Art Bar Extravaganza 2024

We kick off Art Matter 2024 with an intense programme, offering dance choreographed by Lotte Sigh, free-fall performance by Miriam Kongstad and music by abolish i who both operates the DJ desk and plays live at the Lower Gallery.

Mark your calendars on Thursday 23 May when Art Week – for the first time under the new name Art Matter – and Nikolaj Kunsthal invite you to an opening party.

Experience Miriam Kongstad performing a 28-minute performance that thematically revolves around the fall. Miriam Kongstad takes us through a series of stories about everything from clowns who stumble, to walls that fall, about love that falls to the ground and the fall of man. A fall through Miriam Kongstad's lens can refer to both loss of control and falling for someone or something. The fall can be taboo and fallible but can also be an expression of courage and energy. See full credits below. 

Choreographer Lotte Sigh can also be found on the evening's programme. She is, among other things, associated with the Royal Ballet as choreographer, teacher and censor as well as artistic director of Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School and Copenhagen International Dance Festival. In collaboration with the latter, two excerpts from the work Into Silence will be presented at the opening of Art Matter 2024; What Meets the Eye and Got Your Back.

What Meets the Eye reflects on what the eye sees when we look at each other. The performance was created for the exhibition of Alberto Giacometti's works at the National Gallery of Denmark. 

Got Your Back is performed by graduating students from Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School and is performed for the first time at Nikolaj Kunsthal. See full credits below.

The duo abolish i provides the soundtrack of the evening both behind the DJ desk outside at Nikolaj Plads and later in the evening at the Lower Gallery where they play live. abolish i consists of Simin Stine Ramezanali (who is currently exhibiting at Nikolaj Kunsthal and in musical contexts also known from SLIM0) and Berlin resident Maryam Fazeli (who is artistically active under the alias moraya). Deere's joint output combines compressed bass, noise and breakbeats in a genre juxtaposition between d'n'b, ambient and shoegaze.

On the occasion of the evening, Nikolaj Kunsthal's neighboring restaurant Cholon is setting up a street kitchen at Nikolaj Plads serving Vietnamese specialities.

There is free wine sponsored by Spier. First-come, first-served.

Free admission.