ASTRID NOACKS ATELIER

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

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Gitte Villesen, Pia Rönicke, Jytte Høy & Sebastian Hedevang On (again)

19.01.25 - 02.02.25

Pia Rönicke, Bordered, digital film, 31.01 min, 2021

Gitte Villesen, Wet Sand, (working title), 2024. Detail from “Floras forlis” (1882) by Ingeborg Madsen

 

Dear Sebastian, Gitte, and Jytte,

I would like to invite you to participate in the exhibition ”On (again)” in connection with my screening of the film “Bordered” at Astrid Noack’s Atelier.

In conversations with you in various settings (at a pub, a celebration, or through a screen), it emerged that each of us was reading Solvej Balle’s ”On the Calculation of Volume”. These conversations revolved around crises—being stuck in the grind, Long COVID, exhaustion, the inability to make work—but also about how reading became a kind of way out. Still, it was surprising to realize how differently we approached the text, with disparate attentiveness and longings. Yet, it shouldn’t be startling that our reading reflects our lives and artistic practices. The repetition of November 18th, which forms the premise of Balle’s series, provides a framework that radically reshapes the world we inhabit—language, relationships, imprints, objects, actions, and our connection to history and the future—and, by extension, how it is possible to make art.

In the spring of 2020, during the lockdown, I filmed “Bordered”, which included scenes at Astrid Noack’s Atelier. In a state of suspension, as though hanging in mid-air, I had time to observe movements that are otherwise managed in a split second. This led me to think about patterns that might prevent a collapse. A system that does not accelerate its own destruction in the absence (or presence) of movement. The slumbering, like hibernation, halting the process of life as a form of preservation, is part of the balance I believe we have forgotten. But without a present future, daydreaming is also not possible.

In the film “Bordered”, a filmmaker attempts to trace Silvia’s steps in an unknown near future and past. Who is Silvia? What is Silvia? In a search for coexistence, Silvia bridges seemingly opposing worldviews: sequence and simultaneity. Silvia has left the narrative as a means to an end, as a counterbalance to a world that only obeys progression.

For me, reading “On the Calculation of Volume” is connected to the film through questions about how temporalities affect spaces and how mutations in time create mutations in matter. But from this perspective, do we also have the agency to reverse our own footprint if we enter into a different relationship with time itself?

It is this daydreaming I invite you to participate in, with a presence at Astrid Noack’s Atelier between January 19th and February 2nd, 2025.

Warm greetings,

Pia

On (again) is an exhibition featuring Gitte Villesen, Pia Rönicke, Jytte Høy, and Sebastian Hedevang, with the reading of Solvej Balle’s seven-volume work On the Calculation of Volume serving as a conceptual framework. Through the exhibition, the space is transformed over the course of the exhibition period, engaging with a more open exhibition format. The exhibition takes shape through conversations, readings, and a presence in the space. The artists contribute singular works, fragments of works in progress, or works on their way to becoming more comprehensive.

PROGRAM:

Reading, Sunday, January 19th at 3 PM, open from 1 PM to 5 PM

Reading, Sunday, January 26th at 3 PM, open from 1 PM to 5 PM

Opening, Friday, January 31st from 5 PM to 7 PM

Open Saturday, February 1st from 1 PM to 5 PM

Reading, Sunday, February 2nd (Groundhog Day) at 3 PM, open from 1 PM to 5 PM

The reading is in Danish.

BIO:

Gitte Villesen: I developed my primarily filmic and photographic works as situational encounters with protagonists who are present not just through moving video footage, but also as important dialogue partners. My practice of telling and re-telling as forms of manifold montages of the encountered, the staged, and the archival is continued in my recent projects, but since 2016 extended through pervasive references to litterature often feminist science fiction (Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia E. Butler und Suzette Haden Elgin)

Pia Rönicke: I work between text, objects, and film, with archives and everyday actions, between forests and other kinds of spaces to dissolve restricted notions. The connection between the free and equal is a continuous obsession, but also about articulating matters in frameworks that must be rediscovered.

Jytte Høy: My art is about ‘abstract space’ and the little things that nobody notices. Through simple actions and powerful concepts, I generate associations and relationships between everyday objects and mental images. I aim for ambiguous statements because the many layers of meaning open up great freedom of interpretation.

Sebastian Hedevang: Sebastian Hedevang: In recent years, my practice has been nourished by collaborations and self-organized collective processes in various constellations. Learning from The General Past (2023) with H. Heise, A. Rønholt Schmidt, J. Funder and M. Knudsen at La Cucina, Copenhagen, The Chocolate Wagon with Andreas Rønholt Schmidt i.a. with the exhibition Sludge Cake at ANA in 2021, as well as several works and projects with Mia Edelgart where children have been the primary audience.

Om (igen) is supported by the Danish Art Foundation.

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Gitte Villesen, Pia Rönicke, Jytte Høy & Sebastian Hedevang On (again)

19.01.25 - 02.02.25

Pia Rönicke, Bordered, digital film, 31.01 min, 2021

Gitte Villesen, Wet Sand, (working title), 2024. Detail from “Floras forlis” (1882) by Ingeborg Madsen

 

Dear Sebastian, Gitte, and Jytte,

I would like to invite you to participate in the exhibition ”On (again)” in connection with my screening of the film “Bordered” at Astrid Noack’s Atelier.

In conversations with you in various settings (at a pub, a celebration, or through a screen), it emerged that each of us was reading Solvej Balle’s ”On the Calculation of Volume”. These conversations revolved around crises—being stuck in the grind, Long COVID, exhaustion, the inability to make work—but also about how reading became a kind of way out. Still, it was surprising to realize how differently we approached the text, with disparate attentiveness and longings. Yet, it shouldn’t be startling that our reading reflects our lives and artistic practices. The repetition of November 18th, which forms the premise of Balle’s series, provides a framework that radically reshapes the world we inhabit—language, relationships, imprints, objects, actions, and our connection to history and the future—and, by extension, how it is possible to make art.

In the spring of 2020, during the lockdown, I filmed “Bordered”, which included scenes at Astrid Noack’s Atelier. In a state of suspension, as though hanging in mid-air, I had time to observe movements that are otherwise managed in a split second. This led me to think about patterns that might prevent a collapse. A system that does not accelerate its own destruction in the absence (or presence) of movement. The slumbering, like hibernation, halting the process of life as a form of preservation, is part of the balance I believe we have forgotten. But without a present future, daydreaming is also not possible.

In the film “Bordered”, a filmmaker attempts to trace Silvia’s steps in an unknown near future and past. Who is Silvia? What is Silvia? In a search for coexistence, Silvia bridges seemingly opposing worldviews: sequence and simultaneity. Silvia has left the narrative as a means to an end, as a counterbalance to a world that only obeys progression.

For me, reading “On the Calculation of Volume” is connected to the film through questions about how temporalities affect spaces and how mutations in time create mutations in matter. But from this perspective, do we also have the agency to reverse our own footprint if we enter into a different relationship with time itself?

It is this daydreaming I invite you to participate in, with a presence at Astrid Noack’s Atelier between January 19th and February 2nd, 2025.

Warm greetings,

Pia

On (again) is an exhibition featuring Gitte Villesen, Pia Rönicke, Jytte Høy, and Sebastian Hedevang, with the reading of Solvej Balle’s seven-volume work On the Calculation of Volume serving as a conceptual framework. Through the exhibition, the space is transformed over the course of the exhibition period, engaging with a more open exhibition format. The exhibition takes shape through conversations, readings, and a presence in the space. The artists contribute singular works, fragments of works in progress, or works on their way to becoming more comprehensive.

PROGRAM:

Reading, Sunday, January 19th at 3 PM, open from 1 PM to 5 PM

Reading, Sunday, January 26th at 3 PM, open from 1 PM to 5 PM

Opening, Friday, January 31st from 5 PM to 7 PM

Open Saturday, February 1st from 1 PM to 5 PM

Reading, Sunday, February 2nd (Groundhog Day) at 3 PM, open from 1 PM to 5 PM

The reading is in Danish.

BIO:

Gitte Villesen: I developed my primarily filmic and photographic works as situational encounters with protagonists who are present not just through moving video footage, but also as important dialogue partners. My practice of telling and re-telling as forms of manifold montages of the encountered, the staged, and the archival is continued in my recent projects, but since 2016 extended through pervasive references to litterature often feminist science fiction (Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia E. Butler und Suzette Haden Elgin)

Pia Rönicke: I work between text, objects, and film, with archives and everyday actions, between forests and other kinds of spaces to dissolve restricted notions. The connection between the free and equal is a continuous obsession, but also about articulating matters in frameworks that must be rediscovered.

Jytte Høy: My art is about ‘abstract space’ and the little things that nobody notices. Through simple actions and powerful concepts, I generate associations and relationships between everyday objects and mental images. I aim for ambiguous statements because the many layers of meaning open up great freedom of interpretation.

Sebastian Hedevang: Sebastian Hedevang: In recent years, my practice has been nourished by collaborations and self-organized collective processes in various constellations. Learning from The General Past (2023) with H. Heise, A. Rønholt Schmidt, J. Funder and M. Knudsen at La Cucina, Copenhagen, The Chocolate Wagon with Andreas Rønholt Schmidt i.a. with the exhibition Sludge Cake at ANA in 2021, as well as several works and projects with Mia Edelgart where children have been the primary audience.

Om (igen) is supported by the Danish Art Foundation.

 

Past events

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Claus Handberg & Henrik Sundh Workmusic for Poets – live launch session, 2-3.30pm

15.12.24

Workmusic for Poets is a new Copenhagen-based project with a unique sound that also has a beautiful purpose: to guide and inspire others in their creative journeys through the abstract twists and turns of music.

Claus Handberg, guitarist and author, and Henrik Sundh, award-winning musician and producer, are collaborating to bring Workmusic for Poets to life. Handberg’s background in both poetry and music, combined with Sundh’s expertise as a composer, producer and musician, create a dynamic partnership.

Workmusic for Poets is a captivating musical experience that inspires its listeners to express themselves creatively. As the name suggests, the music acts as a companion to various creative activities, such as writing or drawing, rather than just being background sound. It actively shapes and influences the creative process with moods, directions, inspiration and challenges.

The music has a slow, unpredictable and transformative nature that flows freely between the two main expressions: Handberg’s Americana-inspired guitar and Sundh’s experimental ambient. The music is composed entirely of guitar recordings, performed by Handberg, then sampled, transformed and rearranged by Sundh.

On Sunday 15 December, Workmusic for Poets will be performed live in ANA while the audience writes, draws, folds or anything else under the influence of the music.

We provide paper and pencils as well as coffee, tea and Christmas cookies. As always, admission is free and everyone is welcome.

See you there!

BIO:

Henrik Sundh is a musician and producer. Henrik won two awards at the Danish Music Awards Jazz in 2005 for his work with cult bands Tys Tys and Autofant. He was also part of singer Josefine Cronholm’s band Ibis and has worked as musical director with renowned stage artists Das Beckwerk and Mute Comp. Physical Theatre, while he has produced music under the name Dodebum, releasing three EPs on the acclaimed UK label bleep.com in 2014. He has been teaching music, composition and music production at several conservatories in Denmark and is now head of the adult department at the Rhythmic Centre in Copenhagen, a school with all kinds of courses in music for everyone. He also performs with the artist Sitrekin.

Claus Handberg is a poet and musician. He made his debut as a poet in 2001 with ‘320 Pund’ published by Gyldendal, and his latest release is the collection ‘Vores’ at Antipyrine from 2018. He made his debut as a musician and songwriter in 2009 with the album ‘In A Sense’ and most recently released ‘Ind Kommer Alle’ at Antipyrine in 2016. Claus has been teaching creative writing at Forfatterskolen and held numerous courses and workshops in writing both poetry and prose. He also has a career in photography with several exhibitions under his belt.

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Jeuno Kim FAQ, Ofte Stillede Spørgsmål, 자주 올라오는 질문

08.11.24 - 23.11.24

The Danish title is taken from Kirsten Hammann’s book by the same name where in the form of a journal entry, she expands on the frequently asked questions she gets as a writer. In the book we get insights into her process as a writer, the challenges of writing, her role as a mother, a partner, a friend, her conversing with other writers, comments on the literary scene, and what is happening in society at the time of her writing.  In this performance exhibition, I took the questions in Hammann’s book and posed them to a fictional Astrid Noack or No Ack, whom I have taken on as a “teacher” in the past year, and created a set of exercises and prompts for working. In the process of researching on Astrid Noack’s practice and works, I wondered about how it would be had she been my teacher at the art academy, and the conversations I would have had about the process of making art, the challenges of surviving as an artist, and how what one is surrounded by gets woven into the work we make as artists.

Some of the prompts “given” by my fictional teacher No Ack have been abstract questions such as “Where is Intuition? – draw a map of its location and how to get there”; “What is Arm’s Length? – draw the anatomy of that policy”, while others have been abstract proposals drawn from experiences in classrooms such as, “Measure The  Growth of Misunderstandings”, or “Can All The Clocks in the World Be Walking Together.” The nonsensical and absurd assignments from the fictional teacher No Ack pushes me to grapple with unsavory conditions and emotions of being an artist such as disappointment of time-not-spent; difficulty of accepting failure; and competing with ghosts from the past.

The performance-exhibition consists of “translation drawings” on paper of varying sizes (A5 – 90 x 150cm) where text and drawn elements are intertwined in landscapes and quotidian tableaux; as well as textual forms made in clay, clothes hanger, and fabric that I consider to be “sculptural” forms that is to be read as texts/book.

PERFORMANCES:

Friday November 8th

Wednesday November 13th

Friday November 15th

Friday November 22th (This afternoon Pia Rönicke will hold a studio visit with Jeuno Kim and No Ack from 4.30pm-5.30pm.)

Saturday November 23th

All days from 4.30-6pm
Performance duration 20 minutes

BIO:

Born in South Korea, Jeuno Kim is a Swedish artist and educator living in Copenhagen. Currently, she is the study leader of the BFA school at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Previously, she was a Professor at the Funen Art Academy, and study leader of the BFA program in Fine Arts at HDK-Valand, Gothenburg University. 

Kim has a background in feminist liberation theology, classical piano, and has previously worked as a radio DJ. Her performance, text, sound and video works explore the nebulousness of memory and its formative role in questions of identity that is mediated through geography, translation, and narratives. Her artistic practice is oriented toward problematics of representation, animated images as knowledge, feminist pedagogies, and issues of living in translation required of many diasporic identities.

Since 2008 Kim has been part of an artist duo with Swedish artist Ewa Einhorn, and since 2009 they have made numerous videos, performances, drawings, and installations. They are the founders of Krabstadt, a feminist transmedia project, which has been shaped through many collaborations and contexts producing animated films, computer games, performances, and an academic journal. 

Artist Pia Rönicke lives and works in Copenhagen. She is educated at the Royal Danish Art Academy (1995-2001) and California Institute of the Arts (1999-2001).

The exhibition is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.

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Arendse Krabbe Invitation to listen: Sound of becoming another kind of being – Living – Dying

20.09.24 - 19.10.24

You are invited to a listening situation in Astrid Noack Atelier. You listen to the room and the room listens to you. Beyond his acoustic performance, Astrid Noacks plaster sculpture Young man planting a tree leads me to today’s urgent need to plant a tree, an oak tree, an olive tree, any tree.

In the listening situation, shifts in time and space also occur when sounds from a past but current event are played through loudspeakers. The sound of a reading will also be present. The text being read is the testimonies of people in Gaza, testimonies whose statements are present in the room as they are read out. It is in these folds of time, place and sound that Pauline Olivero’s words resonate; ‘Our world is a complex matrix of vibrating energy, matter and air, just as we are made of vibrations. Vibration connects us with all beings and connects us to all things interdependently.” 

Perhaps it’s obvious that vibrations connect us.

But how do you listen? How do I listen? How are communities created in relation to how we listen? Pauline Oliveros points out in her manifesto for listening as activism Quantum Listening; “how we listen creates our lives”.

A kite and its tail are also present in the space. It was made by a group of artists and cultural workers who demonstrate against the genocide in Gaza. The kite is also made in sympathy for the artists and cultural workers around the world who are censored when they speak critically about the genocide in Gaza. The community, which I am also a part of, has borrowed space at Til Vægs in Lundtoftegade to organise themselves. The kite is inspired by the poem ‘If I must die’ written by poet, writer, university professor and mentor for young people Refaat Alareer. He was born in 1979 – the same year as me. He died in an Israeli airstrike in 2023 along with his brother and sister and her four children. Refaat Alareer left behind his wife and their six children. In April 2024, Refaat Alareer’s daughter Shaima, her husband and their four-month-old son were also killed in an Israeli air strike. The kite’s tail is several metres long and has loops – each loop represents a child killed in Gaza. Over 14,000 children have been killed in Gaza. The kite is present in the room in such a way that it is ready to be taken back to the streets to demonstrate against the genocide in Gaza.

The listening situation you are invited to is made in love and care for you as a listener, Astrid Noack’s Atelier as a listener, the community around the kite and the people suffering distress and loss. 

In the hope of love and with loving vibrations

～ Arendse Krabbe

The title of the exhibition is a quote from American composer Pauline Olivero’s text ‘The Earth Worm Also Sings’.

Pauline Oliveros (1932 -2016) was a composer, musician, activist and founder and practitioner of Deep Listening.

 

LISTENING SITUATIONS:

Friday 20 September at 5pm.https://billetto.dk/e/invitation-to-listen-sound-of-becoming-another-kind-of-being-living-dying-billetter-1075779?utm_source=organiser&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy_link&utm_content=1

Thursday 26 September at 5 pm. https://billetto.dk/e/invitation-to-listen-sound-of-becoming-another-kind-of-being-living-dying-billetter-1077057?utm_source=organiser&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy_link&utm_content=1

Thursday 3 October at 5 pm. https://billetto.dk/e/invitation-to-listen-sound-of-becoming-another-kind-of-being-living-dying-billetter-1077065?utm_source=organiser&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy_link&utm_content=1

Sunday 13 October at 3pm.https://billetto.dk/e/invitation-to-listen-sound-of-becoming-another-kind-of-being-living-dying-billetter-1077067?utm_source=organiser&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy_link&utm_content=1

Admission is free, please register via links: 

 

BANNER WORKSHOP FOR THE PALESTINE SQUARE:

Join us for a workshop with visual artist Suada Demirovic on 16 October, 2-5pm in Astrid Noack’s Atelier. We will make a collective banner for the exhibition space Palæstina Plads in Nørrebro. Please bring leftover textiles (like discarded duvet covers), yarn, needle, sewing thread if you have any lying around. Everyone can join in. The workshop is in collaboration with Til Vægs.

 

SOLIDARITY FILMSCREENING FOR PALESTINE #4

by Maia Torp Neergaard and Arendse Krabbe

On saturday the 12th of October at 19 hour Arendse and Maia will open up Astrid Noacks Atelier to show a short film programme in solidarity with Palestine. The evening’s main film will be ”Vibrations from Gaza” by Palestinian artist Rehab Nazzal. A 16 minute glimpse into the lives of children with hearing dissabilities in Gaza. A both beautiful and thought provoking piece. The donations of the evening will be sent to Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children. Rehab writes: Atfaluna was looted, bombed and destroyed by the IOF and now the Deaf community of the Society is working in tents in Deir Albalah.

We will provide some snacks and tea/coffee and hope that you’ll come and send donations to support Palestine.

Everybody is warmly invited

 

BIO:

In her artistic practice, Arendse Krabbe works with what it means to listen. Including how listening requires a fully present body. She is interested in exploring what mutual listening means and how this practice can create new and different communities across species, ethnicity, systems and borders. Arendse Krabbe works process-orientated, often engaging in collective constellations with people, other life forms and dimensions. Her work manifests itself as listening situations, sound, video, text and radio.

The exhibition is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation.

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Asta Lynge, Jakob Ohrt & Eleanor Ivory Weber Plenty

16.08.24 - 15.09.24

The title Plenty is taken from renowned chef and author Yotam Ottolenghi’s bestselling cookbook. Through sculpture, video and text, the works reinterpret various household items and reflect upon their function and their distribution. Food for thought: aspirational living compels consumers to endlessly trade the old for the new; capitalist individualism results in the reproduction en masse of the same; and cultivation of good conscience consumption is the psychic equivalent of waste management.

—

Cinnamon

It happened gradually and you started

To detect it

You grew shabbier and shabbier

This shabbiness was not the vain shabbiness of vintage style

Of carefully curated second-hand garments

The roughened nostalgia of temporal oblivion

It was the shabbiness of Thule, Ortlieb and Freitag

Of bicycle courier bags gone mainstream

That is the ultimate shabbiness of utilitarian ethics

Missing the glamour of the public realm

Northern efficiency aesthetics as the minima

Of demonstrable desirability

Everything on your back

Carting the means of production like a privilege

“Your day, your story!”

The day backpack and

The desire to be contained

Inside them all

Things that make the public realm appear

An inconvenience or incidental

For example: laptop, refillable drink bottle, ebooks on cultural theory and self-help, facial wipes, spare pair of underpants, portable battery pack for smartphone, keys to flat and bike, Tupperware container, mask, tissues, sweatshirt, wallet with a few different credit cards, ID from a country you aren’t in, earphones, hard-drive, hand sanitiser, bag of nuts, chargers

All were possessions

Minimal possessions

Used to distinguish you

At least nominally

You are flexible and mobile

Connected, multilingual, worldly

You tried not to fly too much

You still remembered being flattered

To go regularly to the airport

Compare airline experiences

When you flew lowcost you were doing jobs

You got used to distinguish yourself from tourists

Still

Like packhorses you were carting

The means of production

Trollies in streets, markets and airports

Showed that you needed

Your belongings close

For the threat of theft

And that you wouldn’t be yourself without them

“Don’t leave your belongings unattended

At any point during your journey.

Keep your bags zipped and keep your phone

Wallet and purse out of sight and valuables secure.”

Because everything was owned

Everyone was also a thing

The ones who left things outside

Were the ones who lived out there on a limb

The ones who owned nothing

And the ones who could afford to lose everything

Locked it all up in cases cars houses insurance packs stocks

The containers were never enough

One day while waiting

For your righteousness to be confirmed

Hold what you don’t have and get rid of it

—Eleanor Ivory Weber

OPENING: Thursday 15 August from 4pm-8pm with reading by Eleanor Ivory Weber at 7pm.

OPENING HOURS: Fridays and Saturdays from 1pm-5pm, saturday the 7th of september 2pm-6pm, or by appointment (mail@jakobohrt.com eller mail@astalynge.info)

BIOS:
Asta Lynge and Jakob Ohrt are artists who occasionally work together. Their work revolves around the notion of lifestyle often reducing it to its basic spatial, social or material conditions. Their collaborative work has been shown at O–Overgaden, Copenhagen; Cherry Hill, Cologne; Cucina, Copenhagen; Cittipunkt, Berlin; Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen and Stockholm School of Economics (with coyote).

Eleanor Ivory Weber is a writer and artist living in Brussels. In recent years her texts and performance works have been presented at C.C.C. Gallery, Copenhagen (with Philip Poppek); Wiels, Grand Casino Knokke; Woonhuis De Ateliers, Amsterdam; Etablissement d’en face, Brussels; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Alma Sarif, Brussels; and Kunstverein München.

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

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About ANA

Photo: Laura Stamer.

ANA is an independent, non-profit space for artistic experimentation, knowledge sharing and community building in Outer Nørrebro in Copenhagen. It is housed in the former studio of Danish sculptor Astrid Noack. ANA’s mission is to use art as a critical and educational tool to influence society in a more sustainable direction.

ANA was established in 2009 and has a background in the activist artist collective YNKB (Ydre Nørrebro Kulturbureau). ANA’s programme consists of four strands: ANA Local, ANA Air, ANA Children and ANA Forum. These refer Astrid Noack’s everyday life and artistic work in her studio from 1936-1950, where social and professional exchanges with neighbours and artists from near and far were part of everyday life. ANA’s cross-aesthetic programme connects the history of the space with a desire to jointly develop the place, which as a result of gentrification is left isolated, cut off from its former 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 that have helped to support and develop the space over the years. ANA’s institutional modus operandi is rooted in a principle of repetition, slow (research) processes, knowledge sharing and collective (un)learning. To allow artists and curators to develop projects over several years and get to know the site and the surrounding rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood – which used to be a typical working-class neighbourhood – we emphasise inviting them several times, so they can continue their research and conversations over time. This is with a desire to keep things moving, to prioritise process over outcome and to function as a responsive, self-critical and relational art space.

In the coming years, we will further emphasise commoning and collective (un)learning. Practices that go against the productivity and growth-oriented values that characterise the surrounding capitalist society. We want to gradually slow down 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 central.

 

ACCESS NOTE:

ANA is wheelchair accessible and admission to our exhibitions and activities is always free.

COLLABORATION PARTNERS:

PASS – Center for Practice-based Art Studies, University of Copenhagen

roda – soft water on hard stone (Katarina Stenbeck & Carla Zaccagnini)

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.
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  • 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.
    See all events related to ANA Children
  • ANA Forum
    • ANA FORUM is a track for knowledge sharing, contemplation, ‘commoning’ and critical discussion.
    See all events related to ANA Forum
  • 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.
    See all events related to ANA Local

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.

The association

ANA – 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.

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  • Astrid Noacks Atelier
  • Rådmandsgade 34
  • 2200 København N
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  • Artistic director & Curator
  • Kathrine Bolt Rasmussen
  • 22 30 80 91
  • kbr@astrid-noack.dk
  • Exhibition coordinator
  • Mie Lund Hansen
  • 27 28 15 29
  • mlh@astrid-noack.dk
  • Chair of the board & artistic director
  • Kirsten Dufour
  • 20 61 31 73
  • saas.dufour.andersen@gmail.com
  • Board member
  • Finn Thybo Andersen
  • 60 81 02 18
  • finnthybo@gmail.com
  • Board member
  • Rikke Diemer
  • 40 38 94 29
  • rikke.diemer@gmail.com
  • Cashier
  • Helle Westergaard
  • 42 46 09 54
  • helle.hik@gmail.com