ASTRID NOACKS ATELIER

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

Current

ANA Local

Nanna Lysholt Hansen Mother Mould part II

08.12.23 - 17.12.23

Dear Astrid,

Excavation, the underground goddesses. They are many, but one was here. I place its chthonic young one by your young man who plants a tree, because just as anything can sprout, there are internal organs that can grow and grow. Put down roots and sprout up. Break through concrete. They thought they could take us down but they didn’t know we were seeds. The young man who plants a tree still inhabits your studio. Here you have lived, here you have worked, here lives the young man who plants a tree. Along with the underground. The young man who plants a tree here has been surrounded by many artists and works of art over time. I grant here, for a time, attendants to your young man planting a tree. It is korai, young women. your daughters, Ειμαι η κορι σου, Kore Dear Astrid we are archaic we are your women your mothers your children. I take in. I become your kore your daughter my body your mother mother mold for a while. While I mother your rooms. and temporally and for a while anachronistically I am resurrected. like the technology that also has a body. The mother capsule, a matrix, is erected. Dear Astrid, there is a sculpture buried in your backyard. A pulse, an erectile body in concrete, it’s for you. Yours forever. Your chthonic. Kore.

OPENING:

Friday December 8th from 4pm-7pm, performance (Kore, Standing woman) at 5pm.

FINISSAGE AND PRESENTATION WITH BASTARD PRESS:

Saturday December 16th from 4pm-7pm,

4.30 PM: Script, text, writing and performance: Nanna Lysholt Hansen in conversation with Lise Margrethe Jørgensen editor at bastard Press, and editor of Nanna Lysholt Hansen’s recent publication the camera body & OBSTETRICAL DEPARTMENT / birth / pregnant.

OPEN BY APPOINTMENT:

Contact Nanna Lysholt Hansen (60329184 & nannalysholthansen@gmail.com)

Events

Calendar

ANA Local

Nanna Lysholt Hansen Mother Mould part II

08.12.23 - 17.12.23

Dear Astrid,

Excavation, the underground goddesses. They are many, but one was here. I place its chthonic young one by your young man who plants a tree, because just as anything can sprout, there are internal organs that can grow and grow. Put down roots and sprout up. Break through concrete. They thought they could take us down but they didn’t know we were seeds. The young man who plants a tree still inhabits your studio. Here you have lived, here you have worked, here lives the young man who plants a tree. Along with the underground. The young man who plants a tree here has been surrounded by many artists and works of art over time. I grant here, for a time, attendants to your young man planting a tree. It is korai, young women. your daughters, Ειμαι η κορι σου, Kore Dear Astrid we are archaic we are your women your mothers your children. I take in. I become your kore your daughter my body your mother mother mold for a while. While I mother your rooms. and temporally and for a while anachronistically I am resurrected. like the technology that also has a body. The mother capsule, a matrix, is erected. Dear Astrid, there is a sculpture buried in your backyard. A pulse, an erectile body in concrete, it’s for you. Yours forever. Your chthonic. Kore.

OPENING:

Friday December 8th from 4pm-7pm, performance (Kore, Standing woman) at 5pm.

FINISSAGE AND PRESENTATION WITH BASTARD PRESS:

Saturday December 16th from 4pm-7pm,

4.30 PM: Script, text, writing and performance: Nanna Lysholt Hansen in conversation with Lise Margrethe Jørgensen editor at bastard Press, and editor of Nanna Lysholt Hansen’s recent publication the camera body & OBSTETRICAL DEPARTMENT / birth / pregnant.

OPEN BY APPOINTMENT:

Contact Nanna Lysholt Hansen (60329184 & nannalysholthansen@gmail.com)

 

Past events

ANA Forum

Performance art on geopolitics and climate justice. Fundraiser for Gaza/Palestine

09.12.23

We invite you to a collaboratively curated day of performance art in Astrid Noacks Atelier.

A group of artists will present performances throughout the day, jointly manifesting how the struggle against the occupation and invasion in Palestine and Gaza can be connected to the struggle for climate justice and against[1] [2]  geopolitical structures of oppression.

We find that the Danish media’s representation of the violence in Palestine and Gaza is unjust, silencing, and de-sensitizing. With this performance day, we want to contribute to a re-sensitizing and understanding of how we in this place and this now are connected to the struggle in Palestine.

Program:

3pm/

Nanna Lysholt

Xiri Tara Noir

Victor Valqui Vidal

Charlotte Bergmann Johansen

Joshua Ezekiel Sales

Maria Nørholm Ramouk and Karen Nhea Nielsen

Peter Vadim, Dorte Bjerre, and Jonathan Aardestrup

Stephen McEvoy

Linh Le

Signe Vad

Louisa Aisin

6pm/

Performative Soup

Kirsten Dufour and Finn Thybo

Morten Bencke

7pm/

Toshie Takeuchi

Sarah Buchner

Maria Lepisto and Tanya Rydell Montan

Ben Rodney

Sall Lam Toro

Ran Suh

Juniper

Paolo de Venecia Gile

David Sebastian Lopez

The overall message is that of solidarity with Palestinian civilians losing their lives and livelihoods. A Fundraiser through a pay-what-you-can entrance by the door will be sent to The Danish House in Palestine.

There will be food (vegetable soups and cakes) and a bar throughout the day.

CONTACT: If you are interested in contributing to this event, 

–       as a helping hand 

–       by showing your performance-work 

–       by donations

please write us at performancedecember2023@gmail.com.

Organized by David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo, Ran Suh and Sara Hamming.

Thanks to:

All the participating artists,
Klejner & Gløgg (Jesper Aabille)
Food donators (Yong Sun Gullach),
Flyer designer (Bora Kim @deer studio in)

ANA Local

Rikke Luther Mud in the Earth System

03.11.23 - 03.12.23

Image from GROFS1-expedition (GLOBE Institute, Section for Geobiology), Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, 2023

Mud in the Earth System follows up on Rikke Luther’s The New Mud, which was presented in ANA in 2021. In the first part, Luther through a series of research-based works illuminated, how new unpredictable weather caused by climate change – which relates to human activities – creates new unpredictable mud. In the second part, Luther continues her lengthy investigations into the movements of the mud.

The exhibition partly includes new textiles, stills and research material from the on-going work in relation to the art practice-based research project The Ocean-Lands: Mud Within the Earth System. And partly a work from the former project Concrete Aesthetics: From Universal Rights to Financial Post Democracy (2017-2021). The new work which examines the new ‘mud-scapes’ in Iceland, Greenland, Svalbard and the sea-scape from the perspective of Gotland thus focuses on the social and the political, as well on acceleration and the bio-chemical effects of the mud motion in the landscape – in the geosphere and the biosphere.

For millennia, static muds facilitated cultural exchanges across legal boundaries. Warming global temperatures result in their motion. Melting glaciers and inland ice result in mud. Ancient mud-flats and swamps reclaim space as human occupation recedes. Permafrost melts and sinks; land slips; lakes recede, and their beds collapse. Swelling muds slide toward the oceans, helping to facilitate the increasingly garbled circulations of the Earth System.

As part of the larger attempt to build a new ethical and aesthetic public language capable of communicating the crisis within the Earth System the exhibition explores the social-organisational effects of ocean-land muds in motion and the bio-communicative effects of the ocean-land muds in transition.

The exhibition is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, the Novo Nordic Foundation, Baltic Art Center and Art Hub Copenhagen (NAARCA).

OPENING:

Friday November 3th at 6pm-8pm.

EVENTS:

Thursday November 9th at 5pm ANA invites you to the conversation ‘Death and life in mud, a split second of 2 million years’ between Rikke Luther and geochemist Karina Krarup Sand. The conversation will, among other things, revolve around the processes between what we define as organic and non-organic; between organic molecules and mineral surfaces as well as the significance for life in muddy environments with fragmented 2 million year old e-DNA everywhere. What happens when the ocean carves out new landscapes with land and river erosion, and when oceans of material are transformed and moved from melted areas?

Monday November 27th at 5pm: artist talk with Rikke Luther who will talk about the comprehensive issues she tries to map and turn into film in relation to the work Ocean-Lands: Mud Within the Earth System.

OPEN:

Fridays from 3pm-5pm or by appointment (rikke.luther@sund.ku.dk) The exhibition is also open in connection with the conversation on Thursday November 9th and the artist talk Tuesday November 28th from 3pm-5pm.

BIO: Rikke Luther is currently working on a postdoctoral, practice-based artistic research with the title The Ocean-Lands: Mud Within the Earth System at the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate (CMEC), Globe Institute, Copenhagen University.Rikke Luther’s current work explores the new interrelations created by environmental crisis as they relate to Earth System. Those relation compass themes related to landscape, language, politics, financialisation, law, biology, and economy, that expressed in drawn images, photography and film, which can then be investigated in pedagogical situations. Since the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo in 2016, Luther has been working solo. Prior to that, she worked exclusively in collectives. She defended the PhD Concrete Aesthetics: From Universal Rights to Financial Post-Democracy in 2021. It will be published with extended texts by Esther Leslie and Jaime Stapleton.

ANA Forum

Ursula Andkjær Olsen, Kaspar Kaum Bonnén & Claus Handberg Reading between Fall and Winter Version II

22.10.23

Sunday October 22th at 3pm ANA invites you to a reading. The three authors Ursula Andkjær Olsen, Kaspar Kaum Bonnén and Claus Handberg are from the same generation but have very different approaches to the personal. Ursula Andkjær Olsen will read from her identity- and economy critical Mit Smykkeskrin, Kasper Bonnén from his blunt and conciliatory Bag Om Min Far, and Claus Handberg from his upcoming poetry essay Genitor – en meditation over faderfiguren.

The reading is in Danish.

The reading is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.

ANA Local

VAV (Vida, Ana Pavlović & Vladimir Tomić) FABULA

22.09.23 - 21.10.23

All parents – and maybe especially parents like us – who were not born in Denmark, are often worried about how much the background and baggage we carry will affect our children, as well as how our stories and experiences will follow them throughout life. At the same time, we are aware that concepts such as bilingual, immigrant, second generation, third generation will influence our children in their upbringing no matter what. Children of parents with another ethnic background know that their parents come from another country, they overhear conversations and are also told stories at home about the parents’ past, about their family, about flight and about the homeland, but much of it is still intangible. Against the background of such fragments, they fantasize further – as children often do.

In the exhibition “FABULA” we examine, partly in a newly produced cut-out animated film and partly in a series of workshops, how children of parents with a different ethnic background experience the parents’ story of flight, migration and war. In the cut-out animated film, our daughter Vida take the lead role and tells our story from her own perspective, which raises questions such as: How is the children’s knowledge of the parents’ experiences manifested – consciously and unconsciously? How does their imagination connect with reality? That, for example, you mostly see your grandparents over Viber and have to fly to another country when you have to visit them? That you can’t quite communicate in a common language?

In combination with the newly produced film, a series of workshops for the children and their parents will be hosted in ANA, where we jointly try to ‘translate’ their experiences, thoughts and memories with the help of cut-out animation, which will afterwards be presented as an installation in the room. With the help of family photographs, drawings and the children’s own words and experiences, the exhibition thus moves between the near and the far, between child and parents at the same time as it addresses complicated issues in relation to whether the parents’ traumatic experiences can be observed in the children, and whether one can track and talk about a transgenerational trauma which children in different ways are processing.

Thanks to animator Kristian Nordentoft.

OPENING:

Friday September 22 from 4pm-7pm.

EVENT:

Saturday October 14th at 12am there will be an artist talk with Vladimir Tomić and Ana Pavlović. In continuation of the family workshops held in the previous weekends, the two artists will present the cut-out material they have produced together with the children and their parents. More info to follow.

OPENING HOURS:

It is possible to see the newly produced cut-out animation film in connection with the two closed workshops on Saturday September 30th and Saturday October 7th, both days at 11am-4pm. The exhibition will also be open on Sunday September 24th at 1pm-3pm and Saturday October 21th at 1pm-5pm and by appointment (email: vladimirtomic80@gmail.com or ananico77@gmail.com)

The exhibition is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.

BIO: Ana Pavlović (1977, SRB/DK) was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in 2014. Her work is concerned with articulations of identity and cultural differences in the wake of globalization, as well as the role stories of ‘the other’ play in our collective conscious. Ana Pavlovic’s work has received several awards and is part of the State Museum of Art collection. She exhibits both in Denmark and abroad.

BIO: Vladimir Tomić’s art films belong in the field of contemporary art as well as experimental documentary. Often with an essayist approach, main themes in his productions are inspired by very universal and human tensions, for example between the individual identity and the changing structure of the society. Tomić’s work has been awarded and shown at Berlinale Forum, NY Anthology Film Archives, IDFA and many more. His work is included in the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark. In 2022 Tomić debuted with his first auto fictional novel at publishing house Gyldendal. Tomić is originally from Sarajevo. He graduated from The Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, 2009.

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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. 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 is supported by

Overretssagfører L. Zeuthens Mindelegat

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  • 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
  • Finn Thybo Andersen
  • 60 81 02 18
  • 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