CHART, Copenhagen’s contemporary art fair for Nordic galleries, returns for its 6th edition to Kunsthall Charlottenborg, and with it, ArtReview’s curated talks programme (fair: 31 August – 2 September; talks: 1–2 September). Under the titled ‘Ownership. Exchange. Theft’, the eight panel discussions will look at how culture, art and design are accessed, shared and appropriated.
Talks are free and open to the public and take place at Kunsthal Charlottenborg except where otherwise listed.
Speakers are: Christine Buhl Andersen, Ekaterina Degot, Daisy Froud, Beatrice Galilee, Adam Greenfield, Nav Haq, Alistair Hudson, Sam Jacob, John Kørner, Sofia Lagerkvist, Thomas Lommée, Daniel McClean, Laura McLean-Ferris, João Mourão, Alain Servais, Luís Silva, Jonas Tinius, Ben Vickers, Carla Zaccagnini. The talks will be moderated by ArtReview’s Mark Rappolt, Louise Darblay and Oliver Basciano, and Justin McGuirk, director, Design Museum, London
SATURDAY
10.30 – 11.30 Money or morals: Can art have both?
From Documenta to Sackler, the question of who funds art is one that has dominated the news agenda in the artworld this year. Should the money that funds art affect how it is read?
Speakers: Alain Servais, Servais Family Collection, Brussels; Christine Buhl Andersen, director, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen; Alistair Hudson, Manchester Art Gallery
Venue: Private residence, Østerbro (limited capacity, rsvp essential at fair@chartartfair.com
12.30 – 1.30 Copyright, copyleft, copytheft
Is the notion of ownership still a relevant concept in an online world? If art is about ideas, can one own an idea?
Speakers: Daniel McClean, lawyer and consultant in art and cultural property law, Howard Kennedy, London; FOS, artist
Venue: Kuppelsalen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg
2.30 – 3.30 Art: Home of the alternative fact
Is art as a speculative act and what that means in a world in which ideas of empirical truth have become ever-more slippery?
Speakers: Nav Haq, curator, M HKA, Antwerpen; Laura McLean-Ferris, curator, Swiss Institute, New York; Luís Silva, co-director, Kunsthalle Lissabon
Venue: Kuppelsalen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg
4.30-5.30 Artistic production is an open network?
The network age offers the promise of a utopian approach to design in which we are no longer mere consumers but participants in an open system. Open source design promises a world of exchange, independence and collaboration. But how realistic is it? And is the promise growing or fading?
Speakers: Thomas Lommée, co-founder of Intrastructures and creator of the Open Systems design; Adam Greenfield, author of Radical Technologies; Daisy Froud, architect and strategist
Venue: Kuppelsalen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg
SUNDAY
10.30 – 11.30 The European art scene: papering over the cracks
What role do galleries and museums have in a fractured Europe?
Speakers: João Mourão, co-director, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon; John Kørner, artist; Ekaterina Degot, intendant, Steirischer Herbst, Graz
Venue: Kuppelsalen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg
12.30 – 1.30 Copy Culture
Is cultural identity something to live up to or escape? Do epithets such as ‘Scandinavian design’ still apply, and is it to be protected, copied or avoided?
Speakers: Sam Jacob, architect and professor at University of Illinois at Chicago; Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, artist
Venue: Kuppelsalen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg
2.30 – 3.30 Is culture something you own or something you share?
Is cultural appropriation wrong and who should act as the gatekeepers of traditions and culture?
Speakers: Jonas Tinius, anthropologist, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin; Carla Zaccagnini, artist
Venue: Kuppelsalen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg
4.30 – 5.30 Is virtual space real space?
Does it still make sense to differentiate between virtual space and physical space? And what does this mean for art and architecture?
Speakers: Beatrice Galilee, associate curator of architecture & design, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Ben Vickers, chief technology officer at the Serpentine Galleries, London, and initiator of unMonastery, Athens, Matera and Berlin
Venue: Kuppelsalen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg
