just one work or one show, but their current processes, thoughts, and daily challenges.
Kasper Hesselbjerg’s work is centered on three fundamentals: sculpture, text and – last but not least – food. In this publication, Hesselbjerg connects the dots between sculpture, collage, language, and the umami in his art. The artist Søren Andreasen joins the conversation to discuss their common passion and interest, China and Chinese thinking. The interview was conducted as an email conversation during the summer of 2021.
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Thanks to: Kasper Hesselbjerg and Søren Andreasen
Design: Alexis Mark
Translation: Glen Gamer
Managing editor: Stine Nørgaard Lykkebo
Editors: Jacob Fabricius and Lars Bang Larsen
Print: Eks-skolen, Copenhagen
Edition: 300 copies, first edition
ISBN: 978-87-94396-02-8
Art Hub Copenhagen, 2022.
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The Interview series is based on conversations with artists who have been residents at AHC. Together with an interviewer and guests, the artists present their work in words and images: not just one work or one show, but their current processes, thoughts, and daily challenges.
Steffen Jørgensen gets frank about his methods in painting and animation, and he touches base on conspiracy theory, the art world, cooking – and is cornered in a discussion about pigs. Jørgensen’s collaborative partner Will Benedict, with whom he created the digital animation The Restaurant, joins the fray with several absurd questions. The interview was conducted as an email conversation during the summer of 2021.
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Thanks to: Steffen Jorgensen and Will Benedict
Design: Alexis Mark
Translation: Glen Garner
Managing editor: Stine Nørgaard Lykkebo
Editors: Jacob Fabricius and Lars Bang Larsen
Print: Eks-skolen, Copenhagen
Edition: 300 copies, first edition
ISBN: 978-87-94396-03-5
Art Hub Copenhagen, 2022.
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The Interview series is based on conversations with artists who have been residents at AHC. Together with an interviewer and guests, the artists present their work in words and images: not just one work or one show, but their current processes, thoughts, and daily challenges.
Theory
Theory is based on philosopher Rosi Braidotti’s definition of theory as a form of organized estrangement from dominant values. The series will consist of titles relevant for the thinking of art and curatorial praxis today. Theory is primarily published in Danish.
Since the turn of the millennium, Karen Barad – feminist, philosopher, and particle physicist, has created a distinct and innovative contribution to contemporary thinking. On the occasion of Lea Porsager’s exhibition STRIPPED at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in 2021 they held an online lecture at AHC, in extension of which we now publish Natures Queer Performativity as the first Danish translation of their work. In the essay, Barad talks about queer ontologies and the ethical obligation towards non/humans, and argue that nature is fundamentally queer – in the most entangled and wonderfully perverse way.
The publication is in Danish.
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– Rosi Braidotti
“Science is a tool to think with, just like art…” This publication contains transcriptions of conversations between the artist Alexandra Hunts and Charles M. Marcus, professor in Condensed Matter Physics at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. Roland Barthes famously wrote: “Interdisciplinarity consists in creating a new object that belongs to no one.” This epistemological homelessness echoes through both Hunts’ and Marcus’s immigrant condition, and the histories of 20th–century art and science.
The publication is in English.
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Thanks to: Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, La Box ENSA, Niels Bohr Institute, Helga Christoffersen, Signe Meisner Christensen, Anne Kølbæk Iversen, Joachim Koester, Charles M. Marcus, Kuzya & Vasya, family and friends.
Support: La Box ENSA and the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
Design: Alexis Mark.
Copyediting: Anne Kølbæk Iversen and Sarah Quigley
Managing editor: Stine Nørgaard Lykkebo
Editors: Jacob Fabricius and Lars Bang Larsen
Print: Eks-skolen, Copenhagen
ISBN: 978-87-94396-04-2
Art Hub Copenhagen, 2022.
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Theory is a form of unorganized estrangement from dominant values.
– Rosi Braidotti
Other
The series Other is inconsistent through, and through because it never resembles itself and invariably has different content. The series unfold an artistic or curatorial project, or images, ideas, and reveries, and thereby remain – in all their otherness – themselves. Other can be published in both Danish and English.
This publication documents the exhibition Thoravej 29 that was curated by Culture Art Society (CAS), FCNN, Institut Funder Bakke, Kristian Vistrup Madsen and Mette Woller. Thoravej 29 was the first exhibition organized by AHC.
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Texts by: Andreas Führer, Nina Koch, Awa Konaté, Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Claudine Zia, Mette Woller, Lars Bang Larsen & Jacob Fabricius.
Design: Alexis Mark
Translation: Glen Garner
Managing editor: Anna Kølbæk Iversen & Stine Nørgaard Lykkebo
Editors: Jacob Fabricius, Lars Bang Larsen
Print: Eks-skolen, Copenhagen
Edition: 300 copies, first edition
Supported by: The Danish Arts Foundation
ISBN: 978-87-94396-06-6
An Hub Copenhagen 2022.
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The book series Other is inconsistent through and through because it is never self-similar and invariably has different content: the publications unfold an artistic or curatorial project, or images, ideas, and reveries, and thereby remain – in all their otherness – themselves.
