The Aarhus-born photographer Petra Kleis is as of today exhibiting in the Copenhagen department store Illum with the series “Bugs”. The exhibition expresses a fascination of the animal by investigating the strong feelings most people seem to associate with this animal group – feelings such as fear, irritation or interest.

With a hard flash and loads of colors, the exhibition shows a variety of insects who all suffered the destiny of being killed by humans.

The exhibition opens today and runs until the end of April.

Illum
2nd floor
Østergade 52
DK – 1001 Copenhagen

Opening Hours
Monday – Thursday: 10 am – 7 pm
Friday: 10 am – 8 pm
Saturday: 10 am – 6 pm

Read more at
www.nabolos.dk

With works in the collections at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Mette Tronvoll can be considered to be among the elite in portrait photography.

One of the signatures of the Norwegian photographer, is the scale in which she presents her work. With portraits in large scale, Tronvoll has filled Museet for Fotokunst (Museum of Photo Art) in Odense. The retrospective exhibition shows portraits from days in the studio to the documentary depiction of people in as marvellous surroundings as the nature of Greenland, Mongolia and Japan.

The exhibition is open from January 20th to March 11th.

Museet for Fotokunst BRANDTS
Brandts Torv 1
DK – 5000 Odense

Opening hours
Tue – Sun: 10 am – 5 pm
Thurs: 12 am – 9 pm

More on
www.brandts.dk

10 years ago Danish Kim Grenaa and Uffe Buchard launched the international fashion and lifestyle magazine DANSK Magazin, to create a platform for and to promote Danish fashion abroad. In the last 10 years the magazine has established itself on the international market and is today published twice a year and distributed on six continents.

In collaboration with Danish Design Centre the two magazine founders have curated this exhibition to provide the audience with a walk-through of the history Danish fashion has gone through in the last decade.

Danish Design Centre
H.C. Andersens Boulevard 27
DK – 1533 København V

Opening Hours
Monday – Friday: 10 am – 5 pm
Wednesday: 10 am – 9 pm
Saturday – Sunday: 11 am – 4 pm

Read more about the exhibition at ddc.dk

Until March 18th it’s possible to experience Gambia through the eyes of three generations of Gambian women as part of the exhibition “Even now to explain everything would be difficult” at Fotografisk Center.

The Danish artist Gitte Villesen is mainly known for her videos, but is currently exhibiting the project ” I Will Arrange Everything. It Will Be the Best Film Ever”, which consists of three video projections in a staged installation. The project is carried out in collaboration with camera man Jonas Mortensen and Gambian Amadou Sarr, who gets to play an active role in the project, as the three projections are based on women in his life; his third wife Mariama Senghor, her mother Mariama Corr and her grandmother Yenden Joff. Through conversations with these women, we get to see what it’s like to be a woman in a country where magic plays an essential part and the gender roles are far from what we’re used to.

Besides “I Will Arrange Everything. It Will Be the Best Film Ever” three of Villesen’s previous projects  “A Silent Movie” (2007), “Script for a Silent Movie” (2006) and “Kitchen etc” (2006) are available as part of this current exhibition.

The exhibition opened January 21st and runs until March 18th.

Fotografisk Center
Tap E, Carlsberg
Pasteursvej 14
DK – 1799 Copenhagen

Opening Hours
Tue – Sun: 11 am – 5 pm
Thurs: 11 am – 8 pm

Entrance: 25 DKK

More on:
www.photography.dk

As Copenhagen Fashion Festival once again is taking over Copenhagen several photo exhibitions are appearing all over town. One of the exhibitions is Northern Women in Chanel by Peter Farago and Ingela Klemetz Farago.

The exhibition, which previously has been shown at photography museum Fotografiska in Stockholm, is now visiting Denmark at Designmuseum Danmark. In the exhibition the Faragos duo have portrayed Scandinavian and Baltic supermodels all dressed in clothes by the revolutionary fashion house CHANEL. The photos beautifully show the historic development of the label all presented by 45 of the most popular northern models.

The exhibition opens today and runs until April 8th.

Designmuseum Danmark
Bredgade 68
1260 København K

Opening Hours
Tuesday – Sunday: 11 am – 5 pm
Monday: Closed
- open till 9 pm every Wednesday from the 14th of February 2012

We are currently open for admissions for participation in the 2012 Copenhagen Photo Festival. You can read more about admission procedure here. Deadline is March 15th.

In case of questions, please contact

Project Manager
Trine Rindsig Laursen
trine@copenhagenphotofestival.com
+45 4244 2010

The Newly Graduated Photojournalist Astrid Dalum Wins Scanpix Award

The Scanpix Award honors the best graduate project from the photo journalistic program at The Danish School of Media and Journalism in Aarhus.

Graduate Astrid Dalum was awarded with the prestigious prize. Dalum was chosen for her project about women, their bodies and the view women have of it.

I Am Woman
How do women feel about their body? That’s the question photographer Astrid Dalum asks 22 women in the project “I Am Woman”. The women is either concerned about appearance, age, sexuality, weight, illness or pregnancy. Some women are okay with their body – some are not.

See the entire project here:
www.journalisthojskolen.dk/showcase

German Andreas Gursky, who last year set the record, by selling the photo Rhine II for over 2 million pounds, is now exhibiting 45 giant photos at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.

On first hand, Gursky’s photo might appear as the aesthetic perfection or even as the perfect picture, but if you step a little closer, you will notice discrepancies – it doesn’t really seem like the actual reality. Gursky is most of the time in, what can be called, an area, which boarders between photography and painting. All of Gursky’s photos are not just simple, lightly edited photos, as we know from some of the classical genres of photography. Most of his photos consist of several photos mixed and matched, edited and manipulated. It is therefore not just photography nor painting, but more like a whole new reality – a reality, the human eye simply wasn’t able to detect.

It is not only the convergence of all the photos, which is the reason for Gursky’s photos being called the photography’s equivalent to extreme sports, it is also the subject and its surroundings as well as the often extreme angles from where the photos are shot.

The exhibition opened January 13th and runs until May 13th – and is one of this year’s must sees!

Louisiana
Museum of Modern Art
Gl. Strandvej 13
DK- 3050 Humlebæk

Opening hours
Tuesday – Friday 11-22
Saturday and Sunday 11-18
Public Holidays 11-18
Monday closed

When the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 filled the sky over Europe with volcanic ashes, it soon became an eyeopener for Danish Mette Bersang and British Kathrine Marquis, when they realized the effect of the lack of airplanes in the sky. With this newfound insight the two artists got together to explore the epochal  airborne transportation vehicle.

The exhibition does not only explore the airplane, with its physically shape, size and form but also its surroundings – the skies. With the cancellation of all air traffic during Eyjafjallajökull’s outbreak, all the long, white, vaporized trails of the airplane – a phenomenon we’re so used to today, but rarely give any thought about, suddenly went missing. It is through these elements Bersang and Marquis explore and try to map the airplane, its surroundings and its journey, all in beautiful and poetic photography, drawing and various print making techniques.

Exhibition runs from January 28th – February 4th 2012

KONTORprojects
Værnedamsvej 7A, baghuset
1819 Frederiksberg C
Phone: +45  2791 4164
Mail: mail@kontorprojects.dk

Opening hours
Wednesday – Friday: 12 noon – 5 pm
Saturday:  12 noon – 5 pm
Or by appointment

From November 25th 2011, the Greenlandic artist Julie Edel Hardenberg is showing an exhibition about Western stereotypes with a Greenlandic point of view.

In a time where the distance to a society bound by tradition is increasing, the differences between those who work in the traditional professions and those who has stepped into the ever-changing, modern society are rapidly appearing. The difference and distance between these worlds, is Hardenberg’s subject in the exhibition Sapiitsut/Heroes.

As a native Greenlander, Hardenberg has seen and experienced this distancing, and a big part of her previous works have been about the Greenlandic identity and Greenlanders’ understanding of themselves. This is expressed in the exhibition by staging the citizens of Nuuk as movie stars on fictional film posters. The posters, which are created in cooperation with photographer Lars Frederik Anders, are a way to focus on the increasing role, Western culture has in Greenland as well as in the daily life of its citizens.

Exhibition:
Fotografisk Center
Tap E, Carlsberg
Pasteursvej 14
DK – 1799 Copenhagen
25.11.11 – 15.01.12
Tue – Sun: 11 am – 5 pm
Thurs: 11 am – 8 pm

Entrance: 25 DKK

More on:
www.photography.dk
www.hardenberg.dk

Denmark’s first multicultural street photo exhibition is now being published as a book.

The windows of the stores on Nørrebrogade were transformed into the longest photo gallery in Denmark, when the residents of Nørrebro exhibited their own pictures of the daily life in one of the most exposed neighborhoods in Copenhagen, during Copenhagen Photo Festival 2011.

The photographers Joachim Ladefoged and Jacob Holdt and gallery owner Martin Asbæk selected the pictures for the exhibition, which now in the shape of a book appear as an authentic and multicultural portrait of this diverse part of town.

A selection of photos from 2200 Everyday Rituals will be exhibited at Cafe Retro in relations to the launch.

Book launch
Friday October 28th 2011
4 – 6 pm
Cafe Retro Nørrebro
Jærgersborggade 14
DK – 2200 Copenhagen

Tonight the visitors at this year’s Culture Night will be able to dig into art – and dirt.

For tonight’s Culture Night, Museum of Copenhagen has arranged a variety of different and exciting events for the whole family. The events include everything from workshops in recycling and urban photo safari to archaeological studies, and can all be experienced at the museum as well as in the streets.

At the City Hall Square you will be able to flip through the 150.000 pictures of Copenhagen, which are exhibited at The Wall in the middle of the square. Just behind The Wall it’s hard not to notice the huge archeological excavation, where you will be able to see and hear the archeologists tell about their work on the excavation site.

From the City Hall Square you will have the opportunity to join the urban photo safaris, where you, in the company of a professional photographer, will be able to rexplore the old capital through the lens of your camera. All the safaris end at the Museum of Copenhagen, where artist and designer Jeremy Walton is hosting a workshop on how to use the things we otherwise would just have thrown out.

More on the events on
copenhagen.dk
kulturnatten.dk

During this year’s Culture Night, the photo collective 16tyve will be showing photos from all around the world.

With a mixture of commercial photographers and photojournalists, the photographers at 16tyve have chosen to host an exhibition with 14 international photographers. Among the exhibited photographers are some of the photographers who participated in this year’s photo festival including Maria Fonfara, depicting the often tabooed subject of love and sexuality amongst the elderly and Mette Frandsen with the raw black and white series “Sin City” about the almost Quentin Tarantino-like universe in Las Vegas.
Also participating in this exhibition is Peter Dench (UK) with his series “England Uncensured” – a story about a people, who aren’t known for their great cuisine nor their great sense of fashion.
The American photographer Darcy Padilla is exhibiting the series “Julie” about a girl, who’s had to overcome more obstacles in her short life, than most people would dare to imagine.
“Zona Sibirian Prison Camps” is a series presented by the Belgian photographer Carl De Keyzer. The series shows the reality De Keyzer was allowed to portray on his journey around the Sibirian prison camps, a reality strictly guarded by the military.

The photographers:
Brenda Ann Keanally (US), Carl De Keyzer (B), Darcy Padilla (US), Fernando Moleres (E), Ingo Arndt (D), Maria Fonfara (DK), Peter Dench (UK), Martin Schoeller (D), Brian Skerry (US), Mette Frandsen (DK), Yuri Kozyrev (RUS), Thomas Nielsen (DK), Wim De Schamphelaere (B), Carolyn Drake (US)

16tyve
Vesterbrogade 80B
DK – 1620 Copenhagen
14.10.11
From 7 pm

More about the event and the photographers:
16tyve.dk
facebook.com/16tyve

The world’s best press photos are once again visiting Denmark.

Since 1955, the press photo’s equivalent to the Olympics has grown bigger and bigger, and has over and over again been able to put focus back on the importance of photography in the daily news.

Each year, the World Press Photo exhibition tours the world and shows the audience the events of the last year, depicted in beautiful (but at times gruesome) excerpts – and this year’s exhibition is no exception.

The exhibition:
Pressen
JP/Politikens Hus
Rådhuspladsen 37
DK – 1785 Copenhagen
Denmark
07.10.11 – 02.11.11

Opening hours:
Monday: 1 pm – 6 pm
Tuesday: 1 pm – 6 pm
Wednesday: 1 pm – 9 pm
Thursday: 1 pm – 9 pm
Friday: 1 pm – 6 pm
Saturday: 11 am – 6 pm
Sunday 11 am – 6 pm

More on:
worldpressphoto.org
politiken.dk

The Danish Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol will until Sunday be exhibiting at Fotografisk Center with the highly acclaimed exhibition “Stories”.

Jacob Aue Sobol is known for his series of black and white documentary photos, that with an almost snapshot-like expression become visual stories, which also applies to this exhibition. A selection of photos from previous series tell some of Sobol’s stories from Bangkok and Tokyo as well as from Denmark and Greenland.

Exhibition:
Fotografisk Center
Tap E, Carlsberg
Pasteursvej 14
DK – 1799 Copenhagen
03.09.11 – 09.10.11
Tue – Sun: 11 am – 5 pm
Thurs: 11 am – 8 pm

More on:
www.photography.dk
www.auesobol.dk

In the series “Beneath the Roses”, photographer Gregory Crewdson stages the idyllic American suburb with a sense of melancholic tranquility.

The National Museum of Photography is hosting an exhibition by the American photographer Gregory Crewdson. The exhibition contains three of Crewdson’s series, each of them carried out in a beautiful but solitary imagery.
In the series “Beneath the Roses”, the ideals of the American family are portrayed with an almost cinematic composition of scenery and characters – characters loaded with a claustrophobic sense of yearning and desire. The desire is equally obvious in the black and white series “Fireflies”, where Crewdson is able to create a feeling of peaceful yet tense desire with the light from the mating ritual of fireflies.
In the third series of the exhibition “Sanctuary”, Crewdson has been to the Italian village Cincittà and documented the abandoned movie sets with a unique beauty.

Exhibition:
The National Museum of Photography
Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1
DK – 1016 Copenhagen
23.09.11 – 28.01.12
Mon – Sat: 10 am – 7 pm

More on:
www.kb.dk

Multiplicity and tolerance are the keywords behind photographer Klaus Thymann’s exhibition about the Danish freetown Christiania – a city within a city.

With a focus on the anarchistic architecture of Christiania, Thymann shows, that even a small town like Copenhagen is able to have another layer. The goal behind the exhibition is to create a time capsule. Without the use of digital aid, Thymann has created a photographic documentary of a city within the city before it’s absorbed through normalization.

Exhibition:
Torrance Art Museum
3320 Civic centre drive
Torrance, CA
17.09.11 – 29.10.11

More on:
www.torranceartmuseum.com
www.thymann.com
www.facebook.com/event

In the exhibition Endings, the Danish photographer Nicolai Howalt examines society’s view on death anno 2011.

Through a study of the leftover ashes of the human cremation, Howalt is liberating death from the cultural, religious and social context. In the six large-sized and six smaller photos, this dust of death is transformed into abstract landscapes, which in their own unique texture create a characteristic whole.

Opening:
Martin Asbæk Gallery
Bredgade 23
DK -1260 Copenhagen
23.09.11
5 pm – 7 pm

Exhibition:
Martin Asbæk Gallery
Bredgade 23
DK – 1260 Copenhagen
23.09.11 – 22.10.11
Tue-Fri: 11 am – 6 pm, Sat: 11 am – 4 pm
More on:
www.martinasbaek.com
www.nicolaihowalt.com

On Friday Carlsberg’s Ny Tap opens its doors for the group exhibition Face, Head and Shoulders. The exhibitions shows 26 young, international photographers’ interpretation of portrait photography.

Challenging the Portrait
It is the first inititative from the new curator collectiv Lodret, which consist of the two Danish art photographers Flemming Ove Bech and Johan Rosenmunthe, who with this international group exhibition are putting focus on the diversity of photography as well as challenging the classic portrait photography.

The exhibited artists have with their individual visual expression taken up the challenge with these new interpretations of one of the most traditional genres in photography: the portrait.

The photographers are:
Erica Allen (US), Marie Angeletti (FR), Flemming Ove Bech (DK), Lucas Blalock (US), Steven Brahms (US), Grant Cornett (US), Charlotte Dumas (NL), Gerald Edwards III (US), Peter Helles Eriksen (DK), Thobias Fäldt (SE), Fryd Frydendahl (DK), Thomas Hauser (DE), Valdemar Jørgensen (DK), Andreas Laszlo Konrath (UK), Mårten Lange (SE), Wayne Liu (CH), Joshua Lutz (US), Michael Madsen (DK), Matthew Monteith (US), Frankie Nazardo (IT), Jenny Nordquist (SE), Justin James Reed (US), Johan Rosenmunthe (DK), Diana Scherer (NL), Bill Sullivan (US), Isabelle Wenzel (DE)

Opening:
Carlsberg Ny Tap
15.09.11
Kl. 17-22

Main Exhibition:
Carlsberg Ny Tap
15.09.11 – 15.10.11
Every day from 12-17
Free entrance

Satellite Exhibition:
Kunsthallen Nikolaj
29.09.11 – 05.10.11
Check website for opening hours
Free entrance

More on:
www.lodretogfriends.com
www.facebook.com/lodretvandret
www.kunsthallennikolaj.dk/

Copenhagen Photo Festival thanks for a successful 2011. We’ll return June 7-17 2012. In the meanwhile, the Copenhagen Photo Festival page will communicate information on Danish and international photo exhibitions and events throughout the year.

Symposium

The photojournalist patiently waits for the right moment and the perfect composition, while the art photographer plans and stages his work down to the smallest detail. This year’s symposium at Statens Museum for Kunst during Copenhagen Photo Festival focuses on staged photography. The photographers Per Morten Abrahamsen, Joachim Ladefoged, Henrik Saxgren and Ziv Koren all work with photography, but with each their individual approach.

Moderator at the symposium is Kristine Kern, new manager of the reopened Center of Photography.

Entrance: Free
Date: Saturday June 18th
Time: 11 am – 2 pm
Place: Statens Museum for Kunst, Sølvgade 48-50, 1307 Copenhagen K

Vernisage of Indoors // Outdoors

It is through the fresh eyes of Maja Nydal Eriksen and Simone Lilmoes that new light is thrown on the newest part of Copenhagen; Ørestaden. With its award-winning architecture it sets frames for tales of the everyday life.
In the photoexhibition Indoors // Outdoors Maja Nydal Eriksen and Simone Lilmoes interpret and frame the soft lines of this part of the city

Date: Wednesday, June 15th
Time: 5 – 7 pm
Place: VM Bjerget, Ørestads Boulevard 55, 2300 Copenhagen S

Here and Now

The exhibition takes you on a journey to Spain. One photographer takes you to bullfighting, another one shows you the typical Spanish woman or invites you to visit the family …

14 Spanish documentary photographers give us a unique insight into contemporary Spain. An honest look. The exhibition allows us to stand in the footsteps of the photographers seeing the society from a personal perspective.

Each photographer show us a fraction of Spain, together they form a whole. We take a look into the society from ankles that the ordinary tourist will never experience. We see Spain through the eyes of Spain.

It is recommendable to take the two floor travel all the way to Spain.

Here and Now is exhibited in Ny Carlsberg Bryghus.