ASTRID NOACKS ATELIER

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

Current

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.

Events

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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 Air

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

01.05.23 - 22.05.23

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 hostile 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.

 

Past events

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.

ANA Forum

Line Skywalker Karlström og Frida Sandström Bogsamtale: Holes Dug, Rocks Thrown (samtalen foregår i Bogcaféen almindelig brand)

01.02.23

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BCAB (Bogcaféen Almindelig Brand) i samarbejde med Astrid Noacks Atelier.

OBS! Samtalen foregår i BCAB, Baldergade 70, 2200 København kl. 17-19.

Bogen “Holes Dug, Rocks Thrown – Line Skywalker Karlström’s Works Through the Prism of Queer and Feminist Art Practices” er den første omfattende præsentation af billedkunstneren Line Skywalker Karlströms praksis. I overensstemmelse med Skywalker Karlströms opfattelse af at kunst i bedste fald består af kaotisk og associativ vidensproduktion, som formes i en samarbejdende og igangværende samtale, er deres bog blevet en bastardmonografi, hvor en kunstnerisk praksis beskrives gennem dens relationer og flok.

BCAB og ANA har inviteret Line at diskutere deres bog med denne flok som prisme. Hvordan er f.eks. forholdet mellem kunstens relationer og de abstrakte relationer som samfundets arbejdsdeling skaber? Vokser flokken gennem eller udenom det formelle kunstbegrebs rum og identifikationer?

I mere end 20 år har Line Skywalker Karlströms beskæftiget sig med “queer verdensskabelse” gennem brug af kropsliggørelse og blød materialitet. Med udgangspunkt i “at tænke med kroppen” og erfaringer af ekskludering/inkludering, appellerer den til steder, rum og kunsthistorien med poetiske, flygtige bevægelser som sigter mod på samme tid at repræsentere og destabilisere, skjule sig og nægte. Med afsæt i queermetode, forholder Line sig til emner og materialer på en associativ og promiskuøs måde og bruger sparsomlighedens begrænsninger som motor i sin æstetik.

ANA Forum

Naomi Kawase Terrassen presents

29.12.22

4pm: Embracing (1992), 40’

5pm: Katatsumori (1994), 40’

6pm: Sky,Wind,Fire,Water,Earth (2000), 50’

7pm: See Heaven (1995), 10’ + Sun on the Horizon (1996), 45’

(NB: Sake, tea and soup will be served)

Terrassen is a nomadic cinema in Copenhagen that investigates the social life of film. All screenings are free and everyone is welcome.

My early works were shot mostly in 16mm and on Super 8. The great thing about Super 8 is that it captures details so well. It can be very subtle in how it communicates them to the public. Digital video has it own benefits, but screening Super 8 films had to be done in a private room, with a projector. This was the only way to share my work with the audience, and it felt private and intimate, like a diary. It was an ideal format.

– Naomi Kawase

 

ANA Local

Sara Hamming, Anja Jacobsen and A. Performance: LOST TITLE #4 – December 17th at 4 pm

17.12.22

LOST TITLE – a cycle of testimonies of waste.

A LOST TITLE. manifestation has previously been shown in Astrid Noack’s Atelier with a choir, who sang compositions of testimonies from meetings with waste professionals, and others who picks up inside and outside.

A host of notes, in dochmiac, the crying rhythm.

(…)

The research that I couldn’t really figure out how to do

Overwhelmed, that which has happened.

…Stood still for a long time (stiffened?), I thought that what I had learned – or tried to recreate, had become waste

that I had been so stupid that I had wasted..

…then I copied “the whole thing” (Grinning Face With Sweat emoji) unsorted, into a book

a kind of eternal life, regained

(…)

A desire for compost

This time I’ll walk with A, the composer:

To do together. Exist in A.

A sings to me as I walk, while I put my head into the book and look for something I can use

A knocks.

A sings for the book, which we put our heads into and look for something we can use

Everything is inside the book

I will also call A.

Still no images of trash.

The face which is exactly the same as hers

10 pairs of new shoes and shame.

Have I used A?

A has used me too!

When you say I haven’t done my research, haven’t sorted through it, I can just say (quote from the book)

that I have done it with my whole body, have felt it, tried to excrete it, with my whole body.

Etc.

See http://www.moribund.dk/tabt-titel-lost-title/ for earlier manifestations of LOST TITLE.

Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation.

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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