For the Skabninger Samlinger performance series, we meet once a month from January to June 2026. We watch, talk about, and immerse ourselves in performance art through curated showings and artist conversations.

Each monthly gathering consists of a performance evening as well as an in-depth artist talk a few days later. The performance evenings take place at or around Astrid Noack’s Atelier and the conversations take place at COSMOS in Cph NV.

Skabninger Samlinger is curated through an open call, and the program is organized around six thematic clusters – inspired by the submitted works and practices.

Skabninger Samlinger is a place where we gather, collect, are created, and create around performance art.

Skabninger Samlinger #4 comprises performances on April 10 in ANA at 5-10.30 p.m. and conversation on April 15 in COSMOS (Degnestavnen 19, 2400 Kbh NV) at 7-9 p.m.. The theme is “Object as Performance Partner”. We will see performances by and talk with David Sebastián Lopez Restrepo, Astrid Randrup, Louis André Jørgensen, and Denise Lim.

Registration is free, but please book a ticket at:

https://v2.billetten.dk/index/eventdetails/eventno/143565

𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 P𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦, A𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 10 in ANA:



One ticket is valid for the entire program from 17-22.30.

17.00: Performance in ANA

18.00: Break, it will be possible to buy dinner

19.00: Site-specific performance

20.00: Performance in ANA

21.30: Performance in ANA

The theme for Skabninger Samlinger #1 was ‘Performance art as a life companion’, and we saw performances by Mette Kit Jensen, Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Birgitte Ejdrup Kristensen and Ar Utke Ács. The theme for Skabninger Samlinger #2 was “Performance writing”, and we saw performances by Jeuno JE Kim, Inga Gerner Nielsen, xiri noir and Karen Nhea Nielsen. The theme for Skabninger Samlinger #3 was “Play and Characters/Roles” with performances by DuoDuo, Ba Bladh and HagFags. 

Skabninger Samlinger is curated and organized by Storm Møller Madsen and Sara Hamming.

The performance series is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.

“Dialogue with the City” is a long-term artistic research project initiated by Nermin Duraković in August 2023. Following a 33-year absence from his hometown in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where ethnic cleansing took place in the early 1990s, the artist revisits the city’s spaces to find ways to re-establish a dialogue with them. The project revolves around questions such as: how can art speak in a space where opportunities for dialogue have been destroyed? And how can the complexity that this political situation entails be comprehended, if at all? These questions form the starting point for the project’s investigations and the exhibition at ANA. Aiming to address this complex political situation through artistic practice, Duraković presents a series of works across media that illuminate these themes through minimal aesthetic strategies and the unifying premise that all the works must be displayed as light on a surface. The exhibition consists of light installations and photo documentation of a public intervention by Duraković in his hometown, as well as objects and a new video work. Additionally, the artist has invited selected writers and theorists to expand on the exhibition’s themes through a publication, a series of talks, and a seminar.

OPENING & SEMINAR: Friday, February 20, 4–9.30 p.m.

The opening of the exhibition “Dialogue with the City” will include a seminar featuring presentations by Jeppe Wedel-Brandt (educator and MA in Modern Culture) and Boris Buden (philosopher), alongside readings by Merima Dizdarević (author) and Amina Elmi (author). Together, the seminar’s contributors will explore the topic of ‘post-war space’ by offering perspectives on spatial politics, the socialist future, loss, belonging, identity, and the autonomy of art.

Jeppe Wedel-Brandt’s presentation will discuss themes of nationalism, identity, and hope in Denmark and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Boris Buden will, in his presentation “Digging Their Own Grave,” show film and visual material from the former Yugoslavia while providing a critical analysis of western ideological framings that devalue the historical experience of socialism and erase the idea of an alternative to western capitalism. Merima Dizdarević will read from her 2022 debut collection, “Långt från ögat långt från hjärtat,” a work that blends prose and poetry to approach memories of war, forced displacement, and return. Amina Elmi will read from her 2023 work “BARBAR [Tavshedens objekt],” which deals with living with a severed connection to one’s family’s history, rituals, language, and identity.

The seminar will be in English with readings in Danish and Swedish.

4 p.m.: Opening/opportunity to see the exhibition

5-5:10 p.m.: Introduction to the seminar, Nina Cramer

5:10-5:40 p.m.: Introduction to ‘Dialogue with the City’, Nermin Duraković

5:40–5:55 p.m.: Reading, Merima Dizdarević

6–6:50 p.m.: Presentation, Jeppe Wedel-Brandt

6:50–7:10 p.m.: Break

7:10–7:25 p.m.: Reading, Amina Elmi

7:25–8:30 p.m.: Presentation, Boris Buden

9:30 p.m.: ANA closes

EVENT: NAM in ANA, Friday, March 27, 5-8 p.m.

As part of Nermin Duraković’s exhibition Dialogue with the City, we continue the conversation about an alternative future and attempts to create new global imaginings, based on an analysis of the past.

In our next conversation, “NAM at ANA”, we invite Zlatko Jovanović, a cultural historian and lecturer at the University of Copenhagen teaching European Ethnology, and Merima Dizdarević, an author, performance artist and guest lecturer at HDK-Valand, the Academy of Art and Design at the University of Gothenburg. Together they will provide insights into the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) through the perspective of former Yugoslavia.

Socialist Yugoslavia is known for its particular form of socialism, which included workers’ self-management and an independent foreign policy based on neutrality during the deeply bipolar Cold War, which unfolded in the latter part of the 20th century. Yugoslav workers’ self-management was an important inspiration globally for left-wing thinkers in their formulation of visions for a radically different social and political future.

This conversation will examine the role former Yugoslavia played through the NAM movement in African decolonisation processes and infrastructural development. We will analyse this through examples of alternative cultural, social and economic exchanges that took place between Yugoslavia and African countries through the NAM movement. We will hear about, among other things, how Europe’s first African museum, which aimed to present Africa from an African perspective, came into being. And we will discuss how exchanges between continents can take place based on equal recognition.

Zlatko Jovanović and Merima Dizdarević will each give a presentation, followed by open conversation and shared reflection. The presentations will be held in English.

BOOK LAUNCH (TBA):

A publication with the same title as the exhibition, “Dialogue with the City,” is planned for the coming months. This publication will feature artworks produced for the exhibition, supplemented by texts by Jeppe Wedel-Brandt, Boris Buden, Nermin Duraković, and an interview with Nermin Duraković by journalist and historian Farhiya Khalid. The date of the publication launch will be announced later.

OPENING HOURS:

Fridays 3–6 p.m.

Saturdays 2–5 p.m.

And by appointment, write to email@nermindurakovic.com

BIOS:

Nermin Duraković is a visual artist working in the field of socially and politically engaged art. Over the past two decades he has created a range of projects that examine the structural aspects of migration politics, and produced numerous artworks, exhibitions, and lectures on these and related themes. He was born in Trebinje, former Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina), moved to Denmark in 1993, and studied sculpture at the Funen Academy of Fine Arts in Odense (2000‑2005). He has worked as an Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and has also been actively involved in developing a variety of cultural and social initiatives.

Jeppe Wedel-Brandt (born 1980) is an educator, MA in Modern Culture (University of Copenhagen) and author. In 2020, he published the essay collection “Hvepseår” (Antipyrine), in which he writes about nationalism, identity and hope in Denmark and Bosnia. He has traveled extensively in Bosnia and lived in Sarajevo for extended periods, where he has focused on learning about Bosnia’s history, the war in the 1990s, nationalism, violence, and the situation in the country today.

Boris Buden is a writer and cultural theorist based in Berlin. Born in former Yugoslavia he studied philosophy in Zagreb and received his PhD in cultural theory from Humboldt University in Berlin. Since the beginning of the 1980s Buden publishes essays and books on critical and cultural theory, psychoanalysis, politics and contemporary art in Croatian, German and English. He is permanent fellow at The European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies in Vienna and teaches at various universities in Europe. Among his recent publications is the book “Transition to Nowhere: Art in History After 1989” (Berlin 2020).

Amina Elmi graduated from the Danish Academy of Creative Writing in the summer of 2023. In August 2023, she made her debut as an author with “BARBAR [Tavshedens objekt],” a collection of poems about brutality, grief, anger, despair, love, and loss. Elmi writes about living with a severed connection to her family’s history, rituals, language, and identity. In her poems, she attempts to establish a connection to all that has been lost, but silence stands as an empty center—everything that cannot be said because there is no language for it, or because it is too painful. These are poems about silence as both a necessity and a form of violence.

Merima Dizdarević’s practice encompasses poetry and other kinds of writing, as well as performance art, teaching and translating. Currently she is writing a piece for an international issue of the Swedish Paletten Art Journal on Aimé Césaire’s seminal work Cahier D’un Retour Au Pays Natal (Notebook of a Return to my Native Land), which she started writing on the Yugoslav Adriatic coast.

Zlatko Jovanović is a cultural historian, particularly interested in the intersection between politics, culture and everyday life in socialist Yugoslavia and its successor states. Principal topics in his research include popular culture, housing policies, environment and modernisation processes in the margins of society – with a special focus on how local Yugoslav developments relate to global trends. He is the author of the monograph A Cultural History of the 1984 Winter Olympics. The Making of Olympic Sarajevo (2021), along with numerous research and other articles.

The exhibition is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation and the Council for Visual Arts.

For the Skabninger Samlinger performance series, we meet once a month from January to June 2026. We watch, talk about, and immerse ourselves in performance art through curated showings and artist conversations.

Each monthly gathering consists of a performance evening as well as an in-depth artist talk a few days later. The performance evenings take place at or around Astrid Noack’s Atelier and the conversations take place at COSMOS in Cph NV.

Skabninger Samlinger is curated through an open call, and the program is organized around six thematic clusters – inspired by the submitted works and practices.

Skabninger Samlinger is a place where we gather, collect, are created, and create around performance art.

Skabninger Samlinger #3 comprises performances on March 13 in Vermillion Sands at 3-8 p.m. and conversation on March  18 in COSMOS (Degnestavnen 19, 2400 Kbh NV) at 7-9 p.m.. The theme is “play and characters/roles”. We will see performances by and talk with DuoDuo, Ba Bladh and HagFags.

Registration is free, but please book a ticket at:

https://v2.billetten.dk/index/chooseprice/showid/404565/type/1?

The theme for Skabninger Samlinger #1 was ‘Performance art as a life companion’, and we saw performances by Mette Kit Jensen, Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Birgitte Ejdrup Kristensen and Ar Utke Ács. The theme for Skabninger Samlinger #2 was “Performance writing”, and we saw performances by Jeuno JE Kim, Inga Gerner Nielsen, xiri noir and Karen Nhea Nielsen.

Skabninger Samlinger is curated and organized by Storm Møller Madsen and Sara Hamming.

The performance series is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.

For the Skabninger Samlinger performance series, we meet once a month from January to June 2026. We watch, talk about, and immerse ourselves in performance art through curated showings and artist conversations.

Each monthly gathering consists of a performance evening as well as an in-depth artist talk a few days later. The performance evenings take place at or around Astrid Noack’s Atelier and the conversations take place at COSMOS in Cph NV.

Skabninger Samlinger is curated through an open call, and the program is organized around six thematic clusters – inspired by the submitted works and practices.
Skabninger Samlinger is a place where we gather, collect, are created, and create around performance art.

Skabninger Samlinger#2 will be shown on 8 February at Astrid Noack’s Atelier from 3-8pm and discussed on 13 February at COSMOS from 5-7pm, Degnestavnen 19, 2400 Copenhagen NV – the theme is “performance writing”.

We will see performances by and talk with Jeuno JE Kim, Inga Gerner Nielsen, xiri noir and Karen Nhea Nielsen.

Registration is free, but please book a ticket at:

https://v2.billetten.dk/index/chooseprice/showid/404565/type/1?

The theme for Skabninger Samlinger #1 was ‘Performance art as a life companion’, and we saw performances by Mette Kit Jensen, Nanna Lysholt Hansen, Birgitte Ejdrup Kristensen and Ar Utke Ács.

Skabninger Samlinger is curated and organized by Storm Møller Madsen and Sara Hamming.

The performance series is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.