Das unheimliche is a dialogue exhibition between Janaina Tschäpe and Ursula Reuter Christiansen. In the exhibition the artistic kinship existing between the two artists is unfolded. A kinship that might not noticeable at first glance, but which with a closer look opens new perspectives on each of the artists respective…
The exhibition, A Wander in the Archive is a reflection of the exhibition history of Den Frie, which manifests itself in the Archive of Den Frie. Some exhibitions gained a groundbreaking legacy like artist Vilhelm Bjerke Petersen’s Surrealism exhibition in 1935, while others never gained a place in the art…
The artists’ association Decembristerne do not work within or represent a specific genre but is an association more concerned with artistic individuality. It is the special expressions and the examination of central aspects of human values that characterizes the artistic expressions within the Decembrists. The association’s artistic formal language thus …
The Void depicts a narrative of loneliness and the basic human condition that we are alone together as separate individuals. The works in Würtz Overbeck’s exhibition each unfold aspects of the void that may accompany such realizations.
The Artists’ Autumn Exhibition (KE) provides a framework for new explorations of what contemporary art is and can be. Throughout the years, many artists have had their debut at KE, and today KE is one of the only recurrent juried exhibitions in the Danish art scene. The significant feature of …
Eccentric shamanism and poetic fragility are some of the things the audience has in store when Kris Lemsalu and Kyp Malone transform Den Frie’s underground exhibition space into the total installation Going Going.
Silent Zone – Echo Chamber is a hybrid between an opera, interactive 3D technology and installation art. The experience lasts for less than 10 minutes and can only be viewed one person at a time. The work, which revolves around an incestuous family, is an excerpt from the delicate and …
AION focuses on four abandoned places – a swimming pool, a concert hall, a gym and an old village church – in the so-called Exclusion Zone in Chernobyl, Ukraine. In the days and weeks after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on 26 April 1986, the local population …
The annual Spring Exhibition of the artists’ association Den Frie Udstilling (‘The Free Exhibition’) is one of the longest standing and strongest traditions in the Danish art world. The exhibition shows a wide range of artistic practices among the members of the association and their guests.
Renderings is an exhibition that deals with matters moving on the edge of our perception. Matters, that can be understood on a theoretical level, but which otherwise seem intangible. It can be light, atoms, radioactivity or other electromagnetic radiation that is not visible to the naked eye, but which is …
The annual Spring Exhibition of the artists’ association Den Frie Udstilling (‘The Free Exhibition’) is one of the longest standing and strongest traditions in the Danish art world. The exhibition shows a wide range of artistic practices among the members of the association and their guests. The exhibition in 2020…