Fernisering / Opening: In the Past We Made History
Schedule
Fri, 17 Jan, 2025 at 05:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Staldgade 16, 1699 Copenhagen, Denmark | Copenhagen , SK
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Det er med stor glæde, at Fotografisk Center inviterer til åbningen af udstillingen In the Past We Made History med kunstnerne Tina Enghoff og Kent Klich i samarbejde med Anastasija (Nastija) Kiake, billedkunstner, forfatter og researcher. Ferniseringen finder sted den 17. januar kl. 17-19, hvor der er gratis adgang for alle. Direktør for Fotografisk Center, Signe Kahr Sørensen byder velkommen, og udstillingen åbnes af Kirsten Thorup, forfatter, og Shoukrullah, dansker med flugterfaring.
Fernisering: 17. januar kl. 17-19
Udstillingsperiode: 18. januar – 27. april 2025
Om udstillingen
I 2015 oplevede Europa en stor flygtninge- og migrantkrise med over en million mennesker, der søgte asyl. In the Past We Made History er en kunstnerisk undersøgelse i form af et arkiv, der sætter fokus på hukommelses- og vidnesbyrdstrategier, som ofte er fraværende i den kollektive hukommelse og den officielle historieskrivning. Arkivet, der er opbygget af mundtligt overleveret historie, fotografier, fotogrammetri og video installationer, danner et levende billedtæppe og åbner sig konstant for forandring og transformation. De forskellige tråde kan ses som et væld af tidslinjer, der bøjer fortid og nutid.
Arkivet sammenfletter erindringsfragmenter fra 89 steder i Danmark, der indtil 2018 fungerede som asylcentre og nødindkvarteringssteder for flygtninge. I perioden 2022-24 har kunstnerne dokumenteret den arkitektur – bygninger, rum og forskellige overfladers tekstur – som dannede ramme om de nyankomnes dagligdag. Disse billeder er sammenstillet med fotografier fra danske lokalarkiver og repræsenterer en bredere migrationshistorie.
Mennesker/danskere med flugterfaring, og som har en tilknytning til de lokale asylcentre og nødindkvarteringssteder for flygtninge, har samarbejdet aktivt med kunstnerne og foretaget en udvælgelse blandt et stort antal fotografier for at etablere arkivets udformning og afgøre, hvad der er bevaringsværdigt. Arkivet folder sig således ud og fletter sig sammen i individuelle arkiver såvel som i et kollektivt arkiv, der giver mulighed for at genforhandle og genfortælle historien, samtidig med at der sættes fokus på personlige livshistorier og vidnesbyrd.
Årene 2015-18 markerede et paradigmeskifte i Danmark – fra at byde flygtninge velkommen til at føre en mere restriktiv indvandringspolitik. Arkivet In the Past We Made History har til formål at sikre denne periode en plads og bevare betydningen af den, eftersom disse tidligere steder nu enten allerede er udelukket eller i færd med at blive slettet fra den offentlige erindring i Danmark. Dette afspejles i den manglende tilstedeværelse i arkiverne såvel som i genanvendelsen og nedrivningen af bygningerne over hele landet.
Udstillingen er støttet af Statens Kunstfond, Augustinus Fonden og Ny Carlsbergfondet. Kunstnernes produktion af værker til udstillingen er støttet af Billedkunstnernes Forbund, Statens Kunstfond, Statens Værksteder for Kunst, Rådet for Visuel Kunst, Grosserer L.F. Foghts Fond, Beckett-Fonden, Nordisk Kulturfond: Opstart og Konstnärsnämnden, Sverige.
Eventprogram
I forbindelse med udstillingen afholdes et eventprogram, hvor udstillingen og dens tematikker udfoldes:
Talk: ”…idet fordrivelse og tvangsmigration fortsætter” den 30. januar kl. 17-18.30. Deltagere: Charlotte Koefod, journalist, Shoukrullah, studerende ved Københavns Universitet og dansker med flugterfaring og Moutaz, socialrådgiver og dansker med flugterfaring, Carsten Jensen, forfatter, og Michelle Pace, professor i Global Studies ved Roskilde Universitet. Talken modereres af kunstnerne Tina Enghoff og Kent Klich.
Talk: ”Vidner, museer og alternative arkiver” den 27. februar kl. 17-18.30. Deltagere: Anastasija (Nastija) Kiake, billedkunstner, forfatter og researcher, og Rohin, socialrådgiver studerende ved Århus Professionsskole og dansker med flugterfaring, Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer, seniorforsker ved Det Kgl. Bibliotek, og Louise Wolthers, forskningsleder og kurator ved Hasselbladstiftelsen i Göteborg. Kamille Nygård, fængselspræst og anmelder ved Information, modererer samtalerne.
Talk: ”Ufortalte historier givet, samarbejde som kunstnerisk praksis” den 13. marts kl. 17-18.30. Deltagere: Abood og Sahl, danskere med flugterfaring, Tina Enghoff og Kent Klich, kunstnere, og Mette Sandbye, professor i fotografistudier ved Institut for Kunst og Kulturvidenskab, Københavns Universitet.
Finissage 24. april kl. 16-18. Finissagen markerer afslutningen på udstillingen In the Past We Made History, der har sidste visningsdag den 27. april. I forbindelse med udstillingen samarbejder Fotografisk Center med Nørrebrobyggerne og freelance kurator Pauline Koffi Vandet om en række workshops for unge, der med udgangspunkt i udstillingen vil skabe deres egne værker som også vil blive vist i Fotografisk Center under udstillingen. Pauline Koffi Vandet vil til finissagen fortælle om samarbejdet og de unges værker.
For yderligere information og åbningstider besøg venligst www.fotografiskcenter.dk
/// English ///
It is with great pleasure that Fotografisk Center invites you to the opening of the exhibition In the Past We Made History with the artists Tina Enghoff og Kent Klich in collaboration with Anastasija (Nastija) Kiake, visual artist, writer and researcher.
The opening takes place January 17 from 5-7pm with free entrance for everyone. Director of Fotografisk Center, Signe Kahr Sørensen, will welcome, and the exhibition is opened by Kirsten Thorup, author, and Shoukrullah, Dane with refugee experience.
Opening: January 17, 5-7 pm
Exhibition period: January 18 – April 27, 2025
About the exhibition
In 2015, Europe experienced a large refugee and migrant crisis with over one million people seeking refuge. In the Past We Made History is an artistic inquiry in the form of an archive, focusing on strategies of remembering and bearing witness which are often left out of collective memory or official history writing. Consisting of oral history, photography, photogrammetry, and video installations, the archive forms a living tapestry as it continues to open itself up to change and transformation. The different threads can be seen as multiple timelines that bend the past and the present.
The archive interweaves the memory fragments of 89 locations in Denmark that functioned as refugee asylum centers and emergency aid centers for people with refugee experience until 2018. During the period from 2022-24 the artists have documented the architecture – buildings, rooms, surface textures – that shaped the framework of the newcomers’ daily lives. These images are juxtaposed with photographs from local archives from all over Denmark and represent a broader history of migration.
People/Danes with refugee experience who have links to the local refugee asylum centers and emergency aid centers have actively collaborated with the artists, selecting from a wide range of photographs to establish the format of the archive and deciding what would be worth preserving. The archive thus unfolds and intertwines as individual archives as well as a collective archive, offering an opportunity to renegotiate and retell history, while bringing personal life stories and testimonies into focus.
The years between 2015-18 marked a paradigm shift in Denmark – from welcoming refugees to pursuing a more restrictive immigration policy. The archive In the Past We Made History aims to hold space for the importance of that period, as these former centers are now either already excluded or in the process of being erased from public memory in Denmark. This is expressed by the absence from the archives as much as in the repurposing and demolishment of the buildings across the country.
The exhibition is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, the Augustinus Foundation, and the New Carlsberg Foundation. The artists’ production of works for the exhibition is supported by Danish Visual Artists, the Danish Arts Foundation, the Danish Art Workshops, the Council for Visual Arts, Grosserer L.F. Foghts Fond, the Beckett-Foundation, the Nordic Culture Fund: Opstart, and the Swedish Arts Grant Committee
Event program
In connection to the exhibition a series of events will be held that unfolds In the Past We Made History and its themes:
Talk: “…as displacement and forced migration continues” January 30 at 5-6.30pm. Participants: Charlotte Koefod, journalist, Shoukrullah, student at the University of Copenhagen with refugee experience and Moutaz, social worker with refugee experience, Carsten Jensen, writer, and Michelle Pace, professor in Global Studies at Roskilde University. The talk is moderated by Tina Enghoff and Kent Klich, artists.
Talk: ”Witnesses, museums and alternative archives” February 27 at 5-6.30pm. Participants: Anastasija (Nastija) Kiake, visual artist and writer, and Rohin, social worker student with refugee experience, Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer, senior researcher at the Royal Danish Library, and Louise Wolthers, curator and head of research at the Hasselblad Foundation in Gothenburg. Kamille Nygård, prison chaplain and reviewer at the newspaper Information will moderate the talk.
Talk: ”Untold stories given, a collaborative practice of sharing” March 13 at 5-6.30pm. Participants: Abood, poet and artist with refugee experience, and his son Sahl, student at Roskilde University with refugee experience, Mette Sandbye, professor in photography studies at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen and Tina Enghoff and Kent Klich, artists.
Finissage April 24 at 4-6pm will be marking the closing of the exhibition In the Past We Made History, which has its final day of display on April 27. In connection with the exhibition, Fotografisk Center is collaborating with Nørrebrobyggerne and freelance curator Pauline Koffi Vandet on a series of workshops for young people. Based on the exhibition, the participants will create their own works, which will also be displayed at Fotografisk Center during the exhibition. Pauline Koffi Vandet will give a talk about the collaboration and the young people's works at the finissage.
For further information and opening hours please visit www.fotografiskcenter.dk
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