Chart art fair explores our material world in Copenhagen

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Chart, the largest annual showcase of contemporary Nordic art and design, returns to Copenhagen from today through Sunday 1 September. Now in its seventh year, the fair is bigger and bolder than ever. In addition to the usual takeover of two landmark museums, Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Den Frie Centre of...

, selected by a jury that includes artist Lea Porsager and Wallpaper* design editor Rosa Bertoli. From Ikea mattresses to recycled paper to latex cells, the pavilions each repurposes a common material in an unusual way, and hosts to a different food and beverage offering during the fair.A short walk from Charlottenborg, Den Frie is the first artist’s association in Denmark and a unique architectural landmark, inspired by Egyptian temples and Greek mythology.

In an effort to improve institutional representation at Chart, and highlight the synergies between the Nordic and Central American art scenes, the fair has invited Mexico City’s Museo Tamayo to present a satellite exhibition at Den Frie, featuring the Portuguese artist Alexandre Estrela . Estrela’s practice deals with the variability of time and space, and his two installations at Den Frie,will imagine planetary movements through a cast bronze solar system and a metal sundial respectively.

 

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