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December 2024 Moderator for Københavns Kommunes strategi for kunst i offentlige rum Jeg modererede tre spændende paneldebatter og borgermøder med efterfølgende samtalesaloner i forbindelse med udarbejdelsen af en kunststrategi for Københavns Kommunes kunst i offentlige rum (den første nogensinde). Den første samtale handlede om: Kunst x Klima & Byudvikling og var med stadsarkitekt Lars Jensen, forsker Kristine Samson og kurator Toke Lykkeberg. Det andet arrangement, Kunst x Demokrati, var med Ulrikke Neergaard fra KØS og lederen af Kunsthal Aarhus, Peter Ole Pedersen. Afslutningsvist Kunst x Historie & Identitet med deltagelse af museumsinspektør og seniorforsker Jakob Ingemann Parby, lektor Amalie Skovmøller og kurator Majken Overgaard. Arrangementerne var lavet sammen med Tyra og Stenka fra Empathic Environments, som også skal stå for processen fremover og skrive strategien, der efter planen skal behandles i Københavns Borgerrepræsentation ultimo 2025. Det var nogle inspirerende oplæg og debatter, og publikum var super engagerede og bidrog med indsigtsfulde og spændede kommentarer både mundtligt og skriftligt. Det indsamlede materiale bearbejdes i den kommende tid og bruges som afsæt for strategien. Notat om processen kan findes her. December 2024 Artist in Residence i Holbæk Kommune I de kommende år skal jeg arbejde med kunst i relation til skov og fjord i Holbæk kommune. Det er især med fokus på børn og unges møde med kunst og baseret på Kommunens nye kulturstrategi. Det skal ske i samarbejde med en masse dygtige folk bl.a. Holbæks Grønne Lunge, UngHolbæk, Kystliv, Nationalmuseets skibe og værft og Holbæk Kulturskole. Statens Kunstfond har bevilget forløbet. Der er mange spændende potentialer, som jeg glæder mig til at være med til at folde ud. Foto fra Kystliv. 2. december 2024 Publikation; Fordringer for forandringer Skovgro er med i denne seje publikation: Kunsten i Klimaarbejdet udgivet af Billedkunstnernes Forbund og lanceret på Dansk Arkitektur Center. Vi viser vores projekt med stier til Vallestrup lavet i samarbejde mellem Pia Rönicke, Kaspar Bonnen og Nis Rømer Læs den online her November 2024 Hvordan skaber vi nye stier på landet? Når landbrugsjord skal laves til skov er der ikke nødvendigvis særlige landskabelige features som af sig selv giver naturlige ruter i landskabet. At åbne op og skabe nye forbindelser for mennesker, dyr og planter bliver en vigtig del af den skov og det landskab, der skal laves i de kommende år. Sammen med billedkunstnerne Pia Rönicke, Kasper Bonnén og har jeg skabt en række principper for stidannelsen med udgangspunkt i Vallestrup arealet. Læs mere på Skovgro 2024 onwards Member of UNESCOs National Committe I am happy and proud to be appointed to the Unesco national committee in Denmark. UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It contributes to peace and security by promoting international cooperation in education, sciences, culture, communication and information. Link 2024 onwards Fanefjord Fælled Is a new common, coming into being at the Island of Møn, Denmark. A forrestgarden, art space  and a place for multi species relations. A great group of people are building and planning it. I take part in the preliminary board. Image is public toilets nearby made by Morten and Kiss. More to come... September 2024 Workshop: Seedkeeping and pondering Deep in a Swedish forest we pondered: How do we engage with the political complexities of our times through gardening, land work and art practice?  &  How do we cultivate new, collective responsibilities for land, seeds, and each other? Organized by Stella d'Ailly @Mossutställninger in the excellent company of: Reza Mirabi (Holland), Khaled Abdou (Portugal), Miina Hujala curator and artist - Reside / Sustain (Finland), Kultivator (Sweden), Sigrid Holmwood (Sweden), and Rosie Heinrich (UK, Holland). November 2023 Article and performance Article in the architectural magazine of the The Royal Academy + performance and talk at the opening event. Read it online. https://bygningskunstogkultur.dk/nr-6-2023 September 2023 Essay Altinget About a golden standard for Funds that support art and culture. With proposals on how they can work more sustainable in relations to government, buildings and activities. Read it here September 2023 Workshop                     Workshop with Kultivator and Skovgro arranged by Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology. I participated as co-founder and member of the board of Skovgro. Facebook event Website Hosting Lands September 2023 Drawing                             Drawing class with students at The Royal Academy, architecture school in Kalundborg. A wonderful day with motivated and highly skilled students. August 2023 Vandringer, Walks Walking workshop with students at Kunsthøjskolen i Holbæk working with Ursula Le Guin, and being in the Landscape of Odsherred, Denmark September 2022 Plant School A performance talk with a plant as co-teacher at PDAS December 2020 The Dark Reaction Hand drawn and foldable A0 map on the power plant in Stockholm center that produces energy from burning wood and the photosynthetic process behind it that stores carbon dioxide called The Dark Reaction. Made with Pia Rönicke for Mossutstallningar September 2020 Planetarisk Poetik Essay in the art journal Kunsten.nu about a planetary poetics for art. https://kunsten.nu/journal/planetarisk-poetik/ August 2020 Musical composition and performance for På Den Anden Siden, Møn, DK Nis Rømer and Mycelium Homeostatic Orchestra: The Plant Parlament, 2020. For the exhibition Metabolisme. Photo by: Jenny Gräf Sheppard https://2020.pdas.dk/ May 2020 Master of Public Governance During the lock down I finished a Master in Public Governance at CBS. I studies rhetorics, economy, budgeting and many other topics and used it in my work as chair of BKF and to study cases in relation to education, equal rights and ecology within the arts and the cultural sector. Studying alongside and learning from other professionals in the public sector was a major gift that gave a broad insight into our welfare society. Also I took away a lot of inspiration for my work as a teacher from the skilled teaching staff from Copenhagen University and CBS. Thanks to you too. Master of Public Governance May 2019 The Golden Standard at Mossudställningar, Stockholm "Walking distance" made a performative walk in Hjorthagen, a newly built addition to Stockholm. We made a meteorological Sci Fi about the dismatling of the city and  evacuation to higher grounds. Power plants was abandoned and rabbits were roaming freely behind the fences, read more on our walking website: www.gaaafstand.blogspot.com 4. November 2017 Genvalgt som formand for BKF I de to år jeg har været formand har Billedkunstnernes Forbund oplevet stor medlemsfremgang, efteruddannelsesområdet er styrket massivt, BKF har sat fokus på dimittender og optager nu studerende. Jeg er valgt for to år til. Jeg glæder mig til opgaven og takker for tilliden. 12. juni 2017, Oslo I bedømmelseskomité for forskningsarbejde ved Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo. Geir Tore Holm har netop forsvaret sit forskningsarbejde ”Poetikk for estetik i ændring” i disputats ved Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo. Jeg sad i bedømmelseskommitteen sammen med Kristin Bergaust professor ved Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus og Harald Gaski, 1. amanuensis ved Universitetet i Tromsø. På billedet er også rektor Jørn Mortensen. Til disputatsen havde vi spændende diskussioner på højeste niveau om kunst, socialitet, samisk kultur og politik. Geir Tore Holm har sammen med Søssa Jørgensen stået bag Sørfinset skole i Nordlandet. Se i øvrigt Søssa og Geir Tores nye projekt; http://landbrukssporsmal.tumblr.com 15 juni 2017 Folkemøde i Allinge Sammen med BKFs uddannelses koordinater var jeg til til Folkemøde på Bornholm, hvor vi stod bag kunstneriske indlag med bl.a. Jeanette Ehlers og debatter om kunst og kultur. 15. juni 2017 Gåafstand i Brøndbyøster Læs beretningen fra besøget i Priorparken og på Statens Naturhistoriske Museum, herbariet. http://gaaafstand.blogspot.dk 1. September 2016 In the Air Opening of  the project "In the Air". Architecture for birds on the former Skovlunde Airstrip. With Hartmut Stockter, Camilla Berner and more. 16. August 2016 Article in Kunstkritikk Interview by Maria Bordorff, concerning artist organizations and what in my view is the most important art-political topics now. http://www.kunstkritikk.dk/nyheter/et-baeredygtigt-miljo-for-den-skabende-kunst/ 15. March 2016  Screening of "Mønstersamfundet" at Copenhagen Architecture Festival. With Walking Distance at SAB Selskabslokaler, Tingbjerg, Copenhagen. By Gåafstand at Copenhagen Architecture festival Time and place; 15. March 2016 at 18.30 20. February 2016 NEW Podcast Listen to the new podcast by BYLYD, where I talk about anti-terror architecture http://www.bylyd.dk/9-antiterrorarkitektur 15. February  - 10. April , 2016 It's the Political Economy, Stupid At DAAP Galleries, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati (US) Link to news report 1. January 2016 Chairman of Danish Visual Artists As of January 1st 2016 I am chairman of Danish Visual Artists. www.bkf.dk 18-19 November 2015 Running in Darkness We are shooting the 7 parts mini TV series; Running in Darkness about the re-enchantment of the world trough art and sexuality. Featuring: Mara Door, Hannah Arendt,Walter Gropius, Max Weber and more. 2 Sept - 4 Nov 2015 Spisefællesskabet               Four evenings with ecological food, talks, debate, eksperimental music and readings in Holbæk, Denmark. With more than 500 participants. Read more at Spisefællesskabet 16 January 2015 1st prize to Agridrome In a competition by the association ModHer the 1st prize was given given for my proposal AgriDrome. A bike path shaped as a diagram of farmland prices is hovering over the landscape, and entering an abandoned slurry tank turned into a velodrome. A landscape of leisurely criticality. 26 November 2014 Sustain Talks at the Royal College of Art London Ill be a speaker at the RCA that runs a series of talks on sustainability. Sustain Talks 14 November 2014 Bauhaus Lab, Dessau I'll be guest critic at the Bauhaus Lab, for: "In Reserve: Concerning the Architecture of the Reservoir". Bauhaus Lab is a post graduated research program for art, design and architecture. See their interesting study here: Bauhaus Lab  08 November 2014 NEW BOOK: An Edge Effect: Art & Ecology in the Nordic Landscape An Edge Effect: Art & Ecology in the Nordic Landscape is a collection of interviews, case studies, and two original essays by curators, Sue Spaid (United States) and Anne Sophie Witzke (Denmark). Edited by Bonnie Fortune Interviews with Camilla Berner, Jane Jin Kaisen, Nance Klehm, Marie Markman, Nils Norman, Nis Rømer, Åsa Sonjasdotter, Cold Coast Archive: Signe Lidén / Annesofie Norn / Steve Rowell, Kultivator: Mathieu Vrijman & Malin Lindmark Vrijman, Learning Site: Rikke Luther & Cecilia Wendt, Myvillages: Kathrin Böhm / Wapke Feenstra / Antje Schiffers, Open Source Food: André Amtoft & Arendse Krabbe. BOOK RELEASE AT THE SCHOOL OF Walls & Space Kongens Nytorv 1 22. November 14-16 Get your copy at Half Letter Press 07 November 2014 REFORM - the book When we hear the word reform today it mostly means spending cuts. Round 1900  the german centered Life-refom movement (Lebensreform) proposed reforms for most aspects of human life, in order to make everyday life, art and ecology melt together. We want to  take back the notion of reform and restart a discussion on how we live together in visionary ways. This publication is the conclusion to the project  Reform curated by Publik (DK), Konsthall C (SE) and Landmark (N) You can buy the book at Antipyrine And read more about Reform at www.publik.dk/Reform.html 10 November 2014 It's the Political Economy, Stupid will travel to Cyprus. The show will take place at NeMe Arts Centre from 10 November till 6 December 2014. Fieldwork is participating with the video; Revenge of the Crystals. www.neme.org 6 September 2014 State of Exception A walk about the embassy system, Carl Schmitt and states of exceptions made for the public program at Copenhagen Art Week by our group Walking Distance. It was curated by Charlotte Bagger Brandt. Read our report here: www.gaaafstand.blogspot.dk The newspaper Information also wrote a full feature on it (in Danish) www.information.dk/508923 12 March 2014 It's The Political Economy, Stupid in Croatia Fieldwork is participating with the video; Revenge of the Crystals. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication, It’s the Political Economy, Stupid: The Global Financial Crisis in Art and Theory (Pluto Press, 2013), featuring essays by Slavoj Žižek, Brian Holmes, Judith Butler, David Graeber, Julia Bryan-Wilson,John Roberts, and others.  At Galerija Nova in Zagreb, Croatia. 12 March till 3 May 2014 www.whw.hr/galerija-nova 28 October 2013 We show work at the Architecture Biennale in São Paulo, Brazil "Actions: What You Can Do With the City" takes the form of a large paper archive and rebuilds and documents the initial 99 actions shown at CCA in 2008. Please find attached the press release and the link to the exhibition page on the CCA website. We present this project; http://www.planteundersogelser.dk/nyttehave.html A collaboration between Marie Markman, Jesper dyrehauge and Nis Rømer. On show from From 28 October until 1 December 2013. The show is Curated by Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) 9 November 2013 Poster project; Møn Land Reform For the exhibition; The Commune is Yours, (Kommunen er din). A poster and text proposing a reform of land use on Møn a southern island in Denmark. Made in conjunction with the municipal election campaign at Møn, Denmark, 2013. Curated by; Kristina Ask og Christian Hillesø www.margin.at 1 November 2013 IT’S THE POLITICAL ECONOMY, STUPID at Gallery 400 in Chicago From 01 November till 14 December 2013. Filedwork Show the video; Revenge of the crystals. www.gallery400.uic.edu/exhibitions/its-the-political-economy-stupid 3 September 2013 A Queer History of Haninge At the exhibition Konstodlingar Konsthallen, Haninge kulturhus 3rd September – 13 October 2013. With Leontine Arvidsson, Annika Holmér,  Bjørn Bjarre, Karoline H Larsen, Per Kristian Nygård and Nis Rømer. website 04 July 2013 Workaround at the exhinition Historias incomparables in San Sebastian FIELD WORK show our work; Workarounds at; Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea San Sebastian 04 July till 11 October 2013 Website 01 February 2013 IT’S THE POLITICAL ECONOMY, STUPID, Pori Artmuseum, WING, MEDIApoint, Finland 01 February till 26 May 2013 Curated by Oliver Ressler & Gregory Sholette  It’s the Political Economy, Stupid brings together a group of superlative artists who focus on the current crisis in a sustained and critical manner. Rather than acquiesce to our current calamity this exhibition asks if it is not time to push back against the disciplinary dictates of the capitalist logic and, as if by some artistic sorcery, launch a rescue of the very notion of the social itself.  Additional program has been scheduled, on the occasion of the exhibition:  Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki: Workshop Oliver Ressler: Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies, 28 January at 10-16.00 and 29 January at 10-13.30, advance enrolment  Lecture and book launch  Oliver Ressler: Take The Square, 29 January at 15.00, free admission Oliver Ressler will present the exhibition and the publication "It’s the Political Economy, Stupid: The Global Financial Crisis in Art and Theory" published by Pluto Press (UK) and Pori Art Museum FILIPPO BERTA (IT), JULIA CHRISTENSEN (US), FIELD WORK (DK), YEVGENIY FIKS, OLGA KOPENKINA & ALEXANDRA LERMAN (US), FLO6x8 (ES), MELANIE GILLIGAN (CA), JAN PETER HAMMER (DE), ALICIA HERRERO (AR), INSTITUTE FOR WISHFUL THINKING (US), SHERRY MILLNER & ERNIE LARSEN (US), ÓLAFUR ÓLAFSSON (IS) & LIBIA CASTRO (ES), ISA ROSENBERGER (AT), DREAD SCOTT (US), SUPERFLEX (DK), ZANNY BEGG (AU) & OLIVER RESSLER (AT)  01 February 2013 Pori Art Museum lecture serie  Lecture Oliver Ressler: Spatial Occupations 30 September 2013 at 18.30 Pori Art Museum, lecture hall, free admission  Curator and Artist Talks ; Friday 01 February 2013 at 12.00 Oliver Ressler and flo6x8 group will be present, free admission  Opening Friday 01 February 2013 at 18.00, opening performance by flo6x8 group  The exhibition It’s the Political Economy, Stupid launched a preview exhibition at Open Space in Vienna (2011), continued at Austrian Cultural Forum in New York and Centre of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki (both 2012). The show at Pori Art Museum is carried out in co-operation with Austrian Embassy (Helsinki)  Media release >>  01 February 2013 PUBLICATION: It’s the Political Economy, Stupid  The Global Financial Crisis in Art and Theory  Gregory Sholette, Oliver Ressler  ISBN: 978-952-5648-36-2  ISSN: 0359-4327 www.poriartmuseum.fi