ASTRID NOACKS ATELIER

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    • Astrid Noacks Atelier
    • Rådmandsgade 34
    • 2200 København N
    • kbr@astrid-noack.dk

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ANA Air

Emma Hedditch & Jamie Chan Studio Visits

29.05.23 - 20.06.23

Emma Hedditch and Jamie Chan are two artists based in Brooklyn who are invited to attend a residency at ANA.

During their time in Copenhagen, they are planning to use the ANA studio space to create a new series of drawings, as an extension of their inquiry into the function of a studio in a city. In addition, they will make studio visits with artists in Copenhagen as a time to learn about their work and about the places where artists work, both in their location in the city, the buildings they are part of, and in their interiority, as a place to practice creative work and reflect and build extensions of ourselves using different materials.

On Saturday 17 June ANA will host a social gathering where the drawings Emma and Jamie have made will be available. More info will follow.

BIO: Jamie Chan (b. 1984, Pittsburgh, U.S.A) is an artist based in Brooklyn. Most recently her paintings have been shown at Latitude Gallery, NYC; Dunes.fyi, Portland, ME; Tif Sigfrids, NYC; and Essex Flowers, NYC, where Chan has also curated shows and other programming. In 2018, Chan coauthored a text about an exhibition of paintings shown inside a Chinatown mall. Her writing has also appeared in the collection This Long Century. She received her BFA from UCLA in 2006 and her MFA in painting from Bard College in 2013. Jamie has experience in arts administration and working together with artists to run a gallery.

BIO: Emma Hedditch (b.1972, U.K) is an artist living in New York. Their video work includes Self-Regulating Systems (2016), A Pattern, (2014), We Are The Signs And The Signal (2008), Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (2007), and Raising A Resister (2000). These videos have been screened at the Oberhausen Film Festival, The Elizabeth Foundation, New York, Goethe Institute, New York, MACBA, Barcelona, Artists Space, New York, Haus der Kunst, Munich. Emma is a director at Cinenova, a feminist film and video distributor in London (1999–present), and Coop Fund an experimental funding cooperative (2018- present). They participated in The Copenhagen Free University (2001 – 2008).

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ANA Children

Tina Helen & Misja T. Krenchel Building Blocks

01.05.23 - 30.06.23

Building Blocks is a project by Tina Helen and Misja T. Krenchel in collaboration with ANA’s mobile children’s studio, the Staffed Playground in Bispeengen and children, young people, residents and institutions in and around the neighborhood of Lundtoftegade.

With a starting point in the large public housing blocks in the residential area in Lundtoftegade, Building Blocks will investigate concepts such as home, recognition and belonging, as well as scale and perspective from a child’s view. As a child, things are perceived as bigger than they are and down between the high-rise buildings, you easily lose sight of the overview. In Building Blocks the iconic apartment blocks in Lundtoftegade will be recreated as wooden models and, starting from the body-sized models, an investigative playful game begins with the area’s identity markers, hierarchies, affiliations, forms of organization and storytelling. The children will have the opportunity to investigate the relationship between bodies and buildings in the city and play with imaginations of what the home, the buildings and the area could look like. New connections can arise when the blocks are put together in new ways, processed, arranged and viewed from other angles, thereby unfolding a new space of understanding and opportunity in the experience of a habitat.

Through a series of workshops aimed at children and young people in and around Lundtoftegade, the models are examined, furnished and decorated. Through modelling, castings and drawing the children will produce fixtures and creatures that can inhabit the apartment blocks. Toy animals, action heroes, sand, grass and flowers are included in the construction and the children will have the opportunity to visualize imaginative future scenarios.

The project is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, Byens Puls and Paint it Forward.

ANA Air

Emma Hedditch & Jamie Chan Studio Visits

29.05.23 - 20.06.23

Emma Hedditch and Jamie Chan are two artists based in Brooklyn who are invited to attend a residency at ANA.

During their time in Copenhagen, they are planning to use the ANA studio space to create a new series of drawings, as an extension of their inquiry into the function of a studio in a city. In addition, they will make studio visits with artists in Copenhagen as a time to learn about their work and about the places where artists work, both in their location in the city, the buildings they are part of, and in their interiority, as a place to practice creative work and reflect and build extensions of ourselves using different materials.

On Saturday 17 June ANA will host a social gathering where the drawings Emma and Jamie have made will be available. More info will follow.

BIO: Jamie Chan (b. 1984, Pittsburgh, U.S.A) is an artist based in Brooklyn. Most recently her paintings have been shown at Latitude Gallery, NYC; Dunes.fyi, Portland, ME; Tif Sigfrids, NYC; and Essex Flowers, NYC, where Chan has also curated shows and other programming. In 2018, Chan coauthored a text about an exhibition of paintings shown inside a Chinatown mall. Her writing has also appeared in the collection This Long Century. She received her BFA from UCLA in 2006 and her MFA in painting from Bard College in 2013. Jamie has experience in arts administration and working together with artists to run a gallery.

BIO: Emma Hedditch (b.1972, U.K) is an artist living in New York. Their video work includes Self-Regulating Systems (2016), A Pattern, (2014), We Are The Signs And The Signal (2008), Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (2007), and Raising A Resister (2000). These videos have been screened at the Oberhausen Film Festival, The Elizabeth Foundation, New York, Goethe Institute, New York, MACBA, Barcelona, Artists Space, New York, Haus der Kunst, Munich. Emma is a director at Cinenova, a feminist film and video distributor in London (1999–present), and Coop Fund an experimental funding cooperative (2018- present). They participated in The Copenhagen Free University (2001 – 2008).

Uncategorized

Joen Vedel Peter Petersen (1953-2020) – a mourning play, ACT II

31.07.23 - 03.09.23

 

Past events

ANA Air

Geir Tore Holm & Søssa Jørgensen Bird Life part II: 2022-23

24.04.23 - 22.05.23

The Danish Art Workshops, April 2022

ANA, April 2023

During their first stay in ANA in the spring of 2022 Søssa Jørgensen og Geir Tore Holm initiated studies of the local environment and the bird life in the area in collaboration with ornithologists and others with an interest in birds in the city. Inspired by the new housing complexes around ANA as well as historic nest boxes, Jørgensen and Holm collected recycled materials on Ydre Nørrebro from which they have built a sculptural nest box, which will be installed on the roof of ANA in April 2023. During the artists’ subsequent stay in May 2023, the nest box will be the location for a new film about how the area’s birds such as swifts, despite the newly constructed buildings and other measures – which are supposed to prevent their free activity – continue to fly around and settle down.

BIO: Geir Tore Holm and Søssa Jørgensen graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim in 1995. Alongside their individual practice, they teach contemporary art. In 1993, they started Balkong, using their apartment as an exhibition space, which raised questions about what art can be. These home-based experiences led to wider activities. In 2003, together with the two Thai artists Kamin Lertchaiprasert and Rirkrit Tiravanija, they started Sørfinnset skole/ the nord land in Gildeskål, Nordland, with a focus on topics such as use og nature and knowledge sharing. From 2010, their focal point and place of work and residence has been the farm Øvre Ringstad in Østfold.

ANA Forum

Elizabeth Bishop Launch reception of Geography III

11.05.23

For the first time a complete work in Danish by the American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) is available. It has been translated by Claus Handberg and Tine Demandt and is published by Antipyrine.

Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1911 and made her debut as a writer in 1933. As an adult, Bishop lived in Paris, Mexico, New York, Florida and more than ten years in Brazil. She has received many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and is considered one of the greatest American poets of the 20th century. She died in 1975 in Boston.

The poetry collection Geography III (1976) is one of the central works of her authorship, where Bishop shows her special ability to expand the world inwards, to scale, zoom from large landscapes and into the smallest details.

There is a reading and a glass of wine between 4pm-6pm.

ANA Local

bodil krogh andersen & martin christoffer lund Mountains of the North Harbour: a project about displacement of natural resources & expansion of landmasses

23.03.23 - 23.04.23

Residual products of the construction industry accumulates into small mountains at Nordhavnstippen in Copenhagen which in the long term will be filled in the harbour as the foundation for the expansion of the city. New landmasses are dammed by a wall of rebar, concrete and large stones shipped to Denmark from the mountains of southern Norway.

Land reclamation projects are not a new phenomenon.

When large parts of Nørrebro were renovated in the 1980s, the remains of the demolished neighborhood ended up as part of the land reclamation project around Sydhavnstippen’s recreational areas. If you dig in the soil, you might find traces of the cultural history created by the 80s squatter movements.

When the buildings that were part of the creative, social and diverse environment around Astrid Noack’s Atelier were demolished, they most likely ended up in the land reclamation project of the north habour. In a way, the future construction projects of the north harbour will rest on this foundation.

Solastalgia is an expression of the sadness over the irreversible, which can be experienced, for example, if landscapes change drastically due to climate change or when natural resources are extracted by an industry, or as the philosopher Glenn Albrecth describes it, it refers to ‘the homesickness you experience when you are still at home and your home environment changes in ways that make you uncomfortable’.

With our project in Astrid Noack’s Atelier, we will draw a parallel between the sadness of losing nature and the sadness of losing culture that cannot be reconstructed due to urban planning and gentrification.

It can be seen as a declaration of love to pick up a stone from the ground, put it in your pocket and take it home with you, just as it can be a declaration of love to take care of discarded objects that have lost their use value. In contrast to this, we see a violence in acts of classification, extractivism and displacement of natural resources as industries appropriate nature on a large scale.

With reference to the fragmented natural resources that form the land extensions – both those from the construction industry and those from the blasted mountains – we will work with topics such as restitution and restoration through the production of textile collages.

Inspired by weighted blankets, which have the function of relieving anxiety, we fill our textiles with stones from the north harbour as a way of gathering the fragments into a new form. And just as blankets can look like mountain landscapes that breathe when they are shaped around a resting body, we want to help create a bodily and close relationship to the materials, landscapes and narratives we are a part of.

 

EVENTS

 

Thursday 23 March at 4pm-8pm: Opening (sessions & soup)
From 4pm-7pm there will be listening sessions with “stone rugs”.
There will be soup at 7pm

 

Thursday 30 March at 1pm-8pm: Workshop & social soup
We will set up the sewing workshop flexible plans* at ANA, where we will sew pennants and banners together, which we will hang in the street of Rådmandsgade on 20 April. You can help sew on the joint project, and you can come and sew your own banner.
We have large quantities of fabric, so please come by and help make your mark on the street.
We will make soup together from 6 pm

 

Thursday 6 April at 4pm-8pm: Sessions & soup
From 4pm-7pm there will be listening sessions with “stone rugs”.
There will be soup at 7pm

 

Thursday 13 April at 1pm-8pm: Workshop & social soup
We will set up the sewing workshop flexible plans* at ANA, where we will sew pennants and banners together, which we will hang up in the street of Rådmandsgade on 20 April. You can help sew on the joint project, and you can come and sew your own banner.
We have large quantities of fabric, so please come by and help make your mark on the street.
We will make soup together from 6pm

 

Sunday 16 April at 1pm-7pm: Excursion to the north harbour
We will visit “the mountains of the North Harbor” at the landfill. Afterwards we will give a tour of our new artist community at vesterhavsvej 7.
We will meet at the roundabout at the end of kattegatvej in nordhavnen at 1pm.
We will be outside so dress according to the weather.
We will serve coffee and a snack.
Sign up for the excursion so we know how many are coming and in case of changes. write to martinchristoffer@gmail.com

 

Thursday 20 April at 3pm-8pm: Launch of publication, hanging of banners & social soup
From 3pm we will together hang up our new “pennant banner” and celebrate the street and the spring.
We will make soup together and eat at 6pm
At 7pm there will be a presentation of the publication

 

In addition to the events, we are open by appointment (email: martinchristoffer@gmail.com)

*flexible plans was a sewing club initiative for collective textile projects that started in bolchefabrikken’s sewing workshop in 2020.

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Thanks to the Danish Arts Foundation, Nørrebro Local Committee, The Municipality of Copenhagen – Council for Visual Arts, Kvadrat and Copenhagen Furniture Upholstery.

ANA Local

Wojciech Laskowski Laspin & Marianne Søgaard Sørensen Transformations

11.02.23 - 18.02.23

Opening: Saturday 11.2. at 2pm–6pm

The artistic process of creation is in itself a form of transformation. Transformation of experiences, observations and fascinations into new expressions, forms, materials and contexts, which in turn can trigger new observations and thoughts in both the viewer and the artist herself.

By reworking his photo documentation of randomly appearing visual constellations in the street life, Wojciech Laskowski Laspin directs attention to these and transforms them into new forms and images with their own autonomy.

Marianne Søgaard Sørensen has transformed items of clothing, donated by friends and friends of friends, into 4 objects that represent the givers’ chains of relationships, but at the same time bear traits from traditional rag rugs and the conception of resources they expressed.

Open: Every day at 5pm-7pm and Saturday 18.2. at 2pm-6pm

Saturday 18.2. at 4pm: Art as a Learning Process

Wojciech Laskowski Laspin talks about art and learning based on some of his projects for children and young people. From projects in ‘Art & Mathematics’ to participatory projects with a broader social aim.

BIO: Wojciech Laskowski Laspin is a visual artist and arts educator. Born in Wroclaw, Poland, resident in Denmark 1986-2010. Since 2010 living in Austria. Educated at the University of Art in Poznan, specializing in art communication and art pedagogy. Works as a freelancer in two areas: 1. As a visual artist within installation, sculpture, Land-Art, Book-Art, drawing, painting and photography. 2. In the area of art dissemination / art education as a project maker, teacher, and with social art. Since 1991 collaborates as a freelance art teacher, course instructor, consultant, project maker and project manager with several institutions in Denmark, Germany and Austria. Among other things, The Art School in Tvillingehallen in Copenhagen, the National Gallery of Denmark, the Art School (on Jagtvej), KLAX in Berlin, Arnulf Reiner Museum in Baden bei Wien, Kulturkontakt Austria, Volkshochschule in Wiener Neustadt, Astrid Noack Atelier. 1994 – 1998 – founder and head of the art school “Pulsar” in Copenhagen.

BIO: Marianne Søgaard Sørensen was trained as a weaver at Kerteminde Husflidshøjskole 1978-80 and on scholarship at the University of Art in Poznan, Poland with Magdalena Abakanowicz 1984-86. She has a Master’s in European Ethnology from 1997. She has worked with utility weaving, image weaving, textile art and Land art projects.

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About ANA

ANA is a cross-aesthetic space for artistic experiments, knowledge sharing and critical discussion at Ydre Nørrebro in Copenhagen. ANA is dedicated to the notion of art as a public sphere and as a collective reflection tool that can create forms and images making us see and sense, ask questions and think about the world and everyday life in new ways. ANA focuses with and through art on sharing knowledge, testing ideas and presenting alternative horizons of imagination and models of action.

ANA was established in 2009 and has a background in the activist artist collective YNKB (Ydre Nørrebro Culture Bureau). ANA’s program has four tracks: ANA Local, ANA Air, ANA Children and ANA Forum. These draw threads back to the Danish sculptor Astrid Noack’s everyday life and artistic work in the studio in the period 1936-1950, where social and professional exchanges with neighbors and artists from near and far were part of daily life. ANA’s cross-esthetic program links the history of the room with a desire to jointly develop the space, which, as a result of gentrification, is left isolated, cut off from its previous existence as part of a lively backyard environment with workshops and small industry.

Today, ANA stands on the shoulders of the many artists and actors who over the years have contributed to supporting and developing the space. ANA’s institutional modus operandi is rooted in a principle of repetition and slowness. In order to allow artists to develop projects over several years and to gain knowledge of the space and the surrounding rapidly gentrified area – which used to be a typical working class neighbourhood – we emphasize inviting artists on several occasions, so that over time they can continue investigations and conversations. Our desire is to keep things moving, to prioritize process over result and to act as an open, caring, generous and inclusive art space.

In the coming years, we will further try to emphasize values around slowness, contemplation, ‘commoning’ and collective (un)learning. A set of values that moves against the productivity- and efficiency-oriented structures that characterize the surrounding capitalist society and the art institution, and which often result in stress and exhaustion. We want, step by step, to slow the pace and focus on offering artists generous time for reflection and the opportunity to experiment and research in a context where knowledge sharing, negotiation and critical dialogue are at the center.

ANA’s program 2023 is supported by

Overretssagfører L. Zeuthens Mindelegat

 

 

  • ANA Air
  • ANA AIR is a residency track for international artists who are invited to develop projects over time, often based on the physical and local context of Ydre Nørrebro.
  • ANA Children
  • ANA CHILDREN is a track for children and young people, where artists are invited to develop process- and dialogue-based works over time with children. The track is based in ANA's Mobile Children's Atelier in Bispeengen and is being run in close collaboration with The Staffed Playground.
  • ANA Forum
  • ANA FORUM is a track for knowledge sharing, contemplation, ‘commoning’ and critical discussion.
  • ANA Local
  • ANA LOCAL is a track meant for resident artists, which emphasizes process-oriented studies of historical as well as current societal questions and issues.

Preservation Work

It’s still there. The sculpture studio in Rådmandsgade 34 on Outer Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The sculptor Astrid Noack (1888-1954) lived and worked here under very primitive conditions in the back building in the period 1936-1950. From here she fought her way up through the male-dominated art world of the time, and created some of her most significant works.

In 2010, the Foundation Rådmandsgade 34 was formed with the aim of gently restoring the studio. In September 2016, as the first important step in the Foundation’s work, the restoration of the part of the backyard where Astrid Noack lived and had a studio began. The restoration was realised with support from the New Carlsberg Foundation and was handled by architect Erik Brandt Dam.

Astrid Noack

Astrid Noack (1888-1954) is one of the twentieth century’s most significant Danish artists. As a sculptor she was inspired by the French tradition, which is characterised by frugality and scarcity of means, and by archaic sculpture. The figures stand in space and small displacements of movements gives life to the sculptures. The sculptures are built up from the inside, from where the displacements are propagated towards the surface and further into the room.

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The association

Astrid Noack’s Atelier is an association of which you can be a member. Members and the board are made up of all sorts of people; artists, art historians, cultural workers and everyone who has an interest in ANA’s activities and in the preservation of the old historic building.

The association’s overall purpose is partly to work for the preservation and reuse of Astrid Noack’s Atelier in Rådmandsgade 34, and partly to continuously develop the space into a living platform for artistic experimentation, critical discussion and knowledge sharing.

Become a member

We need you if Astrid Noack's Atelier is to be preserved and developed for posterity.

Annual fee

Personal membership: DKK 150. Membership for associations: DKK 300. Membership for companies/institutions: DKK 600. Payment can be made at: Reg. No. 2109 and Account No. 6883606696 Remember to note your name and email when paying. And sign up for Astrid Noack's Atelier newsletter.

Contact

  • Astrid Noacks Atelier
  • Rådmandsgade 34
  • 2200 København N

  • Director & curator
  • Kathrine Bolt Rasmussen
  • 22 30 80 91
  • kbr@astrid-noack.dk

The Board

  • Chairman
  • Victor Réne Valqui Vidal
  • 43 64 78 49
  • rvvv@dtu.dk
  • Boardmember & artistic director
  • Kirsten Dufour
  • 20 61 31 73
  • saas.dufour.andersen@gmail.com
  • Boardmember
  • Finn Thybo Andersen
  • 60 81 02 18
  • finnthybo@gmail.com
  • Boardmember
  • Rikke Diemer
  • 40 38 94 29
  • rikke.diemer@gmail.com
  • Boardmember
  • Mie Lund
  • 27 28 15 29
  • mielun@gmail.com
  • Treasurer
  • Helle Westergaard
  • 42 46 09 54
  • helle.hik@gmail.com