Past events

• 8 Mar. 2023, 15:00

  Exhibition as Psycho-Aesthetic Form and Backdrop as Character

  Public defence of PhD thesis by Charlotte Born Sprogøe Petersen.

• 7 Mar. 2023, 15:00

  Booktalk: Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum

  Editors Malene Vest Hansen and Kristian Handberg in conversation with Sebastian Mühl, Nicola Foster, Annette Loeseke, and Tominga Hope O’Donnell. 

• 3 Mar. - 4 Mar. 2023

  SoundEast. Sonic Inquiries Into Cultures from Central and Eastern Europe & Central Asia

  The aim of this workshop is to provide a space for analysis and discussion of the sonic aspects of the still-overlooked cultural territories of the former Eastern Bloc.

• 28 Feb. 2023, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #19: Nils Olsson & Imri Sandström

  In this duo-lecture (Nils Olsson and Imri Sandström) the collaborative dimensions of artistic as well as academic practices is explored in both content and form.

• 24 Feb. 2023, 14:00-16:00

  Digital Culture; Platformisation of culture

  In this salon, the Digital Culture research group facilitates a discussion on the platformisation of culture.

• 19 Feb. 2023, 16:30

  Expert Listening: Music and Deafness

  A roundtable discussion featuring Dame Evelyn Glennie, Lotte Rømer, Dr Peter Keller (Aarhus University), and Dr Jessica Holmes (UCPH), organized by IKK’s Art & Health research cluster in partnership with DR and the Léonie Sonning Music Prize Foundation.

• 18 Jan. 2023, 13:00

  How to apply for a PhD at IKK

  A conversation with Ass. Prof. Michael Eigtved. Meeting has been postponed to 18 January. 

• 13 Dec. 2022, 14:15-16:00

  Colonial Objects in Early Modern Sweden and Beyond: From the Kunstkammer to the Current Museum Crisis

  Guest lecture with Professor Mårten Snickare.

• 29 Nov. 2022, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #18: Louis Hartnoll

  In this lecture Louis Hartnoll will focus on the two terms – ‘dialogical art’ and ‘participatory art’. This intervention proposes to metacritically reassess how the discourse on art’s social character often relies on an overtly sociological, but politically and philosophically dubious, framework. 

• 25 Nov. 2022, 16:00

  Shopfronts in Urban Life

   4Cities conference XII.

• 7 Nov. 2022, 15:15-17:00

  Potential Stories: The Transcultural Trajectories of Modernist Primitivism

  Lecture by Monica Juneja, Heidelberg University.

• 3 Nov. - 5 Nov. 2022

  Completing/Critiquing the Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-2020

  The conference marks the completion of the four volumes of The Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries (Rodopi/Brill 2012-2022) that span the developments of the arts in the Nordic countries throughout the twentieth century.

• 25 Oct. 2022, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #17: Richard Grusin

  In this lecture Richard Grusin will explore the fruitful relatikons among arboreal and technical infrastructures.

• 25 Oct. - 27 Oct. 2022

  NORDIK 2022: COLLECTIONS

  The NORDIK Association for Art Historians is hereby announcing the conference under the heading “Collections”.

• 24 Oct. 2022, 16:15-18:00

  Infrastructure as Method: 5 Notes

  Lecture by Professor Joshua Clover, University of California, Davis.

• 14 Oct. 2022, 13:00

  Feeling sick of home?

  PhD defence by Anna Meera Gaonkar.

• 13 Oct. 2022, 13:00

  Convolutional Aesthetics

  PhD defence by Naja le Fevre Grundtmann.

• 11 Oct. 2022, 11:15-17:30

  Book launch Breathing Aesthetics and Asbestos: The Last Modernist Object

  Lectures by Arthur Rose (University of Exeter), Jean-Thomas Tremblay (York University), Stefanie Heine (University of Copenhagen).

• 27 Sept. 2022, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #16: Tina Campt

  This lecture engages some of the alternative practices of looking and viewing relations their work subverts the space of the gallery by populating it with black bodies in disruptive and transformative ways.

• 24 Sept. 2022, 9:30-18:00

  MAKING A SCENE - performative gestures of noise, interference, and destruction

  Presenters include scholars from across the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies (IKK), Copenhagen University, as well as invited keynote(s) and artists.

• 23 Sept. 2022, 15:00

  On Black poetics and the renunciation of categorical distinction in multimodal music video analysis

  PhD defence by Anders Aktor Liljedahl.

• 30 Aug. 2022, 17:00-19:00

  Forum Lectures #15: Julia Bryan-Wilson

  Julia Bryan-Wilson considers how patterned needlework and embellishment served as a political strategy for two artists (Philippines-born Pacita Abad and Brazilian Madalena Santos Reinbolt) whose work blurred the lines between function and décor.

• 12 Aug. - 14 Aug. 2022

  Art in the Countryside

  Three-day Symposium on Art and Regional Revitalization through Case Studies from Japan, organized by Gunhild Borggreen (University of Copenhagen) and Barbara Geilhorn (DIJ Tokyo).  

• 17 June 2022, 16:00-18:00

  Showcase: Listen up! Musicology Students’ Sound Performances 1

  You are cordially invited to Listen Up!, the first event publicly showcasing sound and voice performances of IKK Musicology students.

• 9 June 2022, 15:00-17:00

  Surrealism in the 1930s and Today

  Sami Sjöberg, Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki and Adjunct Professor at the universities of Helsinki and Tampere and Anna Weile Kjær, curator and PhD student at the Dept. of Art and Cultural Studies about surrealism in the 1930s and today 

• 7 June - 8 June 2022

  Light, Space & Contemporary Art

  Symposium.

• 1 June 2022, 19:00-21:00

  Palm oil in capital’s utopia: Dreams and nightmares in the plantationocene

  Book talk by Max Haiven on his new book Palm Oil. The Grease of Empire.

• 31 May 2022, 19:00-21:00

  Forum Lectures #14: Fernando Domínguez Rubio

  The Unnatural Ecologies of Modern Art

• 31 May 2022, 9:00-18:00

  The Collective Body Dismembered

  A one-day symposium at the National Gallery of Denmark, SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst).

• 19 May 2022, 14:00-16:00

  Fallen idols: statues, history and memory

  Guest lecture with British historian Alex von Tunzelmann.