Foto: Pia Rönicke / Zeynel Abidin Kızılyaprak, Facing, 2008, DVD 53 min

U-TURN kvadriennale for samtidskunst er nu forbi. Det blev til et for-program af kunstnerpræsentationer, foredrag og performance, til satellit programmer og udstillinger i Berlin, Stege og Århus, samt ikke mindst hovedudstillingen der fandt sted i Københavns byrum, i en tappehal på Carlsberg, i Kunsthallen Nikolaj samt en række andre steder i byen.

Festivalgæsterne var udstyret med et armbånd, der gav fri adgang til alle udstillingerne samt en række begivenheder som eksempelvis foredrag, performance og omvisninger i udstilling og byrum, og mange gæster var tilbagevendende.

Vi ønsker at takke kunstnerne som har bidraget og alle andre -ikke mindst de mange frivillige - der har bidraget til at kvadriennalen kunne lykkes.

Endvidere ønsker vi at takke alle fonde og sponsorer, der med økonomiske og materiale bidrag har gjort kvadriennalen mulig - ikke mindst Kunstrådet, Fonden til markedsføring af Danmark, Statens Kunstfond, Ny Carlsberg Fondet og Københavns Kommune. Se fuld liste under sponsorer.

Sekretariatet er ophørt og henvendelse vedr. eventuel fortsættelse af kvadriennalen rettes til Kunststyrelsen. Henvendels vedr. restance rettes til advokat Christian B. Elmer, Lund Elmer Sandager, Kalvebod Brygge 39-41, 1560 København V. Tlf.: +45 33 300 250, fax: +45 33 300 299, cbe@lesadv.dk

Diverse plakater 50 kr.
Her kan du bl.a. få den omtalte plakat "Replace Fear of the Unknown with Curiosity" - også i kunstnerduoen Bik Van der Pol's spejlvendte udgave. Der findes desuden plakater med Jesper Just og Laylah Ali.

Dan Perjovschi nummererede editioner - en perfekt gave idé
Enkelt edition: 1850 kr.
Serie på 3 tryk: 4500 kr.
Special U-TURN Edition: 4000 kr.
(Alle tre tryk på samme ark)

Kataloger 200 kr.
Kan også købes i boghandlere lander over.

T-Shirts (Replace Fear of the Unknown with Curiosity)
Så længe lager haves 200 kr.

Short guides - GRATIS ved afhentning

Sted:
U-TURN
Vester Voldgade 96, st.
1552 København V
Tlf: 3391 6111

Julesalget finder sted til og med mandag d. 22 december.

Ønsker du varer tilsendt tillægges porto. Varene betales på forhånd. Hør nærmere på: info@uturn-copenhagen.dk

Welcome to the launch of

SUM magazine for contemporary art # 3

Saturday November 8 at 2pm
U-TURN Carlsberg Tap E, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15, 2500 Valby

- see the new SUM magazine, enjoy a drink and hear John Kørner talk about his 'problems'

U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art in collaboration with Camp X presents two performance-lectures where the Lebanese media artist Walid Raad respond to his country's war history.

Friday November 7, 5pm
The Loudest Muttering Is Over: Case Studies from The Atlas Group Archive is a performance lecture, which collects examples from The Atlas Group Archive. This archive is a fictional organisation whose main purpose is to research and document Lebanese contemporary history with a special focus on the Lebanese wars from 1975 to 1991. Through out the years the organisation has found and created several documents: films, videos, photographies, notebooks and other objects. Walid Raad uses the documents from the archive in his performance-lectures. Therefore this performance-lecture is a good way to get an introduction to Walid Raad's works i general.

Saturday November 8, 8pm
My Neck Is Thinner Than a Hair is a part of the continuous investigation in The Atlas Group Archive. This is a multi-media/performance-lecture about the use of the more than 3.600 car bombs, detonated under the Lebanese wars from 1975 to 1991. More specifically Walid Raad investigates the events, experiences, objects and effects surrounding a car explosion that took place in Beirut on January 21 1986. After the performance-lecture there will be an informal conversation with the audience.

Place: Teater Camp X Aveny, Frederiksberg Allé 102, 1820 Frederiksberg C

Price: DKK 165, youth ticket DKK 90, Reumert tickets (4 young people under 25): DKK 60. Booking 7020 1031 / www.billetnet.dk

Foreningen af danske kunstkritikere inviterer til debatarrangement om:

U-TURN!
Hvad kan en international manifestation af samtidskunst i København?
Hvordan er det gået? Hvilke succeskriterier skal projektet bedømmes
efter? Og ikke mindst: skal projektet forsætte i fremtiden?

Kom og deltag i debatten med
Judith Schwarzbart, kurator U-TURN
Elisabeth Toubro, formand for Kunstrådets Billedkunstudvalg
Ann Lumbye Sørensen, kunsthistoriker og kritiker

Tid: torsdag d. 6. november fra 17-19

Sted: U-TURN Carlsberg Tap E
Gamle Carlsberg vej 15, 2500 Valby

U-TURN INDTAGER BYRUMMET MED LASERPROJEKT.

U-TURN har inviteret en række kendte danske kunstnere til at bruge Københavns bygninger som kommunikationsflade og midlertidigt lærred. U-TURN har kigget den globale undergrund over skulderen og introducerer en projekteringsteknik udviklet indenfor graffitimiljøet, hvor projekteret lys bliver udløst af en ført pen.

ON WALLS 2
Tirsdag den 4. november kl. 19-20 rykker On Walls til Indre by, hvor John Kørner og A Kassen vil tegne på Københavns Rådhus på Rådhuspladsen.

Jesper Aabille serverer varm suppe til publikum og forbipasserende.

A one-day exhibition organised by U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art
in collaboration with Århus Kunstbygning

November 2 2008 4-8pm at Århus Kunstbygning, J.M. Mørks Gade 13, 8000 Århus C

Perform History II includes performances by artists like Adam Pendleton, who performed at this years Manifesta and in 2007 at Performa in New York. Earlier this year Complaints Choir and Lilibeth Cuenca performed at U-TURN in Copenhagen with great success.


The program consists of a varied selection of live performances and film screenings
4.00pm Welcome by curator Pernille Lyngsø, introduction to the one-day exhibit by curator Solvej Helweg Ovesen and photo presentation of Daniel Knorr (RO), Stolen History, 2008

4.30pm Perfomance by the Danish Complaints Choir, concept by Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kockta Kalleinen (FI/DE) arranged by composer Esben Bladbjerg (DK)
5.00pm Performance by Adam Pendleton (US) Black Dada, 2008
5.30pm Soup
6.00pm Re-enactments by Lilibeth Cuenca (DK), Never Mind Pollock (Woman on Painting), 2008
7.00pm Film screening by the artists group Chto delat / What's to be Done? (RU), Perestroijka SongSpiel, Victory over the coup, 2008
7.30pm Surprise

Exhibition Details
Admission: Reduced admission for everyone: DKK 25,- for the whole event. It's recommended that the visitors participate in the whole one-day exhibition, but it's also possible to come for just one performance. Soup can be bought for DKK 20,- U-TURN catalogue DKK 200,-.

U-TURN har inviteret en række kendte danske kunstnere til at bruge Københavns bygninger som kommunikationsflade og midlertidigt lærred. U-TURN har kigget den globale undergrund over skulderen og introducerer en projekteringsteknik udviklet indenfor graffitimiljøet, hvor projekteret lys bliver udløst af en ført pen

ON WALLS 1
Fredag den 31. oktober kl. 20-23 indtager On Walls Københavns Havn. I en båd udlånt af By og Havn sejles publikum ud i Nordhavn, hvor første session vil foregå på DLG-bygningen. Derefter fortsætter båden til Sydhavn, hvor Skanskas bygning, danner rammen om aftenens sidste session. Kunstnerne ved begge sessioner er Husk Mit Navn og Jasper Sebastian Stürup + gæster.

20.00 Publikum afhentes i opvarmet og overdækket båd ved Canal Tours i Nyhavn. Gratis drikkevarer og musik ombord. Afgang mod Nordhavn.

20.30 Ankomst i Nordhavn. Husk Mit Navn og Jasper Sebastian Stürup tegner på DLG-bygningen i Nordhavn.

21:30 Afgang mod Sydhavn. Gratis drikkevarer og musik ombord.

22:15 Ankomst Sydhavn. Husk Mit Navn og Jasper Sebastian Sturüp tegner på Skanskas bygning på Teglholmen - et stenkast eller to fra Half Machine A/S.

23:15 Afgang mod Nyhavn

Saturday November 1, Sebestyén Kodolányi, the managing director of the BBS Foundation will introduce a screening of 9 short fims from the Balázs Béla Studio in Budapest.

Time: 2.00-6.00 pm
Place: Cinemateket, Gothersgade 55, 1123 Copenhagen C. Tickets DKK 75, Members or U-TURN bracelet DKK50. Booking: 3374 3412

The following films will be shown:

Swimming Pools
Instructor: István Ventilla
Hungary, 1963
15 min.
35mm. No dialog

New Years Eve
Instructor: Elemér Ragályi
Hungary, 1974
16 min.
35mm. No dialog

Partita
Instructor: Miklós Erdély
Hungary, 1974
16mm. No dialog
35 min.

Elegy
Instructor: Zoltán Huszárik
Hungary, 1965
35mm. No dialog
20 min

Arena
Instructor: János Tóth
Hungary, 1970
35mm. No dialog
23 min.

Birds
Instructor: András Szirtes
Hungary, 1981
35mm. No dialog
8 min.

Reflection
Instructor: Ákos Birkás
Hungary, 1976
35mm. Hungarian dialog
5 min.

Passion
Instructor: László L. Révész, János Sugár
Hungary, 1988
16mm. No dialog
7 min.

Don Giovanni
Instructor: Dobos Gábor, Halász Péter
Hungary
16mm. No dialog
54 min

Miklós ERDÉLY: Version, 1981, 54'
Director of Photography: András Mész
The film, which was made in 1979 (and standardised in 1981), is a free interpretation of Krúdy Gyula's documentary novel entitled Eszter Solymosi of Tiszaeszlár (1931). The film seeks to explore what means the authorities may have employed towards convincing an overly sensitive and timid child - the son of the Rabbi of Tiszaeszlár - to give testament against the people of his own faith and how the fake confession becomes blurred with real memories through intensified fantasy.

The Screening takes about 54min. and will be introduced by Lívia Páldi

Time: 5pm Thursday October 30
Place: Tap E Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15, 2500 Valby
Price: The event is free with a U-TURN bracelet, otherwise the entrance fee is DKK 60/40

The Balázs Béla Studio (BBS) was founded in Budapest 1961 by the Hungarian Film Academy's graduating class of 1961, the so-called "golden generation" of Hungarian filmmakers that included Pál Gábor, Sándor Sára, and István Szabó.

BBS was conceived as a workshop for young professionals to make an entrée into film production, but later it attracted a wide range of artists, writers, and musicians from the city's lively underground scene. Early productions by these young professional filmmakers show influences from the Nouvelle Vague and Cinéma Vérité, with a strong feel for documentary. The documentary movement, known as the Budapest School, mixed fiction with social documentary and was also formed within the BBS with the participation of filmmakers like the internationally acclaimed Béla Tarr.

This screening is part of Opening Hours and is organised in collaboration with Műcsarnok Kunsthalle in Budapest.The films were selected by Lívia Páldi (curator, writer), Miklós Erhardt (artist, writer) and Sebestyén Kodolányi (filmmaker, managing director of the BBS Foundation).

U-TURN launches the long awaited exhibition catalogue and invites you to a reception on Thursday October 23 from 7- 8pm. There will be refreshments and the catalogue will be sold for DKK 150 (normally DKK 200).

About the Catalogue
The exhibition catalogue for U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art contains more than 80 pages of photographical documentation of the exhibition and the works of the 64 artists. Furthermore the catalogue contains 3 larger essays: Proxy-walls by art critic Boris Buden, Never Say Never Again by Art Historian Camilla Jalving as well as Might the best cure for fear be curiosity? which describes the ideas behind the exhibition, written by the curators Charlotte Bagger Brandt, Solvej Helweg Ovesen og Judith Schwarzbart

Place: Tap E, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15, 2500 Valby.

IDEA arts+society presents a panel discussion on the topic presence(s) of art We are going to talk about our experience of reading and/or of presenting (contemporary) art against the political background in a Romanian and (Eastern) European context.

The panel discussion will take place at Carlsberg Tap E, on October 23 2008 at 8.00pm

Participants
Raluca Voinea (art critic, curator, editor of Idea arts+ society),
Ioana Nemeş (artist)
Corina Iosif (social anthropologist)
Živa Kokolj (political scientist)
Bogdan Ghiu (writer, theorist, translator)
Adrian T. Sîrbu (theorist, translator, editor of Idea arts+society)
Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu (theorist, editor of Idea arts+society)
Alexandru Polgár (theorist, translator, editor of Idea arts+society).

IDEA arts+society is an independent magazine published by IDEA Design & Print and IDEA Foundation in Cluj, Romania. The magazine situates itself at the self-reflective crossroad between two axes of meaning. The first of these axes runs, thematically, from arts to politics, while the second is defined by the performative effects resulted from the gap between text and image (as heterogeneous media/ realms of discourse).

The panel is a part of OPENING HOURS, a co-operation project between five European partners: KW Institute for Contemporary Art / berlin biennial for contemporary art (Berlin), IDEA art + society (Cluj-Napoca), Lunds Konsthall (Lund), Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest (Budapest) and U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art (Copenhagen).

Onsdag er gåtursdag!
Onsdag d. 22 oktober, klokken 16-19 tilbyder Parfyme og Havnelaboratoriet fast færgefart for fodgængere der vil opleve en helt ny side af havnen: en lang, ubrudt, uforstyrret, tilgængelig havn.

Vil du have havnen som din følgesvend, din kompagnon på et efterårsbenstræk? Vi tilbyder: vandtransport over kanaler - forhindringer forhindres og adhoc derudaf. I en hidtil skyggebureaukratisk og eksklusiv-privatøkonomisk begrænset havn er nu muligheden til stede for en sammenhængende oplevelse i nærhed af vandet - hele vejen.

Gåturen ved kajen kan enten starte fra operaen eller fra Islands Brygge. Hvor vandet forhindrer din overfart, finder du færgelejer markeret med skilte. Anråb blot færgemanden der vil være transportvillig.

Saturday October 18
2.00 pm The General Line, 1928 by Sergej Eisenstein (121 min)

Sunday October 19
2.00 pm The Asthenic Syndrome, 1989 by Kira Muratova (153 min)

Both films will be shown at Carlberg Tap E and introduced by curator Anders Kreuger from Lunds Konsthall

Two Russian films, made by very different authors with very different methods. They form a diptych portrait of the Soviet mind, 'before and after' the promised Communist future that was to be achieved through political control of all aspects of life.

The General Line from 1928 by Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948)
has been called a 'linear' and 'tonal' film. It is a fairytale of collective will and technical progress at a stage when the collective and state farms were still a 'voluntary' option for Russia's majority population, the peasants. Just a couple of years later, Stalin's forced collectivisation of agriculture would lead to the starvation and deportation of tens of millions of people.

The Asthenic Syndrome from 1989 by Kira Muratova (born 1934)
has been hailed as the greatest film of the perestroika ('reconstruction') years that concluded the Soviet experiment. Eisenstein's carefully engineered narratives have imploded, and Muratova's characters are adrift in the bleak and coarse reality of decaying real socialism, redeemed only by her mastery of visual phrasing and her devastatingly precise use of theatrical detail.

The screenings are a part of Opening Hours and are organised in collaboration with Lund Konsthall in Sweden in relation to the current exhibition After Eisenstein, which runs at Lunds Konsthall until November 2, 2008.

U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art has invited the three Danish architect studios BIG, EFFEKT and POLYFORM to battle in new and exciting city planning ideas for the city of Copenhagen. The battle is with LEGO bricks and is an event arranged in relation to Olafur Eliasson's interactive artwork The collectivity project at Rådhuspladsen - an urban planning experiment that encourages everyone to join in the construction of a micro-Copenhagen.

The event takes place on Friday October 17 from 12-4pm at Rådhuspladsen

The collectivity project by Olafur Eliasson is exhibited at Rådhuspladsen (The City Hall Square) in Copenhagen from 11 - 19 October 2008.

The Lithuanian artist Deimantas Narkevičius (1964), just as the British documentary film-maker Peter Watkins (1935) work with the relationship between objective truth and interpretive constructs, particularly when it comes to describing historical events. On Thursday October 16 Cinemateket screens Narkevičius film The Role of a Lifetime, as well as Forgotten Faces by Peter Watkins. Deimantas Narkevičius will make a short introduction the films and talk about how his work is influenced by Watkins.
Later the same evening Cinemateket also screens Peter Watkins film portrait of the artist Edward Munch.

Price: 50DKK for non-members / 35DKK for members and people with valid U-TURN bracelets. Booking: 33 74 34 12

Address: Gothersgade 55, 1123 København K

Olafur Eliasson's work, The collectivity project opens at Rådhuspladsen (The City Hall Square) at 4.00pm on Saturday October 11.

The Danish-Icelandic artist's contribution to U-TURN - Copenhagen's festival for contemporary art, is an urban planning experiment that encourages everyone to join the construction of a micro-Copenhagen.

Thousands of white LEGO bricks - potential buildings - will be piled on a tables shaped after an aerial view of Copenhagen.
The visitors can move freely between the tables, which each represent one of Copenhagen's various neighbourhoods, and are free to contribute with visionary, humorous or completely unrealistic proposals - come re-build the city of Copenhagen at the city's most central location!

The Collectivity Project will be displayed at Rådhuspladsen (The City Hall Square) in Copenhagen from 11 - 19 October 2008. Olafur Eliasson will be present at the opening at 4.00pm Saturday October 11.

Photo: Olafur Eliasson The collectivity project, 2005 Installation view at 3rd Tirana Biennial, Albania, 2005 Courtesy neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

Hvilken rolle spiller samtidskunsten i den politiske debat? Mange kunstnere vil blande sig, debattere og pege på aktuelle emner og brydningspunkter i deres samtid. På U-TURN kan man derfor opleve faldne soldater, folk på flugt og værker der udfordrer vores kulturelle selvforståelse. Offentlige statuer er blevet beklædt med elefanthuer og et spejl placeret foran den lille havfrue spørger, om vi (som land) er blevet forelsket i os selv.

Vi har inviteret Rune Lykkeberg, weekendredaktør på Information og aktuel med debatbogen 'Kampen om sandhederne', Klaus Rothstein, debattør og litteraturanmelder på Weekendavisen og Ditte Maria Bjerg, Kunstnerisk kurator på Teater Camp X til en diskussion om, hvordan de oplever kunstens rolle i den politiske debat. Moderator Christian Skovbjerg Jensen, formidlingsleder på U-TURN.

Tid og sted:
Torsdag den 9. oktober kl. 17-19 i cafeen på U-TURNs hovedudstilling, Carlsberg Tap E, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15, Valby.

Vesterbros nyere historie belyst gennem kunstværker i gadehøjde. Foredrag, workshop og byvandringer fra Karriere Bar og ud i Vesterbros byrum.

På grund af et sent afbud har vi valgt at udskyde vores søndagsarrangement 'Talk and walk' den 5. oktober kl. 10-16. Ny dato bliver annonceret inden for få dage i vores nyhedsbrev samt her på vores hjemmeside.

Kort om programmet:
Vi starter ud på Karriere Bar med præsentationer af forskellige kunstprojekter på Vesterbro og et historisk blik på byfornyelsen på Vesterbro.

Derefter fortsætter vi udenfor, hvor kunstner Kenneth A. Balfelt fortæller om tre af hans kunstprojekter i området. Afslutningsvis har vi sat to timer af til en "produktionsworkshop", hvor en problematik udstukket af Stadsarkitekten eller en anden repræsentant fra Københavns Kommune vil blive præsenteret. Her vil vi forsøge at løse problematik med en kunstnerisk tilgang. Resultatet og dokumentationen af workshoppen vil blive afleveret til kommunen efterfølgende som en form for idékatalog eller illustration af alternative tilgange til byfornyelse og byplanlægning.

Talk and walk er arrangementet som et samarbejde mellem U-TURN Kvadriennale for samtidskunst og Karriere Bar.

Tilmelding er nødvendig, da der kun er plads til 40 pers.

Tilmelding eller evt. spørgsmål sendes til: christian@uturn-copenhagen.dk

Foto: Kenneth A. Balfelt, Heroin vask [Mændenes Hjem, med FOS]

ved Anne Jerslev
Formen i Jesper Justs værker imiterer ofte filmens formsprog, og i flere af hans værker kan man finde referencer til bl. a. film noir, Hitchcock og David Lynch.
I kraft af sin ekspertise på områderne film, køn, kultfilm og amerikanske instruktører som f.eks Lynch sætter Anne Jerslev Jesper Justs værker fra den aktuelle udstilling ind i en filmkunstnerisk kontekst

Torsdag d. 2 oktober kl. 17

Kunsthallen Nikolaj
Nikolaj Plads 10
1067 København K

U-TURN Kvadriennale for samtidskunst tilbyder en unik mulighed for at møde skuespillere fra GladTeater, som i næste uge deltager i et åbent performancestykke lavet af den spanske kunstner Dora García.

I performancestykket stiller skuespillerne sig mellem de udstillede kunstværker og publikum, som de forsøger at komme i dialog med. Samtalerne drejer sig om samfundet, om kunst generelt og mange andre vigtige emner, der normalt diskuteres, især i intellektuelle kredse.
Det eneste, der er anderledes i denne sammenhæng, er at skuespillerne fra GladTeater er udviklingshæmmede. De går i dialog med os og udfordrer dermed vores fordomme om normalitet i samfundet, samtidig med at samtalerne giver en helt anden indgang til en række presserende og aktuelle problematikker. Denne prikken til vores forestillinger og fordomme om det anderledes sker i kraft af, at skuespillerne er mennesker, der ikke nødvendigvis indretter sig efter normerne om at sige og gøre det rigtige og forventede. Derfor hedder Dora Garcías performance The Innocents.

Kom og oplev The Innocents fra tirsdag den 23. september til søndag den 28. september 2008. Forestillingen starter kl. 14.00 alle dage og varer cirka en halv time.

Sted: Carlsberg Tap E, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 11, 2500 Valby

Med almindelig entrébillet til udstillingen, koster det ikke ekstra at se eller deltage i performancen.

Tilmelding er kun nødvendig for større grupper og kan ske på tijana@uturn-copenhagen.dk

YOYOOYOY BESØGER PARFYME

Fredag d. 19. September kl. 16.30 til 23.00
Bryghusgrunden / Christians brygge (for enden af Vester Voldgade ved Langebro)

STOF
Der var engang nogen som boede et sted hvor det tit var koldt, så forsøgte de at blive venner med solen. De der var klogest tænkte at den bedste måde at blive det på, var ved at sige de samme lyde som den, men den var for langt væk og deres øre for små til at de kunne høre den, så de fandt på noget selv.

KALLE DEL HEY - med venner
Først er der en der spiller noget, så er der en anden der spiller noget andet på det samme instrument som den første og så er de allerede mange, og så er der en tredje der spiller noget andet end de to første spiller men tæt på det samme, men så er det at der er en fjerde som spiller noget underligt funk men det er på det samme instrument som de tre første så det lægger man ikke rigtig mærke til. Men så kommer der nogen som spiller på andre instrumenter end dem som de første spillede på og så bliver de alle sammen venner. Men det var de på forhånd allerede, så det.

SUPERMELLE - alene inde i kassen
En lydinstallation med musik genereret af havnens omgivelser, hvor biler, mennesker, dyr, fisk, vand, både, cykler, hunde, børn, fugle, træer, buske, blæst, vind og bølger forstærkes op og spilles ud i en container som en slags audiotivt kæmpe mikroskop.

KØKKEN HAVN
Køkken Havn har været en tur på herrregård, hentet en kasse æbler. Der vil i denne anledning blive serveret gammeldags æblekage og kaffe punch.

Jesper Justs virke og værker ved Solvej Helweg Ovesen

Torsdag d. 18 september kl. 17

I forbindelse med Jesper Just udstillingen fortæller Solvej Helweg Ovesen, kurator samt medstifter af U-TURN, om videokunstneren Jesper Just og hans virke. Solvej Helweg Ovesen tager udgangspunkt i både de udstillede værker og værkerne fra udstillingens arkiv, som rummer hele Jesper Justs produktion herunder nogle af de tidligste videoer, som man ellers aldrig har mulighed for at se.

Sted:
Kunsthallen Nikolaj (Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center)
Nikolaj Plads 10
1067 København K
www.kunsthallennikolaj.dk

Foto: Jesper Just, Romantic Delusions (2008)

How to Break the Great Chinese Wall III. Bed-in, Yoko Ono / John Lennon
By Lilibeth Cuenca & Toke Lykkeberg

18. september kl. 20 / September 18 8pm
I udstillingen / in the exhibition, Carlsberg Tap E

Photo: Lilibeth Cueanca, How to Break the Great Chinese wall II. Women on Painting. 5. September 2008

Hypnagogia, the Secret Garden of Sleep - Confessions of an Occasional Trespasser
Thursday September 11 at 8pm, In the exhibition, Carlsberg Tap E

Hypnagogia is defined as the state between wakefulness and sleep or, put differently: dreaming while awake. One theory on this altered state is that when the frontal cortex (associated with logical thought and the perception of a well-defined "external" world) is inhibited through sleep, deep relaxation, or trance and a minimum cortical arousal is maintained, it is possible to experience and observe the consciousness of other parts of the brain. Although the hypnagogic state is commonly associated with the esoteric terminology of astral travel and the out-of-body experience, it is revealing to view it as a model or threshold where repressed ghostly matter, imaginary topographies, and other ideas become physical as they seep into culture.

In his lecture, Joachim Koester will touch upon this and other ideas from the (secret) history of consciousness as well as sketch out various entries into the ever elusive "astral" or subtle, realms.

6 and 7 September at 8 pm (duration: 40 min.) Takkelloftet, The Opera
Price: DKK 30 with a valid U-TURN ticket, otherwise DKK 50.
Booking: booking@uturn-copenhagen.dk

TRANSPORTATION
Bus: 66
Habour bus: Operaen (901, 902, 903)

During an extended stay in Copenhagen Ján Mančuška crafted a theatre performance which, as its title, Reverse Play, indicates, is a drama performed in reverse.

Reverse Play is a performance that takes place in a theatre (hence the term 'theatre performance'), in which actors and dancers perform the piece back to front while another actor, seated in the front row among the audience, narrates the storyline in sequence. On stage, everything runs counter to narrative logic, even breathing and walking. Further, despite the fact that in the play's progression cause and effect are reversed, there is perfect congruence between the actions performed on stage and the incidents in the narrative. All the sound comes from the narrator, while the play itself is performed in silence, with concentration focused upon the bodily movements performed in reverse.

As the play progresses, it becomes increasingly apparent that the action on stage
and the narrator's story are out of sync. One of the points at which the key thrust of the play comes through is at the crucial moment where the narrator is recounting an episode involving a thief pickpocketing a wallet, and a character on stage is seen slipping a wallet into someone else's pocket. Mančuška's interest is in the ways in which stories are told, here using forward and backward-moving narratives to disentangle the essence of - and perhaps also the contingencies surrounding - ethically charged situations.

Whether the genre be installation, film or performance, Mančuška's artistic themes invariably have an existential thrust. Typically, they focus around an individual faced with an ethical choice, in the context of a labyrinthine storyline presenting multiple possible plot developments and avenues of interpretation. It is in particular the individual's dilemmas, complicated by a range of contingencies, that combine to create the tragicomic universe that defines Ján Mančuška's art.

Grand Opening of U-TURN FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5

11.00 am
Exhibitions open. Carlsberg Tap E and Nikolaj CCAC

4.00 pm
Opening speeches by Elisabeth Delin Hansen, Director of Nikolaj CCAC and Pia Allerslev, Mayor of Culture and Leisure, City of Copenhagen. Nikolaj CCAC

5.30-7.30 pm
Performance by Roi Vaara, Wet Paint Handshakes. Carlsberg Tap E

6.30-7.15 pm
Performance by Lilibeth Cuenca, How to Break the Great Chinese wall II. Women on Painting. Carlsberg Tap E

7.30 pm
Welcome speeches by U-TURN curators Charlotte Bagger Brandt, Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Judith Schwarzbart. Official speaker Christine Buhl Andersen, Chairman of The Danish Arts Council's Committee for International Visual Art. Carlsberg Tap E

8.15 pm
Performance by Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Complaints Choir Copenhagen. Carlsberg Tap E

8.15 pm
Opening reception. Carlsberg Tap E

9.00 pm
Party. Carlsberg

9.30 pm
Performance by Lucas Ajemian & Giancarlo Vulcano, U-TURN Kanon. Carlsberg

Bus shuttle
5.00 pm From Nikolaj CCAC - to Carlsberg Tap E, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15
6.00 pm From Nikolaj CCAC - to Carlsberg Tap E, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15

PETERSBURG, August 29, 2008. On the evening of August 27, the new issue of the newspaper Chto Delat (No. 19: What Does It Mean to Lose? The Experience of Perestroika) was confiscated during a police raid at the printers in Petersburg.

Time: Sunday 2 pm - 3 pm

Place:
Karriere contemporary art & social life
flaesketorvet 57-67
1711 Copenhagen V


Photo: Mads Lynnerup, Clock, at Karriere contemporary art & social life 2008

Mads Lynnerup is a Danish artist living in New York. His stay in Denmark is supported by S.A.I.R.
Read more about Mads Lynnerup at: www.madslynnerup.com

Olof Olsson, Heavy Banana. Foto: York Wegerhoff Fotografie

Se TV Møns optagelser fra åbningen: www.tv-moen.dk

Nu har du muligheden for at komme bag kulissen på Danmarks første internationale kunstfestival - U-TURN Kvadriennale for Samtidskunst.

Vi søger nu infoguides til at formidle kunsten i udstillingen på Carlsbergs grundens gamle tappehal Tap E og især i udstillingens største oplevelsesbaserede værk - Tomas Saracenos Observatory Air-Port-City. Det vil blive en formidlingsstilling, hvor man færdes rundt i udstillingen og går i dialog med gæsterne omkring de 70 kunstværker af danske og internationale kunstnere, der optræder på kvadriennalen. Mange af værkerne er performance baserede, nogle er korte teaterstykker og andre igen kan de besøgende blive en del af. Infoguide funktionen handler således både om at gæsterne bliver udfordret til at reflektere over udstillingens mange tematikker og om at sikre at gæsterne færdes trygt og sikkert rundt i værkerne, de gamle fabrikshaller og i den store have.

Infoguides vil være i sparring med kuratorerne og i særdeleshed med formidlingslederen og den daglige leder omkring strategier for kunstformidling. De vil få et stort indblik i samtidskunstscenen nu, og blive introduceret til det arbejde, der ligger i tilrettelæggelse af events, talks, undervisningstiltag mm.

Vi søger frivillige til den 9 uger lange udstillingsperiode 5. september - 9. november, Åbningstiden er tirsdag - søndag 10-18 torsdag 10 - 22. Det kan f.eks være til én ugenlig vagt.

Under kvadriennalen vil et omfattende aktivitetsprogram invitere til artist talks, filmvisninger, performances, debatter, koncerter og workshops.

Hvis du er interesseret i at være frivillig så kontakt hurtigst muligt Charlotte Sprogøe på charlottes@uturn-copenhagen.dk eller 61 77 85 41

Tuesday August 12 the artist Mads Lynnerup will perform the piece Ur (watch) at Karriere. During the Bar's opening hours the artist will register time passing, by using a hand-held sign with numbers, which change every minute.
By acting as a "live watch" Lynnerup makes time into an absurd action, an existential everyday drama.

Time:
Tuesday August 12, 7 pm - 12 am

Place:
Karriere contemporary art & social life
flaesketorvet 57-67
1711 Copenhagen V

Mads Lynnerup is a Danish artist living in New York. His stay in Copenhagen is supported by S.A.I.R. Read more about Mads Lynnerup at: www.madslynnerup.com

Photo: Complaints Choir Hamburg, 2006

The artists Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen will talk about their worldwide perfomance project Complaints Choir.

Time:
Monday August 11, at 6 pm.

Place:
Karriere contemporary art & social life
flaesketorvet 57-67
1711 Copenhagen V

The Finish/German artist-duo Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen is in Denmark on an artist residency at S.A.I.R. Read more about Complaints Choir at: www.complaintschoir.org

Mennesket kan lide at klage. Mennesket kan lide at synge. Klager og synger du på samme tid - har du et KLAGEKOR!

Complaints Choir er endelig kommet til Danmark efter stor succes i
Helsinki, St. Petersborg, Singapore og mange andre byer rundt om i verden.
Kunstnerne Tellervo Kalleinen (FI) og Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen (DE)
inviterer dig til at deltage i Københavns Klagekor. Dette morsomme projekt
transformerer dine klager til en imponerende korsang!

Deltag i kor-workshop på Det Konglige Danske Kunstakademi
- Deltagelsen er gratis
- Mad vil blive serveret
- Der kræves ingen sang færdigheder
- Hver deltager modtager en DVD af opvisningen

Første møde 12. august 2008 kl. 18.00
(De 4 efterfølgende datoer for prøver vil blive oplyst på det første
møde). Den store opvisning vil foregå 5. september 2008 i Carlsberg Tap E
til åbningen af U-TURN Kvadriennale for Samtidskunst.

Tilmeld dig for at deltage:
Send din klage til tijana@uturn-copenhagen.dk eller til:
Vester Voldgade 96, st., 1552 København V. Alle emner er tilladte i uanede mængder. Sendes senest d. 8 august 2008.

"HEJ! HEJ HEJ! VIL I HAVE EN KOP KAFFE? HEEJ! I SKAL VÆRE VELKOMNE!" Det er Laurids der via megafon fra Havnelaboratoriets balkon inviterer to nysgerrige is-spisende betragtere på Langebro. Først er der ingen reaktion, men siden vinker brogængerne, nikker og går lidt besværede videre. I det offentlige rum er man på én og samme gang både meget synlig og meget usynlig. Det er den 24. juli 2008, og solen stråler om kap med det farveglade laboratorium, som er lastet med Laurids og med Douglas. Det fantastiske skilt, en mutation af Københavns byvåben og et søuhyre, byder velkommen fra begge sider af laboratoriet.

Turistsæsonen i Danmark er i gang, og de to brogængere er ikke de eneste, der er lidt forvirrede over havnesituationen. "Is this Christiania?" er et spørgsmål, som besætningen ikke langt fra dagligt skal besvare. Andre undrer sig over, hvornår en egentlig udstilling går i gang. Og svage sjæle fristes: "Hver morgen når vi kommer tilbage er der sket små ændringer", fortæller Douglas. Så sent som dagen inden mit besøg, var den ene vandcykel at finde på vildveje, nemlig 100 meter fra sit hjem - med to øl ombord. At vandcyklerne er populære bekræftes ligeledes af, at to af dem under mit besøg er på tur, denne gang på lovlig vis. Redningsveste og lettere instruktioner har atter åbnet for offentlighedens mulighed for en cykeltur i havnen.

Byggestoppet er ophævet og Havnelaboratoriet vokser i alle retninger. Tirsdag blev holdbarheden hos den nyeste konstruktion, Saloonen, testet: En jazzkoncert blev lidt af et tilløbsstykke. Saloonen holdt. Endvidere er Douglas i gang med at bygge et gæsteværelse, i form af et telt, på toppen af bygningen. Her vil aktive kunstnere kunne flytte ind og bidrage til projektet - næste gæst er snart på trapperne. I laboratoriets vandareal flyder halvstore kaktusser af træ side om side med større byggeprojekter. Hvad der ligner en badebro, viser sig at være en kommende gangbro til et flydende museum, hvor dokumentation af Havnelaboratoriets virksomhed vil kunne beskues i en snar fremtid.

Denne uge bruges til at de forskellige konstruktioner færdiggøres, mens laboratoriet i næste uge bevæger sig ud i havnen, og på forskellig vis udvider sin virksomhed.

Allerede den 1. august er tid til en festival, hvor en karavane bestående af musikere og vandcykler vil blive sendt ud på vandet!

Desuden vil fremtiden byde på lejrskolebesøg fra BGK i Esbjerg den 7. - 9. August.

"I Saloonen har vi whisky og øl", fortæller de to havnedrenge, "og vi har åbent fra kl. 18."

Photo: Lilibeth Cuenca, Remake of Janine Antoni, Loving Care, Renwick Gallery New York. Photo: Thomas Duzon

On Saturday the U-TURN exhibition satellite FOOD FOR THOUGHT will open in the closed down Sugar Factory in Stege, Moen. The exhibition takes its point of depature in a series of old fluxus pieces, and through a number of new works, it draws lines to the contemporary art.

The opening weekend offers the performance programme 24-TIMER (24 hours) and a workshop lead by Freie Klasse Berlin with guests such as Rirkrit Tiravanija and Superflex.

PROGRAMME

Saturday 26 July
12pm - 1pm: Exhibition opening, Thora Andersen (SUK) Birte Helth (Vordingborg City), Jens Ravn (Region Sealand), Judith Schwarzbart (Curator U-TURN) Bjørn Nørgaard & Henning Christiansen (participating artists).

1pm - 4.15pm: The performance programme 24 TIMER (24 hours) with Olof Olsson: heavy banana, Lilibeth Cuenca: Artist´s Song 2 A Void- painting! og Roi Vaara: Below the surface.

4.15pm - 4.30pm: Presentation of the workshop on Sunday.

6pm: the exhibition closes, but the bar is open.

Sunday 27. July, 12pm-10pm
Workshop lead by Freieklasse Berlin (freieklasse.de) with contributions by Rirkrit Tiravanija and Superflex.


Address
Stege Sukkerfabrik, Kostervej 2, 4780 Stege, Denmark. Phone: +45 21780295

Travel to and from Stege
Take the train to Vordingborg st. and bus no. 62 between Stege and Vordingborg.

On Saturday 26 July a special shuttle will leave from Vordingborg st. at 11.30am, which connects with the train departing from Copenhagen Central Station at 10.03am. The shuttle leaves from the Sugar Factory in Stege at 4.30pm, which connects with the train departing at 5.23pm arriving at Copenhagen Central Station at 6.45pm. For other departures with public transport see: www.rejseplanen.dk

Accommodation
There are a couple of camping areas close to Stege, where cabins are for rent. You can also find cottages and a B&B. for more information: Vitismoen.com

Yderligere information
www.uturn-copenhagen.dk/stege or www.sukkerblokken.dk

Watch Köken Erguns film TANKLOVE in the making. The filming takes place in the small provincial town Jyderup on Western Sealand. The film is produced in collaboration with S.A.I.R, the National Defence, a tank collector, a lot of volunteers and a local environment which support the project. TANKLOVE can be seen at U-TURN from 5. of September.

Video by: Anders Kongshaug, vnr.tv



A film about the artist group Parfyme. The group focus on practical research, activities and 'immediate' actions. They see art as a tool that can be used for many things: as an "excuse" for personal contributions to our surroundings, a way to communicate serious issues, simple fun and good deeds!
At U-TURN Parfyme is contributing with Harbour Laboratory, a project that will test new uses of the harbour and hopefully bring some fresh perspective to the harbour situation in Copenhagen.

Harbour Laboratory, Bryghusgrunden (at the end of Vester Voldgade - by the water of course), June - October 2008.

Video by: Parfyme and Anders Kongshaug, vnr.tv

Photo: Andy Warhol, Campbell Can, ca. 1962. Courtesy René Block.

A turning point nationally and locally?
On 26 July, U-TURN opens with the exhibition satellite Food for Thought in the bare halls of the disused sugar factory in Stege on the island of Møn. U-Turn thus opens up completely new perspectives for international contemporary art in Denmark - and casts a new light over the historic role of Møn.

26 July to 14 September 2008 at Stege Sukkerfabrik (Sugar factory)
26 & 27 July - Special programme


Read more about the exhibition: English or Danish
Or go to: www.sukkerblokken.dk

Et af de helt centrale bidrag til U-TURNs satsning på kunstprojekter i offentlige rum og diskussionen om byplanlægning er allerede skudt i gang. Det er den danske kunstnergruppe Parfymes projekt Havnelaboratoriet, som i løbet af de næste fire måneder vil afvikle konkurrencer, workshops, bygge, snakke og i det hele taget aktivere havnen med en lang række uventede aktiviteter. Projektet er blevet til i form af et unikt samarbejde mellem U-TURN og Realea, som råder over grunden. Parfyme vil skabe en levende havn, som bruges af alle og ved siden af sine egne idéer opmuntres alle interesserede til at bidrage med bud på, hvad havnen kan og bør bruges til. Havnelaboratoriet er altså i fuld gang og vil være det frem til 9. november.

Parfyme består af de tre danske kunstnere Laurids Sonne, Ebbe Dam Meinild og Pelle Brage. Derudover får de over sommeren assistance af den amerikanske kunstner Douglas Paulson og en lang række andre kunstnere, venner og af dem, der ellers er interesserede i at bidrage og hjælpe til. Ligesom deres tidligere projekter tager også Havnelaboratoriet plads i et offentligt rum. Projektet er præget af nysgerrighed, spontanitet, leg og en ukrukket tilgang til det at lave kunst. Lydhørheden og interaktionen med publikum er en bærende del i projektet, så kig forbi.

Her på siden vil du jævnligt kunne følge U-TURNs rapportering fra Havnelaboratoriet.

Læs mere om parfyme og projektet på deres egen hjemmeside www.parfyme.dk.


Utrolig god larm
20. juni 2008

Da jeg besøger Havnelaboratoriet om eftermiddagen den 20. juni er Pelle og Laurids i gang med at male. De har begge arbejdsvenligt tøj på og har allerede fået havnearbejderkulør. "Kan du se, hvad det er?", spørger Pelle. Nja… Jeg er ikke sikker, men det virker bekendt. Maleriet viser sig at forestille et søuhyre inspireret af Københavns byvåben. I øjeblikket skiftes Pelle og Laurids til at male blå bølger. Udenfor begynder en kraftig sommerbyge, og så er det rart at have en container, hvor man kan brygge kaffe.

Siden åbningen af Havnelaboratoriet i maj er der sket et og andet på det tildelte areal på Bryghusgrunden. Der er kommet containere til, som er blevet indrettet og udbygget med trapper og gelændere. På vandet under containerne er der bygget en flydende platform. Tømmerflåder af forskellig form og omfang, samt andre flydende objekter, er søsat. Postkasser er opsat - her kan man aflevere sine idéer - og på en tavle vises de idéer, der er kommet indtil videre. På tavlen kan man læse forslag om bølgeenergi-produktion og om flydende kaffebarer - og om en hel del derimellem. Et andet sted på havnen er der lavet en cykelvask, hvor man kan få vasket sin cykel.

Men mest iøjefaldende må dog det store skilt, der opfordrer til at man tilmelder sig DM i vandcykling, siges at være. Folk er begyndt at reagere på invitationen, og snart skal en dato fastsættes. Mange vil vide mere og Laurids besvarer spørgsmål per e-mail. Eksempelvis: Ja, du må gerne medbringe din egen vandcykel til DM!

Da regnen stilner af høres der skridt på trappen og snart banker det på døren. Der er besøg. En interesseret cyklist, som hver dag cykler langs havnen, kigger ind. Han spørger og lytter og fortæller siden, at han i sin tid har bygget flere tømmerflåder. Forhåbentlig kigger han forbi igen med billeder.

Under eftermiddagens gang erfarer jeg, at der i takt med et voksende laboratorium dukker små og større udfordringer op, som Parfyme konfronterer og integrerer i projektet:

• Man kan tabe genstande (f.eks. en pose til slibemaskinen) ned i vandet. Der er syv meter ned til bunden inde ved kajen.

• Man kan forskrækkes af høje, fremmede lyde, som kan stamme fra Langebro, hvor der muligvis er gang i en masse tests vedrørende en nødudgang.

• Man kan udsættes for at der er nogle, der med ild prøver at frigøre de indkøbte vandcykler uden at fortælle det.

• Man kan erfare at havnemyndighederne sætter sikkerhed højest af alt. Og man kan derfor være nødt til at indføre byggestop i en periode.

"Du kan desværre ikke komme ud og vandcykle i dag - vi skal først have skaffet redningsveste. Men de er på vej", forklarer drengene. Jeg læser en vandcykeloplevelsesrapport af en af de yngste gæster: "Herligt vejr, daglige bøljer, god udsigt og utrolig god larm." Jeg glæder mig til de der redningsveste kommer.

Der er gang i den på trods af byggestop. Og så der er i øvrigt havudsigt fra toilettet!

U-TURN and Karriere Bar have initiated a collaboration, hosting a number of talks and performances during the Quadrennial. Over the summer we will present a number of artists who will be in Denmark preparing for U-TURN in September.

First talk will be with the Turkish artist Köken Ergun, who has been in Denmark since April on an artist residency at S.A.I.R to produce his new film, TANKLOVE.

Köken Ergun will talk about how his project TANKLOVE is realised with the help of volunteers, S.A.I.R, the National Defence, a tank collector and a local environment which support the project. TANKLOVE is filmed in Jyderup, West Sealand in the beginning of July where the relaxed provincial atmosphere for a moment is interrupted by a tank and an unexpected sympathy between the the military vehicle and the citizens occur.
Moreover, two of the artists older films will screened.

Time and place: Sunday 22 June, 4pm at Karriere Bar, Flæsketorvet 57-67, Copenhagen.

U-TURN kvadriennale for Samtidskunst har fornøjelsen af at invitere til pressemøde:

Onsdag d. 11. Juni kl. 12.00 - 13.00

På Carlsberg, Tap E

(Indgang fra Vesterfælledvej 100, indgang C)

Her vil U-TURN give svar på alt det, der er værd at vide om Danmarks første internationale samtidskunstfestival og offentliggøre den samlede kunstnerliste bestående af 65 kunstnere fra ind- og udland -en mangfoldig blanding af internationale anerkendte topnavne og nye lovende talenter.

Samtidig løfter U-TURN sløret for de rå og spektakulære rum på Carlsberg, der kommer til at indeholde hovedudstillingsprogrammet. Der er tale om den 4000 m2 store tidligere tappehal, Tap E, der aldrig tidligere har været tilgængelig for offentligheden. Dette gælder også I.C. Jacobsens gamle og stemningsfyldte akademihave. Begge vil blive præsenteret på pressemødet. Et antal af de udstillende kunstnere samt U-TURNs kuratorteam vil være til stede på mødet. U-TURN byder desuden på lidt at spise og drikke.

Da Carlsbergs område endnu ikke er tilgængeligt for offentligheden, er det særdeles nødvendigt at tilmelde sig pressemødet hos nedenstående kontaktpersoner fra U-TURN.

For yderligere information samt for tilmelding til pressemødet kontakt venligst :
Anne Riber: anne@uturn-copenhagen.dk mobil: 2719 7982
Anders Lichinger: anders@uturn-copenhagen.dk mobil: 2137 1108

Second issue of SUM magazine for contemporary art will be released in Copenhagen on 13 June at the The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts.

This Issue offers articles about Tove Storch and Layla Ali, as well as an interview with Kirstine Roepstorff. There will also be contributions by international authors who participated in the conference On Cultural Translation organized in fall 2007 by U-TURN.

Read more about the magazine here

Below the Surface a performance by Roi Vaara (FI)

As part of the collaborative project Opening Hours U-TURN Quadrennial and the 5th berlin biennial (bb5) presents a 2 1/2 hour performance by Roi Vaara, who is known worldwide for his humoristic and existential performances. Spectators are free to come and go during the performance.

In Below the Surface the blindfolded performer washes white T-shirts in water, which colours them red. He hangs them to dry on clotheshorses. The dripping water colours the floor. A special live reading, which consists of lists of words collected by the artist since 2001, will accompany the performance. After the performer has filled all the clotheshorses with the coloured T-shirts he turns on the lights. This performance can be viewed as a comment on history already written in the 21st century.

June 4th 2008 8.30pm · Dock 11, Kastanien Allee 79, Berlin
For registration and further information: www.berlinbiennale.de
Admission fee: 10 Euro / 8 Euro

... OG ÅBENT HUS I TAP E PÅ CARLSBERG

Til efteråret slår U-TURN dørene op for Danmarks største samtidskunstudstilling nogensinde. Fra den 5. september udstiller over 60 kunstnere i en af Carlsbergs gamle tappehaller, Kunsthallen Nikolaj og flere steder i Københavns byrum.

Torsdag den 8. maj kl.14.30-17.00 inviterer vi derfor til lærerkursus og snigpremiere på de alternative og historiske udstillingslokaler. Vi vil gerne fortælle om U-TURN og give et overblik over, hvilke undervisningstilbud vi udbyder.

Læs mere her

Foto: Still fra Bliss and Heaven, 2005 af Jesper Just

Unfolding in a 4.000 m2 old bottling hall the main part of U-turn takes place at the former Carlsberg brewery between Vesterbro and Valby in Copenhagen. Furthermore a large-scale artwork will be installed in the old academy garden, which opens to the public for the first time. In addition to this the exhibition will also take place at Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center and in different public spaces in the city.

Photo: Frankfurter Kunstverein.

Judith Schwarzbart presents the program and ideas behind U-TURN at Frankfurter Kunstverein.
In continuation of the one-day exhibition Perform History on January 26 at Overgaden - Institute for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, Judith Schwarzbart will discuss the implication of 'performing history' and show an extract of Melik Ohanian's film "September 11, 1973_Santiago de Chile 2007".

Time: Saturday, February 9, 5 pm
Place: Frankfurter Kunstverein
Entrance is free
The presentation will be in English

Photo: Performance on the Beach! The choir complains about Peter the Great at the bank of the Neva. Complaints Choir St. Petersburg, September 2006. Courtesy of the artists Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen.

During spring and summer 2008 a number of international artists will be visiting Denmark, working on projects for the U-TURN Quadrennial. Among the artists are:Köken Ergun, Mads Lynnerup, Irina Korina, Roi Vaara, Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and Jan Mancuska

To see more about when and where, click here

See pictures from the whole day here

Melik Ohanian, "September 11, 1973_Santiago de Chile 2007" (2007)

Repetitions are a possibility to change things - history is alive!

Saturday 26 January from 11am-18pm at Overgaden U-TURN will warm op to the Quardrennial for Contemporary Art in fall 2008, with the event Perform History, which offers talks by Inke Arns (DE) and Camilla Jalving (DK); a workshop by Dmitry Vilensky (RU); a performance by Roi Vaara (FI) and a re-enactment by Dora Garcia (ES) performed by Jan Mech (DE); Filmscreenings by Irina Botea (RO) and Melik Ohanian (FR). It is a one-day exhibition, where history is embodied and interpretated in choreography in the space of Overgadens. The programme will be in English and is curated as well as moderated by U-TURN.

See full programme here

Place: Overgaden - Institute for Contemporary Art, Overgaden Neden Vandet 17, DK-1414 Copenhagen, ph:+45 32577273.

Entrance is free, but registration is necessary: tijana@uturn-copenhagen.dk latest on 24 January 2008.

Watch pictures from the exhibition here

First issue of SUM magazine for contemporary art will be released in Copenhagen on 18 December. Come and help us celebrate and get a free magazine at 5pm at Karriere Bar, Flæsketorvet 57-67, 1711 Copenhagen V.

SUM is a magazine about current artistic practice and related activities. The Magazine will be published twice a year. It is bilingual (Danish/English), and takes its point of departure in the Danish art scene. SUM is the outcome of a collaboration between The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts and U-TURN. Read more here and on www.kunstakademiet.dk/sum

International distributor of SUM magazine for contemporary art is
Revolver -Archiv für aktuelle Kunst

Thursday 13 December 2008 the art collective Parfyme and curator Solvej Helweg Ovesen participated in the TV show Brunch at TV2 Lorry under the headline: Art is more than art - Art in public spaces.

The programme can be seen on web-tv the next 15 days. The programme is in Danish.

Notice that 14 December is last chance to see Parfyme's exhibition at the City Hall.

Art as a deregulator of public space took place December 3 at Copenhagen City Hall where the Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard opened the event.

Judith Schwarzbart gave an opening introduction.

FACTS

The event will take place 3 December 2007 4PM-6.30PM at Copenhagen City Hall.
The exhibition will be open during the period 3 - 15 of December, all weekdays between 7.45am and 5.00pm.

To sign up for the event, please contact Philip Seidler at ps@okf.kk.dk
or 33 66 68 92.
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Programme

4.00pm
Opening of the exhibition by Parfyme - main entrance City Hall
4.05pm
Parfyme introduces the exhibition and sends the participants of on thier journey through the City Hall. (Everyone will end in Festsalen at 4.30pm)
4.35pm
Welcome to the debate by Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard
4.40pm
Introduction to the programmme and the debate by U-TURN
4.50pm
Stadtlounge - and example of a new and different way to use public space by
Pipilotti Rist and Carlos Martinez
5.30pm
Break
5.40pm
The potential of the art project and how it can contribute to a city like Copenhagen - experiences and ideas by Christian Skovbjerg Jensen, curator and art educator, has primarily worked with art projects in public space. Co-founder of Publik in 2005.
6.00pm
The debate will be started of by a panel consisting of:
Trevor Davies, director of KIT- Copenhagen International. Artistic director of Metropolis Biennial.
Christina Prip, architect and artist, has during the last 5 years besides working at Dorte Mandrup and Schønherr, focused on the placement of art in public spaces.
Per Schulze, architect. Has worked on numerous urban regeneration projects. Works as development consultant at The Danish Foundation for Culture and Sports Facilities.
6.30pm
The End

Photo: Hito Steyerl: Journal No. 1 - An Artist's Impression (2007) Video Still


A conference on culture as translation and the role of art in contemporary globalized society.

SATURDAY 24 November 2007, 10am -5.30pm

The conference offers contributions by international artists and cultural critics such as: Suely Rolnik (Sao Paulo), Boris Buden (Berlin), Jalal Toufic (Beirut), Johan Schimanski (Tromsoe/Vienna) og Hito Steyerl (Berlin)
Read the full programme for the conference here

Note!!! New location:
Festsalen, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Kongens Nytorv 1, 1022 Copenhagen K.

Entrance is free, but registration is necessary: tijana@uturn-copenhagen.dk

The conference is organised by U-TURN and Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen in collaboration with med The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts and Danish Lettre Internationale.

You can also read the article Challenging East-West Art Map by Maibritt Pedersen about the last conference U-TURN organized. (in Danish)

Thursday 25 October curator Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Artist Dmitry Vilensky gave a talk at C-SAM center for samtidskunst in Århus.

See more pictures here

Curator Solvej Helweg Ovesen will in a talk at C-SAM in Århus give an introduction to U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art.
Artist Dmitry Vilensky, will introduce the Russian art collective What is to be done?, as well as their current project about 'Next stop Sovjet'. Together they will discus U-TURNs significance for the contemporary art scene.

Time: Thursday 25 October at 7.30pm

Place:
C-SAM center for samtidskunst
Café Monroe
Officersbygningen
Vester Allé 3, Opg. C
DK-8000 Århus C

Thursday 11 October the Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi stopped by U-TURN's office at Vester Voldgade to continue the work in progress and extend the repertoire of drawings on walls and ceilings.

Read more about Dan Perjovschi and see more photos here

From 21-23 September the U-TURN team introduced an interested public at Art Copenhagen to the ideas behind U-TURN Quadrennial of Contemporary Art.

See more photos here

7 September Curator Solvej Helweg Ovesen and curatorial assistant Helga Christoffersen presented U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art at the 10th international Istanbul Biennial.

See more Photos here

Photo: The Russian art collective Chto delat? (What is to be done?)

The Russian artist group Chto delat? (What is to be done?) and U-TURN look for former participants in the Danish initiative in 1988/89 'Next-Stop Sovjet': the project starts now!

Chto delat? will be in Copenhagen in October and November 2007 on an AIR residency, during their stay they will produce a publication, as well as a number of new video works, including a film re-enactment of situations related to the Next Stop experience in 1989.
All the projects will take their point of departure in the 'Next-Stop Sovjet' movement and its relation to the Soviet time of 'Perestroika'.
Members of Chto delat? were themselves involved in 'Next-Stop Sovjet' as hosts for the Danish visitors and they experienced the impact this initiative had on the then Soviet (underground) culture.

How can you participate?
As part of Chto delat's? project in Copenhagen they will co-operate with The Royal Danish Art Academy where they will do a series of workshops and lectures with the students. For these events Chto delat? wish to invite former 'Next-Stoppers' to participate with their experiences and to discuss these (with the students and Chto delat?) in relation to current Danish/European/global cultural, artistic and political debate.

Likewise Chto delat? wish to invite former 'Next-Stoppers' to participate in the project in one or more of the following ways:

• by answering 10 questions about their experiences (that will be send electronically)
• function as an actor or extra in the video productions
• contribute to the publication
  

The finished work will be presented at U-TURN, Quadrennial for Contemporary Art in September 2008.

Chto delat? and U-TURN look forward to your hearing from you!

To participate please contact Helga Christoffersen before 1 October 2007. Participants are also welcome to join during the project.

Contact:
Helga Christoffersen
U-TURN
Vester Voldgade 96 st.
DK-1552 Copenhagen V
+45 33916111
helga@uturn-copenhagen.dk


See more information on Chto delat? (What is ti be done?) here or visit www.chtodelat.org

Picture: The Platform Garanti building, which is currently under renovation.

The 10th International Istanbul Biennial will open on 8 September 2007. As a part of the Professional Preview Programme on the 6 and 7 artistic co-director Solvej Helweg Ovesen and curatorial assistant Helga Christoffersen will give a presentation of U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, celebrating the fact that we will then be one year away from our opening in 2008.

The presentation will take place at PLATFORM GARANTI CAC, from 4.30-4.45pm, on the ground floor.
Address: Istiklal Cad. no:136, 34430, Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey

Read more about Platform Garanti CAC
Read more about the Istanbul Biennial

On Sunday 23 September from 2:30 - 4:00pm artistic co-director Judith Schwarzbart will participate in a panel discussion at ALT CPH - Copenhagen Alternative Art Fair.

Besides Judith Schwarzbart the panel will consist of:
Tadej Pogar from P74 Center and Gallery, Slovenia
Hugo Hopping, from Esthetics as Second Language, LA, USA
Henritte Bretton Meyer, from Overgaden.

ALT CPH will take place from the 21st-23rd September at: Fabrikken for Kunst og Design, Sundholmsvej 46, 2300 Copenhagen S. Read more at their webside: www.altcph.dk

At the ART COPENHAGEN art fair, one of the three curators of U-TURN, Solvej Helweg Ovesen will give a talk introducing U-TURN - the first Quadrennial for Contemporary Art in Denmark.
It will take place on Saturday 22 from 1 pm - 1.30 pm. The talk will be in Danish.

You can also visit the U-TURN lounge at stand no. 308 on the balcony.

Art Copenhagen is one of the leading Nordic art fairs devoted to contemporary and modern art. It will take place from 21-23 September in Forum, Julius Thomsens Plads 1, 1925 Frederiksberg C, in Copenhagen. Read more at their webside: www.artcopenhagen.dk